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« on: December 16, 2007, 03:08 »
I set all my pics at RF + extension ($1-$5) and I have actually sold a couple of extended licences there, though the amount varies depending on the number of units and price. One of illustrations on an album coverThey don't get a lot of traffic but if you have your own website you can link your thumbnails back to them. I find sales are very sporadic Their ftp and IPTC reader work well they categorize for you so if you can spare the bandwidth, why not upload.
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« on: December 10, 2007, 07:35 »
numbers in brackets from 15th October 8 weeks ago. Looks like IS will be pushed back to #4 in terms of portfolio size eventually FT 2,802,024 [2,509,798] +292,226 [36,528/week] SS 2,770,660 [2,486,882] +283,778 [35,472/week] IS 2,465,000 [2,257,000] +208,000 [26,000/week] DT 2,049,583 [1,826,714] +222,869 [27,859/week] BS 1,587,000 [1,446,000] +141,000 [17,625/week] 123 1,500,000+ [1,000,000] StockXpert  ? CanStockPhoto 607,654 [563,967] +43,687 [5461/week] * FP 454,025 [403,025] +51,000 [6,375/week] * so close to another payout then I am going to close this account Just gave my microstock guide a long overdue update
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« on: December 07, 2007, 07:03 »
Extended vacation I wish, failed business adventure would be a more accurate description of the time since my last post in London. With the Alamy fiasco and all the micros being so picky about travel pictures these days.
If there is interest I will restart the counting on the 10th of December
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« on: December 07, 2007, 06:54 »
I must admit I have been very very lucky at Alamy 3,470 successful submission without any rejections. Unfortunately I had my first failed image when I had probably my biggest queue of nearly 600 images (3.75 GB uploaded between 13th and 26th of November) whilst on the road all rejected.
Not too impressed with this site no sales since the beginning of October despite dutifully disambiguating all my files.
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« on: November 25, 2007, 19:07 »
Not sure its such a new threat as a few of the sites have been going for several years. SS at the BBCsome may be offended by Smart tools on the latest compact cameras also mean that amateur snappers do not have to be very skilled. or surprised by "Unfortunately, we need to be paid to survive. I have seen very little evidence, if any, that anyone can thrive on a microstock income," says Betsy Reid from the Stock Artists Alliance. Yes I am still alive on the last city of my grand tour of the USA so I haven't had much time to read and write at this forum.
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« on: October 31, 2007, 23:06 »
* and blast usually I start this thread well I'm in Texas on one of my epic journeys so I am bit late. SS 49.4% BME * DT 13.8% BME FT 10.9% StockXpert 8.6% IS 5.9% BS 5.4% 123 4.0% FP 1.6% # CanStockPhoto 0.3% SPM 0.1% * Usually about 40% rather pleased as with my travelling my uploads have been eratic and less than usual. # I even had an extended license sale 
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« on: October 15, 2007, 06:08 »
FT 2,509,798 (2,474,032) [2,442,201] +35,766
SS 2,486,882 (2,451,662) [2,426,105] +35,220
IS 2,257,000 (2,226,772) [2,197,786] +30,228
DT 1,826,714 (1,791,402) [1,763,758] +35,312
BigStock 1,446,000 (1,434,000) [1,410,000] +12,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 +?
CanStockPhoto 563,967 (555,290) [549,994] +8,677
FP 409,950 (403,025) [396,950] +6,925
A bit of a slow week for BigStock. The top four very similar growth, I wonder if DT will have a special prize for the two millionth image in about 5 weeks
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« on: October 08, 2007, 05:01 »
I am sure when i started uploading there (about 18 months ago) they had about 6 million files.
They have a nice graphical effect set up and to mark the occasion they are giving an extra 10% commission to our contributors for any sales they make today. So fingers crossed
The webs largest stock photo site!!
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« on: October 08, 2007, 04:10 »
FT 2,474,032 [2,442,201] (2,398,281) +31,831
SS 2,451,662 [2,426,105] (2,396,223) +25,557
IS 2,226,772 [2,197,786] (2,166,000) +28,986
DT 1,791,402 [1,763,758] (1,728,695) +27,644 #
BigStock 1,434,000 [1,410,000] (1,393,000) +24,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 +?
CanStockPhoto 555,290 [549,994] (544,124) +5,296
FP 403,025 [396,950] (389,250) +6,075
# its iPOD time again
Very similar growth this week for the top five sites
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« on: October 01, 2007, 04:56 »
FT 2,442,201 (2,398,281) [2,379,932] +43,920
SS 2,426,105 (2,396,223) [2,363,552] +29,882
IS 2,197,786 (2,166,000) [2,138,004] +31,786
DT 1,763,758 (1,728,695) [1,701,188] +35,063 *
BigStock 1,410,000 (1,393,000) [1,376,000] +17,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 +?
CanStockPhoto 549,994 (544,124) [539,836] +5,870
FP 396,950 (389,250) [383,200] +7,700
* a big increase another iPod in a week or so
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« on: September 30, 2007, 16:35 »
Updated only real change was StockXpert climbed to 3rd place SS 46.7% DT 15.6% StockXpert 8.5% BME  FT 8.4% 123 6.7% BME BS 6.3% IS 5.9% FP 1.4% CanStockPhoto 0.3% SPM 0.1% A couple of Sales at Alamy made it the BME ever overall. SS every month this year have provided between 40-50% of my income so nothing new there. BME at 123 was helped by an extended license sale
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« on: September 28, 2007, 06:46 »
I have been away for a week and I am eager to upload but I am getting
Response: 550 PWD: Permission denied
on filezilla anyone else having problems uploading at DT??
