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« on: August 30, 2019, 11:13 »
So it's done: finally made my first sale of this one on SS : https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1013958596
It was worth it I guess then ;-)
I sell a lot of this in vector format so I was believing someone would have an interest in animation format
To be honest, I wouldn't call 1 sale per year "worth it"...
627
« on: August 29, 2019, 15:19 »
Well, this constant need for growth is an unrealistic expectation anyway (of both investors and the company itself). Growth has to diminish at some point, especially in a competitive market. To be honest I expect Shutterstock to plateau a lot sooner. As long as the market is stable and their market share remains constant, it's all good. But the insane hunger for more profits will probably result in commission cuts.
Adobe will probably emerge as the new market leader, within a few years.
Good for who? Certainly not contributors if the supply continues to increase exponentially which can only mean reduced income on average to contributors.
A stable market is good for us if there are no... - major shifts in market share - excessive price wars - agencies achieving monopoly position - new technologies disrupting the industry (and our revenue stream) Of course increasing supply is currently a threat for existing contributors, but that supply will plateau too, eventually. Shutterstock's current dip shows us that buyers prefer quality over quantity, therefore agencies will probably start to increase quality requirements for new contributors as well as implement better quality control for stock submissions.
628
« on: August 29, 2019, 04:28 »
Well, this constant need for growth is an unrealistic expectation anyway (of both investors and the company itself). Growth has to diminish at some point, especially in a competitive market. To be honest I expect Shutterstock to plateau a lot sooner. As long as the market is stable and their market share remains constant, it's all good. But the insane hunger for more profits will probably result in commission cuts.
Adobe will probably emerge as the new market leader, within a few years.
629
« on: August 28, 2019, 13:54 »
I did notice their similar policy is in full effect. More than 2/3 color variations is considered spammy. Which seems a bit overkill to me, especially considering their habit of accepting every piece of identical crap (did anyone say weed pictures?) in the past.
Is there some way to check my approval rate?
631
« on: August 24, 2019, 17:24 »
I have submitted a series of 7 animations, each of the Earth on a backdrop of stars, which then zooms in on a specific continent.
The first 4 were accepted without problems, but the other 3 were soft rejected for 'keyword or title errors' (which were pretty much identical to the first four, except for the continent) with the option to edit and resubmit.
So a little confused, I started removing keywords that I considered 'less relevant', and resubmitted. Again, a soft rejection. Removed some more keywords, resubmitted, and then it was rejected for being 'non-compliant'.
I don't have a clue why. I can't find anything wrong with this title or these keywords:
Title: "Planet Earth, zooming in on the European continent."
Keywords:
earth, planet, globe, world, continent, Europe, European, rotating, rotation, spinning, turning, zoom, zooming, zoom in, centering, centered, universe, stars, outer space, space, galaxy, nature, environment, animated, animation, realistic, science, computer generated, earth from space
Category: Environment
Maybe someone could spot it for me? Or was it just a clueless inspector?
What is the file number? I'll take a look for you.
-Mat
Thanks Mat, the file numbers of the 3 rejected submissions are: #284817359 #284813225 #284810093
632
« on: August 24, 2019, 04:44 »
I always upload 4096x2304 4K files, which is 16:9, so it should downconvert to 1920x1080 without issues.
I don't understand why agencies prefer 4096x2160 pixels. It may be "tv" 4K resolution, but in my opinion true 4K is much more convenient to have.
633
« on: August 23, 2019, 09:45 »
I have submitted a series of 7 animations, each of the Earth on a backdrop of stars, which then zooms in on a specific continent.
The first 4 were accepted without problems, but the other 3 were soft rejected for 'keyword or title errors' (which were pretty much identical to the first four, except for the continent) with the option to edit and resubmit.
So a little confused, I started removing keywords that I considered 'less relevant', and resubmitted. Again, a soft rejection. Removed some more keywords, resubmitted, and then it was rejected for being 'non-compliant'.
I don't have a clue why. I can't find anything wrong with this title or these keywords:
Title: "Planet Earth, zooming in on the European continent."
Keywords:
earth, planet, globe, world, continent, Europe, European, rotating, rotation, spinning, turning, zoom, zooming, zoom in, centering, centered, universe, stars, outer space, space, galaxy, nature, environment, animated, animation, realistic, science, computer generated, earth from space
Category: Environment
Maybe someone could spot it for me? Or was it just a clueless inspector?
634
« on: August 22, 2019, 05:04 »
I have a question, in light of the massive changes at Pond5 and the general slower than normal summer sales conditions but especially since Pond5 is no longer a viable way to make a living, where do we sell video now?, I am talking about editorial video that is.
(...)
Anyone have any thoughts on Motion Elements?, I know they focus on the Asian market and don't even come up on a Google search for stock footage when searching from North America so I am not sure if sales even happen there and while uploading and keywording seems fairly straightforward there adding titles and other preferences takes forever so it would be a lot of work just to find out it's not viable.
