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Adobe Stock / Re: Figma acquired by Adobe
« on: September 21, 2022, 15:43 »
It sure would be nice if they dropped 20 billion on their contributors - even if the market did think it was too much.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Figma acquired by Adobe« on: September 21, 2022, 15:43 »
It sure would be nice if they dropped 20 billion on their contributors - even if the market did think it was too much.
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General - Top Sites / Re: Why don't members show their images?« on: September 12, 2022, 16:20 »
Whenever people would complain about rejections and post images others would point out the millions of things wrong with the images (sometimes quite correctly, others not so much). I remember someone posted a few of their best sellers as images that were rejected and people pointed out everything that was wrong with them. Certainly some of my best sellers with one agency have been rejected by other agencies for various reasons.
sorting by popular used to be a pretty good proxy for sales on SS, then they completely changed it so that images with almost no downloads were ahead of images with many. 253
Adobe Stock / Re: Low Adobe sales past few weeks« on: September 01, 2022, 19:02 »
Sadly you can't select stats for more than 13 months for some reason. With a quick look Aug 21 was double Aug 22, but maybe august 21 had some images selected for the free section. The number of dl was pretty similar with a few more in 22.
In general my sales at AS have been pretty sad the last few months with a few truly pathetic weeks. 254
General Stock Discussion / Re: Alamy Percentage from each photo sale.« on: August 29, 2022, 22:06 »
It is almost worth setting up as your own distributor and buy one of your images for whatever it takes to get you back to 40%.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Do you still have occasional high price photo or video sales on Shutterstock?« on: August 17, 2022, 15:38 »
High priced sales pretty much had stopped for me before the 10 cent scheme started. I went from a few a month (with a few 0 months per year) to a few a year, to maybe none the year before they screwed us. That was one of the main reasons I was mostly ok with turning off my port. Also the average RPD drop from ~75 cents to about ~25 cents and the overall income dropping more than 50%.
Before I turned off my port I looked back at some of the good years. Wow, no wonder it was fun and exciting looking at stats back then and all that with a port that was half the size or smaller. 256
Shutterstock.com / Re: Majority of my Shutterstock photo sales are $0.10 and the average per« on: August 02, 2022, 15:57 »
I would say turning off SS for your mental health and dignity makes more sense than thinking that it will make Adobe sales go up - although maybe you have content that is unique and in demand and that is actually the case. If so I would definitely turn of SS and Getty and force the buyers to go somewhere you get a better percent and sales aren't quite so cheap.
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123RF / Re: "Exciting" news from 123rf« on: August 02, 2022, 13:08 »
I never got a notification, but I signed in to see how pathetic my earnings were and to opt out. 123RF was once a good earner. After a few rounds of exciting news over the years they are in the lowest tier and off the upload list.
Everyone who doesn't want to give away their work should log in and opt out. 258
General Stock Discussion / Re: Changes to calculation of earnings - Freepik« on: August 01, 2022, 13:53 »
I don't know how the details work, but the result is probably more money for Freepik and less for the artists.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Microstock content prices decrease despite inflation« on: July 29, 2022, 12:56 »It is quite simple actually: not only do prices not go up, they keep going down - or at least the amount the photographer gets keeps going down. 260
Off Topic / Re: The Biden recession is coming. Brace yourselves.« on: July 28, 2022, 14:08 »
Eventually economics will sink the coal industry, but not until a lot more damage. I would say that legislation has made a huge difference in the environment in instances like the clean air act and the clean water act. At a minimum the legislation should stop encouraging damaging technology and practices.
At one time the conservatives and economists agreed that a carbon tax was the way to encourage change. Then when it looked like it could actually pass, they balked (not the economists, the so called conservatives). It is a global problem and local solutions can't fully solve it, but the US (or any other country) could lead the way and show what is possible. There are benefits beyond just dropping CO2 emissions - like not being beholden to say, Russia or Saudi Arabia and not having thousands of extra deaths from air pollution. 261
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q2 results & earnings call« on: July 27, 2022, 20:49 »
Thanks for that.
