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1051
« on: July 14, 2015, 17:36 »
Its a stupid question because the amount you make each month is more to do with how commercial your images are than the number you produce.
1052
« on: July 14, 2015, 11:51 »
How much easier can it be to import images? I would of thought the hard bit was finding them in the first place and Fotolia must be way behind on that.
1053
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:29 »
They say "Premier Select will not change the exposure of your content currently available to our Premier customers."
So it doesn't really explain why the large SOD sales have dried up for me since April.
1054
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:24 »
I think they are phasing out Novel Use. I used to get lots of them but the last ones were in May 2014. So I don't think opting in will make much difference now.
1055
« on: July 13, 2015, 17:35 »
Do new uploads sell there now? I only seem to sell old stuff, so I stopped uploading.
1056
« on: July 13, 2015, 04:05 »
My earnings were steady until May this year when the big SOD's sales dried up. May, June and July have been well down on previous years. I haven't been uploading much for a few years and alamy is making up for a lot of the loss of earnings lately. Decided a long time ago that relying on just microstock was a bit too risky.
1057
« on: July 13, 2015, 04:00 »
It would be unbelievable if it wasn't istock doing it. I hope one day someone competent takes over there.
1058
« on: July 12, 2015, 15:27 »
If its true that 4k buyers are put off by low prices because they associate it with low quality, istock wont be selling many anyway.
1059
« on: July 12, 2015, 02:32 »
Says the person who's been repeatedly banned, then comes back a few days later spewing misogyny.
Im still here and waiting for that apology, since im not that person apparently.
https://youtu.be/oYOZ3IzRaf4
1060
« on: July 11, 2015, 11:37 »
I don't see the point in dumping sites. Maybe these should go if you have to do it.
Crestock
Panther
PIXTA
Feature Pics
Zoonar
Yaymicro
Photodune
The rest should carry on making money, just leave them alone or upload once a year. Sold 1 photo for over $1,000 with alamy last month, seems crazy not to be in that lottery when it costs nothing to leave your portfolio there. You might never get a big sale but at least having images there gives you a chance.
Do you upload some photos specially to Alamy or is it the same batch that goes to all the other microstock sites?
Just started with Alamy, not sure how to approach them.
I do both. I have one pseudonym for my microstock images and others for ones that I only have on alamy. My microstock portfolio makes more money but my alamy exclusive photos are almost all editorial that wouldn't be accepted or make much on the micros.
1061
« on: July 11, 2015, 11:31 »
I like it when I can work out who an anonymous person is here and then I always have the option of outing them if they annoy me too much 
1062
« on: July 10, 2015, 16:32 »
One of the most laborous and boring sites to upload to. Most of the time I just give up after 10 or so thinking I'll come back later and never do. been this way since day One. Ya know guys "whoever makes this the easiest wins" Thats all there is to it.
And...what this DACS Payback, a non profit organisation set up to distribute money to visual arts for secondary licenses in the UK market.
You want 50% to pay me and your a Non profit?? what am I Missing.
Alamy will do all the work for you with DACS and take 50%, if you don't want the hassle. Or look in the alamy forum and there are lots of threads about how to fill in the DACS form on their site and then you keep 100%.
1063
« on: July 10, 2015, 16:23 »
Must watch, 4 minute speech by Nigel Farage:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-09/nigel-farage-destroys-eu-group-think-just-4-minutesthere-new-berlin-wall-and-its-cal
He wants to split up Europe but wanted to keep Scotland in the UK. Never quite understood how he can argue for one union so passionately while doing all he can to break up another one. I also don't like how he tolerated so many racists in his party and didn't keep his promise to quit the leadership if he wasn't elected as an MP. He is just like most politicians, a huge ego and no principles.
