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576
« on: August 19, 2013, 17:40 »
Hey All,
Please PM me your 123RF UID so that we can check it for you.
Regards,
Anglee
I have stuff sitting since 4th August - if it's just a case of big backlog, no worries...
577
« on: August 17, 2013, 18:23 »
I'm not going to hate it just cos it's iS.
Careful, with that kind of talk you won't make any friends around here.
You have to admit that we're seeing daft idea followed by even dafter idea and a complete inability to implement anything without a total balls up almost like they want the whole thing to cave in.
578
« on: August 17, 2013, 04:28 »
It is probably good practice to put most relevant keywords first - I mean it can't hurt? FT for sure take it into account and possibly others. I tend to add them in IPTC, single word only and give everyone the same thing - life's too short to keyword based on each site's preferences.
579
« on: August 12, 2013, 17:00 »
Yeah, late as in the late Elvis Presley 
580
« on: August 10, 2013, 05:08 »
My sense of the review policy at IS was always that aesthetics didn't come into it. Other sites would pass something that was less than technically perfect if there were other merits in the submission based on a sense of judgement . Now that technical standards have been relaxed at IS, they seem to have no inherent sense of what is good or bad because they have never had to actually use their jusgement.
581
« on: August 10, 2013, 05:03 »
Reviewing standard is probably the least of the issues around FT at the moment 
582
« on: August 04, 2013, 17:19 »
Bottom line for me is that only DT and SS seem to be innovating in what they offer customers without hosing contributors at the same time. I give them props for that.
+1
583
« on: August 04, 2013, 05:24 »
About the levels system, on other sites RPD increases with overall base price increases due to liftetime / last year sales which will favour the guy with 1000s of images. DT's approach gives the small guy as much chance as the big guy to increase RPD. SS still wins with the combination of high volume, actually quite a relatively decent OD return and very nice SODs and ELs but sites like FT and 123 have volumes in the DT ballpark with universally pathetic RPD.
584
« on: July 30, 2013, 13:02 »
Is that your original test images? If so, like all Alamy submissions you keyword, etc them after acceptance (painful process). Same for releases, I presume.
I finally have a machine that will do the 8.4 MP files without pain & suffering - the 4 are approved but only some of the IPTC keywords came through - is that usual? First impression is that the submission process makes IS' look slick 
585
« on: July 30, 2013, 12:55 »
....I also asked if it could be possible that Atilla was at work, because every image was marked with poor lightning....
How did that work out for you?
586
« on: July 30, 2013, 12:44 »
last few batches have been approved same day, also DT & FT. Wondering if they all took on people to cater for ex IS exclusives and the situation has now steadied?
587
« on: July 28, 2013, 16:23 »
Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)?
The post just above my previous leopard head avatar. The Labrador and stick is on its way.. 
 Curiously Dan says that 123 (117 images) has just surpassed DT (9 images mentioned in the DT thread) by 2c - says a lot about the relative earning potential of the 2 sites.
588
« on: July 28, 2013, 12:42 »
Huge influx of former IS exclusive content is still the the most obvious reason for those who do traditional stock imagery.
589
« on: July 28, 2013, 12:35 »
Because they know where they are going and make good decisions based on what's good for business - also the guy with the vision hasn't given the company over to the bean counters yet.
590
« on: July 28, 2013, 12:32 »
Hey I never said sales were good just that $ for a single month exceeded best pre-reduction month - still peanuts Tom - who are you quoting (maybe I'm going blind)? Ron - commercially, refusing to upload to IS & DT while uploading to FT and 123 is nuts, IS no longer has any criteria and, for DT, just don't do a load of similars.
591
« on: July 26, 2013, 16:52 »
There have been 2 occasions that I have changed job and very quickly wondering what . I was thinking when I made the decision to move - course I would never admit that.
592
« on: July 24, 2013, 15:36 »
Wow it's RCs for individual images...
Bit like DT's level 0 at a lower price, except no automatic increase when sales come, they won't go beyond original base price and can drop over and over again - sweet deal.
593
« on: July 20, 2013, 05:10 »
Warren, Joanne,
I actually agree with both of you but if you take your points and compare with FT / 123 where prices are as low or lower than SS (no decent ELs , SODS and very poor credit prices) but without SS volumes, DT looks pretty good. Really no top 4, IS has blown it so we have a top 1 in SS and DT compares well with the rest of the 2nd division.
594
« on: July 19, 2013, 18:21 »
Well ahead of FT (in $ if not DLS), more than double 123 but well behind SS (obviously). It doesn't make sense to moan when a file with 25 dls sells for a 35c sub when we are happy to to take similar or less on other sites for files with hundreds of downloads. The higher levels are still the ones that sell most often and I'm much happier with pricing based on performance instead of volumes derived simply from massive numbers of images.
595
« on: July 18, 2013, 13:11 »
And waved goodbye to 2-300 dollars per month. Being happy they suffered 85% more.
do you really think they lost that money? I guess there are few more pictures apart from yours, nobody is irreplaceable in this industry or any other
Unfortunately true - as is the case when folks say rejections cost the site money - as long as there's an alternative no worries for the site. Same can't be said for some of the other daft stuff they have been at lately - real lemming antics. I actually pity the exclusives - our failing raft is a step from solid ground but they have a long swim from the sinking ship.
596
« on: July 18, 2013, 11:47 »
You know, I mentioned a similar sort of hypothetical scenario to a Shutterstock employee once. I mentioned that I was a bit concerned that it doesn't seem to take much more than an email with an accusation to get someone's portfolio suspended. They didn't seemed too concerned about it, though.
And yet here we are, with something like this happening where someone is wrongly claiming ownership of an image. Fortunately they didn't shut down your port, txking, while they investigate the matter. But it's still concerning that this kind of stuff can so easily happen.
And I think SS still handles these cases backwards. Shouldn't the burden be on the accuser to prove ownership first, and then contact the contributor to see how they respond?
Actually this is thing I don't like about SS - like the queen of hearts Sentence firstverdict afterwards."
597
« on: July 18, 2013, 11:36 »
lots of posts about this - the like certain material and not others and I'm really not sure where quality comes haven't had a rejection since last summer and that was on one of my better efforts.
598
« on: July 15, 2013, 18:08 »
Could be I guess - hadn't thought of that. It is only the last few weeks and I thought it was a general improvement as there seem to be new admins plucked from contributors & the upload limits have gone up a lot.
599
« on: July 15, 2013, 16:42 »
This is so far beyond incompetence that they'd have to call a cab to get back to incompetence. This is not an IT problem but a corporate "feck" up. Out of curiosity (I'm eons away from another payout things being as they are there), are the normal payouts still happening?
600
« on: July 15, 2013, 16:16 »
DT can be a little inconsistent sometimes but overall pretty reasonable and have got much faster - my last 4 batches have all been accepted within 12 hours. Sales volumes are lower than the other top4 sites but RPD is generally much better and they (uniquely) reward actual image performance not just port size and make a fair bit more than FT or 123 with smaller sales volumes.
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