waiting a little longer, top see what happens

congrats!

i do the alamy keywords, cut and paste into each section and pick out the most relevant for 50 character part.


rf / rm

if someone licences an image as rm they are supposed to be able to request what other uses it has been used for, even without paying the extra to use it exclusive they may want to check to make sure there competition hasn't used it, some other company isn't going to run an advert using the same image in the same media (even for a totally different product) etc etc.  Basically they want to make sure it aint going to go bad for them. 

there are a number of cases of problems with rf images ->  Dell and Gateway used the same image in a promotion, office supply companies using same image.  The blonde girl that colorvision used for all its product and packaging stuff was used on a number of porn sites and to advertise 'enlargement' medication by a couple of companies

thats the breaks when you use RF.  So if both of those companies has bought rf then too bad for them, and if both bought RM and haven't checked previous / current usage then again bad luck.  BUT if the one bought RF and the other RM, then one who bought RM is going to go straight back to the agency and ask questions.  Very simply they are likely to sue for all costs and damages, and I dont think the agency wont protect the photographer in these  cases.  Personally I wouldn't like to face someone like dell deciding I screwed up a national / international advertising campaign.

Just my thoughts

2 different sheets of parchment was "italian breakfast" - perhaps they are making the point of cereal tasting like cardboard ??

and liquid metal got an image of a starfield titled 'bright star'

start rant...

what a croc of $%#@!!!

2000 images, hundreds that dont turn up in searches, so days spent reordering and no change.  Now it appears I have to delete them all and resubmit, going through their goddam horrible categories again, removing all the double words, etc etc.

I wonder how many of their 3million images actually turn up in searches.

I look through their ideas box and I dont think they have ever made 1 change based on what people have said.

Did v2 actually fix anything? anything at all?

what a bunch of backyarders!! geckostock in the uk is more professional than they are and thats 1 guy operating from home. God no wonder people go exclusive with Istock...

end rant...

take a look at cushy stock.  it uploads, keywords and tracks your images.  it may be what you're after

(taking a look at it now too)

Yuri -

Your thread has ended up on John Harrington's Blog.  He isn't a big fan of microstock or the people who market in that arena.  On the post he referenced Lee Torrens specifically discussing this thread.

Duane

had a look at his blog, one whinge and complaint and negative comment after another.  God the guy needs to find some joy in his life.  It's not microstock he hates, he complains and takes delight in everyone and everythings failures. What a sad individual.

thanks I'm going to check them both out now

that would be quite a feat

this group is friendly, and the interface is easy / nice

Go to the anything goes forum and search for a thread called jackpot.

wow it goes for 34 pages!!!

averaged over the past 6 months alamy has made about the same as dreamstime for me.

BUT most of my sales are images that wouldn't get into the micros for 'poor lighting' or 'not stock'.  If they did get into micros they wouldn't do well (but then there is a lot of stuff that doesn't sell, rather than 100 images each making $5 it is 2 images each make $250, 98 make $0)

Quote from: rustyphil on February 14, 2008, 18:28

but the photographer gets $1.3 x 20% = US$.26

I remember statements that the photographer gets 20% of the actual cost of a credit, not 20% of the costs in US$. That was mentioned during the short "let's screw Brits a bit" phase at the beginning of the year when photog got incredible large royalties from those British and European buyers ...

ok, so if someone pays the US$1.505 per credit, I will still get 20% so US$.30