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726
« on: May 01, 2017, 10:48 »
Better than I expected - mostly due to a few big Alamy sales. SS was pretty horrible (about 1/3 of my 2012 average there) but actually beat an even worse December. Pretty much every site that matters was either close to or less than March, but March was good. Adobe was rising nicely but went down in April.
The thing that worries me is that it is just a few somewhat random sales that account for making this a decent month. The total # of sales at sites like SS are down a lot.
727
« on: April 29, 2017, 15:03 »
good - I got some big value Alamy sales
Bad - the biggest 2 were distribution - so I get 40% less
good - many more weekend days than 2 a week
bad - that is based on SS sales
Good - I got to play with my friend's full frame camera
bad - now I want one
Good - March was my best month in $ in over a year
Bad - April is looking really bad other than Alamy
good - lots of wildflowers out and about right now
bad - it has been really windy which makes photos frustrating except in full sun
Actually other than SS things have been going pretty well.
728
« on: April 25, 2017, 14:47 »
I can compare 10 and 1, that doesn't mean that 1 is a good deal for me.
I wish they had some real info - I would be for it if it was the only way to sell high $ sales on Adobe - otherwise every time I only get a cut of a cut it hurts. So if Adobe sells for 100$ and P5 get 30$ and I get 15 - it is like selling on Istock.
If we upload to P5 first and then to Adobe or FT does that mean that they will remove the P5 images as we upload to Adobe/FT, or does that mean they will take the P5 images and not our Adobe/FT uploads?
I wouldn't be surprised if IS puts our stuff on Getty which puts it on one of their private collections which puts it on another one each skimming up to 85% each time and we get a few cents. Thanks for the "exciting opportunity".
729
« on: April 24, 2017, 16:15 »
Some of my best sellers are about 4mp. Some of my worst sellers are closer to 100mp (stitched panos). So obviously there is more than just straight size, Every once in a while I get a large or extra large credit sale on the sites that have them and that is nice. Sadly 90% of my sales seem to be subs these days.
Of course there is nothing to stop a site from dropping the position in the search based on image size.
For SS I generally downsize. I got sick of them rejecting entire batches for out of focus when everyone else took them. Large $ image sales don't seem to happen there anymore, and that might be why - although I did get them 2016 and before.
730
« on: April 20, 2017, 11:53 »
It can be done sort of, but it is far from easy and I have to hunt and fight it for a while each time I want to do so. It would be much better if you could just do it within your port on the contributor side.
First you need to find out what your brand code is.
create a design and search for an image that you know is yours and then click on the little "i" in the lower left corner. see what your brand code is.
Then search including "brand:XXXXXXXXXX" and the search term you want (or no search term for your entire port). do not include the ""
As far as I can tell this brings up all your images that fit this search. It also brings up images that aren't yours for some reason but hopefully they don't totally bury the images of yours you are looking for.
731
« on: April 17, 2017, 17:47 »
Stuff doesn't get removed from the first page of search (other than newest first) by the flood of new images, it never gets there in the first place. Stuff gets removed from the first page by search changes. (and search changes, glitches, and lucky stunning images get images onto the first pages).
I had a 3 or 4 year run on the first page for one image - sure I had a good image, but it was an indexing glitch that got my image there (mine was indexed right before a 4 day gap with no new images indexed so it had that long on the first page of new images). That was enough to get it onto the first or second page of most popular and it stayed there until a search change made it disappear (at least through page 30). I think it is around page 3 or 4 now and went from over a sale a day average to more like a sale a month.
Search location is huge in this business and we can only change some of the things that effect image placement.
732
« on: April 17, 2017, 13:19 »
Welcome to microstock. (or I am guessing stock sites in general).
If the bot was changing via machine learning or they changed the algorithm it could still happen.
733
« on: April 14, 2017, 20:21 »
I should whine more often, Wed, Thurs, and Fri DT has outperformed SS for me.
I had one credit sale each day on DT, sadly SS has been like weekend days for the last 3 days, so it isn't so much that DT is doing well but that SS is really really underperforming. I think if they hadn't taken out the weekly stats it would be a new low, beating even Christmas to new years lows.
734
« on: April 12, 2017, 20:55 »
They did promise a "new kind of trust" - the kind where you don't trust them at all.
735
« 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.
736
« 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.
737
« 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.
738
« 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.
739
« 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).
740
« 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.
741
« 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.....
742
« 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.
743
« 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.
744
« 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).
745
« 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.
746
« 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.
747
« 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.
748
« 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).
749
« 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.
750
« 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.
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