I think this topic is completely out of its meaning, so I am out.

You should know that I respect the opinion of all of you, but I have other ways of doing things. I'm not saying that I support DPC nor not, still less any subscriptions whatever they are.

Just make one calculation and may be you will get relax

Divide the amount of money earned by the number of sales for the entire period you sell in Shutterstock, Fotolia, iStock...no matter and You'll see that You work for $1 average with all of them!!!

Be carrefull to not fall in processes that do not understand and do not know where they lead, because this business have marketing, PR and so on, like every other business. I will not attend and will do my job to create images.

Let's go do some new shots...

Deyan, last 1-may was a deactivation day and you have best month in fotolia THANKS to our protest.

Because this day, now you earn a HUGE increase comission in "Subscription" images and are 50$ E-L license in DPC.

Yes, improve our images help us to sell more... and protest help us to earn more for sale.

You must do wath you think is best for your bussines, of course...   my economy will be good even microstock die but i want care a minimun for my images.

Sorry for my english, best wishes.

You are totally wrong, because I do not have more subscription sales, but more standard sales from Fotolia! This is all about Fotolia, do not confuse it, please!

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev on July 22, 2014, 08:23

The purpose of my post was not to discuss DPC, because of this will stop. Am sorry, but it is really difficult to me to explane how I see this situation. May be a little bit later...

Let's focus our energy to create high value images which will not sell for $1. There are a lot of places to sell images for good money.

There will eventually be less and less places around to sell images for good money if buyers go for the cheap option and the good companies cannot compete with them.

The purpose of my post was not to discuss DPC, but to share that I have rise of my sales from Fotolia not subscriptions, not about DPC!

Come on let's stop with this pessimism 

DPC have ~25% less images than Fotolia, I am on the 75% side of portfolio by the moment as I said. After a year will do analysis. This situation with DPC is not positive nor negative and is not so easy to define it.(I know about the $1, about the unused downloads transfer month to month and so on)

To all of you who reproach me have to tell you to concentrate to create more images, to create more creative images, to spend more time on thinking what to shot and to spend more time to shot more...You do not have to care about the microstock industry, because like all businesses this will be regulated on business principle not because of our "hard contributor activity and protest". Try to create a high value images and all agencies will pray you to give them your photos at high price.

Maybe you would not have thought that every your sale could only happen at this particular moment at this particular agency, only from this particular client who use only this particular search tags and liked your particular image. This is very important if you are not presented as wide as possible then you are falling behind.

For me are two types of contributors who opted out from DPC the first one are big players who knows that the client can/will search them directly on DPC for to buy cheap(but if this is true they have to sell only on one place with the best prices) and the others are the rest, I can't understand them for the moment.

You make me superfluous to justify why I'm in, but the question is so simple because of money
I'm in because of money, you are out because of money. 

Finally do not underestimate the agencies, they have business for billions and will not collapse it don't worry you just try to be maximal presented with your portfolio.

Quote from: PhotoBomb on July 21, 2014, 16:30

Yes he is. 7000+ images - So Sad.

So sad to see that not everybody agree to let the others make their own choices�
Yes, this is really so sad�

This can be true if we know how much are "the others". As I said there are a lot of information we need.

Deyan - Can you tell us if the increase in FT has come at the cost of other agencies ? Do you see any decrease in sales in other agencies ?

You have mentioned that there have been no increase in the subscription sales. Do you know (if that is even possible to know) whether the subscriptions are more from FT or DPC ?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

It is too short period of time to draw comparison whether there is a connection and whether this growth is at the cost of other agencies. Moreover, if we talk about sales decline of Single&Other in Shutterstock I can say yes this month they are rather weak, but this type of sales are accidental and can not be createria to conclusions(for example in the past year I have two months with the same drop without the presence of DPC)

About the subscriptions I have no idea what part of them are from DPC.

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev on July 21, 2014, 12:11

Hi everybody,

This month in Fotolia if I compare proportional for the first 21 days the income is 20% more than my best month ever 

But the most important thing I notice is that this month I have not rise of the subscription sales!

Are you selling your images through the Dollar Photo Club?

I sell in DPC, but the rise is not from there as the subscription sales are not more then before DPC exist. I mean the sales as the number of sales, because now we have very good subscription sales in Fotolia as price. I think that about DPC we can draw conclusions for at least one year not now.

I've just upgraded my account and send email to [email protected] about the big batch upload. Hope will not take a long time to start the upload.

Now I'm thinking about the white isolated images that I have and some other classic old stock images will not fit to the 500px vision. So, will upload just a part of my portfolio.
May be here is the place to ask, are images like this suitable for 500px? This image sells good on the microstock sites:

Hi Alex,

I have 10 000 images to upload, but the thing that stops me is the lack of a watermark.
What I need is just to upload and automatically to be watermarked, resized, metadata extracted and so on...this is the part of website on my opinion.

Not had this problem - best contact them?

Not sure, I've tried 5-6 times in a past 3 years but still wait response

The problem is resolved.They told me that there were two accounts for me in the same account. I don't know how it happend, but it's now resolved and now is able to log in.

No response from Cutcaster, no response to my topic...completely disapointed with it. My images are there, they sells and I have no access to my account.

Please if somebody from Cutcaster look this topic to respond me!!!