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Messages - cloudvisual
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« on: October 29, 2024, 18:01 »
Great breakdown cloudvisual - Thank You!
But Uncle Pete is right in principle; you just can't be too careful nowdays with all kinds of electronic thieves sitting in Internet Cafes all over the world trying to scam people.
Even if I'm certain that the email is genuine, I'm still going to go to SS via their website and follow whatever they need me to do.
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« on: October 29, 2024, 17:53 »
This isn't fake. I had several exchanges with SS. Here is their last email to me. Basically telling me they aren't a bank, so pull your money out ASAP before we snatch it away ind give it to the GOVERNMENT as unclaimed money.
Thanks for reaching back.
US business law requires us to issue payments to contributors as long as it is feasible for them to receive them, Shutterstock cannot hold on to accrued earnings indefinitely as we are not a bank, we are an entity that produces earnings for contributors and we are obligated to pay those earnings out. So our goal was simply to remind contributors who have accrued earnings that we need them to take additional steps if necessary to ensure they receive them in the next payout cycle.
If you fall under any of the following scenarios you can disregard the message, otherwise, please consider finding a way to get paid:
If your account is disabled: this message was sent due to an error in our mailing system inaccurately determining it was still active.
If you recently received a payout: this message was sent due to a mistake in the system which did not recognize the recent payment or used outdated information.
If you are from the Russian Federation: you should not have received that communication. We are aware that as an artist who resides in Russia or Belarus, your options for receiving payments are extremely limited at this time. Your earnings can continue to accrue with Shutterstock until viable options for receiving payment from Shutterstock become available in your country
We apologize for any confusion our original communication may have caused and appreciate your understanding.
Regards
Royber,
Shutterstock Contributor Care Team
Wow - it would help if they actually spelled that out in their email, there's no reading between the lines for any of us to come to that conclusion. Admittedly I do leave money in the accounts because it's harder to spend it when it's locked away somewhere. I get that some people may leave their payout on the max $2k and not make that many sales, but they need to make it clear how long they're willing to let people hold it there, OR just pay out what's in the account to the contributor (ignoring the threshold) instead of stealing it.
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« on: October 29, 2024, 15:28 »
What the heck? It takes me to: https://submit.shutterstock.com/en/contact?utm_source=sstkemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONTRIB_D_OTHER_CollectUnpaidEarnings_ENUS_V1_202410&utm_id=89042&sfmc_id=72171826&subscriber_key=SSTK-101802064
It's quite easy to break this URL down and see what it means. submit - is the subdomain of shutterstock.com en - English Contact - contact page ? - attributes following this to apply to your click UTM - Urchin Tracking Module - used as a means of tracking what you clicked utm_source=sstkemail - your click originated from an email from shutterstock utm_campaign=CONTRIB_D_OTHER - The campaign SS used to send this was classed as CONTRIBUTOR OTHER - likely because it's not a normal marketing message to contributors. CollectUnpaidEarnings_ENUS_V1_202410 - internal name of the marketing message and looks like they managed to write it and approve it in version 1. utm_id=89042&sfmc_id=72171826&subscriber_key=SSTK-101802064 - this identifies you to them when you click it to take you to your form, when logged in. If I click it, it fails becuase my keys don't match. Hope that helps
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« on: October 28, 2024, 05:37 »
"How this for a fake" It's a trackable link. Marketing emails are sent out with this to see who clicks them. The link resolves to submit.shutterstock.com.
It's funny because click.esvc.shutterstock.com is a subdomain, just like submit.shutterstock.com is, which you've linked as the right URL to use.
It's a genuine email, but could have been written better using the {{FirstName}} attribute.
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« on: July 12, 2024, 12:23 »
I have a photo showing a United States locale that is named using a non-standard English character. It has an in the formal name. When writing keywords/titles, should I use a standard n or keep the tilde?
Dreamstime made me change it to a regular n, but Im not sure how to best handle other sites to ensure its easily findable by buyers.
it'd be rejected by many agencies - one of most troublesome is caf which autocorrect insists on adding the accent. i have to use something like caFe to bypass
Got to ask.. If you're searching Google, are you really typing "best local caf"? I feel that people don't put accents into the search to save themselves the time, knowing Google knows what they want, same as stock searches.
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« on: May 02, 2024, 06:54 »
Surely by this point it's becoming a monopoly...
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« on: November 13, 2023, 14:25 »
Nice!
So I've also made my own Stock GPT, yours has been trained well. I'm glad to see someone else sharing theirs, as I was tempted to publish mine.
One thing I did with mine was to offer three different titles. If I'm uploading 30 similar clips, I'll repeat the description and keywords, but give 3 or 4 variations on the title. It's a good way to get some variety, but also to pick a favourite if you want options for a series.
