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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: WarrenPrice on April 18, 2012, 16:12
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Doesn't the PP results usually get started posting by the 18th? Not seeing anything in my records. Anyone else?
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Usually? Seems to me I've seen them show up any time from the 15th to the end of the month, aside from that one time they missed month end entirely.
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Still waiting. Seems like they often start on weekends, don't they? Maybe this coming weekend?
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Nothing for me either.
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Still waiting. Seems like they often start on weekends, don't they? Maybe this coming weekend?
Yep...the first three weeks tend to come on Saturday/Sunday and the last week finishes on Monday. And it tends to happen on the weekend prior to the last week of the month.
However, that was before all the layoffs. Seems to be more random now.
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Doesn't the PP results usually get started posting by the xx
Usually?!?!?!
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Still, after all these years in micro, I still havent a clue of if this PP, TS, business is serious or just some kind of a "dustbin" where all mediocre shots are thrown into?
This supposed migration, from IS to TS? is anybody taking this seriously? I mean so far it seems to be the slowest possible process ever. I have a lousy 9 pages moved so far. ::)
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just started Warren
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Thank goodness. Just a couple of sales showing so far, but hopefully they'll keep rolling in.
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yeah just couple of sales showing here too. But hope to see more. :)
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11 so far for the first day of March
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11 so far for the first day of March
17, but still nothing past 1.3. It's going so awfully slowly that at this pace they won't even finish by the end of the month
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Still, after all these years in micro, I still havent a clue of if this PP, TS, business is serious or just some kind of a "dustbin" where all mediocre shots are thrown into?
This supposed migration, from IS to TS? is anybody taking this seriously? I mean so far it seems to be the slowest possible process ever. I have a lousy 9 pages moved so far. ::)
I'm affraid your content is just not good enough to be transfered that quickly :)
Wut seem to have lost it completely, he's talking to himself.
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Wut seem to have lost it completely, he's talking to himself.
I love to talk with smart ppl ;)
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Wut seem to have lost it completely, he's talking to himself.
I love to talk with smart ppl ;)
Thx ;)
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On Friday, I got one $6 royalty (I assume for an image pack or extended license) on March 30; over the weekend, sales started to appear for the beginning of March, but it stopped at March 14th. Did anyone else get further than the 14th? Will it stay like that until next weekend or do they ever finish during the week?
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On Friday, I got one $6 royalty (I assume for an image pack or extended license) on March 30; over the weekend, sales started to appear for the beginning of March, but it stopped at March 14th. Did anyone else get further than the 14th? Will it stay like that until next weekend or do they ever finish during the week?
Extended licenses bring us indies 24$. Mine stopped on 14th as well. AFAIK they're only pushing them through during the weekends
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On Friday, I got one $6 royalty (I assume for an image pack or extended license) on March 30; over the weekend, sales started to appear for the beginning of March, but it stopped at March 14th. Did anyone else get further than the 14th? Will it stay like that until next weekend or do they ever finish during the week?
Exactly what I saw. The same $6 royalty on the 30th, PP sales that stopped on the 14th. Seems an unlikely coincidence, wouldn't you say?
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Mine stop on the 14th too, but I thought they would continue them tonight and tomorrow until done. I don't think they only do them on weekends, although they usually start them out on weekends. Am I wrong?
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I managed to get $80 this past weekend so I am about 50% there based on last few months. Lisa I know not too long ago they were only computing pp on weekends. Could be we don't see another 28 cents until next Saturday. I really wish they'd get past this manual, and need I say slow, methodology. Maybe they're going to take their call center employees and put them n outing pp sales... ;D
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I managed to get $80 this past weekend so I am about 50% there based on last few months. Lisa I know not too long ago they were only computing pp on weekends. Could be we don't see another 28 cents until next Saturday. I really wish they'd get past this manual, and need I say slow, methodology. Maybe they're going to take their call center employees and put them n outing pp sales... ;D
Thanks Mantis.
Seems like the laid off employees may have actually performed some valuable functions. Duh. The wheels seem to be falling off over there. :P
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Mines stopped at the 14th too.
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does uploading to TS, go via IS?, anybody?
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does uploading to TS, go via IS?, anybody?
All photos you upload to IS will get to TS automatically (eventually).
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Mine stopped at the 14th as well.
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does uploading to TS, go via IS?, anybody?
All photos you upload to IS as an independent will get to TS automatically (eventually) whether you like it or not
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does uploading to TS, go via IS?, anybody?
The only way to get files on ThinkStock at this time, is from IS.
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All photos you upload to IS as an independent will get to TS automatically (eventually) whether you like it or not
Maybe not "ALL" but most. Maybe not right away. Seems there are some bugs.
Not being ported to ThinkStock is a good thing sometimes? Weak 28c sub sales that take away from the regular IS sales? I'm not sure it's a positive.
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After PP stats stopped up to the 14th of March a few days back, no action happened on it till just now. But what happened seems strange....
NO PP sales at all from 15th-27th, then some on the 28th again? Anyone else seen the same? Have people got PP sales recorded from the 15th-27?
This is very unusual for me. Although I have a small port there, I ALWAYS have PP sales on every day. ESPECIALLY not 12 days in a row without one!
