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« on: November 10, 2020, 05:29 »
So sorry for you. I've pulled all my work from them and went exclusive for video at Pond5 as a way to try and stave off canibalising cheap video sales at SS rather than full priced sales at other agencies.
very wise decision!
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« on: October 22, 2020, 02:05 »
I don't see any future anymore in deliver all the micros especially since SS did cut earnings! I think exclusive content is not a bright future but at least brighter. I'm with Stocksy this is not great but good and while all other agencies did go down in the last years Stocksy actually improved a little bit for me. And I'm considering going exclusive with video with pond5. As I don't do combine shootings with video and photo it's not a problem with Stocksy exclusivity. iStocks artists exclusivity was always way too much for me to consider but if you have already all eggs in the basket I would leave them there!
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« on: July 31, 2020, 06:12 »
Everyone is in the same boat. Nobody can do without the money, but Shutterstock is pulling the whole industry down. It's imperative, especially for video, that we get our files onto Pond5 and off SS.
Pond5 is a major player in video licensing. If you go exclusive, they get your files back onto Adobe and onto Vimeo stock. You get 60% of revenue. If you do the maths, you realise that you don't lose much from an Adobe perspective. It's earnings comparable.
Quite simply no its not. P5 does not sell as much full stop.
Most of us ALREADY have our all files on P5 and have done for many years. non exclusive we get 40% not 60% but that in no way makes up for the low sales.
You don't have to believe me, look at the monthly survey graph on this very site - P5 is one of those tiny lines right down the bottom amongst such giants as DT and 123RF in terms of earnings.
The P5 forum isnt exactly full of people praising how well sales have taken off and how well exclusive is doing for them either.
If a site by volume sells only about 10% per month vs another site than a 60 to 40% difference in commission is negligible and makes almost zero difference to the final totals.
The maths for me (and looking at the graphs, others) is very simply. Pulling videos off SS and AS to go P5 only will lose us many hundreds of dollars per month in lost revenue. Thats the brutal reality here.
So you're telling me it's much better to keep supporting SS and kill the whole industry because other agencies will have to follow, make a few hundred bucks the next couple of months until it gets
Im not convinced you reside in the real world. You havent explained how if, having guaranteed $0.00 income from Shutterstock you're supposed to buy anything with that? Are there landlords im unaware of that accept principle in lieu of rent money? Do supermarkets have an option to pay with good will instead of money?
If you pull a portfolio you are guaranteeing an in come of 0. Nothing. No money. No payout. Nothing goes into the bank.
If you're also deluded enough to think SS will care (or even notice) an absolutely miniscule number of contributors pulling an utterly insignificant amount of media off the site then by all means go ahead. The problem is you think you matter or are somehow important to them. You're not. None of us are. You can do all you want but it isnt going to change their policy which has been costed, planned and modelled.
So its your choice whether you want to accept a guarantee of no money and buy food with it or settle for a not-ideal but some money instead.
But to think anything will change due to actions is utterly deluded.
You are talking about photo or video? Video is a complete different story many video-artist do equal or better on P5 than SS. Photo sales are very poor on P5 absolut no comparision to SS in this regard.
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« on: July 22, 2020, 07:52 »
even though they were determined to hold prices down when iS was trying to raise them.
very true many people forgot about that
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« on: July 15, 2020, 12:17 »
For photos it's only the big three that are alive: Shutterstock, iStock-getty, Adobe
Stocksy is alive too but hard to get in and if you are in it's still hard to build a reasonable sized portfolio
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« on: July 14, 2020, 05:56 »
I think it is too late for another (Micro)-Stockagency. 2004 it would have been possible, 2004 Symbiostock would have been a success but now it is too late it was already 2010 way too late we now have 2020. Even old and well established agencies like Dreamstime (they have been one of the first before Fotolia/Adobe) now struggle against the big three Shutterstock/Adobe/Getty-iStock. It's too late! Stocksy only can survive because it is exclusive, member-limited and highly curated (contributor and picture-wise).
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« on: June 25, 2020, 11:24 »
I was making a middle tier agency income from my own symbio site and growing. Shut down overnight when the EU said we couldn't sell a single digital file online directly without getting VAT registered and charging VAT. Not worth the hassle, another win for the silicon valley giants.
there is absolutely no problem to get VAT-registered and it's completely normal business, if you run a business you do need to be registered. If you are VAT-registered you get your VAT back from your cameras, lenses, computers etc. for a small business it can be easily a win especially if you have income that doesn't have VAT applied like all Microstockers have. Just do it and you can save a lot of money if you buy a lot of gear or travel a lot.
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« on: May 15, 2020, 04:28 »
No one is going to buy a photo of a Watermelon when they were looking for an Apple.
This is not true look up at Dreamstime you can see for which keyword search of the buyer the image got actually downloaded. You will see many strange downloads for searched keywords even for keywords that are not in your picture at all. In the end it's all about to make your picture visible to the buyer!