The one thing that really jumps out at me was 2.2 million contributors and 2.1 million buyers. I guess I am one of those 2.2 again since I have assets at P5. 262
Shutterstock.com / Re: Majority of my Shutterstock photo sales are $0.10 and the average per« on: July 15, 2022, 12:28 »
I do not know, but I am guessing that there are companies where the bean counters buy a big sub plan, and the image users are stuck with it - unless the search results get so bad that they complain a lot (either because the images are not there, or the search just sucks due to poor algorithm and spam. It takes a long time for changes to percolate through the system. There are others where the people who choose images choose the site - and there I am guessing the quality of the search results is pretty key. I am always amazed at how bad some of the searches are for specific things at the sites. Some day a site will improve that and it might be a game changer for them.
With my tiny and not very unique portfolio (at least for popular images) I did not see any increase in sales elsewhere when I stopped selling at SS or IS, but I did notice I felt less violated. Sadly they have pretty much ruined the business for me, fortunately I am not dependent on it for food or a roof over my head. 263
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy sale for 7 cents« on: July 11, 2022, 15:23 »
I wrote asking about getting 1 cent for sales and got some pap about getting a low percent based on the distributor taking a cut and then alamy taking a cut - no mention about why the sale was so low, so I asked again, the second time I got more pap about how distributors charge what they think is competitive in their market and how wonderful that they are a market that we wouldn't normally reach - I asked what market that was and haven't heard back.
The average return is still pretty good, but going from 50% of sales to 20-40% and these super low sales is pretty discouraging. 264
123RF / Re: "Exciting" news from 123rf« on: June 15, 2022, 22:14 »
Ever since they cut our take promising to double our sales (which never happened), I haven't been impressed with them.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor page's new design« on: June 10, 2022, 00:43 »
The last time they "improved" the contributor page it was a much worse page, so why expect anything different with "improvement" 2.0
eventually you will get used to it and then when they "improve" it again you will complain that the old version was better. 266
General Stock Discussion / Re: Are there dark clouds over the stock photography business?« on: May 22, 2022, 14:40 »
Are there dark clouds?
dude, there were dark clouds in 2010, we are well beyond dark clouds at this point. 267
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers; Stan Pavlovsky resigned« on: May 05, 2022, 00:41 »The only way SS would increase commissions is if its in their business interest to do so. Very few folks left when they cut commissions. As far as theyre concerned, lower commissions doesnt hurt their business. The only way they are going to get DL numbers to go up is to charge less - and pay you less and no - you won't make up the difference in volume. If they can't treat artists right I hope they crash and burn. 268
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers; Stan Pavlovsky resigned« on: May 03, 2022, 19:28 »
I guess his damage is done - on to destroy something else.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock photography less interesting for me« on: April 27, 2022, 21:28 »
I found that happened to me when SS screwed us. I still submit stock, but I haven't done 100% stock stuff in a while and the numbers are way down.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock don't take stolen work seriously« on: April 26, 2022, 22:27 »
I bet SS will try to pay them 10 cents per infringement. I hope they get totally cleaned out.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Laughing in the purple rain ( all the way to the bank )« on: April 21, 2022, 19:19 »
Especially at the level of most SS contributors - money will make you happier.
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Lower rotalties on Dreamstime?« on: April 20, 2022, 00:36 »Mine this month are .35, .42 or $2. Even back to the beginning of the year, nothing below .35, highest $5.79 (looks like a one-time sale XS image, 11 credits). I noticed that at least one image that has had 225 DLs & so is Level 5, still earns only .35 at the low end - I guess they must have done away with the levels earning more at some point? I don't really remember. Yes, they stopped charging more credits and paying more for higher level sub sales a long time ago. The all too rare credit sales cost more and you get a higher percentage if they are a higher level. 273
Dreamstime.com / Re: Lower rotalties on Dreamstime?« on: April 18, 2022, 16:19 »
A long time ago there were some very discounted credits being used - resulting in very low sale prices and even lower returns - especially for level 0 pics. If the credits never expire I am guessing there are a few still out there. Almost all sales are .35 these days - although I did have a $17.25 50 credit sale this month.
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123RF / Re: Is this the oldest refund ever« on: April 16, 2022, 22:10 »
I see a sub from 2010. Wow, we got .36 for subs back then. My 2021 refund is only for .216. I don't feel like my income is doubling,
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Dreamstime.com / Re: DT wants to go after infringement« on: April 14, 2022, 01:38 »
I think as long as they charge something more than regular use and especially more than subs prices this is probably a good idea (and pay the artist enough), otherwise any user could just figure IF they get caught they can just buy a license, so why bother up front.
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