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526
« on: February 22, 2019, 22:32 »
Today they rubbed salt in the wound. A sale from last week was refunded and repurchased for the same price, except they took 20% more of it and I got 20% less. ouch.
527
« on: February 22, 2019, 00:29 »
I got an Alamy sale today.
I made $7.40 less than I would have with the same sale yesterday. It was also a lot easier to see how much I actually made from the sale when it was a 50/50 split. I'd be perfectly willing to do the calculations if the 60/40 split was the other way though.
I wonder who and how the screws will tighten next.
528
« on: February 19, 2019, 23:35 »
This sounds like "exciting news".
I would love to see a lot more details. For instance say this is for Facebook, does FB pay SS a heap of money to get access to this stuff and then the advertisers pay a very small price to get clips for FB ads. We get a 30% of this pittance. SS gets a heap in the deal, but it isn't for the license so we get nothing. I'm not saying this is what the deal is, since we have no idea.
529
« on: February 11, 2019, 00:05 »
I don't think anyone here really knows other than maybe Mat, but Adobe says it goes into the search. I am guessing for search terms with a lot of results it is absolutely critical - if you don't show up in the first few pages you won't make a sale and if you don't put the search term in the first 5 positions you won't be on the first few pages (that is just my guess based on what I have read, but it seems reasonable). For search terms with less results it probably doesn't matter so much.
530
« on: February 07, 2019, 20:34 »
I thought January was pretty bad, but February said "hold my beer". I hope it picks back up and isn't a permanent change.
531
« on: February 05, 2019, 22:04 »
It would be fantastic if they actually asked contributors what they looked at and wanted to see instead of just making something fancy that makes it hard or impossible to get the information we want to see. For instance what SS did putting lifetime earnings in a huge font first. Sure it is nice to be able to see that number, but I'd check it once a year or so after passing any milestones that make a difference there (once you are in the highest tier).
On the AS page there is so much blank space they could put all the information on one page instead of requiring a click to see each separate thing.
532
« on: February 02, 2019, 00:56 »
Pretty lousy, and it would have been really bad without a few Alamy sales the 31st. Pretty much everywhere was below the average for last year and only a few were up from December. Usually Jan is a pretty good month for me but not this year.
DT and Canva were both about half of what they have been and 123RF is so far below what it used to be I might as well delete my port there.
SS was up on an absolutely horrible Dec, but not enough to make a decent month.
533
« on: February 01, 2019, 14:53 »
I wish I knew. In my experience it seems pretty random. Especially when I only look at those for a decent $ amount. Lately it seems like very low value distributor sales for which I get < a few $ and much better "regular" alamy sales which can be at least double digit $ if not triple. Sadly those will get me 20% less soon.
534
« on: February 01, 2019, 12:07 »
I think there is some component of artist location in the search algorithm. If they boost that it would tend to increase local sales and decrease sales from farther away. This might be good if you live near a lot of buyers, not so great if you don't.
I am in the US and just looking at my map maybe a few more from the Americas, but there are a few from Europe and one from Japan in the last 10. I haven't seen anything obvious other than frozen pipe sales in the Midwest and east coast of the US.
535
« on: January 31, 2019, 16:24 »
Seems like ice has shifted, just noticed that my images submitted three days ago has been approved already.
It is only a matter of time before the .15 and .21 sales start trickling in.
536
« on: January 29, 2019, 19:21 »
Has Canva ever has an explanation for how 35% of $1.40 equals 35 cents? I've had a few of those lately and am not thrilled to see a 35-cent commission on a $1.40 sale. Maybe they explained that somewhere but I can't find it. New math is one thing but I'm pretty sure they never changed the rules of multiplication.
Someone else said it was for currencies other than the USD, I can't remember where that was posted though. I have also heard of .90 sales that also netted .35
537
« on: January 29, 2019, 18:18 »
As a geologist and someone who has spent a fair amount of time in places that have glaciers or used to have glaciers it is pretty obvious that they are melting away much faster than they have in the recent past. Just looking at the before and after photos of some places is astounding. Many of the glaciers in the lower 48 US states will probably be gone in my lifetime.
My take on global warming is that it is real and at least some of it is caused by human actions, it will have drastic effects on humans no matter what we do (too late to completely stop the effects now), we could make it so things won't be all that bad, but we won't until it gets a lot worse. In general wet places will get wetter , dry places will get dryer (warm air can carry more moisture than cool air), and things will be less steady - so for instance in the dry parts of the SW USA it will be dryer most of the time with a few bigger storm events which will lead to flooding and other problems. Mostly climate change will be a problem for people, who like things to stay more or less the way they are used to. Some places will be better off, some not much change, and some will be completely screwed - like Miami or Bangladesh. As people try to leave places that are less habitable all sorts of unpleasantness will erupt.
Will things always exactly follow the broad predictions? of course not. Weather does what it does on a shorter time scale than climate. Over a longer time scale we will see the changes in climate. I hope that my take is too pessimistic, but I worry it might be too optimistic.
538
« on: January 25, 2019, 12:22 »
How do you tell where a sale is from?
