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1026
« on: May 14, 2015, 00:53 »
1027
« on: May 06, 2015, 02:15 »
We just have to get rid of the greedy agencies...
You are very right.. We do whatever, agencies have highest priority for buyers and lowest priority for contributors. If we get rid of them, agencies will not be affected.. Instead we will surely be.. I sometimes feel trapped.. 
1028
« on: May 05, 2015, 06:47 »
 I got this email from Shutterstock.. Lets see if this benefits us or looses us more.. 
1029
« on: May 05, 2015, 03:40 »
Creative Market, Stocksy rejected me because my content is not good enough. Photodune rejects 90% of my stuff And now Canva will disable the majority of my portfolio. I guess if I want any chance of making some money I need to step up to the plate. I really need to get into this new filtered look business, because it seems that is hot right now. The times of shooting what I like is over. I dont have time to be a pro stock shooter. I shoot on my travels, editorial and landscapes, but that kind of stuff is present over-abundant. It was a nice run, 3 years, but I think I need to accept the fact that I wont get into the high end agencies such as Getty, Stocksy, OFFset, Creative Market, Canva, etc, etc.
Problem is that my pride and love for money gets in the way of things. LOL
Its same case everywhere, agencies are now very choosy with the images and vectors both. Look as this perspective. I am looking for say "football" photos, I searched for it in shutterstock and I find 316,085 images. Now, the scene is I will want only 1 or say 2, or on most 20 photos and for which I will search only on the popular ones. Why will go for newest first where most of images are inspired with one another.? Sale for new creative content have become very less due to this. Now think, Shutterstock website is only a business for John Oringer..... He started as a photo selling website then goes selling vectors then goes selling footage then goes selling music and things goes on and on. A business model which bought too many choices giving these company a lot of money. Now we as a contributor are floating with some pennies with no raise in our royalty. Its 2015, and we are seeing approx 400,000 photos per week giving buyer lot and lot and lot of choices.. guess whats going to happen in 2020. See the future and take the right step.
1030
« on: April 21, 2015, 09:35 »
Oh good, another "my part of the world is more expensive than your part of the world" thread.
Just sit back and wait for it to get locked. 
And bring some popcorns too and have fun.
1031
« on: April 21, 2015, 08:00 »
The answers are too far apart. The difference between making 2000 or 24000 per year is huge yet it's in the same bracket.
If anyone is only making $2000 a year then how are they living?
I have seen people making their living with just $1000 a year, come out of your comfort zone and see the real world where percentage of mid-poor is extreme higher than the rich. Now answer to your question, Why you want to know these facts??? Do your job and love it, money will come automatically. Your work speaks for you.
1032
« on: April 21, 2015, 04:09 »
I agree with you.. pathetic review time. And to add more, they are rejecting a lot of designs. Designs which gets approved by shutterstock, fotolia, depositphotos, iStock, 123RF is rejected by dreamstime. Many thanks dreamstime for doing so, you and your review team for doing such a great job, I love you people. 
1033
« on: April 18, 2015, 11:29 »
Yes, Same happened with me on Canstock. 123Rf working very fine. I have many files to be uploaded to canstock but this doesn't seems to be resolving. 
1035
« on: January 14, 2015, 06:58 »
Name of the website of the company?
Hi Max, please PM me if you think you hold skills what I am looking for. We can discuss there. Thanks,
1036
« on: January 14, 2015, 03:57 »
Hi All,
Ok, I have been working in this royality-free stock market from many years and have seen this industry very closely. I am pro-artist and know whats demanding.
I was offline in this forum from many months as I was busy with one of my experimantal project.
Coming to the topic:
Just for a overview, this is a project related to this microstock industry only. Not the same old concept which most of the new site owners are doing. It relates to same industry but with a twist.
Since this was a experimental project and this started around 3 months back and I was amazed with the responce.
In the last 2 month, I have got approx. 200,000 visits and 720,000 Page views, with alexa ranking in 50k's
This is pure genuine traffic which I got, all the visitors were real and genuine. There is not any SEO done in the website till now.
Few of my collegues suggested to look for invester, but to be frank I am currently not thinking for any investment right now.
For situation right now, I am only looking for partner and keep everything simple.
Why I got so much traffic?
A- Well the content in the site was very demanding. And I know how to grow even more.
Why am I offering partnership?
A- Consider this as a only one time opportunity that I am offering publicly. I was in partnership with one of my friend who recently got hired in a top company at a very good package, so he quitted the partnership and moved on.
Whom am I looking for?
A- I am looking for person with these skills,
1- He/She should have good experiance and must be expert in Web Development & SEO.
2- He/She should very trustworthy and genuine person
3- He/She should work and share his own idea too to help growing the site
4- Person should be very passionate and think out of the box
5- Person who wants to work in long term or permanent basis.
