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« on: January 13, 2024, 16:55 »
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« on: January 13, 2024, 14:22 »
I didn't think amazon supported digital delivery - how are these images being sold?
Prints on canvas, printed coffee mugs, calendars, postcards, printed mousepads and so on and so forth...
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« on: January 12, 2024, 20:22 »
I noticed a lot of products on Amazon without Best Sellers Rank. I know that BSR based on sales. No sales, no sales rank. Therefore I have a question. Does it make sense to sell on Amazon?
I don't know exactly what your question is about. What I can tell you for sure is that there are endless microstock images in use on Amazon that are not properly licensed. Often an extended license or an API would be necessary, but it is almost never licensed correctly. Probably because the license terms are not read. I am also sure that the ranking of the images would be much better if, for example, they were licensed according to API. In reality, however, an image is bought by subscription for a few cents and then used an infinite number of times.
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« on: January 10, 2024, 10:58 »
I had the same problem. But it only affected 4 vector graphics that have been online for many years. Mat has ensured that the "AI generated" has now disappeared.
Please be sure to check that and confirm @Wilm. If anyone else faces the same issue, please contact support using the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal.
thank you,
Mat Hayward
Hello Mat,
I can assure you that the "generated with ai" has disappeared from the 4 files.
Thanks again for your help! I really appreciate it!
However, the second problem I told you about remains. I'm aware that it doesn't belong here, but I'll write it down again anyway:
The translation does not work with Adobe Stock in many cases. Different search results are displayed for certain search terms. For example:
Tuscany (search region US or UK) brings up 427,000 results.
Toscana (search region Italy) brings up 276,000 results.
Toskana (search region Germany) brings up 215,000 results.
Toscane (search region France) brings 214,000 results.
Another example:
Bicycle (search region US) brings 2,578,000 results.
Fahrrad (search region Germany) brings up 1,921,000 results.
The same applies to (bicyclette/France, bicicletta/Italy, bicileta/Spain) - 1,921,000 results.
657,000 files are not displayed due to translation problems.
That makes no sense!
Best regards,
Wilm
I assume it is programmed:
Fahrrad search is for BICYCLE only.
Bicycle also searches for bicycle, bike, cycle.
I don't think so. Bicyclette and vlo both lead to the same amount of 1,912,000 results in France. And it would't explain the Tuscany-problem either.
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« on: January 10, 2024, 04:26 »
I had the same problem. But it only affected 4 vector graphics that have been online for many years. Mat has ensured that the "AI generated" has now disappeared.
Please be sure to check that and confirm @Wilm. If anyone else faces the same issue, please contact support using the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal.
thank you,
Mat Hayward
Hello Mat, I can assure you that the "generated with ai" has disappeared from the 4 files. Thanks again for your help! I really appreciate it! However, the second problem I told you about remains. I'm aware that it doesn't belong here, but I'll write it down again anyway: The translation does not work with Adobe Stock in many cases. Different search results are displayed for certain search terms. For example: Tuscany (search region US or UK) brings up 427,000 results. Toscana (search region Italy) brings up 276,000 results. Toskana (search region Germany) brings up 215,000 results. Toscane (search region France) brings 214,000 results. Another example: Bicycle (search region US) brings 2,578,000 results. Fahrrad (search region Germany) brings up 1,921,000 results. The same applies to (bicyclette/France, bicicletta/Italy, bicileta/Spain) - 1,921,000 results. 657,000 files are not displayed due to translation problems. That makes no sense! Best regards, Wilm
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« on: January 09, 2024, 02:37 »
I had the same problem. But it only affected 4 vector graphics that have been online for many years. Mat has ensured that the "AI generated" has now disappeared.
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« on: January 08, 2024, 16:10 »
How does this site sell videos?
I can't answer this question since I don't offer videos.
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« on: January 08, 2024, 13:24 »
In December I was well over $100 there - just like in the old days. But the rest of the year was subterranean. Just like 123rf.
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« on: January 05, 2024, 13:58 »
Reached a weekly rank of 253 for a brief moment, now back down to 1040.
