Very nice, congrats!

Quote from: JustAnImage on September 29, 2023, 05:51

Quote from: DannyCanva on September 28, 2023, 23:12

... additional AI royalties, which will be paid in ~20 days. AI royalties will continued to be paid each and every month going forward.

Dear DannyCanva,

will we, as contributors, be able to see in the statement how much we have received via AI royalties and how much we have received via "normal" royalties per month?
We would be very pleased to receive an answer :-)

Have a nice day@all,
Michael

Yes

Thank you for letting us know - so I am looking forward to see what will be the first number :-)

Have a nice day@All

I have several hundred all keyworded and ready.
I was uploading direct but metadata is noz being read. so you are seeing deepmeta will read it abd make uploading easier?
then I guess I should try that,

I used DeepMeta admittedly reluctantly, but at least it can read the metadata of videos.

So you don't have to tinker them in there individually :-)

I uploaded my port of 2400 clips, about 1000 of them approved but its bringing me $150/month now. About the same time I got my clips uploaded to gettys the slump began at pond5. I'm sure its a coincidence but I do love me a good conspiracy theory.

Since I've been uploading stock videos, I've always uploaded the same thing to Shutter, Adobe, Pond5 and iStock and had regular downloads on Pond5 up to and including January 2023.

Since February 2023, this has dropped to almost zero.

I wish contributors would include submission format with their video sales comments.

Added the information in my post above: 99% of my clips are 4k (3840x2160)

I went 6 weeks without a sale, and had one since. I noticed this trend started after I uploaded to gettys, although I'm not sure there is any correlation between the 2.

Has anyone else had a bad few months at pond 5? This has never happened since I started in 2016

I am uploading videos to Shutter, Adobe, Pond5, IStock, Deposit, Dreamstime - all with the same portfolio (4056 clips - 99% of the clips are 4k, 3840x2160).

From Jan-Sep 2023 I had 43% of the sales compared to Jan-Sep 2023 at Pond5, so they are almost dead for me since Feb 2023 - last sale was 7 weeks ago.

Revenue of my videos sales in 2023 are like this:
(1) 37.73% IStock
(2) 35.27% Shutter
(3) 18.12% Adobe
(4)   5.04% Pond5
(5)   2.45% Deposit
(6)   0.77% Dreamstime

I don't assume that a rejected image leads with a possible copyright infringement - at this point the review worked and the image was correctly rejected. (if there really was a possible copyright infringement with the image).

I had exactly the same text on a rejection a few days ago (though the image had nothing potentially copyright infringing for me).
But since the image is rejected, I don't see any danger.

I also had an account block and there it was only about pictures that were accepted and therefore online - I had the name of an artist in the search words in 5 of my pictures and I had simply overlooked that.

So I wouldn't worry about the one rejected picture, because the picture is not online and therefore no copyright can be violated.

Are you uploading a lot? Perhaps putting two weeks of very hardcore uploads could help?

Maybe editorial that has faster reviews? Just something to give your port a kick?

Yes, I already had the idea to push this with more uploads.
However, my submission limit of 3,001 files is currently fully utilised and in the last 3 weeks since the account was activated, with one exception, only 3-10 files were reviewed per day.

I could take up the very good idea with the editorial images, I still have about 80-100 almost finished images :-) Thanks for the tip!

Thank you Michael!
How are your sales, did they pick up to their prior levels?
Do you submit new AI stuff after all this? I feel uneasy about contributing anything AI now 

My account has been back online for about 2 weeks now and is now at about 45%-50% of the level before the 8-day block - at the current "recovery speed" I would say it could take another 2-3 months to reach the level of say the 2 months before the block, if this very slow increase continues.
Currently, of my previous Top25 images, only a few are selling, the sales since reactivation seem to be mostly images that were never or very rarely sold before.

And yes, I will continue to upload AI images, because this market is currently still very active, but this will probably not last forever - I think "real photos" will become more important again.
However, I am doubly careful about the keywords, titles and filenames I use - everything is now double-checked on my end. Because my account would probably not survive another block like that.

Currently I have about 4300 photos/videos/AI-images mixed in the queue (3001 files - my submission limit - since up to 3 months) and in the upload area and since the account block I have between 5 and 10 checked files per day - so it's going very slowly to maybe boost the account again.

And now I have to make sure I get to the airport - a few days' holiday :-)

I can only agree with Ralf here - Mat always provided us with information as far as this was possible and I am sure that at one point or another "more information" was simply not allowed.

And even though I've been accused of being a fanboy, I'll stick to my guns and say that we at least respect that, because nobody forces Mat or Adobe to write anything here, even if we don't like the content of the message.

I am completely with you on that!

In the meantime, one always expects the worst, which is probably simply the result of the experience of the last few years :-)

Quite apart from the fact that everyone makes and should make this decision for themselves, one question popped straight into my head:

If I offer via Pond5 at Shutterstock, do I get a 15% share from Shutterstock and this amount is then split again 60:40 with Pond5?
In a 25 cent sale, 15 cents would remain for the contributor.

Shutterstock would then earn twice as Pond5 now belongs to Shutter.
Or am I thinking too complicated here?!