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Messages - cosus
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« on: May 15, 2020, 03:56 »
I almost certainly would keyword a gibbon as a monkey. For the same 'think like a buyer' approach though... they may rely on accuracy,
And that is why I go out of my way to keyword with accuracy. I think my buyers deserve this. I am betting the farm on my buyers relying on accuracy. That's just the way I roll.
In my language we have words for both "monkey" and "ape", but in every zoo you can find gorillas in monkey pavilion and the Planet of Apes movie is here known as "Planet of Monkeys". People know that it is zoologically incorrect, but it is the habit. So even educated person - just not zoologist, can use monkey when searching for ape. Not mention that non-native English speaker can know only the word monkey, because it is more common .
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« on: April 08, 2020, 05:04 »
There is one thing that may affect some contributors, including me and is not mentioned in your survey. My sells don't dropped at all, but kindergardens/schools are closed here and children are at home all day, so its not easy to produce new stuff.
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« on: February 19, 2020, 06:57 »
First time I earned regular sum about $200 in 04/2018. Since this time the amount of my images doubled, the income on all websites doubled or tripled, but not on Istock. I still earn about $200. Really pathetic.
If I count it well then 38,67% of all my sells on istock are royalty under $0,1 . This earns 2,06% of all licence fees and 1.92% of all my royalties on istock.
Most hated microstock agency of the world for additional 2% of income.
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« on: January 13, 2019, 18:38 »
I have it same when uploading with SS, delete one keyword and it turns green. Maybe some bug, don't know. Hello ! I started posting to Alamy agency and i am posting with Stocksubmitter, i have noticed that most of my photos have poor discoverability in my overview page. But if i click on my photo in submission i have selected supertags and discoverability is green, is this some kind of bug or am i doing something wrong? Thanks
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« on: December 05, 2018, 09:19 »
The best thing is, that they take our money to get bigger share of the market. But as we all sell on different places, not only on Alamy, they in fact use our money to lower our income from other sites. They don't rise our share, for us its not difference (yes, that still pay a little more than some others, obviously until next crisis) , but we lost the money for ever...
Which sites are you on where you'll get a better rpd, even with the 20% cut?
How will they "lower your income from other sites"?
On the contrary, it's the low subs sites which have made customer expectation of unsustainably low prices, which is knocking on to Alamy.
If they take market share from other microstock sites then yes that lowers income from those sites but as you say that is likely to still result in a net gain even at the new rates. If they take it from other high cost "premium" sites then those people with content there could lose out but it would be a gain for me. Given they are typically more expensive than the microstock sites their main target will be "mid stock" I think. Unfortunately current prices are not "unsustainable".
But even if you take it that cosus was concerned about their income from premium sites being hit (but this is a microstock site), surely the micros are eating more into that market than Alamy is?
Unfortunately, I think current prices are indeed unsustainable for us.
Well, they are not creating new market I guess, so they just want to take bigger share of existing market. So you will pay 20% of your money for moving part of your sells from another site to Alamy. And I really don't think that the another site will be iStock (unfortunately).
Btw. I'm curious - is there any active contributor from some really rich and expensive country like Norway or Switzerland?
That depends if they are moving sales from a site you sell on....there's quite a few editorial sites that many of us don't have access to. Rex images owned by shutterstock for example.
Yes, for someone it can be better than for someone else, but in general its like I wrote.
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« on: December 05, 2018, 08:52 »
The best thing is, that they take our money to get bigger share of the market. But as we all sell on different places, not only on Alamy, they in fact use our money to lower our income from other sites. They don't rise our share, for us its not difference (yes, that still pay a little more than some others, obviously until next crisis) , but we lost the money for ever...
Which sites are you on where you'll get a better rpd, even with the 20% cut?
How will they "lower your income from other sites"?
On the contrary, it's the low subs sites which have made customer expectation of unsustainably low prices, which is knocking on to Alamy.
If they take market share from other microstock sites then yes that lowers income from those sites but as you say that is likely to still result in a net gain even at the new rates. If they take it from other high cost "premium" sites then those people with content there could lose out but it would be a gain for me. Given they are typically more expensive than the microstock sites their main target will be "mid stock" I think. Unfortunately current prices are not "unsustainable".
But even if you take it that cosus was concerned about their income from premium sites being hit (but this is a microstock site), surely the micros are eating more into that market than Alamy is?
Unfortunately, I think current prices are indeed unsustainable for us.
Well, they are not creating new market I guess, so they just want to take bigger share of existing market. So you will pay 20% of your money for moving part of your sells from another site to Alamy. And I really don't think that the another site will be iStock (unfortunately). Btw. I'm curious - is there any active contributor from some really rich and expensive country like Norway or Switzerland?
