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« on: March 05, 2019, 12:19 »
I had your same concern with Eyeem and didn't submit there in the beginning.
I even wrote them a couple of times but from their answers they have no intention of adding a watermark soon.
Then even other sites started to offer larger - although not as large - unwatermarked previews, and at Shutterstock there are other ways to steal large images through a bug in their Facebook API.
So the only way to deal with this is accepting the risk.
Good people buy photos not because they can't steal, but because they value legality and peace of mind. And thieves will always be thieves, we can't fight them with technology only.
I doubt the people stealing these images would ever buy them with the internet the way it is so while it is of course very annoying that people might steal them I doubt it is costing me money. So yes I agree its just something we have to live with.
652
« on: March 05, 2019, 02:30 »
I'm going to work harder and harder to stand still
Assuming all markets nowadays are oversaturated with hard competition and not always fair players... well....
Yup! that's motivation! 
That's not really an assumption about this particular (not all) market is it?
653
« on: March 04, 2019, 17:11 »
In Chrome I dont have the slide bar for the filters....is it just me?
654
« on: March 04, 2019, 14:54 »
much greater volume of files
Perhaps you snould follow Alex "lesson learned" part of his post and not expose the good ones? It is not difficult to copy Dolly one movement and perhaps the subjects you describe...
Thank you both for your posts, they are motivational for people like me just entering the stock world.
I wish I could find them motivational it just says to me I'm going to work harder and harder to stand still. Its an extremely tough business now with no reason to expect it to get anything but tougher.
655
« on: March 04, 2019, 05:18 »
The past earning is not in total earning. The unpaid earning total is only of March 2019. It does not include past unpaid earning. I have opened a ticket.
You opened a ticket? Because of something that happens every month? I bet the SS contributor support loves the new entry standards.
Shutterstock have brought this entirely on themselves.
656
« on: March 03, 2019, 02:26 »
Big stock WAS consistent for me albeit at a very small level. The last couple of months sales are almost non existent.
657
« on: March 01, 2019, 13:12 »
60! Btw Adobe says it can be a shared position between other contributors - So there can be many on the same position
Have a nice weekend.
Yeah, lets say 2,000 people all made $19.95 last month, they are all the same position. If that was 6,640 then the next person who made $19.94 is 8,640 Etc.
I will say that all you 6,640 people are better than I am. I don't pay close attention, or when it changes, if it's with a new download? Mine didn't change, three sales yesterday. But I'm BAD! And I'm sticking with my original view, every since FT offered this. It's just a number, doesn't tell me anything important.
Who cares. Show me the money.
I think it does have some use...you can compare your ranking with sales...if your ranking stays the same and your sales go up then the site is doing well etc. If your ranking goes up an sales go down the site is doing less well but its not your "fault".
658
« on: February 28, 2019, 18:24 »
Every other site I can upload the metadata from the JPG for Eyeem I have to enter each word individually. I can't even copy and paste a block of text. Or have I missed something?
Yes - it's a bit of a drag to fill in the keywords one by one. And they also have AS and Alamy as partners. And AS don't accept duplicates so it's difficult. Do the parteners notice you if they have your images on their sites ..?
I don't think Eyem partner with Alamy as far as I can see the only partner they actually have is Getty.
Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot if you upload to Alamy and AS as well as Eyeem? If two identical images are accepted, you'll surely get less commission from Eyeem as you'll get the distributor price vs standard royalties on AS and AL.
659
« on: February 28, 2019, 01:46 »
The table on the right of this is the overall average so for the majority Shutterstock is eight times better. However, some people specialise in the type of content alamy needs and do extremely well. Getting the best return from Alamy is a bit of a specialist pursuit.
660
« on: February 27, 2019, 01:49 »
It seems like we all have our capsules and pills hahah
It could be lots of old people taking pills in ads? That could be driving it?
Theres regularly articles all over the media about medication so its a great subject..what is often puzzling is how one image "takes off" while others that appear similar quality sit unsold...thats where Search Algorithms come into play I guess...success breeding success.
661
« on: February 27, 2019, 01:36 »
Thanks for bringing the highlights.
It looks like short story - content up 42-44% income up 6-7% plus lots of new contributors and much of the growth is in "enterprise" that regular contributors are not able to be part of.
In some ways it is amazing that my sales have held up as well as they have (dropping 50-70%). It seems like most of my sales are from images from 2010-2015, perhaps when they still had some quality control.
I think the focus of shutterstock is going for the high level "enterprise" market which is not going well I don't think they care much about their "Bread and Butter". I think the number of saleable images is growing much slower than all images. I see the share price has done well after these figures. Maybe its me thats wrong but I reckon in 5 years people will be writing about where Shutterstock went wrong. They are in denial about Adobe a company with huge resources and a household name. Shutterstock Revenue Growth Rate Deceleration Continues 2015 30% 2016 16% 2017 15% 2018 14.7% 2019 10-12% Yet they are forecasting long term 20% Growth......
