Quote from: YadaYadaYada on August 17, 2017, 09:48

Quote from: derek on August 17, 2017, 00:15

Thanks for your help I will try that. cheers!

Note, I wrote the same thing yesterday and got a snarky remark about being four days late and called a *? Wow!

Here's something useful. It shows your sales and files and sorts things very nicely. There are times when the site is slow and you must reload, it's very popular. But someone made a site that does what IS should have done for us.

https://www.todayis20.com/

Well I was in a bit of a bad mood! anyway thanks for your help I appreciate it! ...frankly I dont know why IS makes it so difficult or rather this esp crap?

I think we can agree there and this one too.

a) They don't care  b) They are incompetent c) they don't like to make it too obvious how much they are creaming off or a combination of all the above.

Getty was in a big hurry to get things moved to their servers. Been said before, this is accounting and files, that's why the formats changed, to match Getty. ESP was activated while it was barely functional, with promises. We get a little nibble every month and more promises.

Consolidation of service, cut expenses, cut employees. Remember most of the contract mods on the forum got the axe. If people in the company end got the axe, I missed it, but I bet the last of the Canadian people got moved out. Transfer or told to go find another job.

Thanks for your help I will try that. cheers!

Note, I wrote the same thing yesterday and got a snarky remark about being four days late and called a *? Wow!

Here's something useful. It shows your sales and files and sorts things very nicely. There are times when the site is slow and you must reload, it's very popular. But someone made a site that does what IS should have done for us.

https://www.todayis20.com/

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Quote from: YadaYadaYada on August 16, 2017, 08:36

I don't care. I'm not a stockholder, I don't make monograms with initials, which is all these are. I don't run the agency and what this guy does or what SS accepts of this sort, has no effect on my images or sales? Same with the marijuana guy. Buyers looking for what I shoot will never see either of these two, or any of the other who have one image done 1,000 ways. I must add, just because someone has a collection of this junk, doesn't mean they make any sales from it. 

What does puzzle me though is why? I cant imagine its profitable but then why would they do it?

SS or the contributor? If the contributor, they get one sale and imagine great wealth by putting up 1000 of the same thing. Like same eye with a different flag hundreds of them or construction workers same shot over 300 different backgrounds. The monograms are something else, he would have to have, every letter of the alphabet in every combination, so what's that? 676 of two letters? Then find a different shap and start all over again.

Why SS does it? I'm to the point that they are just growing to the biggest and have no cares about the best or quality any longer.

But when you see people still shooting tomatoes isolated on white, don't you wonder the same? I can't imagine it's profitable, why do it? 

Certainly agree SS do it because they still boast about the number of images in their reports....like a supermarket boasting they have 99 variations of baked beans .....though supermarkets grew out of this a while back and most mature industries look to minimise their inventory. After doing those 676 and getting no profit you'd think he/she might review the approach rather than do it all over again...

No doubt you are right on both counts. This one slid past so fast, I missed it.  151,585,188 royalty-free stock images / 1,171,926 new stock images added this week. Not that 151 million is much different than 150 million. Now adding more images a week than what they had total in the first years?

Contributors are chasing their tails most of the time, or looking for the magic answer. I just sold a shot of dog poo, so I'll go search for 100 more piles to photograph, it must be how to make money.

Others just go look for most popular and copy that. Heck, it's been done, it's covered and new files will usually be buried unless they are exceptional and better than what's being copied. FT doesn't take many of them anymore, rejected as similar. So the guy with the marijuana, has a niche, we don't know if he makes money or not, or just samples the props and makes another 1,000 stock shots. 

Thanks, interesting works.

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Quote from: derek on August 14, 2017, 01:26

rather childish actually, all I look at is the monthly sales-reports. I was asking if the ESP is showing any stats? apart from the stupid spinning wheel!  whats this the 15 year old brigade replying?

btw dont bother answering unless you can find something useful to say.

And some people say, stupid question, stupid answers? You missed the switch, over 8 months ago, but you're here every reading day?

Here's something useful. It shows your sales and files and sorts things very nicely. There are times when the site is slow and you must reload, it's very popular. But someone made a site that does what IS should have done for us.

https://www.todayis20.com/

and youre here four days too late forum-guru!!  go do some photography your port needs it badly! and in that case stop sending me PM's telling how bad everything is and others here! or maybe youve forgotten hey?  bye, bye. Twatt!!!
 

Never sent you any PM Chris?

Sorry mate I must have immagined it!  silly me! hehe. never mind no hard feelings!

Same here, have a nice evening.

I put a number of photos on Deposit Photos a couple of years ago and have been making about $20-$30 a month since.  I haven't uploaded anything there in a couple of years. 