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« on: December 05, 2018, 06:22 »
The best thing is, that they take our money to get bigger share of the market. But as we all sell on different places, not only on Alamy, they in fact use our money to lower our income from other sites. They don't rise our share, for us its not difference (yes, that still pay a little more than some others, obviously until next crisis) , but we lost the money for ever...
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« on: September 07, 2018, 03:44 »
If you upload autotraced/vectorized drawings, no matter if made in some bitmap/raster software or scanned, what you upload as jpg - the source (made in raster software or scan) or the raster version of autotraced image?
I mean, the autotraced version is same as vector, but original drawing is more authentic and artistic - more details, more hand made. I'm not sure, if they even accept the original version together with vector, I'm just curious.
Thanks for any answer.
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« on: September 05, 2018, 16:26 »
Do you know if illustrations sell much on Alamy?
No, I don't know. Sorry, I should have mentioned I am new at Alamy, started uploading photos and illustrations month ago. I haven't sold anything yet.
Alamy is a very long haul.
I don't know anyone who sells illustrations there: their forums seem to have exclusively photographers posting - but that is a tiny proportion of their suppliers, I wondered if you had inside info.
On Alamy I sell usually few images monthly, far far less than 1% of all my sell. But earnings per sell are higher. So its no so bad.
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« on: September 04, 2018, 16:15 »
When looking at images that some people sell as microstock, sometimes I don't believe that such complex stuff can pay yourself anytime. And some people have hundreds of such images in portfolio.
I understand, that everyone is doing some testing, uploading few different images and looking what happens. I also did few tests (some unused old images from various canceled projects, but overall usable as microstock), but it seams to be pretty ineffective, best of them will pay the invested work in 8 or 10 years, if nothing changes.
So what is your experience? Is worth to do 1 complex image instead of 20 simple images?
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« on: August 04, 2018, 02:45 »
Interesting reading. Thank you all for answers.
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« on: August 02, 2018, 07:40 »
Yes, but he was not "God of Microstock" on the start, with unlimited funds and dozens of staff. I guess, that he started low, so what he did in the beginning , others were also able to do. So this is why I'm surprised by such huge succes for such long time.
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« on: August 02, 2018, 07:16 »
Hey, I have one question for people who remember the "good old days" of microstock .
How is that possible, that Yuri Arcurs was able to do such fortune with all other photographers around? I mean, the best of my first images (I'm not selling photos) was imitated when it had only 9 downloads on Shutterstock. So I would expect that success like this would by imitated by large amount of people almost immediately. And the market would be diluted between all of them.
I know, its different now - oversaturated market etc... but still, he was not alone there, there was some competition.
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« on: July 19, 2018, 07:24 »
Hi, I can't find any contributor review or discussion about rfclipart.com . Is there anyone with any experience with this website? Thanks.
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« on: January 03, 2018, 07:42 »
If I may to add my own notice, I have also some photos and cartoons rejected - many for missing releases for simple cartoons without any property or anything that would need release and similar images from same series were accepted, so its random, I don't care about. But I have also group of cartoons, that are pending for months, long time I saw no connection between them, but clearly its every image with currency symbol, banknote or coin or any image even marginally connected with human sexuality, like sex symbol, some dating theme cartoons , sexual harassment theme cartoon, very simple cartoon man, that could be naked, but totally nothing is visible...All this images were accepted everywhere, on canstock are just pending....forever 
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« on: June 21, 2017, 02:34 »
I don't know, probably my images are even simpler than yours.
Anyway I added more useless nodes and images were accepted. So its the solution, even its nonsense.
Thanks again.
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« on: June 19, 2017, 07:31 »
My main concern are future images, if there is some way how to do new images little different to achieve larger EPS.
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« on: June 19, 2017, 04:59 »
Hello,
I draw very simple black and white cartoon images made in Photoshop and auto vectorized in Inkscape. I have only problem with Bigstock, because EPS under 50 KB is automatically rejected by system as error 2-2-8. Most of my cartoons is much smaller than 50 KB. I already contacted the BS support, they send it to technical department and nothing happened. I guess they will not change the system because of me.
Simplicity is part of the style, I don't want to change the style just because of some system settings. Size of many of my EPS is about 15 KB, so there is missing a lot. One of options is to group several of them together, but its a lot of additional work just for one website, and also the amount of images to sell will be reduced a lot.
I guess there are not many other artist producing such simple images, but maybe there is someone here. Do you experience same problem with some of your vectors? How do you solve this?
Thanks in advance for any reaction.
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