Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on February 16, 2016, 02:38

Quote from: ShadySue on February 16, 2016, 02:18
Show me the non- specialist  agencies with consistently  high keywording standards.

Pretty much all the micro agencies are filled with bad keywords. I could give several examples but the one I posted is real as opposed to getting into a pissing contest with the usual crowd here. I did that once many years ago with monkey and ape.
It's really simple, just keyword properly. If the image/clip is good and the buyer can use it, then it will most likely sell for what it is or for what it's not in this case.
The artist should be have all of their worked removed from SS as a lesson to us all. I also hope they sue SS and the artist. This is a blatant lie and willfully done. Tough love, but much needed.

So why you are so piss off about this clip.
Author of this clip is obviously on crappy cruise ship trip maybe with family and visit 100 places on this naive weekly voyage. Who knows if he take this clip, maybe his wife, son, daughter whatever, and they are maybe not even from USA.
I see it since my first day at microstock.
I dont defend author but you are surely not one who will kick his ass out of stock (dont be Chad if you are not).
And why any wannabe politicians (or they PR or marketing stuff) are buying clips from B-role stock sites?!?
Because they are all ignorant liars.
And circle is closed

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on February 15, 2016, 21:49
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Without more details, that seems to be a completely disproportionate reaction to a small and easily remedied infraction. Perhaps Mat could look into this and explain?

These types of random account closures should concern us all ... as people's livelihoods are just cut off with no explanation or recourse. It wasn't you this time, but with no process to protect contributors from arbitrary (as possibly just mistaken) actions, it could very well be next time.

Seems that Chad has new job there

Creative Market

and our "beloved wannabe marketplace" Envato@GraphicRiver where the same image as .png file is cheaper than at PhotoDune without transparency (so you can just forget them as option+PITA uploading process+PITA about tax paperwork). Only if you like SadoMazo

At fist when I see Title of this thread I think it says
"istock interface laughing settings"

Finally they have great idea to put slider/laughmeter when they are down...

Offtopic thought offcourse

HaHa

Quote from: iandmph on June 21, 2015, 12:48
Pozdrav svima,

pošto sam iz Zagreba i najčešće fotografiram upravo motive iz Zagreba i nešto rjeđe iz ostatka Hrvatske i susjednih zemalja, zanima me koja je stock agencija najzainteresiranija za fotografije sa Balkana?

Po mom iskustvu od mojih 10setak takvih kak ih nazivaš "balkanskim" fokama najbolje idu skoro kako je desno izlistana lista Pool Results osim iStoke (tamo je bio ili još je neki naš ćelavi jebivjetar revjuver iz Rijeke koji živi u Splitu i tamo mi nisu primili nijednu fotku iz Splita, vald pederaš to čuva ko svoje leno). Vald je Geti konačno rastjerao te priučene maloumnike, ne zato što su takvi neg iz svoje pohlepe, a nisam ponovo pokušao uplodati. Nitko nije "zainteresiran" za fotografije kako ti to misliš. Sve će agencije primiti sve ak su foke tehnički i estetski korektne. Koliko s vremena na vrijeme vidim na Shuterovoj karti izgleda da HR i "balkanske" fotke više kupuju stranci tj njihove turističke agencije neg naši balkanjerosi. Fotke s naše obale najviše se prodaju u Italiji, Sloveniji i Austriji dok iz ZGa i kontinentalne HR podjednako svagdje. Po mom iskustvu Fotolija nije kako SandBox i Ngaga kažu. Valda Fotolija OK za zemlje koje imaju lokaliziranu Fotolijinu stranicu i gde fotografi pišu ključne riječi na svom jeziku. Istaknio bih Alamy, ono jedna "balkanska" prodaja prije 2 god. koja je zaradila ko svi sajtovi zajedno i više. Na Alamiju je dobra fora ak imaš ljude na fotkama (a većinom ih ima na tim landmark fokama, japanerosa i ostalih turista ponudiš ih ko RM i prst u uho).
Poz iz ZG-a

Quote from: noodle on July 17, 2015, 14:14
50% of the sale price

Percent is lets say correct but price expectation how much you will get is misguided/unknown because there is no price showed/defined how much $$ is SR-EL1 and SR-EL3 eg.(1/3 of SR-EL or 1/4 or whatever...)
My fried sold one SR-EL1 license defined by they default min price of 250$ for zero sold image but this price as he find is for SR-EL.
SR-EL1 is for 1 year exclusivity and he got whooping 30$ for that image. So he has much more job to do to erase that image from sites and much more mailings with few sites which dont want or they unwillingly want to erase that image because of their stupid TOS.
According to my logic license for SR-EL3 (3year exclusivity) price may will be btw 70-90$ which is too low for my opinion.

Quote from: tickstock on May 29, 2015, 17:00
From the forum:
"We've identified the issue causing the phantom download issue. It's a display issue that isn't impacting royalties in any way. We have a fix that we are hoping to push live as early as EOD (Friday May 29) but more likely early next week. Again, I will repeat; There aren't any royalty related issues attached to this bug. It's 100% a display issue which we will be resolving shortly."

HaHaHa HoHoHoo Argrgrrr HaHoHaHa OinkOink WoYay

Quote from: Mantis on May 15, 2015, 00:35

Quote from: MatHayward on May 14, 2015, 19:50

Quote from: Semmick Photo on May 14, 2015, 17:46
Mat, is Adobe holding on to the legacy decisions of Fotolia, or will they let people back in that got expelled without clear reason given?

