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« on: July 25, 2015, 16:29 »
Im Betting On scott to turn this business around. It's the only thing we currently have that sounds Positive. He was always responsive to me for a Phone call. Wish Him the best for change. No one else i know is standing up. Fingers and Toes crossed, When I heard about Adobe I said Big Changes are coming. God , I hope so. we are stagnate.
Honestly, Scott isn't going to do anything positive for contributors. His job will be to enrich Adobe at contributors' expense. He is in all likelihood compensated based on how he impacts revenue and margins. We hurt both.
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Why do people belive that everything must be a zero sum game?
Why do people belive that every transaction must have a winner and a loser?
What a fallacy!
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If I open up a hamburger stand and I draw in 100 customers an hour, are those same customers going back to their old haunts and buying burgers there too?
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« on: July 24, 2015, 22:49 »
Adobe has hired Scott Braut, formerly VP of Content at Shutterstock. He has been named Head of Content and will drive the companys overall content strategy and operations for Creative Cloud. Adobe says content is a strategic area of growth and focus as it builds a growing, strategic creative marketplace. Scott has over 20 years of experience in content licensing, product development, eCommerce, and digital media.
What kind of impact is this likely have on Adobe's ability to take market share from Shutterstock?
Jim, This certainly isn't the first time a big gun has been hired by what's ostensibly a start up. Some have succeeded and some haven't.
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« on: July 17, 2015, 14:47 »
I've starting using an app to get the releases so they're all digitized of the bat and easy to deal with.
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« on: July 11, 2015, 13:07 »
Just got word on the forum that 4k is not at a different price point then HD! It is the same as now. They said they would not get into a price war but they just did for video! They are undercutting SS and most other places now!
It would behoove all video producers to not upload to this site.
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« on: July 06, 2015, 19:51 »
If I'm someone who purchases stock images for client work or for my company, would I be inclined to purchase an image people are using free in their slide shows? marketing to social users using the images for free isn't much of marketing, at least not to the right audience. I can't figure out the value of this to the contributors. Exposure doesn't pay the bills.
I can only think there may be some sort of SEO click-o-mania advantage.
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« on: July 06, 2015, 16:26 »
Seems a lot like pinterest or the embed program with lower res files that you can't take off there and with no license to use them anywhere else. There is copyright information and a link to the site licensing the work for commercial use. If people want to steal images there are much better ways than taking images from there.
If this is a way to market traffic back to IS/Getty, then we should get paid as part of a marketing budget. I don't upload my work so they can build a free, enjoyable slideshow tool that doesn't make me any money. iS doesnt do this for the fun of it. There is a reason and in all liklihood its marketing related and thus i should be paid each and every time my image is used.
We can all hope this is as you say it might be, but really, do you honestly believe it would help create a larger market for your images? or just maybe more site clicks for a company thinking of moving on?
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« on: June 26, 2015, 21:49 »
Thats how it goes.
This month (after june 15th) at p5 everything points out to a WME,but last month i had a huge BME.
Some people already report possible bme's for june,while others have gone through these 2 weeks without a sale.
SS is somewhat steady week after week but very slow as opposed to the previous 2-3 months.
Summer (until the end of August) had been awful for me last year i expect this year to be almost the same.
Waiting dissolve's June report this will be interesting.
I sort of agree but don't see a lot written by those at P5 having a good or even average month. Usually you see an averaging of these comments but not this time. SS has remained strong. P5 was strong and then I experienced a precipitous drop in sales. Drop may not even properly describe what I'm seeing. More like vanish or disappearing all together.
Who said about averaging?Apparently as days go by the scales turn towards those who have extremely bad weeks,including me, and it seems the majority there experience a dreadfull month.
March and April was like that as well but not to this extend,again from what people have reported.
Summer period as far as i remember is said to be awful for most people.
But perhaps you are right,they way i wrote my post could have insinuated that there are those who do good while others not too good but nowhere did i imply that there is an average.
There is a major drought all around that is pretty much clear.
We certainly agree then, that the Pond appears to be drying up.
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« on: June 26, 2015, 15:07 »
Getty has systematically reduced the amount photographers make starting with their no research fees back when only RM existed and they haven't stopped since. Lowering the value of video clips by to 1/3 the previous level was whose idea?
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« on: June 26, 2015, 11:53 »
Thats how it goes.
This month (after june 15th) at p5 everything points out to a WME,but last month i had a huge BME.
Some people already report possible bme's for june,while others have gone through these 2 weeks without a sale.
SS is somewhat steady week after week but very slow as opposed to the previous 2-3 months.
Summer (until the end of August) had been awful for me last year i expect this year to be almost the same.
Waiting dissolve's June report this will be interesting.
I sort of agree but don't see a lot written by those at P5 having a good or even average month. Usually you see an averaging of these comments but not this time. SS has remained strong. P5 was strong and then I experienced a precipitous drop in sales. Drop may not even properly describe what I'm seeing. More like vanish or disappearing all together.
