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951
« on: November 04, 2016, 10:32 »
All good suggestions. I wonder why? No code at all? Did you try audio code? Just an off the wall idea.
952
« on: November 04, 2016, 10:30 »
how you guys are uploading to istockphoto???
No ftp, Deep Meta or other software. Did you read the training manual? http://www.istockphoto.com/sell-stock-photos.phpIf you want to work many hours for 2 cents this is the place for you. I wouldn't join now, until you see what happens with the new payment commissions. People here are trying to warn you and you don't listen.
953
« on: November 04, 2016, 10:22 »
And also, check this tool, type contributors name, and you will see high rank of these contributors. This is the answer whether it is profitable to be a spammer....
http://m-rank.net/?search=allxnet#top1/
You say that popular rank means sales. I windered why my new files no sales are ranked 1 - 12 first week, and old files that haven't sold in a month are 2 or 6 on mine now. You mean you have discovered that popular means sales? You're the first to figure this out. Popular doesn't mean sales. It means popular and nobody knows what that means. The rank is only using popular which we know spam makes popular. We don't know if it means sales. Or do you? How does SS determine popular? I'd like to know that secret.
954
« on: November 04, 2016, 10:14 »
I believe it's fine to advertise the image for sale, then buy extended licenses as needed and print and deliver the product. This could be totally legit. Right?
That's what I was thinking. Regular license to display the image for sale on the site, extended license whenever anyone actually buys the image in question and you make the print.
I believe you are right, if the person pays for the correct license, after they make a sale. Until then its just an example and for sale. Ask ChrisGardinerPhotography if he got paid the right amount for his matching sales by this etsy seller. Or anybody else. It's not legal to print and sell Disney Starwars art and prints without a license. Just like FAA they allow infringing copies and rights prints agaunst the law.
955
« on: November 03, 2016, 23:16 »
Close Thursday SSTK $54.27 -1.59 (-2.85%) Claims that spammers and new people are making the company & stockholders big profits haven't leaked out to stockholders or investors. Watch tomorrow, income up isn't same as profit up. SSTK is down anticipating report, over valued stock. Somebody started the same thread again, go to that. http://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/quaretley-results/
956
« on: November 03, 2016, 22:55 »
well I've seen his sales, and mine haven't earned him a whole lot of money,
but I was concerned for some of the other photographers, with images that I recognize as popular stock images,
to put in perspective; he's made about 1000 sales maybe more (just on easy alone),
I found my sales to be less than 5 of the total, so just a flash in the pan.. but there are some images that must have sold hundreds of times for him. Hopefully someone who has produced an image like that is able to launch their own offensive a little better than I can.
in any case, thanks Substancep,
Have you connected Etsy support?
We want you to know that we very much appreciate the time you took to bring this matter to our attention. We protect our intellectual property rights vigorously and we take reports of suspected infringements very seriously. However, as you can appreciate, our investigations are confidential. We neither reveal our sources nor do we generally correspond further with them about the investigation. Please feel free to use our e-mail address ( [email protected]) or our Antipiracy voice mail hotline, 818-560-3300, if you want to provide more information about the suspected infringement or to report a suspected infringement in the future. Sincerely, Antipiracy Group, Corporate Legal The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, California 91521-0527
957
« on: November 03, 2016, 19:30 »
Thanks for your reply. My connection seems normal and malwarebytes did not find any malware. Still the login is not working.
Turn off popup blocker, spam blocker, java blocker, script blocker and see what happens.
958
« on: November 02, 2016, 16:52 »
Actually, you have to fill out a DMCA takedown notice at this link, as customer support informed me: https://adobe.allegiancetech.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=2D2U6A
...for anyone who needs to do this in the future. The port in question seems to be made up almost entirely of images downloaded from SS, tweaked slightly and uploaded to FT. I recognize very close copies of thousands of best-sellers from SS. But you can only report infringement of your own images.
Can you share this port with us please?
I think it's better if she doesn't. Shelma1 has been an active poster and she is not that anonymous compared to other members.
Fine somebody else get the link from Shelia and post it. what is the difference? We need to know so we can go look if ours are also stolen. Somebody top secret anonymous of course.
959
« on: November 02, 2016, 16:42 »
This could be Getty's attempt to kill iStock, and maybe all microstock, if it becomes unsustainable for most of us. I'm sure there are a few people here who'd be happy with that, but I'd be sad. I'd have to work in advertising again. 
Let's make a distinction here: I'd be sad if they succeeded in killing microstock, but not if they succeeded in killing iStock.
Can't agree more then one time or I'd give you a 10.
960
« on: November 02, 2016, 16:38 »
111 and growing.
Will hit 200 soon and I'm in. I hope it gets to 2000.
