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« on: March 13, 2020, 08:20 »
I'm surprised and pretty shocked that you could set up a Thiefy McThieferson site.
Even ignoring the giveaway name, don't they check IDs of new potential contributors?
702
« on: March 10, 2020, 12:47 »
anyway for me sales have disappeared from ione day to another...adobe is completely zero for the last 5 days...ss number not much less but then only subs and some odd...maybe it's me but i doubt...most offices in europe are closing, is not a case that seems mostly sales in morning early or late at night.
On iS, my ytd 'increments' are averaging their usual-for-nowadays rate so far (but of course I won't know the rpd or total earned in March for another six weeks ...  ) On Alamy I have no sales this month, but Jan and Feb were poor and much poorer: I think they're focussing more on Live News than general stock. Or whatever.
703
« on: March 10, 2020, 12:31 »
This is so crazy, now I can't tell you the future but as of now you stand a better chance of dying of heart disease, car accident, weather related injuries, cancer and the list goes on. This is still a very minor virus at this point, you still have more to fear from the flu!!
minor virus?
7% mortality...is minor? good luck
What's your source for that figure?
"What is the mortality rate of the new coronavirus?
It is probably about or a bit less than 1%. Much higher figures have been flying about, but the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, is one of those who believes it will prove to be 1% or lower. The World Health Organizations director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked of 3.4%, but his figure was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of officially confirmed cases. We know there are many more mild cases that do not get to hospital and are not being counted, which would bring the mortality rate significantly down.
Deaths are highest in the elderly, with very low rates among younger people, although medical staff who treat patients and get exposed to a lot of virus are thought to be more at risk. But even among the over-80s, 90% will recover."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/coronavirus-facts-mortality-rate-is-there-cure
also see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51674743
and https://abcnews.go.com/Health/early-mortality-rates-covid-19-misleading-experts/story?id=69477312
italy where i live
7500 infecte 500 death,....near 10 %...
They seem to be looking into why the death rate in Italy is so high: seems you have an aging population, but so do many other countries (e.g. us). 1% or 50% is no consolation if someone you know has died, I know. Some more fact(?)-checking: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/can-face-mask-stop-coronavirus-covid-19-facts-checked
704
« on: March 10, 2020, 12:17 »
This is so crazy, now I can't tell you the future but as of now you stand a better chance of dying of heart disease, car accident, weather related injuries, cancer and the list goes on. This is still a very minor virus at this point, you still have more to fear from the flu!!
minor virus?
7% mortality...is minor? good luck
What's your source for that figure? "What is the mortality rate of the new coronavirus?It is probably about or a bit less than 1%. Much higher figures have been flying about, but the chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, is one of those who believes it will prove to be 1% or lower. The World Health Organizations director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked of 3.4%, but his figure was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of officially confirmed cases. We know there are many more mild cases that do not get to hospital and are not being counted, which would bring the mortality rate significantly down. Deaths are highest in the elderly, with very low rates among younger people, although medical staff who treat patients and get exposed to a lot of virus are thought to be more at risk. But even among the over-80s, 90% will recover." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/coronavirus-facts-mortality-rate-is-there-curealso see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51674743and https://abcnews.go.com/Health/early-mortality-rates-covid-19-misleading-experts/story?id=69477312
705
« on: March 09, 2020, 13:22 »
Zazzle, though claiming to be a US company, the support apparently is not.
Gastavo gave me the phone number as 001-408-XXX-XXXX. As you know, North America phone number starts with 1, and not 001.
001 is the number for phoning the US from outwith the US.
706
« on: March 05, 2020, 06:55 »
...ss didn't let us step down from sensitive usage..they are in the wrong side changing the termite release were accepted...it's a case that every court will see as ss fault not photographer
Dream on. From the Contributor Terms of Service: 18
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707
« on: March 03, 2020, 11:15 »
Would try to send an email to support, but can't even find support :-/
That's why I said I hope someone knows the way of contacting support other than using their contact system. Normally we have to contact them via their contact form, which you may not be able to access. Have you tried the Contributor Community page? If you can get into that, you can get to the support form via the FAQs page (scroll down the page and eventually you get to Contact Us. To get to the FAQ page from the main Contributor Community page, click either 'need help' near the top of the page, or the Help link in the left hand links column. Also, if you can get into the Contributor Community page, you should be able to access their forum, and you might get a quicker answer that way. If you're on Facebook, there are two official groups I know of, one general, one for exclusives only, which is a closed group. Oh, in checking to see if the general group is also closed, I found this email to contact them if you can't get in via ESP: https://esp.gettyimages.com/contactGood luck, it might take a while.