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« on: June 19, 2023, 04:33 »
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« on: June 19, 2023, 03:49 »
Sorry if this has been asked, I did look on the forum:
I am eligible for the Adobe creative cloud code and have been trying for the last couple of weeks to redeem my code. Every time I click the link within Adobe stock, I am hit with the following message on adobepartneroffer.com
"We are experiencing a network outage which is impacting your partner offer. We do not have an estimated timeline for resolution yet, but it's being treated with the highest priority.
Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Please check back soon."
In July my previous Adobe code expires and I'll get charged, so I am eager to renew this.
Any help please!
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« on: June 16, 2023, 17:28 »
Wait for the photos to go up online and then DMCA them with the host. You own the copyright and they've not paid, so they can potentially have their website taken down for copyright infringement.
Further to that, if they do go online, you can send a second invoice for copyright infringement. Using a copyrighted photo without paying incurs a fine.
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« on: April 12, 2023, 12:51 »
Opt out? I just got $85... My footage isn't going to change the world, nor is it going to slow anything down if I opted out. I'll take the money thanks
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« on: March 18, 2023, 08:39 »
Are you suggesting that Shutterstock doesn't have a dartboard they use to pick the rejection reason, with treble 20 being the only 'accepted' area? 
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« on: February 14, 2023, 04:38 »
Changing refresh rate from 60 to 90 will do nothing if you're shooting in 25/50fps. The refresh rate needs to be divisible by the frame rate. You can alleviate it by changing the shutter speed, but 1/60 or 1/30 are your only real options if you are shooting at 30fps.
The discolouration on the screen is thanks to the polarising filter on the phone. Sometimes it's because there's a removable screen protector, which you should take off.
Personally, I'd get a green background and track/overlay whatever it is you're looking to shoot. The screen will never look that great if you're trying to showcase something on there.
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« on: January 13, 2023, 11:32 »
January is probably the worst month for the majority of creators. I anticipate not selling as much this time every year.
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« on: December 11, 2022, 06:57 »
I dunno.. It's quite refreshing to not have to delete "background, blue, green, red, color" from the auto generated SS keywords.
It's worth me saying that these keywords are based off a very brief description. If you were to describe the scene better, then you might get better targeted keywords. My aim is to use this to supplement my keywording to find ones I hadn't thought of.
I don't understand. You're going to have to delete keywords from the ones ChatGPT provides as well (coffee, snacks, water, dresses etc.) and then add more of your own to make it more relevant. In the SS keyworder, you have to select from the keywords it provides and then add some of your own. It's essentially the same process, only ChatGPT requires you to go to its site, think up a good prompt that describes your image (maybe two or more times to make it accurate) and then go through the keywording process. Maybe I'm missing something here but the latter process feels more time consuming?
I don't use the SS keyword tool these days. Used to, but I found the words weren't good enough to reach further out to buyers using related but indirect keywords. For example, a wind turbine would also have; energy crisis, cost of living, energy bills, power cut etc. I always tag P5 stock stuff first because the CSV can be exported from there to copy to the other sites. P5 also deletes duplicate keywords, so I input my own and then copy the GPT tags into my P5 list and submit that. I'll end up with a mixed list without any duplicates then. It might be time consuming to combine writing my own and using the GPT, but I want to get my images and videos keyworded properly to make money.
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« on: December 10, 2022, 15:54 »
Quite simply, Pond5 took their (unfair) cut. That's how stock agencies make their money. You have to take this into account when setting your prices on P5.
You're priced quite cheap for footage in my opinion. $50 absolute minimum on P5 and I price my footage on how rare/unique the content is.
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« on: December 09, 2022, 08:14 »
To be perfectly honest, you could get better keywords in 5 minutes using the SS keyword tool or Imstockr because the ChatGPT keywords are terribly generic and don't really describe a lot of what's in your image.
I dunno.. It's quite refreshing to not have to delete "background, blue, green, red, color" from the auto generated SS keywords. It's worth me saying that these keywords are based off a very brief description. If you were to describe the scene better, then you might get better targeted keywords. My aim is to use this to supplement my keywording to find ones I hadn't thought of.
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« on: December 08, 2022, 15:25 »
Don't forget to tell it to rank them in some sort of order.
These machine learning programs are pretty amazing - but if everyone uses them, everyone will have the same keywords - which the machine learning programs will see and the circle will be complete.
And the same problem with the suggested keywords from the agencies and their AI version of what buyers want.
ChatGPT AI, I'm going to try it. Then take the best words and keep them and remove some of the less useful ones, in my opinion, because... Less Is More.  More related and more specific that is.
there've been several articles on chatGPT in the ny times & i was about to try it later today
the keyword idea is great
chatGPT performs well when I pass its results thru a plagiarism checker
it's helping me set up background info for my africa blogs so i can concentrate on our actual safari
heres what i got for "explain geology of Ngorongoro Crater"
The Ngorongoro Crater is a large, inactive, and unfilled volcanic caldera located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. The caldera was formed by the collapse of the volcano that created the crater about two to three million years ago. The walls of the crater are steep, rising 610 meters (2,000 feet) from the crater floor, and the floor of the crater is about 260 square kilometers (100 square miles) in area. The crater is home to a wide variety of animals, including lions, hyenas, elephants, and zebras. The unique geology of the Ngorongoro Crater, along with its abundance of wildlife, has made it a popular tourist destination.
