Quote from: williamju on February 21, 2016, 14:36
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Major players in China market

    Creative: VCG(Getty distributor), Quanjing, Gaopin, DFIC, 1tu, HelloRF(ShutterStock), Fotolia, and etc.
    Editorial: VCG, DFIC, Xinhua, Quanjing, 1tu, and etc.

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William, thank you, it is very interesting indeed! Could you tell us a bit more about Chinese stock photography market? I think many Western based contributors would be interested to know:

Is it possible for foreign photographers to contribute to Chinese agencies? I am particularly curious about "true" Chinese agencies, because I assume Chinese SS/iStock/Fotolia distributors already have our content anyway. Do you have to be Chinese national/resident? How do they handle taxes for foreign contributors? Do you have to keyword images in Chinese? Could you submit images with English keywords? What are the typical ways to get payout money, especially for foreign contributors? Can they use PayPal (or any other service available to Western photographers) with automatic CNY>USD/EUR conversion?

Some of these questions I tried to research myself, but I would really appreciate if you can tell us more. Specifically, I went to check out one of the agencies you mentioned (Quanjing). They seem to have English language, but the registration page is still in Chinese. However, they did show images of Sydney, when I entered "Sydney" in English as a keyword in the search box. That is encouraging.

Quote from: FrankyDM on February 21, 2016, 19:23

Quote from: PhotoDude on February 20, 2016, 10:45
Franky, I actually meant just Title field from IPTC. When it is formatted like "City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture" it is accepted as editorial to SS and all other major agencies without much additional clicking/editing required (you would usually have to set Editorial check box/option to "Yes" though and sometimes select special category like at Dreamstime's system for example). However, DeepMeta required to manually specify that information again in picture description dialog and provide separate editorial description. I am not sure, it might actually be iStock requirement and DeepMeta is simply just following the  rules of the agency. My point was that it is redundant, time consuming and simply antique and I was wondering if there is any way to make it more streamlined. Manually picking all these dates and places again just makes it really time consuming to submit editorials to IS.   

While it's true that iStock uploads demand all those additional selections being made (country, date), it's also true that DeepMeta could auto-convert info imported from the IPTC title or description and auto-complete these selections for you.

In order to do that, I need to find out what the exact practice is. Details matter.

E.g. you've mentioned:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture"
as well as:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Title"

A few questions:
- It is the IPTC "title" field you are referring to, and not the "description" field?
- About "Month Day Year": is this "2 21 2016", "Februari 21 2016" or something else?
- If you put this info in the "title" field, then what goes in the "description" field?
- iStock has a separate "caption" field for editorial, where should that be taken from?

Just gathering some info here. I see some possibilities for better automation.
Thanks!

Franky, if you can do it, that would be so awesome! I do not have time today, but let me get back to you tomorrow hopefully and I will compile a detailed explanation for you. I believe we can really automate it if you are willing to implement it!

Quote from: Kasper Ravlo on February 19, 2016, 14:12
Hi Photodude,

We recently launched qHero.com which is a faster alternative to Deepmeta with bulk-uploading, multifile editing, and even auto-disambiguitation. We also support editorials and would be very happy to get you onboard. Feel free to give us feedback through  tab on the site. Find us on qhero.com where you can also view our new "how to use qhero" youtube feature highlighting the main features.

We hope to get you on board!

All the best,

Kasper Ravlo, CEO at qHero.

Thanks Kasper, posted response in your thread.

Quote from: Pickerell on January 25, 2016, 21:52
The tedious process of uploading images for consideration by iStock is about to get much easier. On February 7th  Kasper Ravlo will be launching a new tool called Q-hero (http://www.qhero.com/). The average time to submit a file for review will drop from over one minute per image to less than 1-2 seconds. Instead of being the slowest site for image submissions, iStock will become the fastest.

I asked Kasper to explain how Q-hero will work and published the information on Selling-Stock.com. You can access the story for free at this link: http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/uploading-to-istock-is-about-to-get-easier

Thanks for information, looks interesting, but I have a question. How can one specify whether the image is editorial or not? I watched the video, but it does not say anything about it and it seems like there is no tab or box where user can choose editorial option. Am I wrong? Does user also need to manually pick dates and enter places like in DeepMeta? Does your system support reading IPTC from the uploaded files?

Quote from: FrankyDM on February 19, 2016, 11:19

Quote from: PhotoDude on February 18, 2016, 00:09
Is there any easier way to upload editorials to Istock other than DeepMeta? I am using DM at the moment, but for each editorial it requires manually choose country, year, date and day, despite that I already have that information in title place and date stamp (in the format accepted by SS and other agencies: City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Title). Why is it so complicated at Istock? Other agencies pretty much only require to pick editorial Yes/No check box if title already has editorial information. I know you can copy the information between files in DM, but it is no help, because lots of my editorials have different locations/dates. How do you do it for bulks? I can hardly believe it is the only way.   

I assume you have this info in the IPTC of your JPG? I'd be interested to know which IPTC field(s) you put this info in. Is it the title or caption field?

If possible, I'd appreciate it if you could send me an example JPG file with such IPTC info. Email to "fdm at eazign dot be". (I'm the author of DeepMeta, by the way).

I agree it would be a big productivity boost if DeepMeta could automatically process this information.

Thanks.

