Quote from: Astrantia on August 29, 2020, 04:24

I have a portfolio of 1200 pics on zoonar for about 14 months now and haven�t sold a single pic yet.
Not worth the effort.

Please check:

Do you have set Model and Property Release Information? (we are not sell Photos with an "unknown" status). You can do that at "Manage images" as a batch process
Do you have activate our Distribution Channels? You can do that at "Distributor Management" (we use APIS/Picturemaxx with DPA and DDP for the german Publishing Houses)

All Release Informations are set.
I activated 7 partners but ddp images is the only agency that reviewed my pics and accepted them. DPA picture alliance reviewed a few, accepted a few and denied several.
All the other agencies like picturemaxx, fotofinder, getty images, universal images group, imagebroker all never reviewed my pics and keep them on the waiting list for 14 months now.
I have pictures with 68 views but not a single sale. The same pics do well with other agencies like Adobe and Alamy.
My user name is TeleMakro - maybe you can find out what�s wrong with my portfolio......

I had 15 sales on AS so far this month.
Before corona times it was about twice as much......

Now it hit me - not one single sale on Adobe for the last two weeks.
Never ever had that before, not even in the beginning when I startetd uploading to AS.

What te heck is going on.

I just had an issue with Dreamstimes certificate. Seems that expired as well?

A quite well known austrian photographer always says- it�s in your head, not in the camera.

I defenately see a difference between my gorgeous Sony fullframe compared to my older Sony APSC.

But it�s also a matter of money.
Even more important are the lenses - some are more expensive than the body itself.

I�m with Sony and the quality is great. But the price is high. Often more expensive than Canon or Nikon or Fuji. And I don�t know if the qualiy is really better than those mentioned.

Maybe get a good 2nd hand camera? There are dudes out there (sure not stock photograpehrs - they can�t afford it) who always buy the latest model camera and sell their old camera.

I�m surprised this is allowed and not copyrighted to scan old paintings and sketches?
Every picture I take with just a small sculpture or grafitti somewhere in the background is rejected for not having a release (even editorial - just had a pic rejected with a wooden sculpture sawn from a dead tree trunk just at the side of a view over a valley and it was rejected three minutes ago as having no release).

And this kind of sketches and paintings needs no relaese??
I�m astonished.

I don't want to be accused of trolling or anything like that, but as an istock contributor who sees a lot of hate directed at IS, and I'd be the last to claim they're fault free, I'm surprised at how much higher my RPD is compared to the ones reported here.

My RPD on IS is (and has always been) higher than RPD on SS.
And that was BEFORE the cut on SS.
The last sales I had on SS were all 0.10 cent, nothing else. So my RPD probably would have dropped to 0.10 cent since june 1st, hadn�t I disabled my portfolio.
On IS it�s always around 0,55 cent.

I don�t understand those people who seem never to be reading anything on what platform soever- otherwise they would have read about the new price structure at SS and the boycott going on for a full month now.

And then they pop in like innocent children who can�t read or inform themselves about what is going on completely astonished about "what is going on" and crying.

I thought every grown up is somehow informed about crucial things going on in this world.
But it seems some peeps are living on the moon with no interest in whta�s going on around them.

Just wanted to drop in and say how much I appreciate this vector image, which got approved. I especially love keywords like 0.10, 0.1c, fuck you, greed and insulting, lol...   

Link to Original work

Gorgeous!!!
I tweeted it......

I started at iStock.  When that went bad a bunch of years ago I moved my pix to Shutterstock.  Now this went bad so I'm looking for another place to drop my stock pictures.  I moved my 6 videos(lol) to Pond5.

I'm thinking of moving my images to either Adobe stock or Alamy.
Anyone can tell me the difference between them?

Alamy is a platform, not an agency like SS or AS.
Once you got accepted you will hardly ever have any rejections - they accept everything.
They were just sold a few months ago to a british media group and my sales went up a little bit.
They pay 40 % share, went down from 50 % last year.
You won�t have many sales on alamy (it took months for me before I had the first sale), but if you get a sale they can be hugh like 150 Euro or even more. ( I sold a pic for 200 Euro two months ago).
They don�t have cheap abonnement sales. Only fair priced sales.
I like them. They�re easy with no rejections and sales are fair priced.
They accept editorial but never check if your pics need a release. Their policy says the client needs to check himself if a release is necessary or not.

Adobe is like SS and the rest a stock agency with abonnement clients. But they pay better than SS. I think the minimum is 33 cent, but I often get on demand sales for much more. My RPD on AS ist 1.05 Dollar.
As a bonus you get a free PS/LR abonnement for one year if you sell more than 150 pics a year. That�s a nice gesture of Adobe I think.
Adobe accepts only some editorial stuff (I think it�s product editorial) and only if you are above a lifetime threshold (I think it�s 1000 sold pics).

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Just noticed this on dreamstime:  "Due to the massive uploads, our pending area has been limited to 1000 submissions per user daily. Please continue the upload process after 24 hours have passed since your first submission."

Are contributors migrating from SS to DT?

I�m already a DT contributor, but I�m moving my SS portfolio to Pond5. Wondering if they too see an increase at the moment....