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Canva / Re: How are the earnings going?
« on: February 23, 2019, 14:38 »
Same here, falling apart.

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I have about 40-50 videos, 18 video sales, received email.

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It's the mindset.

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I was being sarcastic. Some members here will immideately point a finger at you as being a racist, when you say, that most thieves come from eastern countries. Like Zero-talent for example.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock took my money away
« on: February 19, 2019, 13:53 »
I'm pretty sure that Adobe, if really took 87,5% that wasn't on purpose. I doubt they'd risk their reputation, because eventually it would be found out. Like on depositphotos.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: January Money in Feb. 2019
« on: February 19, 2019, 13:26 »
wrong topic.

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There will be some potentially embarrassing questions asked including exactly how many infringing images are in the database, why existing technology wasn't enabled which could easily ferret out these images, as well as perhaps the most embarrassing one - where did the sales revenue from these stolen images actually go? Was any effort ever made after the discovery of suspect images and deleted accounts to identify and contact the original copyright owners and at the very least turn over any sales revenue? Depending on the findings it  could answer the question many of us are naturally asking ourselves - is Shutterstock actually complicit at this point or not?

Great points above.

As a publicly-listed company this goes to the very heart of corporate responsibility and directors' duties. Stakeholders rely on corporate information to make investment decisions. There are currently 440,000 active accounts generating quarterly sales of $165.46 million (source: https://www.fairfieldcurrent.com/news/2019/02/14/165-46-million-in-sales-expected-for-shutterstock-inc-sstk-this-quarter.html). Can someone guarantee that 5% of those contributor accounts are NOT fraudulent and an unspecified amount generated from those accounts is NOT a "proceed of crime"? If 5% were proved to be fraudulent, how would this affect their reputation and stock price?

SS are of course regularly audited. These past few weeks myself and others have provided auditors with more than enough evidence of the scale of the fraud going on almost unimpeded. SS will probably just do enough to cover themselves until something huge, as stated by DavidK above, occurs. Plaintiffs may find difficultly in claiming for lost profits as I doubt that any of these fraudulent accounts generate much since they're so badly captioned/keyworded, however, there may be other types of claims available. 

I should probably keep going to maintain the momentum so it's brought (again) to the forefront of their attention or at the very least, well-known sources. Just need to find the time and motivation - I've spent about 20 mins on this today and already flagged some 15 accounts, with the help of others. I'm sure if SS devoted 10,000 hours of manpower they would be able to flag at least 44,000 suspicious accounts, which would be equal to at least 1% of their total number of contributors. Simply hire interns based in India, which ironically is where most of the fraudulent accounts are based.

That's so racist.

/s

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As I said before. Write article for something like Petapixel. Bad publicity always help. Especially now, with their "We're not stock, we're Shutterstock", when they are trying to bbuild up brand. That kind of publicity sure wouldn't help.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: January Money in Feb. 2019
« on: February 19, 2019, 12:08 »
Updating here too. Kind of early  (by clock), usually data comes in the morning over-here. I don't know about January but February ESP data (sales) looks very promising.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe/Fotolia earnings falling since end january
« on: February 15, 2019, 10:57 »
-

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Bigstock.com / Re: Biggest sale on BS
« on: February 14, 2019, 22:21 »
I got EL sale for 25$ and some 3 and 2$ sales, but that was about 3 years ago.

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Adobe Stock / Re: My biggest sale!
« on: February 12, 2019, 13:04 »
Thanks for sharing. My highest on Adobe was 94.

https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/81514273

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Canva / Re: How are the earnings going?
« on: February 08, 2019, 12:15 »
Sales are very poor, thanks Canva for merging database with getty images.

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..and then insight would be for more specific statistics, by date, etc...

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And then you can also sort them by dl-s, earnings, etc.. but default would be last 10, or 15...

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It's nice, but it would be even nicer, it there was like two rows with last five images sold on top of the dashboard  ( not by dowwnloads, like now), and statistics graphat the bottom if it really must be there.

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Not from India again. Ooops I shouldn't have said that, I must be racist.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: no sell in USA
« on: February 03, 2019, 14:52 »
Yeah, I've noticed that too. Uploaded image and had some DL-s so I checked for position. One day for example, was on top of first page for the keyword under "All Images" and "Photos". Next day completely vanished from both, I haven't checked after page 5. Then the next day, repaired again on the top, but one day only if you choose "All Images" but not under "Photos". The next day vice-versa. Then next day dissapeared again, and reappeared, etc.... very strange stuff...

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General Stock Discussion / Re: How was January?
« on: February 01, 2019, 14:18 »
Surprisingly good.

Best month on Alamy with number of sales (4th best month with earnings)

SS with 80$ video sale + EL very good month too
FT best month in a year
Canva somewhere between bad and average

The rest as usual.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Increase in EU sales
« on: January 25, 2019, 13:52 »
How do you tell where a sale is from?

I have noticed more .36 and .66 sales compared to .99 sales. Other values are very rare.

-5% tax from US sales

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Alamy.com / Re: Model release
« on: January 25, 2019, 11:29 »
Never mind, I've got it.

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Alamy.com / Re: Model release
« on: January 25, 2019, 11:21 »
How to attach a model release on Alamy with a photo?

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Adobe Stock / Increase in EU sales
« on: January 25, 2019, 09:31 »
Anyone else noticed increase in EU (non-US) sales? Like, this month I had a bunch of those 0.99 (and also other non-US sales, subs, 0.66, etc..) sales, probably more then last few months combined?

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Fotolia, not compared just to Adobe but all MS agencies. Best interface by far. Everything accesible with one click and you don't have too look all over the screen/monitor like on adobe.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: "It's not stock, it's Shutterstock"
« on: January 22, 2019, 10:37 »
"It's not Stock, it's Thievestock, and we dont care."

Some bad publicity would maybe force SS to do something about it. Like for example an article about situation on Petapixel or similar. That kind of stuff usually helps.

Brasilnut, you're good with words, becuase of your blogs, etc....

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