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501
« on: March 25, 2014, 04:32 »
SS has always been in New York. And inspite of the bad air they are trememdously successful. So either the location didn't hurt their success or is giving them an advantage over a place like istock, that is located in a tiny city compared to NY.
I am sorry, I really don't understand the problem. Why should they relocate to another city and force 300 (or 400?) employees and their families to move?
For me staying where the company was founded but moving into an upscale location that will increase brand awareness makes a lot of sense.
But if you don't approve of SS or the way they run their business, just focus your energies on other marketplaces. istock and Fotolia or Dreamstime. pond5?
Did you check if their offices have low rents and are located in cities you personally prefer?
If for you this is an important aspect and will influence your decisions where you uplpad, fair enough.
But for me this seems like a very positive business choice.
well stated.
502
« on: March 25, 2014, 04:29 »
My action is not listed in the poll. I deactivated all images, but one. Keeping my account open as I dont trust them. Many people reported earnings and images being for sale after the closed their account. DepositPhotos is a very very shady agency and needs to be monitored closely.
I added it now
503
« on: March 25, 2014, 04:22 »
You would think they would gain a lot more images than they would loose if they offered this. Some people who are opted in for everything now would remove a few images, but those who are opted out for everything would certianly opt in for a lot of their images.
504
« on: March 20, 2014, 08:30 »
Dear MSG dev team, it would be better if the agency names at the Microstock Group Monthly Survey Vote page would be sorted alphabetically. Would be much easier to vote.
Thanks.
They are sorted in the order (top to bottom) of the rank you gave them the previous month. That way, the sites you vote on, will always be at the top and the ones you don't vote on will stick to the bottom.
I see, thanks for the quick reply. I don't know why it didn't work here once I have already voted a long time ago. Maybe a cook cleaning or other. Well, maybe an option (Dropdown list) would be useful to opt to alphabetically or latest. ;0)
Also talking about votes, on the right column (Microstock Poll Results) should have a button on the top "Submit your vote". IMHO I think a lot of people don't vote because they don't find how to vote at Polls menu.
It only sorts them if you voted the previous month. Good point on needing a link there.
505
« on: March 20, 2014, 05:13 »
Dear MSG dev team, it would be better if the agency names at the Microstock Group Monthly Survey Vote page would be sorted alphabetically. Would be much easier to vote.
Thanks.
They are sorted in the order (top to bottom) of the rank you gave them the previous month. That way, the sites you vote on, will always be at the top and the ones you don't vote on will stick to the bottom.
506
« on: March 17, 2014, 15:46 »
I still upload there and earnings are certainly decent. Better than Yay or or panther in terms of sales. Upload is crazy easy which makes it worthwhile for me.
507
« on: March 17, 2014, 05:23 »
A press release from PicaStock ======================= New version of PicsaStock App allows users to easily refine their search for stock images using colour search feature. Berlin, 14 March 2014. PicsaStock the growing platform for buying, selling and distributing photographs has released an updated version of its IOS App incorporating a state-of-the-art colour search tool. The new feature allows users the ability to hone their search using colour preferences, and can also be used to select images in combination with photo tags. PicsaStock's unique technology analyzes each picture and extracts specific colour information, including details of hue and the degree of each colour in a photo. With the ability to use the colour search in conjunction with keyword criteria, customers are able to discover extensive images collections. The development of a colour search feature like this is revolutionary. It allows for effective search capabilities based on both the client's colour and subject requirements, says Andre Lutter, Founder and CEO of PicsaStock. The beauty is that you never know what you might find. This feature also gives buyers the capacity to apply colour search parameters and locate images, even when they are not tagged. It ensures all customers photographers, freelancers, artists, advertisers and editors alike are able to find the right image to fulfill their requirements, or uncover something entirely new. PicsaStock will also shortly launch its similarity search, which recognizes structures within a picture. Its an exciting advancement for the way users can discover photos, says Mr Lutter. PicsaStock is a leading edge App that lets customers upload and sell their photos straight from their smartphone or Instagram account. PicsaStock GmbH was founded in February 2013 and aims to revolutionize the microstock market with the highest quality of authentic and current images. In October 2013, PicsaStock was awarded the Adyen Tech Innovation Award at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe for the most visionary and innovative technological business model. It allows photographers to upload images through their iPhone, Instagram, 500px, Flickr, Dropbox etc., and sell them to customers around the world. PicsaStock is quickly becoming one of the worlds largest royalty free stock photography databases for authentic photos. PicsaStock is now available at the App Store: www.itunes.apple.com.
