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1176
« on: January 26, 2014, 17:18 »
Even if the market is growing as long as it is growing slower than the number of new images then the slice that goes to the individual contributor will on average shrink.
Maybe the long term contributors with huge and successful ports were getting a larger market share than they deserved from advantageous search placement and now they are getting what they deserve. (deserve isn't necessarily the right word, but perhaps early sales back when there was little competition was weighted more heavily before and now it isn't). The larger the image libraries get the more important search placement is.
If the number of contributors and the number of images doubles and the number of sales doubles then the agency take doubles but each contributor sees no change. Now imagine if the images and contributors double but sales only go up 50% - the agency still wins but the contributor gets a smaller slice. It doesn't mean microstock is dead or the market is crashing, but contributors need to reevaluate.
1177
« on: January 21, 2014, 16:13 »
I think I know what is happening. They seem to prioritising the search by matching the region the searcher is in to the region the supplier is from. As I upload from the Middle East I get Asian and European sales but I no longer seem to get them from the Americas (I'm not sure about Australia/New Zealand). In the last 24 hours I have had one customer from the Americas, who picked up four similar, very specialised files which might well have been on a search with all the results on a single page.
I hope this is just experimental as it is a heavy blow to me. As with all these swings and roundabouts changes there will be others doing very nicely, if they happen to be zoned in the main selling regions.
That is what they told me. That is a part of their algorithm.
If that's right, then I'm sooooo scrooowed.
But it might have the unintended consequence of saving the photographers in Europe and N America from the long warned of hordes of people from India and China who can happily live on a few bucks a day. I wonder if they do it on a portfolio basis or on an image basis (ie - where the image was uploaded from vs. where SS thinks the seller lives). If the former it would possibly make sense to extend a "vacation" a little longer to upload some local pics possibly.
1178
« on: January 21, 2014, 14:12 »
We can also hope they take the Costco model of maximizing returns for the shareholders rather than the Walmart one. It looks like something in between and closer to Walmart at this time though, especially w/ what they are doing w/ Bigstock.
1179
« on: January 20, 2014, 18:47 »
Best week ever last week. 
That might be my first and last week to beat you.
1180
« on: January 20, 2014, 16:17 »
While those graphs on SS are interesting, they are not accurate. I have brought this to SS's attention a number of times with specific examples and they brush me off every time saying that the reported sales are accurate (the reports that we get paid off of).
Try making a set of all of your images and compare those sales to your reported total, I also have made sets of images submitted by year and compared them to the sales from the last year at the end of every year - they are not equal.
That's a pity. I've made some decisions based on those graphs. Oh well, too late now.
Your decisions are probably still valid - they aren't way off, but they aren't exactly correct either and SS didn't seem to care when I pointed it out.
1181
« on: January 20, 2014, 13:41 »
While those graphs on SS are interesting, they are not accurate. I have brought this to SS's attention a number of times with specific examples and they brush me off every time saying that the reported sales are accurate (the reports that we get paid off of).
Try making a set of all of your images and compare those sales to your reported total, I also have made sets of images submitted by year and compared them to the sales from the last year at the end of every year - they are not equal.
1182
« on: January 20, 2014, 01:13 »
Unfortunately my sales graph there looks a little like a sperm. It is swimming to the left, and not too vigorously since the tail is almost flat against the 0 axis. only 2 absolute 0 months since 2011 though. I would like to see sales pick up there, they seem to have like a slightly different type of photo than the standard microstock and accepted a number of images that I liked and many sites didn't. I do remember them mentioning the change to google search really hurt them, it would be nice to see them pick up again.
1183
« on: January 15, 2014, 11:49 »
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Is there an easy way to see which pictures sold and when?
I belong to BS, SS, DS and 123rf. It is very easy to see what sold, when, and the amount sold for....
SS shows which keywords resulted in a sale. Do any of the other sites offer this info? Thank you in advance for your help!
Don't confuse the amount sold for (which is often very hard to determine) and the amount we get for the sale - which is usually given to us. DT sometimes tells us the search term used to find the images sold (as does SS - often they don't list any keywords for a sale). As for IS - get used to the mushroom treatment if you are going to be there (kept in the dark and covered in sh$t)
1184
« on: January 09, 2014, 12:52 »
The problem might be that they are tracking you and trying to feed you the results they think are appropriate. You probably have different tracking info on different browsers so they send you different search order.
