With an upstate New York phone number as well. Buffalo by the looks of it.

So does this Indian company actually have offices in Florida and the UK... because unless I'm mistaken, there's no Willis Avenue in Orlando, and there's no Great Western Road in Langford?

I'm just on about the change from one tier to the next. The tiers are the still same... but I'm a person changing from one to another, so wanted to check if it changed anything to do with video. Unfortunately not.

You're right on Salvation though Semmick... thanks for the heads up!

Not that I know of! Difficult to always know who is using what though.... I've stumbled across most of my work 'in the wild' by accident. 

Groovy cheers Jo! Sorry to get your hopes up Artist!

Me too. I'd agree with Brighton though...

AE stuff: Definitely upload there, probably the best place for buying and selling AE content.

Motion Graphics: Consider uploading there... sales are usually very good, and the volume of sales should be enough to offset the lower prices.

Stock Footage: That's up to you. Sales will probably be the same or a bit higher than elsewhere, but you'll probably lose out due to the lower prices. Could be one for the future once author driven prices have settled, and the review queue has calmed down a  bit. 

Quote from: cathyslife on December 07, 2017, 14:25

Quote from: fozcan on December 07, 2017, 13:27

Is the accumulated money in the account sent to the my payoneer account?

I thought I read that if your account is terminated for copyright infringement, you forfeit your earnings. Maybe read the terms carefully from now on before you submit to a site. Cut your losses and move on. There are other sites to submit to. If you have images like that one on other sites, you might want to pull them down too, before you are busted there too.

The money to be sent to my paypal account before my account is closed has been deducted from my shutterstoch account. But i can't see this money in my payoneer account yet.

Did you not read this part...

If you have earned commissions at the time of this closure, you are not entitled to these earnings per the Shutterstock Terms & Conditions you agreed upon when you became a Shutterstock contributor.

I think the general consensus from the nay-sayers is that it's virtually impossible to invent a new stock site in this day and age, that will be successful and give the big guys a run for the money... and that's without using blockchain. So adding something new into the mix on top of that... will it make it less appealing or more? It all sounds kind of promising, and I have no doubt that cryptocurrency and blockchain will be the future... but it's kind of addressing a need that nobody really had, and the average buyer of stock is probably just going to scratch their head and then navigate back to one of the regular stock sites.

Although I'll concede that nobody really had a need for the internet before it was invented... or dishwashers, microwaves, cars etc. 

And all the talk of cutting out costs seems to focus on how much the author will get, and not the buyer. I'm assuming cost savings will be passed on to the buyer to make it more appealing? Otherwise, given the choice of an image at price X using a site and process they know... and an image at price X using a site and a process they don't know, they'll probably stick with the original site. 

And that's the thing... all these comparisons are to Bitcoin, which is all fine and dandy, but we're on about a coin that doesn't even exist yet. If there's 1324, and we say that this new coin is better than 99% of the other coins, coming in at the 13th best cryptocurrency... it'll be worth about $105, almost 100 times less than Bitcoin. If it comes in the top 10% which is a lot more likely, but still very optimistic... it'll be worth less than one tenth of a cent. You'll need thousands of them just to buy one image.

And how many coins have come and gone since everyone rushed to make new cryptocurrencies as soon as Bitcoin rocketed to over $1000? I'm guessing there's quite a few.

I'm not doubting that cryptocurrencies might be the future, but I've no reason to believe that this Stocken is the future. Making the comparison between the two is like using Manchester United to justify starting a football team or Apple to justify making mobile phones. There's a lot that goes into getting to the top spot.   

Second best site for me, just a little bit less than Pond5 and Shutterstock combined.

So I've been getting a lot of emails and targeted ads recently going on about all these token pre-sales and ICO's (Initial Coin Offering or something) and all that jazz... and they all seem to be going for some kind of niche. One was for flying taxis, the other for online gambling and the like. Not sure when these ICO things started but back in the day you'd just create the coin, start mining it, people would buy it off you and then they'd start buying and selling and so on and so forth.

So whereas Bitcoin was like 1 cent a coin or something back in the day, people are now selling off these coins at a higher rate, giving them some kind of artificial value in the hope that they'll increase considerably in the future much like Bitcoin... rather than just getting them out there and seeing what value they generate themselves. So although buying a coin for 10 cents or a dollar might mean you get ten dollars or a hundred dollars after a few months... if it doesn't catch on or nobody is buying, then your 10 cent coin might be worth 1 cent or one tenth of a cent.

What they do with the money from the ICO is unclear to me at the moment. Maybe they use it to improve and expand the network, to promote and run the business, or just have a massive party on a yacht somewhere... I'm not too sure at the moment.

So now, I can't help but feel that the OP decided to get one of these ICO things on the go and had to come up with some kind of niche to compete, much like all the other places are doing... and he settled on stock footage/images somehow.

I might give it a try myself. All I need is a bit of marketing, some coin which are pretty easy to set up from what I hear, tie it to some kind of industry and then have a massive coin sale that will hopefully net me tens of thousands of dollars or more. Then I can ride off into the sunset and sit on a beach sipping cocktails. If they can do one for flying taxis, then I'm sure they could do one for commercial trips to space, which are a bit more established at this point. Space Coins. Roll up people, roll up!

It'll be much better than normal money as it will reduce the cost to the buyer and the seller, it will reduce regulations and decentralise the process helping to streamline and optimise the logistical practicalities of the blockchain-enabled space exploration mission. Or some nonsense like that.

I mean who needs regulations anyway?! If we can do away with all the pesky health and safety regulations, then we can save a lot of money by ditching the seatbelts, secondary parachutes, safety checks and emergency oxygen supplies.     

You should question them on this...

"We understand you have previously been in touch with our contributor relations team regarding this issue who have confirmed to you that the contributor is the original creator of the image you are questioning and therefore would have the correct permissions to sell the image."

They did not, and have not confirmed that. They only confirmed that the individual in question says that they are the original creator of the image. That's fine for a check box when uploading the content in the first place... but if somebody raises a valid claim of ownership then that's not going to cut it.