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« on: June 20, 2015, 02:04 »
You haven't seen any similar sales in your pp have you? I'm on a PC so I don't use android stuff. Maybe Getty sales? My total earnings jumped a few dollars overnight, but it doesn't seem to be affecting the total for my stats in May, so it's all a bit mysterious.
602
« on: June 20, 2015, 01:54 »
Check PP 
Thanks, but it doesn't seem to be possible to check that - not with four or five thousand files online and no search by download date.
603
« on: June 20, 2015, 01:34 »
I seem to be getting several 19c sales that I can't trace to anything - anybody have any ideas? They might have 30% withholding tax knocked off them, which could put them up to 25c, but it's still below anything I thought was possible.
604
« on: June 18, 2015, 03:42 »
EU is the socialist utopia created by the banks, for the banks.
Errr ... isn't there a bit of a disconnect here? Last time I looked the banks were pushing capitalism for all it's worth.
605
« on: June 16, 2015, 10:31 »
Potentially, this is very bad news indeed for those of us who could not accept Fotolia's behaviour and quit the agency (and very bad news for the other agencies). I wish they'd bought up DT or one of the others. I guess I'm just lucky that things have happened which mean my stock earnings are no longer a vital part of my finances.
606
« on: June 08, 2015, 04:38 »
Nice shot, shame the quality is such utter crap.
607
« on: June 08, 2015, 04:37 »
Thank you 
I've just had my first batch accepted at iStock so I'm happy to be 'educated' on what to expect 
Any partner programme sales you get will be reported some time during the month after they happened but they will appear on the graph for the month when the sale took place, not the month when they are reported. You'll get more PP sales than regular iStock sales. There are also the "image subscription sales" which are reported late, too, and which turn up as grey bars. It's a bit confusing, it's like getting reports from three different agencies.
608
« on: June 08, 2015, 02:25 »
Back in 2004 micro(payment)stock was charging 50c, $1 or $1.50 per image and paying 10c, 20c and 30c per sale and iStock was the only kid on the block (up until May 2004 when DT started up). "Macrostock" was a term that microstockers came out with as a generic discription for the traditional, macro-priced agencies, which probably had minimum prices of at least 100x what iStock was charging. The terms used back then by macrostockers to describe microstock are unprintable.
609
« on: June 06, 2015, 14:07 »
I've had a couple of $20+ sales already, so it's not all at the bottom rate. PP's + credit subs (or whatever they call them - the grey bars) have been ahead of ordinary iStock earnings for me for ages.
610
« on: June 06, 2015, 07:29 »
Just noticed.
611
« on: June 05, 2015, 02:35 »
It's entirely reasonable for a single RM sale to be for much less than RF - if you get limited rights for an image over a limited period of time, that should cost less than a much broader set of rights in perpetuity.
I think that is how it used to be before iStock was invented and turned things upside down. It was impracticable for iS to monitor individual usages so they went where the logic of their business model took them, rather than worrying about the relative value of usages on RF and RM licenses.
612
« on: June 04, 2015, 22:55 »
Try with a self hosted site. Probably there you will earn something more
I really doubt that. You promptly lose all the regular buyers who have signed up with an agency and have to find ways of reaching out to casual buyers (which, I suppose, means being able to get on the first page of a Google search).
613
« on: June 04, 2015, 22:48 »
Congratulations, Sue.
Alamy seem to have come round to the realisation that the difference between RM and RF is quite artificial, anyway. They are now selling RF photos on RM licences, if that is what the buyers want to call them. The RM exclusively-on-Alamy files are probably the only ones which routinely deliver a special premium now.
614
« on: June 04, 2015, 22:42 »
Both ron and i were kicked out along with a few others in here.
And some others of us happily departed FT on our own. No loss in my book.
Unfortunately, it is a loss not being able to do business with the third biggest-selling agency. The reduction in stress levels compensates for that but in purely cash terms the list on the left suggests it represents a loss of something like 10% of potential income and nobody likes to have a 10% pay cut.
615
« on: June 04, 2015, 01:54 »
All the mistakes on IS are attributed to incompetence, never on greed. Why would this be any different? Sean has a good point.
