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Uncle Pete:
Dear Peter,

Thank you for your contributions to Wirestock! Your portfolio stands out with great quality and originality.

We want to let you know that we are changing the submission limits on Wirestock. As Wirestock is becoming more popular, we are receiving increasingly larger volumes of submissions from our content creators, which result in:

    Delays in content review and processing
    Growing costs of labeling, review, processing and storage
    Difficulties in detecting copyright infringements and fraudulent activities

To solve these, we are making marketplace submissions a paid option for all accounts regardless of their approval rates. Going forward, in order to submit content to marketplaces, all accounts need to subscribe to one of our premium plans.

This change will not affect your previous submissions. Additionally, you can still post and sell content on Wirestock directly through your portfolio without subscribing. We will start featuring and promoting your content on Wirestock to increase your chances of having direct sales.

As a gesture of appreciation for your significant contributions, we’re offering you a 50% discount on our premium plan with promo code 50DISC. With this exclusive offer, you can continue contributing up to 200 images per month.

Please reach out to us if you have any questions.

Best,
Team Wirestock

Ha Ha, direct sales? Anyone ever had a direct sale, I mean did you direct someone to your WS account, to sell a license? Upload limit 200 with a paid account? $7.79/mo
$93.48 billed yearly and what of the 15% they don't mention that? Only that direct sales are no commission. Selling AI creations? but 5 free a month for $0

I think this marks, let it ride, nothing new, and possibly, SEE YA = AMF in the near future.

Premium: $14.99 a month

Expand your presence with 200 monthly marketplace and challenge submissions
Supercharge your output with 200 monthly AI generations
Perfect your images with 400 AI upscaling

I didn't follow but the AI is through Discord.

JustAnImage:
Yes, that's really a laugh - they've put themselves out of the running with that.

One thing I would also like to point out:
I have been trying for several months to get an answer from support as to when the dataset earnings from Shutterstock and Pond5 will be paid out to the contributors, because this has not happened yet.
Since I asked this question in support, I have not received an answer to my queries (8 queries have gone unanswered by now).

I've just been running my account there for a few months now and taking the few $ that come in.
I certainly won't be uploading anything there any more...

alijaber:
The money that they got from dataset earnings, which I don't think they share with their contributors, should be more than enough to cover their "Growing costs".

ouatedeP:

--- Quote from: JustAnImage on August 02, 2023, 12:36 ---Yes, that's really a laugh - they've put themselves out of the running with that.

One thing I would also like to point out:
I have been trying for several months to get an answer from support as to when the dataset earnings from Shutterstock and Pond5 will be paid out to the contributors, because this has not happened yet.
Since I asked this question in support, I have not received an answer to my queries (8 queries have gone unanswered by now).

I've just been running my account there for a few months now and taking the few $ that come in.
I certainly won't be uploading anything there any more...

--- End quote ---


yeah, they never answered my question on how they allocate DACS payment, or similar, they get from Alamy.

Roscoe:
Wirestock has a weird way of doing business.
They could have increased their own commission up to 25% for instance instead of asking for a subscription.

I guess they want to weed out the small and low volume contributors. On the other hand. 200 submissions is on the low side for professional contributors.

So maybe I'm missing something here or it's just another stupid move by them. Never considered them as very professional anyhow.

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