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3951
« on: January 26, 2016, 07:36 »
Cats are quite intelligent but I think you have as much chance of herding them as getting this to fly.......sad but true I think
3952
« on: January 26, 2016, 07:13 »
no one said or insinuated that
Well Shutterstock and other sites seem to think so?
Surely it's not about being old-timers, it's about having a track record of producing stuff people want to buy. One person might have 100 images sitting there from 2004 and still be on the bottom earnings tier while another who started uploading six months ago could already have reached the top tier if he or she is really, really good.
Thanks I can see the Logic of that as a kind of incentive for producing marketable work but does create a perverse logic that it is in the interests of the supplier to encourage customers to go to lower tier supplier's images.
Their interrest is to keep the customers happy by presenting them the best photos available.
If they start playing games, as you suggest, customers will notice and leave, going to agencies with better search algorithms, able to offer a better product.
Their foremost incentive is to keep their customers loyal and happy.
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Actually I thnk you are right up to a point though many customers don't want the best they want something fit for purpose so if two pictures meet that need then it may be that the supplier would want to promote the most profitable to them whether they are sophisticated enough to do this I'm not sure.
3953
« on: January 26, 2016, 06:01 »
no one said or insinuated that
Well Shutterstock and other sites seem to think so?
Surely it's not about being old-timers, it's about having a track record of producing stuff people want to buy. One person might have 100 images sitting there from 2004 and still be on the bottom earnings tier while another who started uploading six months ago could already have reached the top tier if he or she is really, really good.
Thanks I can see the Logic of that as a kind of incentive for producing marketable work but does create a perverse logic that it is in the interests of the supplier to encourage customers to go to lower tier supplier's images.
3954
« on: January 26, 2016, 05:51 »
SS stock price (SSTK) plummet yesterday by 4.14%!
 OUCH
Looks like share holders don't like the contributor backlash to a pay cut? Maybe they realize contributors own the content SS is selling and are worried? Nice that someone is I guess...
Doubt that has anything to do with it.....Stocks are all over the place at the moment and anyway its way overpriced imho
3955
« on: January 26, 2016, 03:42 »
For it to get worse they'll have to come round my house and rob me.......I'm hanging on in the vain hope it just might get better though I suspect they might just close veer down and I might get my paltry funds sitting in there (If im lucky).
3956
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:34 »
You are probably about right for me I shoot stuff I enjoy shooting anyway and don't invest any money so I put time in on keywording and more post processing than I would do for my own needs. I make a little but revised down my earning expectations a long time back.....I'm the kind of person that the "Pros" hate!!!!
3957
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:10 »
The review process seems to have halted completely
3958
« on: January 25, 2016, 16:00 »
no one said or insinuated that
Well Shutterstock and other sites seem to think so?
3959
« on: January 25, 2016, 15:52 »
Why do "vets" consider they should get more than "newbies" anyway.........? Just curious don't want to start a war
3960
« on: January 25, 2016, 15:49 »
My sales have never been so ahead of the rest as they seem to have been for some in the past but they are holding up now. Though I have noticed its the older stuff that seems to sell.
3961
« on: January 25, 2016, 03:42 »
The old IS reviewing before their change of policy was very tough but also fair I learnt a lot from their reviews when I was starting out. I don't think there is a site out there now that helps "newbies" in that way they are all a lottery
3963
« on: January 24, 2016, 17:27 »
They certainly have been rejecting my pictures more efficiently lately  . I doubt the level of inconsistency can be created by IT it takes humans to mess it up so badly.
3964
« on: January 24, 2016, 17:19 »
They're an oddly conservative company. The same business model as when they started, sell it cheap stack it high.
If there's no innovation there can only be one outcome.
Because up till now its worked for them and the competition has been very poor. If someone cracks Quality Control and better ability to identify customer needs through better search/ customer insight technology they could be in trouble but lets wait for the next set of results before we start digging their grave they were still growing pretty fast last time they reported. And actually that model still works in retail after at least 100 years ....in the UK at least the big players forgot it and we now have European discounters snapping at their heels.
3965
« on: January 24, 2016, 13:44 »
Money, so they say Is the root of all evil today But if you ask for a pay rise it's no surprise That they're giving none away  In my previous life it always amused me how people paid far than me would constantly try and argue that money wasn't a motivator.
3966
« on: January 23, 2016, 03:09 »
If only he'd done a Tomato it would have been $2m. While his portraits do look nice the person paying $1m for that was no doubt a prize Turnip
3967
« on: January 23, 2016, 02:50 »
I'm on Veer the site has been dead for months so I'm struggling to see what the downside could be.......on the other hand is there an upside?
3968
« on: January 21, 2016, 11:30 »
Sometimes attempts at irony with user names can be revealing
3969
« on: January 21, 2016, 11:28 »
Yep always buggy but this is darn annoying 
3970
« on: January 21, 2016, 11:01 »
Just processed 20 Files by Ftp only to find they have recorded 100 files submitted and my new files spread in amongst existing files that had already been processed! :'(Any one else?!
3971
« on: January 21, 2016, 02:45 »
"No they are not, and you dont have to licence nothing nowhere if you are determed not to do so. " That may be true but you won't get those pics on various Stock sites ....their sites their call even if they are wrong
3972
« on: January 20, 2016, 17:01 »
Iv'e got lots of generic houses/buildings I clone out things like house numbers only very occasionally asked for Property Release...I find Big Stock very picky sometimes.
3973
« on: January 19, 2016, 17:04 »
Yes you are right it is of course more complicated that's why every agency interprets it differently and there is no yes or no which is why I said its the agency's call
3975
« on: January 19, 2016, 02:15 »
This is a MICROSTOCK discussion board not a PHILOSOPHY discussion board
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