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« on: October 18, 2018, 14:03 »
Certain Books, magazines and TV.
You can opt to claim yourself (it's not difficult but it's fairly time-consuming - OTOH you can add any sales from other sources if you can find relevant in-uses, and after the first time, you're just adding on future years' info, or you can let Alamy do it for you for which I think they take their usual 50% (I'm sure the details will be somewher on the Alamy site).
I understand, I had a fast read on the site but I was not asking the right question. What I would like to know is which of my images were used on books, magazines....?
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« on: October 18, 2018, 13:36 »
https://www.dacs.org.uk
Thank you ShadySue. I assume Alamy made the claim. I've read what DACS is but is it possible to find out what kind of work is the payback for?
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« on: October 18, 2018, 13:12 »
I don't think that the stars have anything to do with sales, however I never understood their many strange rules. I never had a rejection, always with 3 stars during my 2 years as a contributor, still I got few and small sales.
I recently deleted my images mainly because of their "allowing customers to use images ages before reporting their use or (eventually) paying for them".
I also noticed a nervous tone (but not impolite) in the reply I got from support when I insisted on an unreported download.
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« on: October 18, 2018, 12:30 »
I am using Alamy for 2+ years and I'm still having a hard time to understand their statistics, or even to find my earnings.
1. Yesterday I got a "Other income - DACS Payment 2018" and I have no idea how I got it. Is there a way to know where does it come from?
This payment showed up after I deleted all my images (almost).
I reported a website using one of my images starting May and there was no sale reported for it. Finally, after insisting, the sale showed up on September 25 but it is still not cleared, so that is not the source of my DACS.
2. Another question that no dictionary could answer, please: what is the difference (in meaning) between "Balance brought forward" and "Balance carried forward"?
Thank you very much for any help.
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« on: September 29, 2018, 12:09 »
Because our exposure is controlled, changing on the 15th of every month without fail.
Now that you say that, I noticed the divider (thicker) line under the 15th just this month on our earnings summary page. Was that always there?
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« on: September 27, 2018, 07:41 »
Alamy - unlike most other sites - negotiates licences for specific usage, including time limits.
"One month" means exactly that, and if the buyers are using that image for a longer time, then they are in violation of the licence.
You should contact Alamy, not the buyer.
Thank you very much for the fast answer. I will contact Alamy but I don't think they care about violation of license. They know when was the image/blogpost first published, they even confirmed in July that there is a sale at one of their distributors but they told me to wait for the report. Thanks again.
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« on: September 27, 2018, 07:01 »
Hi everyone,
I have a sale for "Web use, One month, Bulk Discount, Flat Rate".
Can anyone please tell me what does the "One month" bit mean from this report?
I found the image on a website on May 16 but it was never reported. After a long email exchange with Alamy support, now the sale showed up being shown as downloaded on September 25, $1 my cut.
It is more than 4 month that the image is online on that site, so I wonder what does the "one month" mean in Alamy report?
Thanks.
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« on: September 10, 2018, 08:23 »
I don't know if this is related to your case but I received an email today saying: You've selected files for download but you haven't purchased them. Still undecided? Download these files NOW, with a special 15% discount. The images they mentioned that I've selected are my own, I am sure I never selected them but there could be other buyers getting the same email (with discount), who actually buy something.
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« on: August 31, 2018, 09:15 »
Just got the Getty one for a shoot "In your region". We haven't finalised Brexit yet and the UK is already a region of the US 
Everybody got the email with this title (Brief for your region), no matter what country.
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« on: August 31, 2018, 09:11 »
Yeah, I just got one too. They must be desperate. 
I got two emails today, the first was for "Introducing custom content" and the second, Brief for my region. I am not even a contributor, I have an IS account though.
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« on: August 23, 2018, 02:59 »
I just posted in another thread, but this could explain the massive drop:
"Most of my new images can't be purchased.
You can find them in searches or portfolio views but when you click the specific image you get nothing but a greyed out screen, like the pop up window to buy the image doesn't work. Explains poor sales this month for me. Really bad news. Anyone else?"
https://www.microstockgroup.com/123royaltyfree-com/upload-issue/msg515671/
I randomly clicked on few of my images (as a buyer) and had the same issue. The pop up purchase screen just greyed out and I wasn't able to click on anything. The sales graph on my account shows a very drastic drop in July and this probably explained it.
Yeah, I agree. I think the site is basically half-down for buyers. VERY bad news.
Is this fixed now? I tried to purchase one of my images and it works, it took me to the cash-out page. Maybe not everything is affected but my sales are catastrophic, $0.196 yesterday. I am out of here too as soon as I receive this last payout.
