Ok. Yes. But it was a hard cut there. I mostly do food.

Hello, I have had a blatant slump in sales since the beginning of Corona in early 2020 for newly delivered pictures. Actually, I don't sell any newly delivered pictures anymore. And live only from the old pictures. To name a few numbers: in 2019, sales with the pictures in the 5-digit range. 2020/21/22 in the lower 3-digit range. Is this only my problem? Nice to hear from you all....

What do you think guys, about working for nft. Selling only one copy of an image for a good one time payment?

For me it is not ok. When i want to make the images ready to submit, it don t works....

Hi. Here s stockcreations. After I filed a complaint with shutterstock my picture was removed. Only ... all other pictures and the contributor are still there ...

First ss enhanced download today. FOR 17,50$

more than 200 images from me

Give them a chance. The image preview is very big, maybe too big, but its a good thing for credit image buyers, they see now what they buy! :-)

Quote from: weymouth on September 03, 2015, 13:33
If every agency were to cull their collections, removing copies, identicals,  I guess the total images in micro-stock wouldn't even amount to 20 million originals.

If they delete all the copies of the ideas, then not more than 10...images

Quote from: sharpshot on August 18, 2015, 11:08
Fotolia made it harder and harder for me to increase earnings with their site and then my downloads fell off a cliff.  That was so demotivating that I stopped uploading.  Nothing has changed since Adobe took over, I still see no incentive to upload new images when my earnings are so low.  Doesn't really matter who owns the site when I can't make much money there, I hope they do something to improve the situation, it can't really get any worse than it is now.

Thats the thing, i upload many new images but i was nailed at a fixed income. This year with a decrease of 25%. I cannot make images for that money. I will not upload images, too. I have heard from another contributor, his income was a little bit better,  a year after he don´t upload more images...

Fotolia isn´t consistently. One month your earnings can be good, the other one the earnings are worst.

Shutterstock is consistently.

Shutterstock: 70%

FT: 15%

Rest is the rest.

Quote from: File Sold on January 29, 2015, 14:43
Hope they will kill DPC.

Maybe DPC IS Adobes new plan..

Quote from: Zeus on December 12, 2014, 16:47
I guess my last thought is that they (Adobe) can't be bigger dickheads than the previous owners.

They paid $800,000,000/34,269,545=$23.34 per image to distribute. I am shocked.

Shocked, too. Didn´t they have seen there is the sub model, where you can buy the images from 0,16$   :-)

Fotolia has made a change in their search. So many german contributors has a big decrease income. Good for international contributors, bad for us germans. There are no more visitors at fotolia there is only a big redistribution of income.

I have a big decrease at FT of 75% this month.

Most popular city from the likes is Lima, Peru, lol


sounds like they bought the friends for advertising.


From our money.

read this: https://twitter.com/oleg12

These are the big buyers....

Quote from: Pixart on May 01, 2014, 19:24
For me there is one fact.  TWENTY FIVE CENTS.

I am a supplier.  I am supposed to set the prices.  What other wacked market lets the "stores" decide what they are going to pay their suppliers?  Do you think Walmart says "I'll pay you 25 cents for each pillowcase in the box" and then in 6 months say "I changed our arrangement - I've raised the price on the pillowcases, but I've actually cut your wholesale price to 10 cents".  And furthermore, they have not paid for my content so they should not be able to share it with their partners, take a cut, change licenses and make any decisions.

Rant over.

I agree. They cannot cut the prices without agreement. I think its illegal to say thats Subcriptions.

If there is a true information, it was a mistake:-)

Quote from: DallasP on May 01, 2014, 18:47

Quote from: bolsher on May 01, 2014, 17:39
What is with pic workflow, picniche, stock performer,etc. We are their clients and they participate and live from the health of the stock market too?

I've had e-mail contact with picniche/picworkflow in the past. I'm sure that if he'd have noticed what was going on he'd have done whatever possible in support of us and d-day. It really was such short notice for so many, especially in the states. Luckily, I'm lazy so my portfolio is small and easy to delete.

Bob from picworcflow has a blog, there he can wrote about the situation and we can get i contact to the other contributors

Maybe another big agency can make an interview about the dangerous effects of 1$ agencies and what we can do.

What is with pic workflow, picniche, stock performer,etc. We are their clients and they participate and live from the health of the stock market too?

Quote from: bolsher on May 01, 2014, 17:05

Quote from: outdoorfreak on May 01, 2014, 17:03
Hello Guys,
I think until now d-day is really big success for all of us - but what will happen afterwards?
One idea from me - somebody of the russian initiatores should write a press release about this initiative ... then we should translate it into the most important languages and send it to all media we can, especially online-media and spezialized press. This could give our initiative a lot of more power ...
Thanks to all for participating in d-day!

I think its a great idea. But we must do something more.Maybe we msut talk with the other agencies and ask them to work TOGETHER against this rubbish.

In one post in another forum there was the idea to make a youtube video and viral marketing to get in contact with the other contributors

Fotolia don t want to make the opt out as standard disabled. So we must get in contact to all stockers, that they know about the DPC, but how?

Quote from: outdoorfreak on May 01, 2014, 17:03
Hello Guys,
I think until now d-day is really big success for all of us - but what will happen afterwards?
One idea from me - somebody of the russian initiatores should write a press release about this initiative ... then we should translate it into the most important languages and send it to all media we can, especially online-media and spezialized press. This could give our initiative a lot of more power ...
Thanks to all for participating in d-day!

I think its a great idea. But we must do something more.Maybe we msut talk with the other agencies and ask them to work TOGETHER against this rubbish.

Quote from: grumble on May 01, 2014, 16:08

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on May 01, 2014, 15:29
http://www.photoarchivenews.com/boycott-fotolia-campaign-over-500k-images-to-be-pulled-today-we-have-the-agency-reaction/

"• At any moment photograpgers can opt in or out by adjusting their contributors preferences in their Fotolia member area"
They say it like opt out has always been there..
And who are "photograpgers" by the way.

One BIG POINT MORE that they are not our friends