suddenly dying a slow death? seems odd.

I did ok - 3rd best month this year, but much closer to the average than the 2 better months. Ss continues to be <50% of where it was. It used to be close to or over 50% of my total. This month it was my 3rd best earning site. I guess I should be glad for diversity, but it is as much from SS dropping as from others rising.

copy space is probably something that computers can actually "see" in an image fairly well, so the sites could add it as a search option sort of like color palette and vertical vs landscape etc.

I think that sites could clean up the major searches pretty quickly if they wanted to, just have a global modifier on the portfolio and start running the most popular searches. If an image seems spammed check to make sure there isn't a valid reason for that keyword to be in there and if it is true spam push the spammers entire portfolio down in the search.

If they wanted to be nice they could flag the image and spam keyword and let the contributor fix the issue to get back up in the search. If they wanted to be harsh they could just tell the contributor they have been pushed down because of spam and they need to fix it before they can come back.

Sadly I doubt any site is willing to do this, or if they did the implementation would be so horrible that it wouldn't work - like how SS tried to fix title spamming.

It is ok if you have to change nothing, but not an improvement, and a royal PITA if SS doesn't accept all your keywords or you need to attach model releases or fix a typo or anything like that.

Just like the "improved" contributor page, you can make it work, but if they were going to change it there are so many things they could have done differently if they actually wanted it to be better.

I am guessing that the people that remain IS exclusive are those who are still doing well or don't care or just don't have the time and effort to go through the work to start fresh on all the other sites. That would tend to skew towards the upper end of things since those that don't care probably don't take part in the poll either.

Whenever a site says "authentic" what they usually mean is people that look like models in carefully staged situations so that they aren't posed like models usually pose. Natural light means carefully crafted light so it doesn't look like artificial light. I've seen what authentic people look like - that usually isn't what they want.

If you can be a little ahead of the trends through skill or luck with whatever the hot look is though - you can do well.

RPD is not an effective measure of this situation.  My RPD is twice what it was, but I am selling 25% of what I did at peak, subs and ODs have been decimated.

I have never supplied iStock or Depositphotos, but I still suffer because others do.  The agencies do what they do because contributors do not discriminate.

I wish sales had only been decimated. Mine are about 50% down and if yours are 75% down I bet you would prefer decimation too.

When I was trying to try this out it just kept telling me there was a problem uploading whatever image I sent, so every 10 or 15 or 30 minutes when I remembered I'd try again with the smallest file size image in my batch. After about 5 hours Things started working and I uploaded the batch and painfully processed it. Now I perpetually have that one image waiting to be processed. I delete it, then the wheel spins for a while - 5 minutes? I don't know, and I have that one image again. I just delete it every time I go to check my stats. I've deleted a bunch over the last few days.

Quote from: angelawaye on November 08, 2017, 09:19

It is under Account > Preferences
I'm not that special so I assume everyone has this option ...

Interesting. I do not have those options in my preferences.

Neither do I , however I only have one video (and over 3K photos).

Quote from: eZeePics on November 06, 2017, 09:57

Hello everybody, I have completed my application on September 17 and I sent 100 photos and videos as asked. I have sent 25 exclusive footage and, 30 exclusive photos. The rest were non-exclusive photos because I have asked how is working and got the answer that yes, I can send non-exclusive content, but, in case of approval, this content will be deleted by the reviewers. I have tried to send various photos and footage, even if my specialty is food, I have sent lifestyle, conceptual, animals and travel. I choose some of my best content. I am pretty active on socials, specially with my Facebook page. With all this, on October 12 I have received the negative answer:
"Thank you for your interest in Stocksy. After reviewing your work, we don�t feel there is a fit at this time.
As you can imagine, we get a lot of applications and it�s always a difficult decision, but we only have room for a small group of contributors.
We wish you the best in your future endeavours and thank you for taking the time to apply and share your work with us.
We hope you have a great day,"
I strongly believe they rejected me because my photos doesn't tell a story. Portfolio must tell a story and has to have a beginning related to the end, everything in the same style. In my portfolio the story lacks and is pretty messy. Also I have sent some exclusive images which were part of non-exclusive series. This was wrong too, but I didn't know. I try to reorder my ideas and my portfolio and I will try again. But I want to tell you that is hard to reach what they want, I strongly believe that only an editor can have enough eye to order portfolio and public image in order to match with Stocksy.

Oh, so sorry, after the hard work... Thanks for sharing yours learnings. I have a question: you said that they allow to upload non exclusive material and if they selected you should deleted it, where did you read about this? I just uploaded exclusive material, but if that you said is tru I would like to complement with my best shots (wich ones arent exclusives) If you or anyone can confirm this, or this will penalize me... Thanks a lot!

My understanding was that you would have to be able to delete any images accepted from all of the other sites that they are currently for sale now - and they would stay at Stocksy.

Amazingly my BME too beating Oct 2012, (unless you count the month I got a big payout for Veer's Dash for Cash)

Sadly it was mostly due to a number of big sales at Alamy, so probably not part of a trend. P5 and Canva also contributed nicely and Adobe had a decent showing. It was an ok month at SS for the new norm, but 1/3 of they heyday there and unlike in the past when it was reliably my highest earning site, it was #3 this month.

It was my BME for 4 different sites and none of the decent earners were super low.

Yeah, I got one saying they double paid me for an upgrade so they were taking 1/2 back. I had 2 upgrade payments this month (I never knew that they were a possibility before) and it looks like the smaller was the one that was doubled, but I didn't take careful notes before this happened so I am not sure.

I had a small batch, 4 accepted, one file transfer error, and one not reviewed.