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« on: March 16, 2022, 10:49 »
sold once for $2500 OR 25 times. Not really equal, as for UK News image the 25 times could easily be under $100 in revenue.
It could even be under $10.
haven't seen any UK News for that low. Lowest i had was $1.14. but yes there is report of lower
I did. I had several sales for $ 0.17 for news usage in UK in February.
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« on: March 16, 2022, 07:55 »
sold once for $2500 OR 25 times. Not really equal, as for UK News image the 25 times could easily be under $100 in revenue.
It could even be under $10.
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« on: March 16, 2022, 04:22 »
Congratulations! That's awesome!
Fingers crossed that the customer doesn't request a refund in 5 months. That's always my greatest worry with bigger Alamy sales, especially when you already had payout and spent the money.
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« on: March 16, 2022, 02:04 »
They allow news-related content as long as it is not editorial, so vectors should be fine if they don't contain any copyrighted material and can be used commercially. I never could submit Corona-related editorial images, but commercial was always fine.
But not for war.
As far as I know, it is official position, war-related materials should not be accepted and if something will occasionally passed, it will be deactivated.
Don't spend your time on it.
Sure, that's why iStock has 11936 illustrations and 8593 vectors about war....
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« on: March 15, 2022, 09:56 »
Krakozawr is right. Everything that is "hard news" is not accepted by stock contributors. They have their own staff photographers (on contract or stringers) and those are the only ones allowed to supply this type of work. I am talking about images and video. I don't know about vectors as this are more "creative" in nature and should not collide but ......You might contact them and see what they say.
They allow news-related content as long as it is not editorial, so vectors should be fine if they don't contain any copyrighted material and can be used commercially. I never could submit Corona-related editorial images, but commercial was always fine.
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« on: March 15, 2022, 08:26 »
IStock always has some images that take waaaaaay longer to review than others. For me it is usually everything that I submit with a property relase as well as everything where iStock seems to think I might possibly need one. Lately for example I had easter related photos waiting to be reviewed for 2 weeks, because apparently some reviewer had to contemplate about whether I needed a property release for dots and stripe designes. They went through eventually, it just took 10x as long for them as the rest of the submitted batch.
Since you say you submitted vectors, maybe that's a similar case. Maybe you submitted them with a PR or someone might need to sleep a few nights over the quetstion whether you would need one or there is some other reason why reviewers have a problem deciding whether these images should be accepted or not.
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« on: March 11, 2022, 01:34 »
DT has this round-robin portfolio promoting scheme. You can go couple of weeks without single 35 cents download, then next day have 4 or 5, then again nothing for over a week.
That's not my experience with DT. I have pretty constant downloads there, usually daily. But they are in 99,99% cases just 0.35$, so it doesn't add up to much.
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« on: March 10, 2022, 03:42 »
Covid is not over. It has been decided that Covid is over.
The current Omikron is "more harmless" but very infective, still many dies.
Politicians are used to negotiate and make agreements. They will find that they can't negotiate or make agreements with a virus.
Covid will be back with a not so harmless version.
Actually I don't even think Omicron is as harmess as some people make it out to be. I have stopped paying so much attention to infection or even hospitalization numbers, but look at death cases in various countries each day. Here in daily Germany death cases are on the rise, already surpassing the numbers of the original first wave. Considering we have vaccine and the variant is more harmless than the original one, that's not looking too peachy? People just have gotten "used to it". Like "Yeah, hundreds of peole die from Corona in our country every day, so what?"  It has lost its horror. And then, of course, the war is a much more pressing matter right now. In the past I could open any random German news site each day and find all the new Corona numbers there - hospitalizatins, death cases, infection rates. Now I have to look them up on official sites each day, because hardly any news site reports them anymore. But just because news sites aren't reporting much about Covid anymore doesn't mean it is over. And the future, with the possibility of new and more servere variants emerging, is still a big unknown.
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« on: March 09, 2022, 15:30 »
War?
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« on: March 09, 2022, 02:48 »
Maybe there's someone out there who's more balanced and has more of the same everywhere?
Here. My ports on the big agencies are all pretty much identical, minus the editorial images on Adobe, but I only have very few editorial images to begin with, so it doens't make much of a difference. But I am not sure I understand the original question "Can someone sell more on istock than SSTK for the same images". Do you mean download numbers or income? Do you mean for one specific image? For income, I made far more on iStock than on SS for the past months, but I had fewer downloads on iStock.
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« on: March 08, 2022, 04:07 »
Is it generally older people who didn't grow up with the internet who are so credulous or are people generally just a lot dumber than I gave them credit for?
