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901
« on: December 07, 2016, 19:15 »
Thanks Mat, sorry I missed that. I must have been thinking someplace else total sales earnings per image.
902
« on: December 07, 2016, 19:02 »
Once the contributor portal was launched we stopped accepting contributor accounts at Fotolia. Those of you that were already Fotolia contributors can still log in and use the Fotolia UI as before.
Cheers!
-Mat
This is good because the statistic part of Adobe Stock does not exist
Click anywhere and you get https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/sales or you mean sell details page. The license on old just shows size, not type. New Adobe shows the date, money and type of license. Not size. Mat can you help us? The one advantage is that you can update keywords. I also like that it shows views on the pics on Adobe. I still prefer to use Fotolia... Just don't like change I think.
On the Adobe site, you can also change your description fields, which you can't do in FT.
I like it better, if only for that reason.
I like the new editor much better also. I have been reordering keywords to put the best five on top. Some I change description to make better match to concept and keyword. New shows total sales and views on every image.
904
« on: December 06, 2016, 18:39 »
Made payout for the first time a few days ago. Not sure if I should cash out or leave it there and let it keep accumulating.
I guess I'll cash out because the USD went up significantly. Another sale: now it's $99.91.
I was stuck at $99.xx for a whole month. Hopefully you'll see payout next month.
Thanks, I finally reached payout.
Here's my latest sale after I cashed out and close account two years ago. .08, that's 8 cents. They don't answer how I could have a sale on a closed account. Reminds me why I dropped them.
905
« on: December 06, 2016, 18:31 »
sharpshot! I am not so sure anymore most of the complainers seem to be very established contributors that like myself have been with them almost from the very start. Contributors with large portfolios of 10000 files and more.
An increase of members and files followed by a soft drop of earnings would make sense but most of these people are complaining about sudden 50% drops and complete stand-stills for hours and long cut off periods.
Many of these people are long time members they know the ropes from experience and can hardly be imagining this.
Myself well I am absolutely sure that somewhere along the line bot SS and Adobe are trying to sort of keep all happy and spreading it out a bit a sort of " fair" for all if you know what I mean and in doing that many members will be " robbed" of potential earnings.
Mght be wrong of course its all a guessing game but its all turning into a very unstable and unsecure agency. 
I did not believe this before. Just sudden drop in downloads over night. BUT... it happend to me now to. Only difference is that I understand that SS should mix things up now and then to give buyers a good experience en not show the same images over and over again. I'm also a buyer. No need for me to go complaining here and blame the industrie. Business is business. And yes. I depend on this income very much so it's not that I don't care. I need this income to pay my bills.
Before 21st of November I had 200-250 downloads on weekdays. But then suddenly I don't get over 155 on weekdays. I have 1600 files. So I have a drop of +100 downloads a day. Weird thing is that I still manage to get $100+ days on SS but I think that is just luck until now. New files start selling like they used to so I need about 200 new files to catch up again. So yes... it's true. A drop over night. Another contributor here I talk to in private has the same experience. He has less files than me and even more downloads and also dropped 100+ since 21st. But like me it motivated him to make more images and just deal with it. And hopefully sales will clime back up again even without new files.
http://www.calendar-12.com/holidays/thanksgiving/2016Thursday, November 24 is Thanksgiving, the week will always be slower then average. But you can blame some share plot, SS changing something, a bot or conspiracy. It's just a big holiday week, with vacations, travel, many businesses shut down for whole week, other close on Wed. Of course there's going to be a drop! 
906
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:37 »
Thompson was only ever a puppet.
True. iS hasn't had a CEO since Bruce left, has it?
Thats because Getty dont want a proper CEO at Istock. They want a yes-man somebody they can boss around and scare!. Just look at the present CEO at Getty. Makes you laugh.
