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« on: March 17, 2018, 09:14 »
It's so sad what has happened to DT. they were always in My top 3. it really is a drag. I fear for them.
Yes very sad! used to be brilliant and I remember when sales were plenty and for possibly the best prices of all micros. I think Serban is gone?? because there was a very different attitude within the agency when he was there, search-changes didnt just slaughter he used to make sure everyone got a fair deal. Just dont happen anymore!
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« on: March 17, 2018, 09:06 »
Why Is SS #1?? I don't get it. wow have our goals dropped.!!!!!!!!!
They are only #1 Laurin because all the other outfits are even worse 
Agree SS has no serious competition in the MS market....well maybe adobe to some extent
Sadly when Adobe first took on Fotolia I had high hopes as the sales values were reasonably high but now they are just selling for penny amounts like the rest and the sales quanitities have never really taken off.
Exactly same here I thought if there was one company that could with all their expertise sell pictures it was Adobe. First two weeks after the merger was brilliant and then it just completely nosedived. Then it dawned, of course Adobe is the worlds most premiere program, software maker in the creative world, film industry the lot, Selling stock might just be some sort of a side-kick. I'm doing Ok with Adobe but it was far, far better with FT only!
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« on: March 17, 2018, 01:31 »
You have no idea what you are talking about ...
The eternal fear speaks form you, and the eternal fictitious threat, which is a product from various administrations, that live on your account.
You do not see potential, only threat.
You all want a technological constraint to make it easier for you ...
What is happening is that only the best products will be sold in terms of creativity, not because equipment or any other techs.
What are you waffling about?  hehe! all in good fun but whatever youre smoking give me some will ya!!.. the whole thing in general is that creativity and quality have overall dropped by a few lightyears and left are the quantity merchants.....I mean we cant all be wrong!.....you want to visit some of the slightly smaller specialized/boutique agencies and see the vast difference!
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« on: March 16, 2018, 10:29 »
i agree ...i am uploading a enough that's why probably i'm still in line and growth a bit...but there are in ukraine and russia house of production who can flood the market with 10000 file month if not more.
they are from city where cost of life compared to europe is ridiculous cheap and salary are 5 6 times less than europe.
in kiev and secondary city in russia salary in office i ridiculous cheap, most people wearing 300 400 dollar month with micro could earn more than friend working in shops or office.
this is the competition we face. they buy 2 flash from china, one dslr and everyday upload thousand still life copying each other. same theme repeated zillions of time.
Thats it flood the market thats what they care about. For everyone of us quitting or stop uploading there are ten newbies uploading! its purely a quantity factor nowadays. Quantity and screw the quality until the day comes when all there is left is gazillions of just fill-out quantity. However that will take about 5-10 years more and by then I recon most of us have left!
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« on: March 14, 2018, 12:51 »
since they killed best match i stop growing despite my last upload are much better than the photos i sell regularly.
simply i sell photo who have good position in popular tabs.
new photos sales , i mean last 3 4 months accounts for 1 2% of monthly earning. i'm still in line with last year march, but i cannot grow. nothing.
with the crap of thousand files uploaded everyday, any mentally safe customer will browse through the new tab, to find a file interesting, and that matches the keyword searched, in the middle of a sea of snapshots.
for example isotck is constantly growing, despite the 0,15 commission, it grows sale and most of all it sells mostly new files.
if i search for statistic of view most of files uploaded in the last months are viewed and bought.
adobe is in the middle.
ss messed everything.
THhey have almost killed off single-sales and OD's! they go elsewhere and I think you can guess where??
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« on: March 14, 2018, 08:44 »
Its not the usual tons of bugs and glitches we are seeing at SS right now I spoke to somebody with 100% insight of this and he said thousands of ports are affected with either zero or really low earnings?? wouldnt say what it was though! just saying!
Now I dont want any ghost buster coming along with the same bunch of crap because I am just forwarding some info I got hold of.
I must be in the 'really low' group, and yesterday and today have totally tanked - down by about 75% over the usual day. Did your friend give any insight as to when we might expect this to be fixed?
Same here!
Then I guess misery loves company - I am glad to know I'm not alone!
I keep expecting something to be fixed and trigger the sales again but, at the moment, there are no signs of a reprieve. I can't see any obvious bugs, like missing keywords that have been reported by other contributors recently, and I'm praying this isn't some sort of new norm.
I know sales patterns have changed a lot over the last 18-24 months, but this is suddenly very poor, even by my adjusted expectations.
Well there a million bugs and glitches but this time around they dont have an effect on certain portfolios not in terms of buyers searching or buying images, hell I know one guy with 60000 images and he's got two zero days in a row!! he is seriously thinking of throwing it the towel.
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« on: March 14, 2018, 07:31 »
Its not the usual tons of bugs and glitches we are seeing at SS right now I spoke to somebody with 100% insight of this and he said thousands of ports are affected with either zero or really low earnings?? wouldnt say what it was though! just saying!
Now I dont want any ghost buster coming along with the same bunch of crap because I am just forwarding some info I got hold of.
I must be in the 'really low' group, and yesterday and today have totally tanked - down by about 75% over the usual day. Did your friend give any insight as to when we might expect this to be fixed?
Same here!
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« on: March 14, 2018, 04:41 »
Its not the usual tons of bugs and glitches we are seeing at SS right now I spoke to somebody with 100% insight of this and he said thousands of ports are affected with either zero or really low earnings?? wouldnt say what it was though! just saying!
Now I dont want any ghost buster coming along with the same bunch of crap because I am just forwarding some info I got hold of.
