Quote from: Zero Talent on December 03, 2015, 01:17

Quote from: Liorpt on December 02, 2015, 23:42

I just got an 1080HD sale and the commission was 1.74$   One dollar and seventy four cents! How could this be???


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You can opt-out from video sub sales.
I did that from the beginning and never had such surprises.

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how do I do that? So video credit sales will still go on?  Thank you.


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Hmm. The opt-out button has disappeared. Now I wonder if my opt-out status is still valid. 

Quote from: Zero Talent on December 02, 2015, 20:47

So, a high rejection rate is OK when applied to a beginner, but not OK when applied to an established contributor. Hmm.....

I don't understand the need you have to distort what others are saying.

Getting upset for having a good image lost in the middle of tenths of thousands of poor quality images is not fearing the competition, like you said, because in fact we're not facing competition in that sense, just fighting an avalanche. Even the most experienced Everest and K2 climbers fear avalanches, since they have nothing to do with their skills, except for the fact that they may know that they should stay away from where they are more likely.

And I like many others, are not upset about the rejections since we dealt with them since day one. I only get upset when they are illogical, make no sense and especially for the wrong reasons.

I'm not distorting. I'm trying to be impartial and objective.

Otherwise, I belive that good images make it to the top much faster on SS, than on any other agency.

The avalanche of mediocrity, is not caused by beginners, but by those established contributors who belive that volume matters more than quality.

Even if you don't want to admit it, that avalanche of mediocrity IS your competition.



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Quote from: Zero Talent on December 02, 2015, 22:25

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on December 02, 2015, 22:21

Quote from: Zero Talent on December 02, 2015, 20:47

...However, as far as this forum is concerned, the main complaint against SS is the excessive rejection rate.

So, a high rejection rate is OK when applied to a beginner, but not OK when applied to an established contributor. Hmm.....

I can't speak for anyone else, but my complaints are not about the quantity of rejections, but the inconsistency and ignorance (white balance rejections for sunrise or sunset shots, for example).

Shutterstock's review process is seriously flawed and it's the flaws, not the rejection numbers, that are the problem.

Fine, I get that.
But then what makes you believe that the same flawed rejections are not applicable to the first 10 photos, denying access to some really good photographers?
Following the same logic as in the previous post, are the flawed rejections only applicable to established contributors?

 I guess not.

Then the talk should be about flawed rejections in general, be it for the first 10 or the next 990 and not about removing the admission test, which is flawed by your definition, therefore irrelevant.

I don't know anything about the process of reviewing the initial 10, but I'm assuming that it is given more individual attention than the reviews of accepted content. I don't think it's any more logical to assume it's the same process (which at other agencies it isn't) that to assume it's different.

And as far as talking about the flawed review process, that's been done. Nothing will happen until Shutterstock decides to focus on something other than cutting costs.

Right, you don't know anything about the initial review and the whole debate is only based on assumtions and speculations.

My assumption is that the same reviewers review the first 10 as any other 10.
This is even in the spirit of cutting costs.

A more thorough review probably means that the first 10 are thrown once more in the reviewing pool, for a second opinion.

If we safely assume that the review process is flawed, the first 10 will have twice the chance to be badly reviewed than any other 10 photos from an established contributor.

Leaving aside the fact that this is double unfair for beginners, SS has probably observed that the admission control virtually stopped new blood from flowing into the system and decided to fully open the valves.
They probably even removed the second opinion requirement.

The first 10 are now treated the same way as the next 990.

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Quote from: Zero Talent on December 02, 2015, 19:02

so you are actually afraid of competition.

If you say so, fine.

I don't see it as "fear of competition."  I see it as disappointment in a quality agency that has been good to me for years but now seems to have lost its way.

The first 10 photos mean nothing.
If your real aim is an improved collection quality, then you want tougher review standards and a higher rejection rate, especially after being accepted.

However, as far as this forum is concerned, the main complaint against SS is the excessive rejection rate.

So, a high rejection rate is OK when applied to a beginner, but not OK when applied to an established contributor. Hmm.....

Why being afraid of some newbie competition?
Let everyone try it.
This thing requires endurance and most don't have the stamina to keep on going. A brief 7 out 10 entry exam means nothing long term, anyway.

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Quote from: Zero Talent on November 24, 2015, 10:29

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev on November 24, 2015, 01:24

The keyword ordering is extremely important in major big stock sites like Fotolia, Shutterstock...If somebody didn't have the keywords ordered per importance and matching, this is a big omission.

It is not important for Shutterstock. If I'm not wrong, it was made clear by Vincent.
It is for Fotolia, indeed, but that's another discussion all together.

500px should align their keywords number with the rest of the industry.

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I can't believe it. Just because this will blurs the search and Shutterstock will never lower the quality of its search. Always will dominate some keywords and which will be will never been taken on random way i guess. The best is the human(not scrip) to decide which keywords describe the best some particular image and they will never be 30 or 50, but maybe 3 or 5 as first level of coincidence

It is your prerogative to be a "non-believer".

I go with this official statement from Vincent:

Posted 13 February 2015 - 04:45 PM
Hi,

The order makes no difference at all. In the customer search engine there is no preferential treatment for higher placed keywords.

