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« on: February 17, 2019, 18:22 »
I think informing the buyers may be more productive or the press and the shareholders. If the 111 pending moles stole 10 images each and the images were sold 5 times each (legit and stolen), that's 5550 buyers who don't know if their images are infringing the legitimate copy holders rights or not. Tracing 1% of the buyers and informing them of their dilemma would have 55 irate people knocking on Shutterstocks door.
If my estimates are a little conservative and the thieves stole substantially more and they were all good selling images (who would steal a duff one?) then the numbers grow exponentially, 500 thieves, with 100 images, selling 50 images each. That's 250,000 buyers not knowing if they bought from the copyright holder or not, and a potential indemnity bill of $10,000 per image = $2,500,000,000.
Now even those numbers might be a little on the low side given that 448 moles were found in a month without the tools that Shutterstock has at their disposal. I think that if you can find reasonable estimates, not my guesstimates, the press and shareholders would have a field day with such numbers and wonder why Shutterstock choose to ignore the issue, not good for our sales short term, but would put the market on a proper footing.
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« on: February 17, 2019, 00:58 »
Creepy, & freaky image produced. Not yet perfect, but not that hard to fix.
Oooh, that's a cross between Ray Davies at an earlier age and ... ?
Noel Gallagher
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« on: February 13, 2019, 18:17 »
Hello! Currently BS has my lowest RPD. I have sold mostly 0.25 subs, and only ONE time, a picture for 3. Anyone sells there with a better RPD? Is there something else above 0.25-0.5 in Bigstock? I like the agencty but the cents are misery
Why would you expect any more when Shutterstock views it as their bargain basement outlet?
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« on: February 10, 2019, 15:53 »
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« on: February 10, 2019, 14:38 »
Did a search on SS
copyspace: 1,754,935 results
copy space: 8,662,747 results
says it all really doesn't it 
That's not bad 240,000,000 out of the way. cat copyspace gets you down to 66 pages cat and copy space 365 pages black cat and copyspace 16 pages black cat and copy space 92 pages black cat copyspace and nobody gets you on the front page black cat copy space nobody 8 pages mostly not black 
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« on: February 08, 2019, 16:53 »
As some of you noticed there is now a direct link on the dashboard page to "view my statistics" that will bypass the contributor of the week landing page you find by clicking the Insights tab. As I understand it, the Insights page was designed to be more than just statistics and it's likely more will be added to that page as time goes on.
Hey, the stats page defaults to "top sellers". That's not going to change a lot. It should default to "activity" so you can see the activity (sales). Or when I change it, it should hold the choice. Thx.
The site will soon set the default to whichever stat you last checked when visiting the portal. I don't have a date but don't expect it to be too far into the distant future.
-Mat
That would mean it would default to "top sellers" again, because it's certainly the last page I look at
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« on: January 31, 2019, 09:44 »
1) They call themselves a platform and not a stock agency, so contracts are directly between the buyers and photographers.
Not so. Wemark License Agreement http://cdn.wemark.com/agreements/Wemark_Standard_License.pdf1. INTRODUCTION a) This Wemark License Agreement (License) is a binding contract between you or the employer or other entity on whose behalf you are entering into this agreement ("you" or "Customer") and Wemark Digital Ltd. (Wemark). It sets forth the rights and obligations of you and Wemark with respect to any Images licensed from Wemark by you. By downloading any image from any Wemark website, you are consenting to the terms of this agreement, the Wemark Privacy Policy and Wemarks Platform Terms of Use which are incorporated herein and made a part hereof by this reference.
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« on: January 18, 2019, 20:11 »
Have you checked your previously approved files, they do have an habit of rejecting them.
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« on: January 16, 2019, 08:34 »
They say history repeats itself, but with regard to microstock I'm not sure that is the case. The last downturn in the world economy in 2008 was a time of growth for microstock in the ever expanding world of the internet. It may also have benefited from the downturn in that there was a move away from more expensive licensing operations with increasing quality in microstock. I cannot see that in another downturn that microstock would gain any of the benefit that may have done last time.
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« on: January 15, 2019, 17:38 »
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« on: January 12, 2019, 09:20 »
Thanks and I will try that. Do you speak Chinese? LOL
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« on: January 03, 2019, 12:42 »
Since SS won't take action, sometimes you have to hit them where it hurts...which is their main business activity.
We feel their hurt.
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« on: January 02, 2019, 12:22 »
Lets hope that 2019 is the year that pulls us out of this - although I can't think of what would cause that to happen, unfortunately.
