I'd heard the minimum wage has gone up, but I had no idea.    I'm going to submit an application at my local McD's ASAP!

I think you also should remember to consider one year at $100 per month, the next maybe $400, year three $800 etc.

It takes a LONG time to produce and upload 39,000 clips my friend. 

Well I have a feeling they are going to have hard times ahead. Still reading all the comments under their announcement is quite an entertaintment.

The thing is that PhotoDune is not significant for Envato as a company at all, so they can afford to experiment.

The top author on PhotoDune makes around $1,000 per month. Guess what the top ThemeForest author makes? A whopping $372,000 per month.

ThemeForest is at least 300 times (probably 500-1000) more valuable than PhotoDune. They could shut down PhotoDune today and not blink, but instead they are trying to create something else so they don't compete directly with the other microstock agencies.

i completely agree...if the makes 5000 dollar with this stuff really all the world will sign to become ea micro stock contributor don't spread the news...if he makes 1000 dollar is enough

Unless he's making at least $39,000 dollars a month it wouldn't be worth quitting your job at McDonald's.

Me too. Among top 50 contributors.

Looks like they fired majority of the contributors.

Well, with the weekly top images only selling 3 times even #10 didn't make much money. Let alone #50...

They're not going to compete with Shutterstock type images.

How can you know that the warp stabilizer produced a good result if you export it automatically afterwards? Regardless of the settings you put in before you can't know how it will turn out.

Just wait, and do it manually.

For each $10k it costs $250 in conversion fees. I think that is expensive. My regular bank takes 1%, or $100. Big difference. It's huge. Bad.

I fully agree. My bank takes 0.5% but I would be happy with 1% or 1.25%.

I really think 2.5% is OK up to a maximum amount though, say $50. It makes sense for small transactions.

 As you say, when you start earning a bit of money you're paying a new camera in conversion fees each year.

9. People who go annonymous to complain about complaints.

Oh, the irony.

I was in Thailand before 3 years, I am sure there arent enough people who can buy nice camera and take good photos. I dont know why they are listed as one of the bigger contributor countries.

Are you kidding? Sure, the average income isn't anywhere close to the UK but to say that 1,823 people can't afford a DSLR is a bit ridiculous. Out of a population of 67 million... 6.3 million in the modern city of Bangkok alone.

Wouldn't the creator of those x-ray images have copyright over them?

Precisely. That would be the photographer.

Who can say something is too cheap or too expensive if it sells..

Well, 5 times $200 or 20 times $100? Or 100 times $50? Which would you prefer?

Those are also for specific use and even if there were priced for nothing, they would maybe not sell more. Actually there was a topic on this forum and if I remember well, it was actually this guy who created it and asked what was the value of his portfolio and what prices he should sell. He was selling for cheap and we advised him to at least give a try to raise his prices. He did try for few months and not only his sales didn't fall, it actually grew.

Of course there is no way of knowing with 100% security unless we study parallel universes with different pricing.

It's all about experimenting to find where you sacrifice the least sales with the highest return. If you think 4-5 sales per week on a portfolio of 39,000 is good, I will let you do that.

To me, that sounds incredibly, absurdly low, which means that a lowering of prices to, say $99, might have a positive effect on revenue.

Naturally, the subject matter might not have a demand of more than 5 sales per week, no matter the price, in which case they could be raised to $400 and still get 5 sales.

In my experience, however, I find that pricing just above average for clips that are regularly usable results in the biggest revenue. That communicates quality while not scaring away buyers.

For absolutely unique clips like stepping down into a volcano, naturally, the price could be higher.

I used to price 2-3 times the average price and I got sales pretty much every day. Now I price around average up to 1.5x average and I make 3 times more money. So that works out better for me at least.

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Fotolia is a complete mystery for me, while having daily sales on SS and IS, I maybe have one a month on FT and every second one is 0.18. At least the upload is straightforward enough.

Where are you from I think Fotolia suits the European market more?

Historically that's true, old FT was more European. Now the Adobe buyers are adding graphics and illustration income in addition.

From the first day the lowest ever commission was 25c, now it's higher. Never 18c ever. 99c, $1.65, $1.38, $2.30, $1.84, others.

Well it says 0.18 credits, I assume it's 1 credit = 1$.
When I go to My credits page there is like:
photo sale +0.25
-0.08 Withholding, image sold with subscription
so it's 0.18 give or take.

Maybe Serbia doesn't have any tax treaties with the US but have you checked out the Tax Center and filled out the W-8Ben form?

I have 23 for my bestseller, but normal is 4-6.

Naturally, an image with many sales is going to have better search placement for any keyword.

but i'm a hard worker...if i want i can produce 22000 video in less than a year:) one day in a capital like hong kong or bangkok i really can produce a lot of editorial.

I would call you Superman if you even did 5,000 clips in one year. 

Just think about the upload time alone to 4 agencies.

Average clip: 300 MB (conservative, I have many 1 GB+ clips) times 4 agencies = 1.2 GB per clip.

5,000 clips means 6,000 GB upload. That's 16 GB per day, every day. It's doable on a fast connection of course and if you work every day for 12-14 hours it might be possible to get 5,000 clips up (only HD, if 4k we're talking 4x the size).

22,000 quality clips in one year for one person. I don't think so. With good tagging? Absolutely not.

If you have a team of people (like hotelfoxtrot for example, that's not just 1 person, that's a whole team of uploaders/taggers/planners) it might be doable.