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« on: August 22, 2018, 09:57 »
I just got one too for $0.32. This was such an old download that I can't even remember it.
What kind of people are not ashamed to take back $0.32 after they used the image for a long while. I just can't believe this.
DT has the download date on file but they can't provide it for us or any other detail.
Same here, ridiculous. I have the same sort of nonsense now and again on 123RF months later.
I contacted support and they said (besides the usual): "There are also special cases when we are notified by banks that we must issue refunds and withdraw the licenses."That is what I don't understand, how can they withdraw the license, that is impossible.
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« on: August 22, 2018, 04:54 »
I just got one too for $0.32. This was such an old download that I can't even remember it.
What kind of people are not ashamed to take back $0.32 after they used the image for a long while. I just can't believe this.
DT has the download date on file but they can't provide it for us or any other detail.
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« on: August 16, 2018, 02:53 »
I can tell you now what triggered the decline for you. The closure of DPC.
This happened in April 2016 and that is when your sales dropped. I remember it well, I dropped about $300-$400 a month after they shut that down and took a while to stabilise and increase again after that. Despite all the negative comments it got, it did return good $'s each month for the couple of years or so it was there. I'd sign up again if it came back.
I totally agree with you, DPC brought good money with many big sales but I didn't want to start another polemic with this. The only people who complained about DPC were those who opted out, without knowing what it was.
Edit. In 2017, you're seeing the new reality and since then, you have been relatively stable with moderate swings.
I'd wager that your current month will be pants and then Sept will lift again once the summer recess is over, parents back to work and kids at school.
I don't like this new reality and for now I stopped uploading here. I am not doing this for the money but some satisfaction still must be. Yes, my last two months are pants but thanks for the kind words and encouragement for the future.
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« on: August 16, 2018, 02:28 »
I'm sorry to be blunt, Dodie, but when you only manage 6 sales a week, you can't extrapolate and declare a site dead, dead, dead.
6 downloads a week is just noise.
You should do at least 20 times better than this, to lift yourself above noise level and get some understanding of ranks, trends and site performance.
I don't mind you being blunt but you don't listen. Of course it is noise, not even that. I never was such a big player like you but I am not talking about how much but about the direction things turned for me. It has nothing to do with my "understanding of ranks, trends and site performance", AS simply doesn't perform as FT did and I am not alone in this situation. If it were my fault, other agencies would have tanked too. I am not talking about event photos which normaly die, I am talking about evergreen subjects like food, which will never die. Photos that reached over 150 dls in a short time in 2015, now they don't exist. The main reason for this is the lack of Eu market because food photos and not only are region specific (more or less). On SS almost all my sale are in EU and all around the world, just a few US sales. Despite new uploads the trend is descending:
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« on: August 15, 2018, 12:38 »
July at SS was good for me, best it has been (for that month) for sometime, not far off $1k compared to a low of $600 last year. When looking at the Alexa rankings, it does show an increase in web traffic in July and continuing into August. That is after a low in June.
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/shutterstock.com
AS/FT has performed way better than SS for me, has done for the last 4-5 years. You say your weekly dropped by 6-4? Your weekly rank?
Sorry, I was not clear, 6 downloads/week , "Sold this week: 6", now just 4. Not the rank, I wish...
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« on: August 15, 2018, 06:46 »
About 60% of my sales are non-us
I just checked mine for previous month. almost 90% from US. 2 years ago, when I was doing much better it was vice-versa.
For June it was 83% from US. May 63%. So I'd say, on the average at leas 70% sales are coming from US. Totally opossite than 2 years ago. That's why credit sales sinked. I was selling a lot of my animal stuff for X and XL credits to EU buyers. In fact I was doing so much better than on SS, at one point I was thinking going exclusive with Fotolia. Thank god I didn't make that mistake.
This is my case too, except my US sales were decreasing from ~75% in January to almost 100% now. Not to mention that taxes for all US sales are decreasing my earnings even more. Another strange thing is that on AS I am selling the same 4-5 images over and over, like the rest wouldn't exist.
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« on: August 15, 2018, 06:38 »
About 60% of my sales are non-us
One of the tech bods told me that the US/Other income split is based on which portal that is used. AS = US and FT = Other. Whether this is correct I wouldn't like to say for sure. Maybe Mat could say?
As far as income. Been a couple of quiet weeks lately but also some really busy ones. Two of my busiest weeks at AS/FT have been in the last month. Last month was my best Jul for 2 years or more. This month is looking good (for August) and hopefully will also be well up on last year.