However, last month I had one day where I made $61 all from on demand sales.  Great, but I figured it was a one off thing, I just checked my numbers for July and in July I had one day with $125 in on demand sales.   Apart from these two days, every day in June and July has been a buck or two as normal.  Anyone know what is happening to get me these big days, and if there is anything I can do to get more of them?

With 30 photos for $29 why would anyone use On Demand at all? Hope it's real.

Has anyone here ever had the free photo of the week on DP? Do they pay for a huge number of subs, since we aren't free? That could be nice.

Hi there- I've noticed that Adobe Stock requires the top keywords to be ranked or at least put at the top of the list. I guess this helps them assign weights to each keywords to improve the search relevancy. 

Do you know if Shutterstock assigns weights to keywords ? It does not seem to be a requirement to upload. But maybe they generate that ranking in order to determine which weights to give to keywords.

Is it in my interest to rank the keywords when submitting to Shutterstock ?

Thanks a lot

Not that we know of, but SS has reordered my keywords after upload. They don't say that word order makes a difference like some sites do. Best advise is always put the best and main words first, for all sites.

I don't care. I'm not a stockholder, I don't make monograms with initials, which is all these are. I don't run the agency and what this guy does or what SS accepts of this sort, has no effect on my images or sales? Same with the marijuana guy. Buyers looking for what I shoot will never see either of these two, or any of the other who have one image done 1,000 ways. I must add, just because someone has a collection of this junk, doesn't mean they make any sales from it. 

Im set to popular always and what I see is NOT!! my Most Popular and never has been. i gave up asking them why.

Define what SS is calling popular? What does popular mean according to their search? I'd like to know what it's supposed to be.

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on August 03, 2017, 15:15

yes, 2 scenarios possible ; one good for us, other tragic.
1) Oringer short the stock and waiting for the price to collapse then go back in to buy up everything, then declare SS private
2) Getty also short the stock and wait also for the price to collapse then become the main shareholder and we are all dead ducks ...
as money will not make us happy, because it 's money Getty intends to keep for themselves.

scenario on is unlikely, as Oringer already makes enough money , he does not need to own SS anymore as if already mention, micro is dead, why would he bother to keep ss???

Oringer appears to be buying shares in Shutterstock

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/sstk/ownership-summary

Did he buy those or did he get those awarded? Not the same thing. He is paid $1 a year but has stock options and rewards for company performance.

Why does Warren Buffet keep running his company and investing? He's a billionaire? Just like the others on that list, they like what they do, it's not for more money, they have all that a small country could need to survive.

"The chance of Red or Black is 16 in 38 every spin". eh? I believe most roulette wheels are 0-36 so in fact the chance of red is 18/37 black 18/37 zero 1/37 which adds up to 1 which all probabilities do. Therefore the chance of four blacks in a row is 18/37*18/37*18/37*18/37 in the same way as the chance of say red/black/red/black or any other sequence. Correct the balls have no memory so if for example red has come up 14 times it is no more or less likely that it will come up a 15th time things that have occurred in the past have a probability of 1. However a run of 15 reds remains unlikely (but statistically it will happen at some point) ;-). It wouldn't matter if you changed colour Martingale just says double your stake and sooner or later it will come good which is true but you could be bankrupt before it happens.

While I don't think SS is dying I don't think its being run as well as in the past and is overpriced on the stock market. As a business there's plenty worse out there but I would rather put my money on red than buy SS shares at the moment ;-). But they remain my safest bet for selling images.

assuming you are in Europe, and you are, the wheels has 37 slots. 18 red, 18 black and one green. 18 in 37 you are correct. The point is, what happened on one wheel in one location in one spin is not going to change the probability for the next spin. It's hard for humans who are superstitious to believe or understand. Probability is the same each spin, as an individual event. It's always 1 in 37 or 18 in 37 or anything you play. In fact every bet on the roulette wheel is the same. There's no advantage to playing any number or combinations of numbers. Perfect game.

The possibility, a different word make a note, that Red will come up 15 times in a row, is unlikely. I've seen it happen. This does not change Probability of the next spin, in any way. That's why casinos make good money. People think they can predict what the cards or dice will do, based on the past, when the past spins have no relevance to the current spin.

One spin doesn't effect the next, unless the game is rigged.

True I'll sell more images on SS than at the casino, and I won't bet against any streak on roulette. I do like it when I hit a steak of sales on some new image, where it hits and keeps selling. We mostly can't predict sales on the little sold or unsold images. Those are need of an individual buyer and then they go away. Regular repeat selling images, my favorites, I have some, are the bread and butter.

Oh and yes SS stock is over valued on the market.

Revenue per download increased for them. It doesn't necessarily mean it increased for us. As someone pointed out earlier, pushing new contributors with lower royalties to the top of the popular search could increase their RPD because they keep more of the moolah.

Could, but there's no proof or evidence that they do. They could have purple cows that give green milk. Show Me?

I liked your other idea better. Competition up 57% will hurt sales.