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« on: September 03, 2014, 19:11 »
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A better way to plot this is by subs and then by OD. A big spike in subs = very little jump in income. Are your subs and OD balanced? Meaning if you plot the number of dl's of each do they have the same or similar uptick? Because what is killing me is the severe drop in OD's.
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Thats what im seeing and have been seeing for months. My income is way down but download numbers are roughly the same. What's changed is an almost complete lack of EL/big SODs and far few ODs. Nearly everything now is subscription.
852
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:45 »
Contributors should band together to end subscription sales. It has killed the industry for suppliers and made agencies millions all the while completely devaluing the perceived value of images for stock usage.
But from a buyers and stock company point of view its great. And there will ALWAYS be new contributors to pick up from the ones leaving. They're here to stay.
853
« on: September 01, 2014, 07:37 »
The poll results here show an alarming pattern for the last month. Up until August SS had mirrored (and clearly well above) all the other graphed agencies in pattern so was clearly showing the standard seasonal variations etc.
Take a look at the last months data however and you see all the other agencies begin their post-summer upward trend whereas SS is the only one continuing to lose value.
854
« on: August 30, 2014, 08:39 »
I've had a roughly $162 SOD sale and lowest is your normal sub sale price.
Although since the search changes a few months ago i get pretty much none of either.
855
« on: August 30, 2014, 06:49 »
Size of charity is really pretty irrelevant.
The RSPB is a large-ish charity (by UK standards), but it only has enough money at any one time to last an average of six weeks if all income dried up.
Whereas a tiny community group I'm in has almost no money in hand, but with almost no expenses, it could last much longer.
With NT that isn't the case. Their accounts are public and online if you're interested enough. They're turning a sizeable profit per year (again, for a charity thats more than unusual).
856
« on: August 29, 2014, 19:12 »
Well fox hunting is pretty much banned everywhere by law (at least the very inhumane methods). Other places do act similar but a supposed charity with a turnover of hundreds of millions, that has billions in the bank and has the really bizarre power to actually pass by-laws really is taking it to extremes. Whenever you query them over what is and isn't their land they get very defensive and vague as well.
It's even more amusing when they dont actually OWN the land in question!
857
« on: August 29, 2014, 18:43 »
As we've noted here often, when organisations make specifications for 'commercial shooting', they really mean closing down areas or granting special access etc for a full model shoot or video shoot with lights, reflectors, assistants etc.
Not in this case. It wasn't long ago they banned *all* photography and tried to sue a photographer for very small scale image photography. They know exactly what they're doing.
I'd go as above, there are plenty of UK places that aren't NT to visit and photograph so i'd encourage people to do so and recommend to anyone you know not to donate or visit any of their properties. We're not talking a small charity here - in 2008 their accounts showed an income of near 200m a year and a worth of over 1bn and its likely increased since then.
858
« on: August 29, 2014, 11:49 »
Holding back works too. Get a lot of photos on a topic (example autumn). Submit some to go live the beginning on August, keep the rest until the following year then do it again.
Far better that way until waiting until you get a chance to shoot autumn leaves then submitting them all at that time.
859
« on: August 29, 2014, 11:32 »
My autumn photos started selling beginning of August.
This week my xmas and snow stuff started going.
It's the usual 2-3 month lead time for timed events.
860
« on: August 29, 2014, 09:38 »
Other than seasonal because of the way SS works (or until very recently when it just stopped working) you never ever wanted your photos approved on a Friday night or Saturday.
Generally new images are given a priority for a certain amount of time before being deranked by popular if they hadn't sold. You could have 100 images go live on a Friday night but due to the search engine by the time people actually started buying on Mondays the images had sunk without trace never to sell. It used to be all about timing stuff to go live on Monday to maximise exposure chance.
861
« on: August 29, 2014, 08:48 »
In general, we will only ship an algorithm change if it results in more downloads, and thus more income for our contributors. That's a little bit ingenious, more downloads or income for SS as a while is not the same as benefiting a contributor on an individual basis.
862
« on: August 29, 2014, 08:45 »
The NT rule is well publicised so can't come as a surprise to people and SS have to comply with removal.