6- He/She should somehow relate to this microstock industry too, this will help the website to grow even more.
Do anyone needs to pay?
A- No, there is no amount required for partnership. I am looking for a genuine person whom I can trust and work with long term. Instead the person will be paid as per the partnership share.
If anyone interested do pm me in this forum with the link and details of
previous works... expertise level... aim in future... and why you want to join
We can discuss more there.
Please do not ping me if you do not have any of those skills.
Thanks,
-Akash
1037
« on: September 07, 2014, 02:54 »
Terms and conditions you signed 8 years back contained a royalty based on the economy of 8 years back. Everything has gotten more expensive, inflation, but royalties have either been kept the same or reduced. Image pricing has gone down, instead of up. It is very reasonable to ask for a raise. Especially from a company that has raised millions and millions of extra capital through the IPO. The success of the company is shared with share holders, whilst the people who built the company with hard work, loyalty and creativity are being ignored.
+100... I totally agree with this. We Photographers and Designers work very hard in creating images. We are the pillars of this company. It is very sad to share that benefiting and thinking for shareholders and increasing for IPO price without benefiting contributors are of no use. A company who is dependent on us has an office in great Empire State Building with a owner Jon Oringer having worth more than a billion dollar. And we are still getting the same. Yes, due to inflation everything got expensive and we are still at the same position as 8 years back. Raising millions of dollars without thinking for its contributors feels ignored. I think shutterstock should look from contributors point of view too, not just shutterstock as a business.
1038
« on: January 09, 2014, 09:32 »
1039
« on: December 17, 2013, 00:56 »
❤
1040
« on: December 16, 2013, 01:12 »
...~
1041
« on: December 06, 2013, 00:58 »
Expected december to do well.
But this month going very bad for me. Very less sale from any new content.
Hoping for anything good in coming days
1042
« on: November 27, 2013, 03:33 »
1043
« on: November 12, 2013, 00:44 »
Had one sale for $70 today <3
bravo spike... wish I too get the same..
1044
« on: November 11, 2013, 09:40 »
Today (Monday) going worst for me.... not sure why
1045
« on: October 23, 2013, 07:50 »
there was a contest, those of you who are complaining could have submitted options months ago...
Didn't want to open this can of worms, but here we go...
I saw the contest, but I won't enter anything on 99designs. There was a time when I might, and did, but not anymore. It's not a good venue for designers or clients. I can't support that site.
And I'm not saying I'm opposed to doing free work or spec work. There is a time and a place for that stuff, and I'll do spec work today if I think it is a good opportunity. And I'll occasionally do free work for someone who I think is deserving of it, Tyler being one of those people. If they ask.
I know that wouldn't have worked here, the minute Tyler asked for logo designs he would have been hit with the usual anti-spec cries. But he could have privately reached out to some of the folks right here on this very forum who are very capable logo designers and asked for thoughts on how to do this, or even help in getting it done.
So in short, no I couldn't have submitted something because there was no opportunity for me to do so.
+1 for EmberMike 99designs or any crowdsourcing works are no good for designers.
I oppose it and have never ever entered such contest.
1046
« on: October 23, 2013, 07:42 »
there was a contest, those of you who are complaining could have submitted options months ago. Tyler clearly likes his orange and the font (or typeface or typography, depending on how pedantic and hipster you wish to appear). It's his space; do you openly criticise the furnishings in your friend's house? Ouch! it's harsh here, even within the community. It's not my cup of tea either, but i like the change.
Yes, I agree openly criticism is not good. But let me make it clear that I am not criticizing anyone here neither am I saying anything harsh. Its an opinion dear. You can take it as either way. Any logo for any company is the most important thing as it stays for years and even many decades. I do like the effort but this could be made more good. I didn't knew when the contest was open. I am currently over packed with my work else I would have surely designed one for the community.
1047
« on: October 23, 2013, 05:00 »
gr8.. but I will never recommend this logo.. as an artist perspective this is not good... the font is very common. Also the idea is good but could be done more better.
sry for being so direct... its good effort, but I didn't liked the logo.
1048
« on: October 22, 2013, 22:22 »
October is going good compared with my previous months. I hope this continues in nov and dec too. 
1049
« on: October 22, 2013, 22:19 »
I have recently got an invitation to join PIXTA. http://www.pixtastock.com/They claim to have over 5,000,000 royalty-free stock images and about 120,000 contributors and were launched at year 2005. I have however never heard of this company but let me know if any one is working with this agency and how are the earnings.
1050
« on: October 09, 2013, 02:22 »
Its not a really new business model, its 6 months old, its old news, it was already added to the list of partner sites on March 06, 2013. I have been getting emails from clashot for months. There already a few threads about clashot on MSG as well.
Thankyou.. I never knew about that... Kindly ignore this thread if already present.
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