I have noticed more .36 and .66 sales compared to .99 sales. Other values are very rare.
539
« on: January 21, 2019, 14:19 »
Where the h3II do I find latest download, for example.
go to "insights" then select "my statistics" then select data type "activity" then hit the blue "display statistics" button certainly not how I'd set it up, but at least you can find the information somewhere.
540
« on: January 21, 2019, 13:41 »
Thanks, a nice feature. It would be nice if it also said how many times they had been sold next to the $ amount.
541
« on: January 10, 2019, 20:16 »
I guess it is good to know that even though "creative professionals are busy, but they never let their standards slip."
I'm not sure what SS's excuse is.
I guess I'd rather buyers go there than IS.
542
« on: January 09, 2019, 17:57 »
By the time I got 200 images up (in 2007) I was making (for me) good money (at the time I was homeless and unemployed so it was a low bar) and I had all sorts of fun with extrapolating out into the future. As the years passed I made more $, but $/image went down. After about 2012 $/image started dropping faster. On some sites I made less in December 2018 than I did back when I had about 300 images.
At some point you will hit a wall unless you can keep reinventing your work or seriously up the production rate without compromising salability. After that even with more production you will make less. Other than a few sudden drops when a site totally messes with the search this will probably be a long slow decline. Cheery huh?
If I was starting now I doubt I'd stick with it.
543
« on: January 08, 2019, 11:54 »
.38 seems to be the most common amount I get for SODs these days. Very rarely are they more than 2.85 and mostly they are under $1. I got one higher value sale last year - and it was under $8
I sure miss the days of double digit sales amounts, and I am no longer making it up in volume either.
544
« on: January 04, 2019, 22:25 »
Phone companies are developing computational photography, which means taking multiple photos with different exposures and baking them into the final image, plus reducing noise. Computational photography is advancing faster than sensors, which is why phone cameras are advancing faster than DLSRs these days. Computational photography as an option on DLSRs would be definitely cool.
According to what can be found on google and youtube, Google Pixel 2 and 3 and maybe iPhone XS are probably the best for point and shoot photography. LG V30 and V40 are also up there if you prefer manual controls and if you don't mind lack of image stabilization.
I guess we can conclude that the new high-end phones definitely provide good enough quality for microstock. But what about sales? Is there a significant demand for higher resolution and quality or mobile photography is good enough for most of the buyers?
That "computational photography" is a fancy name for what we can already do in Photoshop, since quite a while, actually: stacking photos as smart objects, followed by a lossless noise reduction, using the median function.
True, smartphones do it internally with minimal lag between burst shots, but when using the same technique with a big sensor camera, the results are far superior!
Of course, there is no mystique in computational photography, it's all about processing data. I would say however that baking multiple photos with various exposures can have it's advantages over taking only one photo with one exposure which you process latter, maybe not right now, maybe not soon, but there is no doubt that the progress of computational photography will continue over the years. There are already mentions of AI which is supposed to further reduce noise and estimate what should be in each pixel, and maybe even enable increasing resolution. Only downside of this is that more computing means more CGI and less "real" photo. I guess some people will debate on this subject.
No doubt that big sensor cameras are far superior, and they will always be when it comes to the "real" photo with more details, but if point and shoot mobile phones are more than good enough, carrying big camera and lens(es) plus using manual mode plus processing latter on the computer makes sense only when you have a good artistic or other reason.
Or in our case - actually get paid decently for the work. I haven't looked at the output of the latest generation of phones, but all the ones before that that people said were digital camera killers and so wonderful were seriously lacking. If they aren't there yet, then in a few generations they might be. If all you need is something that looks nice on a 5 inch screen then sure, no reason to have a "real" camera.
545
« on: January 02, 2019, 11:53 »
25.8% of what I made 2 years ago and 34.3 % of last year. I think 123RF fell off the biggest cliff in the last few years. What was that "exciting news" again?
546
« on: December 31, 2018, 20:31 »
I have to go back to May 2007 for a worse month at SS - that was when I had ~250 images.
547
« on: December 29, 2018, 16:55 »
It has to be because Getty dont want us to have this information, there can be no other reason, all the other sites provide up to date stats.
The question should be, Why does Getty not want this information to be available?
The question is " we all know IS reporting is awful and will stay that way is it reason enough not to submit?"
no, but 85% is
548
« on: December 19, 2018, 22:04 »
In the first decade of the 21st century they were able to do it. Maybe they will report yearly sales by October in the 3rd decade.
549
« on: December 19, 2018, 20:28 »
That looks nice...
I noticed this part -
"... went all the way back to 2006 to send a portion of profits to everyone who contributed to Envato's success since our founding... "
That's nice - anything for the people that contributed to your success before you decided they didn't meet with your standards or whatever corporate mumbo jumbo you used to justify it. I suppose you did create less animosity in 2018 than you did in 2017, so I suppose that is good.
I suppose it is a good thing as my taxes have a lot less mess now without your weird misleading accounting.
550
« on: December 19, 2018, 16:28 »
decent sales numbers for a decent amount for which we get a decent percent.
We will put up with almost anything if you can deliver those three.
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