508
« on: March 14, 2014, 05:42 »
Press release from PantherMedia ======================= PantherMedia relaunches website with additional products, social media licence and new features Panthermedia.net unveils new design New: image packages with daily, monthly or annual quotas Social media licence allows posting of images in social networks Extended search with new filters and Infinite Scroll New time-saving features for image downloads and administration Enhanced and free corporate account Munich, 12th of March 2014. The leading German microstockphoto agency PantherMedia ( http://www.panthermedia.net) with more than 28 million royalty free images in stock launches its new website. The relaunch is the most comprehensive update in the past 10 years. Besides the clear new design, the website scores with new products, new licences and additional features. PantherMedia now offers all kind of purchasing options: Single images are downloaded on demand and paid by bank transfer, credit card or paypal. Another option is the download of images with a prepaid-account using so-called credits. Brand new to the service is now a third option to licence images: quotas. Customers choose their daily, monthly or annual quota of image downloads and the duration of the quota, either one-time or within a subscription. The price per image drops to as low as 20 Cents per image for subscriptions. The use of royalty free images in social networks has been very controversial and mostly impossible. PantherMedias new social media licence is explicitely allowing the posting of images within social networks like facebook for a small additional fee, hence providing legal security for image buyers. A strong strategic focus of the relaunch was the improvement of the image search. One new feature is the Infinite Scroll that displays all search results on one page, saving the customer time to flip through multiple pages. This and other useful display functions are optional and activated in the search display settings. The extended search has been revamped with an elaborate colour search, that even enables the uploading of own images to trigger the colour search. Sixteen other search filters help the customer to find images faster, e.g. search by number of people or ethnicity. Another optional and time-saving feature is the extended download that allows the cropping of images and the exact resizing of the downloaded image. Thus, photo editing software becomes redundant. Assigning images to projects, end customers or cost centers is extremely helpful for larger corporations, advertising agencies or designers. This new feature enables customers to sort images by groups, projects or cost centers and integrate references on licence certificates or invoices. PantherMedia has also launched the new and free corporate account for customers with more than one art buyer. The customer can add and remove as many colleagues as required, share credits and quotas for image downloads with these colleagues, or see and download statistics. This means, all colleagues share the same pool of downloaded images without licensing images again and again. That is extremely helpful for international customers with many offices spread across the world and saves money utilizing volume discounts. Peter Ammel, CTO of PantherMedia, is happy about the technological developments: Besides the myriad new features and visible changes, most of our work was put into the backend of the system making it extremely scalable for future developments.. CEO Robert Walters adds: That is only the beginning of a series of new developments we have planned for 2014. Personal customer service, legal security and quality are the principles that drive us. Understanding the customer needs globally and putting them into action locally are the success factors that will make or break stockphoto agencies in the coming years..
509
« on: March 14, 2014, 01:44 »
I'm not sure I agree entirely with the advice to always shoot at the lowest ISO. I guess it's different for everyone but I've found that camera shake and too narrow a depth of field have been more of a problem for me than grain in my images. There were plenty that I thought were great until I starting routinely viewing at 100%, at which point I found out that they weren't sharp enough, for the reasons above.
I was an obsessive ISO100-no-matter-what guy up to that point. These days, I go for f/11 - f/16 and 1/1000 - 1/2000 in a lot of my daytime work whether it's fast-moving or not, and I let the camera set the ISO to match. This means I'm often at ISO640-800 but it's not a problem in decent light, and certainly not when I run the images through noise reduction software. Bottom line for me is, software can often remove noise to the point where it isn't visible at 100%, but nothing is going to fix a blurry or wobbly image.
You certainly have a point. Camera shake is probably one of the worst things to have in an image. I like to stick to low apertures for how it looks but the shutter speed still needs to be reasonable. Also remember that the first post was made in 2010. 4 years ago. Camera tech has come a ways since thing and ISO performance improves a lot with every generation of camera.
510
« on: March 12, 2014, 08:56 »
Thanks for adding the Batch Leaf, good to see the verification process working.
The person voting my post down probably misunderstood me.
Probably... I still have no idea what you mean about the "Batch" or what "Batch up" means...
You give agency representative a verified batch, right? Or what is the word for that? The logo under the user name. I thought that was called a batch.
Ow shoot, I mean badge !!  Ugh, sorry.
ahh yes. ok - that makes more sense
511
« on: March 12, 2014, 07:14 »
Thanks for adding the Batch Leaf, good to see the verification process working.
The person voting my post down probably misunderstood me.
Probably... I still have no idea what you mean about the "Batch" or what "Batch up" means...
512
« on: March 12, 2014, 05:07 »
Just to be clear, the personal use Market (prints and lower res digital downloads, with personal usage licensees) and Prime (commercial licenses) are separate entities, but happy to help with this too!
Hi Alex and thanks for coming to us
If I may ask you... I've found info that if client buys print he gets big size of file as well. Is it true? Why he gets digital file with print?
I hope I'm wrong and misunderstood it
And one more about download price - do you consider to let artists set their own pricing? If yes, that would be just perfect! For now I opted out digital download option as I feel $2 is low price. As you can see, stock agencies pay more for that size (resolution of 1920x1080px)
We used to, but no longer include a digital file with print sales. The price is $2.99 and we find that's a very reasonable price for a Desktop Wallpaper resolution image. We'll definitely consider letting photogs set their own prices, but no plans to change that right now!
Oh, and:
"Use the Payments page to keep track of your sales, and request a payout by cheque or to your Paypal account. The minimum payout is $100.00." (in market tour)
"A minimum amount of $60 is required to request the payment by cheque and $50 by Paypal." (fee schedule)
I'm confused
The minimum payout is now $50. We changed it a few months back, but I guess missed that part! We'll update it soon.
