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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Can iStock Turn Midstock Sales Around?
« on: October 23, 2014, 01:50 »
They need to close the gap between these two:

WAFFLE - to speak or write at length in a vague or trivial manner

RESULTS - a tangible occurrence or events following a process or action e.g. sales or profit

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Slow site
« on: October 22, 2014, 14:34 »
They spent all the IT infrastructure money on vegetarian pizzas and organic coffee for the brainstorming meetings - the ones where they came up with a subscription model and one price fits all strategies....which I believe someone else already came up with ten years ago.

There was a kerfuffle on the forums about this but I haven't followed it because the glib responses from the moderators made me angry.

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Most economists are about as useful as a chocolate toaster - and let us not forget 99.9% of these charlatans were caught with their pants down during the last recession.

Really, such events are so far out of my control I can only make sure I maintain a firm grip on my own income and expenditure and keep shaking things up in my revenue streams.


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Shutterstock.com / Re: Editorial on SS
« on: October 17, 2014, 08:16 »
Indeed: in 1994 photojournalism was a serious matter

journalism and news photography are not a godgiven right.

they will exist only as long as somebody is willing to pay for it and this happens in every other industry in the world.

there's not one single reason for journalists to think they're a special case deserving any privilege.

there's a supply and there's demand.
if now they're all begging for money it means their product is no more in demand enough, simple as that.

Information is one of the main actor in democracy. The day when all (again: all) info will be manipulated, distorted  and organised to bring consensus to one part, without exception, we will understand that information isn't an industry or a business like every other. We are not too far from it

Surely then it is imperative that everyone must have the freedom to submit their news/editorial/reportage images* wherever they want and in vast quantities to ensure that democratic flow of information remains constant and undiluted.....As opposed to leaving it to a few select and subjective photographers and editors to channel the flow for their profit.

* Some of which is first class by the way

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What happens when the bean counters and MBA twits take over from real entrepreneurs.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Editorial
« on: October 14, 2014, 06:10 »
How many images of random neighborhood parades, airshows, etc., would one expect to sell?  Mostly it's just a thing for an agency to toss to micro shooters who want to submit things they don't have releases for.  It isn't breaking journalism or anything.

I agree that type of stuff is plain lazy and subsequently doesn't do very well. There is a lot more to it than that.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Editorial
« on: October 14, 2014, 04:00 »
Disappointing. It feels like another "good thing to do" that IS trotted out with a fanfare but have since neglected....something other agencies are also guilty of. It seems at launch point everyone is "stoked" about this new "awesome" revenue "opportunity" until it looks like some major elbow grease and a chunk of change is required to get customers to open their wallets.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Editorial on SS
« on: October 14, 2014, 03:48 »
Please, don't sell news on microstock agencies, we can't destroy photography and photographers more than this.

With respect this is 2014 not 1994


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.....images which arguably might need a property release just stay in "pending" forever.

A couple of my original artworks were placed in "pending" further review. I eventually deleted them after weeks of zero movement/response to my follow ups.

"Pending" must be the file for "we haven't a clue how to interpret our own submission policy so we'll leave it on this pile here with all the others until the owners get cheesed off enough to delete them".

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I'll take them both over DT reviewers and their fatuous "this file is similar..." nonsense.

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You find yourself gagging on tofu and soy milk you bought for a shoot that never happened because you can't afford to let it go to waste.

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When someone shows you their best ever snaps and you find yourself saying: None of these are sharp. Also your white balance is light years off and everybody is leaning to the left. That sky is blown to f**k and the bits that aren't are full of dust spots. In fact, these are perfect for print on demand sites.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: RPI for photographers at Shutterstock
« on: October 06, 2014, 16:30 »
An interesting spread of results and not one I'd personally base any long-term decisions on. You'd have to calculate for too many variables e.g. contributor commission levels or ports which have a high proportion of EL and large SOD sales, elevating them way above the 28c "average".

It would be good to see how this looks with a 100 or more responses.


edit: I believe the average claimed elsewhere was 28c

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime - Horrible Sales
« on: October 03, 2014, 05:33 »
Of course, in an effort to make my previous comments look stupid and churlish, DT has poked the dying embers of my portfolio and managed to get a roaring fire going for the first two days of October. Typical.

Tell 'em to share the wealth, will you?  ;)

DT are like the kings and queens of old, scattering their coin among the poor. Unfortunately, two days of bread and wine are often followed by a week in the thumbscrews.

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SS - King Kong
FT - Mighty Joe Young
IS - Tarzan
BS - Cheetah the Chimpanzee
DT - Baboon
123RF - Monkey puppet with cymbals

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime - Horrible Sales
« on: October 02, 2014, 15:40 »
Of course, in an effort to make my previous comments look stupid and churlish, DT has poked the dying embers of my portfolio and managed to get a roaring fire going for the first two days of October. Typical.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime - Horrible Sales
« on: October 01, 2014, 10:52 »
Not so much a decline for me, more of a failure to keep pace with the growth elsewhere since early 2013 - DT has been out of the top 4 for me for most of this year.

In actual fact, I could probably exceed my DT income by standing outside the local train station playing tunes on my kazoo.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime - Horrible Sales
« on: September 30, 2014, 14:52 »
Dreamstime has become Donkeytime.


Never did like saying to people I was a Dreamstime photographer - they thought with a name like that it had to involve some form of seedy boudoir photography - or worse

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Are newer uploads starting to sell early on?
« on: September 30, 2014, 14:49 »
Not unlike a cheap firework they pop and dazzle for a few moments and then fizzle away in the gloom.

I'd like to see a few at least get some real traction, just in case any of my bestsellers start to fade.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: I can never submit!
« on: September 24, 2014, 05:47 »
I'd drop them a line at:

[email protected]

I've always found the responses from a chap called Mate Toth (I'm sure there are others) comprehensive and helpful and usually within 48 hours.

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It keeps going and coming back again. Given the changes in dollars earned in between times add up to a "dormouse" turd I can't say I'm that bothered.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New DT "Tools" just announced
« on: September 23, 2014, 14:02 »
I hope it drives sales - DT needs to do something tout de suite to stay in the top 4 for me.

What amuses me is the way they talk about it as if they invented it. And this goes for all agencies who, despite the fact some contributors think of them as virtual online art galleries for the discerning buyer are nothing more than bang 'em out retailers - and being shopkeepers should have taken their cue from Amazon and others years ago to enhance the contributor/customer experience.

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A bit like David and Goliath - except in this case Goliath (SS) is wearing full head and body armor and David (IS) throws stones like a girl*


* apologies ladies

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istock's back
« on: September 19, 2014, 09:41 »
I can still make a cup of tea and feed the cat in the time it takes my stats page to load.

Slight uptick in sales but I'm holding off doing any cartwheels until it emerges as a sustained pattern.

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They have a long way to go. The keywords Beautiful Woman bring up just 11 images, 10 of which are taken by the same photographer.

But don't snap at the OP - people start up businesses/brands with crappy products every day and end up making millions eg. that odious little pipsqueak Justin

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