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Messages - Jens G
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« on: May 27, 2020, 03:04 »
Regarding to subscription sales, that always was main sale; we never was paid based on the subscription package that buyer buy. There are 4 subscrption packetes:
10 images for 49usd (Packet 1 or P1)
50 images for 125usd (Packet 2 or P2)
350 images for 199usd (Packet 3 or P3)
750 images for 249usd (Packet 4 or P4)
Based on this and the % presented for SS the earnings per sale under new criteria is:
Level 1 0,74 usd(P1) ---- 0,38 usd(P2) ---- 0,09 usd(P3) ---- 0,05 usd(P4)
Level 2 0,98 usd(P1) ---- 0,50 usd(P2) ---- 0,11 usd(P3) ---- 0,07 usd(P4)
Level 3 1,23 usd(P1) ---- 0,63 usd(P2) ---- 0,14 usd(P3) ---- 0,08 usd(P4)
Level 4 1,47 usd(P1) ---- 0,75 usd(P2) ---- 0,17 usd(P3) ---- 0,10 usd(P4)
Level 5 1,72 usd(P1) ---- 0,88 usd(P2) ---- 0,20 usd(P3) ---- 0,12 usd(P4)
Level 6 1,96 usd(P1) ---- 1,00 usd(P2) ---- 0,23 usd(P3) ---- 0,13 usd(P4)
Thanks for the calculations. But it seems more complicated than that.
There is different pricing if it's monthly or annual subscription, and if the annual subscription is payed in advance or monthly. Further, if not all images are used in a month, the price per image will in reality be higher.
It doesn't matter if all images are used or not. They have specified that if it is an image pack for $10 for 10 images, then our share is a % of $1.00 per image. Even if only 1 image is downloaded.
Thanks for the clarification. Not very fair.
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« on: May 27, 2020, 02:16 »
Regarding to subscription sales, that always was main sale; we never was paid based on the subscription package that buyer buy. There are 4 subscrption packetes:
10 images for 49usd (Packet 1 or P1)
50 images for 125usd (Packet 2 or P2)
350 images for 199usd (Packet 3 or P3)
750 images for 249usd (Packet 4 or P4)
Based on this and the % presented for SS the earnings per sale under new criteria is:
Level 1 0,74 usd(P1) ---- 0,38 usd(P2) ---- 0,09 usd(P3) ---- 0,05 usd(P4)
Level 2 0,98 usd(P1) ---- 0,50 usd(P2) ---- 0,11 usd(P3) ---- 0,07 usd(P4)
Level 3 1,23 usd(P1) ---- 0,63 usd(P2) ---- 0,14 usd(P3) ---- 0,08 usd(P4)
Level 4 1,47 usd(P1) ---- 0,75 usd(P2) ---- 0,17 usd(P3) ---- 0,10 usd(P4)
Level 5 1,72 usd(P1) ---- 0,88 usd(P2) ---- 0,20 usd(P3) ---- 0,12 usd(P4)
Level 6 1,96 usd(P1) ---- 1,00 usd(P2) ---- 0,23 usd(P3) ---- 0,13 usd(P4)
Thanks for the calculations. But it seems more complicated than that. There is different pricing if it's monthly or annual subscription, and if the annual subscription is payed in advance or monthly. Further, if not all images are used in a month, the price per image will in reality be higher.
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« on: April 02, 2020, 02:16 »
Yes that could be upsetting. I've never had a keyword rejected, that I know of. Do they notify me or just make it disappear?
You get a very fast message saying that incorrect keywords have been removed or something like that. I haven't seen the list of removed keywords but noticed that they removed Easter. SS does conjugate words like run/running, etc.
But in this case I had Easter separated and used in conjunction with other words like "easter bunny" and "easter eggs" so to me it doesn't make sense that they would erase the single word since the others a set, if I'm explaining myself correctly.
Unless each single word in a set also works as a single word ("easter bunny" also is treated as "easter" and "bunny" seprately) I cannot understand why they would consider a repetition.
As Jens G, the deleted word ends up showing in the suggested keywords. If you add them they get instantly deleted everytime.
It didn't get deleted again in my case.
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« on: April 01, 2020, 10:34 »
In the last batch I uploaded, there was a picture including some pine trees in a forest. I always look at the keywords that SS suggest, to see if there are relevant keywords that I have forgotten, and in this case, SS suggested "forest", which was very relevant.
I was surprised that I had forgotten to put that word myself. But when I checked, I actually had "forest" in the keywords in the file. So SS must have removed the word for some strange reason, and then suggests it.
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« on: March 23, 2020, 11:37 »
I just got my payment: 0.05 USD  All from Connect
81
« on: February 19, 2020, 10:12 »
I terminated my Istock account in september, but they still report a few sales every month. And they actually pay me every month, even though it's far from the 100 dollar limit. In january I made 64 cents, all from Connect 
82
« on: February 13, 2020, 14:44 »
I have far more income from SS than from AS, with about the same number of files on both.
