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« on: June 15, 2021, 07:36 »
is there any chance that a button "nominate all images on thee current page" will be added? Otherwise it is very time consuming task to manually select/deselect images/
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« on: October 05, 2020, 13:36 »
both 
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« on: September 02, 2020, 17:10 »
Adobe seems to be out, at least I couldn't find any images from adobe with the badge. All the others seem to be IN like SS, Alamy, iStock, Dreamstime etc... and many of the smaller are also in already.
Photoshelter is very much IN whereas SmugMug seems to be OUT. This is strange as SmugMug has an integrated e-commerce site which would fit well with the badge directing there. For independent photographers this could open some possibilities.
I wonder whether photosites like Flickr or 500px will allow the required URLs in IPTC?
edit. I added the required URLs in metadata in Lightroom and exported it locally.
I then used this tool to check the metadata
https://getpmd.iptc.org/getiptcpmd.html
The exported file had all the nice ITCP fields with all the required URLs like
statement of rights and licensor filled up nicely.
Next I uploaded the image to my own site in SmugMug and used Google search console to index it. The image showed then in Google image search but did not have the licensable badge on it. So I downloaded my image from SmugMug and checked with getpmd whether the required ITCP field were still there. They were gone from the image.
I then double checked by uploading the image to my Flickr site, downloaded the image from Flickr and checked the metadata. All the required stuff was there.
This is fairly disappointing as I have lot of images in my SmugMug site with integrated e-commerce platform. It would have been very nice to be able to incorporate these images in the Google image license scheme. This could have been a major opportunity for independent photographers selling images through SmugMug. Now the images are side tracked as google badges are missing.
It would be very interesting to know which other sites strip the required IPTC from images and which don't.
I hope SmugMug will soon upgrade the engine so that the images will show up as licensable.
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« on: August 29, 2020, 17:27 »
I think that what also interest the users of this forum is an easier upload process.
The actual one is a pain in the
or tax form submission process (right now it is mission impossible). I've stopped uploading when taxes were introduced. I don't like double taxation - in Germany and in my country.
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« on: August 19, 2020, 09:19 »
Are bonus program for illustrator coming ?
+1 Vector artists get LR+Photoshop subscription, but they need Illustrator instead
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« on: August 07, 2020, 13:10 »
Hey All!
Just wanted to let everyone here know that Envato has officially been certified as a B Corp. Here's an excerpt from our media release about what a B Corp is:
"Envato is now one of over 3000 certified B Corp companies in 71 countries and 150 industries around the world, joining a list of other Australian B Corps such as Culture Amp, KeepCup and Bellroy.
Administered by the non-profit B Lab, B Corp certification is awarded to businesses that have a positive impact across five key domains - workers, customers, suppliers, community and the environment - and in doing so, lead the way in using business as a force for good."
For more details about it, you can check out our post here: https://envato.com/blog/envato-certified-b-corp/
Have a great day!
So I guess we shall expect a royalty cut 
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« on: July 08, 2020, 13:58 »
you are wrong. They are the team, and they were the founders of pressfoto, but that project was not of a great success, I belive. And they have excellent images, follow all the trends, shoot videos (more than 53 000 of clips in the portfolio) It's port of russian stock pressfoto.
Casual pics nothing more, lot's of them [it is only my opinion].
But it looks like i am getting that you are saying about uselessness of boycott.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 14:16 »
Honestly, who would have thought that Bigstock would become the better of the two...
I am absolutely sure not for long time
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« on: May 14, 2020, 07:23 »
I have. I can't delete the images for one year as it was mentioned before.
I am getting paid. In April it was 65 euro/month for 400 images (I was NOT going to upload that many items but I have forgotten to untick the checkbox in StockSubmitter) - that is why I believe when my friend with 9000 images in portfolio says that he gets around 300 euro there.
But I certainly will not upload any more.
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« on: May 13, 2020, 13:37 »
I know it for sure. His photos are subpar and don't sell on shutterstock, though on freepik there is far less competition and they have a chance.
I know a few other photographers who make around a 1000$ on shutterstock and 200-300 euro on freepik. They also love(d) freepik.
Few more facts about Freepik.
