I can't get into the Fotolia contributor site at all now.  It just kicks me to the front page.

Quote from: mj007 on November 07, 2018, 11:06

I am not sure I see what is wrong with this agency. SS pays me 38 cents a sell. This company pays 35 cents a sale. I highly doubt they will sell the numbers of SS but the pay per image is nearly the same. I know SS has extended sales but those have all but gone away for me. Just my thoughts.

1. 38 cents is the least you'll ever get paid at Shutterstock. 35 cents is the highest you'll ever get paid at OnePixel.
2. When you have a 38 cents sale at SS, clients have a subscription which leads to more sales for you and other contributors.
3. It's a huge devaluation of stock photos!

In my opinion not a sustainable way to push this industry forward. It ensures that photographers get paid close to nothing for their work, for their crew, models, location, gear, etc.

I have been contacted in the past for special licenses for their client (clips being part of a famous artist videoclip).

If Shutterstock wants to buy copyright off you for 1500$ USD my guess is that they negociated with their client a much higher pricing or a long term price payments. But you'll never the deal they struct, you can either counter offer with a higher price and maybe lose the opportunity, or accept the offer. I have sold many images copyright for 1000$ depending on the use, and most images will take 5 to 10 years to even make that amount, if it ever reaches it. Check your bestsellers lifetime earning and you'll get an idea, to me it sounds a good deal even if I know Shutterstock must be selling back to their client for 10 000$.

Quote from: obj owl on November 04, 2018, 07:58

Quote from: nobody on November 04, 2018, 07:41

once again I feel like we are left in the dark by SS! 

Yes, takes them an age to report a problem and when there is no problem they don't report it at all, complete darkness.

You want them to send a notice out that we have no problem? From what I see, the urgent report hack rumor started here and spread to the SS forum, and is unsubstantiated and denied on the forum. So you want them to write to all of us and deny that something, that doesn't exist, is a non-issue? 

Quote from: aetb on November 02, 2018, 21:13

...Are you interested in a full copyright transfer of this image to Shutterstock for (a minimum) of $1500.00 commission?...

Why do those who say the copyright transfer is to the client think that? That's not what the text in the OP says.

I'm not all that concerned with this transaction - up to the person affected - but am concerned if SS is embarking on a new way to do business that might not be advantageous to contributors. I'm aware of what Dreamstime does, but that's hardly any sort of industry standard.

Just remember that it's the money you get at the time of the deal that's important - hints, but no legal commitments to pay, future sums are worthless.

I started uploading on adobe stock and shutterstock this year, and now i want to continue to sell my work on other microstock websites, all the other microstock agencies I checked there was only a possibility to fill in keywords and descriptions for one picture at a time.

I have quite an amount of pictures and sometimes there is like 50 pictures about the same subject, so i dont really want to fill in manual keywords for each pictures.

Are there other agencys like adobe stock and shutterstock where you can fill in those keywords for multiple pictures at once?
Looking for some advice

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on November 01, 2018, 02:54

Quote from: NorthwestDreams on October 31, 2018, 22:01

I'm a contributor who works with Shutterstock's new contributor support team.

So, how much do you get paid?

Whatever it is, you make a lot more if, for example, a few unscrupulous contributor support people got all their friends and their friends' friends to send support emails about their accounts being hacked, and you get to copy and paste an answer to them. All they need is the email address for support.

The timing just seems suspicious, is all.

I used to have 8000 RM photos on Getty until I ditched them recently. It'll cost me in the short term but I'm not overly concerned. I was bombarded with the custom content brief. I ignored and deleted them 100%. It looked like huge work for a small % chance of success. They are a greedy outfit and from all accounts heading towards growing problems. They should never have acquired Istock.

Quote from: Brightontl on October 28, 2018, 16:23

I do only video, and to be honest SS is the only agency where I get rejections.
The way it works is that generally they reject one third of each batch.
Reviewers are paid peanuts and certainly they don't have the time to actually look at each individual file (with video), but they are scared to death that if they accept a whole bunch they will be considered lazy, so they simply reject a few random one just to pretend that they have had a look at them.
Of course you resubmit them and the get all accepted, because they know that if they refuse them a second time, the artist might argue with whatever quality control service and reviewers will get in trouble.
Bottom line, every time you upload videos to SS, you know that one third will be rejected and you have to upload it again. A bit of an idiotic way to work, but after all you end up with everything accepted.
The only question is: Why SS keep paying useless reviewers? they could save the money and give it to contributors, or give discount to customers

This isn't my experience. I generally submit small batches of videos and have a rejection rate of less than 10%. Almost always I agree with the rejections when I look closely. Only once in seven years of submitting to SS have I felt that a reviewer has lazily or mistakenly pushed the reject button on a batch of videos and rejected the whole lot. SS support eventually agreed with me that the rejection was an error but I didn't bother resubmitting as P5 provided a perfectly acceptable home for the same batch anyway. i think to say that their reviewers reject a third of every batch is too sweeping a statement.

In the real world its not going to happen. The sites that pay high commissions are rarely successful as they and contributors hugely underestimate the importance and cost of marketing. I'd rather get 33% of $1000 than 50% of $100.

Good stuff, does this now match up to SS prices or does it exceed them

In the light of Commission Increase shall I start uploading my video clips to Adobe's site instead of continuing with Fotolia? I already have 1700 clips on Fotolia.
Please advise.