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Messages - wollwerth
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« on: August 24, 2022, 09:48 »
I'm only three dollars from a payout. After that, I'm dropping 123.
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« on: June 30, 2022, 13:27 »
Had about 150 accepted today. That was a nice surprise for the day.
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« on: May 11, 2022, 08:45 »
Yep . that makes two of us. don't want to deal with shitterstock artist's abuse on any level If they bring their stupid rules to P5 I will also go again to greener pastures. I am sorry as I really liked P5. A disgrace this news
If Pond5 ends up following the same commission schedule as Shitterstock, I will drop them as fast as I dropped Shitterstock the first time. I'll get to break up with them twice.
Yeah, I'm exclusive with Pond5 right now and making decent money with them. Would be shame if ST ruined another company.
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« on: May 11, 2022, 07:49 »
If Pond5 ends up following the same commission schedule as Shitterstock, I will drop them as fast as I dropped Shitterstock the first time. I'll get to break up with them twice.
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« on: August 30, 2021, 18:20 »
Nice surprise.
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« on: January 11, 2021, 17:01 »
I literally make only a $100 a year with them. Just a good reason to drop my portfolio there.
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« on: December 08, 2020, 20:52 »
Ive been going back and forth with their support from someone overseas with no real power to et anything done. Getting the usual BS. This time I responded back with their infringement department ccd, saying that theyve essentially admitted that theyve broken the terms of service by still having it for sale. They can either take it down or the next correspondence will be from my lawyer. I think Ive got a case. The only question is whether its worth going through with a lawsuit.
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« on: December 07, 2020, 20:45 »
The T&Cs allow for retention up to 2 months before an item is removed.
But also, if the name has gone, its possible the thing cant actually be bought if someone tries to go through with it.
b. Shutterstock shall use reasonable efforts to cause Content removed from Shutterstock Websites to be removed from the websites of any Shutterstock affiliates (including co-branded websites) Its been almost 6 months since I disabled my portfolio, and two since I completely closed my account.
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« on: June 09, 2020, 15:39 »
For me it's up to AS and P5 first to show what they are truly worth and if that doesn't work out then we can use Pixels or Symbio and take matters in our own hands.
We can create our own license amongst many other things on these platforms and there are plenty of people here that have the required skills. We could even make a guide here on how to set up the license (or share them), set up prices and keep it fair, etc....
For vectors and videos though we only have Symbiostock since Pixels does not support those.
Just a few people moving to Pixels or Symbiostock won't make a difference and your earnings will not improve. It's only if we all go together that we can make a change.
I think most of us are "trying" to focus on Adobe and P5 first and see where that goes.
I already have large portfolios on Adobe and Pond5. Just went exclusive for video with Pond5. But looking for additional avenues for stock on still images. If enough people get onto pixels, maybe they can become a significant player. They we can drop all the subscription companies that are screwing us.
Yup could work mate, for sure! This might even be the only way forward but I do suggest to give it some time. I'm not looking to join others anytime soon, at least not until I see how all this plays out.
Good luck amigo!
By the time we wait until we see how it plays out, it's often too late.
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« on: June 09, 2020, 11:53 »
For me it's up to AS and P5 first to show what they are truly worth and if that doesn't work out then we can use Pixels or Symbio and take matters in our own hands.
We can create our own license amongst many other things on these platforms and there are plenty of people here that have the required skills. We could even make a guide here on how to set up the license (or share them), set up prices and keep it fair, etc....
For vectors and videos though we only have Symbiostock since Pixels does not support those.
Just a few people moving to Pixels or Symbiostock won't make a difference and your earnings will not improve. It's only if we all go together that we can make a change.
I think most of us are "trying" to focus on Adobe and P5 first and see where that goes.
I already have large portfolios on Adobe and Pond5. Just went exclusive for video with Pond5. But looking for additional avenues for stock on still images. If enough people get onto pixels, maybe they can become a significant player. They we can drop all the subscription companies that are screwing us.
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« on: June 09, 2020, 11:38 »
...i lost a few brain cells looking at this crooked port
These are worse than my first submission of 10 images from 2005.
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« on: June 09, 2020, 11:26 »
One, many years ago when I had a lot of images there, made me five dollars.
Was that a stock image or a physical print sale? I've had physical print sales on occasion, some of which were pretty lucrative. It's the stock I'm wondering about.
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« on: June 09, 2020, 10:36 »
I had a sale on Fine Art America the other day. When I checked the website, I found out there is an option to sell stock images through them on Pixels.com. You can set your own prices. Anyone had any luck with this site?
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« on: June 09, 2020, 09:06 »
If this portfolio is the direction that Shitterstock is going, I definitely don't want to be associated with them.
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« on: June 04, 2020, 19:54 »
You're definitely not alone. I deactivated 7000 assets June 1st. I had a 4 digit ID number at shitterstock if that tells you how long I had been there.
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« on: June 02, 2020, 19:38 »
I contacted customer support at Pond5, and was told that to be exclusive I must remove my portfolio from Adobe. However, they share exclusive content with Adobe through their GPP program.
I'm strongly considering doing this, but I was curious if we have any Pond5 exclusive people here and what their experience is? Thanks in advance.
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« on: June 02, 2020, 09:58 »
The funny (but not really) thing is all the people on the Shitterstock forum today who don't read their emails going "what .? Why am I getting 10 cent sales?" Hopefully they'll be leaving too.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 11:55 »
From now, on my social media channels, I will be referring to SS as the Pavlovsky agency aka Shutterstock I hope others will join me.
Would that make Jon Oringer "Pavlovsky's dog?"
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« on: June 01, 2020, 09:29 »
When people switch off their ports SS seems also to completely delete assets from their portfolio manager. I switched off my video port and noticed through the day (yesterday) items being deleted from my video portfolio...until zero left in my video portfolio
Hopefully they're saving you the trouble of having to do it yourself.
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« on: June 01, 2020, 09:10 »
Done.
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« on: May 30, 2020, 21:36 »
Sold a video on Pond5 today for $95.00! There are places they sell fro much better returns!
Same here, as opposed to the $4 commission from a video on SS today.
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« on: May 30, 2020, 12:06 »
I just looked through their Trustpilot reviews for the first time. Good Lord, how had I not known this?
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« on: May 30, 2020, 06:54 »
And you can add how Dreamstime reacted and decided to pay extra for corona support starting June 1.
https://www.dreamstime.com/blog/dreamstime-love-54073
It makes very little difference since they're a small company. But it is both encouraging and amusing to see Dreamstime metaphorically give a big middle finger to Shutterstock.
They're emailing and messaging people on instagram as well asking them to contribute.
As much as i like their effort, i stopped submitting there years ago because the time involved (terrible 1 at a time, no batch submission method) wasnt worth it for the tiny amount of revenue it generated.
Its better now. They auto-fill categories, and its usually quite accurate. I just pretty much hit submit on the files.
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« on: May 29, 2020, 13:32 »
And you can add how Dreamstime reacted and decided to pay extra for corona support starting June 1.
https://www.dreamstime.com/blog/dreamstime-love-54073
It makes very little difference since they're a small company. But it is both encouraging and amusing to see Dreamstime metaphorically give a big middle finger to Shutterstock.
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