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1576
« on: July 30, 2018, 13:54 »
I did not contact the user. ... I did ask Google if it purchased the image.
That's what we're not supposed to do. Contract 11c: "You agree that iStock shall have the right to determine whether and to what extent to proceed against a licensee or other third party (an Infringer) for any violation of a license agreement or alleged infringement of any other of your rights. "(That same sentence is 10c in the non-exclusive contract.) They've been quite stroppy about this from time to time in the forums (more the old forums), but to be honest, they're not much help about chasing things up, and often don't get back to you (but you discover the file has been taken down, whether by their intervention or not is guesswork).
1577
« on: July 30, 2018, 12:49 »
Giant previews and tiny corner watermarks are a downside to uploading there.
I agree, but if you look at big name artists or art photographers, their sites usually don't feature watermarked images, and their pics are normally pretty big. Google should reply, though and I hope the OP will feed back. Aren't Google and Getty supposed to be in cahoots about copyright?
1578
« on: July 30, 2018, 12:34 »
My photos on FAA do not show up on google maps.
I haven't noticed if mine do, but I have noticed my watermarked FAA files out in the wild, so I know images get lifted from there.
1579
« on: July 30, 2018, 12:27 »
of total free time to shoot, process, and upload, how many images do you think you could create?
Some of you probably already have that free time but what if you could take a six month break from your day job?
6,000 being new the forum shows me related messages and some are very old.
There is NO point in replying to a nine-year old post. Apart from anything else, a LOT has changed in nine years, and not for the better.
1580
« on: July 30, 2018, 11:40 »
Is your image unwatermarked on FAA? If so, that could be the source. IS will only even think about helping if you're exclusive with them. If you're exclusive, you're not supposed to approach users without contacting them first. Also, they need us to wait three months from first noticing a suspected misuse, as with subs and PA, it can take that long for a sale to show up to you. Insanity: this applies even for a disallowed end use, or if a file has iS watermarks. About as useful as a chocolate teapot. If you're sure it couldn't have been lifted from FAA, you could try contacting support, but IME, they'll just throw the 3 months thing at you. Let's hope Google get back to you. Doesn't the photo on Google Maps have a name/credit? Usually I see a name.
1581
« on: July 29, 2018, 14:05 »
Personally I think 50% ongoing discount would be an appropriate arrangement.
50% discount better of one year free???
Strange way to think about it.
Of course! After two years, you're in ongoing profit.
1582
« on: July 28, 2018, 03:11 »
Of course the other issue with going exclusive at iS nowadays is that your portfolio will be selling at a significantly lower price point than if you had submitted all your content as an exlcusive (I forgot what the ratio is). I forget the different collections and price points for non-ex vs. ex. submitted content.
On iS, indie content is 1 credit and exclusive content is 3 credits. All content is in premium access, no idea how the pricing there works; only some exclusive content goes to Getty.
btw, my only one image on sale in getty, can you think what starange it is, I have almost 8k images on istock but only one of them is on sale in getty 
I'm confused. earlier in this thread you said, "I only stayed in exclusivity for 1 month and I left immediately due to I could not reach the performance I expected" I read that as meaning that you left iS exclusivity after a month. But now you seem surprised that only one of your images is on sale on Getty. Only exclusive content (Editorial [becomes known as "Creative Unreleased" which sounds dodgy and is inaccurate] or Signature +) is in Getty directly (not via Premium access). Really, that was superfast for them to get even one file onto Getty in that month you were exclusive.
1583
« on: July 27, 2018, 18:43 »
Of course the other issue with going exclusive at iS nowadays is that your portfolio will be selling at a significantly lower price point than if you had submitted all your content as an exlcusive (I forgot what the ratio is). I forget the different collections and price points for non-ex vs. ex. submitted content.
On iS, indie content is 1 credit and exclusive content is 3 credits. All content is in premium access, no idea how the pricing there works; only some exclusive content goes to Getty.
1584
« on: July 26, 2018, 10:00 »
I ve tried that with reversed 
I ve tried to get in exclusive to Isuck almost one year before, my revenue down 40% almost, so if you give up isuck exclusivity, your income seems to increase by around 50% I think.
