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676
« on: April 19, 2019, 11:59 »
Seems like the consensus here is that: "If you build it, I'll destroy it" 
677
« on: April 19, 2019, 10:44 »
I like the idea. Why not? Why always hide behind good thinking (most of the time only hypocrisy)
But I would like to see some reflection of the "wheel of fire" in the water 
Thanks, good tip about the ring of fire. I agree that it's probably overthinking. Would you upload the burning Jerusalem series if you were me?
678
« on: April 19, 2019, 10:18 »
Further to the fire at Pariss Notre Dame cathedral, I recently had an idea to create a series of apocalyptic scenarios using Photoshop to license as stock. However, where should one draw the line between bad taste vs profitability? I discuss some of these dilemmas on the following blog post: https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2019/04/19/creating-apocalyptic-cityscapes-controversial-post/Do you have any similar situations where you hesitate to upload some images due to negative connotations and potential backlashes? Look forward to a positive discussion, despite the subject matter not being so positive!
679
« on: April 19, 2019, 10:06 »
Good tips above.
I'll put together a YT video soon.
Need to tell the whole story from the beginning and then share it with their top management so they take action.
At the moment, they rather sweep this under the carpet...until it blows up...
680
« on: April 18, 2019, 10:41 »
681
« on: April 18, 2019, 09:22 »
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682
« on: April 16, 2019, 13:04 »
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Pretty confident that https://www.shutterstock.com/g/sebastianvoortman is the copyright owner as he's got many legitimate model-released images. What are the chances he wakes up to see his image has been stolen and files a claim? That's the only way SS have made it possible to wack these moles.
683
« on: April 16, 2019, 08:19 »
684
« on: April 05, 2019, 10:16 »
For me - $9650/month in royalty sales would be a good wage. Still $3,663 is quite good. I believe after about $3,000/month in sales (at least for north america) - then it starts to become 'livable' if you are living in a small to mid-sized city. Anything above that starts to become fun money  $3k/month goes long ways in most parts of the world! I'm in Portugal where the minimum wage is relatively low for European standards at $700/month. $3k/month is a huge salary here. Same goes for microstock hot-spots such as Ukraine and Thailand.
685
« on: April 04, 2019, 11:43 »
Why non-exclusive RM?
686
« on: April 01, 2019, 13:56 »
Phew - what a month! $9650 earned from my activities.
Nearly choked on my popcorn! Solid month, Steve - well done.
687
« on: April 01, 2019, 07:26 »
March 2019 earnings report is out:
https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2019/03/31/brutally-honest-march-2019-earnings-results/
Interesting. It's weird AS is so dead. Maybe you are selling a lot of editorials?
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Thanks! Yes, this seems to be the main reason - something like 60-65% of my images are editorial as my niche is travel. I've only managed just over 3,000 images on AS vs 9,400 on SS. Alamy I have 10,500.
I think it's a blip month and should expect $75-100 months going forward!
AS should accept editorials too. BTW, nice picture you sold in alamy.
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Thanks! I would show others but they are quite sensitive and don't want to encourage copy-cats! Will give a hint that many have to do with Brexit, which isn't really that surprising. If I can't manage to sell more than 1 puny clip in April I don't know what I'll do... I got my popcorn ready and just waiting for Steve to come out with this monthly report... 
688
« on: April 01, 2019, 05:03 »
March 2019 earnings report is out:
https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2019/03/31/brutally-honest-march-2019-earnings-results/
Interesting. It's weird AS is so dead. Maybe you are selling a lot of editorials?
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Thanks! Yes, this seems to be the main reason - something like 60-65% of my images are editorial as my niche is travel. I've only managed just over 3,000 images on AS vs 9,400 on SS. Alamy I have 10,500. I think it's a blip month and should expect $75-100 months going forward!
689
« on: March 31, 2019, 09:15 »
I like the initiative.
My wackamole experience has taught me that you have to make a lot of noise to make anything happen and this is a good start. I will support it!
