Finally, by redisintermediating, Yuri is regaining the most valuable part of the stock photography business:  the customer relationships.  He�s already been hard at work doing this, with 2,000 active photo buyers already in his records (50 have been beta-testing the site, buying 10 � 30 per day).  Now he has a substantially more lucrative destination to direct his promotional resources and leverage the fame he�s built as the �worlds top selling stock photographer�.

http://www.microstockdiaries.com/yuri-arcurs-launches-peopleimages-com-the-ultimate-direct-sales-website.html

That wording is a bit iffy, let alone the spurious nature of the "exclusivity". All other MAJOR stock agencies? What about the minor ones? Is it that some places aren't willing or able to pull images whenever Yuri asks them to?

that might be a smaller problem, I believe the tons of agencies partners would be a lot harder, 5 working days.. if all agencies work as good as IS on the thinkstock migration I believe it will take more like 500 days 

Quote from: luissantos84 on May 02, 2012, 18:45

Quote from: Fyletto on May 02, 2012, 07:11

Anyone got more "blooming nature" downloads yesterday? :-)

I had one, a pretty old one that actually has a sensor spot on it

It really gets my goat when people laugh about providing a sub-standard service to our customers. Selling images with hidden defects reflects badly on all of us.

I believe you are way pissed around Yuri and starting to be mean all around, you need to deal with that issue please.. regarding my picture it was done in 2009 where actually I didn�t knew jack about sensor spots, only noticed it yesterday when I saw the sale, I believe that we should laugh about ourself if not we are just too serious.. for sure I will work around that picture and upload again, please don�t go and tell Jon

basically she was covering all the tiny trademarks so it went like that, anyway I don�t believe it is polite to open this kind of topic..

welcome! I probably don't have the right to say "welcome" as I'm a relative newb to this site also. But even in this newbie forum a lot of the old dogs are lurking. There are some truly amazing, successful stock photogs here, and some very jaded ppl here. If you're not so green in stock you might fare ok.... I think the rest of the newbs hide. I myself am new to stock but am in my 4th decade (and I've birthed 3 children & tolerated one husband for 12 years) so I don't take **** from anyone.  enjoy

oh yeah 

2 sales from July and October 2011, nothing after

Quote from: Morphart on May 02, 2012, 17:59

Quote from: Anita Potter on May 02, 2012, 17:18

It's a special license a buyer purchases to use images in a "sensitive" nature i.e. medical, homelessness stuff like that.  My brain is drawing a blank to explain it better.

The SU license gets the contributor up to $70 in royalties.  Not sure what the $90 would fall under.  So far they're not telling us anything unless it's them testing things out?

Thanks for th� explanation. I can understand the meaning behind sensitive use.

But for an illustration, I wouldnt think someone will buy a SU license... Confusing

Well my understanding is that sensitive use is just a part of a new license that SS is offering - it may include other things like better number of copies, etc. So when someone buys a picture of tea leaves they don't care about sensitive use aspect of the license, but may want some other terms that this license contains. Which really sucks for photographers with people in their portfolios - just because I don't want to allow my models to be used in some questionable campaigns, my other images - not containing people - can not be sold with this new license! This still doesn't make any sense to me - why couldn't they allow to opt-out just images with model releases attached to them?

you are right, SS should have an option to opt-in in pictures not containing MR's, doesn�t look hard to implement I guess..

the logo looks great - a nice upgrade.

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I played the video on their blog page and even though I closed the browser window that repetitious song is still playing.. hmmm.... subliminal messaging??

mine is blurred

Quote from: lisafx on May 01, 2012, 17:05

Anyone planning to buy shares?

I would not buy shares in any creative corp or service, waste of time. I once bought shares in one of the worlds most prominent AD-agencies, sold them six months later,  waste of time. When depression hits the globe, the"creative-world",  is the first one to bite the dust.

all world is crappy already (USA, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and many other) and contributors/agencies keep on collecting..

Luis and Oliver, what else?

great job guys!

Quote from: wut on May 02, 2012, 04:32

Lise Gagne (and a small fraction of other big players, but she's the biggest of all of them) on the other hand is doing what she loves, her photos show it. She shoots less lately (in the last couple of years or so), but she does shoot interesting things she enjoys, that chimpanzee businessman is brilliant (very stocky too) and then there are shoots that aren't as saleable (and I'm sure she knows it), but she shoots them anyway, because she enjoys the process of taking them. Then there are all those playful mustache photos etc. She started to really enjoy herself after becoming big, not being burdened if the new series are going to bring in a ton of money like the old did or not. It looks as though she doesn't really care about that (but also knowing at the same time her old series will still keep on bringing her lots of money) and just enjoys herself. That's love for photography! And I'd do exactly the same if I made just 10% of what she did.

You know, this is really very astute.  I don't follow Lise's port, so I didn't know what she'd been up to lately, but it's good to know she's finding a way to stay creative and enjoy what she's doing. 

I was having almost this exact conversation with my husband the other night.  I was (of course) complaining about how lousy sales were in April, and how demoralizing it is to see the downward trends in sales and earnings.  The directions all the major sites seem to be going in do not inspire optimism. 

My husband's response was - "So just shoot what you enjoy, that way it doesn't matter as much if you make the money.  At least you'll be having fun".  Brilliant!  This is exactly what you are describing that Lise has been doing. 

Seems like if the industry continues in its current direction, those of us who are not factories will be well advised to go back to shooting what we enjoy, or else get out altogether. 

I was never a Yuri fan but that is very unfair IMO.. I am sure Yuri loves photography, everybody keep on saying that stock ain�t art so I don�t understand why people keep on saying Yuri is a factory or this or that.. how cannot he not love photography? sure the money makes us happy too but we cannot say that doing stock or only photographing our life ain�t an amazing thing, I have a blast every time I pick up my camera, certainly it is the coolest thing on earth, that and sushi

actually I dont know a person that don�t love photography, only women on the first second but after a few shoots they are all in love (a few you look gorgeous help too)

He won't have to worry about overheads such as paying highly qualified reviewers...... he already has staff so he can redirect a few of them into marketing and site maintenance. The bigger question is: will he undercut the others to gain new business?  Will that drive prices down?

have you seen his website? his pricing is 2x the regular exclusive file or a photo+ at iStock