Today I got this sad email from MotionElements about their subscription model: "What is the new Marketplace Subscription Plan?
It is a plan structured to help our users save time and prevent decision fatigue.
From Oct 2019, we will offer only 1 Subscription Plan to users
It is an All-Media-Types-in-One Subscription that encourages cross media type use
Annual payment only
With unlimited downloads
With these changes, we want to make it easier for the buyer to find our product useful.
Artists will receive 50% of the net revenue as always. Of the revenue collected from each subscriber, we will apportion to our artists in as fair a method as possible, using the subscriber allotment method. In other words, another agency succumbs to market pressure and goes for the subscription route. So you can forget about MotionElements.
635
« on: August 22, 2019, 04:03 »
I think it's the suddenness and longevity of the drought that is throwing some producers for a loop, I do video and it's been at least six days on SS since I had a sale as well but one came in today, could always be worse, could be pond5 and zero sales for longer than six days.
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it's not sudden -- sales have been declining for more than a year
My revenue has gone up each year, and I'm not even been uploading much this year...
636
« on: August 18, 2019, 09:53 »
GLStock: it was already a low earner, but since the make-over it's become a zombie agency with zero sales (and zero effort put into marketing)
Storyblocks: well, they dropped me, actually.
637
« on: August 13, 2019, 04:54 »
Let's be honest, the previous interface wasn't that good either with all those icons. I mean, it looked like some kiddie chatroom website from 2002: 
638
« on: August 13, 2019, 04:44 »
You just answered a 6 year old thread, I'm sure he's made his decision by now.
639
« on: August 09, 2019, 09:37 »
SuperPhoto, you hit the nail on the head. That's exactly what happened.
Sure, it's their business and they can adjust their plans how they see fit. But Storyblocks, don't expect contributors to blindly join your lousy unlimited videos library.
The thing that irks me most about this decision is the short notice (only 1 month) and the fact they first had to cut commissions before ditching us altogether, while at the same time promoting their unlimited library as if it was a positive deal for contributors. I'd have appreciated it if they had been upfront about it, instead of sugarcoating it like so many shady agencies have done in the past.
640
« on: August 09, 2019, 03:53 »
Thanks Mat, it's great to hear the bonus program has returned. I see they've upped the ante. The "$500 in sales" requirement is gone, but now we need 300 freshly uploaded videos. I better get to work then...  @Shelma: I agree it's not fair to leave illustrators hanging like that. I have the luxury of being a vector AND video contributor, but hopefully next year they'll include ALL contributors.
641
« on: August 08, 2019, 04:20 »
Things are taking a turn for the worse at Storyblocks. What a strange, out of left field decision.
You'd think they'd communicate this upfront when announcing the Partner Program, instead they chose to mention this 1 month prior to closing down...
Their reasoning is strange as well: "Less than 5% of our members were purchasing from the Marketplace, ultimately hurting contributors who were not able to earn enough"
In other words: we close it down so you won't earn anything at all.
The short notice also a big f_ you to those who were still uploading actively to the Marketplace. Lots of time wasted.
642
« on: August 07, 2019, 04:39 »
Slide 5 tells you all you need to know from a contributor standpoint. Number of customers +2% number of contributors +100%. Number of Images up 37% downloads up 3%.
On a positive note, my bet is that most of these new contributors will never have more than 10 images in their port and remain small fish. The ones we have to fear are experienced contributors who set up image factories and are churning out thousands of images a week.
643
« on: August 01, 2019, 09:43 »
Why waste all of your time deleting your images after only 2 years? Dreamstime never was the biggest earner but deleting your port out of spite, rather than just leaving it there for some passive pocket money is just senseless.
644
« on: July 31, 2019, 16:26 »
Got the same reply back, it's turned on thankfully. Weird that they'd turn it off by default though.
645
« on: July 31, 2019, 12:51 »
I wrote to support as well. If this is not going to change ASAP, I'll have to close my account. This is totally unacceptable. Images thieves are everywhere and copyright infringement is already widespread.
646
« on: July 20, 2019, 09:41 »
The only ones who would benefit from this concept are the agencies and the customers.
647
« on: July 20, 2019, 09:01 »
Pathetic of course.
648
« on: July 13, 2019, 10:45 »
*pat on the back*
It's okay to cry, just let it all out.
649
« on: July 09, 2019, 18:10 »
Please drop the link to the portfolio here, so we can check for more copyright infringements and file DMCA's.
650
« on: July 09, 2019, 11:24 »
After reading billions of posts here with contributors telling that agency did not make their work refusing or ban users that send thousand of similar subject... Now Adobe is working on this, and many of you have to say that is not right???
Well I'm happy that agency is doing good job on content.
I'm all for banning thieves and confirmed spammers, but false positives can also happen. If it takes a big fishing net to catch thieves and spammers, I wouldn't want to accidentally get caught in it as well. So, there should be an opportunity for contributors to appeal their case and not get cut off from earning money when they did nothing wrong. We don't know enough details to judge this case but it could be this ban may have been a misjudgment.
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