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« on: October 12, 2019, 02:55 »
Please start another company for your charity aspirations and stop using contributor commissions to make you look generous. It's a bit of a sham
They are open about how it works. No one is forcing you to submit work there.
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« on: October 12, 2019, 02:18 »
It seems that Grossinger has reached the $500 mark on SS. It took over 7000 photos and some videos to get there. Not an outstanding ratio between upload numbers and sales but it goes to show that he has persistance.
Seems to be he set out to prove one thing and his results show the opposite.
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« on: October 11, 2019, 01:55 »
They most definitely are conserving server space.
Any evidence for that?
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« on: October 08, 2019, 14:16 »
Now they are really overdoing it. I made one image where the object is isolated on white and one image where the object is in snow and a snowball is next to it. Where is that similar? I had the image with snow and the snowball rejected for similar. I have never made similar images like others where I couldn't even see the difference in the photos unless I looked at it for 10 minutes.
I do mostly editorial video and I am sure it's an AI/software application that's screening their massive database of 600 million files for similar content and rejecting it or flagging it for the reviewer to reject, I don't even know if SS has human reviewers anymore, could all be AI for all we know.
All I know is if pretty much any part of the images in the video are similar to anything already on the site it now gets rejected, I went from about 10% rejection to 90% rejection.
They most definitely are conserving server space.
I doubt its anything to do with server space which gets cheaper all the time. Its simply incompetence. Rejecting stuff that might sell makes no rational sense.
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« on: October 06, 2019, 02:49 »
With the number of submissions they have encouraged with their free for all entry requirement I would imagine its impossible to recruit and train enough competent reviewers and give them time to review at a economic price.
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« on: October 05, 2019, 01:15 »
The problem with Shutterstock is that you have to use your password to send over insecure FTP. Open invitation for hackers.
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« on: September 28, 2019, 00:40 »
Since some month Adobe stock sell more and more. here is my stats
June 2018 1337
July 2018 1390
August 2018 1430
September 2018 1403
October 2018 1656
November 2018 1771
December 2018 1368
January 2019 1835
February 2019 1699
March 2019 1787
April 2019 1857
May 2019 2067
June 2019 1816
July 2019 1924
August 2019 1983
Shutterstock lost sell but Adobe stock is rising
Having a lot of downloads is not all ... the most important number is the RPD! And this number is on the way down since AS is in the market!!!
... much more than the number of sales are growing for only few contributors!
Both RPD and no of downloads don't mean much on their own. Its multiplying the two that gives the important stat. Not sure anyone knows how many gainers/losers there are.
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« on: September 26, 2019, 02:31 »
The non-stop flood does in a way surprise me. Most images won't sell. You would think at some point word would get around and the sentiment might be: "don't bother" regarding uploading for the casual photog.
I suspect a lot of people load a tiny number of images the forget about it. Theres still a lot of suckers/phototraphers to recruit thinking they will earn big cash from random phone pics.
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« on: September 25, 2019, 17:25 »
...Because Bill Gates has a taste for easy money. He owned Corbis for many years then sold it to VCG for a hefty profit. Guess he wants back into the game. ...
To interrupt your rant with some facts, temporarily...
Microsoft Corp and Bill Gates are two different entities. Microsoft never owned Corbis (Bill Gates did).
Bill Gates no longer runs Microsoft; Satya Nadella is the CEO.
https://news.microsoft.com/exec/bill-gates/
https://news.microsoft.com/exec/satya-nadella/
Adobe is much more than a stock agency - if you wanted to get "back into the game", buying Adobe, Inc. would be a very odd way to do that.
Adobe is a software company so its not out of the question that microsoft could buy them but not especially for the stock element. But theres no reason to think they are even remotely thinking about itat the moment.
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« on: September 24, 2019, 07:50 »
Thomas Cook travel just went bankrupt leaving 600,000 stranded and 21,000 out of work.
Offtopic. I was watching the news showing a Thomas Cook airoplane taking off. Perhaps at least all related stock media to have some boost sales. (in other words, one's death is other's survival...)
Actually, I sold the Thomas Cook logo (I shot it three weeks ago for Adobe editorial) eight times today... Not that it makes me rich, though.
I sold an image of a statue of James Cook.....no relation yesterday. Wonder if someone is confused?
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« on: September 24, 2019, 03:49 »
Microsoft could afford to acquire most businesses if they felt like it. This is pure speculation from no where as far as I can see.
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« on: September 24, 2019, 02:53 »
My experience is similar. I just tink new content gets buried under the mountain of competition. It does seem odd though that I quite often sell 5-6 year old images for the first time.
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« on: September 22, 2019, 07:01 »
It would be nice if once, just once, they agreed to swallow the mistake between them (Canva and Getty) and keep the contributors whole...
Steve
Sadly it just shows where the balance of power lies between the agencies and their suppliers.
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« on: September 21, 2019, 06:23 »
What does anyone expect? I'm surprised they bothered to explain. If like me you are signed up to them don't say you weren't warned 
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« on: September 20, 2019, 02:29 »
I seem to do okay on Dreamstime. Enough that I feel it's still worth it to upload there. But 123RF seems to be rather stagnant and their upload process is super time consuming.
Amazingly RF is doing better for me the last couple of months but from a cliff edge drop about a year back. I don't find their ftp uploading time consuming.
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« on: September 20, 2019, 01:55 »
What a let down lots of refunds for me too.