So your income increased by 50% since you left exclusivity?
yes. but I could not wait long, I only stayed in exclusivity for 1 month and I left immediately due to I could not reach the performance I expected, maybe if I stayed a few months on exclusivity, some things could change. I dont know.
Mwahaha- I'm glad you clarified that! Unless you had a big personal following which followed you, how could you have any expectations s for a month. And if you had these followers why wouldn't you sell to them directly? I'd be astounded if iS were agile enough to move all your back catalogue to 3 credits on a month! In the Good Old Days things were different. My income from iS shot up the minute I became exclusive, which was as much because I had lots more upload slots and indie files weren't undercutting exclusive files. And less overall internal and external competition. Nowadays I'd think most people would need to wait at least a year to 18 months to see how things will pan out, in either direction. A LOT can happen in 18 months! That said, I agree that the OP has nothing much to lose by trying independence.
1585
« on: July 26, 2018, 09:44 »
For European citizens the required document is called w-8ben
That's the one. Then we have to provide our UTR (unique tax reference), though there's another name for this.
1586
« on: July 26, 2018, 07:45 »
I've never even heard of a "certificate of residency" before this minute
1587
« on: July 25, 2018, 18:00 »
I still haven't received my earning for June.
You'll need to contact them via a contact ticket. There's nothing any of us can do to help you with this, sorry,
1588
« on: July 25, 2018, 12:49 »
Omg... my mistake! I had never seen that there was an Alamy forum all the way down the page.
Thank you for your answers, I will read in the good forum.
Sorry, no, I meant in Alamy's own forums.
1589
« on: July 25, 2018, 11:12 »
1. You are allowed to sell the same images on Alamy, but you must sell them RF, as you're selling them RF elsewhere. This also applies to similars/sisters.
2. If you check out several threads on this in the Alamy forum, you'll see the jury is out. You'd think RF should sell for much more than RM with no exclusivity, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway, RF can be sold on Alamy on effectively an non-exclusive RM basis.
1590
« on: July 24, 2018, 07:29 »
If I give up my exclusivity and start submitting to Shutterstock and Adobe, will my income be the same as what it was at iStock as an exclusive?
42, 'how long is a piece of string?', aka 'how can anyone possibly know?' I've read people who did better fairly quickly (3-4 years ago), people who eventually after couple of years had their earnings rise to be equivalent or better, people who are earning less after a few years but don't regret giving up exclusivity - and even a few who went back to exclusivity, but found it difficult to retrieve their former earnings, because of tech problems switching and switching back percentage rates in their system, switch in best match placing, etc. However, many oldtimers are finding their earnings going down anyway. No-one else's experience will presage yours. Even if they have a broadly similar portfolio to yours, you are immediately competing with them and could only hope to share their earnings by eating into their sales. If your port is different, other peoples' experience could be vastly different from yours - better or worse. You have to decide based on how much you want to get out of iS, not on how much you might earn elsewhere.
1591
« on: July 24, 2018, 06:31 »
Guess the algorithm got us all wondering. I got some images that is on their first page but others are sunk below. As a buyer i cant see myself wasting time going through all the pages. On another thread someone suggested productivity could also play a role these days, like uber's algorithm here locally favours drivers who works more.
Yeah, productivity could be a factor. In the old days, when iS's algorithm changed, it was usually more than easy to work out what the factors were - often recently uploaded files got a short 'boost'. Probably a good proportion of buyers don't look past the first page or two. Certainly on Alamy, I notice that some buyers only look at 100 files (1 default seach page), but others look at over 2000 - or more, with a very general search term. Maybe the latter are looking for lots of files for e.g. a book.
1592
« on: July 24, 2018, 06:10 »
Hi there i am interested to know how can one improve your images rankings on Getty's website. Does sales improve the ranking which means it will be a harder task for someone whose image appears on page 52 of the search.
Sales used to help, but there must be other factors nowadays. I've had three files in particular which went from averaging over a sale a day (this is good for me, shocking for others) to virtually zero because of sinking in the best match algorithm. I'm pretty sure there is nothing you can do about it. (That was iS (this is a microstock forum), however, I see no reason to imagine Getty is any different - I see no pattern in how my files are ranked there.) Possibly submit subjects with fewer than 52 pages?