Their draconian approach towards any form of photography is the reason i refuse to visit anything owned or controlled by them and will always recommend tourists and visitors to spend their money elsewhere. They often frequently overstep the so called "charity" tag.
It's quite common for them to ask for free photos off Flickr by visitors they can use and run competitions where all rights for ever are transferred to them on all entries.
My main issue isn't the actual buildings, its the large swathes of formerly public land they now "own", control and ban photography on. Completely natural environments that require very little if any maintenance and have no manmade structures on them at all. This alone makes a lot of UK landscape photography difficult.
They cannot and do not restrict photography OF the land from public paths and rights of way though but they try to avoid mentioning that fact. The problem is the influence they have with local government has and is allowing them to pass by-laws to reclassify formerly public access and rights of way as under their sphere of control.
As someone said above, large chunks of the UK coast is "private" as a result of that, things like the Giant's Causeway and so on.
863
« on: August 23, 2014, 07:25 »
Don't think anyone would complain at that.
Who cares if you wait a week to get the job done properly? It's better than waiting 24hrs, have it done badly then waste another 24hrs in resubmitting and so on.
864
« on: August 23, 2014, 07:25 »
I gave up relying on keyword stats per image.
On an average day 90% of my downloads have no keywords attached and i have a hard time believing someone stumbled on the images all the time browsing categories or random clicking instead of entering a search time so i concluded its unreliable.
Shame as it would be nice to know with accuracy which keywords are and aren't working.
I don't think it impacts on sales, merely the display to the submitter isn't and never has worked.
865
« on: August 15, 2014, 08:05 »
Couldn't find a conclusive answer anywhere so i'll ask here...
Can i use valid Shutterstock model releases on Bigstock as they're part of the same company now?
Ultimately, i didn't get people to sign a universal one at the time but have lots of SS released images.
866
« on: August 08, 2014, 10:19 »
30% dl increase, 42% collection growth = 9% fewer sales per image, therefore you need to grow your portfolio 9% per quarter (about 40% per year) just to stand still, if my arithmetic is any good.
assuming all images sell the same. If you upload images that sell more than 99% of the others then you will see growth even if you don't upload as many as you suggest.
The challenge 'simply' lies in uploading something better than the rest 
True to an extent but you're still at the mercy of random search engine changes.
867
« on: August 07, 2014, 10:02 »
Doesn't Dreamstime accept virtually anything though ?
868
« on: August 05, 2014, 19:11 »
Pond5 wanted the sound removed off my typhoon clips before accepting. SS just accepted. Its newsworthy and for that reason they can't insist on sterile studio type footage.
869
« on: August 05, 2014, 10:35 »
30% better than June but i think thats mainly because June was one of my worst ever on shutterstock (which is my highest earning site).
870
« on: August 05, 2014, 10:26 »
Try submitting as editorial if not already?
I uploaded a few from Typhoon Haiyan last year, all handheld, obviously a bit wobbly etc and they got accepted and sell. They;ve started selling again this year due to the season.
871
« on: August 05, 2014, 10:25 »
Just got 37/37 accepted including a few i thought were borderline so can't really moan at that.
872
« on: August 04, 2014, 07:33 »
August also started with a weekend and it's only the 4th !
873
« on: August 01, 2014, 17:48 »
Don't know if this is new, but I just tried to look at my port sorted by new and get an error. I've sent a link to my port sorted by new to people so they can see my new stuff and now all they will get is. Maybe this helps explain the slump over the last week
That was effecting pretty much everyone all week, sometimes new and popular are the only ones and work, other times new, popular, undiscovered and relevant all appear but produce errors unless you select popular. Yet more more bug in their fragile IT infrastructure.
874
« on: July 31, 2014, 18:49 »
SS has bigger problems than a buyer trying to steal and piece together one image from a zoom function:-  Torrent sites are full of 60-70gb of image and vector collections. The only way someone could have taken 140gb+ from the database is going to be from some type of server breach.
875
« on: July 31, 2014, 08:25 »
I suspect it does need one. As a buyer i'd want to closely examine a photo before paying for an EL or high value SOD and so on. Other agencies seem to have it.
However, its very hard to secure. If someone is determined enough if they can view it on a screen they can steal it (screen shot button etc).
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