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Hi Mat,

I receive a notification email with all the instructions, but it doesn't contain the 24 alpha-numeric code.
When I click on the blue banner after I log in to the portal, the new page is asking for the code I don't have.

Will it be provided through a second email?

Edit: there is something that looks like a 24 alpha-numeric code in the URL, I tried to copy it, but the redeem button is still grayed out

Edit 2: I tried with Microsoft Edge and the code embedded in the URL worked after I was asked to log in and approve the login on my phone.
Maybe it works on Chrome as well, but probably, one needs to logout and login again.

Quote from: ShadySue on January 13, 2021, 18:30

This is the Beeb's Reality Check, which is more or less what I'm seeing elsewhere, but I'm probably in a media 'echo chamber':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55572805

What a bunch of freaks.

An unecessary double negation 

A helpful tool I borrowed from a friend:

"Huge numbers of our population believe in a complete alternate reality. Alternate facts as it were. But just as intensely as I believe they are deluded, they think I am the one who is deluded. Maybe I am. So how can I be confident in my perception? It can be quite difficult.

I have found when in times of political confusion, particularly when emotions are running high and creating tunnel vision, the presence of * can be an extremely helpful indicator.

If I am attending a local demonstration or event and I see *�neo-*, casual *, master race *, or the latest-whatever-uber-mythology-*, I figure out which side they are on. And if they are on my side of the demonstration? I am on the wrong side.

It is tough to argue moral equivalence when I am standing next to a Nazi.

� Look to my right. Is there a guy wearing a "6MWE" (6 million wasn�t enough) t-shirt? I am on the wrong side.

� Look to my left. If that guy is wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirt? Wrong side.

� Are speakers being applauded for referring to things that Hitler got right? Wrong side.

� Team-spirit face paint and hat with animal horns? This is actually an unclear indicator that could mean anything, but safest to keep my distance from that guy anyway, even at a football game.

However, I can always, always, always rely on the presence of * as a guiding light through a fog of disinformation.

Some things are relative, and politics can absolutely have its opposing sides and grey areas. But evil and good are absolute. 

So, just look for the *, and make your own decisions."

***Feel free to copy/forward/share

Agreed, but in the name of accuracy, there is a minor exception that doesn't diminish the validity of the litmus test proposed above.

Although the Proud Boys were a prominent group involved in the Capitol riot, that 6MWE "proud boy" was not photographed at this event: https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-million-wasnt-enough-shirt-wasnt-from-the-capitol-siege.
See attached, the same photo published on the ADL site back on December 24th
On the other hand, that Camp Auschwitz guy was there, indeed, alongside other * and QAnon nutjobs.

Another big one!
Same price and same usage as the previous big one, shown above, on the 1st page 

Nobody?

Quote from: Zero Talent on November 03, 2020, 10:04

Quote from: steheap on November 03, 2020, 09:04

Strictly speaking, you are not allowed to use other people's work in your stock images and so using a sky from Photoshop or Luminar (unless it is one of your own sky pictures) is not allowed. It would be interesting to hear Matt from Adobe Stock's view on this? Although I don't know how to bring it to his attention!

Steve

I am pretty certain that those skies are labeled for commercial reuse meaning that you can reuse a photo in any way, even commercially.

That isn't applicable to the stock question.  You don't have the rights so you couldn't use them in a stock submission.  You could use them to make a pamphlet or a billboard or something.

From the SS Submission and Account Guidelines:

You must own or control the copyright to all content you submit to Shutterstock. This means that you cannot submit work obtained from other sources (e.g., online image search results or websites), or incorporate such work into your content submissions, unless you have permission to do so

Therefore the restrictions are not absolute, and as I said, I am pretty certain that both Adobe and Skylum, secured those rights and permissions for their customers.

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Anyone else notice a small difference between the Today is 20 figure and the Istock figure?

Yes, there are differences, sometimes significant. Todayis20 is always showing less than the Getty summary.
My median delta is -$4.5.

Here is it for the past year, in percentages:

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Quote from: mj007 on June 19, 2020, 08:08

To sue you would have to show damages. SS gave you fair warning they were dropping payment to you the seller . Yes they drooped payment to almost zero. No one forced you to stay and get almost no money. I see no damages. I do see a company that is bad...but no damages.

What about people working for SS being payed under minimal hour wage and SS selling their work in your market?

Do you see the damage now ?

If you are talking about us the contributors, we are not working for SS, we are working for us and using SS service to sell our work. Minimal hour wage has nothing to do here.

I say it does.

If we would just use SS to sell our work we would be able to determine the prices of our work and yet the prices are determined by SS so they are clearly in charge here setting standards and defining rules.

One can then more accurately say  that SS is running a platform in which instead of employees they are using freelancers for their main product production which they pay in royalties in a way that potentially decreases minimal wage in the industry.
If someone in NY wants employ people in the same niche and compete with SS he stand against unfair competition in which SS (or similar paying agencies) product providers potentially work for less than minimal wage.
If that someone can prove that,  he clearly has a legal case. And that one has all parameters to calculate that beside how many images can an average contributor produce, process, keyword, upload and categorize in an hour so I guess an union can be used to legally determine that standard.

