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« on: December 08, 2022, 00:50 »
OK, that's something different.
They say: "If an agent or image library already licenses your artistic copyright, then this would conflict with our Copyright Licensing service. Only one organisation can license and negotiate the reproduction of your work." so I don't think it applies to us.
But we do not license our copyright with agencies? We just license images. The copyright stays with us. "What Is Copyright Licensing? A copyright license is an agreement that allows a person or entity who holds the copyright (the licensor) to assign (or transfer) the copyright to another (the licensee). " That's not exactly what is happening with microstock? Or am I misunderstanding something here? Are you eligible?
Are you a visual artist?
Do you own the copyright in your artworks?
Can you confirm you've not granted exclusive rights to anyone else?
If you answered yes to all three questions, then you're eligible for our copyright licensing service. And as long as you are not in an exclusive program with any agency, you have not granted them exclusive rights.
552
« on: December 07, 2022, 10:54 »
Skip the silly dashboard and bookmark the earnings summary page.
The earning summary page is even more silly than the dashboard. There is no way to see all your sold images at once, but you have to go through multible tabs. If an image sold multiple times, you have no idea what amounts the single sales were for, something which you can see in the latest download section of your (old) dashboard, where each image sale is listed. You always see the image, no matter what licencing type it was, you see the amount, you do not have to switch any tabs. The only thing I use the earning summary page for is to compare months or years. It's not handy for daily overviews.
553
« on: December 07, 2022, 07:05 »
Edit:- Ive "fixed" it by using the element zapping from uBlock origin to remove all the irrelevant top frame and graphics meaning my actual stuff appears at the top again.
Oh, that's a good idea! Today I was switched back to the old design, but once this gruesome new design comes back I will eleminate some elements as well. Haven't thought about the possibility of using my ad blocker like this. That will still not bring back relevant easy accessible information like latest downloads, but at least remove some of the junk no one wants to see in their dashboard.
554
« on: December 06, 2022, 13:11 »
I am always surprised that people look at their dashboards, and that agencies waste so much time breaking them in new ways. I use a third party app for stats, it would take too long going through all the agencies individually.
I have the dashboards of all agencies I submit to in my browser's tab list and opening them at once and quickly looking through them takes about 10 seconds... unless the agencies make it extremely complicated and unorganized so you can't see the important info at on glance like now with Shutterstock... 
555
« on: December 03, 2022, 13:16 »
Of course you may be on a different planet?
That might solve the mystery of a lot of his statements on this forum.
556
« on: December 03, 2022, 05:46 »
It is not easy for most authors to find their photo in the free collection.
How do you know this?
Did you not know, stocker2014 is an expert on everything - Even on photos in the free collection, even though, according to him, he does not even offer any photos on stocksites and, since he asked whether Adobe pays for them, apparently has absolutely no clue how the free image gallery deal works. By the way, took me exactly 2 seconds and one single keyword combination to find multiple of my images in the free collection at once. Seems quite "easy" to me...?
557
« on: December 01, 2022, 04:09 »
What happens if I no longer want to be exclusive with Pond5?
If youre a participating artist, you can withdraw from the Pond5 Exclusivity Program by providing 6 months written notice for us to shift your account to a non-exclusive one. After that period, you can also opt back in at any time. As I understand it from their FAQ the time period is 6 months.
558
« on: November 30, 2022, 10:09 »
 The term "woke" means "alert to injustice in society". Please stop misusing it as some silly insult to every person who's opinion you don't share. What you describe is simply a person who does not want to be photographed and is not educated about the law. It has absolutely nothing to do with being woke.
559
« on: November 26, 2022, 04:42 »
While most of the keyword ratings make sense to me, I don't agree with all of them and don't think they are always benefitical to the customer.
For example: "If "isolated" then not "background".
The term "Isolated" in microstock language means plain, shadowless, easy to remove background" (definition by Dreamstime, but it's mostly similar wherever you look).