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« on: March 12, 2018, 13:49 »
Well it seems the sales desert continues in to Monday.
I really give up with Shutterstock considering I found an old thread from 2011 which sang their praises on how good they were way back when; they really have effed things up well and truly these last two years.
Like a drought in the Sahara!
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« on: March 12, 2018, 13:47 »
I am an independent! and been with IS since 2006. I dont know anything about deleting images or whatever but moneywise I am doing just fine, on average just under a 4-figure almosr every month!...where some other agencies here are doing bloody terrible!
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« on: March 12, 2018, 02:43 »
Something is up! first zero day in 13 years at SS, in fact the next lowest was in 2006 with $2.50......somebody I know with a port of 60K files also had a zero day, somethings cooking!
I'd say your brains.
Stupid vile comments are back I see
Yeah nothing new. Who cares anyway that jerk have always been a cretin! been in the business 3 years and know it all! haha! 
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« on: March 12, 2018, 02:39 »
Something is up! first zero day in 13 years at SS, in fact the next lowest was in 2006 with $2.50......somebody I know with a port of 60K files also had a zero day, somethings cooking!
I'd say your brains.
Hey! Soru! something is cooking! really! something is cooking!
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« on: March 12, 2018, 02:32 »
I use FT only ( although I sync). I find Adobe too messy!
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« on: March 11, 2018, 02:21 »
Something is up! first zero day in 13 years at SS, in fact the next lowest was in 2006 with $2.50......somebody I know with a port of 60K files also had a zero day, somethings cooking!
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« on: March 09, 2018, 14:10 »
Best images through my own library and after that as RM!
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« on: March 09, 2018, 02:05 »
SS accept mobile photos but you have a very low chance to sell these photos as rights managed. Nobody pay 100$ for these photos. Mostly bloggers will buy these so you get very little income.
So keep shooting with pro equipment 
Yes! only no micro sell RM content! thats for the trad agencies.
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« on: March 08, 2018, 13:17 »
Well he does own 46.6% of the Company and is CEO. So pretty much his still.
got to have 51% majority in order to decide for the comp, make major decisions etc, etc. Thats the way it is. Not even 50% would put him in the driving seat, its gort to be a majority!.. and CEO nowadays can get a cold or warm handshake anywhere, anytime!...look what happened with Muller in the Saab scania business!
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« on: March 08, 2018, 12:49 »
Shutterstock is selling every year more and more to customers. For sure nothing going wrong. Nobody destroys his own company.
This is just a typical thread that people assume that own images are the best by saying other new ones are crap. Also they want shutterstock for themselves. You can always submit on Stocksy or similar sites if you think.your images are so amazing.
Why you think Stocksy or Offset are any different in the core?? haha man you want to take some business classes!..." destrying ones own company" ones own?? its not its thousands of share-holders which puts a completely different angle on every single thing! and as Paws say! it might just suit them and for various reasons to accept any old image, god knows its paying off!
"Nobody destroys his own company" sorry but that is pretty naive
I've seen plenty of asshats supposedly running companies and driving them straight in to the ground.
Both little companies and multi-nationals afterall anyone remember TWA, Pan-AM, General Motors, Enron, Lehman Brothers?
In the UK Carillion is the latest to fold with debts in the billions
There are plenty of large outfits under chapter 11 in the USA.
Shutterstock et al are no different and like all companies they are just a whisper away from bankruptcy and closure if you have the wrong person in charge.
Butits not Jons company anymore, boing!!! its a public company with shareholders, thousands of them. I was one of them but sold my stuff way back! and as that there are a whole string of reasons why as some say its either going up or down, good or bad!....very often internal politics, differences are reasons why a share-holding comp is going bad, etc, etc!...........not saying it is but thats a very common cause!
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« on: March 08, 2018, 07:15 »
Shutterstock is selling every year more and more to customers. For sure nothing going wrong. Nobody destroys his own company.
This is just a typical thread that people assume that own images are the best by saying other new ones are crap. Also they want shutterstock for themselves. You can always submit on Stocksy or similar sites if you think.your images are so amazing.
Why you think Stocksy or Offset are any different in the core?? haha man you want to take some business classes!..." destrying ones own company" ones own?? its not its thousands of share-holders which puts a completely different angle on every single thing! and as Paws say! it might just suit them and for various reasons to accept any old image, god knows its paying off!
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« on: March 08, 2018, 05:00 »
Not all subs yesterday. Had a singles-sale for 43 bucks and some OD's. Funny but I am experiencing less subs these days. The takings are still bad in my books compared with what they used to be.
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« on: March 08, 2018, 01:55 »
Chichikov!! god help you mate if you start a thread like this! BEWARE! soon you have the entire amateur ghostbusting brigade telling you, you are lying, scheaming and imagining things!
You are right though they accept anything and I mean anything since they are surviving and relying on these sort of members and images. Pictures means assets and the more assets the better, especially in the eyes of the share-holders.
Its common knowledge but I recon 70% of their entire library could go into the dustbin. Same with all agencies actually.
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« on: March 06, 2018, 12:36 »
Oh I see! Ok! well it really looks awful, just imagine being a fashion or wedding shooter with that problem!
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« on: March 06, 2018, 03:06 »
For commissioned work I use a Hasselblad H6D-100C and its also got some similarities but very vague in comparisson to this. I think all digital cams nowadays have got some small flaw or another and I am not sure fast or slow lenses matters?...although the striping examples of the jpg images are really quite unacceptable.
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« on: March 04, 2018, 07:39 »
wrong thread.
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« on: March 04, 2018, 07:36 »
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