No image sales yet. Video sales are doing okay. I wonder why the image sales are not taking off at all for me.

Quote from: cobalt on October 12, 2017, 15:21

These countries have human beings, don�t they?

Taking pictures of elderly people moving around, being helped or cared for by family, young people repairing cars or working in construction, families cooking together.

And you can do it in local clothes, or get a T-shirt and old jeans (not very expensive in these countries)...and voila...many scenes can be created in a generic way for the world market.

Sports, yoga, body weight exercises...looking after pets,taking care of the farm...environmental issues, global warming, pollution in cities...

Women starting a small business and families working together with their business. All kinds of images of children in learning situations.

And of course there are probably a million recipes waiting, travel locations, young people working on computers...I mean you need to have a computer and an internet connection, so there is already a certain selection going on.

There is a strong demand for localised content from all parts of the world.

There are thousands of artists from these countries already uploading really excellent stock.

the biggest barrier is internet access, but with mobile phones going everywhere, I am sure there will soon be hundreds of thousands joining the stock race.

Which is what I've been trying. However people here are very camera shy or hostile. Even normal street photography focusing on some people is met with anger. Heaven forbid if you look like you are trying to shoot a girl

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At some point exponential growth will come to a halt often spectacularly as investors have often found. I think we are seeing the first signs of this.

Quote from: KuriousKat on September 15, 2017, 08:58

If image/series exclusivity is required, does this mean images that have never been sold elsewhere, or can I use images that have previously been available as long as I remove them from other sites?

Stocksy said the last time, that you can sell them on Stocksy but you have to remove them from other sites.

Going through cryptocurrencies projects I found Creativechain.org it describes itself as "a multimedia marketplace for distributed intellectual property"

"Thanks to Creativechain�s peer-to-peer ecosystem we can forget about the opaque and centralized models of content distribution whose intermediaries set huge fees that make the work of authors more expensive."

"At Creativechain we are challenging the centralized power of traditional systems of copyright management entities. We offer a public and transparent alternative to intellectual property registration using revolutionary distributed technology blockchain"

It sounds exciting science fiction, what do you think guys?
I signed up for beta testing and downloaded crea wallet.

Apparently cryptocurrencies are here to stay and blockchain is a revolutionary technology

I am opted out as well but didn�t receive the email. Can you post it here, please?

Quote from: max headroom on July 26, 2017, 17:37

Quote from: Minsc on July 26, 2017, 15:03

Good job taking this thief down. I ran into a few over the years and it's never a good experience. It's a good thing SS is quick to respond with portfolio take downs.

We used to send DMCAs to pirate sites. But recently we are talking about 8 major microstock sites and half of them not even respond to the takedown notices (including Getty/istock). Things getting worse. Agencies are not as responsive as they used to be.

Many microstock sites would only take down portfolios if they're hosted on the same site as your original images. You can easily prove that it's your work by having an lower Image ID, but they're hesitant if your work is not hosted on their microstock website. It's hard to prove what work belongs to who and who is the original owner. If they take down portfolios on a whim, you'd get a lot of legit portfolios taken down if thieves start requesting portfolio take downs.