All of iStock is yes men and women holding space in their cubicale to have a job. The whole place is afraid to speak or think. Getty doesn't care like thorn in the side comment is right. Read Lobo on the forums for years, that's how bad the place is and how much they don't care or want to give a straight answer. He's just the mouthpiece and a very nasty person. He is the voice of what Getty and iStock think of us.
907
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:26 »
why are people so impatient, honestly, it will correct itself.
Don't know, but the forums are filled with nervous impatient people. Hi Name,
We wanted to give you a quick update about your November earnings.
You may have observed some fluctuations in the earnings information displayed in your account today. Your dashboard will be updated to show only December earnings in the next day or so, as the payment calculations for your previous earnings are finalized.
Our payments process is underway and you will receive your payment by the 15th, as per our Terms of Service.
Thank you for being a valued Shutterstock Contributor.
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909
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:10 »
Beware of copyright and trademark rejections for names or logos and the design of the locomotives and carriages. One release for each photo, good for all agencies. If the shots are the same subject, same date, one release may work, just like a model shoot.
910
« on: December 04, 2016, 23:48 »
see this thread...
http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-fotolia-where-to-start/msg471751/?topicseen#new
Is Fotolia going bye-bye?
Maybe but it would be poor business to kill Fotolia the website. They will just make everything managed through Adobestock and still sell from the second site. Ever wonder why SS would buy BS and keep it open? More exposure to more buyers, it's nothing but a mirror for most of the files. Fotolia will be a true mirror of Adobestock. Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Chevy, GMC mostly the same cars trucks, with different tags, styles or body work. Same parts, motor and transmission. Fotolia will become an outlet store for Adobestock if they want to bring in the extra money. Otherwise, use the Fotolia site name and direct to adobestock and kill off Fotolia as a brand name. Either way. Yes, this is the future. Never did understand why Bigstock was still a database or agency. Just send everybody to SS and kill it.
911
« on: December 04, 2016, 23:20 »
68 months in this business and a BME for me this November! The 'Wall' is near so I have to finding ways to keep pushing it back...
Don't worry the wall will find you just like the rest of us. FT is looking up. Alamy is changing how they work even at the point of being 10% of what they were 10 years ago. SS holds their own with the best income. IS will continue to drop while claiming profit and exciting news. The rest hold or slide with no hope of any future for realists. Take the profits while you can, don't expect endless growth and income. More then one has come here with their answer and success, only to find that no body can escape the enviable. Don't quit your day job. Don't spend based on projected future income. Nov is good for the overall current state of Micro.
912
« on: December 03, 2016, 23:51 »
.....The agencies screwing over their contributors like this is a relatively recent phenomena. Past 3 years maybe. Before that some tried, but petitions and group actions did mostly work to stop them.
More like 6 years. It's all in this forum, istock sent us a "good news" email telling us they were cutting non-exclusives commission below 20%. Until then, we had some success improving things with a few sites but they ignored our deactivation day protest and all the big sites have given us "good news" since then.
I became active 8ish years ago, but I remember making 20% as nonexclusive until at least 2013, and the thread on the deactivation day subject seems to back that up. So isn't that more like 3+ years?
Not saying it doesn't suck, but explaining why some of us felt happy with stock til the past couple years.
They announced the cuts in 2010, so you must of been getting below 20%in 2011? Here's one thread about it http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/so-what-are-we-all-going-to-do/
Frosting and fabrications won't change the truth Pixel, Since TS around 2010 most independents have been getting 15% or less. IS has diverted sales from credit to subs and TS. They keep making exciting changes which only mean we get less. RC was another way to pay less to more people.
Exclusives do get what they work for and I've always said they deserve that for being loyal and exclusive. They should get better search placement.
Don't get me wrong. I agree they've been screwing us for a long time.. That's why I haven't uploaded there in almost 3 years. I wasn't counting the Thinkstock subs as part of the % drop, but it did drop overall earnings. Some of you guys started before I did and probably remember outrages I didn't go thru or else didn't notice as I was building my port. I do know that I make a couple % over the minimum on the few credit sales i get, at least til the 23rd of this month. Then it's Merry Christmas contributors - BEND OVER and all goes even farther down the tubes. If the money's gone, so am I.