I was personally contacted by their manager on instagram about cooperation, after I wrote to him, he never responded back.
I tried to upload some images on Freepik (you need to know your enemy to win the war), after 2 months of waiting for review I wrote to the support asking to delete all the images from the review queue. The support started to persuade me that they will immediately accept them all. After I insisted (and it was happening in the beginning of April right after they had lowered the royalties without any notice so I had one more reason to delete the images) they agreed to delete them. Guess what? They accepted them all and from that time they don't respond to my requests.
So you see how they treat the authors.
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« on: May 12, 2020, 13:52 »
I know a photographer who earns 180$/month on Shutterstock and 300 euro on Freepik. He loves Freepik!
PS. It was 300 euro before they lowered the royalty rate
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« on: May 07, 2020, 14:59 »
Don't forget freepik.com - 9.99 euro/month (or 89.99 for a year), 100 downloads every day.
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« on: April 27, 2020, 14:01 »
yes, had a sale just a few minutes ago. When you started there were few images in their database. Now the database has grown, so the sales distribute between a larger number of contributors. I got payouts from them several times, but probably crushpixel is not worth the time and effort for majority of contributors.
Videos I definitely will not upload there, royalty is too low.
Can i ask if you sell anything right now? Because that is my problem now. First month showed me i will get paid at last every two months if i upload more... so from port of 300 getting 12euro i got to 0Euro with port of 5000... I got very confused... Now i just stopped uploading.
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« on: April 23, 2020, 16:02 »
I got payouts from them several times, but probably crushpixel is not worth the time and effort for majority of contributors.
Videos I definitely will not upload there, royalty is too low.
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« on: April 22, 2020, 03:57 »
I think you have already answered your question 
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« on: April 11, 2020, 13:23 »
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« on: April 08, 2020, 13:08 »
They lasted surprisingly long taking into an account their idiocy and attitude towards contributors. To be abundantly clear, filling in this form does not guarantee you payment. It is highly unlikely payment will be distributed.
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« on: April 06, 2020, 13:52 »
a lot of letters and good-sounding words.
what's the catch?
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« on: April 03, 2020, 10:53 »
You don't really want to know the lowest commission on iStock It is 0.01$
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« on: March 14, 2020, 13:19 »
I see a decline in my travel photo sales, roughly 15-20% already.
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« on: March 12, 2020, 13:10 »
Hummm well I can't imagine "stock sites really doing that. 🤔However there was this German stock site that did charge me a small fee when I first joined. It was only a one time fee for foreigners mostly.  But for a company like Zazzle and their reasoning to me is a bit twisted, but they do mostly your images on their provided products. So maybe it has to do more with maintaining all those functions with the site its self and less on the service of selling your image on your behalf. In other words they do so much more then stock sites do. One service compared to many different services. 🤷
For me it doesn't really affect me that much right now but I really still don't like that policy.
Envato Elements is doing basically the same - they call it the content upload bonus. When I qualify for it, I get about $300 of monthly bonus, when I don't upload and don't qualify - 75$. So the difference is $225.
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« on: March 11, 2020, 13:10 »
$1.5 for a clip is very generous compared to $0.03 on iStock 
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« on: March 02, 2020, 13:58 »
they are certainly not dead. Not yet  I submitted a support request on last Tuesday and wrote an email, both were answered on Wednesday. My question was about the keyword rejections, the answer was "We do indeed discourage locations in the keywords, unless the image shows a landmark or something that's iconic for the country or region. If it's for instance a photo of the Eiffel Tower, please add "Paris", it it's an image of a generic building, then don't add the location." So almost all my travel images were rejected for locations in keywords. Of course, I am not going to delete keywords for a half-dead non selling agency. On the other hand my support request from October has not been answered till now. So either their support system is not working well, or they are just selective.
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« on: January 07, 2020, 15:21 »
Yes, and there are too many sites like this, that desperate people will upload to.
Freepik differs from those sites in two ways: 1) they pay contributors $0.11 - less than any other sites. 2) they really do sell - like Shutterstock was in 2007, and I know photographers who earn more from Freepik than from Shutterstock. And this attracts contributors.
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