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« on: February 10, 2019, 12:27 »
Hello! I want to revive this topic. Current people, how do you use it?
On Alamy, copy space and copyspace. There don't seem to be many recorded searches using these, (many more use copy space than copyspace) but I'm seldom anywhere near maxing-out keywords, so why not? BTW, IIRC I think the CopySpace trademark referred to a tool which indicated where the copyspace was on an image, back in the day. (I'm failing to google the info, at least it's not in the first many pages.)
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« on: February 08, 2019, 04:24 »
I'm well late to the party but what happened to former Istock long time contributors?
When Istock changed a while back, I don't recall what the program was and how a contributor could have their images sold on the site. I had a portfolio since 2004-5 of multi-thousands images and some videos and then when they changed, I did nothing and don't know where I stand now. I can certainly phone them tomorrow but thought I would ask others what the program is. Thank you.
Do you mean you have multi-thousands of images still on iStock, but haven't logged in for a couple of years, since they moved onto ESP? If so, you should have been paid during that time, whenever your earnings in a month went over $100 by month's end; but if you didn't fill in the tax questionnaire, they would have kept your payment (not 100% sure, was it only those outwith the US who had to fill in the tax questionnaire?). If you had that many images and kept them there, I'm surprised you haven't wondered about where your payments have been until now. BTW, I don't think contributors can phone them, but if you lost or didn't get your email with ESP log-in details, I'm not sure what else you can do.
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« on: February 07, 2019, 14:50 »
Nothing seems to sell these days/years on Alamy.
I have been consistently selling on Adobe Stock and Shutterstock last year and no bites on Alamy. I've been starting to wonder if anyone does sell there.
Has anyone tried creating images on the "what should I shoot page?" (I'm searching for the Abba jumpsuits and finding a woman to walk a cheetah, but hoping I can make it soon to the Tomb of Mehu.) Seriously, though, is it worth consulting the list for some of the more reasonable items, with reasonable being a relative thing depending on location, budget, etc.?
The list is based on searches they haven't been able to fulfil in the past (last year? not sure how long). However, three of the searches referring to places near me refer to historic legal cases, which may never be searched for again. (one doesn't actually exist any more, but people may have had a historic photo, it was a former children's home which featured in a 'historic abuse' inquiry early last year). There was also a request for a town in Australia - but when I looked out of curiosity, I saw there were already over 600 photos, mostly high quality, of that town. I don't know whether that meant that someone had looked at over 600 pics without buying any (but their system isn't that informative) - but the potential buyer presumably would then filter down for what they actually wanted. With the way prices are going on Alamy nowadays, I wouldn't go out of my way to fulfil any of these pics; but if I happened to be passing, why not?
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« on: February 05, 2019, 17:10 »
I had over 2K small (max edge 1200) watermarked images on Flickr.
On Sunday I deleted many albums, several hundred pics. Then I checked my photostream to see how many I had still to delete to get below 1000, and the same number of files remained, although the albums and images had disappeared.
I see just now, 48 hrs later, that the alleged number of files is still the same as it started out as, though the pics are no longer there.
Forget it, Flickr, that's not the way to force me to buy pro, that's just cheating. And I have no actual need to pay for a Flickr account, it really is just a fun photo place for me.
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« on: February 03, 2019, 14:03 »
It's not only that eggs are common, but why would they be on a cut treetrunk? Look at what other people have done with eggs, and see if you can think of anything sensible* which hasn't been done before. *but WDIK? I remember years ago noticing one particular photo coming through on iS and thinking WOE (to be polite), and a couple of months later I actually saw that same pic used on a poster fairly near me - one of the extremely few times I happened to stumble upon someone else's pic 'out in the wild'. You can never really tell what will sell. 
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« on: February 01, 2019, 12:33 »
Be careful of recent sales on Alamy as an indication of future sales, except in broad terms and types of images. Specific keywords and specific subjects, by recent activity and downloads, are very much, yesterday's news.
Exactly right. Another thing is for sure, if any of us did know exactly the kinds of images to make for maximum profit we wouldn't blab it on a public forum filled with with potential competitors!
These, plus looking at my own sparse sales, I can't even identify what type of my own images sell best. It seems particularly random, just what a particular buyer wanted at any given time. Note also that the price is totally based on the buyer discount, not the rarity of the image. From reading the forum, it seems that the larger value sales tend to be to the US (mostly US content) followed by Live News. But of course, only a very tiny proportion of contributers ever drop into the forum. I'd venture to say that both by my own records and looking at AoA, wildlife doesn't seem to sell particularly well there.
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« on: January 31, 2019, 11:57 »
I have not read the details, but crypto-payments aside, are they planning to use the block-chain technology to keep track of the way images sold through them are being used, thus enforcing their copyright?
If yes, this can be a break-through worth paying attention to.
It won't necessarily make any difference. Thieves will steal, international law is prohibitively expensive, and block chain won't make one iota of difference to that. How is blockchain any better than having your copyright in meta (where it's still in the thief's use?).
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« on: January 29, 2019, 16:10 »
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« on: January 29, 2019, 12:23 »
I don't have full proof but it certainly appears that editors are adding and removing keywords so they are different than what I submitted.
