Hi all,
I finally did it and created my Patreon website.
https://www.patreon.com/c/user/shop?u=27262724

Anyone here selling there ? Any feedbacks welcome !
I think it's a lot more worth it as was my Symbiostock site, way too expensive and time consuming.
At worst it will be another online portfolio and a place to sell directly.

Best wishes and happy new year 2025 BTW !

Hi Folks,

some weeks ago I realized (lately) that I had no payments from istock/Getty from sept 2022 to october 2023.
In november 2023, I had a warning message from Istock telling me that my account has been hacked and we had to deal with istock support to replace my password and make sure to have access to my account properly.
So recently I asked them about what happened to my missing payment.
After several days they have finally sent me a pdf file with the November 2023 Paypal transaction number and a paypal email they used which was not mine !
Guess what, istock did a payment at that exact time we were dealing with the security of my account of 2368$ for all the previous missing payment (sept 2022/oct 2023)! Without doing any verification with me !
So they did a big amount of payment in november at the same time that there was a security problem that we had to resolve.
This day I just received their answer to my claim about how to get back my payment : they say the security of my account was MY responsibility !
These people don't assume anything.
I'm so glad to leave them forever !

After receiving an email from Getty:
"Dear Getty Images Contributor,
We received and processed a request to update your payment information or email.
For security purposes, if you did not initiate a change please:
    Sign in to your Getty Images account to check and possibly update your current payment method and email address.
    Please contact contributor services immediately by responding to this email and informing us that you didn�t initiate a change to either your payment information or email.
    Change your Getty Images password.
Thank you,
Getty Images Contributor Services"

I tried to sign in to my contributor account but the password was changed and the thief also made a secondary password.
I made a ticket support on nov.7th and never had any answers yet (apart from the automatic response when you submit support ticket), despite other emails from me reviving them.
Have no access at all to my account.
Thank you Getty

Hi Guys,
anyone here who knows the fastest way to delete the entire 123rf portfolio ?
I sent an email but no reply...
Thanks for helping

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Well BYE BYE and mostly farewell Envato ! :-)

I found a lot of my videos inside this port:
https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/g/octafloresvia/video

You may find some of yours...

I won't send any millionth DMCA notice to this garbage Shitterstock company I hate.

PS: please Mr Musk, could you buy this agency and fire all these bxstxrds ?

Hi, on Adobe Stock since some days, once uploaded via sftp, my .mp4 videos metadata are not automatically read as usually before...
Aynone having the same issue ?

Hi,
I've made the changes with my ftp client, switching to Sftp, but the speed is now way slower than before...
Any of you has the same experience ? Very frustrating.
Is it normal ?

Anyone has put something for sale on Gumroad.com ?
I have just put a few files, don't know what to expect...

Motion Array : 5 videos uploaded november 21st. One month later... Nothing #walkingdeadagencies

Just look at this https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search/countdown?sort=newest

At the same time I still got many rejections for dumb reasons of cool video backgrounds accepted anywhere else than on SS
 

admin edit: edited subject for wording.

I made a DMCA notice and they have answered by deleting the videos I listed from the thief portfolio but they let the portfolio still online !!!!
 
How can they let a blatant copyright infringer online after deleting dozens of copies of my work!!!

Hello, I found this account where lots of my videos are stolen and put for sale by this user: https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/video/search?contributor=didinalucadid
Maybe will you find one of yours.
I have contacted Shutterstock about it.
Thanks for helping and catch this thief
Best