Quote from: Mantis on May 03, 2023, 16:42

I�m opted out of �data deals� yet still got $58. Perhaps those are data deals that happened before the opt out date, which was a month ago.

No, I think shutterstock is a deceptive company, and the "opt-out button" doesn't really mean anything. They have proven to be dishonest time & time again, so...
They are probably selling your data regardless, because they really don't give a flying f____k about anyone except the executives being greedy...

There is that.

I�m opted out of �data deals� yet still got $58. Perhaps those are data deals that happened before the opt out date, which was a month ago.

123 stopped receiving video? I am uploading a video, different, but it is only in processing, it is not available for editing. Is anyone uploading a video there?

They no longer accept video.

Has anyone who is on Pictorem got a sale and received payment? I had a sale in January, requested payment, and the notice that it takes 24-48 hours pops up. Great. Three months later, no payment. And their FAQ says that if you don�t claim the payment within 30 days they send it automatically. That didn�t happen either.  I did email them and we�ll see what they say, but was curious if anyone else had success getting paid.

Does it earn more than dreamstime? Have more than 900 images there and not getting even first withdrawal in 5 months.

IS earns 10x more that DT for me, at a minimum.  But like all sites, IS requires volume and variety.  They pretty much accept anything today so you need to have a different blend of image subjects (as in all sites).  I have images there and some video. 

Over on pond5 a producer with over 34 000 clips said he had no sales at all for several weeks.And it was an exclusive port.

But my tiny port with 1000 files had a few sales in Jan and Feb. Nothing in March so far.

Something with their algos must be off.

THIS^

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Quote from: Schadenfreude on March 20, 2023, 14:17

Me: I see. How do the customers qualify?

DP: It's the special plan our sales department offers to some of our customers. Unfortunately, I can not answer the question regarding the qualification system

Interesting. I doubt there's any qualification at all.

So All of a sudden I see I'm 'opted back in' after the said they would remove me.

Firing off another opt out email.

Where do you see that? I saw nothing in my profile except for the email.

I don't see it either.  But I also never received an email from them.

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Quote from: KuriousKat on February 19, 2023, 07:19

Well it's not working for me. I uploaded 10 images this morning and only 6 submitted. One wouldn't let me add missing categories, so I deleted it and tried again - same problem. The remaining 3 are in a loop of saying they've been submitted, but then turning up again as unsubmitted, and I've tried 3 times over. I've even deleted them and uploaded them again - same problem.

YES.  And your post was 2-3 weeks ago and DT still hasn't fixed the issue.

Is this a browser issue? I just uploaded some photos and then an EPS with a JPG and the system recognized it as an additional with the same name, I didn't have to do anything. All metadata was read properly. They auto entered the Category. All boxes were checked as they always are, no I don't wish to donate as free if something is rejected.

That's online upload not ftp, and using Firefox.

I used Safari like I always do.

I too use Safari and I haven't had any issues.
I've uploaded using both FTP and the browser, A mix of Commercial and Editorial all the Metadata has been there. I just need remember to uncheck 'sell the rights' on the Commercial images.

Hmmmm, that's interesting.  I just sent them a bunch of screen shots at their request.  I can't even add keywords manually. The field won't accept text.  I just did another validation that when an image does submit, it never leaves the queue and the counter of remaining images doesn't go down with the submission.  Very strange.

And some of those still active images are also stolen from IS.

Exclusive Original:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gingerbread-cookie-and-hot-chocolate-for-christmas-gm1270902491-373679887?phrase=gingerbread

Stolen By 3d River:  https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/gingerbread-cookie-hot-chocolate-christmas-2204480183

SS keeps the port up because it's a cash cow.  They know that most contributors don't have the means to involve attorneys.  They will ask if the photographer did a DMCA. Well, are we supposed to do thousands of them because the agency let it get out of control? Seriously, I think that is their approach, they will always refer back to the first step of actions the artist "should have taken".  Based on that shroud they choose to capitalize on the cash it generates at the cost of copyright infringements.

Well it's not working for me. I uploaded 10 images this morning and only 6 submitted. One wouldn't let me add missing categories, so I deleted it and tried again - same problem. The remaining 3 are in a loop of saying they've been submitted, but then turning up again as unsubmitted, and I've tried 3 times over. I've even deleted them and uploaded them again - same problem.

YES.  And your post was 2-3 weeks ago and DT still hasn't fixed the issue.

very low, worst month in years

Same here. In fact 1/2 of the same month last year.

Quote from: e_mikh on January 15, 2023, 12:24

New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8

About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.

Thief is gone. RIP.

For now.

I have about 4,000 images there and 1200 videos. I make $5-$15 a month.  Honestly, I don't know how they stay in business. Then again, Canstock is a dead site as well.  I am at $73 for 2022 with them.  In the end, we can't expect 123 to perform like the giants (Adobe, SS, Getty), but we should be making something reasonable.  But if everyone's sales are so anorexic I can't see how they stay in business.  I predicted that they would go out of biz last year but that didn't happen.  This month, January, I am at $3.25 cents for the month.  I don't really pay much attention to 123 anymore.  If you want to be productive across MS sites, you need to downsize images to 30 or below MB.  123 caps uploads at that per image.  Even some of my downsized images are bigger than 30 MB.  So I just upload and whatever goes through goes through. I don't resize those images that don't go through and resubmit. FK that.  15 years ago I might have, but today, not worth it as sales are non-existent for me.