690
« on: March 31, 2019, 06:34 »
691
« on: March 26, 2019, 06:42 »
Alamy
692
« on: March 25, 2019, 13:55 »
Ah ok thanks, the non-exclusive content they have must be from somewhere else. Looking at the numbers they have 94700 images but only 2015 when filtered on exclusive. 
Ah yes, I should explain better. They have an initial 5/6-month period when images are exclusive to RH before they distribute. They label the images exclusive with a star.
693
« on: March 25, 2019, 12:43 »
I find Robert Harding very confusing, do they accept non-exclusive content? They seem to have lots of non exclusive content on their website, but only accept contributor with exclusive images?
They are image-exclusive - RM/RF.
696
« on: March 21, 2019, 10:40 »
I inquired to them in August 2018 about slow sales (well zero sales then) and they gave me this reply:
We're just looking at your profile here and it looks like you're already doing many of the things we recommend - your images are well titled, captioned and tagged, you have a good number of images on your profile and they're well priced.
We're still a young company but we're growing fast and have just expanding our sales team and brought in a Head of Marketing. Ian's role is specifically tasked with growing the number of buyers we have coming to the site and increasing sales for photographers across the board.
We'll continue to try and share the work of as many photographers as we can across all our networks and social media platforms, and we encourage all photographers to do they same across their networks.
We're pushing hard for increased sales in the next quarter, and we're just about to release a couple of exciting new features that we hope will further increase sales. Going well then.....with your one sale from that "hard push".
Whenever I hear an agency say "Exciting New Feature", it translates to me as: We've *removed coarse language* up whatever we were doing and trying something new so stick with us for a little while longer.
697
« on: March 21, 2019, 10:09 »
I inquired to them in August 2018 about slow sales (well zero sales then) and they gave me this reply: We're just looking at your profile here and it looks like you're already doing many of the things we recommend - your images are well titled, captioned and tagged, you have a good number of images on your profile and they're well priced.
We're still a young company but we're growing fast and have just expanding our sales team and brought in a Head of Marketing. Ian's role is specifically tasked with growing the number of buyers we have coming to the site and increasing sales for photographers across the board.
We'll continue to try and share the work of as many photographers as we can across all our networks and social media platforms, and we encourage all photographers to do they same across their networks.
We're pushing hard for increased sales in the next quarter, and we're just about to release a couple of exciting new features that we hope will further increase sales.
698
« on: March 20, 2019, 10:51 »
I've sold one, must have been a misclick.
699
« on: March 14, 2019, 12:20 »
You say we are here to provide a service to the buyers. What will the buyer think when the exact same photo costs just cents on SS and 10 USD minimum on Alamy? Isn't it confusing? Is it good service? They probably won't be happy finding out that the image they just bought at 150 USD on Alamy costs a fraction of that on SS. Buyers are free to shop around as much as they want, but the reality is that few do for many reasons. Licensing is more complicated (and yes often confusing) than just pricing. Just because it's more expensive doesn't necessarily mean it covers the users' needs. I don't deal directly with the buyers so can't comment on service. I would say that Alamy offers an excellent service. I had a query this morning that was dealt with within 1 hour and lots of emails back and forth. My latest CS experience with SS was terrible. I've had 50cent net sales on Alamy as well and $112 net on SS so it can work both ways. Personally I would rather keep RM and premium RF images on Alamy and on better paying agencies, and keep my "standard" RF images on micro sites. I also do this. I have some 1,000 images on Alamy which are RM exclusive. Then some 370 on Robert Harding as exclusive. So far I'm not sure this has been the most profitable strategy but works for me. However this doesn't mean RM would be dead. For many genres and industries, it is alive and well. RM is not inflexible, it can be tailor made for the buyer. Agreed. Robert Harding did state that it was "dying", not "dead" though. My book covers at Arcangel are and should be RM for obvious reasons, including exclusivity. Imagine the same book cover image on multiple books...disaster. Interesting that on the stock photography site Robert Harding - a photographer - founded contributors earn only 30%. ! That's correct.
700
« on: March 14, 2019, 08:13 »
More like "Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the worlds most naive community of photographers."
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