961
« on: November 02, 2016, 16:20 »
Terrible month for me. Approx 30% down vs Oct 15 across all the big agencies.
Some folks here are reporting a good October. Is anyone who has been doing this for several years seeing positive results? Of course new microstockers are seeing growth... but I'd like to know how veterans are feeling about the performance of SS, FT, DT, 123 and other top sites. Seems like nothing but falling earnings for everyone with a large port.
I bet that either short portfolios from recent contributors or with huge ports from older contributor with hundreds of new images every month can report good sales.
The first, because they are in the 1st or 2nd commission tier and so, get better placed in search results. The second because they have the ability to flood the library, probably with spam, and be always visible.
I'm an older contributor with a huge port. I don't have the ability to flood the library, because I can produce around 100-200 pictures a month, just like I did when my portfolio wasn't huge. I don't spam neither and I don't even know what you meant by that. My portfolio is not huge because I'm a spammer, it is huge because I've been working hard for ten years. It is easiest to blame someone else for failure.
I have also been there since 2004 also with a huge portfolio and a specialized port of well over 20K files. There is a vast difference between today and yesterday. Yesterdays search algorithm was based on showing new files new content to attract buyers. Todays algorithm is there to be manipulated by the agency to earn more money, less royalty payoyts. Thats business of course but it made it a lot easier to maintain a really good income during the first sort of five or six years. Growing competition matters of course but then again since new uploads hardly gain any exposure its of less impact.
SS still produce even if only a fraction of what it was like but they do. Adobe on the other hand will benefit a selected clientel of photographers/buyers but the overall majority could not survive on any adobe income and the whole of the rest is just pathetic.
I know one member of SS whos portfolio generates $.7000 a month and exactly the same portfolio no more then just over $.1000 at adobe/Ft.
Micro-stock has become a somewhat weird and strange wheeling and dealing business rather then producing great photography.
It never was about great photography, never! Everybody here knows or should know that what sells on FT isn't the same as what sells on SS. I still make the most on SS, more on IS then FT. Somebody with different files might make more on FT and less on SS. We can't generalize based on personal collections and content, and then tell others how they should think or what to expect. My SS sales are rather flat for years, even though I add new content. Some months are better some drop. I could draw a straight line at the average, and see peaks and vallys. Overall a straight line. Adding new files is what keeps the line flat instead of downward slope. I don't expect to pay for a car or the mortgage with chump change pay for downloads. I do pay for cameras, equipment and lenses. I use those for my real photography.
962
« on: November 02, 2016, 16:08 »
Spam and it sold really well??
People assume it sells, just because it's up front. I don't and we have no way of looking at sales. But I still find it offensive that others can spam their way to the first page and make buyers look at undeserving files. I don't like cheaters or crooks.
964
« on: November 02, 2016, 15:27 »
First what is the best time to start posting art for holidays
Sometime before about 2009.
I'd say you are right. But also well in advance and like Mat and others, as soon as they are redy, doesn't matter. You can't outguess buyers needs. My question is why would somebody care much about Christmas images? Christmas Stock Photos, Illustrations, and Vector Art (4,101,970) 4 million to pick from and some new similar is going to get how much attention or how many sales? Better be unique.
965
« on: November 01, 2016, 22:54 »
They also say this "We understand how important it is for you to have real time data on the performance of your content. Moving to the same back end technology platform as Getty Images means that well be able to provide better stats on customer interactions with your content than was possible previously. Well have the foundation of this new stats approach in January and will enhance it over time. " So totally confused...who writes their stuff?....."customer interactions with your content"...that means views and sales right? Actually all they need to say is "From January we will be improving our stats of views and sales" (If indeed its whats intended).
and refunds.
Exciting news from IS as usual. Most of us call it plain old BS.
966
« on: November 01, 2016, 22:36 »
While I side with morphart with this abuse, I did a simple search by design on google images and found the identical eagle on pages and pages of sites, some for sale, some I don't know what the license allows.
http://tinyurl.com/hd2plqj
How do you know where they got it? Do they credit you as the artist and the source?
You are not talking about the right illustration, I did not disclose the illustration as my point of leverage right now is I haven't gone public and to the media to avoid them being embarrassed... and so that they can offer to buy the copyrights in good faith. Probably they hired a graphic designer who mislead them with this also, we can leave the governments a doubt.
Got it, waiting for the lawyer to do his work.
967
« on: October 30, 2016, 19:58 »
Some subscriptions we'll make more, but the big buyers and the 750 yearly we'll make much less. Most of the volume comes from these high number subs not the small packs where we can make more. But the bottom of this is locked at 15% for us, 85% for them. http://www.ilbusca.com/temp/Subs_NE.jpg
968
« on: October 30, 2016, 14:06 »
I think everyone has already deactivated or stopped uploading to dp.