It's a bit worrying. Another reporting bug?
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I had 2 PP sales show up on the 12th, and then today I had 2 sales show up on the 7th, going backwards, not working it's way through the month from start to end. Only 20 shots from my portfolio have found their way over so I don't get more than a few sales each month but they've gone in chronological order in the past.
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Ah, so perhaps thats the issue, not chronological for some reason. Will wait a day or two and see
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NO PP sales at all from 15th-27th, then some on the 28th again? Anyone else seen the same? Have people got PP sales recorded from the 15th-27?
I'm seeing exactly the same thing. Nothing from the 15th through the 27th, then 5 partner sales on the 28th and 2 on the 29th. Entertaining the way they find new ways to screw up.
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Same thing 1-14 and 28-30 none for 15-27 or 31....yet
ETA I've noticed that this often happens on a smaller scale. e.g. it looks like the whole month has come in but some days have only had some of the sales reported, and the total goes up at some point. I have TS in red text on my spreadsheets till the end of the next month at least, because I am not confident that all sales have been reported till then. Maybe I need to wait even longer!
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Same here. This is definitely something strange. I expect by Monday they will all be filled in.
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Except that I do have something for the 31st, my stats are the same - 1-14 and 28-31 have sales. The 30th, which for me got a single $6 royalty last Friday, before anything else started, received some more 28 cent royalties in the recent update, suggesting that the types of sales are done separately rather than every type of sale for a particular date?
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I think they are running again. Strange how it seems to run only on the weekend. I would not have noticed except that someone mentioned it earlier.
Oh Well... at least it is running. Maybe I will know the numbers before the new month starts. :P
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They said long ago that they run the script at off-peak times to avoid overloading the servers.
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They said long ago that they run the script at off-peak times to avoid overloading the servers.
Ahhhh... They must have left me off that memo. :P
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They said long ago that they run the script at off-peak times to avoid overloading the servers.
Ahhhh... They must have left me off that memo. :P
It was in the forum, somewhere.
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I have questions!
How do I find out what sold in PP other than by clicking each photo to see if it has any sales?
For a while I could find 2 photos at thinkstock, then about 3 more were added last month. Now I cannot find myself unless I search by keywords (which really sucks). I can no longer find myself by "username" or "First Last" so I have no idea what has been sent there. What has changed.
Looks lik I might have made 24 cents in March, but I continue to be extremely suspicious about this whole partner program. If I don't even know what photos they have, how can I make sure they are honest?
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Last month they did the same thing. Sales rolled in on a whacked basis, but in the end, all days on my PP bars had sales. I wouldn't worry too much about the way PP sales are rolling in.
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For a long time, about 12 of my photos were on TS - months went by, that number never changed . Now it looks like they're gone. I used to find them by searching for my name, but that now returns nothing. I did some keyword searching on a couple of best sellers, and that seemed to confirm that they're no longer there.
Like I care anyway.
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The missing days are getting slowly filled in, now it seems to be 24-27 missing, not including any missing sales from days that have already had partial reports.
Pretty lame when you think that SS manages pretty much live reporting with a subs model.
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Still a couple of days missing on mine too. This is the first month I've had any there so it's a bit new for me. Is there any where you can see stats of how many d/l in the month, or do you have to sit there and manually add them up?
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it shows up on your stats tab, just choose monthly rather than daily from the drop down and hover to see the numbers
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@Sue, the best way to see totals is to download CSV file once they've finished and you can see a separate column for PP downloads and $$. The reporting is truly sucky on the IS my_uploads (http://www.istockphoto.com/my_uploads_partner_program.php) page (you'll have to be logged in to IS for that link to work) as you can't sort by download date, only by total PP downloads, total royalty or approval date. If you want to check an individual file you can then see when it got PP downloads, but that's a pain.
I have PP sales for every day but the 27th - not sure if they're still working on it, but I'll wait until tomorrow to download my CSV and update my stats spreadsheet (I like to keep IS sales separate from PP sales as well as updating my total for the month from IS).
I can still see my port by searching for my real name in double quotes (http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/search/#"Jo Ann Snover"/c=477/f=PIHV/s=DateSubmitted). It's been stuck at 1097 files for many weeks now. Not sure if they've given up or whether we'll see another lurch at some point.
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What's interesting is to hear that people aren't getting their images into TS....they are trickling in. I just did a search to see if mine were getting in and they are, only weeks after I submit to Istock. My PP sales keep going up and that's what got me thinking. So I checked and sales increases are probably due to my upload volume. Call it 40 uploads a month. I am well over $200 on PP for March, which is over 700 downloads if none of those sales are $6 like we've seen in the past.
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Are they done? I've got sales on every day but the 31st. I can't remember the last time without getting at least a couple of sales a day, so I wonder if the rest of you got any on 31st?
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I have some showing everyday now Wut, but they still may not have finished. They've been trickling in.
Thanks Jo Ann. It looks as though I have about 1/3 of my port there so far.
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I have some showing everyday now Wut, but they still may not have finished. They've been trickling in.
Thanks Jo Ann. It looks as though I have about 1/3 of my port there so far.
Still nothing for me. Except for the 31st, I had at least 4 DLs every day, that's why this seems so weird to me.