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« on: March 01, 2023, 21:02 »
The best KPI is not RPD nor RPI, but RPYPI = revenue per year per image.
It takes the size of the portfolio in consideration, the performance of the assets and normalizes everything on the time scale.
High RPYPI means success and efficiency.
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« on: February 28, 2023, 21:39 »
Wow! Congrats!
What is very surprising is that it's an editorial picture.
I suspect that the buyer managed to get rid of the editorial limitations and use it in a movie or something.
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« on: February 26, 2023, 15:37 »
Effectively a 10% paycut for all contributors outside the USA factoring in the conversion and rates from paypal etc.
Not a good look. Commission reduction via the back door.
So effectively people who got paid in dollars were making 10% less than the rest of the world all this time? When do we get compensated for the inequity that gave you more than us? 🤔 😈
You should ask Adobe, european contributors didn't take anything from you. Plus currently it is around 10% with conversion to euro, which you don't need to do.
Although I wasn't totally serious with that request that we get the same pay for the same work, if you want to start picking? The fact that you got paid more, took away from the company profits, so all of other people got paid less and the company couldn't afford to give us more or equal pay. So yes you did take something from us.
Honestly, a company paying suppliers with one currency is a good idea. For them, not for us, but for their accounting and internal affairs.
What they do for CC has nothing to do with our business and interests. When they announced this it didn't say Euros or dollars or Pounds. It said many different international currencies. I wonder how many they were using and having to figure out, convert and then pay.
Yes I agree, the European people will get stiffed a bit by this and possibly exchange rates or transfers. And you will be incurring higher expenses for the cost of doing business. You have my honest sympathy, but I'm not going overboard, as you got paid more than the rest of us for about 20 years.
Something discussed extensively a few years ago: https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-30084/msg491269/#msg491269Probably, as opposite to the Fotolia days, the amount of US sales is now exceeding by some margin the amount of eurozone sales, so whatever gains AS had by selling in euros in the eurozone, are now nullified by overpaying the eurozone contributors for their US sales. So, the charity had to be ended.
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« on: February 23, 2023, 19:29 »
I was trying to get DALL-E to generate a photo of a Ukranian soldier firing a bazooka at a Russian tank in winter. All efforts and variations in wording produced totally unusable results. Even with a lot of fixing up, I can't see sending results to a stock site.
just try doing something more peaceful and you will succeed 
Yes, you should try to simulate the invading Russian army withdrawing from Ukraine, after its teritorial integrity is restored. That would be a very peaceful image! And hopefuly, it might even become a best seller this year! 
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« on: February 23, 2023, 02:26 »
I know that Fotolia use to sell to European customers in euros.
Is it still the case for AS?
Of course it is. For example 40 credits pack costs 337,49 including VAT (which can be different depending on country). Right now I can't see from phone how much it is in USA and in $ but it was cheaper as far as I know.
If so, for their eurozone sales, eurozone contributors will be underpaid the same way non-eurozone contributors were underpaid since the early Fotolia days. Welcome to the club!
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« on: February 22, 2023, 19:23 »
I know that Fotolia use to sell to European customers in euros.
Is it still the case for AS?
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« on: February 21, 2023, 21:42 »
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« on: February 17, 2023, 17:17 »
A surprisingly good January (better than SS!)
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« on: February 17, 2023, 13:28 »
I do my taxes by the cash method. Its what comes into my account during the year. I dont really care what any of the agencies report.
In my experience, the only agency with discrepancies is AS. For the rest (DT inclusive), whatever lands in Paypal is what I see on their reports.
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« on: February 17, 2023, 13:20 »
The real help for Ukraine comes from actual donations and from constantly asking for sanctions against Ruscism to be widely implemented and maintained. I am donating, you are flooding the thread
Excellent 👏👏👏! I am also donating. But it looks to me that you can't refrain from contributing to the "flood", despite saying that you said your last word, a few posts above
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« on: February 17, 2023, 10:06 »
Guys, you are not helping Ukraine by flooding the thread. I'd say, you do exactly the opposite.
Sorry, this is my last words about it here
No worries. The real help for Ukraine comes from actual donations and from constantly asking for sanctions against Ruscism to be widely implemented and maintained. That includes restrictions against the use of "western" products like Adobe software. Isn't their propaganda claiming that "the West" is corrupt and decaying? Is so, they shouldn't even need Adobe products.
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« on: February 16, 2023, 12:24 »
Personally I believe our Russian colleagues do not support the war. Artists and creatives are usually supporters of freedom, peace, lgbt rightsetc
Except for the illustrators who created those propaganda memes, as you can see above. I don't see a reason for your wishful thinking. Microstock is a side job for a large majority of the contributors, Russian inclusive. Besides those propagandist illustrators, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that even people working directly in the Russian war industry do microstock to supplement their income.
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« on: February 16, 2023, 07:13 »
Does Adobe banned its products for russian users?
I hope they did.
They must have done it. It's just common sense.
It's not in Adobe's interest to contribute to Putin's propaganda or seen as fueling his criminal war machine.
If someone has violated a crime, is it necessary to put all his relatives, friends, neighbors, classmates and so on in jail?
