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« on: July 18, 2020, 14:39 »
That's the difference between a hobby and a business. You do the second one with an intent to profit.
Got this off twitter but it gives a decent overview of the cost of shooting. As a hobby, sure shoot upload get some fries money. As a business you'll need to check if that time is better spent elsewhere
https://improvephotography.com/49988/photography-pricing-calculating-your-cost-of-doing-business/
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Please note that not all microstockers are Photographers. 1200$ annual on computer equipment it's a bit exaggereted. Unless you are into 3d realistic render, dynamics, fluids simulations... Phone... 6 euros/months for unlimited calls and 40gb internet (here in Italy) Internet services, 24 euros/month for 200MB fiber (in Italy) Veichle expenses... zero, i work from home. Office?...zero, i work from home. Training...about 600 euros/year for me, plus a lot of free tutorials I don't know where this list is coming from, but, for me, it seems, a bit unrealistic. Postage and shipping??? Really??? 
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« on: July 07, 2020, 15:00 »
I wonder how people is still uploading content to Istock, I didn't continue uploading my images there, because I got $ 0,002 in some sales, worst than Shutterstock.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I'm still uploading to iStock, although I do have some low selling files I have at leat one $80-$100 dollar sale a month and my RPD is over 2.5 at the moment. My sales have dropped hugely certainly since the peak days of iStock but I make enough per month to make it worthwhile, and some new files sell, in fact my current best seller there is under 6 months old.
i haven't done any rpd calculation, but i earn about 400/600$ month, it's enough for me ATM
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« on: July 02, 2020, 09:08 »
i had some videos waiting for approval and i deleted them. Right now i'm uploading new contents, and after 10 years,
for the first time, SS isn't in the list.
Sad day
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« on: July 02, 2020, 04:16 »
@Snow Mate, no need to apologies, with Jo Ann and a few others, you are one of the best, polite and respectful. And yes, the plan is to find a way to increase the income and say goodbye to SS (unless they change their mind and offer fairer conditions) Not an easy task, but i love challenges  Good luck to everyone!
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« on: July 02, 2020, 01:11 »
This is a big act of support - thank you. I hope the new content is going to other agencies.
If you want to be public about it, I'd be happy to tweet a link to one of your new items at another agency (something I've been doing for those whose new content is going elsewhere)
Hi Jo Ann, Thanks! You are one of the best people of this forum! ATM i prefer to remain 'anonymous', but i assure you that, as long as i can, i'll upload only to other agencies.
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« on: July 01, 2020, 14:09 »
I can't delete my portfolio. I am the sole bread winner for my family and we have a mortgage to pay, that I wouldn't be paying if I deleted now. Sorry, I would love to but I wont put my kids out on the street.
You can bet I stopped uploading the day I found out about this though, and will do my best to get buyers to other sites and build up other revenue with a mind to deleting come January.
me too, full time here! Level 5 for stills and lever 3 for videos Rental house, food, 3 sons, bills... My wife, due to covid-19, is earning less than before, so we can't afford another earnings drop. I've lost the count of insults to people like me that still are with ss, but i don't care, you don't know me, so your judgment is irrelevant to me...i think that bullying everyone that has a different opinion is not the way to conduct this protest. Considering that most of these people are hobbists, retired, side incomers...well feel free to hate me, i don't care Anyway, starting from today, i'll stop uploading new content to SS...until i can afford this
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« on: June 24, 2020, 15:27 »
Just noticed the “SSTK paid out $1B to creators” in the screen capture
Nice semantic trick he's pulling now they managed to rebrand themselves from being agents (which in any meaningful way is what they have always been).
I think he means artists have paid out many billions of dollars to Shutterstock for marketing their work for them and $1B to him personally. What an ingrate. Wish I had a twitter account to reply!
+ 1000!!!
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« on: June 16, 2020, 13:22 »
Adobe Portfolio or Behance
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« on: June 13, 2020, 10:34 »
I was going with the flow, it's RPD. 
Ok, thanks Pete
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« on: June 12, 2020, 15:43 »
JAN 0.86
FEB 1.35
MAR 1
APR 0.96
MAY 1.09
JUN 0.86
EDIT: images + videos
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« on: June 12, 2020, 15:34 »
sorry for the dumb question but...what is EPD? it's different from RPD?
thanks
Earnings Per Download
Ok, thanks Mantis, i'll do the math and report my EPD
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« on: June 12, 2020, 11:07 »
sorry for the dumb question but...what is EPD? it's different from RPD? thanks
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« on: June 05, 2020, 02:53 »
My previous RPD - Lifetime average:
$0,666
Current RPD (June 1-4 sample):
$0.676
Some comment here: level 5
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« on: May 06, 2020, 08:11 »
Thanks for the detailed reply! And seems that you are well organized, congratulation and good luck! 
