Nothing below 35cents.

Could this be a tax withholding issue?

...I got one on Adobe for $26.40 today - not close to $100 but better than the usual 99 cents to a few dollars per download....

I think that's the royalty on a full price extended license.

They are good to get, absolutely, but in a different category from standard licenses. It's unfortunate that the labels on royalties are so vague.

Earlier this month I received two $13.20 custom royalties - I suspect those were for extended licenses at a very cut rate. Extended license sales are less frequent as the license terms for standard have become more generous. In March there was a royalty of $21.12 which I think was a reduced price extended license.

...Is this valid license?  What if SS gets in game later, and has a way of knowing it was Their original download that was stolen....

I think the license from DT is valid, regardless of where the original download came from, assuming DT has the image in their collection (which they would have to for this even to occur). The ex-infringer, now DT customer, can tell anyone questioning their use that they have a valid license from DT to use the image. Which they do.

And given that SS can't be bothered to pursue thefts when we point them out to them (until nagged and hassled via social media), I doubt this will occur in practice. If it doesn't make their stock price go up, SS will pay no attention

I hadn't seen that. There's a little more on the topic in this article and if the whole thing can be automated (including a person replying that they licensed the image from XYZ agency) then possibly this might work reasonably well? If the contributor is notified (again automatic process would be ideal) that the alleged infringer claims they licensed the image from ABC agency, it would also allow for liars to be outed too.

If DT got an answer about one of my images there that the alleged infringer licensed the image from Deposit Photos, I could easily identify that as false as I've never submitted there. Not all images are at all agencies for various reasons, and sometimes there might be zero downloads from the agency an infringer claimed they licensed it from.

Worth a try anyway, IMO

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/04/05/dreamstime-launches-licenseguard-to-track-copyright-infringements/

BTW, love the name of this publication

Today I had my first image rejection at Pond5...
....Anyone else got this too?

I haven't, but that's because I don't upload to Pond5 any more - they can't sell photos I know the photos they can't sell are saleable because Adobe Stock does just fine.

Lots of promises from them in 2020, but absolutely nothing in the end

Quote from: Sandeel on March 30, 2022, 12:55

The algorithm apparently changed a huge deal today, at least for me. My older files from the Fotolia times are keyworded in German, the newer ones in English. Now when I search for something, the translation doesn't work anymore. It means that my older, all times best sellers are not even considered by the search when the buyer uses an English keyword. This wans't the case until yesterday, because I happened to check something and it worked fine. Now even if I sort by downloads, any best seller with thousands of DLs is just not there. Can anybody run some tests and confirm this? Mat from Adobe, can you help please? I really hope something is temporarily wrong and this is not intentional. Thanks.

So you upload your photos on a American stocksite and you decide (because you are given the option to do so) to keyword in the German language. That was a fault to begin with. Always use English keywords and place native words if that would help sales in your own country or other ones (with their specific words).

A contributor reports a site problem and you decide to dump on (and lecture) him for doing something that Fotolia encouraged at the time - how is that helpful or informative, let alone kind?

At the time (Fotolia started in 2005) it was a leader in delivering content to buyers with sites in their own language where payments could be made in local currency. Fotolia let buyers search in their native language and contributors submit in theirs and the site handled all the translations. It was innovative (and then copied by all the other sites). It wasn't a "fault" for contributors to support them in doing what they asked.

You really don't know what you're talking about.

Thanks for pointing these bizarre portfolios out - I say bizarre as they're such a mixture of styles and subjects it beggars belief that these came from one person. And for bosphorus_tr, we have such glories as "Marry Chrismas" on a seasonal image and "Election Day - The third of the November -" (and it was in 2020 that it was November 3rd). There are white gaps on the edges of some of the composites; squished birds; sideways clouds - even if this stuff wasn't stolen, lots of it should never have been accepted!

I didn't find anything of mine, but did you report the ones of yours to Shutterstock compliance?

The pricing section is definitely worth a read for all those who derive significant income from Pond5 (which wouldn't include me as they seem largely unable to license photos)

"...we will have sole discretion to adjust the price of any Content to maximize your overall revenue performance or comply with our minimum pricing guidelines"

"we will have discretion to offer flexible subscription plans and/or discounts, at prices determined solely by us, in connection with special promotions or to optimize total revenue on your behalf by targeting customers who we believe will make high volume purchases or commitments with short duration, digital/social formats, small audience, ad-supported models and/or other needs to which we will offer more narrow license rights or collections of limited content for materially reduced pricing"

"... we will have discretion to ... (B) ... set the price of Content and/or agree to compensation structures in an effort to maximize overall sales of Content and revenue to our contributors and license Content to customers as part of a pool of works, in which case, we will have sole discretion to allocate the amounts paid by the customer among Content and the other works licensed to the customer on a basis that we in our sole good faith discretion determine is fair..."

They still have their price match clause (they'll lower the Pond5 price if the item is licensed for less elsewhere), but how on earth is a contributor to know what their work is licensed for anywhere given how many agencies are offering all sorts of side deals, special discounts and other terms we have no control over - and often no knowledge of.

I await with bated breath Pond5 reducing the Pond5 nominal price when price matching with one of their own "special promotions"

English is not my mother language but my question was clear, I think.
I see the description.
I just do not understand what 16-500 or 40-500 mean.
Therefore, I wil have to repeat.
Can someone please tell me what will I earn per video in the above cases?

As I read this (and I am a native English speaker), I think you would receive $22.40 per HD video if someone bought a 500-credit pack, $28.00 if they bought a 16-credit pack. The amounts would vary between those extremes if someone bought (for example) a 200-credit pack.

Same thing for 4K video. You'd earn $70 per video if they bought a 40-credit pack and $56 per video if they bought a 500-credit pack. Varying amounts per video for the in-between pack sizes.

Does that make it more clear (and Mat can correct me if even a native speaker doesn't interpret the page correctly!!)?

Skylum (the company was founded in Ukraine) is asking for drone donations for surveillance work:

https://skylum.com/blog/ukraine-asks-for-your-help-we-can-protect-civilians-with-drones

See here

https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/the-blue-bar-is-back!-adobe-stock-bonus-codes-are-available-in-the-portal/

Shutterstock says it's making a direct donation to Ukrainian contributors:

https://investor.shutterstock.com/news-releases/news-release-details/shutterstock-stands-support-ukraine-immediate-donation

Not clear to me exactly how they will implement this offer, but the press release says:

"... by making an immediate donation of $1 million to provide direct assistance to Shutterstock's thousands of contributing photographers, videographers, 3D artists, illustrators and musicians in Ukraine.."

If anyone who might be eligible for this assistance knows more about how Shutterstock is distributing this assistance, it'd be good to hear - and possibly useful to others who might want to receive assistance but don't know how.