Also you say you sell your work at SS. Even so, you can not legally offer your work under minimal wage. Again someone just has to prove you are not able to earn minimal wage at your work time and you are undercutting real worker illegally. Not only SS. You directly.

That is the law in almost every country that has minimal wage.

Nope. It doesn't. We are not employed by SS, nor by AS, nor by any other agency.

Just imagine what could happen if an agency is forced to pay a minimum wage to all contributors. Such an agency will be forced to "fire" probably more than 95% of the contributors, who are making less than ~$1,260/month on average.
In other words, only a selected few, elite contributors will earn enough to justify staying "employed".

Are you in this category? Because it's rather likely that you will also be part of the contributors NO agency will afford to work with anymore.

Smaller agencies, like DT, 123RF, DP will most likely disappear, since they will not be able to afford any contributors paid at minimum wage.

This also means that, after "firing" 95% of the contributors, the database will shrink down to virtually nothing, the price per download will go through the roof since the image offering and competition will be hugely reduced.

Many small businesses relying on microstock for their blogs, advertisement, etc, will not be able to afford those prices anymore and many will go bankrupt, generating a ripple effect way beyond the microstock ecosystem.

The law of unintended consequences will strike you back harder than you can imagine.

Quote from: Zero Talent on June 08, 2020, 16:03

Quote from: astockphotographer088 on June 08, 2020, 15:35

Quote from: Zero Talent on June 08, 2020, 13:42

Level 5 photo, level 3 video.
Here are the SS RPDs for 2020, all-inclusive (since it will take too long to remove the EL, videos, large SoDs, one by one)

Jan $1.55/DL
Feb $1.30/DL
Mar $1.02/DL
Apr $1.65/DL
May $1.51/DL

Jun $1.14/DL

Therefore, June is 18% worse than the average RPD of the previous months.
However, March was way below my normal values. Without considering the exception of March, the RPD dropped by 24%.

But I also feel that June is a "good month", so far (from the DL number and DL type point of view) therefore the real average RPD loss must be larger than 24%

Thanks for your input, but the reason I set these "rules" as to exclude video and calculate w/ and w/o EL's in images was to be able and find as clean results as possible in all this mess. My last thread coulnd't do that and I already had some people post data. From that first data, we gathered a generic average of -33% ... but it was wrong, as it came from many different levels and also polluted with EL's (like my sample for example). My ultimate purpose is to start finding common patterns in this. And find the particular spot in statistics, that the -% in rpd stops being a mere fluctuation (like you had in March) and where it shows that it starts being the new rule of the game. I hope you understand and that you can provide some more accuracy in your data in the requested format. Regards.

I am not going to sift through 6k sales to eliminate videos and high photo sales manually.
My videos and high photo sales are not lucky exceptions, but a regular predictable matter.

What matters is the total reduction of RPD, not just the analysis of a subset of the data.

For you what primarily matters is of course the stats you provided, absolutely no disagreement on that. But in the spreadsheet we are compiling in this thread, the ultimate purpose is for all data to have a way into merging together, ultimately to create global averages. Video sales at this point are polluting the generic result we are trying to give. If you can't bother deducting the whole categories from your month in sales and in dl numbers, ok then don't do so. You can sit back and wait for someone else that will like the rest. Take care.

As you see fit.

But when your goal is to achieve statistical relevance, you can't leave out of the equation statistically relevant parameters.

As I said, large SoDs, ELs, and video sales are not random nor lucky, but rather predictable.
I know with a high probability when I can expect an EL, a large SoD, or a video sale. They systematically appear after a certain number of subs.
They are part of the whole system. You can't leave them out. Especially not, when you deal with large numbers.

Leaving them out will only lead to flawed analysis and misleading conclusions.

But anyway... good luck in your endeavor! 

Level 5 photo, level 3 video.
Here are the SS RPDs for 2020, all-inclusive (since it will take too long to remove the EL, videos, large SoDs, one by one)

Jan $1.55/DL
Feb $1.30/DL
Mar $1.02/DL
Apr $1.65/DL
May $1.51/DL

Jun $1.14/DL

Therefore, June is 18% worse than the average RPD of the previous months.
However, March was way below my normal values. Without considering the exception of March, the RPD dropped by 24%.

But I also feel that June is a "good month", so far (from the DL number and DL type point of view) therefore the real average RPD loss must be larger than 24%

They are also deleting posts on the forum.

This is what, in our marvelous liberal democrat society, we call freedom of speech�

Just a small clarification: the freedom of speech is meant to protect us against an abusive government. A private company is something very different.

What SS did was expected. It shouldn't be a surprise for anyone. It's their forum and their rules. It also happened before this royalty debacle. Members using abusive language were suspended or banned. It also happens, granted less often, on this forum as well.
A private forum has nothing to do with any liberal or illiberal societies because a private company is NOT a democracy.

Even on this forum, it is very much advisable to stay as anonymous as possible if one intends to criticize an agency, without wishing to leave it.