1185
« on: January 07, 2014, 11:57 »
I haven't looked at Pinterest recently, but when I did basically if an image was there you could use the image legally as long as you kept the link back to pinterest - so essentially once it is on pinterest it is free for use and essentially owned by them. Any legal problems are shunted back to whoever posted it on pinterest. Now if Getty is essentially giving the stamp of approval to images there does that mean they are ok with the pinterest TOS?
I'd love to see the details of their agreement. I am also curious about Getty's use of metadata for images that are not Getty images.
1186
« on: January 06, 2014, 17:40 »
My sales at IS are down over 40%. For a more detailed analysis you can pay me some money.
1188
« on: January 03, 2014, 19:59 »
They need a lot more light shining into their inner workings - "trust us" just doesn't cut it with them, not even the "new trust".
1189
« on: January 02, 2014, 12:52 »
If you can wait and are ok with being one generation behind, the best time to buy a camera is when the newest upgrade has just been released but before the old stock is gone. When I was tracking prices I didn't see any obvious benefit to waiting until after christmas, although there were some pretty good last minute deals this year.
1190
« on: January 01, 2014, 21:31 »
They seem to have dropped me down. The "new" trust in action.
1191
« on: January 01, 2014, 12:24 »
Dec was ok, but on the low side. DT was the real standout. Lowest RPD since 2010 and nearly the lowest number of sales of which 77% were subs. Alamy was my 2cd best site after SS (which was pretty lackluster).
Year on year only 2 sites made more $ in 2013 than 2012 - BS and PD. I wonder if the rise in BS is mostly due to sales migrations from SS though. December was 65% subs at BS. Alamy had the biggest $ amount drop. I fear 2012 was a pleasant anomaly there. I didn't produce a lot of MS images in 2013 because I was pretty busy with travel and working on my house - which is mostly done. Moving from a truck to a building with no shower or kitchen is a lot of work. Still, I made more than 2011, so it isn't all bad. Hopefully I can catch up with some of my processing and uploading backlog and increase my income in 2014.
1192
« on: January 01, 2014, 01:38 »
When you say 2013 do you mean images added in 2013 or do you mean total portfolio at the end of 2013? Sorry to make this so complicated.
1193
« on: December 31, 2013, 16:11 »
I guess in the long run you can answer this question better than we can. A niche is valuable when there is demand and it can't easily be copied. It looks like this couldn't easily be copied, so the question is does the demand make paying the cost worthwhile? I am sure there are niches that aren't worth the expense and others that don't belong on microstock.
For something that is expensive but not easily done by others it would be nice if you could put it on P5 and set the price high - or Vetta video (do they have that?).
1194
« on: December 31, 2013, 11:52 »
I was going to ask how it predicted the PP for Nov and October, but it doesn't even predict the Christmas slump and the changes in algorithms - that is what I care about.
1195
« on: December 30, 2013, 14:58 »
I have one "BS partner - single print" but no merchandise ones.
1196
« on: December 26, 2013, 12:58 »
I guess the sale worked.
If you were unscrupulous and had a bunch of $ to play with you could have advanced all your images to level 5...
1197
« on: December 26, 2013, 12:19 »
I don't know if anyone noticed this, but I did get one sale yesterday, and the royalty was higher than normal, so that was nice. here is the notice...
"Santa has got a present for everyone this year, naughty or nice: 50% OFF on all purchases and 100% royalties from all sales on Christmas Day. Plus, you can use our FREE ECARDS to send merry thoughts and festive wishes. Merry Christmas everyone and a wonderful holiday season! - posted by Tangie"
I always felt that if a site wanted to give a discount they should not do it on the backs of the contributors, although I suppose if you were exclusive you might get less for a sale with this scheme. Too bad Christmas isn't a day with a lot of action. I haven't been too happy with most of the changes DT has made in the last few years, but this is something good they did.
1198
« on: December 26, 2013, 01:09 »
My images submitted 10/27/13 (or 27/10/13 to be more logical) are not split, Images from 11/11/13 and after are.
1199
« on: December 25, 2013, 14:24 »
So when you go back and fix it, does it stay fixed or do they split it up again. What a pain.
I wonder how much it actually effects search and sales.
Any word from SS why this is so or if/when they are going to fix it.
1200
« on: December 25, 2013, 00:32 »
Awesome pics. Here's to even more next year.
personally I'd prefer the slideshow to show each pic longer, (like show the pic by itself at least as long as the fade).
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