It's worth saying that you can use ChatGPT to generate topics to talk about. Ask it to create ten blog titles about a subject and you can then ask it to write a blog post ABOUT whatever number title you like the look of. On a more technical level, it'll correct your programming code in any language, correct copy VERY professionally and write out scripts, code or programmes on any subject in the blink of an eye. Oh and if the code it gives you runs an error, tell it and it'll understand the mistake and correct itself! I don't want to sound like I'm going too extreme here, but I think that soon the internet will be referred to as Pre ChatGpt and Post ChatGPT - this tool is about to change the internet and how we use it.
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« on: December 08, 2022, 11:25 »
With all the worry about AI images ruining the industry, I just wanted to say that the new ChatGPT AI is actually really good at returning keywords with text based prompts. "Give me 40 comma separated, one and two word keywords to describe a combine harvester in a field during the summer."harvester, combine, field, summer, agriculture, farm, crop, harvest, machinery, technology, efficiency, productivity, work, labor, farmer, wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, soybeans, rice, sunflowers, canola, sorghum, alfalfa, grasses, fieldwork, combine harvester, harvesting, agribusiness, mechanization, threshing, separating, collecting, gathering, storing, processing, agriculture industry, rural, countryside."Give me 40 comma separated, one and two word keywords to describe an office meeting with men and women discussing business."office, meeting, business, men, women, discussion, collaboration, teamwork, decision-making, strategy, planning, brainstorming, presenting, sharing, listening, feedback, productivity, professionalism, corporate, executive, management, leadership, communication, negotiation, networking, brainstorming, whiteboard, conference table, laptops, smartphones, papers, pens, coffee, water, snacks, suits, ties, dresses, heels, business casual, office environment, meetings culture, office politics.It's free (for now) and slow at times, due to the popularity. Everyone seems to be using it as their new personal work assistant and I wondered if it could be used to keyword for me. I know there are tools out there, but the results resonate so much better with me and feel like they've been pulled from stock sites. Thoughts? You can try it yourself at https://chat.openai.com/
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« on: December 06, 2022, 11:57 »
I think you're looking at the dashboard view of your earnings rather than the earnings summary. On the left hand side of your screen, the home icon is highlighted. The monthly view is on the earnings tab, which is the dollar logo. What does this link look like to you? https://submit.shutterstock.com/en/earnings
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« on: October 19, 2022, 09:25 »
I have first had experience of making the mistake of exporting in Adobe RGB and having to correct this frustrating mistake.
The answer is that only a couple of sites do accept the format, but I know for a fact that Adobe themselves do not. HOWEVER, stock sites which don't support it will still show the image with the colour profile when it's for sale, but then sell it without...
If you upload an Adobe RGB image to a site which doesn't support it, a buyer will receive an image without the profile and the final image will look horrendous. I've had a couple of buyers contact me directly to say that the image they purchased online looks nothing like what they received.
I can't stress enough not to do this unless you want unhappy customers and refunds.
I have submitted aRGB images to adobestock. I would hope they do the proper conversion if they sell the image with a different or no profile (in this case convert to sRGB). Hard to believe they just ignore color profiles.
I hope that's not the case.
I have had a look back based on what you're saying and I have made a mistake. I exported the images as ProPhoto, which I thought was the same as aRGB. My mistake - I haven't ever uploaded a photo as aRGB.
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« on: October 19, 2022, 05:28 »
EDIT: - See post below. I made a mistake and exported as ProPhoto, not aRGB. What I say below is incorrect.
I have first had experience of making the mistake of exporting in Adobe RGB and having to correct this frustrating mistake.
The answer is that only a couple of sites do accept the format, but I know for a fact that Adobe themselves do not. HOWEVER, stock sites which don't support it will still show the image with the colour profile when it's for sale, but then sell it without...
If you upload an Adobe RGB image to a site which doesn't support it, a buyer will receive an image without the profile and the final image will look horrendous. I've had a couple of buyers contact me directly to say that the image they purchased online looks nothing like what they received.
I can't stress enough not to do this unless you want unhappy customers and refunds.
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« on: September 23, 2022, 08:38 »
Great tool, not sure how I didn't spot this sooner in the forum. Would have much better keywords had I have known! 
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« on: September 21, 2022, 11:07 »
You will be wasting every penny of advertising if you did.
Your target audience would be a person or business which doesn't know about microstock, but that entity almost certainly has no requirement for it in their life if they haven't already used stock.
Plus anyone who doesn't know about microstock, probably doesn't know much about copyright and if they want a photo for their business or project they'll just use whatever comes from Google Images.
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