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« on: January 08, 2023, 13:15 »
Most agencies now have a problem about buyer password sharing, like Netflix.
No wonder why there are so many 0.10 sales on SS whatever level you are.
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« on: December 15, 2022, 13:58 »
Can anyone else not see their unpaid earnings anywhere. The only way I can do it at present is total earnings minus payouts. Which I've screen grabbed in case that too vanishes. But nowhere. Not on mobile anyway.
Sometimes I have to wait for like 5 secs for the earnings to show up in the upper right corner.
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« on: December 06, 2022, 12:58 »
Have they done anything to worsen user's experience on the client side?
No.
It happens on the contributor side only like they are intentional.
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« on: October 24, 2022, 12:52 »
It's Payoneer's email.
I had the same problem.
The way Payoneer system works is very different from PayPal. The links between a Payoneer account and agencies seem to be rigid, complex, hard to edit.
I had to contact Payoneer via live chat to be able to talk with a human and got it fixed after a lot of email exchanges with different agents who, apparently, didn't work together and didn't know how to send the verification code to my Payoneer account page.
Once the issue with SS was fixed, my iS account that had been linked to the Payoneer account without problem started having broken link problem. I didn't want to go through the ordeal all over again. So I stopped using them.
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« on: July 16, 2022, 10:15 »
Disagree for this one.
2) You sell only one image/video when Shutterstock sells 10 images/videos.
And they fetch about 1/10 of AS per sale. Selling at lower price hurts the agency too. I'm talking about images only, BTW.
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« on: June 27, 2022, 13:30 »
The problem is that as istock already did, in 2020 shutter leaves fair payments to contributors on the shoulders of other agencies, leaving the burden of decent commissions on adobe. It is a matter of time before Adobe lowers our commissions, perhaps in my case this movement is no longer necessary to put aside the professional microstock and send them photos of my cat.
Adobe is my 1st earner...because Shutter is at 50%-60% with the 0.10 trick
But it looks like AS gets more revenue from each sale than SS?
Supposing we gets $0.10 and that is 15% of image's price. That means SS gets $0.57 (85%) per image.
At AS, the lowest we gets is $0.33 (33% of image's price). That means AS gets $0.67 (67%) per image. And there are also more frequent medium-value sales at AS.
The next factor is number of sales between AS and SS. And it looks like AS is gaining much more downloads than before? For me, it is. And from the forum's poll results (62.4 vs 31.9), it probably is.
Not necessarily.
For example, my SS RPD for May was $1.46/dl, while my AS RPD for May was $1.40/dl.
For June, my SS RPD is $1.42/dl, while my AS RPD dropped to $0.99/dl
You forget to include the big sales that are more frequent on SS than on AS.
The point of the reply (to MxR's post) is more about the effects on agencies of selling at lower prices.
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« on: June 27, 2022, 11:45 »
The problem is that as istock already did, in 2020 shutter leaves fair payments to contributors on the shoulders of other agencies, leaving the burden of decent commissions on adobe. It is a matter of time before Adobe lowers our commissions, perhaps in my case this movement is no longer necessary to put aside the professional microstock and send them photos of my cat.
Adobe is my 1st earner...because Shutter is at 50%-60% with the 0.10 trick
But it looks like AS gets more revenue from each sale than SS? Supposing we gets $0.10 and that is 15% of image's price. That means SS gets $0.57 (85%) per image. At AS, the lowest we gets is $0.33 (33% of image's price). That means AS gets $0.67 (67%) per image. And there are also more frequent medium-value sales at AS. The next factor is number of sales between AS and SS. And it looks like AS is gaining much more downloads than before? For me, it is. And from the forum's poll results (62.4 vs 31.9), it probably is.
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« on: June 24, 2022, 15:09 »
Most of my recent better works go to AS first because of the much higher RPD there. Some of them will be uploaded to SS (and iS) months later. This works for me. This year's earnings from AS so far is 85% higher than SS, the same trend as in the forum's Earning Rating. Download numbers on SS does not decrease but almost all of them are $0.10.
Some smaller agencies offer good RPD but sadly they're too small to attract many buyers.
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« on: May 22, 2022, 12:03 »
How would stock sites make more money by paying us more?
That is not the real question. The real question is Why would stock sites pay us more?".
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« on: April 23, 2022, 21:52 »
Let's face it. There are no new microstock customers out there, any more. One of the most effective ways for both snatching customers from competitors and stabilizing customer retention is lowering the pricing.
And now those lower paying agencies are viewed as OK. Moreover, contributors even start promoting them. May be to prove their decision right or something. But why they do that are not very important.
