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« on: October 28, 2013, 18:01 »
I have lots of "people" images and select no people as they are not real. You could interpret it as no recognisable people and see if you get a rejection and end up in the sin bin or email them for clarification. It's a a daft, not thought out, bit of data collection.
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« on: October 28, 2013, 16:19 »
DT don't care, not their problem and he probably has a "do anything I like" with IS
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« on: October 28, 2013, 15:03 »
I think the sites should be competing more on the "experience" - mainly a search that returns what buyers are looking for as well as not having annoying sized credit packs and seemingly random different priced collections and so on. They should hire some people to start with the most common search terms and hammer the files that show up in it that are spam (possibly the entire ports - that will get spammer's attention) and maybe move down the images that aren't spam but don't belong there. Clean up the first 10 pages or so of the top 1000 search terms and the big buyers could be a lot happier. Of course when they hide my top selling images I'll be bummed.
Unfortunately the sites that appear to be trying to compete most on price, the Getty PP and Bigstock are linked to some of the most lucrative sites so it is hard to starve them of images.
Good point!! I'd go as far as to say that accurate keywording is probably more important than the images themselves at this stage - I get irritated looking at the spam and I'm not even a buyer.
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« on: October 28, 2013, 12:40 »
Tons of things, some very subjective and some less so. I'm not talking about individual images, I'm talking about product offerings and, with 10s of millions of images, there is nothing that unique or special and the only things that differentiate the agencies are price and perception. Using the example of Apple, there is a perception of quality but there are very few serious companies that have one of those on every desk.
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« on: October 28, 2013, 12:04 »
This is going to be unpopular but there are no new products, just variations on the same products. Stocksy et al are probably good marketing initiatives but, like apple vs pc, they are not offering anything inherently better, just that perception.
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« on: October 27, 2013, 20:03 »
Those guys are probably contributing already (no "best shoring" in stock).
Modelling not so hard, finding low cost high quality models even easier.
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« on: October 27, 2013, 13:13 »
Views don't mean much and lots of them are from bots anyway so wouldn't sweat it.
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« on: October 27, 2013, 10:41 »
Look around this site and you'll see very few people making anywhere near the average and if there are some doing better than the average almost no one is saying so. Most people reporting sales appear to be in the $25 or less per month category or are getting one sale of $10.
There is also a thread started encouraging people to vote for self-hosted "Guys, we need to get in there in droves and report all our SYS sales in the MSG poll. Lets get noticed on the poll and see how many people will jump on board." Best way to get noticed would be to inflate (or flat out lie about) your numbers to inflate the poll results.
By interest in inflating the poll results I meant a financial interest but clearly there is also an emotional interest and a desire to "get noticed".
I can also look around this site and see very few people reporting the kind of earnings that support the istock exclusive poll result. Should I then assume that many exclusives are liars?
Just because you don't see the evidence you want to see around here doesn't mean anything. People are more secretive about earnings these days than ever before.
Do the poll results get gamed a bit? I'm sure. But on the whole, I doubt a few dishonest people can skew the results so dramatically one way or the other.
IS exclusive / self-hosted don't represent the normal cross-section (reasoning contained in earlier posts) of pollsters so numbers will be inflated without anyone actually telling porkies. Based on a very small sample (just Ron) it's probably in the region of 10 for self-hosted, and, based on the fact that big hitters do seem to recover their earnings after dropping the crown, probably in the region of 100 for for exclusives.
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« on: October 26, 2013, 19:02 »
So maybe a score of 10 (which is pretty impressive) would probably be a fair reflection?
There are people here that have an interest in inflating the ratings.
Possibly but more likely the difference is down to the cross-section of contributors that doesn't include the bottom feeders.
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« on: October 26, 2013, 18:39 »
So maybe a score of 10 (which is pretty impressive) would probably be a fair reflection?
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« on: October 26, 2013, 10:55 »
I dont see why its not possible for SH to be ranked so high. People tend to price higher on their own website and also get to keep 90-95% royalties (deducted fees). So if someone makes 100 dollar on IS per month by selling 100 images, and sells 3 images for 75 dollar on his own site, its not unlikely to get SH in the top 3. I wonder how high Stocksy ranks when they get 50 votes.
In your own case, are you making $100 self hosted (or thereabouts) for every $300 @ SS? This is what those numbers are saying
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« on: October 26, 2013, 05:58 »
I believe the numbers are skewed for reasons I've already said above. I guess the real question is to those who have similar ports across self hosted and the top sites - do these numbers reflect the proportions you are actually seeing?
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« on: October 24, 2013, 14:54 »
They weren't whole threads, just 2 posts I made (and yes, in similar circumstances in a work environment I would voice negative opinion where relevant).
