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Messages - Wilm
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« on: January 10, 2025, 11:48 »
December 2024 was particularly bad for my SS sales, making it the worst month of the year, and confirming a downward trend, which will certainly continue this month.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my total 2024 sales were not that bad, being only 2.9% worse than 2023.
Anyway, my lifetime microstock earnings exceeded $430k, and that's amazing for a hobby.
Excellent! Especially considering the modest size of your portfolio!
What is striking, however, is the ratio of shutterstock to Adobe Stock, which was completely different in December than in your previous statistics. You are starting to see a convergence from shutterstock to istock. For me, istock has long since overtaken shutterstock. Clearly.
The question that arises: Why is this the case for you with shutterstock? For DaLiu, for example, shutterstock continues its positive trend. Upload activity seems to play a much greater role in shutterstock's algorithm than with other agencies.
In 2024, I uploaded 170 photos (reaching a total of 1888) and 26 videos (reaching a total of 427). That's more or less in-line with what I did in 2023.
Yes, that's what I was getting at. I have the feeling that you have to continuously increase the uploads in order to at least remain constant in terms of downloads.
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« on: January 10, 2025, 11:07 »
December 2024 was particularly bad for my SS sales, making it the worst month of the year, and confirming a downward trend, which will certainly continue this month.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my total 2024 sales were not that bad, being only 2.9% worse than 2023.
Anyway, my lifetime microstock earnings exceeded $430k, and that's amazing for a hobby.
Excellent! Especially considering the modest size of your portfolio! What is striking, however, is the ratio of shutterstock to Adobe Stock, which was completely different in December than in your previous statistics. You are starting to see a convergence from shutterstock to istock. For me, istock has long since overtaken shutterstock. Clearly. The question that arises: Why is this the case for you with shutterstock? For DaLiu, for example, shutterstock continues its positive trend. Upload activity seems to play a much greater role in shutterstock's algorithm than with other agencies.
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« on: December 22, 2024, 11:56 »
Just in time for the reset 
Can't complain, was a good year at SS.
More than 2.000 Downloads per month is impressing! Congrats!
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« on: December 07, 2024, 10:24 »
Already moving back down. Still it was fun.
pos 692, files 7200
eta
christmas has a high sales potential but you can still make money with other festivals. you just need a lot more and very diverse files. if you have 1000 christmas images, then you will probably need 5000 easter images to get a similar result.
Nice! 
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« on: December 02, 2024, 04:31 »
Comparison November 2024 / 2018 at AS
Downloads 2024 minus 17%
Revenue 2024 minus 64%
November 2024 was the second worst month ever at AS.
In November 2018 there were several days that brought up to $55 - in November 2024 I didn't have a single download over $3.30.
In general, it can be observed that the RPD has fallen dramatically at AS - around 40%.
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« on: November 26, 2024, 13:50 »
No answer yet 
Response time 2-3 weeks.
But is $15 really a lot of money for a German citizen?
Well, my monthly income from microstock has successively fallen by around $1,300 (on average before tax) over the years. If the agencies now start to reduce the remaining amount for whatever reason, there will soon be nothing left.
In addition, the cost of living here in Germany has risen noticeably in recent years. You are well aware of some of the reasons for this.
I have nothing to give away.
In this particular case, however, it's a matter of principle.
Brutal stats.
I can imagine by looking at your images in your portfolio that you were quite successfull back then around 2014 to 2018.
Now some images are outdated but not the topics.
I think if you would renew your portfolio with the same topics (gardening, interior, etc.) you could raise again your earnings.
Hey Andrej, What you write is basically correct. But I have a certain attitude towards microstock. I have no desire to invest time in images that end up earning $10 or 20. Then I can invest my time more wisely in my job. And with the development of the RPD at Microstock and the short lifespan of the images, I lack the motivation to feed the beast.
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« on: November 26, 2024, 05:02 »
No answer yet
Response time 2-3 weeks.
But is $15 really a lot of money for a German citizen?
Well, my monthly income from microstock has successively fallen by around $1,300 (on average before tax) over the years. If the agencies now start to reduce the remaining amount for whatever reason, there will soon be nothing left. In addition, the cost of living here in Germany has risen noticeably in recent years. You are well aware of some of the reasons for this. I have nothing to give away. In this particular case, however, it's a matter of principle.
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« on: November 26, 2024, 02:11 »
No answer yet
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« on: November 25, 2024, 12:39 »
Downloads up, $ up and running steady... ebb and flow as expected. Just less than 20k images... no AI. Total covering a 6 day period. Mon - Sat
Great! Good job!
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« on: November 22, 2024, 09:59 »
Thank you for your feedback. The answer from istock is still pending.
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« on: November 21, 2024, 11:25 »
I received my October payment today. Unfortunately, it's missing $15. The tax form is valid until 2027, so that can't be the problem.