The important question is why should AS keep paying the $0.33 minimum when now it can be much, much lower and some contributors will probably come in to defend with comments like "AS is just doing it like other agencies"?
Yeah, we get what we deserve.
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« on: January 14, 2022, 22:49 »
Verifying a backup is to check the integrity of the backup file. Apple's Time Machine may be doing a good job but there is no guarantee that the drive containing the backup file is in a good shape.
When the TMs backup is on a local drive (USB, SATA, TB, etc.), Disk Utility should get the job done because Apple recommends using it to check the TMs backup if you cant restore from it.
But if the backup is on a networked drive (a drive you connect through WiFi, ethernet, etc), you can't use Disk Utility to check it. So there is the "Verify Backups" available for it in the TM icon in the menu bar, when you option-click it. It will be greyed out if you set TM to use a local drive.
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« on: January 13, 2022, 11:34 »
Does Time Machine offer a way to verify your backups?
If the backup is on a networked drive, you can check it by enabling Time Machine to show up in the menu bar then press option key and click to select "Verify Backups" from it. If the backup is local, I *think* Disk Utility can handle that, according to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204157.
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« on: December 28, 2021, 10:47 »
Adobe Stock's presence on Google search has been weak for me.
I often try searching for my best sellers on Google, using keywords I used with them. Alamy is the best (funny because I've never had a sale there). SS and iS are about as good as each other. AS is sadly not the third because they don't showed up at all.
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« on: December 11, 2021, 11:39 »
...and now the agencies have disrupted the industry and are still racing to the bottom all while prices of everything else in the US and Canada are going up.
Yeah, even cable tv and streaming services dare to hike prices.
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« on: November 29, 2021, 05:58 »
Last year, it was SS that gave me the highest income. However, since the introduction of the free collection, AS has mostly (9 out of 12 months, and it's 4 months straight now) been my biggest source of microstock income. I've not participated in the free collection. But it may attract enough new visitors to make it more popular enough to cause the difference. This month is an OK, certainly far better than SS.
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« on: August 16, 2021, 04:59 »
It's funny that nowadays if you see someone with latest and expensive camera gears, he/she would probably be a hobbyist or "influencer photog".
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« on: April 16, 2021, 19:40 »
Microstock is no longer a viable professional option for 99% of contributors. If you live in a cheap country it might work for you a little longer...
No, not anymore. After the Shutterstock's change, microstock has immediately become a part-time job for most contributors even in "cheap" countries.
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« on: February 11, 2021, 18:11 »
I've stopped uploading new fresh footage to SS, and I upload only on Pond5 Exclusive, so last three months Pond5 is my TOP earner, 2-3 times more than SS. Colleagues, think who you feed, look in long time perspective, what is the future... Don't feed the monster. Have business only with companies, who treat you fair and be happy 
I can't stop uploading to SS but I upload to AS first then wait for a month before uploading that content to SS and iS.
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« on: February 10, 2021, 05:41 »
Received mine on 5th, PayPal.
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« on: February 07, 2021, 19:38 »
I always doubt that people have time to watch videos appear on their facebook's news feed (of course, unless they are irresistibly interesting). You just can't skim-read them like text based content. I even had a little debate with a news page who insisted their video's "engagement" was great...until it was not. Now they've reverted back to use still images in most of their content.
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« on: October 27, 2020, 17:00 »
How long do you plan to use the setup (I see the word "future" in your post)?
Have you factored in the fact that Apple is on a transition to ARM CPU (called Apple Silicon) for Macs?
I hope least 3 or 4 maybe little longer ...
From my experience during Apple's transition from PowerPC CPU to Intel, I started to feel the pressure to change about 2 years after the introducing of the first Intel Mac as more and more things were not compatible with the old architecture. The first Apple Silicon Mac is expected end of this year.
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« on: October 27, 2020, 14:50 »
How long do you plan to use the setup (I see the word "future" in your post)?
Have you factored in the fact that Apple is on a transition to ARM CPU (called Apple Silicon) for Macs?
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« on: August 22, 2020, 16:26 »
Let's think about it. Why would leading agencies pay you more by offering exclusivity? It's you who lose opportunity to sell there if you don't supply your images to them. Exclusivity is a way for non-leading agencies to compete.
As for editorial policy, I think Adobe is familiar with graphic art, not journalism.
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« on: July 15, 2020, 14:25 »
what is the point of deleting your content on ss and at the same time submit to istock where they pay you less than ss?? just curious...
IS's RPD was close to SS's. But with the new earning structure, IME, June's APD on SS is now much lower than iS. And SS's July, at least up to now, is clearly worse than June.
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