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« on: August 10, 2023, 09:25 »
Just two weeks after crossing the 13 million mark, the genAI collection is now over 14 million - 14,062,823
Amazing! What would be interesting to know is for those selling AI images as stock, how do the $$$ work out? In other words what is the net revenue selling genAI stock vs. the cost of "membership" to the genAI websites?
On Midjourney it's 10$ (minimum) vs whatever you get from Adobe Stock and Dreamstime: https://www.microstockgroup.com/37744/37744/msg590316/#msg590316
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« on: August 02, 2023, 14:54 »
The money that they got from dataset earnings, which I don't think they share with their contributors, should be more than enough to cover their "Growing costs".
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« on: July 31, 2023, 15:13 »
Updated numbers of my son's journey with Ai: the curve started to flatten. Sales of the Ai collection doubled in the first 3 months, now they're starting to slow down. But still it was a very good month and it's still far beyond my expectations when my son started creating and uploading Ai. The collection now has 2100 pics vs 1700 pics at the end of last month.
By the way, July was my BME at AS driven by that Ai collection and some good video sales.
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« on: July 26, 2023, 16:35 »
StockSubmitter is great for uploading videos, you can upload your videos only once to their MicroStock Plus website, and from there you can upload it to any stock site. So even using the free subscription, it's very good for creating Metadata and uploading.
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« on: July 21, 2023, 15:13 »
Pond5 has really died down again for me this month. I wouldn't ever go exclusive with them. Also who's to say that Shutterstock can't deliver big(ger) sales? Yes there are lots of low sales which are quite pathetic but there are lot of higher sales too and overall the site performs a lot better for me than the others (namely Pond5, Adobe Stock, iStock). The attached daily video sales was just from yesterday, admittedly my best daily earnings for this year to date, but a whole lot better than the other sites even before I had these sales.
Good for you. Whatever works for you. But on average, video contributors are reporting sales have gone down to 1/4 or less from before video sub was introduced on Shutterstock. I sell my HD videos for $89 on Pond5 currently. So, I get $50 or so on regular HD sales and over $100 on 4k sales in which I price at $199. So, I don't want to give potential buyers an option to shop around and buy on Shutterstock or Adobe Stock and result in me getting $3 instead of $50-$120. Too much damage. Just doesn't make sense anymore even if I get occasional regular price or premium license sales. RPD on Shutterstock and Adobe Stock is ridiculously low now. Not worth it. Seeing those video sub sales report makes me only angry, disgusted and unhappy thinking I could've gotten more than 10x on Pond5. It's really bad for my mental health.
I just move the clips that I know that it doesn't have competition into my exclusive account. For other clips, I'll put them on P5, SS and As. Some of my editorial clips have huge competition on SS, AS and P5, but no competition at all at subscription sites, so, I put those on subscription sites, where I can get decent money because of the lack of competition, while barely I made anything from these clips at the main stock sites.
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« on: July 20, 2023, 18:43 »
My last sale on P5 Exclusive is on December 2022 nothing in 2023 but in 2023 I have for same period on P5 ,,normal,, 7 downloads
Yes, my P5 exclusive sales are very low compared to my non-exclusive account, despite that I have unique editorial clips that were selling very well on SS.
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« on: July 14, 2023, 16:09 »
My Financial tab number is now more closer in-line to the dashboard estimate, which was the higher amount.
They must be working on the payout.
Fingers crossed...
The same here (which is good  ) Edit: Payment received with a closer amount to the dashboard  .
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« on: July 14, 2023, 04:08 »
On the Dashboard page, my estimated earnings for June are 503$, while on the Finance page, my next estimated payout is 262$, I wonder which one is right?
2 days till payment, fingers crossed...
They're both right, as the dashboard shows the current month's estimated earnings, and the finance page is showing last months earnings which will be paid out this month.
No, I'm talking about June estimated earnings on the dashboard Vs estimated payout this month... The difference is huge.
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« on: July 13, 2023, 15:29 »
Maybe they are on a long vacation? I hope their business model fails to be honest.
AFAIK, they are very successful, I'm personally one of their subscribers. Envato elements content is much better in many ways, but they are the only subscription site that I know that provides subscribers with editorial content, and this is a major strength point that makes Storyblocks ahead of its competitors.
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« on: July 13, 2023, 10:30 »
On the Dashboard page, my estimated earnings for June are 503$, while on the Finance page, my next estimated payout is 262$, I wonder which one is right?
2 days till payment, fingers crossed...
