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Messages - Jaggy
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« on: June 05, 2023, 07:33 »
Just had 4 shots rejected for 'quality issues'. A bit surprising really as I rarely have photos rejected by Adobe.
But Shutterstock accepted all four so Adobe's loss I guess. I won't bother resubmitting.
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« on: May 06, 2023, 20:10 »
Personally, I think the concerns over AI are overblown. AI has been around for some time but, has it really revolutionized anything? Not really. Does it have that potential? Maybe but, equally, it may just sit alongside traditional techniques. Good for some things not so good for others. (...)
This sounds more or less like 2002 "digital will never replace film" 
For what it's worth, as soon as I saw the first digital cameras, I knew film was doomed. That was around 1997. One of my clients was a film processing lab and I told them their days were numbered. They didn't like it ... lol. I don't feel that way about AI.
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« on: May 05, 2023, 14:47 »
Personally, I think the concerns over AI are overblown. AI has been around for some time but, has it really revolutionized anything? Not really. Does it have that potential? Maybe but, equally, it may just sit alongside traditional techniques. Good for some things not so good for others.
At the end of the day, will it be easier and cheaper for a customer to buy or generate an image from SS or will it be easier and cheaper to do it themselves? It's the age old business question (MBA 101) whether to make or buy.
Markets get jittery all the time and especially in the current climate. But that doesn't mean they are right. Of course, I don't own any shares in SS and, should the business fail, it would be a very minor hit to my income stream. So it's easy for me to be sanguine.
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« on: May 03, 2023, 09:28 »
I've got an extra $3.53.
Hopefully it doesn't disappear as quickly as it arrived.
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« on: March 07, 2023, 18:02 »
Okay, so help me out here.
Suppose someone on Twitter ... Elon Musk or someone else .... posts my photo. How does anyone know who I am or where my portfolio is?
Do they credit me? Do they post a link to my port?
Customers that would like to use your art and know that they have to respect copyright will find your art and pay for it. Sure some blogger will fetch it from Elon Musk's tweet but who cares? I think both artists mentioned (I was reacting to the latter case) will have seen their income increase multifold by this commotion. But that is a guess because I don't know them personally offcourse.
Sounds hit and miss to me. Mostly miss. I think I'll pass.
Sure thing. So president Biden places my photo and not yours on a tweet without credits. Let's see who's income gets boosted. I am pretty sure it will be me and not you. But you go ahead with your own reasoning.
You really think President Biden is going to use one of your photos? Can I have some of what you are smoking?
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« on: March 07, 2023, 17:42 »
Okay, so help me out here.
Suppose someone on Twitter ... Elon Musk or someone else .... posts my photo. How does anyone know who I am or where my portfolio is?
Do they credit me? Do they post a link to my port?
Customers that would like to use your art and know that they have to respect copyright will find your art and pay for it. Sure some blogger will fetch it from Elon Musk's tweet but who cares? I think both artists mentioned (I was reacting to the latter case) will have seen their income increase multifold by this commotion. But that is a guess because I don't know them personally offcourse.
Sounds hit and miss to me. Mostly miss. I think I'll pass.
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« on: March 07, 2023, 16:56 »
Okay, so help me out here.
Suppose someone on Twitter ... Elon Musk or someone else .... posts my photo. How does anyone know who I am or where my portfolio is?
Do they credit me? Do they post a link to my port?
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« on: March 07, 2023, 14:08 »
One of the reasons why I'm very careful about what I post on Twitter (or any other social media) and almost never post images that I have up on SS or AS.
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« on: February 28, 2023, 11:22 »
Microstock is a commodity market. High volume and low prices. So you need to be shifting a lot of product to make decent money. Quality and volume are key. It really is as simple as that.
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« on: February 17, 2023, 08:16 »
Who cares any more?
People who still make decenet money from SS? For most contributors here, according to the monthly poll, SS ist still the second best earner.
One of the first things to take into account in surveys is that the sample they primarily represent is "people who participated in the survey."
True, though in this case this doesn't change the answer? Question was "who cares?". Answer is: People who still make money with SS. And if you assume that this is just "people who participated in the survey" then even that doesn't change that among these people there are still people who make money with SS and therefore, most likely, still care.
SS is 1/3rd of what it used to be. That could be how much we have lost or who takes the survey. The numbers become meaningless if the people who make more for past years, stopped taking the survey because they stopped coming to the forum. It's only 50-60 people who take the survey.
I've never taken the survey. However, in general, SS is 60-65% of my earnings while AS is 35-40%. That has been consistent over the past two years and, up to now, is also consistent for 2023.
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« on: January 31, 2023, 08:19 »
It's a mixed bag with Adobe. Most of my recent submissions have been accepted but I had a couple rejected for "quality" which had been previously accepted by the notoriously picky Shutterstock.
Part of the problem is that a "quality" rejection doesn't really tell you anything. My guess is that there are one or two reviewers who are overly strict and if you are unlucky enough to get them then you get rejections.
Anyway, never mind. The photos will probably sell over at Shutterstock.
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« on: January 30, 2023, 08:46 »
Looking like the worst month at S/S in many many years. 
Yet Adobe Stock just keeps rising and rising. Wondering if I bother sending to S/S?