Sadly no. I've read comments like "Now that the Corona Virus didn't work to supress us they are making up a war" on the internet right when the war started. I was kind of expecting it. Some people have just fallen way too deep into the conspiracy hole. They aren't old and they have plenty of access to the internet. They just use it to browse all the wrong shady places.
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« on: March 07, 2022, 07:59 »
Gas/petrol prices in Madrid yesterday....1 year ago gasoline was around EUR 1.10/litre.
...and compared to the current prices in Germany that's actually cheap.
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« on: March 07, 2022, 04:46 »
Interesting captured russian soldier speaking about this war:
https://www.facebook.com/realcarrickryan/videos/1007611506801551/
LOL. I think it's fake, because russian army don't have such a uniform.
The guy is not wearing any uniform at all?  Might come as a surprise, but soldiers are not permanently glued to their uniform.
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« on: March 06, 2022, 10:43 »
Lizard, I am not sure I am understanding what you are trying to say? That, in a democracy, whenever the elected government is making a decision for the country, the whole country was "forced" into that decision whenever there was no referendum? You don't seem to understand that referendums, while they are part of democracy, are extrenmely rare and just because there was no referendum about an issue (so in 99,99% cases) it doesn't mean a whole country was "forced" into anything when a government that was rightfully elected by the people and given the authorities to make decisions for the people, actually makes a decision without asking every single person for their agreement.
Do you also understand what constitution of a country is ? If constitution says referendum has to be held when entering international unions and +50% turnover is needed something to be valid, than 43% is a referendum that did not pass. Changing rules after to fix the result is a criminal act.
This is not correct. The turnout for the referendum was only 43% (= only 43% of eligible voters took part in the referendum - for whatever reason). This 43% of the participating population voted 67% in favor of joining the EU.
TRUE!!!
Exactly what I said, and for a referendum to be valid more than 50% of voters should take part.
Article 6 or Clanak 6 in Croatian:
Na dravnom referendumu odlučuje se većinom birača koji su glasovali, uz uvjet da je referendumu pristupila većina od ukupnog broja birača upisanih u popis birača Republike Hrvatske.
or...
The state referendum is decided by a majority of the voters who voted, under the term that the referendum was attended by a majority of the total number of voters registered in the voter list of the Republic of Croatia.
43% turnaround is not majority of registered voters.
And here is the full law on official government site.
https://www.zakon.hr/z/359/Zakon-o-referendumu-i-drugim-oblicima-osobnog-sudjelovanja-u-obavljanju-dr%C5%BEavne-vlasti-i-lokalne-i-podru%C4%8Dne-%28regionalne%29-samouprave
So what I stated is absolutely true, and by Croatian law that referendum was not valid.
If we wanted to exit EU and we had a new referendum with 49% turnaround with 100% of votes for the exit , the referendum would not be valid and we would have to stay in EU.
Which means 57% of the countries population simply did not give a f*** about whether to join the NATO or not and of the 49% who cared enough to vote , the vast majority of 67% voted in favor of it. How in the world are you twisting this around to support your claim that countries were "forced" to join the NATO? 
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« on: March 06, 2022, 05:07 »
Lizard, I am not sure I am understanding what you are trying to say? That, in a democracy, whenever the elected government is making a decision for the country, the whole country was "forced" into that decision whenever there was no referendum? You don't seem to understand that referendums, while they are part of democracy, are extrenmely rare and just because there was no referendum about an issue (so in 99,99% cases) it doesn't mean a whole country was "forced" into anything when a government that was rightfully elected by the people and given the authorities to make decisions for the people, actually makes a decision without asking every single person for their agreement.
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« on: March 05, 2022, 15:04 »
And how are they paying for that gas if Russia is financially cut off ? A why would Russia provide the gas if they are not being payed ?
As already said above, Germany only agreed to to cut off of Russia from SWIFT if they could still pay for the gas. So Russia is not really cut off, Russia privides the gas, because they are still being paid. The SWIFT sanctions do not affect all, but only specifically Russian banks, which have been subject to other sanctions since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. Effects on the processing of energy transactions have been avoided. There are a lot of articles about this in the German press explaining this, though I couldn't really find any in English.
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« on: March 05, 2022, 14:10 »
The bigger question would be how come Ukraine is still allowing and insisting that Russian gas travels trough their country on its way to Europe ?
I would cut that off the first day if it was up to me.