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« on: June 25, 2015, 08:22 »
I fully agree if what you have is the right thing for customers with large budgets, you can charge more, but wouldn't it be better to keep it at pond5 with a 500 dollar price tag or more?
300 was too cheap for professional production costs, so for 200 you should proably pull it and move it elsewhere.
I would guess they need better growth numbers to impress the Wall Street.
I tend to match my prices at SS and P5. I'm afraid not many customers would want to spurge $500 on a clip if they can get it for $199. At the moment Shutterstock is my best earner and I can't afford to quit it. But this move sure made my think about diversifying my revenue base.
This is the battle for buyers that SS will most likely win.
Sadly, P5 was a great idea but didn't react fast/smart enough to shake SS more and grab some big fishes.
There is NO logic to price $500 clips anywhere when they can be found for $199 on SS.
AND P5 does not have extended licenses!
Why they like to keep that amateurish attitude, I will never get! 
Based on my experience many buyers will happily pay $500 for a micro style image so why wouldn't they happily pay $500 for a 4k clip?
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« on: June 25, 2015, 08:17 »
I don't do too many landscapes at the moment but I used to and I do own a Panny 7-14mm and it would be fabulous for this. I assume the new Oly in this range would also be very good. The Panasonic does't work as well on Olympus bodies, so it depends on which camera you own.
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« on: June 24, 2015, 20:22 »
1.5 times lower is -150 dollar
$150 is two times lower.
300/2=150
300/1.5 = 200
No, that's 50% lower, i.e. 0.50 x Try buy a jacket for 150% off.
That is not 50% lower. It is 33% lower.
Example given above, "$150 is two times lower. " 300/2=150 I still read that as 50% unless you have some new ultra new math for me 
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« on: June 24, 2015, 16:51 »
1.5 times lower is -150 dollar
$150 is two times lower.
300/2=150
300/1.5 = 200
No, that's 50% lower, i.e. 0.50 x Try buy a jacket for 150% off.
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« on: June 24, 2015, 16:50 »
As the OP wrote, I also expected this to happen sooner (but am glad that I sold the ones I did at the higher price  ).
However, I stopped uploading 4K content to SS a while ago, because while I have sold some 4K clips as 4K, I have not sold a single one as HD. SS claims that most buyers do not use the HD filter when searching for clips, but my sales anecdotally tell a different story. As long as my 4K clips are going to be filtered out of HD searches, I'm not going to bother uploading them to SS. 
KBm that is a very important consideration. Does this problem exist on P5. I think the problem there is a price filter, where the HD file doesn't get considered if there is higher priced 4k attached even though it could.
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« on: June 24, 2015, 16:38 »
1.5 times lower is -150 dollar
1.5 times lower doesn't make sense and it certainly isn't $150.
I said minus 150 dollar. 300 dollar 1.5 times lower, isnt that 300-450?
That's the way I read it. A 1.5 x reduction is actually a gain.
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« on: June 24, 2015, 16:36 »
I'll see what other sites do, but I can see myself uploading only an HD file to SS and pricing 4k at $300+ on P5. This business of constantly pitting one site against with price reductions is killing us.
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« on: June 24, 2015, 16:33 »
1.5 times lower is -150 dollar
1.5 times lower doesn't make sense and it certainly isn't $150.
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« on: June 20, 2015, 16:09 »
Free Image of the Week: Image of ruin
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« on: June 19, 2015, 19:22 »
P5 has gone on vacation this month. They must be telling their buyers, "no way man, go to SS if you want video clips."
Yes, I don't know what happened there. I had the best month ever last month at P5 and this month is very slow.
Ditto
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« on: June 19, 2015, 16:33 »
P5 has gone on vacation this month. They must be telling their buyers, "no way man, go to SS if you want video clips."
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« on: June 19, 2015, 14:46 »
What I find so bothersome about all this is the stated reason for protracted and long delays in payment was an unfair lawsuit against Revostock. Now with all that behind them, a nice shiny new website etc. they choose to pay back the people who helped them through their difficult times, by not paying them. For some reason, I thought perhaps my account was the only one being ignored, now I see that is far from the case.
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« on: June 19, 2015, 10:43 »
The reason a lot of people aren't optimistic is that there isn't that much to be optimistic about.
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« on: June 18, 2015, 12:02 »
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« on: June 17, 2015, 11:41 »
Thanks for the great news Matt. I'm excited to see how this new move by Adobe affects sales!
If Fotolio is your only agency, then you should be excited, but otherwise I can't see how it could matter a squit. AS makes more sales; someone else makes less.
It's not always a zero sum game, but even if it is, when the one making less sales is the one that pays you less, (eg if FT gets sales from IS) then changes like this matter.
The bones have been picked quite clean by now. It's just a matter of the jackals fighting the hyenas and you and I picking up more or less of the crumbs that fly off during the brawl.
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« on: June 17, 2015, 11:36 »
Matt, What is the income range, i.e. money per download received by the photographer for clips?
Adobe Stock is not selling video clips at this time.
-Mat
Thanks.
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