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« on: January 06, 2012, 03:23 »
P = (P)rofessional
A = (A)wesome
T = (T)otally Awesome
M = (M)an I take good photos
B = My photos are (B)etter than yours
502
« on: January 03, 2012, 14:55 »
0 x 100MB,200MB & 300MB
As said before there is unlikely to be much demand for this service as its really expensive and unnessary for majority of users.
503
« on: January 03, 2012, 03:11 »
earnings up 40%
portfolio increased by 20%
shutterstock and dreamstime were bulk of the increase in earnings.
I had a number of photos increase levels at dreamstime that help earnings there.
Shutterstock must have picked up some of the departing istock sales.
504
« on: December 30, 2011, 01:37 »
I haven't made a sale since the end of october placing them solidly at the bottom.
505
« on: December 23, 2011, 06:45 »
[...] You won't find any monkeys or slaves there though, and like others have mentioned, you might do well to drop those terms, even if it was meant to be humor.
ditto
+2
506
« on: December 23, 2011, 01:25 »
I love how 95% of posts thank Istock for their good work at lowering the RC levels.
What a bunch of muppets.
Oh thankyou Mr Bad Man for only stabbing me 5 times in the eye when you promised to stab me 6 times. Here would you like to borrow my rusty knife so you don't get yours dirty ?
Next year Istock could try setting the levels at 120,000,000 for 16% (other levels higher) then at the end of the year revise it down to 2,000. Nobody would be able to move up levels during the year making istock a lot more "sustainable" and everybody will give them massive woo yays for reducing the RC targets so generously.
Has there been any communications from the new Istock manager other than the initial I'm here. What happened with the results of the contributor survey ?
I'd like about another 30% of Istock customers to go to the middle tier sites.
507
« on: December 21, 2011, 03:15 »
1) go surfing
2)travel
3) convince myself that I'd be better shooting specifically for microstock instead of uploading travel photos
4) upload travel photos.
5) work to fund 1 & 2
508
« on: December 21, 2011, 03:07 »
I've continued to slowly upload my portfolio there. Its easy to upload and I'm willing to support photodune as the royalities are reasonable.
They've sold more there for me lately than on Veer, the great microstock hope back from snapvillage days.
The silliest thing I could think of would to delete images you've already got up there unless you were going exclusive or something like that.
509
« on: December 19, 2011, 04:06 »
Edstocks now at 77590 so only 77534 to go
510
« on: December 18, 2011, 05:39 »
What is the average number of RPD threads can be started each month ?
511
« on: December 18, 2011, 00:35 »
Did someone say RPD is a sucker statistic? Finally I get some people to agree with what I pointed out at least three years ago? Weren't you batting on about RPI 
512
« on: December 17, 2011, 19:38 »
My question is for those that do, how much do you sell in Shutterstock and Dreamstime?
Do you have many images that sell at least 10 times a month?
Do you have images that sell more than 20 downloads a month? If so, how high?
... and also please can you PM me links to those images so that I can copy them gain inspiration from your work.
dreamstime links are preferrable because of the geo tagging I can be inspired by them so much easier.
513
« on: December 17, 2011, 17:15 »
I think you would be able to answer your own question with only a little research of your own.
514
« on: December 15, 2011, 15:31 »
I know your trying to prove the point that its inconsistent but I wouldn't be too happy if it was more portfolio you were using as examples.
515
« on: December 15, 2011, 05:06 »
Veer, I really like you. I love the way your site looks and feels to use, I love the commission rates, I love your acceptance policies and I especially love the way my balance jumps when I sell an extended licence. I really want you to be my No 3 agency, but that isn't really happening. I know I have a small portfolio, but I need to sell more and I need for my images to get more views in order for that to happen. I also need for my new images to be inspected waaaay more quickly. Mine have been sitting for a month in the queue now. These same images have been approved for weeks elsewhere and have been gathering sales already. It is not just me that is missing out.
You guys are in the perfect position to be one of the big winners from iStock's demise, please don't let this opportunity pass you by. Please, please can you spend more money on marketing and also employ another inspector - the one that you have seems to be a bit overwhelmed....
I say all this not to try and pick a fight, but because I would genuinely like to see you do well so that we can all benefit.
