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701
General - Top Sites / Re: March - Nice
« on: April 01, 2011, 01:58 »
march was very good for me except fotolia.

Would have been better if I was still getting 20% at Istock and 33% at fotolia.

702
^^^^^

I wish the number of sales on istock was equal to what I get on shutterstock.

703
iStockPhoto.com / Re: IS hits rock bottom
« on: March 30, 2011, 01:34 »
If buyers are willing move around as much as you say and based on price how come yuri's sold a million licences on Istock when they can buy them at other agencies for lower.

I understand your logic but I don't think it would work for me. Maybe it works for you but how can you measure the unmeasurable.



 

704
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Can IS make anything right?
« on: March 25, 2011, 01:39 »
to me it looks like the searches aren't as infested with vetta as they were before
I might be right I might be wrong

705
I'm all for supporting people in crisis but
why hong kong red cross ? wouldn't Japan be better ?

706
Why don't they just have fields that you fill in eg.
day
month
year
town/city
state
country

Then they can put in what ever h#ck#ng order they want. Of course that would make sense and will not be adopted.

707
Adobe Stock / Re: Worse than iStock for me
« on: March 12, 2011, 22:55 »
I definitely find Fotolia to be worse than Istock for me.

1) They earn me much less, last month was <10% of what I earn at Istock
2) My rejection rates there are much higher than any other agency including Istock

It seems that Fotolia and my work doesn't seem to match.
 

708
General Stock Discussion / Re: Photographers beat Microstock
« on: March 06, 2011, 15:22 »
I'm really angry that nobody is sticking up for us wet plate photographers.

It's all a load of old collodion. ;)

Or the combined abestos installers union

709
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Slippery Slope
« on: March 06, 2011, 15:21 »
worth noting in the stats that shutterstock has a different site for contributors. Every time contributors check in at Istock it would be adding to the stats.

710
General Stock Discussion / Re: Who copied whom?
« on: March 03, 2011, 06:37 »

As far as this concept goes I don't think Yuri was the first to shoot a girl an apple and some scales. However this example does look like a determined effort to copy fairly closely. The copied keywords doesn't help the cause.

711
General Stock Discussion / Re: Feb 2011 microstock earnings
« on: March 02, 2011, 05:58 »
Good month for me
total earning for feb 2011 up 70% on feb 2010
portfolio is about 30% bigger (total of between 550 and 700 online now)

712
Dreamstime.com / Re: Is Dreamstime for sale?
« on: March 02, 2011, 05:49 »
errrgggh does this win the record for the oldest thread dug up ?

713
seems a bit of gymic to me.

I tagged a couple of my latest downloads but I had to give an approximate location as they were travel photos (street shots) that I couldn't remember the exact location they were taken from. I don't think that it will add a lot to the buyer long term that accurate keywords wouldn't do.

On a side note
Surely it wouldn't take long the agency long to sort out those fiji,hawaii multiple keyworded images. Simple search finds them.  I flagged a couple previous on dreamstime but got abused by the contributor. Won't be doing that again, I don't need people seeking revenge on me for correctly flagging their spam. 

714
Illustration - General / Re: Risky experiment
« on: February 28, 2011, 03:17 »
I wouldn't really call this a "risky experiment"

715
one is easily distracted while working at home, that's why sometimes their focus is not where it should be


erggghhh that focus rejection

716
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istock raises payouts to partner program
« on: February 24, 2011, 05:37 »
is there any change to the commissions via the old stockxpert ?

What would be acceptable ?

30c like we got at stockxpert ?
33-38c like shutterstock ?

717
General Stock Discussion / Re: Yuri new studio..!
« on: February 23, 2011, 05:44 »
geeze thats alot of equipment to shoot some carrots isolated on white :)

718
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Another software mess?
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:27 »
x

719
StockFresh / Re: What????
« on: February 14, 2011, 06:44 »
huh you asked for your account to be closed and they did it as requested so now your upset ?

720
Off Topic / Re: Million Dollar Photo
« on: February 12, 2011, 20:42 »
after one sale he would be up to 19%

721
Off Topic / Re: Million Dollar Photo
« on: February 12, 2011, 07:30 »
I don't believe this story, sounds like a hash up to get some free advertising and to drive up the value of the photos he is selling.

Conviently the buyer wants to remain secret.

Maybe its true but I have my doubts.

722
General Stock Discussion / Re: Projected Revenue?
« on: February 06, 2011, 03:45 »
$ = i x a + sqrt(pi x (n-1))   
where n = 0 to 199

i = number of images

a = some random number to make the equation work.

Will the number change your actions.

You have photos ready to go, there isn't much doubt that you will earn more submitting your best sellers to Istock,shutterstock and fotolia than remaining exclusive at dreamstime.

Just submit the best and then go back to producing images and upload the remainder in slower times.

723
earning 50% up on last january
portfolio 30% bigger

I happy with that
but will clarify I'm in the three figure per month club not 4,5 or 6

724
123RF / Re: temporary stop to uploads, how long?
« on: February 04, 2011, 18:52 »
just upload three with html upload. No problems.

A couple of weeks ago I kept getting the message your referring to. I just waited a couple of days and it went away. I just assumed that they had halted uploading. Reviews seem to be taking a long time there. I thought it was to manage the que

725
iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock hires new vice president
« on: February 02, 2011, 17:05 »

I wonder if they're going to have a new Head of Progamming too.

Yes but his mother's not picking him up from school until later!

Uhhh, typo:
Quote
Yes but his mother's not picking him up from pre-school until later!


Hey this is insulting ! kids are actually good with computers.
(istock IT is another question)

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