83
« on: December 31, 2019, 06:50 »
I haven't made a graph, but I quess it would look similar.
Relative to SS sales, my AS sales have always been lower than in the poll here at MSG. Normally AS gives me about half of SS. But the last two months, is has been less than 1/4.
84
« on: October 25, 2019, 07:58 »
I have also just opened a support ticket to close my account.
I have hesitated to do it for a long time, but all these refunds was the last drop.
I have received payment this month, even though is was less than $100. And it looks like my files are gone from istockphoto. That was a lot faster than I expected
Just bear in mind that you will continue to get sales recorded by iStock for probably the next 6 months.
Its what happened when I closed my account in March 2017
OK. I will just have to wait and see if the same happens for me.
85
« on: October 25, 2019, 03:42 »
I have also just opened a support ticket to close my account.
I have hesitated to do it for a long time, but all these refunds was the last drop.
I have received payment this month, even though is was less than $100. And it looks like my files are gone from istockphoto. That was a lot faster than I expected
86
« on: October 19, 2019, 03:30 »
SS actually encourages users of the contributor app to add similar content, because every time an image reaches 5-20-50-100 downloads the app whites "Add more like this".
87
« on: October 07, 2019, 08:35 »
I wrote them and asked them to remove my images at once. And they did.
88
« on: October 06, 2019, 02:30 »
I just found a couple of my food ingredient images at https://www.pngguru.com/There are lots of images there that look like stock images, and they are all given away for free.
89
« on: September 20, 2019, 06:43 »
I have also just opened a support ticket to close my account.
I have hesitated to do it for a long time, but all these refunds was the last drop.
90
« on: September 14, 2019, 00:43 »
I have also received mine. Really nice Jens G
91
« on: June 13, 2019, 09:17 »
My may sales were within the normal for me, but june is very bad so far.
I'm only at about 1/4 of what I usually have this time of the month, and since I have only dropped 50 places on the rank, I guess I'm not the only one with poor sales.
92
« on: May 26, 2019, 05:08 »
Hi Mat, as a Creative Cloud user and Adobe Stock contributor this is a great offer. Is there anything we need to do to qualify once we have met the 300 submissions or $500 of earnings threshold?
Thanks
The giveaway was last year, but hopefully they will do the same this year.
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« on: May 07, 2019, 05:38 »
I get an EL about one time for every 200 sales.
94
« on: January 19, 2019, 16:05 »
I had 41 cent RPD, and 37% of the sales gave me 10 cents or less. Very bad 
more than 60 per cent for me under 20 cent....i stop uploading anything to getty stock. not even worth the time and hassle. i will collect royalty of the portfolio i had but not bother anymore...15% without big sales is not worth any hassle.
I stopped uploading in november 2016, and deleted the best selling, which I was not willing to sell for down to 0.02 USD in commission.
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« on: January 19, 2019, 10:56 »
I had 41 cent RPD, and 37% of the sales gave me 10 cents or less. Very bad
96
« on: January 08, 2019, 09:53 »
I use Tapatalk to read the forum on my phone or tablet, when I'm not at the computer. But it's not a big deal for me, if it stops working.
97
« on: December 23, 2018, 06:48 »
Since my native language isn't english, my understanding of the terms might not be correct, but wouldn't the big towel in one of the pictures be "merchandise"? And according to the license rules, an "enhanced" license is required for use in merchandise.
The $1.88 royalty looks like an OD sale in the lowest tier.
There is a premier system (?like premium access, maybe?) which includes merchandise:
https://www.shutterstock.com/support/article/what-is-shutterstocks-premier-license
Like Getty's PA, it seems to be pretty difficult to find out the nitty gritty details without making a personal contact, it seems not to be in open view. Also even if someone had read the T&C before signing up, that info wouldn't have been available, and presumably many SS suppliers signed up before there was Premier.
Thanks for the explanation :-)
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« on: December 23, 2018, 06:20 »
Since my native language isn't english, my understanding of the terms might not be correct, but wouldn't the big towel in one of the pictures be "merchandise"? And according to the license rules, an "enhanced" license is required for use in merchandise.
The $1.88 royalty looks like an OD sale in the lowest tier.
99
« on: November 18, 2018, 02:36 »
Over the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that there are suddenly photos, that I uploaded long time ago, in the Pending queue.
At first I thought that it was a glitch, but now I have noticed that the number of rejected photos is decreasing, so it's actually photos that were once rejected, that they are reviewing again - and approving.
I have had many rejections at DP that I didn't understand, but never did anything about it, because sales are so few there. But now it seems that they realize their mistake, and approve the once rejected photos.
Hopefully they will also do something about the sales.
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« on: November 11, 2018, 07:16 »
The past few months my SS income has been very fluctuating.
July and August were better than average, which is unusual for the summermonths. Then came September that was the worst since August 2016, followed by October that was BME by a large margin. November is very calm, and it could end up like my September.
Sometimes I wonder if there is a backlog in sales reporting, so that sales that were not reported during one month or several months, sudenly gets reported in a following month.
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