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« on: March 08, 2014, 10:22 »
Don't forget 500px core business is charging photographers an annual fee to host their images on the site, so they should easily be able to afford 70% royalties. Whether they invest properly in sales and marketing to make it a success as an agency is another matter.
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« on: March 08, 2014, 06:48 »
So it's 70% with no image exclusivity? That's pretty good, I wish them well.
I suspect the problem will be that they'll be too selective and end up with too small a collection to be marketable, but they deserve support for trying.
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« on: March 07, 2014, 10:24 »
The picfair letter misses the entire point.
Getty is shifting their business model in a very drastic way. It is not about licensing images.
They are using high quality professionally produced images and handing them out for free to millions of unregistered users to build a data mining and advertising network on the back of our files.
And they dont even have a plan how to really monetise that network, they admit that freely.
Getty right now is in the business of selling itself (again). In the next 6 - 12 months, maybe 18 months max.
They need to create buzz, they need to create a "story". That is why they also partnered with eyem.
The whatsapp deal (20 Billion dollars for a start up with 50 people) has made many people hot for easy dollars. fair enough.
Data mining and Google adwords type revenue is the big thing in investing trends today. Like the internet bubble 10 years ago.
Somebody compared Carlyle and investors to selling business like they flip burgers and it is true. It doesnt really matter what the company does. It just has to look attractive to the investor community.
Getty was last sold for 3.3 billion. But they havent been able to grow their revenue from licensing images. It is stuck at around 870 million (?) from the last report Carlyle published. They also have 1.6 billion in debt.
So how can the owners demand more money? How can they upsell?
By adding something modern, cool and trendy.
The embedded viewer, data mining and advertising prospects, plus eyem sounds like a very good mix.
Throwing out high quality images for free will of course get them spread out by the millions.
I wonder what profit they are shooting for? Can they sell Getty for 5 billion? 10 Billion?
Why would you care about licensing images if you can make a few BILLION dollars in the coming months from selling Getty?
And the deal only works because of the very high quality files they are throwing around, encouraging unregistered users to post them everywhere.
The competition can probably sue Getty for unfair business practises because the market with bloggers might be ruined by the free files. The other agencies cannot compete with free.
But a clever lawyer representing the artist should go for the billions of profits when Getty is sold and the data mining and advertising revenue.
The business model has been changed completely and the artist did not send the content to Getty so that they can make millions from "promotional use" without paying us.
Any kind of use of our files that makes money is revenue created by the images and should be shared according to the royalty percentage we signed up for.
This is exactly right. Getty do not want to be in the business of selling images any more, they are now in the business of selling eyeballs, views, links and data. None of which translate into royalties for photographers, but will no doubt generate enough buzz to unload it onto the next owner before an eventual IPO once the hype is right.
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« on: March 04, 2014, 13:16 »
They're giving up selling our images for Lent.
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« on: February 14, 2014, 19:39 »
Those are great images!
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« on: January 22, 2014, 12:05 »
Wait till people start wearing them around Paris, then they'll be in trouble.
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« on: January 22, 2014, 11:27 »
The real problem isn't low prices, it's the disgustingly low royalty rates. Even Apple manages to pay 70% to app creators.
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« on: January 19, 2014, 05:42 »
I've been running a Early 2008 Mac Pro tower since, well, early 2008 obviously. Still runs fine, though I have to replace the HDs every year to keep up with storage limitations.
I think my next workstation will be an iMac though, when they make a 27" retina display one. With Thunderbolt you don't need internal SATA drives to keep the I/O speed up and that makes it a lot easier to stay on top of storage and back up. 32GB of ram and OSX running off a fast SSD and you'll be good to go I reckon, even when we're all editing 4K video from our phones in 3 years time.
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« on: January 14, 2014, 14:37 »
I've been using and abusing the larger version of the Kata bag for 18 months now and it's not dead yet, something of a record for me and camera bags.