708
« on: March 03, 2020, 08:21 »
Wow, you've really been away for a long time.
They moved over to ESP (no kidding) in January 2017.
You should have got an email I think around Oct 2016 (more or less) giving you your new login details.
Hopefully someone else will be able to tell you the contact for people who can't get into ESP, I don't have it handy.
709
« on: March 01, 2020, 15:03 »
This topic has been moved to the Shutterstock board, because you might get more help there.
710
« on: February 29, 2020, 08:57 »
But if it pleases you I don't have to check as I look for where something is made before I make the purchase.
Unless the rules are very different in your country, that would be a full-time job. Here in the UK, something could have components and parts of components, and source materials from many different countries but only the country of the final assembly counts as 'made in X'. Companies don't have to provide that info on their website, and they may only know where their components come from, but not the source of the parts of the components or the raw ingredients. Also these can easily change during the lifetime of a product. I was surprised recently when I bought six spoons to make up a cutlery set I'd already bought, that the 'made in 'X' in the pieces I had was now 'made in Y'. So by the time you had micro-researched something like a computer, the info you got at the start of the trail could easily have changed. I know I'm a professional cynic, but be assured that "a cynic is only a disappointed optimist" - I've 'boycotted' various things in my time South African goods (mainly fruit) during apartheid, Nestl over many years, but I certainly hadn't thought of the bigger picture.
711
« on: February 28, 2020, 16:40 »
Are you remembering that your existing images will be sold at 3 credits? Which is good as you'll get more per sale, though you will miss sales from more budget-conscious buyers (which you're mssing ATM anyway). Then any more images you might choose to upload will be sold at one credit and you'll get your percentage of that.
At least, that's how it stands at the moment.
Yes i am aware of that. But if I take the step I will not upload anymore new images to Istock as for the 15% I prefer that Adobe and Shutterstock come ahead with their 30% instead of those paying 15%. Since I started to upload footage I have distributed more than 3000 clips to Adobe P5 Shutter and Envato. Not a single clip has been uploaded to Istock/Getty. Yes i loosed some sales but I do not care. I just contribute that those best paying sites get stronger and stronger by the day. 30% is the minimum I accept ......everything below that is not acceptable to me. So Once I recover from the hit if I leave it is very probable that I might delete all my portfolio at Istock in the future.
Fair enough, I was in no way trying to change your mind, just making sure you knew that - a lot of people don't. It seems to work the other way too, presumably because their tech isn't very agile.
712
« on: February 28, 2020, 14:30 »
Are you remembering that your existing images will be sold at 3 credits? Which is good as you'll get more per sale, though you will miss sales from more budget-conscious buyers (which you're mssing ATM anyway). Then any more images you might choose to upload will be sold at one credit and you'll get your percentage of that. At least, that's how it stands at the moment.
713
« on: February 27, 2020, 14:18 »
| (that's the pipe symbol) can be used as OR in a search, % seems to be what we'd normally use as a wildcard like * in other searches. I bookmarked this and maybe some day I'll learn more. But mostly should be useful for Alamy searches?
Yes, you can search e.g. % New York, because although searching New York would give you New York theatres, New York shops, New York parks etc, it wouldn't show e.g. Manhattan, New York or Central Park, New York, so if you're looking for searches on New York, you have to do both.
Yes and reading the details with the either or search, specific words and all the potential, pretty good. The problem is, most buyers and users will never learn or use all these available tools. But I know you are interested in the search and how agencies have vague search qualifications.
I'm only talking about using these when actually looking at Alamy Measures. When I'm checking which pics to delete first, I'm looking at subjects with no searches in the past year. It would be rather silly if I checked spingleplonk without also searching % spingleplonk, because then I'd be missing colour spingleplonk, size spingleplonk, material spingleplonk and all manner of others. I wasn't at all thinking of whether customers use them to search. NB, we had an Alamy staff member at a social meetup last year, and she astonished us by saying that if a search shows in Measures with quotes, like "Joe Bloggs", that's because a staff member has searched. I have no idea whether that meant absolutely no searchers use quotes, or that public searches using quotes have them dropped in measures. It wouldn't say much for Alamy's buyers if it were the former, because putting quotation marks round a two or more word search really helps to clean up that Alamy 'feature' which matches any word in the caption or keywords with any other word in the caption or keywords, which can lead to really poor results depending on the algorithms in use.
