Quote from: CoisaX on October 12, 2011, 21:09
It's possible that i miss something earlier...

Although I opt-in PP on all agencies, something is bothering me regarding Pixmac:

a) There is some kind of criteria choosing which photos are available for partners? I ask it, because even without a "Dream Portfolio" ( so far... ) I have the worst images possible on sale at pixmac.

b) After a look at 1ª post, it seems that most agencies cut off relations with Pixmac. The few images that I've on Pixmac, I am sure that some are only available on an ex-partner... If the partnership ended, the photos should not be removed?

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I don't know how Pixmac decides which images to take and which not from a given agency.  It may be that the agency applies its own criteria and only gives Pixmac a subset of its images, which might explain why only some of your images are available. 

As to why some your images still appear on Pixmac, I have heard that there is a synching issue with many partners where the agency or a contributor removes an image, but the thumbnail of that image lives on for some time at partner sites.  When somebody attempts to purchase the image from the partner, they are told it is no longer available. 

The guy from Pixmac is often active in the forum here and you might be able to ask him your questions directly. 

Hi CoisaX and Sadstock,
I'm the guy from Pixmac ;-)

We have several partners on our site. Some are microstock agencies, some are traditional RF agencies. We've only discontinued reselling of two microstock agencies during our existence. Since that time, we've already reached a larger partner portfolio than ever before.

And always, we only re-sell images if we have the right to do so. We always try to get all images from the particular source/partner site, so there's definitely not a system that picks only 'some' images. The only situation that comes to my mind is that for some reason we've not finished uploading all the photos to our database or there's some other individual issue.

In case there is any particular problem with any of your photos/ports at Pixmac. Feel free to ask Lucy [email protected] for the explanation and clarification about what we have and don't from a particular agency. We're usually pretty quick.

And also, we never have hi-res files from the partner upfront. So it's not possible to re-sell any partner sourced images at Pixmac in case the partnership is terminated. It's all connected via API, so the partner agency has full control over that.

Thanks to both 

@zager

Now that You mention "hi-res files" I start to understand what happens. I will email Lucy and explain my situation. 

thanks for the update Sadstock

Start getting tired of "PP syncro issues":

- Partner says that is main agency problem.
- Main agency says that are a Partner issue.
- Both want and will solve the problem.

The true is that no one sales month after month.

Quote from: CoisaX on November 21, 2011, 11:04
Start getting tired of "PP syncro issues":

- Partner says that is main agency problem.
- Main agency says that are a Partner issue.
- Both want and will solve the problem.

The true is that no one sales month after month.

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Is there a particular partner or micro you are having problems with?

Quote from: Sadstock on November 21, 2011, 12:21
Is there a particular partner or micro you are having problems with?

One specific partner with 2 specific micro agencies. I'm keeping it private because partner  "demand it" for a fast resolution in backstage, without unnecessary discussion over it ( i think ).

And probably there more contributors, like me, that could get a bit more if PP issues could be solved fast.

Added Visual Photos to Veer
Added Visual Photos to Yaymicro

Just saw this on BigStock forum. (yeah one of the four people who look there every month...) 

http://www.crystalgraphics.com/

Crystal Graphics is an authorized Bigstock reseller. When/if an image sells at their site, the earnings go into your Bigstock account. They also purchase the image from you to post it to their site at the onset.

Noelle
Support
Bigstock

I'm still kind of confused. If they purchase it, why do they pay when it sells? A reseller could display for nothing and pay when it sells. I'm lost?

Anyway, you might want to add it to the list, in case someone finds something of theirs up on Crystal Graphics

Quote from: Sadstock on November 21, 2011, 12:21

Quote from: CoisaX on November 21, 2011, 11:04
Start getting tired of "PP syncro issues":

- Partner says that is main agency problem.
- Main agency says that are a Partner issue.
- Both want and will solve the problem.

The true is that no one sales month after month.

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Is there a particular partner or micro you are having problems with?

One is Yaymicro. Moreover, they add more agencies to API and none of my 540 images appear to be in almost all of them. My hope for Yaymicro was get some sales trough PP ( direct sales is out of question because it seems they don't have any clients/traffic... ).

Quote from: RacePhoto on December 13, 2011, 20:44
Just saw this on BigStock forum. (yeah one of the four people who look there every month...) 

http://www.crystalgraphics.com/

Crystal Graphics is an authorized Bigstock reseller. When/if an image sells at their site, the earnings go into your Bigstock account. They also purchase the image from you to post it to their site at the onset.

Noelle
Support
Bigstock

I'm still kind of confused. If they purchase it, why do they pay when it sells? A reseller could display for nothing and pay when it sells. I'm lost?

Anyway, you might want to add it to the list, in case someone finds something of theirs up on Crystal Graphics

Done - Thanks for letting us know.

Quote from: CoisaX on December 15, 2011, 15:05

Quote from: Sadstock on November 21, 2011, 12:21

Quote from: CoisaX on November 21, 2011, 11:04
Start getting tired of "PP syncro issues":

- Partner says that is main agency problem.
- Main agency says that are a Partner issue.
- Both want and will solve the problem.

The true is that no one sales month after month.

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Is there a particular partner or micro you are having problems with?

One is Yaymicro. Moreover, they add more agencies to API and none of my 540 images appear to be in almost all of them. My hope for Yaymicro was get some sales trough PP ( direct sales is out of question because it seems they don't have any clients/traffic... ).

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Thanks for sharing, hopefully calling them out will get them to fix the problem.

Added 4 new Veer partners.  Tip of the hat to Veer for having a list of partners (though the list is not complete!)
http://www.veer.com/more/contributor/faq/royalties-payments/who-are-all-the-api-partners/

Added two new Fotolia partners, one of which they announced in their December newsletter.  A little transparency from Fotolia?

What are the names of the two new Fotolia partners? 

BTW, the blog post for Fotolia's partnership with Moo is gone, so maybe they are no longer partners?

please add www.imagedirekt.de to Veer

Wow very nice of you to dig into this, will certainly help to have this and will answer many many questions!

Thanks!

Quote from: Karimala on January 04, 2012, 07:19
What are the names of the two new Fotolia partners? 

BTW, the blog post for Fotolia's partnership with Moo is gone, so maybe they are no longer partners?

Sorry, just saw your post today.  It was Visible Spectrum and VisualBee.  I list what changes I made at the very end of the first post when I make an update. 

Seems likely about Fotolia/Moo.  I'll remove the link

updated today
added Popgamut.com to Fotolia
added New Era Walls by HP to Fotolia
added Imagedirekt.de to Veer
removed Moo from Fotolia

"Wallmonkeys" is selling wall prints from Fotolia on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_home-garden?_encoding=UTF8&node=1055398&field-brandtextbin=WallMonkeys

Quote from: click_click on January 24, 2012, 21:48
"Wallmonkeys" is selling wall prints from Fotolia on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_home-garden?_encoding=UTF8&node=1055398&field-brandtextbin=WallMonkeys

And their terms allow it that's why people have left once they found this out, it is nothing new people have known about it for well over the last year or two if not more.

Thank you thank you thank you for the list!!!

Is this a recognised partner site? 

http://www.gograph.com/

Quote from: rubyroo on March 08, 2012, 14:28
Is this a recognised partner site? 

http://www.gograph.com/

don´t know but I would say from CanStockPhoto because of the keywords

Wow Luis.  Great observation!  With eyes that sharp, you should be a photographer or something...