Feb 2nd is tomorrow.
But which timezone.
Greenwich mean time?

Everything on the iStock site is measured by their time - MST which is GMT - 7. Wouldn't it make sense to use that?

And where I am, February 1st is tomorrow (Friday) and February 2nd is the day after (Saturday), so I'm guessing you're east of me

Just found one of my images on Google Drive. And it's free! yay!

Time to make more changes.

Sorry to hear you got caught in the net. If you do deactivate files, can you keep tabs on the number to post in the Tally thread

That thread on FredMiranda is downright scary. Is this the Alex Hibbert who was banned and had his images removed in a few hours from Getty?

http://www.alexhibbert.com

http://alexhibbertphoto.squarespace.com/polar/

I have never heard of anything like this happening on istock. The only cases of portfolio deletion was of people uploading content that wasn�t their own, i.e. criminal behavior/fraud.

Very strange way to deal with people, especially if it all gets shared immediately on the internet/forums/blogs.

How would reports like these be good for a companies online reputation? 

I think it is the polar explorer - there were a couple of threads that touched on it and then this one which went a bit off the rails but where someone "yelled" at him that he wasn't a photographer at all, just a polar explorer who took some snapshots!!

The reverse of a promise not to do any more deals like the Google deal - working hard ... new customers ... new business models.

- No discussion of an opt out.
- No discussion of informing us of what deals are happening once they are signed.
- No list of images in the Google deal
- No information about how many files are there now and what the planned total is.
- No date for an update on progress in undoing/revising the Google deal (things are still proceeding...)

Forgive me if a promise to license my content responsibly seems rather hollow in light of the deal they did with Google - if they thought that was responsible, I want to know what other deals they're working on.

For those who have content in the Microsoft deal, I guess the second part is good news - but set an alert in your calendar to go and check in 60 days to make sure the content is gone.

I think this is pretty underwhelming.

I just uploaded 25 files as a test - I never used the old site, so I can't compare, but I have used a ton of stock web sites and I think Pond5's interface is just awful.

It's very, very hard to find things - and you often have that sensation that you saw what you wanted somewhere but can't remember how to get back to that screen. Attaching model releases is not intuitive and there is no feedback after you complete that step of how many releases (or their names) you attached when you look at the list of images. I filled out their survey - even though it's mainly asking about old versus new - saying that compared to competing sites, their upload and contributor process is not good.

It did read my camera data, copyright and creation date from the EXIF, but for composites or other items, I don't want to waste time telling them what software I used (not even sure it's any concern of theirs anyway). I just put PS in for one composite that didn't have camera data.

Even when I thought the files had all the necessary information, the "Needs Edit" button still showed. So I just did a bulk "Send to Curator" anyway and they become pending. No feedback in the interface I could see what it was that needed editing (all the required fields were filled in).

We'll see how this test goes, but compare Pond5 uploading to GL Stock or even PhotoDune, let alone Shutterstock, and it's pretty poor.

I had been writing "you know why #feb2" and other clever things and simply pasting it in.  yesterday  by mistake I pasted in an email that I was sending to my cousins, an invitation up to our beach house this week end. I must have sent that email in between (and i'd cutnpaste some info over for another invite).

I was working so fast I pressed the Deactivate button. oops

The real oops would be if someone from iStock shows up this weekend

But aren't you in Australia? So that cuts down the likelihood of a visitor from Canada

I have blonde moments all the time, but even on my worst days, I can tell arses from eyes

The CV can't keep up with changes fast enough, can't be a comprehensive catalog of everything and everyone on the planet, and its complexity has apparently outstripped the ability of the geniuses maintaining it

I have slept on this, and am still angry, but also very upset. I can not believe that after allowing somebody to steal 136 of my files, they close my thread down, ban me from the forums, and accuse me of lying. All I can imagine is they want to keep the scale of their incompetence and lack of security quiet. What a way to treat Clients, shocking.

They can't ban you from Facebook, Twitter or posting on your own blog. I'd suggest you make a lot of noise about what happened to you. Be careful not to libel them - don't want more fun with the Getty legal team - but there is generally a fair bit of mileage in getting the word out about what's going on and how a contributor's work was mishandled. It won't get you your files back, but it should allow you to set the record straight.

Horrible as this is, it isn't an isolated incident at iStock - having large numbers of sales in a short period of time that turn out to be fraud. They keep saying that this is just the cost of doing business online and via credit cards, but if that's true, why isn't this happening at all the agencies? I just don't buy their explanations.

It was Pixmac. They will delete them if I upload

The way I find my portfolio on partner sites is to pick a few keywords, locate my images in search results and then find the portfolio button from that image.

I received a reply from Pond5 support that their partnership with 123rf has ended now as they've relaunched their web site. I did find 388 of my images there under a new name, not the 123rf username which is different from everywhere else - with the Pond5 watermark. I've written back to support to ask them what's up with that.

Quote from: jsnover on January 30, 2013, 12:13

I have heard nothing from IS or SS so far.

What's odd is all I see for my name is thumbnails from SS, BS and one from 3dstudio. (nice reminder, thanks, I just deleted all on 3Dstudio)

Biggest one is 450x353 from SS.

I'm searching on my Micro name. Should I be doing something else? Searching my real name I find the largest image is on SS forums, 1000x### where I posted it?

What am I doing wrong that I don't find larger images like others here do?

Your name isn't in the file name the stock sites use when buyers download images. It's when you search on the agency name (as it appears in the files downloaded) that you hit the treasure trove of high res images. You might try the image number of your best sellers as an image search and see what that yields

Welcome - the graph is not a pretty picture

I know it's been said elsewhere, but the biggest prep work you can do is to ensure all your keywords and other metadata are in the ITPC of your images, and that they're in real-people English not Getty-CV-speak. So yard and garden not Front or Back Yard and Formal Garden. Deep Meta will read your keywords and you can disambiguate there.