Then you'd probably lessen your chance of getting any support - may it be in the form of weapon deliveries, money or taking in refugees - from some European countries as, very unfortunately, they depend on gas from Russia. I can tell you, here in Germany the talk about fear of what will happen if we were to be cut off rom the gas supply is as presnet in the media as the talk about the war itself. It's also the reason why at first Germany opposed to thea idea of cutting Russia off from the SWIFT system - they feared that without it they could not pay and therefore get the gass and they only agreed to it when it was made sure that there were still possibilities to make the payments. (If you ask me, the gas supply from Russia should have been cut off many many years ago and alternatives should have been established way before that. The gas supply was one of the main reasons why so many countries kept tiptoeing around Putin for many years. But it didn't happen, so now we are in this mess.)
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« on: March 05, 2022, 05:46 »
I am with SpaceStockFootage here. It's the side view of a man's hair. It's not so obvious when it's all pixelated like this in full size, but when you resize it and look at the small version, it's 100% obvious.
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« on: March 04, 2022, 05:48 »
We don't trust videos (from whatever sources), too easy to manipulate... give us historic links (in english, and not from russia) if you want us to believe something..
Check out this video, it'll explain everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOx6dW_0vU
Wait, you don't trust videos, as you think they are too easily manipulated, but you will trust text? Like... what?
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« on: March 03, 2022, 14:12 »
SS is falling and will fall everyday more. More and more people are not even uploading nothing to this suckers, which is good news because clients are migrating to Adobe. Bye bye SS You deserve it . Yur fall is accelerating faster than expected. Oringer is selling his shares on a daily basis y you follow the stock market and pages like stockwits. A stampede before the building crumbles.....
Their annula report tells a different story. The only thing that is falling is contributors' revenue per image. SS is doing just peachy.
Firn, like you, I'm not a Shutterstock hater.
But I also see a certain trend reversal here. My focus is on current editorial topics. If my image fits and arrives, I then had mass sales on the topic with Shutterstock and never with Adobe or other agencies. That has changed this year.
See, but that's your personal experience. My Shutterstock sale have been absolute crap for the past 3 months, it's not even worth mentioning. Yet, I don't go around shouting that Shutterstock is going down the drain, when I can see very clearly from their official report that they are thriefing. It's just the contributor's income that keeps getting lower, but the numbers are there, clear as day: Reducing contributor's revenue was a great bussiness step for SS and the people who are porclaiming that this was the end of SS are just doing so, because they want it to be true, not because it is. They hate what SS has done to their earnings and hope that it will backfire on SS. But karma is just wishful thinking and not everyone gets what they deserve. SS is, from am bussiness perspective doing good. Doesn't mean contributors are as well. Beleive me, I am not rooting for SS. If SS had indeed lost all its customers to Adobe, I would be really happy about that! But I am not just making things up to fit my point of view like everest. I see their report, I see they make great profit, I see they are doing well. I have had no noticable raise in income on Adobe for well over 1,5 years. It's falling or stagnating and always performing far worse than SS. January and February for example have been especially bad on SS (worst earnings in 1,5 years) and yet Adobe was still doing even worse for me. As for iStock, that has basically been proclaimed as dead by everest, - it has been my best earner for months, performing really well. Adobe is not even earning me a fraction of that. I submit the same content with the same keywords to all these agencies.
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« on: March 02, 2022, 15:37 »
SS is falling and will fall everyday more. More and more people are not even uploading nothing to this suckers, which is good news because clients are migrating to Adobe. Bye bye SS You deserve it . Yur fall is accelerating faster than expected. Oringer is selling his shares on a daily basis y you follow the stock market and pages like stockwits. A stampede before the building crumbles.....
Their annula report tells a different story. The only thing that is falling is contributors' revenue per image. SS is doing just peachy.
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« on: March 01, 2022, 05:04 »
Did you join their joining revenue share model? If so I am not sure why you are upset now. You got what you signed up for.
If you didn't join this unlimited downloads & contributors share the lousy revenue- crap, then of course that's another matter.
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« on: February 28, 2022, 10:32 »
Now that I am $1 away from payout, the sales have stopped. Does anyone else see that happen or is it just a coincident.
Coincidence. Can't remember anything like this ever happening.
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« on: February 27, 2022, 13:41 »
It is not very surprising that, with the expansion drift of the EU and NATO, there comes a point in time that Russia says "enough is enough". You can hate them for it, and maybe rightfully so. But the guilt question here is not so easy to answer. If the situation was reversed and Russia would have been snatching one country after another in say Central America, the US would never have allowed it so close to it's border (oh wait, that actually happened  )
You seem to be confused and have a lot of stuff mixed up. The EU or NATO are not "snatching" countries. The European Union and NATO are voluntary coalitions. Russia can make coalitions with how many countries it likes. Invading countries is a different story.
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