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Messages - ribtoks
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« on: October 23, 2023, 04:03 »
It's easy to ask all community than actually use a tool called search for it first isn't it?
Have you tried using your own tip? Did you find in search any results relevant to microstocks? I'm asking about a personal experience, relevant to microstocks. Not "how to use ChatGPT for photography".
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« on: October 23, 2023, 02:36 »
I was wondering if anybody was seriously using ChatGPT for work (e.g. keywording, DCMA, anything else), related to microstocks. If so, what did you do and how did it work?
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« on: September 07, 2023, 04:49 »
Xpiks just got "RAW" files support - it enables integrations with Lightroom and other similar software, like DxO. This is available starting from version 1.7.3
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« on: September 07, 2023, 04:48 »
It is actually strongly adviced to NOT use the exact same keywords for all of the images and this decreases their indexability. Yuri Arcurs was advising to use about half of the keywords the same and others - different. That is if you want to earn more money, if you want just to finish keywording faster, then I guess it's fine.
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« on: August 16, 2023, 12:40 »
It would be interesting to see which categories are the worst sellers. It certainly would and it will be a topic of a future blogpost / research at some point. Stay tuned!
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« on: August 16, 2023, 04:19 »
Without knowing the number of assets per category in his portfolio, its difficult to draw any conclusions.
Thank you for your feedback. I updated the blogpost with portfolio composition information and indeed, it helps a lot! P.S. I saw your original message and I don't know why this blogpost made you so allienated.
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« on: August 15, 2023, 03:13 »
Hi folks Just did a second deep dive into Steve Heap's earnings data in the new blogpost: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/best-selling-microstock-categories/Previous time I analyzed earnings trends across agencies and portfolio half-life and this time - the same data, but split into categories of each photo. Let me know what you think!
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« on: July 30, 2023, 07:12 »
You can drag and drop to POND5 upload page multiple files simultaneously. No slower really than FTP.
Ive tried that in the past and found it very problematic. Ive found that stock agency upload pages are usually fine for submitting photo files. But generally unreliable and buggy when submitting video files.
(spoiler - it's a small self-promotion) If you upload via Xpiks Cloud, we retry FTP upload until it succeeds on our side. So you only upload once to our (hopefully) reliable storage, and then we deal with Pond5.
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« on: June 28, 2023, 23:38 »
DMCA takedown notices also work, but they're a pain to do and so that's only if there are no other options
How do you send them? Do you need a lawyer or you can do it yourself? BTW, thank you a lot for your response!
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« on: June 28, 2023, 00:51 »
Do you write to support?
Do you use any legal service?
Curious about takedown procedures you have experience with
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« on: April 30, 2023, 04:43 »
Good article, thanks. I don't normally say that (beacuse I find many 'internet' articles nowadays are simply regurgitated spam designed to get SEO traffic so people click on ads). But I actually learned something from yours, thanks. Is that someone who works for your company, or a 3rd party? (I noticed the name is different from yours/the creator of the software).
Thank you for your feedback! Article is written by me.
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« on: April 06, 2023, 12:19 »
As promised, I've read your article thoroughly and attentively. It's a great article, informative and unbiased, and I totally agree with your conclusion "you will not be replaced by AI, but you will be replaced by people who use AI".
The sad gist of it is, only those able to stimulate an AI with some creativity will have a possibility. The others will have no other option than joining the naysayers or looking for another way out (another niche perhaps?).
The problem is anything but new: since the dawn of time every new technology has left some people jobless by doing their job faster, better and cheaper. And every time the Luddites succumbed while the ones who were quick enough to jump on the new horse prospered.
Thank you for your feedback and for your thoughts! Really glad you liked the article.
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« on: April 05, 2023, 09:13 »
and reproduce that with minimum effort using AI
It's my personal opinion, but I do not believe in this "with minimal effort using AI". Did you really use generative AI to say this? I used DALL-E 2 and Midjourney v5 and they are still far from reproducing "anything with minimal effort". They will improve with a steady pace in this new era, but their impact will be somewhat limited - they might replace some portion of illustrations and some photography editing, but not more for some time.
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« on: April 05, 2023, 09:06 »
Anyone can now see what is selling and reproduce that with minimum effort using AI. No one is "safe".
How do you know what is selling right now? By "selling" I mean not "on sale", but "sells better than others".
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« on: April 05, 2023, 07:01 »
When was the last time that tool required no skillset, so it could boost the productivity of everyone who had no photography or artistic skills by 100%, so you lose your advantage of having any special skills and become useless?
If depends what was your advantage (also you obviously did not read the article). If you were producing random illustrations before, most probably you lost your "advantage". However, if you were producing content that buyers actually need and you were covering a more or less unique niche (or niches), your advantage can be only amplified if you will use generative AI as a helper tool.
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« on: April 05, 2023, 04:02 »
Hey folks A bit overdue, but finally I got to write a long blogpost about everything you can do today with generative AI in the context, useful for microstock contributors. One spoiler quote: When was the last time you got a 40% productivity boost from using any tool the money can buy? (yes, you might not get replaced during the next couple of years) Let me know what do you think about this: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/generative-ai-microstock/Cheers
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« on: March 03, 2023, 06:45 »
The cat images sell some months above average, some months below. But overall this single image is not much important for his yearly income. So i would not focus on a single image,
We are nowhere focusing on the cat image. The earning downward trend for cat image (Steve's best-seller) is shown to demonstrate of what we will do for every image of his portfolio in order to estimate for portfolio half-time. Estimation is hard for separate images precisely for the reasons you mentioned. The ultimate goal of the article was to estimate that on the portfolio level. P.S. RPI does not matter much at all in my opinion because it is too detached metric.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 04:25 »
RPI is always earnings per portfolio size.
Earnings of a single image ist not important.
What does then RPI stand for word-by-word? e.g. what does the "I" mean? But there's also no chart in the blogpost that shows Return Per Portfolio, which, I believe, would be calculated something like (total sum of earnings) / (number of portfolios). There are only absolute numbers per portfolios, so that the differences are visible, when they are put together. Or do you mean some other way of calculating "Return per Portfolio" that in your opinion was actually used in the blogpost?
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« on: March 03, 2023, 04:11 »
A large Portfolio and lots of agencies flatten the RPI curve. So the monthly graph of the cat image is not important at all.
There's not a single RPI chart in the blogpost (if by RPI you mean "return per image"). Monthly graph of the cat image is used to show that, when approximated with a line, earnings are reducing. What do you mean by "this chart is not important at all"? "At all" for which purposes?
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« on: March 03, 2023, 00:53 »
the 30 day moving average graph for the cat pic
Oh, now I see it. I agree, point taken.
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« on: March 02, 2023, 14:47 »
I don't know that much about the half-life of images, and something that causes images to lose their earnings potential, aside from just plain aging, is competition.
Yeah, totally. However, we estimated the half-life of sales exactly, if that makes sense. I believe that sales of the image include all of the factors (ranking changes by agency, competition, becoming out of date etc.).
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« on: March 02, 2023, 14:44 »
I think the best seller sales over time graph would be easier to read if the 0 was the bottom line on your graph - not some point in space above it.
I'm sorry, but I cannot get which chart are you referring to? All charts in the best-seller section of the blogpost are per year. If you refer to the chart in the "how much your files can earn", each column is a certain range of earnings (e.g. $0.1-1).
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