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« on: May 15, 2020, 04:08 »
People here forgot that not only contributors are non-English speakers buyers are often too if the site is translated to their language then the translation is not accurate at all! If it's not translated to their language then their search is more visual. Therefore if you have an image of a gibbon and you don't use the keyword monkey you will certainly loose sales!
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« on: May 15, 2020, 03:35 »
You should use as many keywords as possible it is better if the keywords are accurate but everything that makes your images more visible to buyers does help and keywords do this task. If keyword spamming wouldn't work nobody would do it. But unfortunately it does help.
I would love to see the agencies limit the keywords to something like 20 or so but as long as they allow 50 you should use 50.
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« on: May 01, 2020, 13:02 »
awesome thank you 
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« on: April 29, 2020, 07:39 »
If you start today in Microstock and you wanna make 500,- a month I don't think it is possible with a few hundred images you need to be in the thousands. It's not all about sale-ability it's also about search rank in the agencies and with 300 million images at Shutterstock it's very hard to get a good search rank even with very good pictures.
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« on: April 28, 2020, 23:45 »
it would still be a start not all keywords on iStock/Getty are useless
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« on: April 28, 2020, 05:59 »
iStock exclusivity was never a thing I did consider for myself as I was with other agencies before iStock even existed. But I don't think that is really that bad. I do think you get a huge bump in search results if you are exclusive.
People hate iStock for valid reasons but the other agencies are not better.
Someone announced a software a couple a weeks ago that can read out the keywords at iStock and put them into your files automatically I think it was in this forum try a search for it. I'm 100% sure I read about it so there is a solution for your problem.
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« on: April 21, 2020, 11:55 »
oh another blast from the past (no pun intended)
oh I once was so young
oh I once was so incredible young
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« on: April 21, 2020, 11:14 »
thanks Leaf good idea with Fiverr
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« on: April 21, 2020, 03:16 »
Any tips for getting reasonable (nospam) backlinks as a photographer? For my website as a photographer (no stock). Thanks in advance!
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« on: April 20, 2020, 06:16 »
SS is loosing this game. SS recognizes nothing! SS doesn't sell new content. That's ridiculous, it can't last.
It did last for a long time but I have to agree with you for a serious life-style image buyer SS must feel like a garbage bin.
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« on: April 19, 2020, 16:40 »
As Stocksubmitter now supports istock esp is it also possible to upload to Getty esp? It is general the same upload process and if possible how can I add a Getty esp account? I would like to upload to Getty as well to iStock depending on the foto series but I would love to use Stocksubmitter for that! thanks in advance!
It actually should work for Getty accounts as well.
thanks but where I do get the api? I couldn't find this information in my esp-accounts neither at iStock esp or Getty esp
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« on: April 19, 2020, 16:37 »
As Stocksubmitter now supports istock esp is it also possible to upload to Getty esp? It is general the same upload process and if possible how can I add a Getty esp account? I would like to upload to Getty as well to iStock depending on the foto series but I would love to use Stocksubmitter for that! thanks in advance!
It's almost impossible for an iStock contributor to be accepted to submit directly to Getty nowadays. You'd need to apply to Getty directly, and I've never read of an iStocker being accepted there in the past 2 or 3 years. Of course, it could be that those who were accepted are sworn to secrecy, so I only read of rejections.
If you are iStock exclusive, all your editorial files and a selection of your other files will be mirrored on Getty. Not so if indie. However, in that case you only get 20% of all sales rather than your exclusive iS percentage.
Hi thanks I did start with Getty before iStock was even invented so I can submit directly to Getty which I didn't for a long time but since Corona and serious loss of assignments I have more time on my side I do have access via esp to Getty as well as iStock
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« on: April 19, 2020, 12:04 »
It doesn't seem possible for me even with istock I get this message:
error (API key or API secret is not specified in settings. ID
I have no idea where and how to obtain an API key!
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« on: April 19, 2020, 11:52 »
As Stocksubmitter now supports istock esp is it also possible to upload to Getty esp? It is general the same upload process and if possible how can I add a Getty esp account? I would like to upload to Getty as well to iStock depending on the foto series but I would love to use Stocksubmitter for that! thanks in advance!
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« on: April 16, 2020, 05:16 »
I didn't use Stocksubmitter for a very long time now it is asking me endlessly to update it which I do over and over again but the version remains on 1.4.7341.28569 even after updating and it asking me again to update, really feels like Groundhog day!
I think I solved it there is a new version which I need to download manually right?
I do keep my license with the new version right?
Thanks in advance!
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« on: April 15, 2020, 08:08 »
the main problem with pretty much all agencies is that we don't get a fair split from the selling price and that is 50%!
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« on: April 10, 2020, 00:04 »
I've forgot about them looking at my pictures I have with them that must be over 10 years ago. 100 hundred I had approved a tiny portion of my actual portfolio but I've made 12.49$ well.............
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