yes there probably are spammers, even though there was a very good webinar tutorial about such things (particularly aimed at newbies). I personally love that I can get away with fewer keywords. I've had a few images rejected for style, nothing said about keywords so far, so I guess it's open slather. sad but realistic that there will always be a few who are selfish (and ... what's a nice word for "stupid"?).

what categories?
I only do: title description, keywords, MR. there are no categories to add things to, unless it's my own gallery.

Thanks for the compliment but the reason I am doing well is why I wanted to stay a bit low profile.

you wanted to stay unnoticed by posting what a great month you are having? 

ps. love your port.

Quote from: Red Dove on July 14, 2013, 01:30

Quote from: Silken Photography on July 13, 2013, 23:47

It's halfway through a Canadian weekend (give or take), and I've only had one PP sale through, from 3rd.  I know I only have a small port, but I usually see more than that, especially if this weekend is May AND June.  It sounds like I'm not alone in seeing far fewer sales than expected (though do correct me if I'm wrong), which is a) reassuring, it's not just that my port has gone down the plughole, and b) concerning, what is going on with PP?

Its knackered mate.

"Knackered".  Had to use my dictionary for that one.  The Istock forum is really good for my English.  I'm learning lots of new words they don't teach you at school in Belgium   

in lesser polite terms I'd say "buggered" rather than "knackered".

I am just so annoyed right now. I have enough to cash out but I want to wait for the PP payments - to top off the tank so to speak. But they seem to have stalled. Quelle surprise!

I just hate the idea of letting IS keep my money but I am too stubborn to ask for payout before I get what is due me. Am I cutting off my nose to spite my face or just being greedy?

I'd cash out now, it could take another week to get PP completed and by then (depending on how much you sell) you may be close to payout again?

hopefully it means they are trying to do stuff, although I have nothing more than one PP sale for the 2nd may.

Perhaps the hamsters needed a break from running inside the wheel. Either that or maybe someone was eating pies too close to the main server and now it is FUBARED?    

or knocked over their glass of wine... which happened to me last week. = one dead macbook pro

getting 503 error when attempting to check my sales- could they be upgrading the PP?

no, surely you'd have a planned outage for upgrades? how does PP reporting crash the whole site??

Quote from: tickstock on July 12, 2013, 11:43

It's not supposed to start until the weekend.  http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354958&page=1

Hi tickstock,

Thank you for the link. Which I've been reading since it's started.
But I'm confused, why some people has already reported that's they had one or two PP sales.
 

this is indeed a very good question.
i've now had one show up for the 2nd also.

what's the longest PP has ever taken?

Thanks everyone. Certainly will keep pushing. So much to learn with this industry. Got to be more conceptual and work out timing of images too. For example kids and Christmas images going up in September.

last year was my first real Christmas and I got caught out by uploading a bit late with some stuff - although I did take note of advice here and shoot one series of xmas stuff at the beach in Sept, which sold very well. Curiously, I am still selling xmas images at least once a week, which surprises me as it's aussie beach/summer xmas, not cliched northern hemisphere xmas.

I find it hard to make winter images as i'm usually too cold to be bothered with photography. That's the curse of being a wussy tropical Australian. I'm going to NZ in September and I'm planning on taking a bauble so i can make some winter xmas images, so I can have both type of images in my port. (that's the plan, although it may fall apart as there are many great wine regions in NZ too)

Quote from: Ron on July 05, 2013, 08:33

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 05, 2013, 08:19

I'm sure it has or will have some influence on best match, otherwise, what's the point?  And the point is obviously to boost some contributors over others.  It certainly isn't applied per image as our Vetta friend OJO+ shows.

However, it's surprising they unveiled it with zero explanation.  To me, it's another attempt to copy something from stocksy.

Alamy had editors pick long before Stocksy.

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2012/10/29/5241.aspx

29 October 2012

Exactly.  And Dreamstime's had Editor's Picks for as long as I can remember - certainly quite a number of years.

and I recall getting a bonus $5 once for an editorial editor's pick on DT.

The internet spiraled out of control and there is no education or other means to explain not everything on the internet is free. Its too little too late.

not sure why you got a - for this, as I agree. (but perhaps it relates to my idea that you've upset someone before? I was tempted to + it to even it up but it would ruin my point)

+1 so many users have no clue that Google images aren't free. i've mentioned this before: the art teacher at my children's primary school actually teaches them how to search and download images, and she thinks they are free to use. this problem isn't going to go away.