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Messages - michaeldb
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« on: January 27, 2012, 22:52 »
My sales have picked up quite a bit since the changes at GL. So if one of their goals is more volume, it may be working. Anyway, I have no plans to stop submitting. Submission is so easy that it takes almost no time. Might as well give them a chance and see how things go.
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« on: January 25, 2012, 23:03 »
"Dont worry. When first words become common enough, they become meaningless..."
Yes, like 'utilize'. As in "There are many programs in the works utilizing the brainpower and reach of our newly combined Getty Images and iStock teams to achieve this goal exactly." iStock 1-24-12
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« on: January 25, 2012, 14:41 »
So far this month: 52% subs. (Where I'm coming from: I do vectors and I got a Christmas card from SS.)
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« on: January 25, 2012, 14:36 »
Interesting discussion. Why couldn't SS charge for downloads and also sell ads?
Some sites which sell IP Licenses to use images in much the same way as SS do sell ad space. One example is Renderosity. I think Turbosquid also sells some adspace.
SS could split the ad revenue 3 ways: pay us more; lower subscription prices (and so get an edge on the competition); and make more profit.
If SS made it clear that selling ads would lower the lower the prices which buyers pay and increase the royalties which submitters earn, would buyers and submitters go along with it?
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« on: January 25, 2012, 14:28 »
It's gonna take some time to get used to the new dashboard though. It seems like there's more information for us to look at on there now.
It didn't take me much time, considering how completely they changed everything. It all seemed to make sense right away. I guess they learned from the right and wrong things other sites have done. All the changes look great to me.
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« on: January 18, 2012, 16:53 »
Looks like most of the sites which threatened a real blackout have backed down.
What legislation emerges, if any, will depend on one issue: Who can bribe the most politicians: Google et al or Hollywood and the music labels?
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« on: January 17, 2012, 20:11 »
This is interesting but probably academic. At the last minute, the Obama administration has announced opposition to the bill. Apparently he intends to veto it. I doubt if there is enough support in Congress to overcome his veto. So that's the end of that.
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« on: January 13, 2012, 22:52 »
...Here's a link to those graphics at sweetsham.com:
http://sweetsham.com/gallery.php?gid=45
Great job on your site, I enjoyed looking at it. Bad news: it made me hungry.
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« on: January 12, 2012, 21:47 »
http://www.cartoonstock.com/default.asp
i happen to see this site during google something else..
and the cartoon there is quite humourous.
Good link. Interesting the way that they calculate the price for a publication license.
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« on: January 11, 2012, 19:04 »
I like them, I like the happy colorful style. And I think they will sell. But I agree with the posters above. If you submit them one a time they may be 'Overly Simple'.
It has been 6 yrs since I submitted my first 10, so I don't know what the standards are these days. But if you want to be on the safer side, maybe you should draw more and submit them in as sets of icons, in groups of at least four-per-image.
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« on: January 11, 2012, 14:42 »
Whatever the political or IP implications, it looks like World's Greatest Microstock Model is boiling down to a battle between Lisa's husband and Yuri's girlfriend. They both seem to be everywhere. I wonder who will win?
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« on: January 11, 2012, 14:34 »
With the help of 3 ELs so far, I am (barely) on a BME pace this month at SS. And I do illustrations. Growth at SS continues to be, for me, stronger than at any other site.
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« on: January 10, 2012, 15:45 »
My sales at GL weren't bad in Dec, considering the normal Christmas slowdown. And I've had some sales in January. GL is still one of my favorite sites. Fair reviews, easy uploading, and very fair pay rates.
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« on: January 06, 2012, 14:43 »
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« on: December 28, 2011, 22:58 »
...Istock has the largest profit margin in the microstock industry, charging the highest to buyers and paying lowest to photographers. The service they provide just isn't superior enough to justify that profit margin...
Good points. Finally, microstock is a business and the realities of business will apply. If iStock had barriers to entry or other unique advantages, they could possibly get away with what they are doing, but as it is, the marketplace is too open to allow them to make as many mistakes as they have made and be as cavalier as they have been, and get away with it. It seems that Getty bought the pooch and then scr*wed it.
