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Messages - amabu
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« on: March 01, 2018, 13:54 »
A web browser + Excel + 10 minutes a day
Several agencies and 8000 images ? No way.
I have 20 agencies an 16 000 images, and I do it.
The longer was to prepare the initial Excel spreadsheet, with all the agencies and various graphs. But this was one time for all some years ago.
Then an average of 5 minutes a day is absolutely enough to open 20 web pages and see the daily total for each day.
For other kind of calculations (RPD - RPI, etc.) I spend a little more time once or twice a month.
You obviously have no clue what those programs are actually doing... 
You know me, maybe?
No!
So Speak for you and not for the others!!
I perfectly know Microstockr, I use it on my smartphone since years, and I have also used the computer version for one year, participating to the debugging program
It is a nice program but, as with Excel I do the same thing, I don't want to pay all this money just for a nice (very nice in fact) interface.
And then Microstokr does not support half of the agencies I am with, so in any way I need an other solution (And I have it).
You obviously have no clue of what you are telling
All these programs give you the sales and earnings of each individual file - across all (supported) agencies. Not just daily totals... Good luck doing that with excel 
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« on: March 01, 2018, 11:32 »
A web browser + Excel + 10 minutes a day
Several agencies and 8000 images ? No way.
I have 20 agencies an 16 000 images, and I do it.
The longer was to prepare the initial Excel spreadsheet, with all the agencies and various graphs. But this was one time for all some years ago.
Then an average of 5 minutes a day is absolutely enough to open 20 web pages and see the daily total for each day.
For other kind of calculations (RPD - RPI, etc.) I spend a little more time once or twice a month.
You obviously have no clue what those programs are actually doing...
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« on: January 11, 2018, 11:59 »
So, whats the story now?
Their photo marketplace went live in September. I had one sale in October, 3 in November and nothing since... (1200 images online)
Anybody having regular photo sales?
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« on: November 22, 2017, 13:21 »
Do you have a direct contract with getty images?
You cannot just sign up with them and upload, like with eyeem or alamy.
You need to apply and get accepted.
I applied and I was accepted by Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Istock, Getty Images, Alamy and EyeEm. So I can upload to the agencies that I said.
No, you cant. Anything you upload to Getty is exclusive, you cant send it anywhere else. And with 23 images in your portfolio you wont make more than a few cents anywhere. And neither with 365 self portraits.
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« on: October 14, 2017, 12:07 »
https://www.fotolia.com/id/63950072
I actually like this photo a lot. It not that typical, spectacular stock-style image, just a simple shot of a moment. But looking at it really gives me nice, familiar feelings of walking in the fields in winter on an overcast day. Such calmness, cold and space. Now i really started to look forward for these times of the year. I can almost feel the winter smell of this kind of surrounding.
But I don't think it will sell-well  . Which is a pity. I'd prefer thing like anywhere instead of smiling people
That image is by Dumc. And I think its "at least as bad" as the one he pointed out. Dumc could defend his image, the other guy can not (because he doesnt know about it being posted here). I think its bad form to post other contributors images and putting them down.
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« on: October 14, 2017, 03:40 »
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« on: September 28, 2017, 06:14 »
What a brilliant way to plump up Offset, too. Clients have been complaining about the lack of choice. Get photographers to submit their best work to fictitious assignments, buy the copyright from them for $12. Now those images have to be removed from all other sites because SS owns the copyright. SS puts the best of the best on Offset and the rest on SS, and they're now branded the exclusive Offset or Shutterstock collection, and they always appear at the top of page 1 in any search.
Look how many of you were invited to submit photos for one location in Germany.
I actually live in that exact location. But I still have no intention in selling the rights for $50/4 images. I just signed up to see for myself what they have to offer. Just to get the facts straight: You sell the rights to the client - not to SS. The website was just rebranded and has been around for a while as Flashstock. So its not a new scheme SS came up with.
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« on: September 28, 2017, 05:38 »
Just got a request so have something concrete rather than speculation $12.50 each for four images.....but very run of the mill location based. If I happened to live near its something I could do in minutes and probably incorporate into a wider shoot. If they didn't sell they wouldn't identify the brand so I could put up for sale....precisely what this business model is suited to.
In Germany?
I got the same, apparently. Would be a breeze of a shoot if I lived there or had visited. Just general cityscapes.
Same here, Germany. Apart from $12 per image, what is amazing is that no expense budget is provided. They know where I live (mentioned in my profile) and that it would take at least one-hour flight or 5-hour drive, the cost of transportation alone would be multiple times the $50 fee. So why sending this brief at all to people like me?
On the good side, they appear to accept one's archive photos if they match the brief, so no need to travel. But chances that I have pictures from that location which weren't published elsewhere are slim.
Does anybody know whether rejecting the offer affects your points compared to, say, ignoring it until its expiry?
Was it Hannover?
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« on: September 18, 2017, 07:56 »
100 = $500
(you could have just used the search function)
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« on: September 18, 2017, 05:56 »
Are any of these predictions based on numerical analysis?
Or are they just gut-feeling guesses?
They are wishful thinking. I predict the poll results will look exactly like they look today.
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« on: September 05, 2017, 03:24 »
Your search skills are obviously not very advanced... There are already several recent threads about 500px distributor sales.
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« on: August 14, 2017, 00:57 »
The "most downloaded" item has 12 downloads.
The 6th "most downloaded" item has 0 downloads.
That says it all...
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« on: August 04, 2017, 04:28 »
I am opted out as well but didnt receive the email. Can you post it here, please?
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« on: July 17, 2017, 03:14 »
Its amazing but I used to submit to around 17 agencies and now I am down to 5. I just wonder where microstock is going?
Yes, me too and now only 5 (2 micros, 3 midstock), seems to be working ok for me although midstock sales are fewer than micros but usually larger payouts.
Which agencies do you consider midstock?
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« on: May 13, 2017, 09:41 »
They are not responding to "account termination" emails either...
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« on: May 08, 2017, 02:46 »
The numbers to the right do not necessarily reflect reality.
1 or 2 voters can dramatically change the order.
SS has 154 votes. So 1 or 2 voters wont change much. And it definately wont chnage the order since SS is leading by such a large margin. Also a rating of 73.6 translates to $368. Does that seem (too) high to you?
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« on: February 28, 2017, 04:30 »
Have they contacted you directly? I cannot find the "company offer" on their website.
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« on: February 07, 2017, 06:44 »
Hi Niakris,
has the submit process already been adjusted for the new Alamy image manager? Is Editorial RF supported?
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« on: December 10, 2016, 12:25 »
It worked. Thanks! 
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« on: December 10, 2016, 11:36 »
OK, sent the report via the service menu now.
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« on: December 10, 2016, 11:29 »
Stocksubmitter doesnt let me send a report because "there is no error with useful information"...
But here is a screenshot:
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« on: December 10, 2016, 10:24 »
Upload is working for me too. But submit has not been working for a week or so. I always get this error message: "unknown nightmare authentication error #2"
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« on: December 10, 2016, 04:31 »
Anybody got any news on that issue?
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« on: December 02, 2016, 16:37 »
Now I know where those 3.30 sales are coming from. Thank you!
I doubt it. Mat said: "The royalty you earn for licenses will initially be $0.99 per image, with each image during the promotion representing one converted credit. "
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« on: September 29, 2016, 10:47 »
Well, according to their email: "These particular sales reflect editorial one-time use licenses to media clients in Asia, at a file size similar to Web Ready.
And they are bulk processed over the comin weeks. So not real time, the sale might have happened months ago.
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