714
« on: February 27, 2020, 14:10 »
No stat on iS seems to match any other stat. One reason is that although sub sales record in almost real time on the year-to-date counter, they don't always count as sales in the calendar month, because subs can carry forward, and the calculation is done when the carry-forward ends. That often/usually means that the value to us of a sub is higher than it was when we got flat rates. Also if you're exclusive, 'plussed' file sales count as 2 on the ytd counter. That doesn't apply to indies. Other than that ... they have said that the ytd counter 'pulls stats from a different source', so   
715
« on: February 26, 2020, 18:01 »
I have a strange decline in views since beginning of december.......
I usually had about 800 views per month and it suddenly dropped to something like 300...
Over the last 4 days there were only 15 views of my pictures.....
Has anybody else noticed something like that as well?
I mean I dont really sell much stuff on Alamy anyway but if nobody even views my pics I might opt out as well......
No, my views are stable, and for some reason my CTR is relatively high (for me). (I see it was high last Jan too, doesn't necesarily mean anything, though: I have no sales this year so far, which is my slowest-starting year since 2012).
This is terribly not related but I wanted you to see the post, since you do searches for... searches, views, All of Alamy and that kind of thing. I never knew how much we could sort and control the results.
https://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html
| (that's the pipe symbol) can be used as OR in a search, % seems to be what we'd normally use as a wildcard like * in other searches. I bookmarked this and maybe some day I'll learn more. But mostly should be useful for Alamy searches?
Yes, you can search e.g. % New York, because although searching New York would give you New York theatres, New York shops, New York parks etc, it wouldn't show e.g. Manhattan, New York or Central Park, New York, so if you're looking for searches on New York, you have to do both.
716
« on: February 26, 2020, 17:57 »
What shall I say- Alamy is performing great since they were sold..... Had a 188 $ sale today, a 36 $ sale last week, views went up and CTR is 1,03 for me now....
Amazing.
Such a change.
There must be a whole new bunch of clients after the sale. Buyers who like my kind of photos.....
And the buyers who apparently liked my kind of photos last year have gone! (Last year my sales, though not $$, were up on previous years, this year  ) Feb, three sales, worst for years; and the nets were: $9.57, $6.27, $2.51
717
« on: February 25, 2020, 12:22 »
Seems like iStock doesn't have built in specific non-use provisions.
Assuming you really meant iStock, it's in the Content Licence: "3 Restricted Uses. a No Unlawful Use. You may not use content in a pornographic, defamatory or other unlawful manner. ... b Sensitive Use Disclaimer Required. If you use content that features models or property in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person (for example, sexually transmitted diseases), you must indicate: (1) that the content is being used for illustrative purposes only, and (2) any person depicted in the content is a model. For example, you could say: "Stock photo. Posed by model." No disclaimer is required for "editorial use only" content that is used in an editorial manner." You then have to wonder what a 'reasonable person' is. It's presumably what in UK Law is "The Man in the Clapham Omnibus"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_man_on_the_Clapham_omnibus
718
« on: February 25, 2020, 08:13 »
Enhanced Licenses allow customers to use your content in high-profile projects, such as film and television, incorporation into merchandise for sale, wall art for commercial spaces, and print runs over 500,000.
I get why we opt out from sensitive use, I did it too. But why opt out from Enhanced Licenses? What's wrong with those? Customers pay good money for those and let them use as they want. What is it I missed? It's not a rhetoric question, I really want to know.
IIRC, SS tried to bully 'encourage' people into accepting sensitive use by lumping it together with enhanced licences. If you opted out of SU, you weren't eligible for ELs.
Sensitive use and enhanced licenses have always had separate opt outs. If you opted out of sensitive use you effectively opted out of SODs, which could be the biggest payers.
Sorry, that's right. I remembered wrongly (and was only going by what I thought I remembered reading here).
719
« on: February 25, 2020, 07:38 »
Enhanced Licenses allow customers to use your content in high-profile projects, such as film and television, incorporation into merchandise for sale, wall art for commercial spaces, and print runs over 500,000.
