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Messages - derek
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« on: March 28, 2017, 03:55 »
Steady decline since new year! for western people that is. This business is booming in Russia Poland and Ukraine.
How can you possibly know that?
Must be on the 'historical breakdown of total monthly SS sales by country' page... which I'm yet to find.
Or their "punishment" list.....people who sell too much and are capped, people from certain countries that SS don't like and people that SS are out to get cos they just don't like them.Considering they seem barely able to keep the site running I'm very impressed with these algorithms they produce that do all this and still keep customers supplied with images they want to buy.
Well whats the cost of living in these three countries? possibly a quarter of our costs in Europe or the US. So SS throws these countries $.10-$.20 bucks a day and its a small fortune. In return they shoot anything millions and millions of files and uploading like crazy some 50 times more then we can do. These countries are creating BIG assets for SS and that is whats its all about. When your dealing with shareholders then assets and profits is all that matters. I might be completely wrong of course and they are simply doing this from the good of their hearts.
802
« on: March 28, 2017, 01:05 »
All this starts with the agency of not accepting deliberate copies and the reviewer dumping them at the gate.
803
« on: March 27, 2017, 14:32 »
Steady decline since new year! for western people that is. This business is booming in Russia Poland and Ukraine.
804
« on: March 27, 2017, 03:05 »
To me all this just spell one thing only: they dont care! as long as money is coming in they really couldnt care less. I am quite sure that within a year or two they will have embarked on the Istock downslope. There is not one single sign that proves otherwise and frankly I will be thinking twice before anymore uploading since it will just drown and disappear.
805
« on: March 25, 2017, 07:47 »
Yes, Oringer is a tech guy, not a creative. He started about ten tech businesses around the same time, and SS is the one that took off...the others failed. At least that's my recollection from some of the articles I've read.
Thats right! thats what I mean. These guys have probably sat day and night for years red eyed gulping gallons of coffee and turned night time into day and so on. Suddenly they hit it off and Bang! after a year or two they start hiring expertise and know how like in any business ventures....The rest of us bow in awe and call them geniuses! I would think most of these companies in a way are tech companies.
806
« on: March 25, 2017, 01:23 »
All they care about is quantity and this is just one example but there are tons of them. I mean as a contributor you have to be completely deranged to invest money in travel or models props for serious stock shoots and for what? to find youre next to like fifty weed joints all identical.
They must be under some sort of false 90's impression that the bigger the better.
Somebody once said here that all these micro agencies are run by computer geeks and not creatives. I cant remember who it was but my god its beginning to show big time.
807
« on: March 24, 2017, 06:44 »
its become a joke!
808
« on: March 23, 2017, 04:38 »
Talking about Yuri. For those here that remember he did constantly warn not just us but the agencies that stuff like this would happen such as favourized searches and caps on incomes and cut off periods.
He did personally know a couple of the bigger agency bosses so he must have known something.
809
« on: March 23, 2017, 01:46 »
If youre a masochist yes if not dont even think about it! seriously.
810
« on: March 23, 2017, 01:33 »
So lets just say for a second they cap the sales. In reallity that means that files are never allowed to earn its full potential and that means that we can all sit here uploading until grey and green and it wont matter the slightest but for pennies and cents. To me that seems like bad business?
OTOH I know of examples where earnings have been around $.60 four days in a row and then the next three days down to around $.15 per day.
Well I hope there is no cap because if there is one might just as well leave the portfolio as it is since any uploading would just be a waste of time.
811
« on: March 22, 2017, 15:02 »
pugh! I just find it incredible but why? what would they gain? I cant work it out.
812
« on: March 22, 2017, 14:16 »
I simply have to share this just to see if anybody have experienced the same. To me it seems very very odd indeed. Last week. thursday. $. 43.02 friday. 43. 93 Monday 44.34 Tuesday. 43.77 It just seems very funny to me. Is it some sort of a machine haha! determing how much we are going to earn? 
813
« on: March 21, 2017, 13:31 »
They dont even survive on their exclusives anymore. They survive because of all blue eyed newcomers gullible enough to ask for exclusivity! its beyond me how a company like Getty could have handled this so bad.
814
« on: March 21, 2017, 07:36 »
Well this might be a lesson for any newcomers. Been with Istock since 2008 and I have approx. 56.000 downloads. My monthly take there this month was. $. 102. used to be an average of. $. 1100. thats how much IS have deteriorated since Getty got a hold of it.
My advice to any new member is. DON'T WASTE your time.
815
« on: March 21, 2017, 02:28 »
Deleting files that didnt sell was one of my strategies during the later part of 2016 and it did seem to work but only for a while. Imagination probably! however I deleted some 250 files only a few weeks back and suddenly the daily take seemed to skyrocket but only to find out it was due to a possible search change which have now reverted back to the same stale search.
Many years ago there used to be small tricks one could do but today its like drawing blood out of a stone. Micro-stock is not what it used to be there are no short-cuts or free lunches just a matter of hanging on to the bitter end that by the sound of it is just around the corner.
I'm afraid it seems to be a passtime for our Russian and Ukraine friends nowadays.
816
« on: March 20, 2017, 13:39 »
Old thread! but funny though since many here predicted a downslope and thats exactly what happened. The more files the less sales it seems.
817
« on: March 20, 2017, 04:34 »
Forget Istock! worst of them all. You would even be lucky if the few pennies you earn dont end up as returns.
818
« on: March 17, 2017, 03:56 »
Travel is tough! I happen to know a very well known travel photographer with I think around 15.000 files on line and he is far from happy. Very competative and huge volumes in every agency.
819
« on: March 14, 2017, 12:58 »
At the moment I think everything is just strange. Seems they somehow decide what you earn. I have now had three days in a row where its almost an identical sum just differ in cents. Really old files selling I am talking 10 year old files.
820
« on: March 14, 2017, 11:17 »
Yes the returns are more then earnings nowadays! Crazy!
821
« on: March 14, 2017, 07:22 »
yes but where is it for Mac? is there any for Mac btw?
There is a public beta version for the Mac OS X which is completely free to use.
You can download it from the official website: https://stocksubmitter.com/
Cheers mate! I get on to it!
822
« on: March 14, 2017, 05:31 »
yes but where is it for Mac? is there any for Mac btw?
823
« on: March 13, 2017, 18:31 »
All the winners have gone bust! all losers.
824
« on: March 13, 2017, 07:38 »
No theyre not going to jump all over it thats for sure. I was with them from 2008 and closed my account in Nov last year. I had a portfolio of approx 6000 files. I would have just left it if it wasnt for the fact that one of my macro agencies categorically refused to deal with me if they were left at Istock. Strange really I guess there must be some hard feelings somewhere between them perhaps an ex-employee or something.
825
« on: March 09, 2017, 07:18 »
So often in industry the big boys seem to miss the threat....Kodak and digital for example. With size comes arrogance I guess.
Absolutely!! and thats a brilliant example!!
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