I don't know whether it's being done by editors or by machine, but for sure keywords are appearing and disappearing. I've already had keywords reappended to certain images, but last night I found more which had essential keywords missing, i.e. actually what the subject is, even though other files are searchable on these disappeared-from-my-files keywords. And you have to jump through hoops with spreadsheets to get them reinstated, sometimes with a nippy note that 'titles and descriptions are not searchable' as if you didn't know that, even when you can prove via DM that the keywords were there when you uploaded them. Honestly, I must have had, and maybe still have, hundreds of files which are unsearchable on their main keyword. But it's hard to know because you need to search for them to see if they're searchable. And even more bizarrely, just because a keyword isn't visible on the file page on iS doesn't necessarily mean that the file isn't searchable on the keyword, the system does that too, so if you find a missing keyword, you also have to search the site to see if it's really there. Finally, I've had files which I found searching within my portfolio but not via a sitewide search, which isn't much good as I'm pretty sure I don't have a personal fanclub, or else I'd be selling directly.
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« on: January 25, 2019, 15:48 »
I see on their website that my commission model is Alamy Blue. Anybody any idea what this means? Are there different colours/rates etc?
I don't think there are nowadays, but there were back before I joined in 2009. I think there was a cutoff date whereby all new contributers were put onto Alamy Blue. On the previous Alamy Green scheme (which was your choice [or not]) you paid something per upload, but got a higher percentage if an image sold.
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« on: January 21, 2019, 09:44 »
Good month financially. 80% over December 2017 (very bad month) and 30% over November 2018 but 33% of d/ls were for $0.22 or less and 25%+ were at $0.00. I would be in pretty good shape if I got paid something for the hundreds of shots given away.
0.00???
I've read reports of 'sales' of zero, but so far haven't seen any explanation.
Weird. You should ask about it...?
It wasn't me, so they wouldn't answer. But the question has been asked. (It may have been answered privately)
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« on: January 21, 2019, 08:31 »
Good month financially. 80% over December 2017 (very bad month) and 30% over November 2018 but 33% of d/ls were for $0.22 or less and 25%+ were at $0.00. I would be in pretty good shape if I got paid something for the hundreds of shots given away.
0.00???
I've read reports of 'sales' of zero, but so far haven't seen any explanation.
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« on: January 19, 2019, 16:18 »
although I kind of hate to admit it, I find that Google works best so far...
But nothing like as well as it used to work. Mind you, Amazon sometimes throws up some bizarre results nowadays. Presumably ever expanding catalogues.
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« on: January 19, 2019, 05:21 »
Simplify your life and go exclusive at Getty / iStock.
For video? That's a very unusual suggestion!!!
Depends how much you value your time.
That's what I mean. I've just read the January stats thread over there. Looks like video is really scraping the barrel price wise, almost as bad as photos. Not worth the time to shoot, process and upload at iStock; hardly for stills, not for video at all.
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« on: January 19, 2019, 05:16 »
Mine loaded last night.
Worst Dec since 2006, which was my first month and I had very few files.
Worst month since Aug 2007, the month I became exclusive.
Worst rpd by some margin since I started tracking rpd in Jan 2011.
Added: I see it's whirling round now, but my stats are now stored in TodayIs20.
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« on: January 18, 2019, 15:39 »
what a bunch of stupidity.. being an immigrant from rumen in usa make you so nervous about that theme? i travel all the world love ukraine and russsia, indian african but this don't deny th fact that most of spammers and thieves in shtterstock come from these country. and has nothing to do with politics or xenophobia...i already said find 10 20 thieves from france, or usa...i expect.
Well, to be frank, most of the image/article thieves I've found have been in China. That and an Irish lawyer who is refusing to answer emails or speak to me on the phone, or reply to letters. After similarly dissing Alamy.
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« on: January 14, 2019, 17:19 »
It is certainly important to include relevant keywords, but a keyword is either relevant or not, and how often it's searched for by buyers doesn't make it any more relevant to an image.
I disagree completely on that point. Assuming the keyword is relevant to my image, then I absolutely want the keywords that are most often used by buyers.
That's what she said. If all my keywords are relevant, but no buyer uses them, then I have wasted my time even bothering to upload it.
That's a totally different issue, but a relevant one at mini-micro prices.
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« on: January 13, 2019, 17:47 »
Simplify your life and go exclusive at Getty / iStock.
For video? That's a very unusual suggestion!!!
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« on: January 10, 2019, 20:13 »
... paint stripes on a shaved kitty . . .
to look like a sphynx cat?! I remember years ago seeing someone had taken an animal head cut out of one of my wildlife pics and stuck into a Victorian or prairie dress for an ad. I thought it looked stupid then, and that dog looks almost as daft.
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« on: January 10, 2019, 14:41 »
Is it the devil?
Check out earlier threads on this DP forum, and decide for yourself.
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« on: January 09, 2019, 16:34 »
I am just interested as new stock uploader, when do photos start to sell after you upload them? I got some sells but i am talking about bigger numbers, i am also uploading daily and around 200 photos monthly  Hopefully someone else shares his/hers experience
It was much easier in the 'good old days'!
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« on: January 08, 2019, 08:45 »
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