Basically from next to nothing to months with several hundred and one month over 1800 dollars with 2-3k files.
Did you really have this incredible increase in earnings or did I read it wrong? 
I had read your September and October earnings on Adobe and they were good (250-300 dollars), but a far cry from $1800 in one month!
Sept 23 it was 243 dollars with around 2800 files. For October Adobe is already 219 dollars. Christmastime.
How can you increase your earnings from 250 to 1800 dollars a month in such a short time?
I asked myself the same question. Okay, if there was a weekly ranking of 253 at some point last year, that's quite realistic with the $1,800 in Adobe alone in one month. But what I don't understand is that if you were at $250 to $300 in September and October, that equates to a weekly ranking of somewhere between 6,000 and 18,000 - depending on the RPD. I've never seen such a big difference in weekly ranking without a significant change in the size of the portfolio. What happened in that week when the weekly ranking was 253 and what happened afterwards that it is now so far away from that again?
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« on: January 02, 2024, 15:17 »
Hello,
for a long time i didn't upload 3D on stocks, but now I have something to upload and have a question.
If we are talking about main stocks like Adobe, Shutter, do I need some property release if I upload rendered 3D on these stocks?
In old times I need to upload screen of program as a proof that I have original 3D file that I rendered. But rules could change, so do I need to upload some property release for every rendered 3D?
You have to fill out a property release in which you state which software you are working with and that it is a fictitious scene.
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« on: December 31, 2023, 10:10 »
For me, the way back to level 5 is taking longer and longer every year. I hate this new income structure!
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« on: December 31, 2023, 10:06 »
Can I sell my portfolio of 5k stock images to someone for a lumpsum price and remove it from my portfolio so they can sell it?
In theory, it is possible, but there are quite a few problems.
The person, who buys the images has to upload them again, which may cost a considerable amount of time, the images may not all be accepted again and they certainly lose their search positions. All these issues combined mean that you will probably get considerably less money for the images than you would get in the future by selling them yourself.
Also the person who buys the images would have to trust you that are no legal pitfalls in your portfolio and the images do not violate anybody's intellectual property.
You can transfer the rights to the buyer. You need not to delete that portfolio, just change the email ID to the buyers email.
From my point of view, this is not possible because of the taxes.
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« on: December 20, 2023, 08:58 »
Received my money today.
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« on: December 15, 2023, 05:06 »
I'm putting a 99% likelihood on this sale being fraud.
I'm just hoping i don't wake up one morning and find my entire account suspended for suspicious activity. There is no way that video is worth 1% of that fee.
Yeah! Fantastic!!!
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« on: December 14, 2023, 04:46 »
Nice surprise this morning.
Nice! 
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« on: December 12, 2023, 12:30 »
Surprisingly, my December is already better than the whole November, helped by big sales like this.
Oh, great!!!
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« on: December 08, 2023, 06:40 »
I've been there since June 2012, only images.
My portfolio size there is at just under 1,200 slightly smaller than at shutterstock and at Adobe Stock, but larger than at istockphotos. The performance there is significantly worse than with the 3 agencies mentioned.
Almost 8000 downloads so far - that is even a lot less than with 123rf, although nothing has been coming in there for a long time.
+ easy upload - it's really fast and unproblematic
+ no rejections
+ problem-free payouts
- poor RPD
- decreasing download numbers (at least for me)
- no large downloads - revenues of over $ 3 per download hardly ever occur
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« on: December 06, 2023, 10:30 »
For me, that used to be $100 a month. Now I'm at $3.60.
They won't survive much longer either - I'm absolutely sure of that!
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« on: December 05, 2023, 16:08 »
Finally a big sale after many below-average weeks! 
Nice!!!
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« on: December 05, 2023, 12:59 »
Nice sales for one day, Wilm. However, I see on average once a month a total solar eclipse 
Thanks a lot, Ralf. I could be wrong, but my last enhanced probably came in around the same time as Winston Churchill came to power.
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« on: December 05, 2023, 08:43 »
The relationship between subscriptions and SODs is becoming increasingly bizarre! 2:10 yesterday. These days I hardly have any ODs anyway, Enhanced are now as rare as a total solar eclipse.