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« on: May 05, 2020, 14:50 »
what I have analyse from last 3-4 weeks:
#1: They have Reduce the Company Size, Fired 100 Employees due to Covid
#2: Off-Shore office (Mostly Reviewer - India) is limited now, because I noted when and what time my stock is being reviewed, Before Lockdown mostly Indian Day Time was reviewed Now EST.
#3: Yes, Some agencies are uploading more than 500/day and mostly having Team of Vectors / Illustration Designers.
Those team can produce 1000+ Vectors/ Illustration in a day.
#4: Freelancer / Stock photographer is hardly achive this limit, For media agencies their per day target is 2000 (Depeneds on Company Size and Quality of Work)
#3 and #4 are really good info. My guess for per day target was 300 videos per day (6 seconds each) to produce with small team. It can be achieved easily. 7000 per day is lot of work. Create, edit, keyword and submit. It requires a big team to produce everyday.
Good insights indeed !!!
300 "high quality" videos per day with a small team? Impressive!!! Care to share more info? Are you speaking about real footage or cg animations? thanks
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« on: April 24, 2020, 15:21 »
Closed my account about five years ago, i have no regrets
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« on: April 23, 2020, 14:02 »
Better than march 2019 (+29%) I have some covid-19 related content...we'll see in april how it goes
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« on: April 23, 2020, 01:56 »
I'm working in Cinema 4D. Rendering time with Octane render is a bit faster than directly in C4D, but it takes around 10 minutes for one frame in FullHD. 4K takes a lot more time. I have Intel i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1070.
Ah ok, maybe your scenes are way more complex than mine.
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« on: April 23, 2020, 01:54 »
MotionDesign, as an advice for you never use a laptop for rendering you will burn it soon and with the new laptop models all the components are incorporated in the motherboard... you will throw it to the trash, you can't fix it anymore.
That's what happened to me and the repair costs exceeded the price of a new laptop. ALWAYS use a desktop PC and not a very expensive one, but more 3 or 4 and use them as team render machines, you will see a big difference in rendering times.
Good luck
Hi PinHead, I use a Dell mobile workstation, they are built for heavy works, and i've been using them for about 15 years. You are right, with the same amount of money i could buy a monster desktop pc, but i love the freedom of working where i want, and i don't have room in my apartment for a desktop PC. But thanks for the advice
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« on: April 22, 2020, 14:09 »
Videohive is a joke. $11 (or less) for a 3D render? Yeah right, one week of rendering and you can earn pennies? No way, I'll stay with Adobe.
with Blender Eeevee or Element3D, render time is always under one hour, if we talk about 3d abstract or conceptual renders. With Cycles (if you nees realism), about a couple of hours or a bit more. 15/30 seconds 4K, on a 16 cores i9 cpu, rtx 4000 quadro laptop. I think that a week is a bit too much! What engine are you using? and what are your pc specs?
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« on: April 22, 2020, 02:31 »
Apologies not contributing there,
but in other threads I read for sub sales and peanuts.
Why bother submitting to SS?
Because 5 figures earnings/year, for me, is not 'peanuts'
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« on: April 08, 2020, 01:00 »
I'm creating content relative to 'coronavirus' and selling it. Recently, somebody said me on this forum, "complex motion graphics is not rocket science"... well, maybe he was wrong
Hmm... not quite sure your reasoning works! While I agree that complex motion graphics are far from easy, by your logic.... if somebody makes something and then sells it... then it is rocket science? Flipping burgers, printing t-shirts, selling hotdogs, baking cookies to sell.... because these people have created content and sold them, all claims that 'it's not rocket science' are false?
sorry, english is not my native language, so, maybe i explained it wrong. Motion graphics sell well but I don't see lot of competition as there is in photography and videography. If it would so easy, there would be a lot more people doing it, i think.
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« on: April 07, 2020, 16:20 »
Done! And no, this crisis is not affecting me ATM. I'm creating content relative to 'coronavirus' and selling it. Recently, somebody said me on this forum, "complex motion graphics is not rocket science"... well, maybe he was wrong
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« on: April 03, 2020, 15:52 »
+17% compared to march 2019 @steheap Great result!
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« on: April 03, 2020, 14:00 »
I sell about 1/2 videos a year, so not a big problem.
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