@SemmickPhoto, Nothing has changed at Fotolia regarding policies and procedures. I'm more than happy to discuss individual account issues privately. Feel free to email me: [email protected].

-Mat

That is just sad.

Jezz Chad is still there...

For me UBB codes still works but I find red notice on few bestsellers:
Sorry, editing of title is locked by admin
and
Sorry, editing of description is locked by admin
Whats that??? I dont know whats the bigger concern but actually I dont care any more what shmacks at IS are doing.

Quote from: captain on January 18, 2015, 03:08
From last Dec,sales of Shutterstock started to being sinking and sinking and never come back . more photo uploaded,more visitor on photo portfolio,more nice photo ( i suppose) but less download. It really not good.

Me too so sew StokShuter sale of to drop. Dec who? Me my frind cales Dec.
Shuting a lot, not good. Not gut dowload less no more.
It a realla nota gooda...

Mat Mat Mat
I dont know of what jumping in contributors ranking you are talking about. Maybe you dont know that Fotolia punish authors and accusing them that they sell images elsewhere cheaper than on FT and reset they ranking to white level at 20 or 25% royalty without any logical explanation.
Seams only FT hold rights to sell at cheapest price point and screw authors for royalties!? WaTaFaka???
Give us our rankings back!!!

First as I see at that new "contract" iShmacksPhoto final achived to buy iStock domain from 643674378 placed wannabe brokerage site from Antartica scam site.

Very steady in decline

I just deactivate video bestsellers. It was very unsustainable for me.

Quote from: jjneff on September 24, 2014, 22:22
My video sales are really strong this week and my photo sales are on par or a little higher then last month. Still to early to tell and I have my fingers crossed!

Ya getta be kidding...
Yes sales are up but royalty for full HD now are in a range of Big Web video before new robbery.
Who said that Fotolia, Dream, and Evanto has lowest prices for video?

Grrrrrrrrr 

Quote from: whatwolf on July 24, 2014, 07:51

Quote from: Sulio on July 14, 2014, 19:27
When I look back in time only 123RF and Pond has uptrend growth.

Is it a software or a webpage app？
I want to use it.

Its Stock Performer web app.

Quote from: Goofy on July 16, 2014, 02:19

Quote from: dbvirago on July 16, 2014, 02:07
Although it's been 5 years since my best month there, on track to have my best month at DT in two years.

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone would say 'I am making a killing this month!' 

Da-mn.
I just forgot to put my vertical flip glasses on. Now graph looks much more desirable. Jeahhh, Ill kick ass this month...

I look back in time.
I have earned more in 2006. in my 3rd month when I sign up there when my port had only 62 images... Only in first two months I earned less than whats happening now in 2014. with more than 1700 in port...

TOTAL DISASTER.
Half of the month is passed and earnings are whopping low 8.34% of the average month.
RPD is also record low 44% of average RPD!!!
This is the biggest drop of revenue of all agencies of all the time.
Cant believe whats going on. Seams that only subscription buyers are on the boat now. 

When I look back in time only 123RF and Pond has uptrend growth.

Quote from: Pickerell on July 11, 2014, 18:43
For the last two years I ............

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/istock-downloads-first-half-2014

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/three-categories-of-image-creators

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/istock-more-images-does-not-increase-sales

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/is-rm-the-only-place-to-find-great-pictures

There is a modest fee for reading these stories because a lot of work was involved in gathering the data.

This links request sign up information?!? Is this some kind of scam or other kind of milking money for nothing...
Looks like Click here to win Ferrari, or Enlarge you Pns...

Quote from: MatHayward on July 07, 2014, 23:27

Quote from: Maximilian on July 07, 2014, 12:41
. Can I sit back and relax me now? 

I don't think there is ever a time you can sit back and relax.  As mentioned by others here, you'll likely see an increase in sales for the short term but inevitably your portfolio will get pushed back further and further behind contributors that are consistently uploading new work.  You've got to stay busy to stay relevant.

Good luck,

Mat

Yeah, especially if you are optin at Dollar club

So PP is maybe finally ended, but when they fabulous subscription earnings graph will start? I only see it in ONE day in April and thats it. Is that result of they "big" marketing campaign against SS subs sales?! Or they just stealing money from us without showing us what they sold?

Quote from: NitorPhoto on February 02, 2014, 13:23
My portfolio has over 24k images at FTL. I am still uploading new images every week but my income is decreasing since years now. While it is not the case with other agencies which are still be able to occasionally reach a BME.
I don't know what is the problem with Fotolia - any idea? My earnings are back to the level of mid 2008. That time I had 2-3k images online while now I have nearly 10 times more.

Anyway, there is a psychological level (a certain amount of monthly income) when my income falls below that I'll stop uploading to FTL for ever. I am very close to this. If the tendecy visible on the attached chart continues I will reach it this year.

Does anyone have an idea why is this?

My port is 15 times smaller than yours but I have similar pattern as you.
Seams that I earned much more money with 1/5 of my port size than today, grrrrrrrrrr

Quote from: ppdd on April 05, 2014, 22:52

Quote from: Sulio on April 05, 2014, 20:15
What do you expect from site which sells Bux and other scam Ponzi Scheme scripts...

This is total nonsense. Ktools.net sells Ktools products.

Yes
some of they infamous "Ponzi products" are deserted/abandoned from they site.
Maybe they finally find way to make legal money...