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« on: January 13, 2024, 05:54 »
I want to share my custom keywords generator. I've used it for thousands of stock images I've published in the last year with great results. It's quick and easy to use, generates a list of keywords and a breakdown for each keyword with amount of results. it's free, try it here: https://upstock.guru/keyword_checker
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« on: December 26, 2023, 10:41 »
There is something strange going on with rejections for sure,
over 50% rejections for quality issues for my latest submissions, when the whole of last year was under 10% (thousands of images)
Is it higher standards?
Nothing changed in the quality of my images, I got even better at editing/upscaling over time...
Something fishy is going on with all the reports I see here
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« on: November 30, 2023, 03:08 »
I had the same issue, got an answer at [email protected]
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« on: October 06, 2023, 14:02 »
a bit faster yes, still at around 3 weeks for me
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« on: October 01, 2023, 06:20 »
Once you have some payouts, it's getting annoying to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the payment status, and it makes more sense to flip the order...
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« on: September 13, 2023, 01:07 »
yes same here not sure what's going on...
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« on: March 05, 2023, 16:52 »
There is a new upload category/type on 123RF "AI-Generated Images", I just noticed it few days ago
Full updated stock sites list here:
https://upstock.guru/information/stock-sites-list-for-contributors.html
why are you pimping your website rather than a link to the actual subject 123 announcement?
because there is no announcement
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« on: January 17, 2023, 10:08 »
Well this is just sad,
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« on: January 16, 2023, 12:27 »
Doesn't seem very helpful in my genre. "Cincinnati, Ohio" and "Cleveland, Ohio" didn't turn up images for the cities. "Columbus, Ohio" did better. Of course, the results are relative to the material on the stock photo sites you have selected.
It would be very handy to make your count results, for each site, linkable to the actual search on that site. I.E. Your result for "Ohio" has Adobe with 47,909 hits. I would like to click on 47,909 and run the real search on Adobe for "Ohio".
What's the point of looking up a single keyword? You can just got to the site and search.. This checker will help you sort a list of keywords by the amount of results each one has, so you can rank on keywords with less competition.. Try something like: cleveland, ohio, skyline, oh, city, river, downtown, cuyahoga, fall, landmark, night, waterfront, autumn, bridge, lake, scenery, eerie, park, famous, business, water, landscape, architecture, modern, lights, buildings, financial, urban, cityscape, skyscrapers, evening, dawn, outdoors, district, town, location, historical, historic, scene, usa, american, scenic, america, viewAbout linkable results, they are available to registered users only.
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« on: January 16, 2023, 10:21 »
You could try calling them on the customer line and explain your situation?
Is this 1998? I'm not in US, and blocking your contact form is very unusual for a company that size
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« on: January 16, 2023, 09:07 »
I'm trying to contact SS and all I get is:
"Something went wrong with Contact Us request processing"
It's not a temp issue, over a month now...
Is there any other way to contact some type of support?
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« on: January 14, 2023, 15:11 »
Try our new stock sites keyword to amount of images checker: Features: - Check up to 50 keywords at once - Results from adobe and freepik (more will be added soonᵀᴹ) - All keywords data is refreshed weekly - New keywords data added each hour - Over 100k keywords data already available - Sort and copy ordered list - Limited to 5 daily checks (~250 keywords a day) - 20 checks a day (~1000 keywords a day) for https://upstock.guru free registered users Try it here: https://upstock.guru/keyword_checker
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« on: January 10, 2023, 18:25 »
It's not "recognizable" right?
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« on: January 06, 2023, 10:55 »
It was a bug: Thank you very much for contacting us; we apologize for this.
It seems that there is a bug in our website. Our IT team is aware of the situation and currently working on the issue - please bear with us.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding
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« on: January 05, 2023, 14:16 »
I've been naming my files as "some_keyword_8k.jpg',
now, my latest submission got rejected, and the reason is not explained anywhere...
Anyone know what that means?
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« on: January 05, 2023, 14:13 »
An up to date list:
https://upstock.guru/information/stock-sites-list-for-contributors.html
Very nice list. Just one quick comment, Alamy is now 20% until people reach $250 in the past years sales total. Not commission, but net sales. You might want to change that to 17% to 40%? Because Distributor sales are even worse.
Great, thank you for the info
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« on: January 05, 2023, 13:09 »
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« on: December 25, 2022, 03:11 »
yes, I upscale x2 all images to 8k without any issues
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« on: December 15, 2022, 05:23 »
I think the blog comment is the right answer. They want to create the touchy feely community feel agencies were going for back in the early 2000s.
Problem is that back then the agencies also treated us like human beings. They paid much better, would have actual relationships with their contributors (reply to messages on forums, give reasons for rejections, all that stuff). Now its a gig-economy-grind-culture nightmare and they expect to be able to rekindle the relationship by handing the back end to a designer with the give it a nice community feel.
Well sorry, **** you. You cant bring in hired gun to **** our commissions back to the stone age and expect us to spend time hanging out on your platform reading your ****. Just give us the facts we need to do our job front and center and **** off. No one likes you or wants to hang out with you SS, we tolerate you to pay our bills.
I agree with you, unfortunately, it will not change, it'll only get worse... We're a very small wheel in a large machine at this point. 
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« on: December 13, 2022, 04:24 »
with AI programs do render using apps like C4D or Blender is not necessary. You lost your time, learn knew skills!
I'm selling AI generated content as well 
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« on: December 11, 2022, 06:08 »
There are a few factors to consider, there is a reason why stock sites exist...
Marketing, hosting, employees, accounting, development and the list goes on, starting a big enough service will take a lot of recourses and knowledge, even if you get some sales, it will take years before you can make real money...
That's why Adobe got into stock images (IMO), they already have everything needed to start quick, private photographer/designer/3D artist, even with all the skills needed, has a very low chance of success...
20 years ago you could do it (from experience), not today...
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« on: December 11, 2022, 05:54 »
Yes, you should look into submitting to as many stock sites as you can, check out https://upstock.guru
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« on: December 11, 2022, 05:46 »
I am generally disappointed with selling renders. Tried some fantasy renders, mockups, interiors, nothing sells well. Sold some interiors, but nothing to brag about.
I noticed that mockups do sell but there is a lot of them already, I think that what sells with 3D renders is what you can't get a real photo of...
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