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iStockPhoto.com / Re: April statements are in
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Is there anyway to exclude sales to China?
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: April statements are in« on: May 20, 2022, 00:55 »
Is there anyway to exclude sales to China?
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General - Top Sites / Re: I'm the guy with the grey beard« on: May 19, 2022, 14:41 »the port that is now 11,193 images strong.How many unique images out of 11,193? 78
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers; Stan Pavlovsky resigned« on: May 08, 2022, 22:44 »When Stan arrived in April 2020, SSTK was $32 (after years of 'meandering' between $50 and $30) and a year later it was at $90 another 6 months on and it was at $120. Stan did exactly what Jon wanted him to do...get the stock price up and fastI'm not sure how much you could contribute the raise of the stock to Stan. Almost every technology company went up during those crazy lockdown times. 79
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers; Stan Pavlovsky resigned« on: May 05, 2022, 12:19 »staffing a department to clean up the database of all the dross they've approved in the last few years, sort out the search so that it doesn't return rubbish The faster approach would be start fresh. 80
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS strict rejection policy« on: May 05, 2022, 12:16 »Two of my images with over 1000 downloads at shutterstock, only a few megapixels in size, taken years ago with a poor compact camera and certainly not accepted in terms of quality today, still sell regularly.I have a few images like this. I even uploaded a better versions of those images, but people still buying a poor quality photos. 81
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers; Stan Pavlovsky resigned« on: May 04, 2022, 11:12 »
Imagine you are CEO of SS starting tomorrow. How would you improve it?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q1 numbers and earnings call« on: May 03, 2022, 23:10 »I guess Stan's mornings will look a little different now from April 12th... Interesting there are no indications about anything in the article ... 83
General Stock Discussion / Re: Brutally Honest April 2022 Earnings Report - Special Drone Edition« on: May 02, 2022, 18:37 »This is why only way to approach this is as hobby and enjoy the photography which can be very rewarding in non-materialistic way. Anything else is just bonus My Photoshop skills dramatically improved after I started doing stock photography ![]() 84
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock photography less interesting for me« on: May 01, 2022, 15:38 »I need to create more images people want to pay for.I know what people want, but still too lazy now ![]() On Shutterstock I don't upload on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Me too ![]() 85
General Stock Discussion / Re: Brutally Honest April 2022 Earnings Report - Special Drone Edition« on: April 30, 2022, 21:45 »Quote You can see security heading towards me and I managed to escape on my bike!I may have a few photos like this. I always watch my surrounding who those security guards. ![]() 86
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock photography less interesting for me« on: April 29, 2022, 13:19 »
I started to take and upload a lot of photos during lockdown. What else to do, when everything is closed. It's time to move on.
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General Stock Discussion / Stock photography less interesting for me« on: April 27, 2022, 18:10 »
I have found stock photography less interesting in recent months. My uploads have diminished perhaps 15-20 images this month. I'm still taking photos, but just store them on hard drive. How about you?
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime makes an automatic move of images to free section« on: April 21, 2022, 15:02 »
How do I find a free images in my portfolio?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Is it too late for me to start?« on: April 12, 2022, 11:43 »I agree. I've always said, you are not competing with the whole database - you are only competing with those who share the same keywords as you. It's interesting to see how many people are missing the correct keywords ... 90
Shutterstock.com / Re: "Exciting" news ahead?« on: April 08, 2022, 17:41 »
I'm more interested in keywords used to find my sold images
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Shutterstock.com / Re: "Exciting" news ahead?« on: April 08, 2022, 12:33 »
I see more detail following the link to https://support.submit.shutterstock.com/s/article/Shutterstock-Contributor-Platform-Gets-an-Update-in-2022?language=en_US
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Shutterstock.com / Re: "Exciting" news ahead?« on: April 07, 2022, 23:53 »
Is this feature new? I mean the ability to exclude artists by country? I tried Russia and removed ~20K images of Eiffel Tower
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Shutterstock.com / Re: "Exciting" news ahead?« on: April 07, 2022, 17:03 »
Something like Getty Images did
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Disappearing photos on SS?« on: April 05, 2022, 16:41 »
My photos are back
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General Stock Discussion / Re: This month's sales« on: April 04, 2022, 14:44 »
My lifetime is $1.77 on SS, but it's slowly going down.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: This month's sales« on: April 04, 2022, 11:33 »SS is total waste of time. My March RPD there is 0.214.~50 cents for me last 3 months on SS. 97
Shutterstock.com / Re: Disappearing photos on SS?« on: April 01, 2022, 11:40 »
One image is back today
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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy sale for 7 cents« on: March 30, 2022, 12:37 »And there we go again... 50 sales today for $0.12 each ($2.86 in my pocket)I have an impression that the buyer plans to resell them somewhere 99
iStockPhoto.com / New Feature Added to Your Profile.« on: March 30, 2022, 12:35 »
I got this from Getty Image. Seriously? How it's going to help to sell my photos?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: What's with SS rejecting all photos while others accepted them all« on: March 30, 2022, 12:29 » |
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