No way the individual odds of being hit are 1 in 3000, with a population of 7B that would mean some 2 million people getting hit. Maybe those are the odds for someone getting hit.

Anyway, I have better things to worry about, like will this be my second 0 download day at SS in the last 3 or 4 years.

I am just waiting for the 3rd and 4th party sales where we get basically nothing but each site skims their chunk from the sale. come to think of it, unless we knew the original sale location and price we would have no way of knowing that was what happened. ugh.

Quote from: pancaketom on November 08, 2013, 01:59

Does anyone want to place bets on if we will get the regular stats update before PP sales are reported?

after, who collects the bets?

IS will take up to 85%, so it doesn't much matter.

My sales certainly don't average L size - much smaller. When I start to calculate how much people paid for the sales that get me pennies it just pisses me off though.

I also think that TS and the much cheaper indie content might be a too little too late attempt to choke off the competition and they are willing to take a drastic loss in income to do it.

I think the wholly owned content has to be considered here, since those DL probably don't show in any analysis of contributors and 100% goes to them.

Also you need to consider that "exclusive" might not mean what you think it means.

I also wouldn't be surprised to see TS and others lumped into midstock if they thought that suited the narrative they were spinning. Remember that a lot of this is to make a rosy picture to try to get people to part with their money. I seem to recall bragging about how great sales and profits and projections were out of one side of their mouth while crying poverty and unsustainable out the other.

Interesting to try to back out the real numbers - thanks for posting. I fear the error bars are still very large though.

A pretty good start to a month considering half the days have been weekends so far. My RPD is above that of DT (I guess that says more about the % of subs at DT though).

Last month started pretty weak but finished strong. Things are still a little lower than the good stretch of months I had last year though. There are a few more big sales and a few less regular subs lately.

Next year they will report this years sales some time around July.

Did they used to update in a timely matter (I don't mean back in the old IS days - but in the last few years)? I always assumed they were 3 or 4 days late, so what is another 3 or 4? Maybe they will change it to report them sometime in the next month.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on October 30, 2013, 18:16

Quote from: tickstock on October 30, 2013, 15:49

Your example doesn't make it seem simply pointless at all.  On other sites when you type in "agia triada" you also get all the other 'spam' results, plus you get it with all other words.

You're completely missing the point (deliberately?). On other sites you get Agia Triada (Minoan) results, on iStock, you get no results unless someone has deliberately spammed because iS DOES NOT ALLOW the Minoan Agia Triada site.

I understand what you're saying.  The example is pretty obscure though even wikipedia barely has much information on it and calls it "Hagia Triada".  A search on both Shutterstock and iStock shows maybe 10 images (maybe just 2 on iStock).  You can type in 'agia triada' into the search without choosing a disambiguation and you can enter it into your keywords without selecting a specific meaning also.  If you think about it when you type "agia triada" into a Shutterstock search you have in effect selected all of the meanings (ones you didn't want, the same when you enter it into keywords), I don't think it's too big a deal for some very obscure terms to have this problem.  It can also be fixed if there is a real problem.  This is where contributors and the site can work together to make it better or people can just whine and complain, I know what I chose to do.

Complain about SS?

They could have easily provided RC for PP and Getty sales if they wanted to, but they want to get payouts down to 20% since that is "sustainable" or whatever.

I think the bigger problem is the sites appear to be greedy pigs and the race to the bottom is more of a race to the lowest percentage paid to the artists.

I have had more subs than ever there. (15 out of the last 20). One was a TIFF for $2 though, which was a nice surprise.

The sub and non-sub sales seem to be getting farther and farther apart there.

I don't think they update views very regularly. Looking at my new images it seems they are at 0 for a while and then one will jump up a bunch (usually just one from each batch) - say to 20 or so, then it won't change again for another few days (meanwhile all the rest are still at 0). After a week or 2 I forget how many views they have so I don't know, except they aren't all 0 anymore.

I had a referral who uploaded one photo, it didn't get very many views, in fact my view might have been the only one in a month or more.

Have they changed the TOS? How I read them meant that if it was on Pinterest it was free game to use as long as you used it from pinterest so they got the link back. I tried for a few months to put the proper links for some of my images there (linked to IS or nowhere, but no longer there) eventually I gave up because it never worked.