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726
« on: April 12, 2017, 20:55 »
They did promise a "new kind of trust" - the kind where you don't trust them at all.
727
« on: April 12, 2017, 10:37 »
My RPD so far this month is 0.45 I think the highest quarter it was 2.14 the last year avg is 1.06 and overall is 1.27
This site has become almost exclusively a subs site. The $2 subs make a difference when they happen and the increasingly rare credit sales are nice, especially when they aren't level 0 images.
They aren't totally dead for me, but they don't give me much hope for improvement, especially since new image sales are very rare although I suppose that helps keep my older images selling.
728
« on: April 10, 2017, 13:51 »
I was under the impression that premier was a somewhat closed shop, and that is why most of the larger SODs have dried up for those not in the club.
729
« on: April 08, 2017, 20:58 »
If they are anything like the new "exciting" contributor homepage it will take a fresh click to see every month or something like that. It hardly seems like something that needs ruining or fixing.
730
« on: April 05, 2017, 23:23 »
I looked into this a little bit a while ago - it seems most sites want a hundred or more images to start with. I'm not sure if that is still the case or is the case everywhere. It certainly would be nice to make more per sale with specialized images.
It looks like SPL pays 50% and does so in pounds with 100 gbp payment threshold and wants 60-100 images in the first submission.
731
« on: April 05, 2017, 00:17 »
I got notice of payout before they deleted the port (I made it over the threshold though).
They sent me an e-mail telling me my port was deleted (a day or 2 after I noticed it was gone).
732
« on: April 04, 2017, 14:09 »
So just to confirm, if I have an account on fotolia already there is no need to open one for Adobe Stock, since they are one in the same?
No need to open an account on the other site. The images uploaded to either site are available for sale on both. At some point you may need to open an Adobe account if they stop letting you use the Fotolia one but presumably there will be plenty of warning if that happens.
733
« on: April 03, 2017, 14:52 »
It'd be nice if they'd give us another rise for hitting, say, $50,000. 
and 20K, 30K, 40K, 60K, 70K.....
734
« on: April 03, 2017, 11:09 »
It looks like my portfolio was removed some time between April 3 and April 4 2017.
I suppose if they still have any buyers the few remaining pics should start to sell ok without competition.
735
« on: March 31, 2017, 14:44 »
Very good, especially compared to lately. This is mostly due to a number of higher $ sales at Alamy, but SS was better than average for lately and Adobe and Canva did well too. DT was weak with almost all low subs.
It beat every month last year and would have been second best month in 2015 and 2014.
YAY Alamy. I hope this is some new trend, but is probably just a lucky one-off.
736
« on: March 31, 2017, 14:26 »
I got the "weekly top seller" badge sometime in the last month with one of my unsuitable images. Everything is still up for sale. Sometimes I don't understand these sites (by sometimes I mean often when it comes to Envato).
737
« on: March 21, 2017, 15:00 »
I wish they wouldn't go live without some action on our part - at least let us decide RM or RF first. I am glad it isn't as much of a pain as it used to be, although maybe that limited competition slightly.
738
« on: March 17, 2017, 21:00 »
Is there no overlap of images between ports - so you are just saying a port with good images outperforms a port with bad images?
Or are you saying a port with 1000 good images and 1000 bad images has less sales than a port with only those same 1000 good images? All uploaded at the same time or uploaded at different times?
Are you saying that per image sales are higher or total number of sales?
as far as I know, OP = Original Post - the one that started the thread.
I am guessing for most of us it is rare for buyers to actually even look at our ports, so what matters is the search result for our images. At one time SS seemed to treat every image separately for search - unlike say DT which took the artist into account. Perhaps that is no longer the case, which would be a shame.
739
« on: March 09, 2017, 20:40 »
Yes, I had a few releases that were accepted before rejected (and one was accepted with a different pic and then rejected with another after that). I asked what was up and they sent me the most useless boilerplate vague canned response - like they didn't even read my question and just saw "model release" and hit the canned "model release" reply. Since one of the possible answers they said is that the release wasn't attached I guess I'll just assume that was what happened and keep trying again.
