Seriously funny.
I guess it's the famous 'satire defence' - but it does have ads on the pages ...

He could have bought the images at least   Still funny though

Quote from: lkeskinen on July 24, 2012, 17:22

I had a $50 for one illustration sale today, surprising. 

I bought it .... are you interested in more work ?

You can contact the user by clicking his name and sending him a PM in case he doesn't your reply in this thread

Finally I got one lobotomy follower

How many empty letters. Can you please hob-nob with you scanner and with make it good trace button in Illustrator...

Congrats for you sales anyhow...

Hehe congrats on reading that reply :p Anyhow everything looks simpler and easier when you look at it from the outside .

You're an artist, I am and investor and wannabe artist, bottom line, we make money, and that is what selling Microstock is about for the most part.

Hope it made you feel better, else a therapist might help :p

Thought to be the oldest colour footage in the world. The inventor/photographer died at 29, before he'd worked out how to project it, so it was never seen until now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19423951

Wow very impressive, thanks for sharing this!

I was pretty excited to read this. Not really sure if there will be a real impact and if the users will install and use this plugin to buy stock video, but definetly sounds a good initiative:

If you haven't received the news already, Pond5 and Adobe� teamed up to launch a one-of-a-kind plugin that seamlessly integrates our video and audio collection into Premiere Pro� CS6. We're thrilled to be showing it off at the IBC Conference this year, and we couldn't do it without our incredible artist community.
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All info here:
http://www.pond5.com/adobe?utm_source=critsend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_20120910_adobe

Hi.  I'm looking for an alternative investment and think microstock might be an option.  Specifically, I'm thinking about buying the copyrights to microstock that have existing cash flow.  Before I spend a great deal of time on this, I thought I might solicit some feedback. 

Assuming you would even sell your copyrights, how much would you sell them for?  1 year of existing cash flow, 5 years, 10 years?
Is anyone already doing this?  I did find a company paying $50 per image, but that is for images not already producing revenue.
Is it easy to verify how much an image is generating? 
Are you aware of any technical reasons the microstock agencies wouldn't allow the transfer of an image to another account.  I assume I would just resubmit it.  Note: I do not have an account with any stock agencies yet.
Would moving an image from one account to another completely wipe out cash flow?
Anything else I may be missing?

Thanks for your feedback, please keep the "I would never sell my copyright" comments off the thread, as I already know many would not sell their babies.

Thanks!

Hi!

I have been experimenting over a year on this by hiring Illustrators to create some work for me. Send me a PM and I'll send you my contact info. Basically it's not as good as I thought it would be, but if you look it as a long term investment, I think this is something that can pay off.

Normally we say that 1 image (I only do this with Illustration for now) usually generates 1$ per month. It's not always true, but for most Illustrations I pay for, I can manage to get back my initial investment in 6 month to 2 years. I am currently checking results for a large batch I have had produced in the last months. Can't say these are making awfully well, but revenue in microstock is not constant. You might make 100$ with a portfolio one month, and the next images can sell more and get you 300$, or the contrary.

Right now I have a lot of money invested and I had a constant increase over the year, but since last April revenue stopped increasing, even decreased a bit or stalled. I am curious to see with the Summer months gone if it will go better.

There is no assurance this can work, the worst you can get is that it takes 10 years to get your money back and start making money... In 10 years, you never know what will happen to the Microstock world too. All things to consider.

Good to hear things are working on the photo/ raster illustration side of things.

I hope they can pull their finger out and get this sorted for the vector guys too. It has literally been over a month since I reported the first bug, and not only has that not been fixed, there are now a couple more and far more serious problems. The latest making uploading impossible.

+1

I do only vectors, and for my last batch I had to pay someone to manually copy and paste the data manually as IPTC are not getting read at all, and it has been like this for several weeks. It is a pain. Hoping this will be fixed when I come back from vacation!!

...but this is not what buyers want to buy. So you as I can see you find trace option in Illustrator or Corel which made you Illustrator Master Blaster as you present yourself.

If you are offended with my piffle fell free to tick IGNORE button (its not harder than press Scan or Trace button which you are using so often in you lets say work)

Good luck

Hope you fell better after this? So much hate and frustration in you, things must not be going well for you to be complaining about other peoples portfolio. I'm the one working on it, why should you care?

1st nonsense :

...but this is not what buyers want to buy.

How please enlighten us with your knowledge... What DO buyers want to buy? My earnings and download shows the contrary else I would have stopped doing this a year ago.

2nd nonsense:

So you as I can see you find trace option in Illustrator or Corel which made you Illustrator Master Blaster as you present yourself.

Do you take drugs? Illustrator Master Blaster... Maybe find something less nerdy next time if you want to insult, just had a good laugh . You try and do some of those type of image, you will see that there is a lot more than what you think you know.

And for your reference I do have also 700 hand drawn color illustrations and 320 video. Not sure what is your point. Not my fault if you didn't get those type of commissions. Stop crying start working, maybe you'll see results.

For my part I am not artistically proud of my portfolio, and I do know that it does not have the top level quality aspect your portfolio might have, but from a business point of view (yes this is a business, not an art gallery) I can say I would not switch my portfolio with yours . There ARE buyers for these type of images, I see 3.3k of them saying it each month in Shutterstock.

Nice.   Here's hoping it becomes a trend.

I sure hope it becomes a trend!

It sure did put a huge smile on my face. These we for 3 very ordinary technical illustrations in black lines on white of a flower bud (3 differents). I am confused as to what license was used for this, but I will sure not complain about it!

In January I first mentioned this was coming up - Yesterday I became grandmother for first time!

photo video: [video revised, so this version has been deleted]  smiles - Ann

*edited 5/30 to remove "link to nowhere"

Congratulations!! Can't see the video / photo though?

It's a special license a buyer purchases to use images in a "sensitive" nature i.e. medical, homelessness stuff like that.  My brain is drawing a blank to explain it better.

The SU license gets the contributor up to $70 in royalties.  Not sure what the $90 would fall under.  So far they're not telling us anything unless it's them testing things out?

Thanks for th� explanation. I can understand the meaning behind sensitive use.

But for an illustration, I wouldnt think someone will buy a SU license... Confusing

Quote from: Elenathewise on May 02, 2012, 12:21

I've had quite a few $18 dollar sales in the "single and other downloads" category, but not a $90 dollar one. I wonder if it is indeed the"sensitive use" license. My question to people who had them - is your portfolio "opted in" for the sensitive use?

Edit: Anita posted the reply to my question a minute earlier:)

I'll echo Elena's question.  Anita, I know we determined the $18 sales were not sensitive use, but I haven't read that about the $90 and $75 sales.  Like Elena, I haven't had any of those, and I am opted out of SU also. 

Congrats to those of you who are getting those big sales!  If they are not SU, I hope to join you soon

I'm opted IN of SU... I never read any thing about SU, what exactly does it imply?

Quote from: Morphart on May 02, 2012, 08:12

I got quite a surprise this morning when checking my Shutterstock stats...

ONE single sale image for a commission of 90.60$. I am really wondering what these licenses are, but seeing high numbers like this from Shutterstock is definetly extremely encouraging!!!

congrats... still waiting for mine

Wishing this for everyone. Good to see those prices on a popular MICROstock agency