All the best,
Bridget (StockCube)
+10
516
« on: December 15, 2011, 02:58 »
BTW is Sjlocke already at SS?
Unless you know something I don't, Sean is still exclusive
And if he goes I'll give him 50% cashback if I get to refer him.
517
« on: December 14, 2011, 15:48 »
The reason Dreamstime keep pushing this no similars angle is the level based sales they have. Prices go up the more they sell.
I can understand some of the reasoning behind this. If you had almost identical illustrations/photos then buyers will buy the cheaper one. If you have a level 5 that selling really well and you upload a "new and improved" copy then buyers will buy the cheaper one. Less money for Dreamstime and less money for the contributors.
I believe (like everybody) that they are taking this reasoning too far and their rejections for too similar are over the top as explained by many of the example here and in other threads. I wish that they would take time to actually review if the images are too similar and accept them if there are differences. eg different subjects, allow some different angles of the same subject.
There is a sensible middle ground between too few and too many photos and it looks like they've haven't found it yet.
518
« on: December 14, 2011, 03:18 »
how many hours would it take to make these themes he has for sale ?
A day, a week a month ?
519
« on: December 12, 2011, 03:16 »
keyword search dreamstime
background = 3,936,725 images
grunge = 254,671
looks like a case of too many images for too little customers.
I'd do some of your own research try a different subject for awhile.
520
« on: December 11, 2011, 06:01 »
Oh, great. I thought it was a Russian company. Now it's going to know almost a third off some of my earnings. I just hope its sales are not primarily in the US. Why did they have to make Florida the head office? I don't think any other country has this ridiculous rule about taxing people of other nationalities just because they sold something in your country.
And your not really even selling something in the US
521
« on: December 11, 2011, 05:49 »
moreover clients don't give a sh-it about who's the photographer.
Actually they do.
"Can you see branding by a stock photographer as having any importance?
Possibly if I am interested in certain look I will change my search to only that photographers name/work."
http://blog.johnlund.com/2011/12/art-buyer-jessica-mirolla-interview.html
thank you but i was saying that it means jack in microstock unless you're Yuri (probably the only microstocker with a famous "brand").
yep your total right yuri's the only person in the whole of microstock that people have bookmarked to search his portfolio before wading through the rest of the collections. sounds like a macrosaur,old hippie type of baiting going on here ?
522
« on: December 05, 2011, 15:07 »
maybe some big company was getting like 1000 extended licenses for some huge project. eg like when microsoft did that deal with fotolia or was it istock to have small sized photos in microstock office ?
523
« on: December 02, 2011, 19:23 »
Hi franky242,
Yes, reading of EXIF data is not yet available. Once it becomes available we will send you a notification.
Thank you for registering! We hope to see your photos on the site soon.
Thank you,
Zsolt
All You Can Stock team
To get contributors you need to ensure that you have ftp upload and direct and correct reading of metadata. You will find that people don't have the time to manually do this for a site that's brand new.
524
« on: November 26, 2011, 18:00 »
You can buy kangaroo at the supermarket.
I've spent in all duration around 14 months in Oz, 5 of the cities and lots in between. A while back though. I tried Kangaroo but I can't remember what it was like, which may mean that I didn't think much of it. I do remember the meat being so cheap there and of good quality. However, I hear that prices aren't so cheap now.
Kangaroo's nothing special, low fat content to hard to cook. Prices have been going up but I think the majority of the price rise you'd be talking about would be Australian dollar related. 10 years ago the Pound was 33p to Australia Dollar and the US was 50cents. Now its like double those rates. Cheaper for Australian's going to the US or UK but more expensive the other way.
525
« on: November 26, 2011, 04:59 »
My latest record is one and half week still waiting... Does Australia have a long Thanksgiving weekend too, eating stuffed Kangaroos?
Can't work how Photodune operates. Didn't get an acknowledgement for the application.
I've heard kangaroos are an endangered species in Australia as they export too many of them to northern atmosphere for Thanksgiving dinner. Turkeys are unaffordable now with the debt crisis there.
There are many different types of kangaroos and wallabies. Some are endangered others relatively plentiful. You can buy kangaroo at the supermarket. You can get Crocodile and emu from speciality suppliers. No thanksgiving isn't celebrated in Australia.
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