Wow Italy, is an opportunity land for Italian cuisine and all the amazing architecture heritage, I would be happy to live in a place like yours. Cheers

Well there are as always easier and more difficult scenarios for our work, I love to see mor positive and get the best of what I have nearby. Actually where are you from?

I wouldn't be sure since it was some years ago that I submitted there at only got success for the first months.

Thanks

Quote from: MxR on January 29, 2019, 08:34
finally I will not apply more to stocksy this year and probably never. I have nothing new to offer nor a lot of desire to take pictures. They always rejected me and the numbers of people i know in saids that they are suffering like the whole market. For me it is sad to see that I gain more with microstock (shutterstock, fotolia, eyeem ...) than with macrostock (w61, offset, adobe premium) and the main reason is that to sell in macrostock you have to try harder with premium models, style and sites and  and I no longer have time or motivation to spend a lot of money in shottings.

MxR I'm exactly 100% at the same point as you. Somehow the right question that I should have ask here should have been: "With 100 images in Cavanimages and same/similar amount portfolio in Stocksy does sales revenue are pretty much superior in any of both?"

Because if all the effort to Apply, and squeeze my mind finding new amazing ideas to offer to these medium stock agencies does not worth... plus the bigger production costs paying better models and renting indoor locations, stylist... and all so that.... at the end of the story.... are you getting the profit that the extra effort worths? 
I perfectly understand you when you talk about dont having the desite of taking pictures or offering new breathtaking images if your returns would not be according to your invested energy.  Somehow the age of the photographer has something to be here, when you are young or at lears young in this industry and want to eat the world you squeeze your brain to get that challenges, when you are 3 decades in the industry, these challenges sometimes are a heavy load that you can put aside of your preferences line. I really invested my best in my first contributions to Cavan, when it was not so crowded and they were a challenge, after reaching these targets and do not having the expected reward, there is a lack of energy to focus again in this sort of challenges. You can do it, but it has to worth the extra effort to do not focus again in micros as a shelter.....

Quote from: jonbull on January 28, 2019, 18:20

i think yes and no..they are good but they compete with present content in stocksy...i was rejected uploading mostly food photos and was rejected, but i think my content are up to the best i saw in stocksy about food and creativity, for me they want added something who is not in the collection....in addiction i think following some profile and  seller that the level of there contribution is getting much lower in the last years...some big production are slowing down the processiong of creation of content....if they sold like hell why slow down the production? simply they probably are getting less money, stocksy is getting a bigger collection and like micro and alamy the bigger the collection the ess you earn.

Jonbull are you talking about Cavan or Stocksy?  I minsunderstand some phrases of your answer due I'm not sure who are you talking about

For me is good, not time waisted submitting....

I was thinking to give a try, but..... maybe I forget that

10% of SS here

I never got sales there

Each agency has it's own tricks

Canva for me is a consistent agency along the time I've been working with them

I would give a try to Ease Release.... so much papers under my desk

My portafolio is not a little one of 50k and after reaching the 25k images, no matter how hard I work and how frequently I submit, month by month I always have a lower monthly income than the previous month, It doesn't matter if I do my best to produce quality of not, it doesn't matter, never again my income is growing on SS

Amazing good Job there Alex !!!

Yes they do, at the beginning the apply process I would say it was pretty much harder