Welcome here Alex.
513
« on: March 11, 2014, 15:52 »
Leaf is there a way to allow people to change their vote or update their votes? I thought there was but I can't find it.
yep, i've modified it now so people can change their vote if they want.
514
« on: March 11, 2014, 07:06 »
nice poll chromaco
515
« on: March 11, 2014, 03:13 »
thanks for the link Sean. I missed that on the Stocksy site. Some really incredible stuff!
516
« on: March 09, 2014, 16:16 »
I got a few $$ returned as well. Very nice to see that the accounting can work in our favour sometimes as well!
517
« on: March 09, 2014, 16:14 »
I have like 1100 images on SS. Again today they have downloaded another like 25 images. I'm just concerned about two things
1. What SS thinks, i don't want them to think I am doing something dodgy which I'm not.
2. What exactly are they going to do with all of these images? My port isn't that varied its just people on white.
Boring and unimaginative. However, stock is just a hobby for me.
I have some sweetie-type-prettydarn-hot models, I noticed time to time some people tend fall in love with some of them (one in particular) and go on a download rampage of her pics. Probably some lonely peon who knows there's to-be-wasted reserves in their subscription and his time... and porn gets boring... and khhmmm.... you know......
or maybe they are setting up a fake facebook profile and needs some photos of 'themselves'... or maybe I've been watching too much catfish
518
« on: March 07, 2014, 16:52 »
haha.. great stuff
519
« on: March 07, 2014, 16:48 »
Many SS investors will now demand that SS do something similar to what Getty has just done. And that pressure will only build. They'll see it exactly the way Getty is promoting it - as a new way to monetize images with ads, without the cost of royalties - and be afraid that SS will be shut out of this new revenue stream if they don't act quickly.
In the technology business there are no white hats or black hats and it's actually very rare for one of them to come up with a big new idea that hasn't already occurred to the others. It's usually just a matter of who decides to move on it first.
Maybe Shutterstock has better ideas up their sleeves than what Getty does!? Like the Shutterstock facebook deal. Free photos to advertisers, photographers get paid, everyone wins.
520
« on: March 06, 2014, 04:40 »
The key is work-flow optimisation: FTP, IPTC and a well thought out working plan.
exactly. it's important to keep the sites to a reasonable minimum so you don't feel like you are loosing control having images everywhere. The amount you'll make on a low ranked site, certainly won't be worth anybodies time. Uploading to the bigger sites though is pretty simple (especially with StockSubmitter - it won't add any extra workflow time) and will be worth the effort.
521
« on: March 04, 2014, 14:40 »
welcome here
522
« on: March 04, 2014, 14:40 »
Hmmm.. interesting. Perhaps this means more very easy to license images for the end user - like the Facebook deal. I wouldn't be against that. Getting images easily accessible to where people need them and can buy them seamlessly is what will make microstock really bloom.
523
« on: March 04, 2014, 14:39 »
whoops, thanks Jo Ann
524
« on: March 04, 2014, 14:38 »
Didn't take the survey this year, also stopped entering monthly numbers. For me the most important question is whether or not it's best to be exclusive and getting a better understanding of that is not really helped by the survey results. Maybe some of the info is interesting but I don't see it as being very useful for making decisions. I hope next year this can be addressed if it can't be from this year's survey.
It can get interesting and useful when we start to look at correlation or one other question which wasn't easy enough to look at for this blog post. For example, how to the full time istock exclusives compare to the full time non-exclusives.
There was also a question if you changed exclusivity last year and if you saw an increase or decrease in income. Did those going to exclusivity see an increase or decrease. Did those going independent see an increase or decrease. I think those stats would be interesting and useful.
Sorry I didn't see that information in the Survey Results do you mean you have that information it just hasn't been released yet?
Yes. It was a question on the survey. However, I've only published data today that was spit out by the survey software. Direct responses to the questions. Correlation and comparing data sets etc. will come in another post.
Maybe I'll fill it out then. Do you have a link to the correlation and comparing data sets etc. from last year, I only remember a post like this one.
No, I didn't get one done  This is all the survey data posts I've published http://blog.microstockgroup.com/category/microstock-survey/
525
« on: March 04, 2014, 14:34 »
Didn't take the survey this year, also stopped entering monthly numbers. For me the most important question is whether or not it's best to be exclusive and getting a better understanding of that is not really helped by the survey results. Maybe some of the info is interesting but I don't see it as being very useful for making decisions. I hope next year this can be addressed if it can't be from this year's survey.
It can get interesting and useful when we start to look at correlation or one other question which wasn't easy enough to look at for this blog post. For example, how to the full time istock exclusives compare to the full time non-exclusives.
There was also a question if you changed exclusivity last year and if you saw an increase or decrease in income. Did those going to exclusivity see an increase or decrease. Did those going independent see an increase or decrease. I think those stats would be interesting and useful.
Sorry I didn't see that information in the Survey Results do you mean you have that information it just hasn't been released yet?
Yes. It was a question on the survey. However, I've only published data today that was spit out by the survey software. Direct responses to the questions. Correlation and comparing data sets etc. will come in another post.
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