Got payout, closed and left. They still have photos on file, some kind of claim that they don't have to remove for months. Crooks.
969
« on: October 30, 2016, 14:03 »
At Adobe Stock and Fotolia we are selling content from contributors around the world to a global community of buyers. The royalties earned are based on the purchase price of an image in the local currency. We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. At this time we dont have plans to adjust the GBP conversion.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
Is there anyway to get paid in US dollars rather than your home currency?
Perfect way here, always finding something wrong. Used to be for years how people paid in pounds made more and US contributors wanted to be paid in pounds. http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live!/msg468017/#msg468017
970
« on: October 30, 2016, 13:57 »
Is it possible Getty iStock was having the same problem popping up so they disallowed changing keywords after uploading? SStock better do the same.
You would give up your rights and stop all of us from updating keywords, because of a minority that abuses the function. No way! I like to add new words to old files sometimes, especially when I see words being searched that I don't have in my files. I want to make more by being smart, not be locked in jail because somebody else breaks a rule.
I say block spammer accounts from search and tell them to fix titles and keywords, they will be unblocked. Everything will be fixed fast or they will be gone by their own inaction.
Don't punish me for what some fool does wrong.
I agree. But like I keep saying, their options are pretty severely limited by the size of their archive and the amount of new stuff pouring in. Who is going to find those offenders? Will SS pay people to sit and try endless keyword searches, tagging spammers as they go? Or to search 100 million images one at time? If a spammer gets told to clean up his act, are they going to re-inspect every one of his 10,000 images? And what if he comes back in a week and restores all the spam?
SS could conceivably add checks to their search code and maybe filter out spam results. But that's probably not nearly as simple as we think. And it would slow down the search, maybe by a lot - remember, the search starts out with 100 million to look at. Code to check the keywords for repetitions of every included word takes time to run.
Yes SS could do any of these things, or solve the problem in another way I'd never think of. My point is just that it would inevitably cost significant money and, apparently, they don't care enough to do it.
Yes, make the software find the title spammers and warn them. Oh wait that was the email that everybody was up in arms and insulted about warning us not to spam. I say punish the offenders not all the rest of us.
971
« on: October 30, 2016, 13:22 »
Is it possible Getty iStock was having the same problem popping up so they disallowed changing keywords after uploading? SStock better do the same.
You would give up your rights and stop all of us from updating keywords, because of a minority that abuses the function. No way! I like to add new words to old files sometimes, especially when I see words being searched that I don't have in my files. I want to make more by being smart, not be locked in jail because somebody else breaks a rule. I say block spammer accounts from search and tell them to fix titles and keywords, they will be unblocked. Everything will be fixed fast or they will be gone by their own inaction. Don't punish me for what some fool does wrong.
972
« on: October 30, 2016, 13:16 »
Nope the conclusion is supply growth is outstripping demand growth SS like everyone one else is becoming less attractive for contributors but still making $$$ for itself. No evil criminal mastermind creating hyper complicated strategies to target certain contributors for random reasons required.
You are right. 100 million files, 100,000 new a week, most are the same subjects and concepts that are already on every site and being done better many times then old files from 2008. Plus more new every week. What fun is that when we can have deep dark secret conspiracys and claim that stockholders make this happen, and somehow things aren't fair or we are being cheated. New users do get a boost. New files get a boost. This is not secret. After some time, the new files drop down. Watch your own new uploads and they are most popular, after a week or two they go to their rightful place. This is for old and new users. After some time, new users loose the search advantage. It's not because they make less, it's because SS wants to encourage new people by giving them better placement in searchs. Then it goes away and we're all even. You can't force somebody to buy a file they don't want, just because it's first. How absurd is that for people to claim buyesrs are that foolish and led so easy. SS doesn't have to cheat or manipulate sales to make more money. They do that every quarter. We are the ones making less every year. Supply is outstripping demand. Old timers were competing against 100 times less competition, 100 times less choice and competition. People made a living from shooting with a P&S in the kitchen window light. Times have changed. It's not going to ever be the way it was, anywhere. Competition is up, income will go down. Especially when IS will soon be paying .03 for sub download.
973
« on: October 28, 2016, 12:09 »
While I side with morphart with this abuse, I did a simple search by design on google images and found the identical eagle on pages and pages of sites, some for sale, some I don't know what the license allows. http://tinyurl.com/hd2plqjHow do you know where they got it? Do they credit you as the artist and the source?
974
« on: October 28, 2016, 11:33 »
everybody should quit ss honestly 
Except us. 
975
« on: October 27, 2016, 16:27 »
FT up maybe BME and SS is close to BME also. I have been uploading new and old to AdobeStock which could explain gains. All the rest suck eggs especially IS.
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