I've had all the LowePro slingshots and the zips all failed - the corners have too small a radius I think.
I've found ThinkTank stuff to be designed without the active photographer in mind. Most swearing I've done using camera bags were with ThinkTank stuff.
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« on: January 14, 2014, 11:20 »
I don't understand how getting recognition and having the biggest search engine on the planet, promoting your work, exposure, potentially making more sales, is "getting screwed"?
Terribly negative viewpoint.
I can't see the button myself, but this can only be a good thing, surely?
Unless Google are going to become an image agency of sorts, in which case we will be no doubt screwed further.
I hope you're right. However, years of experience have made me cynical about the arrival of unstoppable money-hoovering corporate behemoths into any business.
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« on: January 14, 2014, 10:45 »
I can't see the button myself, but this can only be a good thing, surely?
Unless Google are going to become an image agency of sorts, in which case we will be no doubt screwed further.
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« on: January 05, 2014, 07:35 »
Looking forward to reading the English version William.
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« on: December 02, 2013, 04:59 »
I'm sure his co-workers are discussing it in the inspectors forum.
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« on: December 01, 2013, 06:11 »
iStock exclusive.
Compared to:
November 2012: $ -7% DL - 20%
Cannot compare to years before 2012 because those records have disappeared.
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« on: November 30, 2013, 16:27 »
And good luck sending it to scout - might get a response this time next year
Probably thanks to it being spammed up with time wasters.
I tell you what Bumhill, take your facetious insults elsewhere.
Bumhill - ha! The spirit of Beavis and Butthead lives on.
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« on: November 28, 2013, 16:18 »
I wonder, is Editorial selling well on Istock to justify the time needed for proper captioning ? I've some travel stuff on IS but so far it sold almost nothing as editorial while similar images are OK sold as RF.
It is true that regular RF sells better on iStock and given a choice between submitting an image as editorial or regular, I'd choose regular, but there's a much greater freedom with editorial and the reduction in post processing time because of editorial constraints makes it worth while I think.
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« on: November 25, 2013, 13:12 »
On second attempt I get 31170!
Still got 24 in the first 200, phew!
All old images though.
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« on: November 25, 2013, 13:11 »
Good luck to the auto-system for differentiating between these.
Best Match results for Scotland look good.
When I search for 'Scotland' I only get 73 results. 5 of them are mine though, so I can't complain too much!
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« on: November 14, 2013, 18:11 »
Cool!
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« on: October 22, 2013, 08:22 »
The development of Symbiostock is relentless and much of what you are suggesting is already being worked on by Leo. The latest version 2.8.9 is seriously cool.
You're right, it does look much better with the Bootswatch themes.
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« on: October 22, 2013, 04:51 »
Make a Symbiostock that looks great and appeals to designers.
Make it use the photographers connecting together to form sympathetic groups whilst retaining control of their own content idea, but provide them with a seamless secure client payment pathway whilst still giving them 100% royalties.
Make it completely idiot proof with a frictionless set up and uploading.
Make the search perfect.
Make it infinitely customisable.
Make it affordable for a one off payment, not endlessly expensive like PhotoShelter.
Make it next week.
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« on: October 21, 2013, 04:51 »
Nice interview, great photographer. He does really well to get so many images into the Vetta collection.
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« on: October 18, 2013, 15:10 »
I may complain bitterly about iStock and their disdain for Exclusive artists, but the Getty programme is really good. I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to put images there.
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« on: October 14, 2013, 10:44 »
Oh, and apologies to anyone not in the US for the complete incompetence of our elected government, if that is part of what's going on. 
Typically, I'm off on a tour of the southwest National Parks in a weeks time. I'll be sitting around twiddling my thumbs unless they get their act together!
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« on: October 14, 2013, 10:18 »
Terrible, terrible sales on iStock this past couple of weeks, really dire.
I would guess I'm approaching 10% of the volumes I would have sold a few years ago with a portfolio half the size.
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