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Messages - Deyan Georgiev Photography
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« on: February 18, 2019, 03:58 »
Hi everyone!
How to make Clipdealer to pay? More than two months and many emails with no answers since I've requested payment from Clipdealer. How to get money from them?
Same story each time. I wait 2 months as you. Every time i have to send tons of emails in order to receive my payment. Why is all this? Markus, why?
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« on: February 15, 2019, 10:46 »
It's disgraceful that Adobe do not give any details they just take our money.
Why do we have to pay for their "accounting error"?
An airline sells a ticket at the wrong price. They still honor that ticket.
We are just bailing out Adobe.
Not always.....the reason is simply that airlines face competition. In the end who is actually going to walk away from probably the second best selling agency?
This problem will be solved if non-exclusive way of contributing disappear and we have to choice agency to which will upload exclusively and at every new shot to decide where, where and why there...
Be careful what you wish for if that happened there would be only two or three viable agencies who would hold the whip hand.
How? They will need images, but there is one image for one agency and i hold the image.
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« on: February 15, 2019, 10:18 »
It's disgraceful that Adobe do not give any details they just take our money.
Why do we have to pay for their "accounting error"?
An airline sells a ticket at the wrong price. They still honor that ticket.
We are just bailing out Adobe.
Not always.....the reason is simply that airlines face competition. In the end who is actually going to walk away from probably the second best selling agency?
This problem will be solved if non-exclusive way of contributing disappear and we have to choice agency to which will upload exclusively and at every new shot to decide where, where and why there...
129
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:52 »
I already see positive balance, but for sure deducted with some amount X
130
« on: February 15, 2019, 04:23 »
Is ok you are telling me there's some accounting problem and deduct some of the wrong earnings. But at least tell me how much was deducted, and which files.
I only had a small correction but it would have been nice to know the exact amount and which files in the email. Also, plain text with a link instantly screams Phising email to me. It didn't look official and I was ready to write it off.
possibly phishing. I hope so. Looks like the mails are send en masse. Not personally addressed, but a simple "Dear #firstname #lastname,".
Maybe Adobe got hacked. Last week also got some phishing mails from EyeEm and 500px.
Agree, but when this reflect the account balance become serious.
131
« on: February 15, 2019, 03:37 »
We'll see soon, but it looks like this is urgent balance protection blocking in bulk.
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« on: February 14, 2019, 02:31 »
Same here, January was a good month, even the best month ever
Febrary is close to the worst month ever, just one sale 
I appeal to all who have small portfolios, do not spend your time of making conclusions about sales. Spend your time on creating new content and free your mind from sales conclusions, it's too early. Spend your time on analyzing what you have sold, not how much, again it's too early. This month 1 sale and next month 5 sales, doesn't mean 500% growth. This month 1000 sales and next month 5000 sales, this mean 500% growth!!!
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« on: February 14, 2019, 01:54 »
To me it's all about the collection and clients. This blockchain thing is on secondary importance for success. For now i see a good Premium selection and the website works smoothly, but we'll see what about the clients.
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« on: February 12, 2019, 09:53 »
Maybe somebody will call me crazy, but i reorganized the first 5 keywords on more than 10K files and still have a lot. It's hard, but i already noticed some sales on images which did not have sales or was not sold in the resent years. So to me it worth, i do it with 100 images every day.
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« on: February 01, 2019, 09:41 »
For weeks, no one from America bought my photos 
This can be just accidental case if you usually sell just 20 images a week(as example) and completely different case with 200 a week, it's important to have in mind the volume of sales when make statistical conclusions.
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« on: January 31, 2019, 11:34 »
The big problem I see there is the volatility of every cryptocurrency, there's a huge risk $1 commission to become 1 cent just in one night.
The other big problem is that there has been no word that I've seen about any sort of marketing of the agency to potential buyers. If this is just a place to host your images with no marketing other than what the contributor does themselves, then I can't see what the attraction is. Marketing and sales generation is the hard part.
I don't see how they have anything to appeal to buyers. Their premium content isn't exclusive and is overpriced. For example, I found a large collection of images from an outfit called Mint Images that is also on Alamy and Dissolve (with the same content). Wemark's prices are much higher than Alamy prices for the same images.
What type of stock imagery buyer would prefer to obtain images where you have to deal with the volatility and hassle of buying tokens? What large corporate buyer is going to put up with this extra hassle?
Absolutely agree. Just to add one more concern on the currency part, there will be currency conversion from WMK to ETH/BTC and from there to USD. To do so we have to go on exchange. First we have to pay fees on the transaction(inside ERC-20), then fees on the exchange and most likely fee for the withdrawal. With small amounts will be expensive, to hold for big amount is very very risky in crypto, because until the moment of withdraw this WMK can value hundred times less(or more of course).
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« on: January 31, 2019, 10:53 »
The big problem I see there is the volatility of every cryptocurrency, there's a huge risk $1 commission to become 1 cent just in one night.
