thx@deadly_splash:
It seems I don't have refunds yet, maybe it is because I do not have images older than 3 years at 123rf... or the refunds will come soon

I only had 4x $0,35 in April so far - nothing below that until today.

Just to let you know I got an answer from the Canva support:

"Thank you for your patience while waiting for our response.
We are a bit behind in reviewing the submitted images, but the team is working hard to bring everything up to date.
So we hope that the situation will improve soon. We ask you to give us a little more time to resolve the issue.
If you have any other concerns, please feel free to send us a message."

A lot of text with almost no information... typical support nowadays :-)

Maybe they are just not reviewing images of "some" users like me :-)

Actually I am at about 1.200 images in the review queue and the last review was in early February.

Just to let you know, I got an answer from the Pond5 support:

My Text:
"Dear Pond5,
 
I just got my first image rejections on your site and all 61 images have been rejected (see email below)
 
My account name is: ###
 
Some of those images were surface textures, infrared motion maps, an old sign of a house number 8, an old window in a brick wall, etc.
Are those types of images �forbidden� no? Would this would mean most of my images would be rejected in the future?
 
I am a little confused right now � maybe you can help me out.
 
Thanks, Michael"

Pond5 answer:
"Hello Michael,
 
Thank you for contacting our Support & Care Team!
 
Our Curators have determined that your submitted media does not meet our qualifications for acceptance. Pond5 strives to maintain a content marketplace full of high quality, risk-free media assets and as a result not everything that is submitted for review can be accepted. We only want to create a quality marketplace that our buyers can trust for their content licensing needs, and it may mean that your content does not meet our criteria for acceptance.
 
You should have received a message from the Curator regarding the files in question:
 
Hello, thank you for the uploads. Pond5 now has over 10 million photos in the collection, therefore we're scaling back on the amount of similar images we accept - due to the very high volume of similar content already in the library. Photos of commonplace things such as clouds, flowers, countryside etc are very saturated, so it is unlikely we will accept many more unless they are very unique or of an extremely high quality. If you have any questions please contact [email protected]. Thanks
 
Please understand that maintaining this high bar is in the interest of the entire community. We encourage you to continue to produce and upload the best content that conforms to our Contributor Guidelines.
 
We appreciate your understanding and hope to be reviewing more submissions from you soon!
 
Kind regards,"


I didn't expect to get an answer with any real information - but this is just a joke... of course I wrote them back, if they are willing to answer my question in any way ;-)

Whilst I shoot 99.9% video, I've got about 1000 images on P5 because it's the best platform to export Metadata CSV. However, in all the years I've never sold a single photo on that site.

Really hope they don't start saying the same about video though.

I have about 2.000 videos and 23.000 images online at P5, but only sold about 20 images there with and RPD of about $4.
I contacted the support to see what they are saying about this... we will see :-)

I am just thinking what will happen if I do not reach the $250 at the end of june... this will mean dropping from 40% to 20%... actually I am at $176 gross sales.

On that $0,12 sales this would mean to get 20% of 60% -> 12%.
Taking 12% of $0.12 means we earn $0.0144 per sale, which is even below some "connect" view on IStock O_o

Definitly time to leave Alamy :-)

Today some images disappered in my portfolio too.
I noticed that because of a sale where the image later disappeared - see screenshot below.

The image was originally at this link https://www.shutterstock.com/image/2133874589 - which is now gone.


I just talked to the support with the following answer to my question about the disappearing images:

ShutterStock:
"My name is ### and although I am not a Shutterstock employee, I am a Shutterstock expert and contributor and am authorised to provide first-line support and will do my best to help.
Sorry that you are having this problem. This appears to be a widespread system issue at the moment as we are getting many such reports. Shutterstock have been notified already so hopefully they will fix the problem soon. In the meantime, thank you for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.
We do not have a timeframe for when the problem will be resolved but we do expect all content to reappear as soon as a fix is implemented."

And later in the dialog I asked:
"Thanks for your answer - so it is known that images are disappearing? Can someone tell me how many and which images of my about 24.000 files are gone?"

ShutterStock:
"I am afraid that is not possible as the issue is affecting thousands of contributors. It seems that the images are still in the database and that the problem is an indexing issue. We are expecting all images to be restored once the issue is resolved"


So there seems to be a bigger problem with disappearing content in the Shutterstock database.
Going to take notes now of my portfolio size for images and videos each day...

Quote from: JustAnImage on March 29, 2022, 05:15

And there we go again... 50 sales today for $0.12 each ($2.86 in my pocket)

In my stats Alamy has an overall RPD in 2022 of $0,41 at 61 sales, which makes it place No. 7 for RPD.
It is time to leave them now :-)

Those downloads in the image, 14 of them are 1 time. Is that just for this report? Some show 4 times downloaded. It all looks like some big partner site that reported their first quarter uses.

No details on who and where, what kind of use?

@UnclePete:
I just checked all the $0.12 sales (times the amount bought) again and there is no additional information about the sales in any form.

Just what my screenshot shows in the original post...

Hello there,

I am new at Canva (there since 8 month) and the review of my photos suddenly stopped about 5-6 weeks ago.
Actually I have 7.000 images online and about 1.000 in the review queue, but nothing was reviewed since weeks.

I already tried to concact the support, but nothing happened - how surprising ;-)

Anyone else with this problem at Canva?

Thanks@All

I asked the support what the "changes" in the new agreement are and got this ansower:

The changes are related to our GPP and LPP programs.

We have removed paragraph 7, which previously referred to the GPP and LLP programs. These programs are now discussed in paragraph 3. This section has been expanded and the changes include the following:
�   Our ability to adjust pricing to maximize overall revenue performance (although artists may still set their own price upon upload).
�   Content may be added to subscription plans or other royalty growth programs with prices that will be determined by Pond5. These plans will be pursued for special promotions to optimize total royalties by targeting customers who we believe will make high volume purchases or commitments that include limited licensing rights.
�   Our ability to distribute and market content to global partners outside of Pond5.

Artists will no longer have the option to opt out of these programs as they did previously.

Yes, same here - not a single sale in March reported so far...