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« on: May 19, 2015, 14:32 »
Thanks for the updates Mat
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« on: May 17, 2015, 15:49 »
You only need to sell 1/5 of the videos of you raise your prices to $50!
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« on: May 17, 2015, 15:47 »
Has anyone tried shopify?
FB is such a huge platform I wonder if it works.
I'm guessing it would work about as good as any direct sales platform you set up ... which is not that good unless you put a lot of work into it. WooCommerce also has a plug-in to sell stuff on Facebook. I'm guessing most people would simply prefer to purchase their 'stuff'on the website itself.
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« on: May 16, 2015, 09:37 »
several posts removed and one member banned for outright insults ... let's keep this place a tad friendlier shall we!
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« on: May 04, 2015, 16:03 »
congrats! exciting times.
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« on: April 30, 2015, 09:14 »
+ Fotolia submission is rewritten to support their new design.
Please note that categories on the site have changed so if you are setting custom category matchmaking in program you will have to do it again.
Thanks for the never-ending updates Niakris. I couldn't live without this program!
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« on: April 30, 2015, 09:12 »
Some upload changes observed
> Ability to upload multiple images via webform uploader
> No more Descriptive and Conceptual Categories. Only one 'Category' which is a 3-level one
> Exclusivity? and Free section? default to a 'No'
> Only 'XS' and 'X' shown
> Between 7 and 30 keywords in their order of importance (not 50 as before)
If they are going to change the max keywords to something less than the standard - that is going to mess with a lot of people keywording. I guess it's important to keep the keywords in order of importance so that if they get trimmed by a site, only the least important words will get clipped.
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« on: April 23, 2015, 07:18 »
Thanks,
Seems to confirm no impending doom but no great growth either and that I have plenty of room for improvement!
Yep, that pretty much sums it up 
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« on: April 23, 2015, 03:49 »
At long last...the results from the 2014 microstock survey are now published. You can find them here. http://blog.microstockgroup.com/2014-microstock-industry-survey-first-look/Sorry it took so long. Generally the results look pretty similar to previous years - which is a good thing. Overall things are stable and the survey is proving to be a reliable source of information. iStock is continuing to slide and Shutterstock is securing it's position at the top. It will be interested to see this year if Adobe's purchase of Fotolia will have any effect on the industry and if Shutterstock's public state will affect their relations to contributors.
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« on: April 23, 2015, 03:35 »
I contacted the winners back in February but realized now that I never announced who they were. 6 Month - StockSubmitter giveaway : Jessica Kirsh 1 year Eagle membership - StockPerformer : Tatiana Stativo 1 year Sparrow membership - StockPerformer : Kasin Visrutav Congrats again tot he winners and a huge thanks for the sponsors. I'll have the results from the survey posted in a few minutes.
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« on: April 22, 2015, 06:39 »
Hey Shutterstock ...WAKE THE F..K UP!!!!! Uploading for over 5 years...over 20k photos and again i have accepted 2/80 photos. What .? What drunk and incompetent reviewers are you paying? All photos refused for WB and focus...yeah right...accepted on all agencies, tripled checked by me before uploading and you give me idiotic motives.. Thanks again. I won't upload anymore until you fire that morons who review.
I won't moderate this post, but please watch your language. Being rude/vulgar doesn't help in making any changes at Shutterstock.
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« on: April 15, 2015, 06:18 »
I tried creating a few ads yesterday and the Shutterstock search in Facebook took forever to load (it never loaded actually) So i ended up using some other images I had. If others (or everyone) is experiencing the same thing, that could be a reason for little to no FB sales.
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« on: April 09, 2015, 15:04 »
Nice work!
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« on: March 30, 2015, 02:33 »
If you are wanting to save $$ I'd certainly look in the used market. Cameras are essentially computers these days and go down in price quickly.
I agree with the others however as well. The best upgrade is to buy some really nice lenses or perhaps other photo equipment which could improve your images. Do you have a reflector?
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« on: March 30, 2015, 02:29 »
It is impossible to say how much one person will earn being exclusive / non-exclusive... but yes there is a difference. As an exclusive you earn a higher royalty and your images are shown to the buyers more often. That said, to figure out the non-exclusive rating you'd have to add up all the numbers of the non-exclusive sites and compare that to the istock exclusive rating.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make more money as exclusive and i wouldn't want all my eggs in the iStock basket (especially the way things currently are).. but I know some people have done well as istock exclusive.
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« on: March 27, 2015, 15:34 »
When will the results be posted? It's almost April. Seems like it was a lot faster in previous years.
I ask myself that same question  I'll try to get up a post right after Easter.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 14:26 »
Its a pity it was mentioned on the latest 'popular posts' email just sent out.
Yes - that list is automatically created by the activity each thread gets.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 14:22 »
Lighting 101 !!! Seriously!
Sorry, but I'm really tired of people who know nothing about photography and yet they get accepted by stock "agencies".
Everyone has to start somewhere. If you search long enough you'll find a forum post from Yuri asking how to embed metadata into a photo.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 01:59 »
Rent a studio by the hour?
The few times I've needed a studio I rented one by the hour. There is possibly some photo studios already set up with a nice space. If they have time when the studio isn't being used, there is a good chance they will rent it out (by the hour). A studio that is will to rent their space is going to be one where a few photographers work together, or a studio space set up specifically for renting out. The large portrait studios aren't going to rent their space.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 01:53 »
yes, it was moved to a hidden area because it's only purpose had become to down-talk other contributors (even if they are on other forums).
MicrostockGroup isn't a place to trash talk other artists.
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« on: March 19, 2015, 04:44 »
Every month people can vote how much they earn on each site http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?page=microstockmonthlysurveyThe results are then calculated and a ranking rating is given to each site. The rating isn't meant to give a dollar rating of what you can expect to earn as it would most likely be quite inaccurate anyhow. What we can gather from the poll however is how the sites compare to each other. For example, people are reporting that they are earning 3x more from Shutterstock than Fotolia each month
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« on: March 16, 2015, 04:39 »
Shutterstock are very clever people. The best in the business. You can be absolutely confident that if they make a change like this they will have researched the impact very carefully indeed. They certainly won't do anything that reduces their profit margin. If they are removing the daily limit, it is either because they believe it will make no difference, OR because their detailed research suggests it will result in fewer downloads. They certainly will not be doing it because of anything iStock does. iStock's basic monthly subscription only gives 250 downloads per month (if paid monthly). They are a declining business and it's very unlikely that SS sees them as a threat.
There is only one strategy behind this, like you say, it either doesnt make a difference, or it helps their bottom line. If that turns out to be the case, it certainly is a pay cut. Period.
There is more than one way to increase the bottom line. Fewer downloads by customers is obviously one way, but that also means customers aren't making use of their subscription and perhaps will not feel the need for it (a bad thing). However, if more customers sign up because the monthly limit looks better .. and everyone downloads the same amount (per account) then shutterstock's bottom line will be a lot better... and so will ours.
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« on: February 27, 2015, 11:54 »
nice design. Very shutterstockesque.
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« on: February 20, 2015, 02:14 »
Shocker! They replied to my inquiry.
Hello Karin,
Thank you very much for your email.
We are experiencing technical problems with the login part of the site. It
is being worked on and will be resolved as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.
Darek
iStock Thanks for inquiring about it. ... now let's just try to wait patiently and see how long 'as soon as possible takes' :S
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