The first, in response to some comments from exclusives around PP taking sales from IS and the fact PP is closed to exclusives, I made a point about how the nature of PP sales seems to have changed in September, the RPD is better and wouldn't be surprised if exclusives get the option to have main collection files over there. Considerably less aggressive than the guy who offered to fly to calgary so that he could be rogered by each staff member individually (although maybe that didn't last either).
The 2nd was some guy talking about waiting 4 weeks for scout, there was some BS about research needed and I just pointed out that I cancelled a no research needed ticket after 6 weeks and that scout probably only looks at non-exclusive when there are no exclusive tickets.
All very harmless...
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« on: October 23, 2013, 17:42 »
I've noticed a couple of posts have mysteriously disappeared, no locking, no lobo rant, just sneakily gone - does this happen a lot on the forum?
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« on: October 21, 2013, 17:30 »
That's interesting, could very well be on to something. About 30% missing but the most recent seems to have transferred so looks like an interface in place for current stuff. An update could easily trigger a transfer depending on how it's set up.
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« on: October 21, 2013, 15:38 »
Well done, iStock.
You undercut your exclusives with indie content, you promote old formerly high-selling images to a higher price bracket which kills them dead and won't allow us to demote them, and now you make your low-cost subs so attractive to former refuseniks that now they're clamouring to get into TS.
Just (expletive deleted) fantastic. 
IS has gone from SS volumes at DT royalties to DT volumes and 123 royalties with removal of P+ and the 50% (by IS arithmetic) price cuts. PP looks like producing SS type volumes at SS royalties and, since our return = volume x royalty, it is a much better earner than what it was and, now, miles better than IS itself.
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« on: October 19, 2013, 17:44 »
Doing a bit of uploading & the unabashed dictionary doesn't recognise "toon" as cartoon but does have the newcastle reference 
I'd never call a cartoon a 'toon', and I have no idea about Newcastle. Is Newcastle-upon-Tyne really called 'Toon'? 1 Here Toon means 'town', and my eastern relatives said 'going to the toon' meaning Edinburgh.
1 Oh, apparently it's a nickname for Newcastle United football team. Well, that's my something learned for the day, but it's not very useful. I bet for that very reason it will stick in my head, pushing out a hard-learned PS shortcut. 
There is the story about some manager / pundit who had to make an apology having joked about beckham thinking the tsunami disaster damage was was caused by newcastle supporters (toon army) - on the toon thing - never saw roger rabbit? @bhr - totally misinterpreted your post 
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« on: October 19, 2013, 15:45 »
and not unique to IS - all sites levy tax on US sales (fortunately @ 0% here)
I thought iS did not have that US tax thing because they are a Canadian company.
Actually, never had to fill in a form @ IS and could be wrong (was just referencing an earlier post) Doing a bit of uploading & the unabashed dictionary doesn't recognise "toon" as cartoon but does have the newcastle reference
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« on: October 19, 2013, 15:23 »
and not unique to IS - all sites levy tax on US sales (fortunately @ 0% here)
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« on: October 19, 2013, 11:40 »
I never thought I'd hear "getting onto TS" as a benefit of uploading to iStock.
"Strange days indeed" (Lennon)
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« on: October 19, 2013, 10:19 »
IS itself is gone down the toilet but the PP seems to be doing better than SS (per image) so I reckon I'll upload everything to IS to get the PP sales.
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« on: October 19, 2013, 07:31 »
From a cursory read of the thread and zero experimentation I'm assuming that the software will generate a sortable "similarity value" - on that basis, the best market would be to market as a component with an interface that could be used by web sites and suppliers of image editing software.
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« on: October 18, 2013, 18:05 »
EMAIL THEM Submission @ 123RF < [email protected] >
Credit where it's due, customer service is top class.
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« on: October 18, 2013, 17:58 »
A guy goes into an "all you can eat" restaurant and pays 5 bucks. In the very unlikely event that he eats an entire cow, does the farmer who raised the animal and for which he received payment at the market rate, feel that is work has been devalued?
Probably he does not feel that way. Because tomorrow that guy will feel hungry again and will need another cow. But in MS, once you download a RF image you use it until the end of time, if not you share it with your colleagues/friends.
But the farmer can only sell his cow once, while I can sell an image many, many times.
He can sell his cow once but he can produce as much as he want when he sees an opportunity. Also he does not have to be creative, he can produce the similar ones over and over again. But here I need to be creative; I can produce the same image only once.
@michaeldb - Exactly!! @ ACS - you're obviously missing a trick - most people repeat pretty much the same thing over and over
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« on: October 17, 2013, 17:42 »
A guy goes into an "all you can eat" restaurant and pays 5 bucks. In the very unlikely event that he eats an entire cow, does the farmer who raised the animal and for which he received payment at the market rate, feel that is work has been devalued?
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