662
« on: February 26, 2019, 17:01 »
And the report
http://www.wicz.com/story/40027109/shutterstock-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2018-financial-results
And if you follow my milestones reports, 70 million new images, now 241 up from 170 million. Not sure how to take the claim of 650,000 contributors, unless that's everyone with one image or more?
Anyway, happy reading.
I suspect the number of contributors includes those that signed up but never actually submitted an image. The Shutterstock of the real world is unrecognisable from that extraordinary tour de force of management/techno speak.
663
« on: February 24, 2019, 12:41 »
What if someone like stocksubmitter offered a content match notification service? Maybe a monthly whole portfolio image search to find stolen identical shots in other accounts. The agencies should do it on their own but since they don't... perhaps third party can fill the need.
I would pay a reasonable fee for a service like that.
I'm pretty sure there's a service out there which was discussed a while back on here
664
« on: February 23, 2019, 02:37 »
I wonder what people get for a RPD now on DT and how's that old, for every 1,000 images, people make $$$ - yes I know, neither is for everyone or of any true science value, but when 100 people start to have similar RPDs, we can see an average. Remember when people claimed that a image made on average $2 a year, then it was $1 a year. Now people with 5000 images make about 10 cents a year average, per image. Boy have the times changed.
Yeah, a typo -- I said 5351 downloads. Should have been 5351 uploads.
Not sure why the number of images there is so high, unless they have never rejected anything? (I don't really keep count, so not sure). On SS, my portfolio is 3973 images, including 409 uploaded in the past 90 days.
Note that on SS, I have 6424 downloads for $4396 revenue in the same period.
My figures are similar %age wise a little better relatively on Dreamstime although it is falling further behind.
665
« on: February 23, 2019, 02:23 »
I got my total amount "on time" but only just got the individual sales data this morning.
666
« on: February 22, 2019, 09:25 »
As a group....unless we have access to how many contributors we don't know individually.
Of course, but the population of the Americas is 1 billion, compared to Europe's 741 million.
That means Europeans effectively make about 8-9 times more. Quite an enormous difference don't you think? Even without knowing the number of actual contributors.
Yes so enormous I find it quite implausible. Therefore I would like to know a lot more about whats behind the numbers to reach that conclusion. I believe some of the Big "Image factories" are located in Eastern Europe so maybe that skews the results? I doubt that comparing like with like contributors would show that magnitude of difference. (Being European I wish it did ;-))
667
« on: February 22, 2019, 06:47 »
This is to funny! I am sure Abode and ShutterStock would love this info. as well!
No big secrets here.
Here is graph, showing these values for SS, for every year between 2004-2016:
https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/2017-infographic-contributor-earnings-payouts-report
But SS is publishing all this info (and more) every quarter and every year. The report for 2018 will be published on 02/26.
Interesting to see that European photographers make A LOT more than the American (Canada + North + Central + South).
As a group....unless we have access to how many contributors we don't know individually. My reading is if the African continent starts to enter this market big time we are in trouble.
668
« on: February 22, 2019, 06:43 »
So does this mean that Shutterstock is already paying out twice as much as gettyimages?
Well I would guess SS is at least selling the same number of images on around half the commission so sounds in the right ball park
670
« on: February 21, 2019, 16:40 »
Dreamtimes are very strict about accepting similars I get a few rejections for this reason when I have even a couple quite similar....other sites let them through.
671
« on: February 21, 2019, 05:32 »
"You have been SELECTED to participate"
Makes you feel all special and unique. I'm surprised they didn't use the word "hand-picked". If you're going to lull your contributors into a false sense of excitement, do it right!
I'm especially apalled at the lack of an opt-out. To me that screams 'we know nobody wants it, so we're force-feeding you'.
Do other countries have the readers digest "prize draw"
672
« on: February 21, 2019, 03:05 »
Sounds like GOOD NEWS!
What are you guys complaining about?!?!?
Even I am wondering why so much hatred?
They have never shared the royalty price and people are saying its pennystock. How?
If was high earning they would have said so....the complete lack of transparency would make anyone but the most trusting suspicious.
673
« on: February 20, 2019, 02:45 »
Mat, that can be right, I hope ... but in this case adobe should give us more than just a statement. If your statement is correct , then adobe should have no problem giving us the buyer's data as an exception - maybe just a sample we selected to be checked by some contributors.
I'm not sure buyers would take the same view to be honest or even under various privacy laws Adobe could do that legally.
674
« on: February 20, 2019, 02:02 »
The wording is softening people up for some really low payouts. Surely the least they should do is tell people what platforms!
675
« on: February 19, 2019, 15:44 »
Surprisingly goodish...mainly from a large increase in "premium access"
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