BOT inspection completely take the art & creativity out of photography.

This may be inappropriate to ask, but what kind of daily income do you get from 200-300 daily sales at SS?   I know 9000 is alot of images, but if you make a living with your port, that's a great motivator for the rest of us. thanks

 Know a guy with 10,000 images and he makes $800 a month. 200-300 daily would be significantly more assuming similar od and sod composition. I'd guess 3500-4000 a month

Quote from: Dumc on September 14, 2016, 14:21

Đizs krajst, chill down already, breath, are you replacingRrinderart or what?? *, you're annoying with constant bullshiting...

arsch geige nie mand spricht zu dir

Amen

Do you contribute to film supply.com? I was browsing their collection and they have some nice stuff.

So much for supporting Fotolia, I mean Adobe Stock.

Use MPEG Streamclip, it's free and you can downsize your 4K to HD.

Quote from: MircoV on September 10, 2016, 11:57

Are we in the stock photography business or writing?

If i have to write to sell more photos i would think...what am i doing?

Like go swimming to be able to dance??

Calm down� If you have heartburn take some Alka Seltzer it can help...

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I have been told that on some microstock sites the fact to participate actively to the forum can push your rank up. I don't know if it is true.
For this reason I was wondering if the fact to write in the Dreamstime blog could have a similar effect.

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"Are we in the stock photography business or writing? "
"If i have to write to sell more photos i would think...what am i doing?"
So I wonder why you are writing on a microstock forum where you can find useful answers and advices to help you to sell better�

"Like go swimming to be able to dance??"
The fact to practice a sport or to have a regular physical activity helps to keep your body in good shape.
Having a body in good shape is very helpful to practice any other physical activity.
So yes swimming can help you to dance better.

(You see, I answer to you questions with answers, not with questions as you do�)

Honestly, the reality is that many of us are willing to try anything reasonable to grow revenue and in some cases we've been conditioned to do so. Look at FAA. Supposedly if you participate in forums and post and like and blog and whatever, you get favorable placement.  I haven't done it but I wouldn't scorn anyone for trying.

I'm pretty sure the difference between Adobe RGB and sRGB is negligible for 99.9% of all photographic applications, especially more so for microstock photography.

Yup.

I am in and most of my downloads are the distribution type, cheap.  Last month I made $20. No regular downloads, just a hodgepodge of "additional revenue". The month prior I made $250 ($500 before my cut) and the month before about the same.  Alamay is very cyclic in terms of sales. They are NOT consistent but good when they do sell regular assets.  As far as the additional revenue opportunities go, they won't amount to too much.

I'm not going to delete anything from there for now since I got some nice 4k sales . It's just weird that there are my files in most downloaded search results that I've never sold on VB. I thought that maybe somebody else had similar situation and maybe it's just their website algorithm makes false results.

I'm on a cycle as I've said a few times before in other threads.  In July I had a 10-12 video run on VB, then nothing in August and so far nothing in Sept.  This scenario is not a one time occurrence.  It happens over and over again. 10-12 sales in a month, then no sales for the two following months, then 10-12 sales again the next month. It's happened since I joined when they started up. 

Right, I think I get it. In the UK you just report what you report, no questions asked. Well, you'll sometimes get audited to check you're not making stuff up and you actually have documented evidence of your income... but it sounds like in the US, everything has to be accounted for. I.e. they match the incomings of one party with the outgoings of another.

I guess it makes sense from a balancing the books kind of thing.

It must get complicated though... I mean how far down does it go? If I have a receipt for a bunch of champagne for entertaining clients, will they then check with the nightclub's tax returns to make sure those bottles were sold at the price I have on the receipt and that the club are paying the right tax on them? Sounds a bit of a pain.

Unless there is major bucks involved, they are just verifying your receipts. I just got audited last week and lost.  A 1099 was updated by an agency a while back but they never sent me the new one.  I had to pay 1100 in additional taxes and penalty and interest. This is why the envanto thing is so messed up. The 1099 and the "I wanna have my cake and eat it too" accounting system they have is probably illegal.

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I guess the main reason is we are all making too much content too fast and dividing almost the same pie for growing number of contributors The number of big and medium producers who can afford $79 for HD is unlikely growing accordingly. Videohive may be a some sort of solution. I noticed there were sales from the countries which never appeared on my Shutterstock sales map (China, Russia) and the typical buyer profile there is surely different.

I will never sell anything at Videohive.  It's too dirt cheap!!  It's horrible for contributors!!

So if you got loads of sales and made about $2K a month there, that would be really horrible?

Yes, it is very horrible.  People now can buy the same clips for $10 instead of $70+.  It's bad.  Simple math.

So it's only the price your works sells for that's important to you? The volume of sales doesn't matter as long as they sell for a high price?

It's obviously both we want.  But price erosion is what brought micro stock down to its knees for suppliers.  Now we are having the same discussions for video, some embracing cheap seat prices and others wanting to sustain fair prices.  In the longer term (maybe a few years) we will then be seeing similar shenanigans on sub pricing, cheap bundles, further commission erosion, less quality content (need I say 50,000 videos of someone smoking pot), a race for more volume, less quality just to keep up with the cuts agencies build into their models, to the point where video is now for those who only wish to make a few extra bucks a month, and those in countries where a small dollar amount is significant for them. The rest of those who are trying to make a living at it might as well go work at McDonalds to supplement their MS income.  So I understand both points; yours is instant gratification and helloitsme is long term sustainability and steady income.  All agencies are doing is competing by chopping pricing, it has nothing to do with people paying $79 for HD.  Bloggers and such don't need $79 HD, they can pay much less for a web version, so that argument is noted at best.  Where in all of this discussion is the quality of ones work addressed? There seems to be a tone that content does not matter, only price.  That is short sighted thinking.  I'm with helloitsme, I won't upload to VH.