Steve
The answer is in the question "I", yes you. Follow the money, Premium and Exclusive content is where it is at, just hope it is not too late for the penny to drop, or are you waiting for your earnings to drop substantially before you jump. It's time to stop selling good quality content cheap. Happy New Year
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« on: December 24, 2018, 11:05 »
If you are indie, all your files are available to Getty's Premium Access clients, but everyone else just sees that fake info message.
If you're exclusive, all (in theory) of your editorials (stupidly renamed 'creative unreleased') and selected 'plus' images should be on open sale on Getty. Your other files are available to PA clients and everyone else gets that same, fake and dodgy-looking message (with no link to where it can be bought, on iS. Don't shoot the messenger.)
Can you go over that again? Not exclusive.
I have loads of images, many types on iStock. When I search for some very specific, on Getty Images, nothing of mine shows. I don't understand the fake info message part. How would I see that?
But I think I might understand, that I can't see any of mine and no one else can, except Premium Access Clients? Is that right? My files are there, but only for select people who pay extra, to get to see iStock indys? That's a kind of an unusual premium benefit in my mind.
It's just another way to fleece their contributors. It never ceases to amaze me just how much straw they can carry.
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« on: December 17, 2018, 18:00 »
Reported cloudflare about it.
My attempt failed. I was hit with a reply which basically said that as I wasn't the copyright holder I couldn't make a claim.
I hovered my hands over the keyboard ready to explain how my own images were potentially in jeopardy, but I felt it would fall on deaf ears...
I'm ignorant in these matters, but do I understand it right that Cloudflare are making their money by stopping sites involved with illegality (in this case stealing images from Shutterstock) from being taken down or interfered with?
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« on: December 13, 2018, 20:10 »
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« on: December 13, 2018, 19:11 »
He's either a genius or incredibly stupid/naive. I'm betting on the latter.
He's neither, just someone who knows how to and is willing to play the system.
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« on: December 09, 2018, 13:06 »
Interesting thought. How do you find the VCG stock agency site? Do they have one of their own, or is it under the old names? They bought Corbis, didnt they?
Anyone submit direct to VCG (assuming you can)?
Steve
https://www.vcg.com/creative/brands
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« on: December 09, 2018, 11:58 »
VCG own 500px so it may be wise to check if any images are for sale on their site. I would guess that the Getty ones are for sale on there anyway.
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« on: December 06, 2018, 20:01 »
So this post is for folks with knowledge of how websites, search engines, links etc work. So I did a search of one of my images. Some of the results show my pic in the thumbnail but link to others work. I have seen this before with other images of mine. Is this normal? If not who is responsible for this? The stock site or google? How can I fix this? Is it fixable?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.
I don't think there's anything to be done about it. Your image is probably on the page, just not the primary one - at least that's when I've seen this in searching for uses of my own work.
I believe it's that your work shows up in the "similar" section below someone else's image and that gets found in searches. For some types of searches you'd probably want to find things other than the "main" image on a page, so I don't expect to see a "fix" in the search engine.
A stock site might be able to make one of the small "also" thumbnails invisible to a Google search, but I don't think you'd really want that.
I don't expect this would bother any buyer - who probably wouldn't look for images that way anyway.
Other than puzzling you, what problem does this artifact of how agency pages are set up (with images from other artists around the item a user clicked on in search results) cause?
If they did a search for my image and are presented with a competitors image I may lose a sale. Someone finds my image likes it clicks on it and a different image pops up. Seems like a competitor is being promoted over my image. When they click on a link with my image I want them to find my image not a competitors. Its not easy to earn a living in this business and I need every penny I can earn.
Swings and roundabouts, someone searches for an image that is not yours and the link takes them to one of your images, what difference does it make.
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« on: December 06, 2018, 08:46 »
They are obviously not doing very well at attracting contributors if they have to get Rider to get them some free advertising on here. Probably better to just let such posts drop off the front page.
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« on: December 06, 2018, 07:39 »
VCG own 500px and Corbis and have a deal with Getty to sell in the west, it must be reciprocal in that VCG sell Getty and all their partners in the east.
Not going to be a lot left over for the contributor when everybody has had their cut.
As for copyright I guess it's better defended by VCG than trying to do it on your own in China.
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« on: December 04, 2018, 13:28 »
And yet another one of the agencies going the corporate greed way.
As if taking 10% of our cut is going to propel them into tier 1, what a shameless cash grab.
Their way of thinking is: the 2010 cut worked so well after a few years, contributors noticed the difference 3 years later, maybe it works if we do that again.
"Sorry guys, we just feel this is another one of those 'phases', surely you don't mind a cut now things are going crappy already and wait another 3-5 years to see improvement? What was that? No? Too late, it's done. Merry Christmas!"
It's a 20% cut not 10%  50% down to 40% is a 20% reduction
Sorry Noodle beat me to it
Which means you will have to increase turnover by 25% to stay still.
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