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626
« on: January 29, 2013, 13:59 »
If thinkstock and photos.com are not included in istock earnings where should we put them?
In the PP box when Leaf includes it. The PP are now my 4th largest earner and might possibly become 3rd soon. They need to be listed in their own right as they have developed their own place in the market.
I've never considered BS and SS as one company as I was uploading to BS before they even did the bridge.
627
« on: January 29, 2013, 11:27 »
Assuming that the partner sales stay steady this will be the 2nd best month in over a year. Only beaten by May last year when I had some high paying ELs
Wow! Good for you
With 1 1/2 days to go, it's looking to be my worst month since July 2010 on iS sales alone. 1 dl yesterday and 1XS today. At least your post has reassured me that there are some buyers still there.
The previous best match killed all the uploads I made from September last year. Those in 'bigger' searches dropped out of the top 200 within a couple of days of uploading even if they made a 'quick sale', and there's no way back. This week's best match is full of files uploaded in the past week or two, then much older files.
Added: as usual, it's not the same best match across all searches. I just tried another one, where new files are nowhere to be seen (yet there have been several uploaded this month), yet the previous two searches heavily favoured new files. As they said, it's bouncing around just now while they experiment with different parameters.
It's really strange things selling and it's not as good as it sounds as It's still less than half what it was 3 years ago. I'm averaging about 7 -10 sales on a weekday whereas 50 dls was quite common a few years ago. eta I've just been and looked and my average in 2009 was 30 dls a day. In 2012 it was about 5 (not counting pp sales)
628
« on: January 29, 2013, 09:02 »
Assuming that the partner sales stay steady this will be the 2nd best month in over a year. Only beaten by May last year when I had some high paying ELs
629
« on: January 28, 2013, 12:09 »
Yes, GREAT POST. Thanks Joanne.
Are our blogs moderated on Istock? This has likely come up, but can't we all post a blog on our IS profile?
Not really moderated, but I believe they can delete text there if they don't like it. I know from personal experience that they can delete incoming and outgoing site mail if they wish to recall "intemperate" mail they sent so I don't see why the blogs would be exempt.
I did a picture change on my user_view page figuring that'd be harder for them to locate - a text search can't find it
I just clicked on the istock link at the bottom of the search to see what you had used as an avatar and for some reason the link didn't work. I then went to istock and put in jsnover as a search term and got up a whole load of images of cocaine sniffing that aren't your images. Tried it again and the same happened!!! I wonder why that happened unless jsnover is a foreign word for cocaine. Very strange.
630
« on: January 28, 2013, 11:57 »
In case some missed it in the iStock forums, Paul Cowan made a wonderful post about where were are in this current mess.
Posted By Starkblast: @PaulCowan, Good post! Says it all. Posted By JoeGough: ^^^ Take a bow Mr Cowan. That's an outstanding and comprehensive summary of the position that many contributors here find themselves in. And Lobo's reply. I'm in his fan club too. For everyone wondering why I left this train wreck up please do take the time to read through Pauls post.
631
« on: January 26, 2013, 06:58 »
Have they even said how long the google-drive license is supposed to be good for? Is it a one or two year term or is it a "forever thing".
Doesn't really matter, even if it was just one year the image is totally valueless by then!!!
632
« on: January 25, 2013, 14:51 »
one of the best posts i've ever read in a forum.
Totally agree
633
« on: January 25, 2013, 11:44 »
It's like the school bully has been made head boy or head prefect!!!
634
« on: January 25, 2013, 10:42 »
The only way it could help is if they put all their wholly owned content at the back of the searches but that is unlikely to happen.
635
« on: January 25, 2013, 10:38 »
Sorry ignore this. I just pressed the refresh button and it was $3.12
636
« on: January 25, 2013, 10:36 »
I've just used Sean's script to see what my last sales were and one of them instead of showing a $ amount said NA/NA.
Are they giving my images away now!!!!!!!!
637
« on: January 25, 2013, 06:45 »
I think that rejection is often a nice way of saying that they don't consider the image to be commercial enough.
They might be correct lots of times but quite often their lowly paid inexperienced reviewers get that decision wrong.
Yes of course it isn't always the case but I think that very often it is that people are too attatched to their images and can't see what's wrong with them.
638
« on: January 25, 2013, 04:30 »
No doesn't seem to. I have had the same image sell for 400$ on Alamy that can be bought from a sub site.
I had the same thing happen to me. Boy did they fall over each other in the Alamy forum to spew their discontent. How on earth could I justify such thing.
Apparently the Alamy license is more like an EL at other sites so it can be justified like that.
639
« on: January 25, 2013, 04:27 »
I think that rejection is often a nice way of saying that they don't consider the image to be commercial enough.
640
« on: January 25, 2013, 04:21 »
No doesn't seem to. I have had the same image sell for 400$ on Alamy that can be bought from a sub site. I think the majority of buyers just buy from one or 2 sites that they choose for what ever reason. If you don't have your images on all the best selling sites then you will miss out on sales. If somebody always buys at dreamstime for instance they will likely buy the best image they can find there and not go hunting on multiple sites so if your images aren't there then you miss out on a potential sales. Of course some will do that but it can't be avoided unless you restrict yourself to one site.
641
« on: January 24, 2013, 14:11 »
In my opinion your best option would be to carry on uploading to mulitple sites but be warned that if you upload to Dreamstime you would have to wait 6 months from your last upload before you can delete all your images and go exclusive somewhere else.
642
« on: January 24, 2013, 13:11 »
With all the things going on at IS at the moment I don't think that now is the time for anybody to decide to go exclusive with them.
Thumbs up, that would be a good point for my way..
So it is better to publish & sell at in 3 different sites:
1) istock
2) shutterstock
3) depositphotos
what do you think?
or any site to add into this list?
I also get a regular pay out at dreamstime, fotolia, 123rf, bigstock and canstock. Most of them have their faults but they all bring me in a monthly pay out. I've started uploading to Alamy as well a few months ago and am pleased with the results.
643
« on: January 24, 2013, 12:58 »
With all the things going on at IS at the moment I don't think that now is the time for anybody to decide to go exclusive with them.
644
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:50 »
I could sort of understand it if they resurrected previous best sellers but I am selling things that never did take off at IS.
645
« on: January 24, 2013, 06:17 »
It's rather nice to see some of the oldies getting a bit of love before possible deactivation.
646
« on: January 24, 2013, 05:41 »
Is anybody else getting weird sales at IS? I am selling images that never were good sellers and haven't sold in 4 or 5 years. About a third of my last 20 sales are from very old non sellers. How on earth are the buyers finding them?
647
« on: January 22, 2013, 16:35 »
Bad month all round for me so far.
648
« on: January 22, 2013, 12:28 »
....They admitted their shortcomings. They said that they have heard the complaints of their customers and set about to make the improvements....
If istock was still owned by Bruce, it would have a chance but its much more complicated.
If IS was still owned by Bruce we wouldn't be in this mess now.
649
« on: January 22, 2013, 09:00 »
First 6 gone.
650
« on: January 22, 2013, 04:46 »
Does the bridge to BS use the same category chooser? If so the category system must be pretty useless, as usually I have to change one or more of the categories it selects, often all 3 from something completely off the wall for the image or the keywords.
All of the sites have some weird categories, I think it is BS that has winter as a place but none of the other seasons.
I don't know how it works from the bridge but I just looked at a dozen of mine and they all look pretty good.
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