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« on: April 05, 2016, 05:14 »
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« on: April 04, 2016, 13:54 »
Let's hope, new posh office on Park Ave. in Manhattan will inspire curators to work harder.
Do you really think curators work in this office? Once there was a talk about P5 outsourced curation to an Indian company.
I was super cynical. They are all in Czech Rep. https://www.facebook.com/groups/720805501262878/?fref=ts
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« on: April 04, 2016, 11:24 »
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« on: April 04, 2016, 11:07 »
I look at that and see a very sad office space, with everyone sitting right next to and across from each other at long tables with nothing separating them but the computers they're working at. I don't see an office for anyone, just conference rooms on the outside edges. Much like every ad agency in Manhattan now. All noise, no privacy, long hours, eating lunch at your "desk," which isn't really a desk at all, just little designated space at one long surface.
Oh, the gold old days, when even a junior copywriter like me, working for J Walter Thompson, got a big window office in the Graybar building. Now even department heads sit in open space with everyone else, and the best they can hope for is to be somewhat nearer a window.
Boy, am I old.
\ Address is swanky, the floor plan horrid, I agree. BUT it's time to WORK not to play around! Although, looking at RSF numbers....they've got from 30,000 to 7,663 !!! More than 4 times less space??? Is this a crisis of some kind? 
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« on: April 04, 2016, 11:01 »
Well, at least we do know where we stand with these agencies and what to expect. It's good to prepare for all. Got to share this horror story that I ve heard recently. A contractor who worked almost 5 years non-stop for one of the agency passed away while working for them at the conference abroad. That same agency didn't want to pay a penny for his transport/funeral back home. Reason given... he was just a freelancer! 
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« on: April 04, 2016, 10:35 »
Let's hope, new posh office on Park Ave. in Manhattan will inspire curators to work harder.
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« on: April 04, 2016, 10:30 »
They are moving to the new office now....too busy to review photos!
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« on: March 29, 2016, 04:37 »
Copyright lawsuit upon P5 that is taking place is a huge pressure to speed things up and grab some money for themselves asap. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/9470397/Hempton_v_Pond5,_Inc_et_alSo, be considerate, they can't think of us now...when they got to defend their own being and not so happy investors. Not sure good IPO/Acquisition can happen under lawsuit going on. Remember what happened after Revostock lawsuit.
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« on: March 28, 2016, 12:18 »
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« on: March 26, 2016, 07:28 »
How about writing to their investors or CEO and explain the nonsense taking place and asking for help/clarification.
I wrote to support and didn't get a very satisfactory answer
ok, one last shout before I really take off for some Easter fun .... Who is support? Some young kid working remotely on low salary, probably not knowing what you on about. Always go to the top to get things done. When in shop and not happy with sales assistant, you usually ask for manager to help you, no? On a much more serious note here...
Could THIS copyright lawsuit against P5 (link below) that is going on since last September be the reason for all this paranoid behaviour?
Nobody messes up with Gordon Hempton of SoundTracker.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/9470397/Hempton_v_Pond5,_Inc_et_al
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/wawdce/3:2015cv05696/221382
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« on: March 26, 2016, 05:59 »
Does anybody know if we can 'sneak' the refused images up again in with other batches or is there some sort of automatic system that knows that they have been refused before? My batch that got refused had images from 6 different shoots all of which had images from the same shoots approved previously. There is no way that most of them should have been refused. I get the feeling that a reviewer just refused them all without even looking at them properly.
ps I just looked and before refusing these last large batch I had only ever had a total of 15 rejections from them.
Desperation call at its best ... is there any pride left? 
I am talking about images that have sold many times in the little while that they have been up at other sites. One of the images refused has sold nearly 60 times at Fotolia alone in less than 2 months. I don't put up images just for the sake of it. I am very choosy about what I upload and it really annoys me when I take the time to upoad and they aren't reviewed properly. It's not sourgrapes it's the fact that I know that there is nothing wrong with the images.