The union of the UK has been in existence for over 300 years and is democratically approved. In short ... it works. In contrast the UK public only ever voted to join the 'Common Market', a simple trade agreement and that was 40 years ago. Almost all of us would still vote in favour of that. What we don't want or need is the EU dictating 80% of the laws that govern us, unbridled immigration, excessive cost and little democracy or accountability. We're not interested in a federal Europe .. because it won't work ... as is proven by the issues with Greece amongst many others.
Farage did resign as leader immediately after the election (in which he won nearly 4M votes but secured only one seat, more votes in fact than the SNP who won 57 seats in parliament) but was persuaded to 'un-resign' three days later.
But hey ... I'm sure you know all this but feel free to distort it and leave out most of the pertinent facts to suit your own little agenda.
Anyway ... back on the topic of Greece.
You're the one twisting the facts. When someone pledges to resign, they do that, not carry on like he has. Should of known you would be a kipper
1064
« on: July 10, 2015, 16:13 »
Typical istock, when you think they have run out of stupid things to do, they find something else. I'm pleased really, it would be too much of a shock to the system if they offered a reasonable commission for 4k. At least I wont feel like I am missing something by not uploading there.
1065
« on: July 09, 2015, 18:07 »
I thought they had finished deleting images from my portfolio but more have gone. I'm just pleased I didn't waste time uploading all my portfolio, will wait and see if it is worth uploading the rest when they have stopped deleting.
1067
« on: July 09, 2015, 17:12 »
I don't see the point in dumping sites. Maybe these should go if you have to do it.
Crestock
Panther
PIXTA
Feature Pics
Zoonar
Yaymicro
Photodune
The rest should carry on making money, just leave them alone or upload once a year. Sold 1 photo for over $1,000 with alamy last month, seems crazy not to be in that lottery when it costs nothing to leave your portfolio there. You might never get a big sale but at least having images there gives you a chance.
1068
« on: July 09, 2015, 17:00 »
Wait and see what sales are like when everyone has uploaded all their portfolios. New sites can get good sales, then everyone uploads their portfolios and people start complaining that sales have dropped.
1069
« on: July 09, 2015, 16:55 »
I didn't look here much for a year, as it was too depressing and I got addicted to Clash of Clans to fill the void. I came back because there's no point not knowing what's going on, even if some of the best people here leave and some of the worst just change names
1070
« on: July 08, 2015, 03:52 »
Lots of the strange EU regulations that we see in the press are made up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Source_of_EuromythsThe ones that are real are often ignored by sensible countries but for some reason the UK implements them. I think that's more a problem with our government than the EU, they like to blame everything on the EU. And even when a daft rule is implemented, there's usually a way around it. Traditional light bulbs were banned by the EU but I can still buy them now, shops got around that stupid law that our government failed to block.
1071
« on: July 08, 2015, 03:41 »
Don't like it. I would rather our images were found by buyers through the search than having to be "favorites" with 100 photographers. That seems open to abuse and a big waste of time for all of us.
1072
« on: July 07, 2015, 10:14 »
And the Greek people can run their country the way they want, nobody outside will get upset if they seem them favoring the oligarchs from paying taxes or wasting their money on the military. It is their country, they can do whatever they want.
For that they need to leave the EU, not the Eurozone
We have no problem favouring oligarchs with Non-dom status so they pay almost no tax in the UK and wasting money on the militarry while still being in the EU
1073
« on: July 07, 2015, 03:18 »
The rejection rate is so high that it becomes a waste of time when I could be doing more profitable things with other sites. I guess Stocksy might of taken a lot of business from them?
1074
« on: July 06, 2015, 05:30 »
They seem to forget that the vast majority of Greeks want to stay in the EU. I hope they can stay in the EU but I can't see how they can keep the Euro.
1075
« on: July 05, 2015, 12:51 »
@cobalt
... politically naive - to be precise -
..fritz already explained it - endless loans are sophisticated way of occupation...
Please explain why they have asked for all those loans and still want more then. At some point when you keep borrowing money, you have to take responsibility for your own debt. They could of got out of the mess they created but now they have the option to print their own currency and that looks like all they have left now.
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