I usually add the keyword "isolated" along with "white background". So the same image would have the keywords "isolated" and "background" and they are not contradicting each other at all. The same goes for the example "keywords contradict each other very strongly e.g.: photo of a woman but keyword "men"."
What if I have for example a "photo of a woman with bruises" and in the background there is a blurry man, depicting domestic violance? Then both keywords would be very relevant and not contradicting at all.
I find the whole "keywords contradicting each other" thing problematic. Whether two keywords are really contradicting each other depends too much on the context of the image, but an automated keyword ranking system can't understand that.
Other example: "If "garden" but only single plant." There are all kinds of different plants, like indoor plants, agricultural plants or plants you would plant in a garden. If I show the latter, I would add the keyword "garden plant" even if it was just one plant shown in the picture, to make the keywords as specific as possible, but apparently I am not supposed to do so?
Another issue I have with the downranking images of editorial images that are older than a month/a year. With some that makes sense, but many editorial images don't lose relevance after a month, or even a year. I have an image from a climate change protest that I submitted maybe 3 years ago that still keeps selling, though it keeps selling less and less over time. The topic isn't any less relavant now than it was 3 years ago and the image has not lost any of its usefulness. So it would gain 3% for "current topic", but lose 20% after just a month and another 10% after a year. Doesn't make sense to me.
560
« on: November 22, 2022, 06:24 »
Yes, and foolishness is everything, nominate a bunch of videos, promise a bunch of dollars, and then accept 0 or a couple of grand.
Nowhere did Adobe PROMISE you any amount of $ at all. All they did was give you a selection of images to nominat with absolutely no promise of accepting them into the free gallery.
You are obviously completely off topic. Adobe clearly wrote in my account that he wanted to nominate my video, indicated the amount and indicated the amount that I would earn.
I am certainly not "off topic" as the topic is Adobe Stock Free Collection and that's what I am talking about. And no, Adobe was very clear. This is the EXACT text of the message: The text said: You've got X eligible assets that could earn up to X upfront if seltected for the free selection. No one expect you thought he'd definitely get the possible maximum amount, not for photos, not for vectors and not for videos.
561
« on: November 22, 2022, 05:09 »
Yes, and foolishness is everything, nominate a bunch of videos, promise a bunch of dollars, and then accept 0 or a couple of grand.
Nowhere did Adobe PROMISE you any amount of $ at all. All they did was give you a selection of images to nominat with absolutely no promise of accepting them into the free gallery.
562
« on: November 22, 2022, 03:44 »
In my opinion, we were greatly deceived, hmm. They waved dollars in front of their noses and showed the muzzle.
Why reassure people if you werent going to take a lot of videos anyway.
Adobe drew mountains of gold for the authors, and as a result threw a handout. This is not correct behavior.
Why were you deceived? Were did Adobe claim that they would accept all or even a great part of the nominated videos into their free collection? Adobe has been pretty transparent about this. If you thought they'd take all or most videos then that's because you didn't read or understand the offer properly.
563
« on: November 21, 2022, 12:44 »
Contrary to what someone else wrote, you can't deduct equipment, at least not in the US. You depreciate the equipment over a period of time. I don't know your laws or the UK laws.
Equipment youll use for more than a yearincluding cameras, lenses, lighting, light boxes, filters, tripods, computers, and hard drivescounts as capital expenses. Each year you can deduct a portion of the cost of capital expenses over their useful life.
Yeah, but he is not in the US. Here I can deduct the full price of the equipment at once. Only when a single piece of equipment is over 952 I have to depreciate the equipment over a period of time and the time varies depending on what kind of quipment it is. So it's really little use giving advice here, because it could be completely different in the Netherlands.
564
« on: November 21, 2022, 12:10 »
I know you're lookin' for a ruby in a mountain of rocks
But there ain't no Coupe de Ville
Hidin' at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box
Lets say your disapproval is useless and changes nothing. Then what?