I strongly feel that bothering to send new material to SS is nothing but a waste of time.
Considering effort / income ratio.
For me, January downloads at SS are quite a lot down on January 2022. However, Adobe is at the same level as 2022. Neither better nor worse.
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« on: January 10, 2023, 10:35 »
So far, this January is tracking at almost the same level as January 2021 in terms of downloads, RPD and revenue. It's pretty terrible but just have to fight through the levels as fast as possible to get to a decent return.
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« on: January 01, 2023, 10:17 »
My 2022 results are generally okay.
On SS, my Covid related bestsellers from 2021 are no longer selling. I was able to replace those sales with new material but, as a result, total downloads were flat compared to 2021.
Despite flat downloads, SS revenue increased by 24% and RPD increased by 23% compared to 2021. This is down to some nice SODs and EL.
AS continued to improve. Downloads were up 14% and revenue was up by 29%. RPD was up by 13%.
Started traveling again now that the pandemic panic is dissipating, so hopeful to have some nice new material to add to my portfolio in 2023.
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« on: December 28, 2022, 11:05 »
I am not worried at all.
On the contrary, I am quite excited about the possibilities that ai brings and will make an effort to learn how to use the new tool to my advantage.
I just see a lot of the world is ending the ai is coming for us everywhere and thought it might help discussions to offer a positive outlook.
I'm fatalistic about it. If AI is good and meets a need then it will get used. However, in my time on this earth, I've seen technologies come and technologies go. I've seen industries change, job roles disappear and new ones get created. Nothing stays static, everything changes (except death and taxes). It's not the end of the world, it never is. Just need to roll with the punches.
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« on: December 24, 2022, 07:25 »
In 1977, I was working for IBM and we had all started using this word processor called Script. It was so much easier than sending stuff out to get typed.
After a couple of months, a memo comes down from management. Please stop using Script as the staff in the typing pool don't have enough work.
Well, word processors are still with us and typing pools have disappeared.
If the technology is decent, if it does the job and if people like it, then they will use it. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth isn't going to change that.
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« on: December 22, 2022, 17:27 »
And another $0.61 appears in the Contributor Fund column.
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« on: December 20, 2022, 18:54 »
Just got another $0.54 on top of the previous payment.
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« on: December 17, 2022, 07:45 »
I had two sales today do far and I couldn't see what the other photo was. It said 2 but ut inly showed one. Then in the column to the right there it was. Contributor fund 0.58 😳
have an $11,05 one
it messes up the App.
On Monthly summary it adds a Download and the amount in the total, but when you click on the Day specifics the download is counted but not the Dollar amount.
ie,
Month Summary Dec 17 3 ↓ $11.27
Day Specific page Dec 17 3 ↓ $0.22 (and only 2 images showing)
It could be that their system requires a download to be assigned to a payment in order to be posted. So the Contributor fund payment gets a fictitious download assigned to allow it to process.
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« on: December 16, 2022, 22:22 »
Breaking news ......
$11.80 just landed in the Contributor fund column for me. 😁😳
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« on: December 16, 2022, 20:49 »
I don't understand the map thing. What do I care in which country my stuff gets sold? It's ever changing so it doesn't do anything statistically, it's not useful for any market research...at best it's just a visual gimmick used as dashboard filler.
For those of us who live in countries which don't have an income tax treaty with the USA, having the map AND the last 20 sales listed showing where they were sold around the world is very useful.
For every image/clip sold outside the USA I don't have to pay 30% withholdings to the IRS, so it's a great resource to know how much I will likely receive at the end of the month as SS doesn't keep any info regarding sales in/out of USA in the earnings tabs.
You can do it with the map but its clunky. You can see the latest sales on the earnings summary and you can match them to the map by running the 'arrow' over the dot on the map. Then just note them on a spreadsheet or other. The problem comes if you have multiple sales to the same client/location. You only see the last sale so you can't be sure that the other sales have gone there as well. It's also a problem if you have a lot of sales in a day. The old system only kept a record of the last 20 as does the new map. However, it also wiped a more recent sale of mine - a bug perhaps?. If you have more than 20 in a day then you might have a problem keeping track of them. But that was also the case previously.
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« on: December 13, 2022, 10:34 »
The shot list is interesting but hardly vital. As a practical matter, I shoot whatever catches my eye.
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« on: December 10, 2022, 10:56 »
I like to know where my photos sell but I don't need to see them on a map. The list of last 20 sales with where they were sold is enough. Do I need it? Probably not. I don't get it from Adobe. But I had it before and now the list has gone for no particularly good reason that I can see.
The old dashboard was fine for me. Why change it? If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
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« on: December 06, 2022, 07:50 »
I have this on my phone where it is unusable. Fortunately, the phone app is still usable. For some reason, my laptop still shows the old screen which I'm very comfortable with.
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« on: December 01, 2022, 13:21 »
On SS, November was a poor month (3rd worst this year) for revenue and the worst month of the year for downloads.
On AS, November was the best month of the year for downloads and 3rd best for revenue. AS revenue and downloads January to November are ahead of the full year numbers for 2021.
On SS there is a definite fall off in downloads in the second half of the year. The average for July - November is down 11% compared to the average for January to June. On the plus side, revenue from January to November is ahead of full year revenue for 2021.
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