Quote from: sweetgirll on March 21, 2015, 03:49

You have to remember that when you have a client commissioning they always get more demanding than you thought... and you end up investing much more time than if you were just doing something for stock.

It never fails for me...is like they want this and that...it sounds simple, straight forward, but then..things start to change, and you spend more time doing this and that...

I rarely have that problem with my clients (fortunately I can handpick them), and they wouldn't want to pay more. I earn the bigger money with other services they hire me for, like advertising and photography.

Depends on the customer, the usage, the number and the complexity of the icons. I usually ask for 10 to 30 EUR per icon including exclusive rights.

But if I can manage to draw 25-30 icons on one topic, I rather sell the complete set on the agencies
(vector icons, that is) and earn a lot more

I wonder how they will manage to get "over 100,000 new pieces of content every month" (from their FAQ), when no serious stock vector artist will supply, because "It's exclusive! You'll never find our content anywhere but on StockUnlimited." (from their FAQ)

Got the email, too,
If I recall right, 12 zooms this month that make for a CTR of 1.10 for the better of my 2 pseudos. Only 4 sales this year, though.

But back to the OP, I'm only having good days after good days at SS 

Quote from: MichaelJayFoto on March 06, 2015, 07:40

Also, I believe Shutterstock is more of a long term project with the benefit of staying stable in the long run, images need some time to get established in the searches and then keep selling consistently. Fotolia has far more focus on new files but they might disappear from searches in a few months or a year. At least that's what I believe without being able to prove that with hard facts.

Fully agreed upon. My bestsellers on SS are still selling one or two times each day after 5 or more years online, while sales of the same files on FT and IS have declined significantly after having had a peak after 6-24 months online. Interestingly, the decline on FT was even faster than on IS

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 06, 2015, 15:55

So the same question as the OP. I should be saving the JPG as 5000 pixels on a side? That's rather large isn't it? Assuming it's only a square that would be a 25MB file? If photo ratio, even larger. Over the file upload size limit for some sites.

That's not 25MB but 25MP, which is usually much less in bytes due to JPG compression. I never had an accompanying jpg above the file size limit - yet I sometimes have to reduce details in the illustration to get the eps below 15MB

And while we're at it, all formats that are not square are smaller than that, when the LONG side is 5000px

First: Some agencies want a minimum of 5000px on the long side, but for most 4000 will do.
2nd: AFAIK all agencies want illustrator 8 or 10 compatible eps files
3rd: For Fotolia and Pond5 you have to put eps and jpg into a zip-archive, mostphotos wants the eps only, dreamstime wants the jpg first, then you can add eps as additional file (or, via FTP, there's an extra folder for the eps). At the other agencies you can submit both files at the same time, but they must have the same filename (except for the ending .eps or .jpg respectively)

Hope that helps

The site looks quite professional; how can you be sure they didn't purchase proper licenses for the images?

I found one of my pics, but it has been sold several hundred times over the last 8 years, so I cannot exactly say they must have stolen it...

Definitely not. 19 of 20 sales I get there are 0.35 subs.
My income from Veer was higher in the last three months

$43,30 - not too shabby for 7 sales that counted

I just got the image list and immediately opted out. Four of the eight images they wanted to use were from my ten best sellers - not only on istock but almost everywhere.

If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.
(that's what istock always does, though. Rarely for the better.)

I'd ask for about that amount that I probably would earn within the next two or three years with those illustrations

Quote from: spike on October 15, 2014, 22:10
October looking to be BME... I'm having so many SOD's and EL's that it's not even funny!

How's your October going?

Also on track for a BME, not unusually many SODs and ELs though

I think I got about 200 online there, three times in Pick of the week, 4 sales so far (2 of them were picked ones)

80 % of the shots from my G12 have been rejected for quality, while more than 80% of the shots from any DSLR I used (including 350D RebelXT) were approved (shooting RAW only with both). I guess that says something.

Quote from: Cesar on October 03, 2014, 19:08
Is today holiday day somewhere?

National holiday here in Germany

Same issue here. It worked two days ago, though.

Haven't had a single sale over the weekend - hasn't happened for several years now. Usually there were 2-10 DLs even on saturdays and sundays.
Guess it's all those bloggers that downloaded on weekends but now can no longer afford istock.

Overall the decline in revenue since April continues steadily

Quote from: elvinstar on September 11, 2014, 06:13
Hasn't Lytro been around for quite a while now, or is this a new version?

It's a new version, but it still has only 4MP

Quote from: eyewave on September 08, 2014, 13:11
A joke.
$10,56 - 37 sub DLs for whole August. Less than I make on an average day through the PP.
I guess they are completely through already because last sub DL is listed for the 31st of Aug.

Now up to $56 - 187 DLs. Still a joke (in terms of royalty anyway)

A joke.
$10,56 - 37 sub DLs for whole August. Less than I make on an average day through the PP.
I guess they are completely through already because last sub DL is listed for the 31st of Aug.

Down 20% in sales and revenue compared to last month, about 25% down compared to July2013.
RPD slightly below normal level ($1.31)

That said, everything is as I expected it to be after a steady downward trend for 12 months.

Mi español no es muy bueno... please let us know when the english site is ready

The site only says: "Placeholder" ?!