Don't understand the ruby and ville and jack stuff. Guess my English isn't good enough, I don't know what half of that is. So, you are saying we are not supposed to talk about anything we don't like we can't change anything about? The Russian war? Explosing gas prices? Inflation? Soccer world cup in Katar? Communication is a way to express our thoughts and feelings. Its a basic human need that helps us connect and interact with others. It's helps us form our identity and perceive the world as we want others to see it. It helps us express our emotions and emotional expression is a key to our mental health. It helps relieve stress. Through communication, we evolve as individuals in society. Through it we become informed and make well thought out decisions. It helps us develop our own ideas and express ourselves. It creates the foundation for understanding between people and helps us develop respect and empathy. There are a million reasons why we talk about things, even though talking about them doesn't change anything about these things. If you do not feel the need, then that's okay. But don't question other's peoples' motives for wanting to express their thoughts and feelings, regardless of whether it'S something positive or negative or something they can change or not.
565
« on: November 21, 2022, 07:53 »
Lets say I used to make $100 a month on a specific agency and now I make $10 a month there. And another the same, only it's now $5 a month. I averaged $80 RPD for some years on another, now I get $8.71 RPD with more images?
If you hang someone, and then shoot the corpse, does that make them more dead? Killing an already dead industry won't be making it any worse by AI entering the market. You can't stop progress or technology just because it doesn't fit our own goals or plans for the future.
And let's say I used to make $100 a month there and now I make $1000? What then? Microstock is not dead for everyone. Some people are still making decent money there, some even rely on it for their living. No, we can't stop progressing trechnology that might destroy our livelihood. But it doesn't mean we have to like it or even cheer it on or keep silent about our disapproval.
566
« on: November 21, 2022, 01:40 »
Here in The Netherlands I have to fill a tax form every year around february/march for the previous year, and I know there is a question about
side income/own business so I am wondering, is all I have to do, count all the money that I earned from stock (and withdrew) in 2021 and thats it?
Also, I have heard somewhere that it could be beneficial to actually oficially start my own business, so that then I can include my gear, travel costs and
other things as expenses, and thus pay maybe less taxes.
You would need someone else from the Netherlands to answer that question. Where I live I deduct all my gear and various photo props from my income and I don't have my own "business", I am just registered as a freelancer. Every country has its own tax rules, but usually you can find the information you need online.
568
« on: November 16, 2022, 12:25 »
Decent month here and better than October last year, but not as good as I had hoped after having some extremely high view numbers on several images last month.
This is why I don't really care about views. We don't know who, or why, or how they got there. Is it a buyer or just someone looking?
I might guess that if I get views and no sales, that there are better images than mine of similar content.
I could guess that the subject is interesting, but with so many keywords, how do I know that it's not just a mistake for one of the words? I do try to only use direct words that apply and describe, but there are always words that could be for "something completely different". 
Anyone who relies on always using all the keywords allowed, is going to get more false views?
Now if the sites did, pay per view, I'd be interested. Oh since it's IS maybe that's called Connect?
I mostly agree with you, but 1.) I am very accurate with my keywords and don't spam or misuse keywords 2.) the great number of views were on some of my images that are among my seasonal best-sellers and have sold excessivly around this time last year, so when last year "many views" on certain images translated into "many sales", I don't see a reason to assume it would be different this year and in fact it wasn't. It's not the sale number that's different than what I expected, but the earnings. With iStock's ridiculous 0.02$ sales 100 sales of an image could end up earning you only 2$. So, yes, at least in my case, many views did lead directly to many sales. It just did not lead to the expected earnings. But, as said, it was still a good month for me.
569
« on: November 16, 2022, 01:53 »
Decent month here and better than October last year, but not as good as I had hoped after having some extremely high view numbers on several images last month.
