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Messages - Jo Ann Snover
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« on: May 13, 2014, 14:00 »
And here are screen shots (minus the missing megaphone tweet) of the images Dollar Photo Club used in their promotional tweets and which are now opted out and thus unavailable to buyers (click for full size) 
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« on: May 13, 2014, 13:42 »
Anyone who speaks Portuguese want try try and contact Cristovao Oliveira, the author of this image? It'd be nice to get that one opted out  http://us.fotolia.com/id/58904976He's at Shutterstock and Dreamstime, but not at iStock (as far as I can tell). That image isn't at DT, but here's his profile http://www.dreamstime.com/cristovao_info
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« on: May 13, 2014, 11:02 »
Shutterstock's alexa rank is 194 and it says it has over 35 million images. Article says 1581 and 35 million
Dreamstime's rank is 651 and just crossed 23 million images. Article says 1066 and 22 million
I don't know when DT's rank was ever lower than SS, so perhaps the article is based on ranks other than global or is just wrong. As far as earnings, I'm assuming that's just one person's results, so it's largely meaningless for everyone else.
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« on: May 13, 2014, 10:51 »
Thanks! And yes, I think the new arrangement is much more inviting.
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« on: May 12, 2014, 22:44 »
ana, you have some very cool things in your gallery. One suggestion, in case you didn't already know this: you can make small adjustments in the order of things in your gallery (I say small because the interface is seriously clunky and not really usable for more than a few spots up or down).
When I looked at the first few rows of images, it was hard to see where one ended and the next began because several rather similar ones were adjacent. If you changed the order a little I think it might make a more appealing display for the viewer.
If you go to Dashboard and then My Art you can see the rearrange tool top right.
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« on: May 12, 2014, 22:40 »
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« on: May 12, 2014, 11:49 »
I don't know where it came from, but I have had a few of these. In one case they clearly knew the image was for sale as they mentioned finding it on one of the stock sites! Perhaps they think it's worth a try in case someone says yes? In one situation where my images were licensed for use in a home remodeling book, the book was put on hold for a couple of years during the worst of the US economy's recent crash. When the project was resumed, there was a different person in charge and they sent me e-mail asking me for the correct credit line for my images. When I said that I sold my images, not gave them away and that this had been clearly spelled out in earlier discussions, they immediately said OK and talked money. If it had been a homeowner they were dealing with, they wouldn't have paid. I guess that businesses always look to pay the absolute minimum possible 
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« on: May 12, 2014, 11:42 »
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« on: May 10, 2014, 13:18 »
Ok - thanks. If it's a general bug and nothing specific to my account I won't worry
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« on: May 10, 2014, 11:46 »
I'd say the main reason is that IS are run by corporate managers, who are driven by short-term targets rather than the long-term health of the business. In contrast their competitors are driven by entrepreneurs...
And the top of the pile - first Hellman & Friedman and now the Carlyle Group. I've made no secret of how much I despise private equity firms - they are parasites that suck money out of businesses and leave them worse off than when they arrived. I have been told by several people who have been in businesses owned by them that the sole focus for them is the financials in the short terms they plan to be around. So anything that costs money is nixed unless it can return a profit in the very near future. Getty has been stomping all over the stock business for a while - before they were gobbled up - but their predations have been overtaken by the massive debt and the marching orders of their private equity owners. The irony of the small business day being the 100% royalty day is that one of the themes of changing iStock was to drive away the small design businesses that had built iStock and go for the deep pockets of larger companies. Remember all those threads mocking designers who complained that prices had skyrocketed when existing files got moved to high price collections?
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« on: May 10, 2014, 11:24 »
Did anyone else have to log in today and get some screens with tips and then the above message? I didn't log out last night, but periodically the server requires a login so that's no biggie. After I typed the captcha and clicked OK a popup window came up with some information about submitting video. There were tabs for images and illustrations. I clicked on the photos tab and it said something about making sure my images were in focus I clicked some other tab and got the Congratulations message. The only button to leave this dialog was upload, so I clicked that. My balance was showing and everything was as expected after that, but I was a bit spooked by being greeted this way. I wondered if some software update had brought this about or my account status had changed in some way... My sales today are paying at the correct rate, so they can call me what they like if they pay me the right amount
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« on: May 10, 2014, 11:14 »
The portfolio links does not work even if I am logged in. I have to search by name to find them. And IPTC data still does not work for me.
My gallery: http://crated.com/Kerstin
That link goes straight to your gallery when I click on it (am logged in). I've found support to be responsive - send beta feedback (link at the bottom of each page) if you find a bug
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« on: May 10, 2014, 10:04 »
You really can't know is the answer Shutterstock will sell useful images for many years. As with all sites, some images just don't take off. Keep producing and uploading In 2013 I had many months where I added nothing and I was pleased to see how well income held up YMMV of course
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« on: May 09, 2014, 20:06 »
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« on: May 09, 2014, 16:11 »
Better than no change, but the way they used to calculate iStock subs would be the 100% way to do it
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« on: May 09, 2014, 15:26 »
...Adobe seems like a natural fit for selling stock, but their head doesn't seem to be in it at all.
They've had at least two prior attempts to put stock images (interface to buy) into their products. It's always agency tie ins though. @Mike - have you contacted Adobe or Shutterstock about what you found?
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« on: May 09, 2014, 14:16 »
I have had some OD sales, but no SOD or ED so far in May which had seemed a little unusual. However, it's not even half way through the month yet and it may just be that all the high spenders are on some yacht trip somewhere
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« on: May 09, 2014, 12:41 »
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« on: May 09, 2014, 11:45 »
They outsource their inspections and things are all over the map - sometimes I have had everything accepted, and the last batch I sent a huge chunk were rejected (I don't know why because I don't want individual e-mails and thus you never know a reason; that information isn't available in a summary or on the web site).
They do sell, but not all that well (regular but low volume for me) . Some while back I voiced my opinion about the inconsistent inspections but I don't think PhotoDune is something the Envato folks pay much attention to - the meat and potatoes of their business lies in other marketplaces.
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« on: May 09, 2014, 11:08 »
Based on them viewing my port on my website, I got an invite to join, but haven't gotten the email saying I have been curated, so I won't be uploading further either. So far it's been a pain. Any site that doesn't put the work in up front to grab IPTC data doesn't deserve any images.
IPTC is importing quite well since yesterday, have you tried it today?
Yesterday titles were still not red, but today, they are reading all fields correctly (at least on the 10 images I uploaded this morning)
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« on: May 09, 2014, 11:06 »
From the press release:
" iStock will give 100% of the sales from cash and credit downloads of ..."
So if there are subscription downloads that day, the contributors get their usual royalty?
I realize that calculating 100% of the sale on a subscription is a little less straightforward, but there are a couple of pretty simple options. I hear a bunch of folks talking about big drops in downloads - possibly as a result of a move to subscriptions which right now no one can measure - so not sharing 100% on those seems like a poor choice to me (not to mention ironic given that they're celebrating subscriptions' launch)
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« on: May 09, 2014, 10:57 »
I tried to vote and got the following error:
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« on: May 08, 2014, 13:59 »
I only uploaded images about a day ago. For those of you who received the email that you were included in searchhow long did it take after you uploaded images? I dont know if I should upload more/different images or just keep waiting.
Uploaded late last night and received e-mail this morning. These things could be handled in batches, so I might just have made it into the tail end of a time slot by sheer chance - IOW it could have been a weekly reply and I just happened to catch the right day by accident
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