Completely broken for me. (Chrome/Mac)

HTTP ERROR 503

I've had this problem for weeks too

Made 10 sales so far today for a grand total of $1.35.

What a ******* joke.

As soon as I get payout I'm done.

Just sold a timelapse and got $0.60.

Capital letters generally don't make any difference, so nothing to worry about.

I'm appalled by all this.

I can't really afford to disable my portfolio, but I will do if it may help enact some kind of change.

It's currently hard to be hopeful, but this feels like the last stand.

Just received the email about this. What a joke.

I got a sale for $0.04 via EyeEm/Getty earlier, good times.

Just made a $1 sale. Alamy fast becoming a waste of time for me.

Pretty poor so far, about 40% down on October.

Yep broken for me too, just get a blank page.

Possibly not a huge demand for pigs in dresses either.

Quote from: nobody on November 15, 2018, 15:03
ditto! Mac & Cheese for a lot of my dinners this month 

You think that's bad?

I'm planning to heat the house with my LED video lights this winter.

After a good October, the first half of November has been a disaster for me.

Ah well, Christmas cancelled then.

Quote from: Brasilnut on November 05, 2018, 23:44

QuoteExcellent article Alex, it is very difficult to earn good money in this business, but maybe not as bad as your article suggests?

In my limited experience (I started selling stock early last year), I earned just over $500 in the last month with a portfolio of 1,500 images and 20 timelapse videos.

I'd say if you are earning $500 a month from 6,000 images then you're doing something wrong.

Thanks! I painted a sort of bittersweet picture of how I see the industry going forward. Some hard-working and in-pulse contributors earning $3/4 RPI/year, such as yourself, and on the opposite end, plenty of those with a ridiculous amount of similars earning $0.3/0.4 RPI/year at best. The average and majority should be about $1 RPI/year (perhaps on the optimistic side), hence the 6,000 image-port. Speaking hypothetically can be tricky and it's become a bit academic, unfortunately. I've tried to use my port as an example but it's not the most "average", since few people travel internationally as much as I do!

RPI is only part of the equation and as mentioned above by Pauws99, need to look at the cost to produce such images. In my case, probably like yourself, not considerable since we're shooting locally or incidentally. I know some who do very well shooting from a home-studio. In my case, I use a lot of friends/relatives as models and even myself lately ha, that was fun.

The 4K stuff should get you to those nice monthly amounts. I've sold only 8 videos in my life and still have a long ways to go! 4K would be nice and currently eyeing the GoPro7 to capture some urban hyperlapses and perhaps a drone soon, let's see!

Oh I'm a video novice too, as I said I've only got around twenty 4k timelapses I captured with my Canon 6D. Some encouraging sales though for such a small amount.

Next step is to get a full-frame mirrorless camera that can do normal 4k video, looking at getting either a Sony A7 III or Canon EOS R.

Switching systems will be expensive but has to be done really, think mirrorless will take over now.

I also just got an iPhone XR which does reasonable 4k video, handy for places that I can't use a big camera for some 4k editorial video.

Excellent article Alex, it is very difficult to earn good money in this business, but maybe not as bad as your article suggests?

In my limited experience (I started selling stock early last year), I earned just over $500 in the last month with a portfolio of 1,500 images and 20 timelapse videos.

I'd say if you are earning $500 a month from 6,000 images then you're doing something wrong.

My portfolio is fairly diverse, commercial and editorial, lots of travel, city, food, lifestyle etc. However I don't use models, I also don't really do conceptual stock stuff either.

I'm hoping I can get to around $1,500 monthly income in the next couple of years, although I realise that will be very hard to achieve. Doing lots more 4k video will likely be the only way to possibly achieve this.

Yep down for me too...

Deleted my account there a few months ago. Twenty20 are trash.

I started with video fairly recently and use Premiere Pro.

Quite impressed with it, pretty easy/quick to use so no steep learning curve.

Great stuff Mat, Adobe and Alamy give me hope for the industry.

Now if you could just accept regular editorial...

On course for my worst month of the year at SS.

Download numbers down, 99% of sales are subs.

Complete garbage.

Deleted my portfolio at 123RF last week. Simply a waste of time.

I just got a load of $1 sales via EyeEm.

What a joke.

I'd love to get a drone but pretty pointless if I can't sell the footage without a load of hassle.

The rules seem ridiculous in the UK, I'd only want to fly it a couple of hundred feet max.

Nope $2 is it sadly. Pretty poor really as that's only 20% of the sales price.