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« on: January 12, 2012, 17:05 »
I used to work for a company that made very high end technical equipment. When I started we had an office in Australia with about 10 people in it. The manager of that office came to HQ for meetings and I took him to dinner. Don't know why he told me this, but according to him the Australian office was originally an independent distributor that he purchased with the idea that he could sell off the inventory in Australia at bargain basement prices, shut down the operation, fire the staff and still come out ahead. In other words pull an H&F. Turned out he was wrong. He could not even come close to breaking even, so he sold the company to my company and then became an employee. He was stuck managing the vary people he had planned to fire and hated it. At least in this case the predator got screwed. 
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« on: January 12, 2012, 10:03 »
So what's the point of edstock2? Why have two accounts not one?
And as far as broken promises, it'd be easier to list the ones they've kept, on the other hand the weasel words of "...there is no plan..." are the alert that they reserve the right to do whatever they want at any time. We have only ourselves to blame if we choose to believe anything said by a demonstrated snake oil salesman. They can't be trusted to do much except screw up every software release or new feature 
My conspiracy theories on "The point of edstock2"
1) The site code probably can't handle a single contributor having more than 90,000 images without crashing
2) There must be a limit to how many photos a single contributor can have upfront on any single search. spreading them across multiple accounts means they can provide the customers with even more horrible photos and push indies even futher backwards.
--------------------------- Both sound entirely reasonable to me.
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« on: January 11, 2012, 09:46 »
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« on: January 07, 2012, 21:51 »
Just gave them a call they are getting their images through Fotolia. It isnt web templates what they are doing is making wallpaper from our images. Interesting.
Calling Sadstock here's another one for you to add to the list.
---------------------------------------------- Will add to the next update. Thanks for flagging this.
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« on: January 04, 2012, 14:20 »
www.imagedirekt.de went live the last days, we are Veer partner
--------------------------------------------- Thanks for introducing your company. This kind of information and transparency about partners is not often found in microstock and your willingness to share it with us is greatly appreciated. I will update the partner list shortly with Imagedirekt's information.
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« on: January 03, 2012, 13:59 »
Added two new Fotolia partners, one of which they announced in their December newsletter. A little transparency from Fotolia?
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« on: January 02, 2012, 09:03 »
Just realized that in October, November, and December, I've had one review per month about 30 days apart, regardless of when I uploaded the images. Are they on a monthly review schedule per contributor rather then on a first uploaded first reviewed schedule?
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« on: December 22, 2011, 20:45 »
Istock have revised their targets downwards.
Felicitations to those who will benefit.
Here, let me help you with the link
----------------------------------------- All the people in the thread thanking Istock for its generosity makes me ill. It was Istock's decisions that put these folks percentage at risk, so Istock does not deserve any praise for the change. Note who announced this news? "iStockHQ"! Guess nobody there has the guts to put their name out there and take responsibility for the RC system and the grief they will get about it.
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« on: December 22, 2011, 20:36 »
Reminds me of gerrymandered congressional districts drawn in weird and whacky shapes to suit those in power.
Well obviously it is 'gerrymandered' in that the system is precisely designed to produce the outcome that they want. If things change then they simply adjust the targets to suit __ or maybe not, but always in their favour anyway. Heads Istock wins, tails you lose.
------------------------------------------------------- So true. Why else would they be adjusting the 40% targets for illustration and flash but not for the other percentages?
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« on: December 19, 2011, 11:56 »
The freedom to take pictures in a public space is probably the right most under assault today in western society. If governments or private security can take away that right we are all worse off. Think of those people being pepper sprayed in California for peaceful protest. If there was no video of that, there would not have been a big reaction to it. http://www.pixiq.com/contributors/carlosmiller
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« on: December 16, 2011, 17:36 »
Start getting tired of "PP syncro issues":
- Partner says that is main agency problem.
- Main agency says that are a Partner issue.
- Both want and will solve the problem.
The true is that no one sales month after month.
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Is there a particular partner or micro you are having problems with?
One is Yaymicro. Moreover, they add more agencies to API and none of my 540 images appear to be in almost all of them. My hope for Yaymicro was get some sales trough PP ( direct sales is out of question because it seems they don't have any clients/traffic... ).