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« on: September 19, 2019, 09:42 »
I have gone to my portfolio, I hover over the image to delete, select the pencil (edit), then click the trash can. The box where the image is goes white. But there is no other feedback as to if that image has been deleted.
Also, where can I see how many total images I have in my portfolio? Yeah, they have really effed their site up.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: never mind figured out the deleting part. Had to log in under username instead of email. still don't know total in my port, will keep looking. 
EDIT: never mind, found that too. In the catalog manager, left column.
And just so you don't think you are crazy, I did some in the past, and they would be gone and if I refreshed the page, come back. Go away and login a minute later, they were all gone. It's a matter of what server of many and where, that you are accessing. The site is not instant, everywhere, all at once. Can take 15 minutes to an hour, for everywhere in the world to be in sync.
I was deleting images that had the wrong keywords so I could upload them again, properly.
Thanks for confirming I am not crazy. 😄 Yes, they have a message that says they might not disappear immediately. I figured it would depend on server refresh. I just got a payout, but I already have some sales. Guess I will be leaving a little money on the table for them,
I didn't read that as leaving, just deleting files. If you wanted to close your account and get all the money, you have to ask them to close the account, after which you would get all the money. Then they would delete all the files for you, along with your account.
Or maybe I didn't understand? By going that way, all you would have to do is ask them to close your account and then at the end of that month they would pay you anything left. Maybe you can still get the last bits.
Yes, I am leaving them. I know I could close my account that way, but I feel better deleting the images myself, then I will ask them to close my account. I know its stupid, because they are so unscrupulous, with the way they have allowed pirates to steal images, and all the other stuff. The horse is already out of the barn. I will just pretend I am in control of my own images. 🤬
You can opt out of sales while you are doing it. Theres also this "You may remove Content from your account at any time, provided that in any ninety (90) day period, you remove no more than (i) 100 items of Content; and (ii) 10% of your Content, whichever is greater. So you may want to make sure you have received your final payment before deleting the lot ;-).
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« on: September 18, 2019, 00:53 »
I guess no one bothered to look at Yuri's Instagram account. He was looking for "new faces" for his portfolio. The address listed for the casting call was in Cape Town.
yes I don't do Instagram....that was for January 2019 though last post Nov 18
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« on: September 18, 2019, 00:49 »
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« on: September 17, 2019, 02:09 »
People who claim to be big trad photographers and big business, but they cry over Microstock sales lost, reviews, losing hundreds of dollars.
i wonder who you are referring to, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wink wink
Pick a number, it grows every month. LOL Then the people with fine arts or photo degrees who can't stand being rejected by a stupid agency reviewer and also know how the buyers are fools for not downloading the best work out there.
Heck I upload things, usually I think they are interesting enough and might sell, yes I'm disappointed when they don't, but the idea is still to make a product that buyers want, not art. Also the days of shooting what you see on a walk about, are so long gone, they are ancient history.
I admit sometimes I upload things that I just liked and I don't expect anyone to download them. Some are a surprise, most I'm right, no market, no interest.
Anyway I don't understand the obsession with what's Yuri doing, only to be followed by so many people who know better and are trying to put him down? He's himself, if you were like him, would you come to some forum to be ridiculed , insulted, and attacked. Or just take the millions, stop giving advice to people who won't listen.
http://arcurs.com/who/
Yuri Arcurs is rated as one of the highest earning photographers in the world, it's still making him millions a year.
Who else here has endorsement deals with Hasselblad? Or any other camera Mfg.?
I don't think many are obsessed but just curious. That link is several years out of date. I see no evidence one way or the other he is currently making profits of millions of year. He may have changed his philosophy but it seems odd that the master of self promotion seems to be in stealth mode 
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« on: September 10, 2019, 10:39 »
The way forward is quality sold on your own site.
Much easier said than done but I've been saying this for a long time now, we have to try the sell direct method, at least try it and many of us are one person operations so it's too much work to do everything and make it work. Can't be out shooting video or photos full time and then become web developer and site admin in the evening when that itself is a full time job so maybe options to look at are Shopify and Amazon to sell these digital products that we have or stand alone sites but you may need to partner with someone or work in a team or get some outside help. Then there is the massive promotion needed to get the attention of customers. It's a ton of work. But millions of small, medium and large businesses are doing it, selling their products on their own sites so it's possible, not everyone has to go through an agency. The agencies do make it easier so we can focus on doing the work but lately it's getting to be impossible to make a living because of all the little deals and side deals and stuff that leads to more great news, you are making even less money next month!. Even Shopify or Amazon would be better than these stock agencies, you pay for the use of their infrastructure but that's it. [/quote] Depends on your market...if its individuals and small businesses possibly. The corporates who have accounts with the likes of Shutterstock are never going to use those sites. From what I can see you have to be in the elite 1% to make significant money from your own site.
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« on: September 09, 2019, 11:48 »
I'm not sure he is though......up until 2017 he was a great self publicist I've seen nothing since then. Maybe he's decided its not needed any more but I always felt he needed to keep he's ego stoked. Don't get me wrong he's a great businessman who spotted and exploited an opportunity to the max. I admire him greatly for that.
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« on: September 09, 2019, 08:30 »
I think It's a system to make you upload slowly. Can't understand the reason in SS and AS to make that.
Its not a system...they pay peanuts and give inspectors a huge workload they don't have time to review with care and I doubt there is enough oversight to ensure consistency.
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« on: September 09, 2019, 07:12 »
Didn't go well for Wemark same question as I asked about them..whats the advantage to buyers of using it?
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or is it a worsening rpd? 