I get why we opt out from sensitive use, I did it too. But why opt out from Enhanced Licenses? What's wrong with those? Customers pay good money for those and let them use as they want. What is it I missed? It's not a rhetoric question, I really want to know.
IIRC it also had to do with the fact that they were paying peanuts for enhanced licenses.
Yes, that's what Angela, the OP said: "... the royalties for EL's are extremely low. They use to be awesome but those days are long gone. "
720
« on: February 25, 2020, 06:51 »
Enhanced Licenses allow customers to use your content in high-profile projects, such as film and television, incorporation into merchandise for sale, wall art for commercial spaces, and print runs over 500,000.
I get why we opt out from sensitive use, I did it too. But why opt out from Enhanced Licenses? What's wrong with those? Customers pay good money for those and let them use as they want. What is it I missed? It's not a rhetoric question, I really want to know.
IIRC, SS tried to bully 'encourage' people into accepting sensitive use by lumping it together with enhanced licences. If you opted out of SU, you weren't eligible for ELs.
721
« on: February 24, 2020, 15:55 »
That must be a PITA for those who opted out, having assured their models that their images would not be used in one/some/all of these contexts.
722
« on: February 18, 2020, 17:18 »
Wow, that was a shock. RPD down to $1.35, so whereas Dec 2019 was my best month since ESP started, this is my second worst* (20% lower than last Jan with exactly the same number of sales). Decs were always better for me than Jans, but this was a horrible Jan. H*ck, how can a Sig file sale net me 7c? No big Getty sales, which makes a huge difference when they come, but thankfully the two large Getty sales I got in Dec weren't refunded (yet?) *and worst Jan since 2007, which was my first full month on iS.
723
« on: February 16, 2020, 10:31 »
there is currently a deep waiting list of interested artists
Is there a difference between a 'deep list' and a 'long list'?
724
« on: February 16, 2020, 08:49 »
Alamy what should I shoot. https://www.alamy.com/blog/what-should-i-shoot-let-us-introduce-you-to-a-new-tool
I haven't read many (if any?) people reporting sales from shooting for that list, and a few anecdotal posts where people have said they've uploaded from the list, and they haven't sold. Of the few on this list which are relatively near me: One (95 miles away) was a church which had an embezzlement scandal attached to it a couple of years ago, which is why it would have been searched. One (56 miles) was an orphanage which had a historic child abuse scandal uncovered, also a couple of years back, again probably leading to the search. It was knocked down in 1971, but obviously someone could have an archival photo of it. Again, that was probably wanted to illustrate articles covering the scandal when it was uncovered, but could, I suppose, be wanted for a book on the subject of 'child abuse cases in orphanages'. (But how long would the author wait before just publishing without the image?) Or it could be wanted for someone doing a PhD on the subject, therefore sold for a low price. Alamy says all the items on the list are subject to 'ongoing requests', but in these two cases, I'm doubtful. One (only c12 miles, whoop!) is for a high building which has no angle from which you could shoot a 'clear, complete front elevation' (well maybe with a total pancake lens, I don't know), because there are traffic lights, two bus stops, parking spaces and permanent bollards in front. The near-photographic architect's illustrations which are online don't show these. You'd need to do a lot of photoshop work to remove all of these, and there's no indication that the file wouldn't sell for $5 or less gross at the end of that. One request from the search was a town in Australia which had over 2k pics on Alamy already, mostly very good. So the searcher should perhaps have been more specific than just the town name! So while there would be no harm in togs shooting and submitting anything on the list that's near them or near where they will be travelling, having looked at what's already on Alamy and researched whether the entity still exists; probably it wouldn't be worth spending money making special trips. Honestly, how many potential buyers still want the photo after a couple of years? They'll either have satisficed with what's available or published with no photo. Of course, if you searched All of Alamy for the past year* and found the entity had some searches but no hits, it might still be worth going and shooting it, though it might be the same person regularly searching, and no indication of the sale value. *what a lot of time I'd have saved had I done that, in general!
725
« on: February 15, 2020, 12:39 »
Last year, compared to my best years, I had about half the sales. On top of that, each sale (Net) averages around 18% of what each license used to earn me back then.
Last year I had my best year ever on Alamy for sales; but my gross earnings (from my dashboard graph) were 22% down on 2018. Relatively poor January 2020, nothing yet in Feb.
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