I hear you... but what kind of business is that, where contributors got to make plans to sneak their product in, in order to prove right! How about writing to their investors or CEO and explain the nonsense taking place and asking for help/clarification. https://twitter.com/ryan1scotthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmscot[email protected] off I go...great Easter folks!
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« on: March 26, 2016, 05:22 »
Does anybody know if we can 'sneak' the refused images up again in with other batches or is there some sort of automatic system that knows that they have been refused before? My batch that got refused had images from 6 different shoots all of which had images from the same shoots approved previously. There is no way that most of them should have been refused. I get the feeling that a reviewer just refused them all without even looking at them properly.
ps I just looked and before refusing these last large batch I had only ever had a total of 15 rejections from them.
Desperation call at its best ... is there any pride left?
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« on: March 26, 2016, 04:24 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFympKLy1osThe man who made some interesting choices after this interview, 4 years ago. Surely he is sunning somewhere super warm while we all trying to conclude what's going on with P5.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 01:54 »
Interesting but I can already submit to Adobe, Shutterstock, Getty Images, Dissolve and Pond5 without a middle man.
It might get easier to submit trough them. Ultimately, it's high-end curating business they promote, while employing art directors instead of foreign cheep labor. No idea is it worth it...just sharing.
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« on: March 25, 2016, 18:39 »
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« on: March 25, 2016, 14:12 »
Isn't adding more links to free images in this thread just going to make things worse? That's why I removed all my old links to istock when they cut commissions, don't want to help them with google.
Not really. Putting your head in the sand and pretending the free sites don't exist, doesn't make them go away. Post in a forum after a Forbes article is a drop in the bucket. It's not going to make their Google rank go up. We need to discuss and see not hide eyes or cover ears to the truth. Free image sites stink bad, polute the water, but they are there.
Most of these are trash and make money with paid links to our sites that we get paid from. Bait and switch.
So true ...
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« on: March 25, 2016, 04:59 »
Good point by Robert Jung here. https://www.facebook.com/pond5/posts/10154057079019777Robert Jung: I wonder if he was ever forced to sell artwork for 20$ and have a broadcast license attached to it. Timo Hensen: no one is forcing you.. Robert Jung: You are right! that's why I priced my material higher than average. unfortunately, it has quite an impact on my sales. what would force the starving artist is simply the competition. if pond5 would adjust its license so you can price a limited license at 20$ and licenses with broader coverage could be priced beyond the 100-500 range. truly a shame. I've since then moved to other marketplaces.
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« on: March 25, 2016, 04:19 »
$99.94 received yesterday. It would be a shame to lose it. At least they passed away in good style.
LOL
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« on: March 25, 2016, 04:17 »
I haven't uploaded anything for a while so can't comment on rejections but I've been absolutely hammered in the sales department. Let's just say March 2015 had 26x as much revenue come in compared to March this year, this will be the worst month since 2011 - that's a dramatic drop.
It seems something has changed drastically there, for 5 years I had stellar sales and made a solid income. (Onions yes I know you think I'm a "favourite" but I didn't even have my first email contact with anyone there until this time last year and ironically since then things have slowly faltered and now seriously dropped off a cliff.) I have a feeling a shake up in top management and "suits" coming in may have something to do with it.
If things don't pick up or change drastically soon I'll have a serious rethink of my strategy there. Luckily I'm well spread and don't rely solely on Pond5...
Mate, I am really sorry to hear this. Well common sense logic was, if they featured you in their adverts you must have felt some benefits of it, no? How amazing, they even screwed that one up.
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« on: March 25, 2016, 03:49 »
Yesterday I had 712 videos accepted - none rejected and today 1042 accepted with none rejected.
I don't think my video's are amazingly special or anything. It took them 3 weeks to review. So I'm either very lucky or everything is normal? I'm hoping on the latter?
Hey Cider Apple, have you been selected for membership contributor? Maybe you guys gets priority now.
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