I've just written to them and asked them to transfer the difference.
Is anyone else affected besides me?
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« on: November 18, 2024, 11:27 »
Second-best month in 2024 in terms of revenue.
Third best month in 2024 in terms of downloads.
RPD = $1.22 (stills only)
Best October since 2019.
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« on: October 29, 2024, 13:53 »
Thank you so much Cobalt and Wilm.
I think I will try in the first phase to make a new base of white isolated objects.
When I started last year with AI, everything was going well. But now sales have dropped drastically.
Anyway, my sales are down on pretty much all my sites. Lately I've been concentrating more on AI.
Thanks again for your suggestions!!!
Youre welcome! I wish you much success and better business. By the way, things are looking bad everywhere for me too.
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« on: October 29, 2024, 12:31 »
No words...
 
Hmmm, two things could be the problem, Sebastian. Firstly, the proportion of AI images on the subject of food is increasing dramatically. For the search term pizza alone, one third is now AI-generated. At least, because I can imagine that some providers are uploading AI images but not labelling them as such. And some of the results are really not bad. Secondly - I hope I'm allowed to write this - from my subjective point of view, you could optimize the copy space for your images.
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« on: October 23, 2024, 15:27 »
I have also received the e-mail. From shutterstock. Without reference to bigstock, where I have not been offering for years. In my e-mail all links lead to https://click.esvc.shutterstock.com/When I copy and paste this into my browser, I get an error message (see screenshot). I think this is a fake, or spam, or that something has been hacked. So I wouldn't click on the links. So I'll wait and see if something else comes from shutterstock.
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« on: October 18, 2024, 02:27 »
Downloads were okay average. RPD was miserable.
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« on: October 15, 2024, 12:52 »
Nice to see the Trump supporters are doing their bit, making sure the help gets where it is needed...
https://www.newsweek.com/armed-militia-hunting-fema-hurricane-responders-1968382
If this is true, it is simply sad that the affected citizens of a state are caught up in the mills of power because of an election campaign instead of receiving the help that is urgently needed. We urgently need neutral regulatory bodies all over the world to combat misinformation and fake news! Otherwise, instability will continue to grow in all countries. Something has gotten out of hand globally. There have always been wars. But the danger of a global conflagration has never been so great. Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Gaza/Lebanon/Iran, North Korea/South/Korea, China/Taiwan, and many more powder kegs everywhere... And the global catastrophes caused by freak weather will also increase. If aid organizations are already in danger, where will it end?
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« on: October 13, 2024, 15:43 »
...
It also states that $75 in emergency aid for food and drink is available for each person affected and that there would be financial support of up to $42,500 for rebuilding or repairing the home.
correcting a typo - it's a payment of $750
Oh, sorry, that's right, of course. I forgot the zero - $750 is correct!
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« on: October 13, 2024, 11:29 »
If you see this in the news "State reports 93 verified storm-related deaths in North Carolina" it is a complete LIE!! I have a friend who works EMS in Henderson County and they have over 1k body bags! The numbers are in the thousands if you count all the counties involved. I have no idea why the news is not telling the truth on this.
Here in Germany, we read that over 200 people died in the USA as a result of Helene, that over 600 were missing and that - in the medium and long term - thousands of deaths could follow as a result of the effects of hurricanes. This could happen as a result of destroyed medical infrastructure, money being saved for the healthcare system because the money would be needed to repair the damage, people losing their jobs and therefore their health insurance, and so on. It also states that $75 in emergency aid for food and drink is available for each person affected and that there would be financial support of up to $42,500 for rebuilding or repairing the home.
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« on: October 10, 2024, 15:42 »
Hi,
First, hope you are okay. Second... Wondering if you can comment on the following jjnfeff...... {deleted conspiracy nonsense}
Did you know that Blackrock, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds have managed to dislodge some asteroids from their previous orbits somewhere in the universe and steer them towards Earth? The particles that the asteroids contain have also been sprayed with toxins on their way to Earth in order to reduce humanity. In addition to the toxins, they have been sprayed with artificially created viruses from secret biolabs operated by the USA in Ukraine. The Bill Gates Foundation and the WHO are already producing billions of vaccines against these viruses and are expecting exorbitant global sales. The asteroids are to be steered in one of the large low-pressure vortices over the Atlantic so that the toxins and viruses are distributed throughout the air and, after impact, also globally by the Gulf Stream. After the impact on the Atlantic seabed this is the plan of this (absolutely "secret") world elite the released rare earths can be transported away by special ships. The expected profits in combination with the monopoly position are expected to bring trillions to this elite.