The thing is, around the UK and Europe, a lot of work holidays always have to be taken in July /Aug and in the UK, all the Schools are off at this time. Most business know they will have lower staff levels and therefore ease back on starting new projects until Sept. While this does not apply across the entire globe, it will have an impact on earnings so I just accept Jul & Aug have potential to be car crash income months....normally with a Boom before and after. It's just the way it is.
My weekly rank hasn't really changes that much (slight fluctuation), overall rank is still getting better.... probably improved more over the last 1-2 months that the previous 2.
All you can do is forget about it, focus on completing new projects and creating plenty of work to upload now and in the coming months!
I've heard this theory with summer month each year, it maybe true for some but I never experienced it, at least on SS. June, July this year were my BME in 6+ years and last year I only had lower sales in December. Even with all the hiccups at SS, this August is normal, with just subs though and we still have half a month to go. At AS however, my weekly dropped today from 6 to 4 and not a single new download. FT was my favorite, well earner but I don't think AS will ever come back for me so, it's time to move on. Right now even DP is better.
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« on: August 14, 2018, 09:53 »
Remember a good portion of Europe takes the entire month of August off thus killing our sales...
I don't quite understand, what do you mean?
I have no EU sale lately, though my stuff is more EU specific.
FYI
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/08/25/why-europeans-slack-off-in-august
Well, newspapers have to write something. Not only Europeans go to vacation in August or in summer month. Students, children are in summer break, it's understandable families make their vacation before school starts. That you can't find an ice cream in August can be happening in a small village with one ice cream vendor. Strangely, in the past summer months were my best earners, not this August though.
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« on: August 14, 2018, 09:02 »
Remember a good portion of Europe takes the entire month of August off thus killing our sales...
I don't quite understand, what do you mean? I have no EU sale lately, though my stuff is more EU specific.
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« on: August 14, 2018, 08:46 »
It could be search tweaking but it is not my first bad month lately, so it is not summer vacations the reason either.
I have no world wide sale at all, just US and there are too many of these small $0.26 sale, big sales are very rare compared to the past.
If you don't sell like before and your weekly rank is stable, then FT is "dead, dead, dead", indeed.
If don't sell like before and your weekly rank has dropped, then you are "dead, dead, dead", unfortunately.
So, which one is it?
Fyi, my rank has improved significantly the last couple of weeks (within the 3 digits domain)
It must be this one, if by "your weekly rank has dropped" you mean the number is bigger. Thank you all for the explains, I know this is the logical method to see how thing are hanging, unfortunately, I haven't checked my overall rank after I started falling in earnings, a long time. However it is not much lower than ~5-6 month ago (4 digit). My weekly instead is double of my overall, does that tell something? I don't know about that color ranking, is it the color of the badge in front of the rank number? This morning my weekly sales were 6, I got 2 sales today and lost two, so weekly sales are still 6. Before this I had 5 days without a sale. I will get more sales when my weekly goes under 6 again, this is how much I deserve, apparently. Worst of all agencies, almost.
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« on: August 14, 2018, 03:57 »
It could be search tweaking but it is not my first bad month lately, so it is not summer vacations the reason either.
I have no world wide sale at all, just US and there are too many of these small $0.26 sale, big sales are very rare compared to the past.
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« on: August 14, 2018, 02:22 »
Not a single sale in 5 days. I have the same images I had at the time when FT outsold SS but more in numbers.
They are very picky with approval, two images from the same session, like the same food in totally different setup is rejected for "similar image already submitted".
I really don't understand why did AS buy FT just to destroy it.
Anyone else having this bad experience or is it just me?
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« on: July 13, 2018, 05:33 »
In fairness, in the FAQ's it does explain that you don't have to add credit card details and therefore avoid the automatic renewal scenario. It would just run out.
In all fairness, there is only one way I understand this: You will not be charged anything right now and you can skip this step by selecting Remind me later. If you select Accept terms and conditions and enter a credit card, you will receive notification at the end of the CC giveaway subscription term that your membership will automatically renew and you will be charged the regular monthly rate. Terms and pricing will be presented at the time of renewal. Still it is a nice gift for many contributors.
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« on: July 13, 2018, 02:03 »
Even though this is a "gift", I won't go through any hassle (e.g. waiting several weeks, making sure that my older versions of PS and LR will still keep working - and the whole "never change a running system" thing) as long as Illustrator isn't included. I do get along with my older versions of PS and LR. So, ... sorry Mat, IMHO Adobe should either do this right (and equally for everyone) or not at all. Thanks, anyways.
I totally agree, not to mention the automatic renewal of the giveaway plan.
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