------------------------------ Thanks for sharing, hopefully calling them out will get them to fix the problem.
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« on: December 16, 2011, 17:34 »
Just saw this on BigStock forum. (yeah one of the four people who look there every month...) 
http://www.crystalgraphics.com/
Crystal Graphics is an authorized Bigstock reseller. When/if an image sells at their site, the earnings go into your Bigstock account. They also purchase the image from you to post it to their site at the onset.
Noelle
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Bigstock
I'm still kind of confused. If they purchase it, why do they pay when it sells? A reseller could display for nothing and pay when it sells. I'm lost?
Anyway, you might want to add it to the list, in case someone finds something of theirs up on Crystal Graphics
Done - Thanks for letting us know.
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« on: December 16, 2011, 12:51 »
Good luck Chelsey, sorry to see you go. Agree with StockCube about Istock.
Welcome back Brian, hope you had a good vacation :-)
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« on: December 12, 2011, 00:02 »
Could we ask FT to force Yuri to threaten to leave Istock?
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« on: December 07, 2011, 13:43 »
Forget about the 'correct' license. I'm pretty sure that the Acropolis and Parthenon are copyright-protected by the Greek tourist board. Without their permission you're not allowed to sell image licenses of them for commercial gain.
Boy you are a hard case for copyright aren't you?
First guess is Phidias for the Parthenon, he designed it? But since it was built in the 5th century BC, maybe it public domain by now? The Acropolis is the hill in Athens on which the Parthenon stands. Is this like Ayers Rock where someone is trying to steal the rights that God has for creating it all? In my personal (and distorted) opinion, I'd say the Myceneans own the rights and they expired.
Do you have any documentation, links or basis for the theory that the Greek Tourist Board claims the rights? That would be interesting. It would also mean that all the images on all the sites are in need of upgrading to Editorial or removal. Shhh, I won't tell if you don't.
I recall the Board tried this several years back, but don't know how successful they've been convincing the world that you need to license the rights from them...
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« on: December 06, 2011, 14:18 »
I just got an email that Veer Subs are now live.
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« on: December 06, 2011, 13:58 »
All of my pending files were accepted today.
--------------------- Can you let us know how long it took? My oldest files are closing in on two weeks old.
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« on: December 02, 2011, 16:59 »
...and Veer might reject an image with "isolated" other than to mean "remote".
There are tens of thousands of isolated images on Veer with the isolated keyword
-------------------------------------- I've had more then one image rejected with instructions to remove the keyword "isolated" and resubmit with "cutout". I think there is a thread in their forum about keywording that mentions this.
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« on: December 02, 2011, 15:28 »
Veer has a controlled vocabulary. I think Canstock has a 40 character limit to titles.
Add "cutout" to all your images on an isolated background as some sites treat it as a synonym to "isolated" and Veer might reject an image with "isolated" other than to mean "remote".
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« on: December 01, 2011, 17:33 »
Hello everyone,
I am Marius from Depositphotos. I recently registered an account with this forum. On the Microstock Expo in Berlin i met great people from the industry and i heard many say, that it would be great to have an official Depositphotos representative on the popular forums like this one. So here I am!
Cheers,
Marius
We just hit the 5 million images mark today and published the following press release about that:
http://blog.depositphotos.com/depositphotos-image-library-hits-5-million-images.html
PRESS RELEASE
Depositphotos Image Library Hits 5 Million Images
By adding over 1,000,000 images in 3 months, Depositphotos proves its claim to be the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1 Dec. 2011 Depositphotos, the fastest-growing stock photo agency in the world, announces the addition of its 5 millionth image. This milestone underscores its steady growth and commitment to be a huge player in the microstock industry.
Greatly appreciate company representatives participating here. Thanks!
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« on: November 30, 2011, 23:57 »
nothing, no
And they know that all to well.
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« on: November 29, 2011, 07:26 »
Maybe they could sell it back to Bruce so he could fix it?
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« on: November 26, 2011, 14:57 »
Added Visual Photos to Veer
Added Visual Photos to Yaymicro
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