At the moment my stock earnings are mostly paid in $ but living in Europe I'm paying costs on my paypal conversion in €.
What do you think of getting our fees paid in crypto currencies like bitcoin or ethereum ? Stock agencies are by nature internet competent so adapting to crypto can not be that hard.

Dirk

Warning: Only for nerds -
As a traditional IT professional and amateur stock photographer I came along this 'https://www.birdlance.com/' project.
Having no knowledge about cryptocurrencies but being curious about it I opened an account last week. It was fun to dive into the world of blockchain however the project is still in a embryonic stage and I'm impatiently waiting to be able to upload and process my first picture to test. Probably we will see this technology in what format whatsoever in the stock business sooner or later.

7horses

As Fotolia contributors we should get a discount on Adobe CC 

Since Adobe stepped into fotolia things seems to improve a lot. Hope the sales are going the same way. Thanks for the good work.

Quote from: skyfish on June 16, 2015, 06:05
And my question: i tried now to convert credits and send them to my PayPal address. I entered the sum which was convertible and then your system tells that i don't have credits enough for convertion - "Vous n'avez pas assez de crédits disponibles pour procéder à leur conversion."
Your instruction tells "Dès lors que vous atteignez 50 Crédits gagnés, vous pouvez les convertir en argent via PayPal ou Skrill (anciennement Moneybookers)" and my available credits were more than 50. Tax form ok.
New "bug"? Before i had no problems.

I've had the same problem but then I changed my requested credits to 50 and it worked. The remainging credits stayed on my account. Hope this helps.

Dirk

Uploading to Alamy gives an "FTP - login" error
Any idea what to do ?

thanks,

It's working

I would be very interested to know how the sales are in different regions/countries and what categories are best performing there.
I have the impression Alamy in Europe is only working for UK. Do I waste my time sending in Belgian, French, Dutch or German topic pictures ?

When you upload the same picture on the same moment on SS and DT chances are that it already sold a dozen time on SS before it gets approved on DT

Quote from: PhotoBomb on October 11, 2014, 14:53
You have 399 images on DT since Nov 2010 and only 112 sales. That averages out to about 2.5 DL's per month over that period. Why would you expect more than one a month on any site lower than DT in the ratings poll?
123rf boasts 32 million images on their home page - you just don't have enough images with commercial value.

Also your most popular image on SS has a typo in the description field.

Thanks for the remark. Before September my average downloads/month on 123RF where around 7/mnth
I also want to say that the low sales on DT generated more income than the higher number of DLs on 123RF.

Since two months 123RF is dead for me. Today 11 Oct, monthly download statistic is still showing "you have no downloads yet", In September my total was 1 download. Anybody else facing this problem ?

Glad I've deleted my port when the getty made it free.

I suppose your post here is a good start. 

same problem here

Probably you're right.
For the moment I just see it as a customer service. Visitors that are already buying at an agency maybe find it in the "list".
I don't sell direct anyway (but that's another story) and I can build the list as I like and drop agencies when needed.

Quote from: Ariene on June 07, 2014, 13:36
I'm not sure if it's good idea to welcome client on your own Sys site and send him to Alamy and GL then... This way we can put all micros list on the right side of image... SS, FT, DT, SF, 123rf, CanStockPhoto, etc, etc... What for?

My first picture accepted on GL  . Here a link from my symbio site to it. http://7horses.eu/wp/blog/image/tubes-in-swimming-pool/?r=7horses.eu/wp showing a link back to the GL picture.
Yesterday I also applied to Stockfresh. Seems they are Europe based so maybe my port will better suite  their needs ?

Quote from: ShadySue on June 05, 2014, 12:17

Quote from: 7Horses on June 05, 2014, 08:23
Yesterday I applied to Graphic Leftovers. I never heard of them before but I was surprised by the "Fair Trade Contributor Site" logo they have.  Never saw this before either but it seems worthwhile to give some support.

Lots of info here:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/graphic-leftovers
Personally, I find the actual name offputting. Who wants to buy leftovers?
Or is there some other cultural/artistic illusion I'm missing?

Thanks for the link

Yesterday I applied to Graphic Leftovers. I never heard of them before but I was surprised by the "Fair Trade Contributor Site" logo they have.  Never saw this before either but it seems worthwhile to give some support.

Hardly any sales there and my last sales netted me 0.12 credits
Time to stop uploading ?

If I can help Dreamstime with a few of my pictures to test out a new source of revenues I have no problem with that. At least they informed me about it and it only involves a small quantity of my pictures.
Remember Getty stole all your pictures to give them away for free without hope of ever receiving a dime and they even didn't inform you about it.

I use symbiostock for my site and I love it. Although I'm not selling directly it's a pleasant way to display my work and keep track where it is for sale. I've included the network feature and links to http://symbiostock.info so my search displays the works on other symbiosites to make some promotion. You can check it out at http://7horses.eu/wp/

The reason I don't sell direct on my site is due to purely legal issues attached to my personal situation.

The most usual way is take the plunge an start swimming. That's how I did it and I'm still struggling not to drown. 

Alamy is a smaller agency but at least they treat their contributors as pros. Also they expect we do the QC like pros ourself and they do only some sampling for each submitted batch.
They sell in a different market mostly at other price levels and a fair  50% (usually) goes to the contributor.
Wish there were more agencies like this where I could sell my local (Belgium, French, Dutch) pictures.

Another approach could be that the artist build his own site and all the e-commerce stuff is handled by plugins which links to a unique coop symbiostock cie.
eg :
- plugin for coop central regristration
- plugin for coop licenses
- plugin for coop checkout
- ...
 

Does anyone has an idea how many pictures are left available at the DPC ? Now the opt out option is available probably everybody is using it ?