Quote from: Noedelhap on November 14, 2017, 10:42
Last Chance. As if I'm missing out on buying tickets for some $1M Jackpot.

Be careful, it's your last chance to win the $0.1 Getty jackpot !

Last Chance! (LOL) Help us improve your Getty Images/iStock experience

I sent them my own survey ! And it feels good 
Getty , i forget you so forget me.

They asked us :  "How can we improve our Getty Images/iStock Contributor tools and services?"

Getty version of April Fool's Day

Quote from: Artist on September 20, 2017, 11:30

Quote from: Video-StockOrg on September 20, 2017, 10:59
They probably didn't yet decide how much money to steal from contributors...

ha . they are having a meeting and doing the calculations 

Yes , and they use an abacus.

Quote from: rjung on August 10, 2017, 19:43
Thanks, glad to see the tool is useful to some! No worries, I don't feel hammered in the ground just yet

I understand some people are wary about free stuff. I built it because it's fun, hopefully useful and a good way to promote another (free) service I built - dropstock.io - which maybe one day might make me a bit of money on the side. So much about ulterior motives.

If the tool is useful for you that's great. If it's not, I appreciate constructive feedback. If you feel you don't get any value out of the tool without knowing exactly which agencies data is used, that's too bad...

Thank for your tool rjung. I used it for long, and found it very useful and easy to use.

As ex software developer I can appreciate the good job.

Quote from: sarah2 on September 13, 2017, 07:26
I am failing to get ANY of this series accepted: they involve a photo of me isolated and turned into a silhouette.

At first I attached just an MR - was told it needed a reference image.
Then I sent up both - and am told the Reference image was sent 'in the wrong field'. (I sent it as a second MR as it clearly is not a Property Release. There are just the 2 options.)

Any ideas please?

Yes. It make me crazy the first time(s)... You have to upload your reference file as a property release... Yes I know... SS no longer sell but help you to waste your time.

Quote from: oscarcwilliams on September 12, 2017, 21:10
Can you believe Depositphoto sales are better than Shutterstock for me this month of Sept?  Here we are almost in the middle of Sept and I only have $6.00 dollars in sales on Shutterstock compared to $30.00 dollars in Depositphotos.  Even Mostphotos are doing better for me.  What happen to Shutterstock sales?  Can someone explain this drastic turnaround?  Thanks.

Same things for me, but in August... More sales at Deposit than Shutterstock...  In September both are dead, but the (few) sales at shutter are recent files which is unusual for me.

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Quote from: square circle on April 16, 2017, 23:11
I'm thinking about shifting to Macphun's Luminar https://macphun.com/luminar. Is there anybody using this photo editor? What I'd like to find out is how it works with LR. Are there any drawbacks?
Can you suggest any other alternatives for Mac?

Take a look at Affinity Photo. I switched from Photoshop Elements about a year ago and am very happy with the program. It was built for the Mac and has many great features.

I'm not connected with Affinity in any way -- just a satisfied customer.

Thanks for the link. I wanted to replace my old version of PS  (CS3) but new adobe product are too expensive. I will try this software.

Quote from: Lana on August 21, 2017, 15:21
Did anything happen to Fotolia this past week? I mean in addition to "It's August"?
They were good the whole summer for me, doing better than SS at certain periods and then suddenly silence

I think the silence is everywhere this month. July was not so bad but August... Every summer is the same song but this one the song is bad.

Quote from: southpict on August 18, 2017, 14:54

Quote from: Microstockr on August 18, 2017, 09:02
Hey Derek,
you can use our app to track iStock/Getty sales. It automatically downloads the reports and shows you every sale since the transition to ESP(december 2016).

We're still in Beta so it's free to use. If you're curious you can download it here: http://microstockr.com/microstockr-pro

Unfortunately, as it's been mentioned before you have to wait for the 20th of the current month to see the sales for the previous one. Also, sales made before December 2016 are now gone from their site.

Good job !  I used the IOS version until now and start to test your MacOS X version .

First remark :  I know it is not easy but you do not include "in the news" sales on DT in the calculation of revenu per stock.

Quote from: Dumc on August 19, 2017, 09:08
July earnings on istock were higher compared to Fotolia, which was unthinkable a year ago. It was also my second best month.

Me too but it's because FT is down (dead?) .
My best result in July was DT. IS is low but like other months.

Quote from: Microstockr on August 18, 2017, 09:02
Hey Derek,
you can use our app to track iStock/Getty sales. It automatically downloads the reports and shows you every sale since the transition to ESP(december 2016).

We're still in Beta so it's free to use. If you're curious you can download it here: http://microstockr.com/microstockr-pro

Unfortunately, as it's been mentioned before you have to wait for the 20th of the current month to see the sales for the previous one. Also, sales made before December 2016 are now gone from their site.

Good job !  I used the IOS version until now and start to test your MacOS X version .

Quote from: sarah2 on August 17, 2017, 08:48
Am I the only one who has no idea what AnySite is?