12 downloads is shameful. But it's very pleasing when this kind of income comes out of it!
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« on: December 02, 2023, 18:32 »
mindoozas and DaLiu: I'm curious, and since you both started much later, I'd be interested to know whether your downloads are spread over more files, or whether a few files make up a larger part of your downloads.
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« on: December 02, 2023, 16:57 »
For me I have only 7873 images and 186 videos. I do this as a hobby thus part time and shoot only what I want to do. Never wanted the pressure of this being my main income source thus I am not considered a professional photographer. Plus a very high end professional told me that if I did photography for a living it would ruin it.
It's also a hobby for me. But I started it with serious intentions. One year before shutterstock at fotolia. There was the financial crisis, which started sometime in 2008. That was the time when companies were saving money. The marketing sector was badly affected. Budgets were set to zero, so my office had a correspondingly difficult time. As there was correspondingly little to do, I dived into the microstock business in 2009 and invested my surplus time in images for Fotolia. And a good year later, I also invested in shutterstock and other agencies. Unfortunately, I haven't been very motivated for a few years now. But it was definitely not a mistake to have done that back then - it still brings a little extra money into the till today, although nowhere near as much as it did a few years ago. And when I think that I could have wasted the time pointlessly, it was definitely the right decision. And even if the future in this area should develop in such a way that Microstock disappears from the market, it has to be said that it has been worthwhile to be part of it in the last few years. I was also very lucky that the algorithms were kind to me with a few images. 10 images make up a quarter of the shutterstock downloads. At AS there are 11 (mostly other) images that make up a quarter of the total downloads there. Since I have 10% more images online at AS, this is almost identical. I had to notice that the "success" is extremely dependent on the decisions of the review. And this review certainly had it easier in the past than it does today - simply because there were fewer images to select. My most successful image on shutterstock sold 34 times more often there than on AS. That actually says it all. We depend on the decisions of the review and the algorithms based on that decision...
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« on: December 01, 2023, 19:20 »
Congratulations to all the successful ones!
DaLiu: super nice portfolio - well deserved. And you've also been busy over the last few years - the portfolio has grown considerably.
I myself have only passed the 80,000 mark, even though - like Big Money - I've been with shutterstock since 2010.
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« on: November 29, 2023, 07:07 »
eta
...then I am just adjusting the clothes a bit, changing out the sky, removing the glasses, changing the hairstyle...
Yes, I have also exchanged skies. For many years now. But it was always a sky that I photographed myself. I've never used a sky from one of your photos. That wasn't allowed either.
And that's exactly what the AI providers get around. Without paying a single cent for it. Why are you not allowed to use elements from other people's images, but AI is? Can you explain why?...
one more time -- i don't know your specific knowledge, but, in general, complaints about being victimized show an underlying ignorance of how these models work. -- AI does not use ANY elements from images when creating new images - in an entirely separate process it trains on billions of images to create its dataset. when creating a new image (which may take millions of steps) it no longer has access to the original hundreds of millions of images it used in training. there are many descriptions, of varying detail, on how this actually works - posted frequently here & available online, so there's really no excuse for continuing to promote this false idea.
the completely separate argument is whether there should be any payment for images to be used in training, but no one has been able to show that pieces of their image shows up in a new creation
To say it right away: I don't have any specific knowledge because I haven't experimented with AI yet. In this respect, I agree with you. So I can only try to draw conclusions from what I can see. Maybe I really don't understand the working principle of AI software. But, if it were as you say, that AI does NOT use ANY elements from existing images, how can it be explained that, for example - the Apple logo - the Apple mouse - the iMac - the keyboard - the Mercedes star and so many other elements can be seen unchanged from the original in the images? Then why doesn't the AI "design" a new Apple or Mercedes logo, a different foot of the iMac, a new mouse etc.? I see here exactly the design features of Apple (material/color, radii, shapes, etc.). And, if it is as seen here, who can rule out that elements from your and my pictures appear 1:1 in other pictures. If you have a link that helps me to understand this, I would be grateful.
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