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Messages - Noedelhap
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1026
« on: July 21, 2017, 01:53 »
Slightly higher than May, but still disappointing. Total expected revenue will be even less than last year. I'll be earning the same amount as I did in 2011...
1027
« on: July 20, 2017, 11:11 »
Hi, i'm happy with my first stats (I started in May 2017)... It's encouraging to see people buying my photos that were sleeping in my hard drive!
Since may
Rf, 300 pics, 2 dl
DT, 300 pics, 1 dl
SS, 150 pics, 8 dl
AS, 150 pics, 14 dl
IS, 300 pics, it said 3 dl but it's not clear...
P5, 300 pics, 0 dl
I think it's a nice start is not it? For me, AS is the place to be ;-)
with such stats i imagine your folio....really I'm still puzzled why agency accept portfolio that clearly are not brilliant...what's the point of adding infinitely portfolio who doesn't add anything to the industry but only manage to "steal" some sales for other contributor?
they want rf to have only amateur? because this is the way industry is going and is reflected by the quality of new submission.
If it doesn't add anything to the industry, why would you be afraid of losing sales to less than brilliant portfolios? Assuming the amount of content is increasing anyway, I'd rather see more inferior portfolios than superior portfolios. Otherwise it's tougher competition. But we haven't seen this guy's portfolio, so why jump to conclusions?
1028
« on: July 20, 2017, 07:57 »
I had to google bigos too. So to save everyone time:
Bigos often translated into English as hunter's stew, is a Polish dish of finely chopped meat of various kinds stewed with sauerkraut and shredded fresh cabbage. The dish is also traditional for Belarusian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian cuisine.
ug ipad sucks at copy/paste
Never heard of bigos before, and now suddenly I can't think of anything else.
1029
« on: July 17, 2017, 15:10 »
They're not gonna pay you. It seems hardly worth the time (or money) to pursue it. How much are you asking?
1030
« on: July 17, 2017, 12:43 »
You mean like last year and the years before that? Quelle surprise!
1031
« on: July 14, 2017, 16:02 »
If you can easily submit there with little to no work, why not upload there? If the amount of work doesn't weigh up against the number of sales, don't do it.
1032
« on: July 14, 2017, 05:22 »
Is this thread going to be resurrected every couple of years? Even my vintage wine is younger than this thread.
1033
« on: July 12, 2017, 12:18 »
It's not unreasonable to ask for a small inflation adjustment, of say, 2%. Although a couple of extra bucks are hardly worth the negotiation. So I'd say, take the deal and hope for another renewal in 2 years time 
1034
« on: July 10, 2017, 15:59 »
The composition still isn't interesting. I'm looking at bushes and a fence.
I can see some planes for a length of 3 frames. What's the point of timelapsing if the landing can't be seen?
1035
« on: July 10, 2017, 11:05 »
Isn't it always illegal to to resell images for print on demand, extended license or not? You should demand the newspaper to take down the image (send a DMCA) and take this up with a lawyer if they refuse to buy an extended license. They're clearly infringing your copyright and the terms of the standard license.
Edit: correction - it's not illegal to resell the photo on a printed product if they have an extended license, which I'm assuming they don't have.
1036
« on: July 10, 2017, 09:28 »
I'm no video footage expert by any means, but personally I don't like the composition in the Piazza Duomo clips. The lighting is just plain boring. In other words: the Piazza lacks pizzazz-a.
The plane videos are mostly just boring. The subject is a tiny dot in the distance and the hay field takes up most of the screen. The camera movements are jerky.
1037
« on: July 09, 2017, 13:10 »
Lately I haven't had any sales.
1038
« on: July 08, 2017, 07:32 »
I have never experienced a $79 purchase.
I have never experienced a 4k sale (I do get the occasional one elsewhere)
I have always sold 2 files per month for two years, every single month. Same when I had 60 files and now with over 2.000
My best month was the first one: 4 sales with about 30 files on, sort of welcome aboard pack
I have never sold one file more than once (opposite to other agencies, where sales tend to concentrate on best sellers)
The files I sell at VB are always the worst ones, the ones I am ashamed of, or uploaded by mistake
Very very strange place, if you ask me
I've had two 4K sales this year. Sometimes I sold 1 video a month, sometimes 2, 3, or even 6 videos (after several months). I've sold several files multiple times. Just to show that your experience differs from mine. Makes VB a little less strange.
1039
« on: July 08, 2017, 06:37 »
Awful.
