Pfff...maybe ok month for me but still crappy + 700 USD on both SS and AS, only ones worth mentioning, maybe 250 on IS, but the rest are not even peanut shells. This is by all means poverty line. I am not speaking US, Dubai, New York, but somewhere country side .................and grande economies, but lets say average Europe with small salaries, at 2000 euro you keep your head floating just at the limit, at 3000 euro maybe you can make a decent living but not at middle class. Stock is not for sissies definitely.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 05, 2023, 18:54

Quote from: bpawesome on January 05, 2023, 18:09
An up to date list:

https://upstock.guru/information/stock-sites-list-for-contributors.html

Very nice list. Just one quick comment, Alamy is now 20% until people reach $250 in the past years sales total. Not commission, but net sales. You might want to change that to 17% to 40%? Because Distributor sales are even worse.

Basicaly Alamy is saying 95% of contributors will take 20% from now on, such crappy people, is a low erner majority wont rick that 250 usd, and further on when they drop to 20% will be even garder, so basicaly almost everybody will take home 20% that is worst than iStock.

Quote from: stoker2014 on March 01, 2024, 14:26

I saw that video some time ago, must be content from a content farm, he is not sharing his user ID, weird numbers, always the same advice mostly pointing to take my course, most probably he is just the face for the content farm

Quote from: stocker2011 on November 27, 2024, 02:17

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Quote from: stocker2011 on November 26, 2024, 22:55
I have a payout pending since last year but can't find any contributor support where I can contact them directly.

In general, I think it's the kind of stock agency where you upload what you like for any price (I've seen lots of crappy AI vids), and there appears to be no review process and goes directly for sale.

Hmm, not really big seller for me but sending to me every $1 if I made sell with them. Definitely no payment problems.

I tested about 1000 files for few months, not even a single sale, I do presume they do monkey business big time. Not even on the other system affiliate or something, came on

It was my fault, I put an incorrect paypal address and it's been trying to send every month but get's returned. But even though I've corrected it, I think their payment system has given up.

But it's crazy how hard they try NOT to allow direct communication with their contributors.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 03, 2023, 15:44
No one has tried or uses this one?  https://www.cmsaccount.com/ CMSaccount

i use it, the russian guy is ok, helps when needed.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on March 03, 2024, 15:29

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Quote from: SuperPhoto on March 03, 2024, 15:17
Awesome earnings!

😻wow!!!!!

Thanks Secret is taking lots of pictures of bananas

Obviously photoshoped, From the last intervew with Yuri Arcurs I see not even him do that by any means...and he got a RPD almost 3usd per download....crap.

Quote from: blvdone on February 26, 2024, 12:57
My ranking as of now is 1,220th with 9,808 photos in my Adobe Stock portfolio.  Last week was at about the same ranking too.  My lifetime ranking is around 1,600th.  So, I made a progress after adding 3,000 AI generated photos since last September or so.  I think many with higher ranking have a lot less photos/images on their portfolio than I do.

Not sure I understand how it work I have maybe 10K as well photos

that s an useless piece of software.

Same here , the program is crashing constantly. Random errors. On windows 10.Is extremely annoying....and this was suppose oo make work easy.
Yeah I guess is not worth it, I must go back to my FTP.

I do this Microstock thing for 3 years now.
One observation, is getting harder and harder, the quality standards increase so much, well this is a good thing I guess, the rejections are higher, now seems DT wants to decrese the percentage for the contributors, FT did some crap some time ago, SS start taking on US sales 30% taxes........where all this will end up for the contributor ?
I wont start now complaining and praise the contributor, but I never saw anything good from all this changes, I just know I have more pictures, better quality, and the sales did not increse accordingly.
I think everybody should look from a  productivity point of view, at the end of the day it all thats matter and compare with 2008 that is way down.
Flip that $1 images is a tough market, and will get harder as the libraries increase databases, the agencies at leaset the big 6 will make money, the buyers are happy for the bargains they get, you will work your bumb off forever unless something changes.
I realised in todays market you can not make it alone, you need to get more people to work for you to do actually something.

This is way to long,
Ta,ta

Da va sta forever
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I really can not get it???
Why is slower to upload with Cute FTP,Filezilla etc?
You just chunk a folder open 5-20 sessions in the same time and let them go.
Why all the trouble with telnet?
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Congrats uncle :-)
What website?

when in the name of god you build a portfolio of 1700 pics:-)
I took all my pics about 200 down from Bigstock was not worth it.
I had a fight with one of the admins over a photo accepted on IS,DT,FT and making good money.
He was telling me the hotel room was copyrighted,I just get upset and close the account.
Not so wise after I uploded 200 pics but I am not sorry.
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WEll I guess I am the only one here voting for Dreamstime.
So far so good they are the best for me :-)
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