1593
« on: July 24, 2018, 05:05 »
I heard that Thinkstock closed.
In June i had no Thinkstock sub sales, but some Thinkstock ext sales. Whatever this means.
What I mean is, over the next few months, we should be able to see the effects of closing a flat sub part of the business, and I'll assume the some sales will now go to Getty or iStock. I think we should be making more RPD there? Unless of course the other alternative, buyers move to AS or SS.
Just worth watching as ThinkStock is going away.
I presume they're hoping to migrate ThinkStock buyers to Premium Access, and I'd guess they've been doing that pretty successfully as TS subs came up for renewal. Well, that's what I'd guess if Getty were a business-savvy company, anyway.
1594
« on: July 22, 2018, 19:05 »
You're moaner #1. All you seem to do here is moan about people moaning. You even start threads moaning about people moaning.
I'm trying to understand why people are moaning so much. Why do you moan so much, for example?
Why do you start threads moaning about moaning?
Because he's a troll.
Why would he think that microstock was supposed to be "for enjoyment". Nice if you do, but it's work. SM is for "enjoyment".
Alright then, why do so many moaners keep working at something that, they say, is getting worse (and has been getting worse for years)?
More and more effort for less and less money... why are you still doing it?
If you're talking to me, I haven't uploaded to iS for over two years (mainly due to them introducing subs, and all the other sh*t) and never even applied to - any other micros. I still have my old port at iS, and only upload to Alamy. Doesn't mean I don't have opinions; and as it's a free world, I'll share them if I wish. My tuppence worth is as valuable as yours, but as you're a troll I'm out of this thread.
1595
« on: July 22, 2018, 10:40 »
Keywording, keywording, keywording.
RM not RF.
1596
« on: July 22, 2018, 10:27 »
You're moaner #1. All you seem to do here is moan about people moaning. You even start threads moaning about people moaning.
I'm trying to understand why people are moaning so much. Why do you moan so much, for example?
Why do you start threads moaning about moaning?
Because he's a troll. Why would he think that microstock was supposed to be "for enjoyment". Nice if you do, but it's work. SM is for "enjoyment".
1597
« on: July 21, 2018, 02:14 »
My comment is about how far this industry has gone backwards. Not about my goals or what our team is achieving, much less the pat on your own back self-affirming your own apparent giddying success.
It is really about someone asking if it's possible to make $100 a month from SS. It's sad - and pretty pathetic that this is where the industry has finds itself.
No, your comment was insulting to the OP, which you've just doubled down on by adding sad to the list... so I just thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine.
It was about the industry. That's why it reads "one and can scarcely believe that this is what stock has come to" and then re-affirmed with "My comment is about how far this industry has gone backwards".
So whatever you are doubling down on and taking offence about, on behalf of someone else who has not expressed offence themselves, simply doesn't exist.
Those who were here at that start of all of this will remember how a bunch of amateurs with no hope of contributing to the existing agencies of the day upped their respective games together. At first, our work was laughed at and ridiculed in online forums by the stock production "pros". But collectively we disrupted an entire industry and brought down giants.
That's why it's pathetic and sad that this is what stock has come to - because nobody is benefiting from those early creative efforts if a portfolio of new images cannot make a reasonable return.
The inevitable slippery slope caused first by RF and accelerated by micros. Always someone undercutting, driving down prices.
1598
« on: July 20, 2018, 17:50 »
You should have a property release authorizing you to be there.
Today I was just shooting some photos from outside a boatyard, so I didn't need any authorization to be "in" there.
Could I use these images for editorial for example?
In the UK, that would be OK, provided that 'outside the boatyard' was indeed public property. Other countries presumably have their own laws.
1599
« on: July 20, 2018, 12:53 »
It's not just what's in Putin's pocket which is of interest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44906898"Trump 'secretly recorded discussing payment to Playboy model'" I think I should buy the film rights to make the Trump biopic.
1600
« on: July 20, 2018, 11:37 »
It's possible to earn $100 selling images on shutterstock per month. I earn approximately $30. 
Bear in mind that it's profit, not sales, which is important. It could be that the people who have big sales also have big expenses. So if you are spending $20 on shoots and earn $30, you're doing better than people who have $500 in expenses but are earning $505
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