Quote from: Brasilnut on September 22, 2017, 03:53

Well, I've just signed up and they're reviewing my application. 

At least they're trying to stay competitive by innovating...whether it will pay well is another matter altogether but at this stage it's insane to believe that only Microstock is the way forward.

I'm not sure buying other companies is particularly innovative but might be worth applying I guess. FWIW I believe SS want to move away from "straight" Microstock as its not a particularly profitable field.

I think it's quite profitable, but only for them.

Quote from: Dumc on September 14, 2017, 07:43

Yeah right. I'm sorry you're so butt-hurt cause you got booted out.

You have a real sweet attitude 

I didn't get booted out they kept me, so up yours

And I have fewer images than you but made more money LOL 

If you're in, you'd know that 120$ is bonus, not my earnings from images, I never said how much I've made only from images, so how would you even remotely know, how much I've made with my files?

Did you actually went to the main page? I haven't received any e-mail yet, but clicked on the link for June earnings in my e-mail and it showed my July earnings.

I have about 75 files and I've earned more than 123rf, DT, and Bigstock combined, where I have 1100+ files.

Looks like July earnings for Envato are already calculated. My item earnings were doubled from June + even higher bonus (120$$) than in June!! Go Envato!

Quote from: Dumc on September 08, 2017, 12:23

Claiming some will copy his work is just ridicilous. Those who want to copy other authors can just do a search for most popular search terms and BAM, there you have it, pages of photos that you can copy from.

What makes the difference is the fact that you know his port is succesful. A lot of photos might be popular on niche categories, without having the certainty that these photos sell often to match Uber's numbers.
So, not ridiculous at all.

I said "popular search terms", not some obscure, niche search term.

You have this thing for opening new topics, right?

One time my camera setting switched to the "small" size setting instead of "large" so I couldn't use anything I shot that session (an abandoned house). I always check that setting now ... Not sure how it happened  to begin with.

Happened to me also, luckily I alway shoot jpeg + raw so I still had raw file.

The southern USA attempted to break away and form their own country to retain slavery, and were defeated. The statues in question depict the losers of that war, traitors to the country they are still part of. In addition, they're cheapo statues mass-produced and hastily erected during periods of black uprising in the USA to remind black people that they live in a place that would still be enslaving them if it were only legal (instead, we incarcerate them in huge numbers, keeping them from influencing elections too much).

These are not glorious works of art...they're racist crapola that crumbles to nothing with the yank of a piece of tape.

You mean, democrats?

You say someone bought your photos from Ivory coast. How can that be stealing?

https://petapixel.com/2017/08/18/ai-can-easily-erase-photo-watermarks-heres-protect/

So here's a new earning report from Envato. 110$ contributor bonus!. Thats very nice!

the all micro stock industry is puff..dreasmtime s�the worst...ss is falling down, ok is summer but anything sells...i hope they eliminate popular search cause it makes those who sold in 2006 still earning a lot compared to new files uploaded....i hope is summer but i doubt. there is a flow of images not only in micro but even from a lot of free sites who give full size great images free to anybody for any use. luckily micro account for 30 % of my business...and i can wait till all those agency bust and a new format appear.

You also forgot to mention that models in Ukraine are almost for free.

I hope that explains total drop in sales.