Come on Adobe/Fotolia, act swiftly! Thieves like that must be stopped and brought to justice.
1040
« on: July 07, 2017, 07:46 »
The render quality seems good to me, but the market is indeed saturated with these kind of images. I've seen the faceless generic guy in many images, in different colors, sizes and poses.
1041
« on: July 07, 2017, 07:09 »
because they have no idea how much their work is actually worth.
Very few people know exactly what their work is worth because it's based on sales figures that can't be predicted with any reliable amount of accuracy. I think we can all agree that the $20 you might get from one SS sale isn't worth it. You wouldn't take on a client commission for $20... but then if you get two sales, three sales and so on and so forth, then it starts to make it worthwhile. That's when the worth of your work starts to reveal itself... not so much the sale price and the commission rate. There's a sweet spot when it comes to sales price versus sales figures which is going to be influenced by the quality and uniqueness of the clip... and none of us know what that sweet spot is until it starts selling. And even if we figured out what that sweet spot price was, there's not much we can do about it unless it's Pond5 or Motion Elements.
You keep mentioning the 'sweet spot', but in my opinion this is far below the sweet spot (considering the video quality and demand). The sweet spot is the exact point where a price increase would result in a drop-off of sales. So what I'm saying is the price could be higher than $8-$10 and it would almost certainly still get the same amount of sales. Luckily, with Pond5 it's possible to change prices (minimum of $25 I recall) and find out the sweet spot, but with Videohive you're stuck selling for less than the sweet spot, leaving money on the table. As for it being a high seller... it's a high seller because it's a high quality clip and the guy has put the work into something that he feels will be commercially viable. If people are making lower quality stuff that is less commercially viable... Of course, but the thing is, you can't always predict what will sell. This guy is an exception but I'm sure he has created stuff that is less popular than this fireworks clip, even though he has put in a lot of hours as well. So you have to take those working hours into account as well, so the average hourly rate goes down either way.
1042
« on: July 07, 2017, 02:51 »
Getty/iStock is still sending out their survey emails. I received a third one just now, oddly titled "Last chance!"
As if I'm missing out on something fantastic experience by not replying. Besides, I already did the survey, so stop spamming me!
1043
« on: July 05, 2017, 14:11 »
I'm stuck at $49.92. "One more sale and I can cash out my money", I said to myself in September of last year.
I'm waiting more than 10 months now for that single sale...
1044
« on: July 05, 2017, 10:34 »
Well the guy makes $280 a month from them. If it was $79 on SS then he'd have to sell 14 a month to make the same. Nothing unlikely about that, but my point is that if he sells them for $10 and gets 40 sales a month, he's unlikely to get 40 sales a month if they are $79.
Just like this: https://videohive.net/item/global-network-orange/12004875
I get $2.88 every time it sells. If it sells on Videoblocks, I get $47.16. The latter is great, and more preferable, but the amount I make on VideoHive is roughly the same as the amount I get on Videblocks, Pond5, iS, SS, DT, 123RF, Motion Elements and Fotolia combined... so there must be something to be said for a lower price-point to drive the volume of sales.
14 sales on SS is very likely with that quality, it seems to me. If the files are split up and sold separately. The thing is, with prices like that, video becomes even more a commodity than it already is. If people are willing to buy a single image for $5, he could easily price it $25 and it will still get sales. He's leaving a lot of money on the table (like many other contributors there) because they have no idea how much their work is actually worth. Plus, how much work goes into it? A whole set of animations and a fancy preview video, in case of AE templates even regular updates for the same package. $280 a month for one package sounds great, but not if you spend too many hours on creating it. And this is a high seller, so it's an exception to the rule. How many of those aren't getting sales?
1046
« on: June 29, 2017, 07:31 »
One month it's up, another month it's down. May and June 2017 are even below May and June of 2013.
1047
« on: June 27, 2017, 16:13 »
DT is now short for Desperate Times.
1048
« on: June 27, 2017, 04:05 »
So there's no compensation for contributors for the extra rights they grant to a standard license? Pay the same, receive more, screw the contributors, is that it?
1049
« on: June 24, 2017, 16:30 »
"What can we do to improve your Getty Images/iStock experience?"
How about not sending me an iStock statement with a negative $320 balance four years after you cut me? Yeah, that would be great.
Why a _negative_ balance?
1050
« on: June 22, 2017, 11:36 »
At first I thought: why give them any information on how to improve, they don't deserve that information.
Then I decided to do the survey to let them know how I feel about their lack of sales and their ESP platform.
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