I have read all this on reputable sources on the Internet.
unfortunately, there are those who will take your post seriously! then there's MTG's antisemitic space laser theories now blamed for hurricanes
Yes, the laser cannons - a real problem! Equally amazing is that there are still dogs, cats, guinea pigs and tortoises - at a time when hungry people from Haiti are eating all the pets there are. Hundreds of years ago, there were people who claimed that their neighbor ate rats - if things went badly, the lady was taken away and burned as a witch. And today there is social media, where people who otherwise don't get enough attention write some garbage and get millions of likes and followers - for whatever reason. It just makes me sad! And I have no idea where it's going to end. In times when any of us all over the planet could be hit by a natural disaster of unimaginable proportions. Like recently in the USA and hundreds of other places on this planet. The important thing is: it's always down to evil forces! It's never down to us! SUVs or pick-ups must of course become heavier and have a higher engine. An electric car with less than 1000 hp - unthinkable! 95 million new cars produced on earth - every year. But it can't be down to us that everything is falling apart at the seams. There must be evil forces at play! And the fact that the election campaign in the USA now has to be fought on the backs of the storm victims makes things even worse! I am endlessly sorry for those who are affected!
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« on: October 07, 2024, 16:27 »
In the meantime, the next hurricane is building up and heading for Florida - wind speeds are currently 280 km/h.
This is not really a topic to get into "politically" or with conspiracy theories. "Milton" could lead to the next catastrophe. Depending on how the hurricane moves, this could also be the case for North Carolina.
To feign sympathy for those affected in one sentence cleverly packaged as a question and then go on to express conspiracy theories in many sentences is, in fact, completely out of order. That's why I reacted so cynically. It made me angry!
Incidentally, as a European, I don't find Wck.org ideal because a donation via paypal takes up to 45 days to arrive where it is needed.
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« on: October 04, 2024, 14:39 »
Hi,
First, hope you are okay. Second... Wondering if you can comment on the following jjnfeff...
From what I heard - the "floods" (& the reason there is deliberately "no govt help" and in fact trying to "stop" ppl from helping others) is because...
Apparently there is a company trying to "buy" the "mining" rights for both lithium & quartz (extremely profitable for the "ai" stuff/computer chips/electronic vehicles, literally worth 'billions' of dollars), and the residents were refusing to sell - so the company hired a bunch of planes to do cloud seeding to deliberatley 'flood' the mountains (which is virtually unheard of)... and they don't want other people helping them (literally trying to bankrupt the residents - "force" them out of their homes), hence no support/guard/etc - and in fact people trying to help are being 'prevented' by the national guard/fema/etc... does that sound accurate/is that correct from what you see?
Did you know that Blackrock, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds have managed to dislodge some asteroids from their previous orbits somewhere in the universe and steer them towards Earth? The particles that the asteroids contain have also been sprayed with toxins on their way to Earth in order to reduce humanity. In addition to the toxins, they have been sprayed with artificially created viruses from secret biolabs operated by the USA in Ukraine. The Bill Gates Foundation and the WHO are already producing billions of vaccines against these viruses and are expecting exorbitant global sales. The asteroids are to be steered in one of the large low-pressure vortices over the Atlantic so that the toxins and viruses are distributed throughout the air and, after impact, also globally by the Gulf Stream. After the impact on the Atlantic seabed this is the plan of this (absolutely "secret") world elite the released rare earths can be transported away by special ships. The expected profits in combination with the monopoly position are expected to bring trillions to this elite. I have read all this on reputable sources on the Internet.
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« on: September 25, 2024, 17:22 »
Thank you very much for your help in all those past years, Mat! All the best for you!
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« on: September 23, 2024, 04:35 »
I'm surprised this seems rather confusing for a lot of people? I believe I even read where it stated what the weekly sales rank is?
It's simply your rank, in terms of downloads - relatively to ALL the other contributors - for that week. Lifetime rank is simply for all contributors over the LIFETIME.
So, if you get more downloads than more people - your rank goes up. If other people get more downloads than you, your rank goes down.
So you 'could' be ranked #1, if for example you had '3' downloads, and 'everyone else' had 1. Or, you could be ranked #10000 if you had say 1000 downloads, but 'everyone else' had 1001+...
Really quite simple. Your weekly ranking is just simply how many downloads you've had relative to everyone else in the system.
of course,but why is there anyone who thinks the opposite? 
I think we all bounce between 2 values in the rankings.
if your ranking value is an average of 30,000 you can probably bounce between 40,000 and 20,000
if your average value is 20,000 you probably bounce between 15,000 and 25,000
if your average value is 1000 you probably bounce between 800 and 1200
the higher you go,the less variation you have in the rankings,simply because there are fewer contributors at the top.
I don't know whether the ranking follows sales or money,I have some doubts about it,it probably follows both the number of sales and money.
Weekly rankings will vary based on what seasonal content you have. Like the movement of the tide and over time, you see the patterns in the data.
Lifetime rank for a change.
Great numbers!Congrats! When did you start? And how many files do you have? Sorry, maybe you've already written that and I've forgotten.
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