In my mind the difference between iStock and Fotolia is that iStock took over another company and found that there was a sum outstanding from a lost payment years earlier and then contacted me to tell me I could claim it and promptly paid; as for Fotolia, when I asked them to send a cheque for about $800 in accrued earnings they delayed for months and then put some sort of internal memo on my account saying they had paid me - I think that was the point when they blocked my account access - but when I then threatened to call the FBI if they didn't pay within 48 hours they immediately sent me my money regardless of their payment memo. That's why I would attribute iStock mistakes to incompetence and why I do not have my portfolio with Fotolia - I can't do business with a company without having confidence in its honesty.
616
« on: June 03, 2015, 04:41 »
Ok, I personally don't believe fotolia did that on purpose and just hoping no-one will notice it.
It might have been an "accident" as they claim. Personally, I think it was a test to see if they could get away with it, and so far, it appears that they have. With as little backlash as they have received for doing it the first time, whether accident or deliberate, how long do you think it will be before they do this again or something else equally repugnant?
Fotolia (and not just Fotolia, we've seen lots of examples) seem to be able to rely on having impunity because they deal with thousands of suppliers and individually nobody has sufficient sales to make it worthwhile pursuing them for one infringement or another. These incidents show that small-time internet businesses have hardly any rights because the rights they are supposed to have are impossible to enforce against multi-billion dollar companies. Of course, that means the big businesses can do anything they like, regardless of the law, and simply shrug off any concerns about consequences because they know nobody can afford to take them on.
617
« on: June 03, 2015, 02:29 »
Use the "Keyword research tool" in the Tools section of this website. That connects to SS files and if you use some of your own terms to search for the file you may be able to find your pictures.
You just "copy" and "paste" once you have all the keywords you want - and you may find some others from other people's images, too.
618
« on: June 01, 2015, 04:55 »
I also do mostly travel and landscape but I found one big difference in my pictures from the mass of others - if I enter "Philippines" or "Tropical beach" as a keyword I get lots of photoshopped pictures with colours like a psychedelic movie.
So formyself I can say I found my "niche" with producing "real world" images.
Fair enough - but those psychedelic colours seem to sell better than real world ones.
619
« on: May 28, 2015, 05:46 »
The buyer side of the site seems to be working, though.
620
« on: May 27, 2015, 15:57 »
But marriage is a religious invention, anyway.
Have you looked at the history of marriage? I'm not sure what was invented first, marriage or religion? I have read that it pre-dates all the mainstream religions.
I'll bow to your broader knowledge, then (but agree with the Lizard, too).
621
« on: May 27, 2015, 15:53 »
"This was a bug within the search engine. Customers were not actually able to download the images
and the bug lasted only 1 day. Opted out contributors are still and have remained opted out the whole time."
Two lies in 3 sentences. Congratulations.
Two lies in three sentences assuming that "the bug (sic) lasted only one day" is true.
622
« on: May 27, 2015, 09:22 »
I totally agree. I am in the process of deleting my entire port. They have proven that they can't be trusted and I don't have time to check up on them every day.
I had my portfolio taken down there years ago but yesterday I STILL felt I had to go and check both Fotolia and DPC to make sure my stuff wasn't there. You can never be sure if a portfolio has been deleted by an agency or just taken offline (making it liable to suffer "search engine bugs").
623
« on: May 27, 2015, 03:31 »
This was a bug within the search engine. Customers were not actually able to download the images
and the bug lasted only 1 day. Opted out contributors are still and have remained opted out the whole time.
Fotolia EU
That's a defence that is hard to challenge. How credible it is is another matter.
624
« on: May 27, 2015, 03:25 »
Thanks for that reply, sfa. The hospital situation is very regrettable, I have no idea if there is a similar time delay in recognising civil partnerships elsewhere - it seems rather odd.
As for getting "god's" blessing, the latest news from the Vatican seems to be that it won't be coming from the god the Pope talks about.
625
« on: May 27, 2015, 03:11 »
I cant believe Adobe condones this. Maybe Adobe ordered FT to correct the situation asap?
That could well be right. But there was one other time there was an instant change to their site - that was when they were caught out paying people less than everybody thought they were paying due to their decision at some point to put imaginary values on the credits. The line on their website defining the credit as having a fixed cash value rapidly vanished after the discrepancy was pointed out. It will be in the archives here, on the thread about the different rates they pay depending on which currency they choose to use. So they have a track record of rapidly removing evidence of questionable behaviour even without the intervention of a reputable company.
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