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Messages - munrotoo
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« on: April 08, 2014, 13:01 »
my friend has decided to get out of the stock illustration business. She is an exclusive contributor with istock and she has had enough. I want to buy her portfolio. Does anyone have any advice for us? She has a form to transfer copyright that she used with a client once, is that all we need?
Thanks for any help.
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« on: April 08, 2014, 06:44 »
The watermarks are a joke. Watermarks disappear on isolations over white background. No thanks!
It is a definite concern that the previews are so large and for all practical purposes have no watermark. I would probably be interested if it were not for that.
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« on: April 07, 2014, 08:17 »
I had a very negative experience with ktools also.
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« on: April 07, 2014, 06:41 »
Since it's April and this supposedly has started, has anyone gotten one? Or will it be reported like TS, next month? I wonder what I should be looking for, if and when I get the first Sub DL?
Anyone have one? Anyone know?
wds is correct.
From the original email we were sent on 4th March and in the OP of the subs thread on iS (3rd March)
Royalties will be reported monthly, not in real time. Initially we will be reporting these royalties under the Partner Program.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=359606&messageid=6990296
and in case you also missed it:
Image Subscription downloads arent purchased with credits so we will not be calculating RCs with these downloads.
So we are doubly screwed.
Views are not revenue. I wonder how long it will take before the istock exclusives realize they are about to get all the views they have been asking for and not increase and probably a decrease in revenue. To me all Getty is trying to do here is pay virtually nothing for what they consider to be just padding out their collections.
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« on: April 07, 2014, 06:17 »
I am reading some alarming claims on another forum that the very recent (apparently) change to the SS search facility is turning on and off photographers portfolios during the day to limit their ports exposure and subsequently their earnings, thereby controlling a photographers success.
Surely this cannot be true 
Is it even legal to do such a thing? Well, maybe it is legal but surely not moral or ethical?
Or is this just unhappy SS photog's going through a dip in sales?
Stop giving them ideas.
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« on: March 18, 2014, 05:21 »
What is the purpose of all these partner sites anyway? Why do the agencies do that? It seems like fotosearch would just be better to shut these places down and forward everyone to their site.
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« on: March 12, 2014, 10:27 »
What am I missing here, 500px is giving a higher royalty % than Shutterstock (and iStock for nonexclusives), it's what Offset is paying too and that has been lauded as a great opportunity. The royalty % doesn't seem to be that bad comparatively does it?
This has also always perplexed me. Shutterstock pays next to nothing per image yet they are always great on these forums and every other agency is complained about. It seems odd.
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« on: March 08, 2014, 06:39 »
Unfortunately there may be some truth there. There is little reason to buy my images unless you intend to print them. Nevertheless I get a whole lot of sub sales and not very many EL's. I bet over 75% of my sub sales are incorrectly used.
That is what was nice about istock. At least you got paid a few dollars for an illustration instead of 30 cents. That will be long gone now. People will be printing a thousands of t-shirts with designs they purchased for $1.00.
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« on: March 05, 2014, 17:21 »
This explains the move some time ago to increase the allowable submission rates from a very controlled few to near infinity.
I don't think so. I think that had more to do with Thinkstock since the submission rates were mainly changed for nonexclusives, for nearly all exclusives you could already upload more than you could produce before the change.
but they definitely changed in what they would accept. Especially in vector they had gotten to where they would accept almost nothing unless it was elaborate. They now accept black and white and simpler designs again.
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« on: March 04, 2014, 10:56 »
my theory on istock is they want people to leave, especially exclusives. I think in their hearts they want all these little artist to go away so they can have their few preferred artists like in the Getty heyday.
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« on: March 01, 2014, 06:35 »
Does anyone know why flash exports photoJPEG at 30.3 fps and not 30 fps and how to fix it?
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« on: February 25, 2014, 06:40 »
a conspiracy theorist could certainly do a lot with istock constantly finding ways to take back the money they have paid out to people
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« on: February 25, 2014, 06:38 »
It really does seem like istock is constantly having accounting problems. If it is not credit card fraud it is software bugs.
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« on: February 11, 2014, 06:19 »
Will the paypal notices eventually go away. I do not even have a symbiostock site up at the moment and I am getting these notices.
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« on: February 06, 2014, 12:39 »
I started a store on Zazzle for the holidays but wow it is just so painful from a contributor standpoint. One product at a time. I have tried to update the store catagory on some products for 4 days straight. They never get updated. They never appear in my store under the proper catagory. So do they actually want to discourage contributors?
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« on: December 28, 2013, 06:50 »
I removed my images at the beginning of this month. The sales did not warrant the upload time.
Norma
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« on: December 28, 2013, 06:04 »
Mine finally started trickling in yesterday.
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« on: December 23, 2013, 07:49 »
Usually I have partner sales on istock by now but so far nothing for November. Has something changed on istock's partner sale policy?
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« on: December 18, 2013, 08:51 »
Okay all thanks for the info. Since it appears that 123rf is a San Francisco company I wondered how I did not have to fill out a w2 but I get it if they are actually based in Hong Kong. Thank you. Just trying to make sure the biggest pain in my butt - taxes - is right.
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« on: December 17, 2013, 20:20 »
Thanks Jo that is what I thought. We asked them a tax question and the email we got back was they were in China and our taxed were our problem.
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« on: December 17, 2013, 12:37 »
Does anyone know where 123rf is based and who owns them?
Norma
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« on: October 31, 2013, 17:29 »
Gl stock images is not accepting new contributors
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« on: October 31, 2013, 08:43 »
Thank you. I'm getting closer.
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