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« on: September 23, 2007, 12:54 »
This weeks image count a bit early as tomorrow I will be on a train to Venice
FT 2,398,281 [2,379,932] (2,353,375) +18,349 #
SS 2,396,223 [2,363,552] (2,329,523) +32,671
IS 2,166,000[2,138,004] (2,117,194) +27,996
DT 1,728,695 [1,701,188] (1,675,817) +27,507
BigStock 1,393,000[1,376,000] (1,361,000) +17,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 ++
CanStockPhoto 544,124 [539,836] (534,524) +4,288
FP 389,250 [383,200] (376,300) +6,050
# a slow week
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« on: September 17, 2007, 03:14 »
FT 2,379,932 (2,353,375) [2,318,778] +26,557
SS 2,363,552 (2,329,523) [2,294,590] +34,029
IS 2,138,004 (2,117,194) [2,096,000] +20,810
DT 1,701,188 (1,675,817) [1,647,687] +25,371
BigStock 1,376,000 (1,361,000) [1,343,000] +15,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 ++
CanStockPhoto 539,836 (534,524) [529,587] +5,312
FP 383,200 (376,300) [369,925] +6,900
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« on: September 17, 2007, 02:54 »
FTP worked fine for me over the weekend, though the transfer may have been a bit slow.
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« on: September 14, 2007, 14:25 »
It would be nice if they would send out a group e-mail to say FTP has been suspended whilst we upgrade and another one when it is working again.
I can see all my files on the server not in my unfinished files, hopefully they will be transferred across soon.
I suppose I prefer this glitch than the one of last weekend where they let us categorize them and then lost them.
On the bright side the buyers are still buying.
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« on: September 11, 2007, 02:10 »
There was a bug in the importing system
from the FTP.
Unfortunately, this caused many images to be lost during the import. This only affected images uploaded from Friday-Monday.
We kindly ask that you re-upload these images So anything uploaded and categorized from Friday 7th to Monday 10th of September may have disappeared from your pending files list so check
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« on: September 10, 2007, 04:11 »
FT 2,353,375 [2,318,778] (2,281,040) +34,597
SS 2,329,523 [2,294,590] (2,272,589) +34,933
IS 2,117,194 [2,096,000] (2,076,625) +21,194
DT 1,675,817 [1,647,687] (1,623,000) +28,130 #
BigStock 1,361,000 [1,343,000] (1,325,000) +18,000
123 1,000,000+
StockXpert 790,000 ++
CanStockPhoto 534,524 [529,587] (525,092) +4,937
FP 376,300 [369,925] (363,375) +6,375
# almost iPOD time again at DT
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« on: September 08, 2007, 12:29 »
Apparently over 25 iStock inspectors are still in France/ on vacation so they have changed the upload limits  Upload limits for non-exclusive contributors: Base: 15 Bronze: 20 Silver: 25 Gold : 30 Diamond: 35 Upload limits for exclusive contributors: Bronze: 60 Silver: 80 Gold: 120 Diamond: 150 At the site is working again
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« on: September 08, 2007, 12:19 »
Yep sales at FP are pretty dire I would agree if you ahve your website and the time it would be a good idea to link it back to the photo at Featurepics you can also sell eps files there (they sell for the maximum price)
Shannon regarding FTPing to FP I had trouble at first, try copy and pasting all three bits of info (address, user, password) into the boxes of Filezilla each time you want to upload. As Filezilla seems to forget the long series of letters in the address after sierra/featurepics.com so you get "critical transfer error"
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« on: September 03, 2007, 05:27 »
I know this is a really old thread but I was updating my microstock guide and I noticed the websites for the IPTC editors irfanview and pixvue are no longer active Exifer is still going strong but I was never keen on it are there any other free IPTC editors out there?
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« on: September 03, 2007, 03:25 »
Another week another image count FT 2,318,778 (2,281,040) [2,239,929] +37,738 SS 2,294,590 (2,272,589) [2,241,063] +22,001 IS 2,096,000 (2,076,625) [2,046,548] +19,375 DT 1,647,687 (1,623,000) [1,592,218] +24,687 BigStock 1,343,000 (1,325,000) [1,313,000] +18,000 123 1,000,000+ StockXpert ?? CanStockPhoto 529,587 (525,092) [521,223] +4,495 FP 369,925 (363,375) [356,050] +6,550
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« on: September 01, 2007, 03:22 »
In my experience keywording at Alamy is a bit strange as they have a description box where some folk seem to write assays.
I was recently contemplating whether to upload some photos of St Andrews castle to Alamy or the micros, it gives very few results at the micros but not many sales. When I searched at Alamy for "St Andrews castle fife" i found images of lighthouses and sail boats in Fife which fortunately appeared towards the end of the search but still ahead of genuine results.
One word of warning there is a six month wait to delete an image and once an image is uploaded as RF you can't switch it to RM or vice versa unless you request deletion wait 6 months and upload again. I have heard of one exception of someone switching their entire portfolio from RM - RF but I think it was a rather rare occurance.
Has anyone ever had images rejected?
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« on: September 01, 2007, 03:05 »
Thanks Madelaide I got a bit confused with all the different agencies sometimes when you click on request payment there are no further steps or choices. DT does indeed give you a choice of three PP MB or check.
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« on: August 31, 2007, 16:39 »
Overall the summer slump seems to be ending second best month overall this year. A few EL sales two at BigStock ?? a pity I only get $7 SS 49.4% BME even sold two footage clips DT 13.4% still in the summer slump here BS 8.2% BME 50% more than June FT 8.1% StockXpert 7.7% iS 5.9% 123 4.7% SPM 1.2% FP 1.0% CanStockPhoto 0.5% Some rather strange results I had sold nothing at SPM for almost three months then suddenly a flurry of sales at the end of the month. I just checked 4 x more total earnings than August 2006. My 2007 earnings breakdown
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