Franky, I actually meant just Title field from IPTC. When it is formatted like "City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture" it is accepted as editorial to SS and all other major agencies without much additional clicking/editing required (you would usually have to set Editorial check box/option to "Yes" though and sometimes select special category like at Dreamstime's system for example). However, DeepMeta required to manually specify that information again in picture description dialog and provide separate editorial description. I am not sure, it might actually be iStock requirement and DeepMeta is simply just following the  rules of the agency. My point was that it is redundant, time consuming and simply antique and I was wondering if there is any way to make it more streamlined. Manually picking all these dates and places again just makes it really time consuming to submit editorials to IS.   

Guys, when you report income, do you report only money which agencies actually send to you (payout) or all money which were credited to your account (even if you did not reach payout and they still hang in there waiting to meet the threshold)?

Quote from: w7lwi on February 18, 2016, 02:13
The IRS (in the US) requires a 1099-MISC to be issued for any amount at or above US$600.  This is not a lower end threshold.  Agencies may issue a 1099-MISC for any lower amount if they wish and many do (example Fotolia).  It's just that they must issue one if you have received $600 or above.  This law applies to US companies which is why many companies based outside the US do not issue any documentation.  There are some exceptions to this, such as Canva, who do issue 1099-MISC to contributors; but, that is purely voluntary on their part.  However it is still your responsibility to report all monies earned, whether or not you have received a 1099-MISC.

Do you guys usually report only amount agency actually paid to you (checks or Paypal) or total sales during the year, even if you did not reach payout? How does it differs for SS, Fotolia, Dreamstime, DP, Bigstock, Istock, 123RF?

Quote from: Microstockphoto on February 17, 2016, 23:10
owned by tyler olsen,  not affiliated with any agency, you can say what you want here but agencies have representatives here and some agencies have punished people for stuff written here

Thank you, both of you guys! And how agencies were able to punish people for comments if forum does not belong to them? How did they figure out which user here represent specific contributor back at their agency?

Quote from: unnonimus on February 17, 2016, 23:43
I don't remember the exact law, but I think the federal law is that any company that pays an individual (who is not an employee) more than $100 in the tax year must send out the 1099 before January 31st after the tax year ends.

I believe the limit is $600, not $100. Some agencies send it even if payouts were lower than that amount (FT, SS for example).

Quote from: Carl on September 11, 2012, 19:45
There is a batch delete function.  After you navigate to your uploads and you're looking at the files you want to delete:

(1) Click the square directly above or below the individual file squares in order to select all of the files on the page.

(2) If you don't wish to delete all of the files listed, click in the square beside each file that you wish to delete.

(3) Click the drop-down box at the bottom of the page below the list and choose "Delete Rejected."  Don't worry about the fact that the files haven't been rejected by an inspector.

(4) Click the "execute" button.  You'll see a pop-up window indicating that the files are being deleted.  After the operation is completed, you can close this window.

If you wish to confirm that the files have been deleted, refresh the uploads page.  I've deleted files this way successfully on several occasions.

I know, it is old thread, but it is amazing to see that the problem is still there. I need to bulk delete files in Pond5 and I tried method suggested by Carl (using check boxes and Delete Rejected -> execute function below, but it did not work. It says "ignoring clip XXXX", apparently because it is not "rejected". Anyone figured out the fastest way to delete files from Pond5 in bulk, regardless if they are rejected or not?

Is there any easier way to upload editorials to Istock other than DeepMeta? I am using DM at the moment, but for each editorial it requires manually choose country, year, date and day, despite that I already have that information in title place and date stamp (in the format accepted by SS and other agencies: City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Title). Why is it so complicated at Istock? Other agencies pretty much only require to pick editorial Yes/No check box if title already has editorial information. I know you can copy the information between files in DM, but it is no help, because lots of my editorials have different locations/dates. How do you do it for bulks? I can hardly believe it is the only way.   

Quote from: Mantis on September 27, 2015, 22:25
3. Agencies like Fotolia like to hide behind their "terms" to take punitive action against anyone who speaks out against their crooked business practices. So don't be critical of FOTOLIA or they will close your account. They have people in here reporting what is said about their agency. 

Would they be able to link username here with account in the agency, providing two names are not the same?

Quote from: Mogwai on February 17, 2016, 19:52
In the past few days I've seen a spike in istock earnings, but the "recent downloads" do not change much or at all in sync with the earnings. They are like ghost earnings or something.

How do I know where the money is coming from? It occurred to me I might have a secret admirer at their headquarters.

I have the same. I think it might be coming from their partners, so they do not reflect which files were actually downloaded. I wish they report that kind of information to us.

Hi,

I have a question about this forum. Who owns it, is it associated with any stock agency? Can we openly discuss agencies here? Will critical remarks be penalized?

Quote from: seawhisper on December 16, 2015, 19:51
Hi,

I'm using the Big 4 and most of Middle Tier stocks, but I can't see any option how to add google analytics to the stocks. Many sites have this option (for example deviantART and redbubble) but I don't see it anywhere on stock sites. Is it somehow hidden or does it work any different way? Or simply not yet there?

To the best of my knowledge none of the major stock agencies have that. And I highly doubt they would allow that due to the reasons outlined in this post:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/software-general/possible-to-track-portfolio-with-google-analytics/