570
« on: November 16, 2022, 01:45 »
Tell me, which one is a human made photo and which one was created by an AI?
One on the right is AI. That's my guess? How did I do?
Left one is the AI generated image by DALL E. 😥 
571
« on: November 14, 2022, 11:36 »
I want to be able to critique agencies without fear of being banned (like happened to Sean and Jo Ann).
And what happened to them there? Are there a lot of snitches on the forum?
Why snitches? This is a public forum. Everyone can see it, including microstoick agency staff. But many agencies even have members with official accounts here.
572
« on: November 12, 2022, 06:31 »
1. This is just research. No, it's not. Actually it even already exists in basic form, like Meta's makeavideo or D-ID. It is also not clear how everything works there, it is quite possible that in the final video they use fragments of someone else's video, and this is a copyright infringement and no one will sell it on stocks. It's pretty clear actually, because that's how the whole AI generation works. If you had bothered reading any of the threads about AI generated images instead of commenting first, reading later, you'd know. That's the whole point of AI generated content: It LEARNS from other workand creates it's own content. 2. There is no such thing in stock agencies and is not planned. You'd have said the same about photos half a year ago. 3. Everything on this site is cartoons, i.e. animation. What is "this site"? We are talking about sites that create AI generated contet in general here and most of them can create photos. Tell me, which one is a human made photo and which one was created by an AI? 4. I'm creating a live stock video and I don't see any threats. Someone could take your video, describe what he is seeing to the AI and it would recreate it's own version of it. Still not a thread? 5. Yes, it is quite possible that there will be many such sites, but these will not be stock agencies, and the content there will be extremely specific, it will definitely not be my buyers who will buy there.
Did you get the part where there are AIs that create images - photos, not just "cartoons" and stock agencies like Shutterstock are implementing selling them on their platform already? So these would be the exact same buyers this content is offered to. I don't think AI images are a real competition to stock photographers yet, because for the most part I think the results are not good enough when it come sto more complex topics. But we'll get there some day. Videos will probably take more time. Maybe so long that it won't be a thread to current stock videographers in their lifetime. But one day.
573
« on: November 11, 2022, 03:20 »
My Canva october earnings are actually 75% up from previous months and it's my best month on Canva ever.
Have you been growing your portfolio rapidly there? Roughly how much is your income with them? (I mean really roughly, tens, hundreds, thousands?) If its like 20 dollars or even a couple of hundred its very hard to draw conclusions.
EDIT: Hope you dont mind. Checked your past posts and you said last month you havent been on Canva very long. Of course you are going to see growth in your first months when you start from zero. I think those seeing a huge downturn are comparing year on year.
I've been on Canva for a little over a year now. No, I have not been growing my port rapidly there, just submitting the same content regularly than on all the other agencies. I agree it's hard to draw conclusions without a number. If you usually earn 5$ and suddenly it's $20 that doesn't say much. I admit I don't have a very high income on Canva compared to other agencie, which might have something to do with a lot of my bestsellers not being there as Canva doesn't accept images on white background, unless they are transparent pngs, but my income has still been very steady there and suddenly it's 75% more. It's not "hundreds", but it's at least over hundred. Sadly Canva does not give me any real insight on what images sell. I suspect Halloween might have played a role as that's usually bringing in a lot of money on other agencies, though from my individual sales only 3 have been Halloween-themed, so I do not know.
574
« on: November 11, 2022, 02:05 »
My Canva october earnings are actually 75% up from previous months and it's my best month on Canva ever.
575
« on: November 10, 2022, 07:50 »
I somehow have great doubts that TikTok has the right audience. According to their own stats 43% are between 18 and 24 years old and seeing as TikTok is full of teens and even children, but they have an age restriction of 18+, I suspect that 90% of those who claimed to be older than that during registration are even much younger.
People go there for short dance clips and stupid challanges, not to buy images. A better place to promote content would probably be Instagram, though I also doubt that's very fruitfull.
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