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« on: June 30, 2023, 03:43 »
I've encouraged my 17 years old son to create photos using Midjourney for AS. He doesn't know anything about photography. He started uploading images to my AS account 3 months ago, here are the number of sales (remember he's novice):
April: 27 sales
May: 51 sales
June (till 9): 28 sales
He now has 1500 files online (260 under review) and he's planning to upload 500 - 1000 images per month.
I do videos mainly, but I have had around 300 images online for years, and he already exceeded my number of sales for images.
Updated numbers (really interesting experiment) ...
Congrats 
That's really a good start!
Looks like he found out that the idea behind the images plays a decisive role: once I realized it my sales skyrocketed (this week a single image got me $21.25 and another $26.40)
Congrats to you too, impressive high sales!
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« on: June 30, 2023, 01:09 »
18 months from now he will make a lot more money. It takes time for customers to find the files, lightbox them, realise the project.
These are early days.
I hope he enjoys. the journey.
Thank you, I always warn him not to put too much hope in this field, as things are changing really quickly. Anyway, my son's success so far has been quite unexpected for me, looking to see how far he can get...
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« on: June 29, 2023, 17:25 »
I've encouraged my 17 years old son to create photos using Midjourney for AS. He doesn't know anything about photography. He started uploading images to my AS account 3 months ago, here are the number of sales (remember he's novice):
April: 27 sales
May: 51 sales
June (till 9): 28 sales
He now has 1500 files online (260 under review) and he's planning to upload 500 - 1000 images per month.
I do videos mainly, but I have had around 300 images online for years, and he already exceeded my number of sales for images.
Updated numbers (really interesting experiment) ...
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« on: June 26, 2023, 00:57 »
" Submitted last month " -what a pathetic message 
I have some files with "Submitted 2 months ago"...
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« on: June 24, 2023, 17:55 »
Is it fair? I don't think so. How do you think?
According to some who use BlackBoxGuild, BlackBoxGuild contributors on Shutterstock reach the highest tier of commission just because BlackBoxGuild account is so huge. This is totally unfair to all the individual contributors who upload and tag themselves. Small contributors who would never reach the higher levels end up at the highest level (minus BlackBoxGuild fee of course). This should be addressed by Shutterstock.
BlackBoxGuild's and all other third party uploaders' commission tier should be capped at the average tier level of all individual contributors instead. Totally unfair to us individual contributors on Shutterstock.
Well, SS is the only advantage at BB, they will deduct 15% of your sales at all other agencies, so you may end up losing more money than what you won from SS levels alone.
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« on: June 13, 2023, 11:23 »
My highest video sale so far...
Wow! Nice! Congrats to you!
Thank you!
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« on: June 13, 2023, 06:32 »
It's an editorial video of some high school students working on a robotics project in a classroom
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« on: June 13, 2023, 04:22 »
My highest video sale so far...
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« on: June 10, 2023, 01:58 »
Yes, I believe it's all Ai
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« on: June 09, 2023, 13:34 »
I've encouraged my 17 years old son to create photos using Midjourney for AS. He doesn't know anything about photography. He started uploading images to my AS account 3 months ago, here are the number of sales (remember he's novice):
April: 27 sales
May: 51 sales
June (till 9): 28 sales
He now has 1500 files online (260 under review) and he's planning to upload 500 - 1000 images per month.
I do videos mainly, but I have had around 300 images online for years, and he already exceeded my number of sales for images.
I really feel sorry for photographers as they can't compete with the image quality created using Midjourney, it's just amazing.
So, imagine if 100,000 novices like my son are uploading to AS, what would be the result?
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« on: June 07, 2023, 13:08 »
I put "Circa" most of the time without problems, but I didn't submit anything for several months now...
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« on: June 06, 2023, 15:04 »
Yes, currently over the double.
Edit: more than quadruple of last month payment actually.
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« on: May 16, 2023, 05:11 »
Strange coincidence, I've got 32$ at Pond5 under "Subscription Earnings". I'm not in P5 subscription program and this is the first time I got such earnings.
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« on: May 05, 2023, 15:03 »
They are must be making huge money from the data deals from SS and P5 
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« on: April 27, 2023, 16:54 »
But payments from SS don't have the $3 fee. I think the difference is you can request payment at anytime at AS vs you have to wait for SS to pay you.
BTW, Payoneer is introducing $29.95 annual fee in some countries if your total received payment is less than $2000 per year. If you're subjected to the fee, you will be notified through the notifications section when you log-in, no email about it.
To check which countries are affected (strangely New Zealand is listed but there are no details).
https://payoneer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43738/~/annual-account-fee
No, they charge me that fee despite the fact that I receive much more than 2000$ per year. Regarding the 3$ fee it's applicable for all agencies except SS and Istock/Getty
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