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476
« on: March 27, 2013, 03:51 »
DP took all the same images, the other agencies took a selection.
DP take anything. I've never had an image rejected there.
477
« on: March 27, 2013, 03:47 »
I cannot fathom why there is a small clique of Getty apologists who refuse to believe that what Sean has said is what happened. Even further, I can't understand why they'd waste their time on MSG to set us poor country bumpkins straight - those of us who take Sean at his word.
And as for Getty's side of things, their track record speaks for itself - it'd be easier to defend Attila the Hun and Vlad the Impaler as social workers at heart than to pitch Getty as the hardly done by agency scr*wed over by the evil SuperLocke.
Go and complain about us and Sean someplace else.
I couldn't agree more. If there is one person that I trust to tell the truth it is Sean. Let's face it, telling it like it is, is what got him into this trouble.
478
« on: March 27, 2013, 03:38 »
Even adding the model releases takes more clicks than anywhere else!!
479
« on: March 27, 2013, 03:35 »
The site looks great, is fast and responsive. Just the uploading, especially the descriptions, keywords etc...are a pain. Although I agree with weighted keywords. But why do i have to add manually how many people are in the picture? That is what model releases are for, right?
+1000 Drives me mad uploading there. Also I use IrfanView to keyword my images and this is the only site that it doesn't export all the keywords to so I have to go and manually add more.
480
« on: March 26, 2013, 03:56 »
have it figured out, using the flash upload to bulk upload. now, someone please tell me there is a way to bath edit? so far, not finding it...:-)
Look at my post in this thread where I already told you 
481
« on: March 25, 2013, 16:31 »
This is not some hard case police state. We're all working together for success.
How refreshing to read that 
482
« on: March 25, 2013, 15:14 »
I thought that the earnings were on the low side but just realized that I am missing 8-9-10-11-23-28
483
« on: March 25, 2013, 13:37 »
If you go to My Files and then Indexing you can add model releases, catagories etc in batches.
484
« on: March 23, 2013, 18:30 »
Dont forget to erase you footer here on MSG forum
My iStockphoto Buyer's Tips Blog
Or he can change the blog to say Tip no 1. Don't buy at Istock.
485
« on: March 23, 2013, 13:09 »
Being relatively new to MSG I'm curious, do iStock staff ever come to MSG to explain/clarify certain items of interest?
Many other MS sites staff come along from time to time to explain things and answer questions. If someone from iStock would stop in to answer questions, it would go a long way with people.
Too much to ask?
I'm pretty sure at least one participant in this discussion is an Istock admin, but he/she mostly comes in to try and derail the discussions and create confusion, not answer questions or shed any real light on anything.
Yes I have the same suspicions
486
« on: March 23, 2013, 12:25 »
Being relatively new to MSG I'm curious, do iStock staff ever come to MSG to explain/clarify certain items of interest?
Lobo comes across sometimes under the alias of pieman. You can see his posts from this link http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?u=1063
487
« on: March 23, 2013, 08:39 »
I'm on course to beat my previous BME by about 10%. March last year was not at all impressive. I made more 8 other months in the last 12 than I did in March.
488
« on: March 22, 2013, 08:43 »
@mostphotos support
From what I am reading in this thread it seems that where your images come in the search position is largely based on how many people 'like' your photo. Is that still true? As I will never contribute to a site where my images can be pushed back behind inferior images just because a group of people are forming ratings gangs.
Well, when you go to "explore" and look at "popular contributions", that is true.
However, that is not how the buyers look for images. They search for keywords and then it is the images that have been sold and viewed the most that end up first in the search results.
We are working on a new formula that will take more factors into consideration but it will never be likes that determine what comes up first in the buyers' searches.
I hope that answers your question!
Lina @ Mostphotos
OK thank you. That sounds more interesting then.
489
« on: March 22, 2013, 04:46 »
@mostphotos support
From what I am reading in this thread it seems that where your images come in the search position is largely based on how many people 'like' your photo. Is that still true? As I will never contribute to a site where my images can be pushed back behind inferior images just because a group of people are forming ratings gangs.
491
« on: March 20, 2013, 17:50 »
A lot of this stuff will make more sense once its installed.
Network browsing (I have myself as a network member, but you get the idea):
http://www.clipartillustration.com/freefiles/network_results.swf
Wow that's great. Makes it all look so simple. Thank you. I will read all the other posts slowly and carefully.
492
« on: March 20, 2013, 17:23 »
I'm interested but not answered as I haven't got a clue how to even start joining in on this yet so will wait until I understand it all more.
493
« on: March 20, 2013, 14:02 »
I'm a fulltime photographer making half of my money from stock and half for private work.
494
« on: March 19, 2013, 09:17 »
Just a thought but you aren't going back to the error page each time by mistake are you. Look at the url and see if it the one of the error page.
495
« on: March 19, 2013, 08:07 »
I started to upload to them about a year ago and have about 600 images there all RF and I am quite pleased with how it's going. This month I've had 6 of the 27$ sales which netted me 13.50 each and one little sale that netted me about 2$.
In previous months I have had one that sold for more than 400$, one for more than 200$ and one for just over 100$ although most of my sales are the 27$ ones.
Although it doesn't make as much as some sites it is nice to see high commissions on individual sales.
ETA - the images that I upload to Alamy are on all the other micro sites that I upload to.
496
« on: March 19, 2013, 02:57 »
I don't think that most people starting to upload now would earn much there as an independent. My earnings have gone down considerably but I still get a decent cheque each month, mostly because of older proven images selling. I have stopped uploading there now for many reasons one of them being that my new images never sell.
Of the last 20 images that show on my dls page.
6 are from 2006
2 from 2007
5 from 2008
5 from 2009
1 from 2010
1 from2011
Would be interested to know if anybody else is seeing this sort of pattern.
497
« on: March 18, 2013, 15:16 »
I do primarily vectors so our experiences may differ. However I find, especially lately, that my new submissions sell well at SS and my new submissions are not selling elsewhere. I have decent sales at other agencies but it is all files that are 6-12 months old or older.
Lately I'm finding that new files take off as quick at fotolia as they do at SS
Lucky. My sales all but stopped there. 
It only is really new images that sell. Probably about 7 out of 10 of my sales are images uploaded this year.
498
« on: March 18, 2013, 14:49 »
I was wondering, what are the lower and upper limits of the gauges? How is it divided?
Sell a few more licenses and you'll find out! I think the IS gauge goes full-scale at about 15K and the DT gauge something less than that.
I thought that it was 25000 for IS and 15000 for Dt.
499
« on: March 18, 2013, 14:34 »
I do primarily vectors so our experiences may differ. However I find, especially lately, that my new submissions sell well at SS and my new submissions are not selling elsewhere. I have decent sales at other agencies but it is all files that are 6-12 months old or older.
Lately I'm finding that new files take off as quick at fotolia as they do at SS
500
« on: March 16, 2013, 04:18 »
fotografer and microstockphoto.co.uk
Looking at the map can be useful I think, maybe more when, as me, you are new on microstocks.
In this way I had the confirmation that if I want to sell images in Asia I should find some asian sites
But the few that I have found are in languages that I cannot understand (and no english version of course)
I think that Asia is a great (new growing) market. But how to reach it if the occidental sites are not seen/used there?
I wasn't suggesting that nobody would find it useful just that it doesn't interest me. My post was to offer a possible reason why there are not many replies to the thread. If I found out that a lot of my images sell in Asia it wouldn't influence what I upload or where I upload it.
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