Quote from: ShadySue on August 22, 2020, 21:40

Quote from: Adroit on August 22, 2020, 21:07
I don't have a Connect tab in Account Management.  Is that something special you have to do for that to show up?

In Royalties > Export, you should have three options for exporting: PDF, TXT and ConnectTXT.

Cool, thanks, now I remember, been a long time since I had done that.....

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 22, 2020, 20:29
I only have 100 files left at iStock, so my total for the Connect section was only 14sales and 2 cents! I assume that's the section you're talking about because the royalty free section, for me, doesn't have those teeny-tiny numbers

But the way they report the royalties shows how individual numbers and averages can appear off, largely because of the tiny numbers that often round to 0 but are meaningful when you add up all the connect sales & then round the total.

So my connect sales gross was $0.15827 and the net royalty $0.02379 - i.e. 2 cents. But three of the items listed individually rounded to 1 cent so I initially though they'd "cheated" me of 1 cent

Looking at the text file I could see where the 2 cents came from - and those 14 sales average to 0 cents too

Download the connect text file and stick it into Google sheets and you'll be able to see the details of this wretched situation

I don't have a Connect tab in Account Management.  Is that something special you have to do for that to show up?

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 06, 2020, 23:30
I hadn't heard of Design Pickle before this afternoon, but it's another of the Canva clones that offers a subscription design service with stock images/illustrations & video on the side. It's more high end than Canva as you get access to a designer, not just templates

https://designpickle.com/about/

They're not cheap - $395 to $995 a month (billed monthly), but with their former partner Getty Images, apparently images were 17¢ with the photographer getting 3¢ of that

A recent blog post says Design Pickle has their own vector & template option, FreshStock - unlimited downloads for $49/month - and has now partnered with Adobe Stock for their "premium" image add on

https://designpickle.com/product-update-freshstock-adobe-and-more/

The stock add-on is $25/month and includes a Danish company, JumpStory, and Adobe Stock

I have no idea what contributors will receive when Adobe Stock licenses via Design Pickle, but I hope the current minimum royalty of 38¢ (top tier) stays as is...

I did a search here for Design Pickle and didn't find anything, but if anyone else knows more about them, it might be good to track them here.

I've been concerned about the proliferation of the subscription design platforms, largely because it seems designed for the platform to pocket most of the money, leaving those who create the content without which there'd be nothing worth subscribing to with very little.

Thanks for the info on Design Pickle, interesting stuff for keeping tabs on this outfit.