Vincent
Shutterstock 

http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/74957-keyword-order/

@nuno, I just realized that the max number of keywords allowed by 500px is 30.
The industry norm is 50. This is why most of my files have ~50.
If 500px is only using the first 30 keywords, then I have a problem, since my keywords are not ordered based on their importance.

Could you please propose your developers to align the site with the 50 keywords de-facto standard?

Quote from: Zero Talent on November 18, 2015, 11:11

Quote from: alijaber on November 18, 2015, 09:48

Quote from: rod-09 on November 18, 2015, 06:36

Hello,

I have just started with Fotolia because of the "Adobe thing" and I have uploaded some of my best footage in there.
The problem is that they keep rejecting lots of them for no reason. Even some animation backgrounds have been refused.

They say that the review team works separtely from the Fotolia team and they cannot explain the reasons that footage is rejected.

Many of these rejected files are selling a lot in websites like Shutterstock, Pond5 and VideoBlocks. No problem at all!

This is my first experience on Fotolia and I don't think I'll stay anylonger in there...

Anyone with same problem here?

cheers

for me their acceptance rate was high, but I didn't upload any content for several months now. Be aware that video wise income is really low, far behind SS, P5 or VB. I kept my port there to see if Adobe will boost video sales or not when Adobe Stock adopt video.

Not true. I regularly get $25 for an HD clip. That's slightly better than what I get from a standard SS sale ($20-$23)

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I meant the number of sales per month..

Ok, volume wise, you are right.
FT can do more about marketing their video collection, indeed.

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Which countries, invaded by Hitler, had millions of casualties in WWII?

1. Soviet Union ~ 20M
2. Poland ~ 5.8M
3. Yugoslavia ~1.7M


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..."nice" statistics - 27.50 M people killed for no reason at all... Be more careful with these  numbers - those are innocent people, women, children... mostly Slavs and Jews...
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....And the forgotten gypsy genocide, very few know or talk about.

These deaths originate from those aryan/white-supremacist, xenophobic and fascist policies our friend Nikovsk is a big fan of.

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... photographers have very little understanding in history, economy and politics.

What a condescending attitude!

Besides, there are not just photographers here. There are economists, engineers, teachers, etc. Have you considered, that, maybe, just maybe, you are the one with an odd understanding of economics, politics and history?

Quote from: Zero Talent on November 15, 2015, 19:59

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Quote from: Mantis on November 13, 2015, 17:58

Always request payout first, get confirm of the transfer, then dump them.

Amen. It is simple as 2x2. No worries, no complaints. Case closed.

No, it's not as simple, for agencies paying automatically, once a month.
See the previous post.
Even if you close the account as soon as you get what you want to be your "last payment", you might still leave sales behind.

Yea, that is an issue with some agencies.  On Dissolve, they would not answer any of my emails. Luckily I could delete files individually before they sold more. I spent about an hour on the site and killed my entire port. Not on Getty so I don't know if you can delete your images manually, but if you have a couple of thousand it could be a bitch.

Getty doesn't allow deactivation of individual photos. It is either all in, or all out. Deactivation is only possible for the entire port, through a ticket.

Quote from: Zero Talent on November 15, 2015, 18:51

Quote from: Nikovsk on November 15, 2015, 17:07

Even if 99,99% of freebie seekers are not terrorists, they certainly commit a hell lot of crime especially rape, sexual harassment and robbery. They will never show this on the mainstream media obviously, but there are tons of data available.

Germany: Leaked police report reveal that 38,000 Muslim �asylum seekers� committed 100 crimes per day in 2014
Imagine what's like in 2015 with 400% more illegals. When you take Germany away from the germans, the natural reaction is nationalism. It's a matter of survival, either you fight back or you're conquered. Common sense is coming back to Europe though, Poland and Latvia already said they won't take muslims anymore. Eurosceptic anti immigration parties will gain strength across Europe because people are tired of EU failure.

For you, Muslims are rapists, for Trump, Mexicans are. Be careful, for some other extremists, East Europeans like you are no different.

This is fascism by definition.

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Don't put words in my mouth. People from certain countries statistically commit more crimes than european average, it's a fact even if you don't like it. Notice how Saudi Arabia wants to remain arab, Japan wants to remain japanese, China wants to remain chinese and african nations want to remain african. That's perfectly understandable and it does not make them extremists in any way. Why europeans are not allowed to have a country of their own? You think you're progressive and tolerant, but you're just anti-white. Go push for diversity in Saudi Arabia and leave my country alone. Thanks and goodbye.

OMG! Anti-white? One more time: this is exactly what Hitler said about Jews and Gypsies, when he tried to build his pure Aryan nation.

Jews and "negros" were the criminals and the rapists, in the 40s.

"Moreover the Jew has in his veins a large element of Negro blood; his frizzy hair, his wolf lips, the colour of his eyeballs proves this as effectually as the insatiable sexual greed which hesitates at no crime and finds its supremest triumph in the brutal defilement of women of another race. This bestial lust obsesses even a barely mature Jew boy"

You would make a great SS officer.

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