AnySite.com :  a site where you upload ton of images and where you get no sale. 

No, new images are lost somewhere in the search engine. But... I stayed for a long time without adding new images and since I started to upload again,  my rate of sales of the old images have increased.

Quote from: Bad Company on August 15, 2017, 16:52
This discussion might help you---

http://discussion.alamy.com/topic/4509-film-rebatenot-cropped-query/

Thanks Bad Company

Nothing new, the same questions than usual but english is not my primary language and I need help to understand the rejection reasons :
- Is someone can explain "Film rebate/not cropped" for an image ? (image yet uploaded on SS, FT,DT, IS, etc...)
- An other rejection reason is "No metadata" but my file have metadata and is uploaded everywhere with success  so difficult to understand the reason or correct something...

Thanks for your help !

Quote from: derek on August 14, 2017, 06:35
Im a bit out of touch here. At Istock where do I see the daily stats, takings? anybody?

You are lucky if you get daily sales at iStock , but try to use deepmeta 3 . You can see sales of last months, day by day and where they came from. Hope this helps

Quote from: Photerloo on August 13, 2017, 00:31
I put a number of photos on Deposit Photos a couple of years ago and have been making about $20-$30 a month since.  I haven't uploaded anything there in a couple of years. 

However, last month I had one day where I made $61 all from on demand sales.  Great, but I figured it was a one off thing, I just checked my numbers for July and in July I had one day with $125 in on demand sales.   Apart from these two days, every day in June and July has been a buck or two as normal.  Anyone know what is happening to get me these big days, and if there is anything I can do to get more of them?

Congratulations.  My sales at Deposit are up too. This month I sold more photos at Deposit than SS... The interesting thing is I sold recent images and not the old ones like at SS, FT (dead), Getty/iStock (underground) ...

Quote from: Pixart on August 02, 2017, 17:35
I often find that when you reach that point of complete frustration with DT you will get a flurry of credit sales.  Just enough to keep them interesting.

Funny how a dozen credit sales at DT trump 100 sub sales here and most of the other sites.

+1. DT is not so bad, you just have random sales . In July, I got more $ with DT than with all my "major" stock. In august it seems dead... but less then Fotolia/Adobe near to zero.

Quote from: Bad Company on August 11, 2017, 14:28

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Quote from: Pauws99 on August 11, 2017, 07:57
Plus they hardly accept anything (well for me) and are insulting in the way they write rejections.

I left them for this.
There way to communicate is absolutely unacceptable!

If they sold anything I could accept almost anything ;-).

Yes of course... sell 100$ a day and you can tell anything you want

if you do well on that site than you make more than Yuri with millions $ on shutter/iStock 

With 10 images every 2 months, it will take 1 billon years...

I added 2 files ( ) along time ago and "recently" (I mean "June" ) tried to upload 10 new files. They are still pending...  I asked a question about the review time and they answered in 2 days and were very polite ! but my files are still waiting the new year ... So Crestock is not an option for Contributors.

Quote from: YadaYadaYada on August 01, 2017, 16:04
The upload age doesn't matter as much as what is the image! New and old sell if buyers want them. I have new that sell the first week and old that sell over and over for years. I also have flops that have never sold in years and some that are new that will probably never sell. It's not the age that matters, it's the what is it.

Not necessary. The same image on different sites with the same keywords have a different behaviour.

Quote from: Chichikov on July 27, 2017, 13:27

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Quote from: Chichikov on July 27, 2017, 08:42
The rest: there is a rest?

You can use Deepmeta to see how many sales your did the last months and then compare with the value in ESP Profile. Not good for me in July anyway... 

iStock?

Karen, iStock sales for July* are not available now, as I know

*see thread title

Download numbers are available, but not money earned.

where?

Account management > Profile.

It is literally 'downloads year to date', but I've been recording them, so I know how many I've made this month.
After the bump earlier in the month, I understand it's now as accurate as any iS/Getty recording is likely to be.

Thank you ShadySue, I did not notice that.
So you have to record the number at the end of the month and then count the difference.
Was it so difficult for iStock to give the number of downloads from the beginning of each month? ? ? ? ? 
But as now one sale amount can space from $0.02 to $100+ I am not sure that it is very useful.

Quote from: southpict on July 24, 2017, 18:17

Quote from: 1cisav on July 24, 2017, 16:53
Please can somebody help me.
I am new in iStock, and I submissed images throw ESP. It is accepted/published and when I open my iStock portfolio there whritte that there are is ZERO for my search result.

What is wrong?

There is a delay between the accepted submission and the validation by the search engine. Be patient...

And be patient for the sales too... 

Quote from: 1cisav on July 24, 2017, 16:53
Please can somebody help me.
I am new in iStock, and I submissed images throw ESP. It is accepted/published and when I open my iStock portfolio there whritte that there are is ZERO for my search result.

What is wrong?

There is a delay between the accepted submission and the validation by the search engine. Be patient...