If he committed a crime with a hammer, should all his countrymen be banned from selling hammers?
"Just common sense"?
Dear colleagues! Let's look in the mirror more often, Let's not get into xenophobia and politics, but discuss issues related to microstocks.
We don't send them to jail, but we don't do business with them as long as they continue to support directly or indirectly those criminals who killed their fomer buddies by smashing their heads with a sledgehammer (among many other atrocities). We don't do business with them as long as they continue to support the bosses (read Putin) who ordered those atrocities. It's just common sense. PS. That trash requires some illustration skills, so it's very probable that illustration tools (very possible from Adobe too) were used to create that.
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« on: February 15, 2023, 23:55 »
It's not in Adobe's interest to contribute to Putin's propaganda or seen as fueling his criminal war machine.
Putin's propaganda already have a wide variety of options. From third-party resellers and buyout licenses (yes!) to de facto legalized piracy.
But you are talking about your colleagues, microstock contributors, who just want to do things right. Remember, codes are distributed inside the industry. How can you imagine propaganda on the Adobe Stock, for example?
1. Russians contributors are paying taxes from earnings made from microstock, using tools made by Adobe. Their taxes are used wage war on Ukraine, to destroy cities, to kill civilians, to torture, to rape and plunder. Adobe surely doesn't want to be associated with that. 2. All the propaganda memes below (and many more flooding the internet) were most probably created using Adobe products. Potentially giving tools for free to such "artists", and enabling Putin's propaganda is too risky. Adobe surely doesn't want to be associated with that.
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« on: February 15, 2023, 22:05 »
The 2022 bonus program for Adobe Stock contributors has been confirmed!
"Contributors located in countries where the apps are not available are excluded from the Bonus Program" Thank you for taking care of your artists. Now we will have to use Adobe's competitor soft...
Does Adobe banned its products for russian users?
I hope they did.
They must have done it. It's just common sense. It's not in Adobe's interest to contribute to Putin's propaganda or seen as fueling his criminal war machine.
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« on: February 14, 2023, 19:03 »
First big sale this year:
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« on: February 09, 2023, 09:54 »
Is there any other agency you would recommend trying with 13k photos ?
At the moment I am doing good at:
- Shutterstock
- Adobe
- iStock
Not worth it:
- Depositphotos
- Dreamstime
If you use automated tools like Stocksubmitter, uploading to multiple platforms (DP and DT included), will take nothing extra from you, as long a you use it to submit to SS or AS, for example. So you can ask yourself if it's worth it, when it's efortless for you.
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« on: February 09, 2023, 09:43 »
On the left menu click on the earnings tab then click on the Tax Center
Link should be there.
My 1099 info is not there for me. I can only see the W9. But I received an email from SS with the link, and I also have the banner on my contributor's page. For the original poster: maybe trying this link will work for you: https://submit.shutterstock.com/legal/taxes/external/download
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« on: February 08, 2023, 16:26 »
Does anyone received complimentary code yet? My photography plan has expired today and wondering what to do.
mine expired too & i just renewed - when the codes arrive, it will start your free year when you apply it
If I rememeber correctly, in the past, I got the PS+LR yearly subscription before the codes arrived, and I became subject of some early termination fee. I had to call customer service and convince them to switch my account to the all apps version without losing money.
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« on: February 08, 2023, 13:42 »
I was expecting a notification from SS announcing that we can opt-out, so thanks for letting us know that it's already possible. I am now out of "data deals". I hope that many will follow, to prevent us from competing with ourselves and losing full sales for fractions of pennies. PS... and please don't slide ALL 3 buttons to the left
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« on: February 06, 2023, 10:27 »
My 2022 uploads were a bit above the new requirement, so I'm exceeding both the 20 uploads and the 6k downloads thresholds.
Nice to see that I will be able to continue to use the Encoder, besides, LR and PS.
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« on: February 04, 2023, 16:48 »
Hello,
As far as I know there is no way to see the number of downloads for photos and videos separately in "My Statistics"? Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Thanks.
Hi @KoKi,
I'm sorry but you are not wrong. You are not able to filter out sales statistics by asset type.
-Mat Hayward
Is there a way to see how much an image has earned Lifetime on Adobe?
Microstockr. And not just for Adobe but across all platforms. But it's not free.
273
« on: February 03, 2023, 19:53 »
I could easily find my dude's state and city and I have the last 4 digits of his SSN. His full address may be also found with a bit of extra digging. I can only hope that whoever got my details will not use them in a nefarious way 
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« on: February 03, 2023, 18:52 »
The subject pretty much says it all, I got a 1099 in the mail today from DT with my address and account name, but a different person's name and TIN and the $ amount was not correct for me either. I did check to W-9 on file at DT and it is correct. I sent them an e-mail so I guess I'll see what they say. I hope my name SS# and $ amount wasn't sent to someone else.
Same here! Different name, different SSN (last 4 digits), different yearly earnings, but the same address as me. This is messed up!
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« on: February 03, 2023, 08:36 »
I found an old email with the link, but after filling in the required fields, I am thanked for opting in, but then I also get the red message about the wrong vendor number. 
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