Never used Stocksubmitter. Why would anyone pay money if FileZilla uploads fine and metadata can be added via csv file.

I never pay money either. I use the free option with StockSubmitter.

Ive used Filezilla in the past with mixed success. I used it again recently with a new computer (latest version) and had 0 success with it.

I'm planning on getting a flip book printed and self-published. I'm referring to those super small sized books that feature a sequence of images and you need to flip the pages to recreate the appearance of motion. They often feature animation and various types of footage.

For my flip book, I will include the text '"flip book" on the front cover so that people will realise that it's not just a normal kind of book. Though even then, people may not realise that you need to flip the pages. The term 'flip book' can be used to describe a few different types of books which are completely different to each other.

I would like to have something like "Moving Picture Flip Book" on the front cover as an indication that the pages need to be flipped to recreate the appearance of motion. However, there are a number of old Disney flip books which feature exactly those same words on the cover. I don't suppose there would be any issues if I used those same words on my own book? That line might be associated with the Disney flip books (particularly the vintage ones.)

Alternatively, I suppose I could have text that reads: "Motion Picture Flip Book." Though I already have the word "motion" in my title so I would prefer not to repeat it.

Ah I didn't notice that AI setting (when submitting photos.) I deselected it when I submitted my latest photo. That seemed to remove the AI category from my other photos automatically. Though it stills says "AI Contributor" on my photos in edit mode. I'd like to get rid of that label too because I don't have any AI content in my port. Clearly, I'm not an AI contributor.

If alamy gets away with this,
contributors have to delete all their editorial content,
to avoid possible horror bills in further cases

I hope it won't come to that. I certainly won't be submitting any editorial photos of magazines or newspapers.

Okay, my port is back.

In the agency settings you can selects if you want to sell the rights or not.

I don't recall seeing that option in Stocksubmitter. I'll have to take a look.

Recently, Ive been submitting some videos to DT with Stocksubmitter. And I just happened to click on one of those videos that had been accepted into my port. That video, and all of my other commercial videos, are marked with "Sell the rights." I quickly disabled that option from all the files that I submitted with Stocksubmitter.

When you upload content normally to DT (via their web uploader) I note that files are marked with "Sell the rights" as default which is ridiculous. I'm sure that the majority of contributors have no intention of selling the rights to most of their images. I should have realised that the same thing would happen with files that were submitted with Stocksubmitter. It was only by chance that I decided to click on one of these uploaded video files in my port and I made the unfortunate discovery.

And then I remembered that I had also uploaded videos with Stocksubmitter last year and for all that time, they had been marked with "Sell the rights" and I never realised until now.

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this issue on P5. At first, I tried to make some changes to my keywords for one of my videos on P5 on the laptop. But nothing happens when I click Save. I tried a few times but no luck.

I then tried to do the same thing on my pc and that did work. Then I tried to add some more keywords to another video (on my pc) and I'm having no success. No matter how many times I click Save, nothing happens. Seems like I can't make changes to the metadata anymore on P5.

I cleared my browsing data in google chrome but that makes no difference.

Quote from: dragonblade on March 22, 2024, 21:58

Quote from: Faustvasea on March 21, 2024, 03:43

I've been on P5 for nearly a year. Never sold anything. Have around 800 clips.

Myself and others have had similar experiences when starting out at P5. It can take a very long time for the sales to start. And when they do eventually start, it's like the flood gates are open and more will follow. It took many long months of waiting for my first sale there. And then other sales came shortly after.

Alright, thanks a lot. I thought I need to be exclusive to sell videos on there
Or doesn't matter?

Oh man, I had a really bad experience when I opened up an exclusive account. Previously, I was doing very well on P5 with an extremely small video port. Sales were good. There would even be occasions where I would sell a video one week and then sell another clip the following week - all with a tiny port. As soon as I opened up an exclusive account and moved some of my videos to it, my sales dropped like a rock. And they never recovered. So yea sales these days at P5 are an extremely rare occurrence for me. I stuck with the exclusive account for about a year and then moved those videos back to my non exclusive account but it didn't make any difference to sales.

Quote from: dragonblade on March 10, 2024, 04:42

I just did a test with some photos (using Stocksubmitter to submit them to Dreamstime.) They were editorial images and I selected the top editorial checkbox within Stocksubmitter. When they were submitted to DT, I checked the page where images were held for review and noted that these particular photos all had an editorial license. So this confirms that the top editorial checkbox is the one to select in Stocksubmitter (not the bottom one.)

What happens when you check the bottom box?

If you check the bottom editorial box instead of the top one, the images will be submitted as commercial. That's what's happened to me in the past. However, if you do intend to submit commercial content, I recommend keeping both boxes unchecked.

I just did a test with some photos (using Stocksubmitter to submit them to Dreamstime.) They were editorial images and I selected the top editorial checkbox within Stocksubmitter. When they were submitted to DT, I checked the page where images were held for review and noted that these particular photos all had an editorial license. So this confirms that the top editorial checkbox is the one to select in Stocksubmitter (not the bottom one.)

If this is the new normal for Shutterstock (and I really hope it isn't) then this imho is a collapse of the agency in terms of its revenues from image and video sales. I'm astounded at the depth and velocity of its fall but maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. It's predictable.

• First, you slash contributor earnings for a quick profit boost
• You fully decentivize your main contributor base
• Your bulk of quality contributors stop uploading - and instead upload their fresh quality content to other agencies (your competition) that treat their contributors with more respect
• A large segment of your customer buyers and subscribers just naturally follow the better, fresh, quality content where contributors are uploading
• Your sales, revenues and profits drop.

I remember some years ago when Getty / iStock drastically reduced contributor commissions and SS acknowledged at the time that they were dealing with a huge influx of new contributors joining up (who were obviously deserting iStock in droves.) It's just crazy that SS did not learn from this. They clearly observed with the iStock situation that when an agency slashes contributor commissions, there will be a large contributor exodus. Surely, they must have been expecting that to happen. Well history repeats itself.

the AI models are evolving so fast that in no times customer will no longer need to look into a library. Not a second. They will generate what they want and with tons of option, styles etc.

I think there will always be a demand for editorial photos.