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« on: December 28, 2011, 18:08 »
Obviously,nobody has called the buyers stupid, but your rant seems to point to some kind of deep frustration. Vent on, if that makes you feel better.
"Vent on, if that makes you feel better." The official motto of the iStock Contributor Relations Department?
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« on: December 27, 2011, 15:36 »
My December sales, as of today, are down 40% from my November total, which was a BME for me at 123RF.
That is a pretty significant drop, but looking back to 2010, I see that my December 123RF sales dropped about 40% from November of that year. So the same thing happened then.
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« on: December 22, 2011, 19:19 »
I guess it's already the day before Christmas Eve in Asia, so it's not too early to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!
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« on: December 22, 2011, 17:51 »
Other? Y: No LCV check, as a way to create an alternative library and let buyers decide if I must choose just one
I think this is a great answer. If you don't make reviewers try to predict commercial value, and streamlined reviewing in other ways, then surely you could cut reviewing costs substantially. And letting the buyers decide what has commericial value is the best way to get a commercially valuable inventory. For all of iStock's current problems, I think that one of their big mistakes beginning long ago was to reject tons of great vectors for crazy, senseless reasons. That left a big door open to IS's competitors, when most good illustrators had no choice but to go elsewhere to sell their most commercial images, and could never seriously consider exclusivity because of iStock's idiotic reviews of vectors.
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« on: December 21, 2011, 20:54 »
(a) A sort order shift is gonna hurt some folks but surely someone has to benefit?
Yeah. In my case it seems to be Bigstock. Sales are THROUGH THE ROOF yesterday and today. Easily double my previous best day there.
I couldn't understand it until I read this thread, but maybe it's becoming a hot spot for disaffected Istock buyers who don't want to get sub plans?
Having my best day in a while on Bigstock, but really rocking on DT, probably my best day ever there. More than twice my normal day (and only one was a Christmas image, so it's not a Christmas thing). Thank you, iStock?
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« on: December 20, 2011, 14:24 »
DP does seem to be coming on strong. They have some very tempting offers for buyers going on now.
-20% off on selected Christmas images
-what look like the lowest-priced subscription plans in the industry
-FREE 7 day subscriptions, with up to 5 dls per day allowed
I know that a lot of people here distrust DP, and I understand that. And DP pays very low royalties, but at least DP also charges very low prices, unlike some sites (or one site) which lower commissions while raising prices.
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« on: December 18, 2011, 14:33 »
Shutterstock, OTOH, has just given me two HUGE BMEs. Feeding the beast seem to be unnecessary there these days.
I have been submitting less to SS and earning more. Clearly the 'Feed the beast or die days' are gone there. Probably due in part to changes in search engine weighting of new images and partly because of PPD alternatives to subscription.
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« on: December 16, 2011, 21:23 »
Wonderful photos! You made my day! 
You made Christmas merrier in two hemispheres! 
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« on: December 16, 2011, 21:21 »
Subscription prices and royalties don't bother me. I really don't care how much I make for one sale; it's the total that interests me.
How could lowering prices result in making more money? It happens all the time in business. Would Dunkin' Donuts make more money if they were charging $10 for one doughnut? Low prices make possible things which cannot happen when prices are high. New kinds of customers enter the market. Consider a designer who is thinking about using an image she finds on iStock. She downloads a comp and works on it in PShop to see if it will work in her design, maybe isolating it or whaterver. If it does work, she buys it and starts working on the full size image, doing to it what she did with the comp. But if she has a subscription to SS, she just downloads the full size image and starts working on it. She doesn't have to do the same work twice. This may not seem like much of a difference, but it is a big difference to designers. If I can download 20 images from SS for the same price one image costs me on IS, it will enable me to work in new ways. And I may end up buying more images than ever. This is really what's happening.
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« on: December 15, 2011, 21:42 »
Ill still be rooting Veer on from the sidelines while navigating new adventures.
I'm sure everyone here is rooting you on too, and wishes you good fortune in 2012.
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