Had such a good month on Adobe/FT I may not even miss IS.
Please accept my apologizes for thinking you were a happy iStock zombie drone. I read the message and understood wrong. Like the old old threads where people averaged 50c a download, not including any EL. Now we can include EL and after subs and ts, I don't think I average 50c a download anymore. Less downloads means less income while we get latest exciting news. Most agencies are finding new ways to pay less peanuts to us chumps. Istock is just the master at pretending we don't see through them. How did they go from overwhelming top agency with happy contributors, to #3 with people who haven't left, still disgruntled? Maybe they just don't care? Otherwise how can they be that stupid?
913
« on: December 03, 2016, 18:58 »
.....The agencies screwing over their contributors like this is a relatively recent phenomena. Past 3 years maybe. Before that some tried, but petitions and group actions did mostly work to stop them.
More like 6 years. It's all in this forum, istock sent us a "good news" email telling us they were cutting non-exclusives commission below 20%. Until then, we had some success improving things with a few sites but they ignored our deactivation day protest and all the big sites have given us "good news" since then.
I became active 8ish years ago, but I remember making 20% as nonexclusive until at least 2013, and the thread on the deactivation day subject seems to back that up. So isn't that more like 3+ years?
Not saying it doesn't suck, but explaining why some of us felt happy with stock til the past couple years.
They announced the cuts in 2010, so you must of been getting below 20%in 2011? Here's one thread about it http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/so-what-are-we-all-going-to-do/
Frosting and fabrications won't change the truth Pixel, Since TS around 2010 most independents have been getting 15% or less. IS has diverted sales from credit to subs and TS. They keep making exciting changes which only mean we get less. RC was another way to pay less to more people. Exclusives do get what they work for and I've always said they deserve that for being loyal and exclusive. They should get better search placement.
914
« on: December 03, 2016, 18:46 »
This is what happens when they allow Canadians and Brits to write these notices, using the real Kings English. It's ambiguous and equivocal. They should have written quondam audio archives on IS.
deprecation
deprecate (dĕp′rĭ-kāt′)
1. To express disapproval of; deplore.
2. To belittle; depreciate.
3. Computers To mark (a component of a software standard) as obsolete to warn against its use in the future so that it may be phased out.
I thought I was banned from uploading for some offence.
915
« on: December 03, 2016, 18:35 »
It would be perfectly reasonable to try and match search results to the buyers history and even their location to reflect their preferences and in fact potentially beneficial. Whether they could do this successfully is another question.
Considering how the site runs like a skateboard on a gravely path. You make a good point. Trying is one thing, success is a distant dream.
916
« on: December 03, 2016, 18:31 »
Santa Claus a fictional character!!!? ....oh no my life is in tatters people on this forum are so cynical......
Yeah same guy goes around telling people there's no Easter Bunny! Santa is real, I've seen him flying through the Winter night.  Subject release or artists property release?
917
« on: December 01, 2016, 13:45 »
Thanks, so I guess, this "geo-location" search is just a conspiracy myth...
Maybe? Maybe not? I know that SS sends cookies from what I search and I get ads to match that. Why can't that also match what it shows in search to previous search. If you look, login as a buyer, you will see last viewed images and searches. They track buyers habits and we aren't buyers, most of us, so we see the same. Somebody else who buys will see different. Search changed? So what, some will do better some not. Maybe next change I will do better and next after that you will. Can't be good for everybpdy all the time. Not worth the worry and nothing we can do to change that. Find something new to worry and complain about, maybe something we can change?
