Quote from: wds on April 20, 2022, 09:53

Thanks, got it!

You're welcome. Someone here will know what California means. One of the partner sites.

Not claiming to know, and I can be wrong, but I guess it can mean anything or any company, as a lot of potential customers for the connect program are located in silicon valley?

finaly made my payout after last month super low 

After a truly shocking Feb, my March was my second-best month on the rolling graph, though of course not a patch on the GODs. Total swings and roundabouts.

Wow second best month. Istock still works for you?
My best months at istock have been in 2009 or so.
But nowadays i do only few stock photography. Getting more and more in wedding photography.

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Quote from: wds on April 20, 2022, 09:53

Thanks, got it!

You're welcome. Someone here will know what California means. One of the partner sites.

Not claiming to know, and I can be wrong, but I guess it can mean anything or any company, as a lot of potential customers for the connect program are located in silicon valley?

I think it's a specific partner not a broad area where most of the computer people are. That's how we know (or assume?) Canva is the Australia customer. It's someone who uses a single streaming subscription or has the on demand subscription for within their design software online. Whatever it is, pennies per use paid to Getty and fractions paid to us.

I mean, the partner pays 0.03091 per use and we get 15% which is 0.00464 of that. Now that's exciting... 

I read the suggestion of Pinterest somewhere, but honestly, it can by anything? From startup to big tech?
If only we knew, which of our images are online where under the connect program, we could rig up our clickfarms and get rich rich rich ;-)

So I need to pin some of my own images and see if they show in Connect? Interesting idea. But for all I know, it's only for the original pin and we can't click bait them into money. 

I closed my Istock account in 2019.

15% to me is an insult.

1000 $ earned: 850 $ to Istock and 150 $ to photographers.

I am a full time stock photographer and prefer more commissioned work (that i don't like) than helping these greed agencies.

And if the few big sales on SS run out, I'll close their account as well.

I closed my Istock account in 2019.

15% to me is an insult.

1000 $ earned: 850 $ to Istock and 150 $ to photographers.

I am a full time stock photographer and prefer more commissioned work (that i don't like) than helping these greed agencies.

And if the few big sales on SS run out, I'll close their account as well.

That's the scary thing about SS....what if the "big sales" do run out. Photog's earnings would really plummet.

Isn't March some kind of annual reporting of Connect?

You are right, in the march report around 20th April you get the annual connect sales - most of them are placed on 30th and 31st of December, if I remember it right.

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Quote from: Roscoe on April 22, 2022, 01:13

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 21, 2022, 10:33

Quote from: wds on April 20, 2022, 09:53

Thanks, got it!

You're welcome. Someone here will know what California means. One of the partner sites.

Not claiming to know, and I can be wrong, but I guess it can mean anything or any company, as a lot of potential customers for the connect program are located in silicon valley?

I think it's a specific partner not a broad area where most of the computer people are. That's how we know (or assume?) Canva is the Australia customer. It's someone who uses a single streaming subscription or has the on demand subscription for within their design software online. Whatever it is, pennies per use paid to Getty and fractions paid to us.

I mean, the partner pays 0.03091 per use and we get 15% which is 0.00464 of that. Now that's exciting... 

I read the suggestion of Pinterest somewhere, but honestly, it can by anything? From startup to big tech?
If only we knew, which of our images are online where under the connect program, we could rig up our clickfarms and get rich rich rich ;-)

So I need to pin some of my own images and see if they show in Connect? Interesting idea. But for all I know, it's only for the original pin and we can't click bait them into money. 

Haha, that's not how it works. But I think you can pin your own image, drive traffic to your portfolio that way, and hope someone thinks "* that's a neat picture from Pete here" and goes through the hassle of licensing it. I'm sure the agencies would love you to do that.   

Some more guessing around, considered Connect is PPV:
What might happen in case of Pinterest, any other social media or advertising platform, is that someone licenses an image via connect, and uses it to promote something. It would be a safe way to test the waters, without having to spend a lot of money on licensing. If the post goes viral (or the ad shows a high conversion rate during the test run and the customer decides to increase the budget), then the customers starts paying for the license, but also gets the return of the campaign that reached a lot of potential customers. If the posts or ad fails, then the customer gets away with it without having to spend money on licensing. Same probably applies to web development for low traffic hit or miss sites, news articles with low expected traffic or anything else that's too risky or not worth it to buy a regular license for because the customer is very unsure about the success of whatever they are creating. 

So what I think/guess, that Connect is: a high volume of low volume usage.
At least, that's my interpretation of my connect sales.
I might be wrong of course.

1155 connect downloads

1015 from California
Invoice dates: 1 dated 1st January 2022, 7 dated 1st February 2022, the rest dated 31 December 2021
all for the same amount of 0,00464
$ 4,7

140 from Australia
Invoice dates: half of them dated 1st January 2022, the rest dated 1st February 2022
all for different amounts from 0,00052 to 0,567

I have never noticed that connect export options before. (Thank you, Uncle Pete!)

It's incredible!

Have we ever been told about those connect sales?

Can't remember it either, but it was already around when I actively started contributing a few years back, and I too only noticed it further down the road when I had a deeper look in my sales reports.

The discussion about connect pops up every now and then here, and it's... well, a lot of talk about not even pennies. 

Quote from: Wilm on April 26, 2022, 11:51

Have we ever been told about those connect sales?

Yes, to a limited and obfuscatory extent.
I'm pretty sure that was pre-ESP, so not in the current forums.
It comes up in their forums regularly, but  searching 'connect' throws a lot of mentions within posts of 'connection' to the front of the listings, and if there's a way of searching only on topic line, I can't find it.

It's generally believed that the big annual 'sale' reporting is via Pinterest, but I'm not sure if that's ever been confirmed.

Correct, there are Connect sales all year long, just that there's a big batch now and then and it appears that someone reports in April. Makes sense that Pinterest could be the US California and Canva is Australia. Pinterest is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Deep Meta you can still select Connect sales for the graphs and charts.

Franky does a nice job and works hard. Getty just took away access and features. Thanks Mr. Getty

More specifically, following functionality will no longer be available:

    Automatic download of Royalty statements. Instead, you can download statement text files from the Getty site manually and import them in DeepMeta, using the new �Import� button or by drag-and-drop. Note: statements already loaded in DeepMeta are unaffected.
    iStock users only: Displaying the YTD (Year To Date downloads) counter and viewing its increments in the �Statistics | Activity� panel. This panel is no longer available.
    iStock users only: Displaying Views & Interactions on files is no longer available.

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