740
« on: March 09, 2017, 15:34 »
Today and yesterday are like weekend days. I wonder if there is a new search that boosts newer material at the expense of older stuff (not that my new stuff is selling that well either).
741
« on: March 08, 2017, 11:31 »
You could say subs ruined it (although they had a good run)
You could say when the quality of pics went up a lot but the prices didn't ruined things
you could say Stockfresh STOCKXPERTgetting absorbed into Istock/Getty
You could say the Istock RC
You could say when you started submitting...
I don't think it will all crash and burn and it will probably remain lucrative for the agencies long after it is no longer lucrative for most artists. It will slowly fizzle for most artists as they decide the marginal return for submitting a new image is less than the cost of submitting that image. For many that will be a pretty low return, especially if they can deduct costs or they live in places with lower costs of living or are supported by other means. Even long after it isn't worth submitting new images the vast legacy libraries will continue to sell and there will be enough new stuff from big production places, macro rejects, and enthusiastic newbies to keep it going.
Or did I miss something?
oops you are correct - I fixed it.
742
« on: March 07, 2017, 23:10 »
You could say subs ruined it (although they had a good run)
You could say when the quality of pics went up a lot but the prices didn't ruined things
you could say Stockxpert getting absorbed into Istock/Getty (corrected after my error was pointed out)
You could say the Istock RC
You could say when you started submitting...
I don't think it will all crash and burn and it will probably remain lucrative for the agencies long after it is no longer lucrative for most artists. It will slowly fizzle for most artists as they decide the marginal return for submitting a new image is less than the cost of submitting that image. For many that will be a pretty low return, especially if they can deduct costs or they live in places with lower costs of living or are supported by other means. Even long after it isn't worth submitting new images the vast legacy libraries will continue to sell and there will be enough new stuff from big production places, macro rejects, and enthusiastic newbies to keep it going.
743
« on: February 28, 2017, 23:10 »
Why would they tell you that? if you are lucky you will be able to calculate that number after the 20th maybe 2 months down the line if it takes that long for all the subs to be calculated.
You might be able to get some of that data from a 3rd party program.
744
« on: February 26, 2017, 17:44 »
mine are different
745
« on: February 24, 2017, 19:19 »
It looks like we will now have to wait up to 2 months to get sub sale results.
Also - have they ever done anything right the first time?
746
« on: February 23, 2017, 13:10 »
I have never been with them.
But there is something I don't understand: everyone says they are evil and nobody should work with them.
But then 8 threads out of 10 here (and the more popular ones) regard istock, suggesting that almost everyone uploads there
Or USED to upload there.
I have an account there, just have stopped uploading for months now.
Many of us used to make a lot there. I personally stopped uploading with the RC announcement and then deleted almost all my files with another one (there have been so many I can't even remember what it was) but I keep a few live so I can keep my toe in the water to see if they ever pulled their heads out of their @#$# and were worth dealing with again. So far no.
747
« on: February 23, 2017, 10:58 »
They need to do something to justify the 85% or more of each sale they keep.
748
« on: February 22, 2017, 14:38 »
.28 for thinkstock .32 for subscription (assuming it is only one of each).
749
« on: February 22, 2017, 13:43 »
Price per image .03 (they must not pay much).
Do the buyers get additional rights for "premium access" since I got a whopping .35 for that (those?) sales.
If I hadn't already culled out my decent images I'd be doing that now.
Is there anywhere to see what image actually sold (is that in the downloadable file?). Lots of smoke and mirrors and not a lot of straight information. I guess I should be glad that they got this information out only 2 days after they said they would that was only 50 to 20 days after it actually happened).
Well, my hopes that they would turn something around have yet to be realized. With a few tweaks in 2006 or so Istock could have ruled microstock, instead they went the Getty route.
750
« on: February 21, 2017, 10:29 »
Photo reviews seem to take about a month. My sales there took a massive (60% drop?) Oct 2016 and haven't recovered.
Actually ever since they cut the percentage with the promised but never delivered "doubling of sales" they have been a disappointment.
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