918
« on: November 26, 2016, 20:05 »
I stand correctly, partly...US law differs from UK law in this respect so yes its not simple. Although the author of Ben Hur died in 1905 so maybe not the best example ;-).
 back, some books from the 20s are public domain US, not UK. Yes, UK and most of the civilized world had easier and better copyright laws many years ago. US is catching up. That happens with young countries. I can't name one but some things never published in the US are public now but not in Europe. Without application, the rights have expired. Some expired were not renewed, like old movies you can buy DVD for $1 or download free. My objection is, not anything is easy or simple with copyright. Age of book or death of author is over simplifying.
919
« on: November 26, 2016, 19:58 »
Paid last week. Paypal. Might be Payoneer payments problem. Maybe Monday, this is holiday week.
920
« on: November 26, 2016, 19:49 »
I really want a explanation from the company why several month nothing happens and the contributors were ignored.
To be honest I rather think its a waste of your energy if they did give an explanation you may well not believe it. I may be too fatalist but I think to survive in this environment its best to focus on what you can control.
I believe that to focus on things you can control is always a good action maxim, no matter what environment. (Under the premise you know what you can control and whether it is purposeful.)
And I assume that you wanted to tell me that you do not expect a statement and if only an unsatisfactory. My expectation is the same.
But: I really want a explanation from the company why several month nothing happens and the contributors were ignored.
For what its worth my explanation is contributors were ignored but once buyers started complaining, and possibly defecting to the likes of Adobe something had to be done........
921
« on: November 26, 2016, 19:44 »
It's like the old chestnut: if 'Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care', why did you bother to write a song about it?
You got me thinking "what is that stupid song line about" and .... oh dear ... it all gets so complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Crack_Corn
Stormy Holiday Sales Blues? They called it stormy Friday And Saturday's just as bad, By the time it gets to Sunday, You just get down on your knees and pray. Micro Crack Corn and I don't care,
922
« on: November 25, 2016, 19:17 »
"My problem and I am asking myself why try and produce HCV files involving people with releases" Indeed it seems they are not HCV anymore due to over supply......seems to be you can either react to market demand or continue on the same path of feeding the oversupply and reducing the value of the assets.
Perfect and right.
923
« on: November 25, 2016, 19:15 »
So sick of this topics....
Yet you still felt compelled to read and respond; imagine that!
Are you a moderator that says what we should read and respond to? I bow to you almighty KB.
924
« on: November 25, 2016, 19:14 »
They continue working on it - those 20 were just a first signal to everyone else spamming titles.
SS also asked us to get the message out (like "fix it in the next couple of days or get out") in different languages. So feel free to spread the word through social media in English and/or your native language.
Why would we spread the word. SS should just ban them immediately. Phuckem.
agree. more so that ss has this auto-delete duplicare keywords in the submission stage.
surely their IT can also use this method of eliminating portfolio with duplicating keywords in title and description, no???
they don't do that because ss really don't give a r@t$ass about it!!!
as like yyy has google SEO smart, surely ss can do the same... IF THEY WANT TO
Google blocks spammy titles and sites. The Google SEO is smart enough to put them on the bottom.
Yes, the fact that SS can't figure out how to see 99 duplicate words in a title means, something is wrong. Terribly stupid and wrong. I'm happy that Jon finally woke up after we've been writing and complaining for months. Why none of this went up the chain or got action action means they are either trying to program and haven't got it done, remember the faulty email. Or the usual paralysis of corporate kicked in. People afraid to expose a problem and tell the truth. Perfect yes men, in meetings, don't raise questions. How they can't see this when even the weakest computer people, can do a simple search and see the obvious. I don't have any hint that they would do this intentionally to harm us and favor low pay new people. It's counter to the agencys own interests to force poor products to the front of the site. Unless they want to drive customers away? As this goes, you can't polish a turd. Buyers won't buy poor quality, just because it's first.
925
« on: November 25, 2016, 19:00 »
So sick of this topics....
*100 over the +1 For anyone who doesn't understand. Most people left early on Wednesday, if not sooner. They are off until Monday. Don't expect much more except the worst week of the year for Christmas and New Years, back to back.
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