Or $10...
Yes, a bit of gamble lol
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« on: January 31, 2019, 10:42 »
The big problem I see there is the volatility of every cryptocurrency, there's a huge risk $1 commission to become 1 cent just in one night.
139
« on: January 30, 2019, 09:33 »
The Getty animoto deal deserves a thread of its own, I agree.
This is like the getty google deal, or microsoft deals. Getty makes millions, we get nothing.
It is also unfairly undercutting all the other agencies that pay the artist.
They pay to the artists in most of the cases(lol), but almost nothing and that's the big problem. Most of the contributors prefere what Getty give instead of nothing when already the files are uploaded(after the hard work of uploading years back). I've stopped uploading, but to be honest will not delete what i have there(for now). They know this is valid for most of the contributors and they use it.
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« on: January 30, 2019, 00:17 »
Has Canva ever has an explanation for how 35% of $1.40 equals 35 cents? I've had a few of those lately and am not thrilled to see a 35-cent commission on a $1.40 sale. Maybe they explained that somewhere but I can't find it. New math is one thing but I'm pretty sure they never changed the rules of multiplication.
Someone else said it was for currencies other than the USD, I can't remember where that was posted though. I have also heard of .90 sales that also netted .35
That was me. They do not change the prices and commissions, there are just a new currencies which appears in our dashboard as $, but it's not USD. We have to wait the new contributors dashboard and there will all be visible correctly.
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« on: January 25, 2019, 08:44 »
I started submitting to Cavan (only about 20 images) but stopped because they have a 2 year exclusive hold on your images before they'll remove them from the site. I knew about the 2 year hold beforehand and thought I'd be ok with it but ultimately decided it's a deal breaker for me. Yes they also restrict out take images from the same shoot to be submitted elsewhere.
I also signed up to Cavan late last year, thinking it would be a good place to park my Stocksy rejects, and I asked about whether I could delete files and still haven't heard back. it probably was in the agreement, which I only skimmed through. For now I only have 1 small food series on there. I really dislike their image upload process and I haven't been back to add more. I had hoped it would be a good workaround for the Getty "no deletions" rule, but apparently not. The risk of uploading a series, having 90% declined, and a 2 year lock down, is a real problem.
I did get accepted to Cavan and they accepted 10 out of 10 of my initial submissions, but some of the comments here have me hesitant to submit more.
Is Stocksy your preferred agency? Can you tell me your reasons why? I'm new to the stock world so whatever insight you can share would be appreciated.
Thanks.
what did I miss?
Well, the secret spice which push all images to look so "stocksy"-ish
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« on: January 23, 2019, 02:26 »
It looks like Canva has a new layout and broke the script. I'll look at it when I have the time.
Sean, they're now making a new contributors dashboard, don't waste your time with this.
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« on: January 23, 2019, 02:21 »
I prefer by default to be shown Activity, not Top sellers as i know which they are and they're not changing every day. So if i need several times per month or week i can simply filter Top sellers, but what i check every day is Activity.
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« on: January 21, 2019, 07:08 »
First time I've seen this.
Wonder what that is? Pity the royalty is still only $0.35.
This is from the new the multi currencies feature, but the dashboard shows $ symbol. The sale is in another currency not USD. They create now a new contributor section and all this will be fixed. They still thinks about its contributors, i'm one of the first there and really like Canva (except the Getty deal).
Is the new contributor site ready?
No, it will take a couple of months.
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« on: January 21, 2019, 01:14 »
First time I've seen this.
Wonder what that is? Pity the royalty is still only $0.35.
This is from the new the multi currencies feature, but the dashboard shows $ symbol. The sale is in another currency not USD. They create now a new contributor section and all this will be fixed. They still thinks about its contributors, i'm one of the first there and really like Canva (except the Getty deal).
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« on: January 14, 2019, 22:44 »
It looks interesting, but it need a lot more developing before to trust and use it. I searched for bitcoin and it shows me the word "bitcoin" with rank 0
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« on: January 13, 2019, 13:36 »
Hello to everybody,
...And I can upload images...
You are just on one little step of been contributor, this uploads to be accepted as part of the application approval.
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« on: January 11, 2019, 02:30 »
Boy, are buyers going to be pi$$ed when they see these ads, think they are going to a professional site, then on the first search they have to wade through thousands of crap similars. What a waste of shutterstocks money. They should have used the $ to clean up the site.
I guess they rely on the artificial intelligence in the search. Instead of editors do decide which image to take, the buyers will decide directly with their behavior. I'm not sure my new quality images are seen from the buyers. There are maybe 100 million images which can be cleaned up fast with just one glance in a second. I would love to see contributors ranks on Shutterstock(on public).
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« on: December 02, 2018, 23:32 »
Any sales you had via the Instant app are reflected in your main balance, the commissions were not differentiated. This is visible at both Fotolia and Adobe Stock.
-Mat
Thanks Mat, I was wondering if I missed to request it via the app.
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