My opinion: people should stop uploading there before it's too late.

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I have two Canon 5D4's. I fell and can't lift them so I didn't shoot in over a year. I just bought the Iphone 11pro and this phone camera blows the Canon away! Everything I am shooting is getting accepted. The color right out of the phone for stock is fantastic. It even shoots in the dark without noise!

Stop throwing misleads. It looks miserable. It's just overpriced phone with lots of uneeded tech for true photographer.
I even bet that iphone11 can't beat Nokia 808 from 2012 in terms of provided resolution. It is not a surprise, because of pathetic 1/2.55" sized sensor.

ps. Huawei Mate 30 Pro and Xiaomi Mi Note 10 are more intersting stuff though.

Maybe it is not so bad in terms of dynamic range. But in terms of pure resolution it is cr#p.
1/2.55 size explains all. Nokia 808 with its 1/1.2 still on the top.

Uploaded almost 1500 pictures during last two weeks. One picture was sold:)
New stuff not selling at all. Only old ones. It looks like smth is broken and we are drowning in similars.

Quote from: spacedrone808 on October 28, 2019, 09:06

Quote from: gnirtS on September 06, 2019, 19:44

Not sure i believe that.  My older stuff generally sells more than newer.  Its fairly common as well for an older image thats never previously sold to suddenly come to life.

Confirmed. Even newer stuff is better in terms of image quality and design, but sells very badly.

I disagree here, this month by far has been doing very well for me. And my new stuffs too sold very well.

I am glad that it worked for you! Really!

Quote from: spacedrone808 on October 25, 2019, 14:27

Was their contributor till 2017 then dropped them. Returned in the end of 2018.
Currently i get about 40-50$ a month from almost 10.000 files.

I'm amazed you can put 10,000 images through their laborious submitting and keywording system in such a short time.

I used automatics and scripts to simplify the work.
But really this stock not deserves to upload to it.
Stay away.

We were working with them for a long while in regards to improve the keywords quality in the submissions coming through StockSubmitter to ESP.
We were open for a dialog and were implementing their every single requirement (you may have noticed those changes in the program).
Suddenly a month ago or so they had stopped communication with us on the matter. I guessed it's because they were satisfied with the keywords they're getting but... bah! out of the blue comes this decision to stop accepting submissions through StockSubmitter.
What can I say... that's a weird decision and it's completely illogical to cut the most convenient way to submit to them instead of keeping to work with us together to find a way to make it better for everyone...

Quite obvious that they want people to use their atrocious web-interface or incoherent deepmeta client.
Today is my last upload via stocksubmitter, big corporations can't do wise things, bye-bye istock.
   

4 EUR over 5 years. Pretty self-explanatory.

If thats how they want to play it then best not to upload any video to them at all.

Predicting that in a couple of years footage will bring to contributor same about of money as photos for now.

Such equipment almost useless and hard to receive payback considering the royalties of microstock sites.

I have there over 2000 pictures for about a year.
No reports from them.
No web interface contributor. Pathetic.