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Shutterstock.com / Re: Rejection of a real travel photo because of AI generated content
« on: October 10, 2023, 15:18 »
The error is uploading to shutterstock in the first place. 10 cts sales are ridiculous.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Rejection of a real travel photo because of AI generated content« on: October 10, 2023, 15:18 »
The error is uploading to shutterstock in the first place. 10 cts sales are ridiculous.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock News Terms - September 5, 2023« on: August 04, 2023, 14:38 »
Shutterstock is so bad since this 2020 that I reach a payout maybe twice a year so yeah I upload systematically to adobe and have avoided shutter since they reduced my pay cut.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock is an embarassment« on: June 28, 2023, 14:03 »
I am in the same boat and think I should stop uploading anything to shutterstock. All I get are 10 cts sales and that takes me no where.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock "improving" the Contributor dashboard again« on: January 03, 2023, 16:43 »
Hi guys, I was able to see the available earnings before but now they're gone and I have no way of knowing how much I've got available for payouts... On another note I have no way of knowing what has sold recently as I used to so I can't tell what is selling and what is not...
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Lawsuit against Shutterstock.« on: September 27, 2022, 10:15 »https://lawow.org/wareka-v-shutterstock-inc-et-al/. Good I hope they win big and shutter learns a lesson. 6
Adobe Stock / Re: Low Adobe sales past few weeks« on: September 01, 2022, 21:23 »I've had the best month ever on AS. Despite having a very small portfolio (around 300 images/clips), I managed to sell around $150 in this week alone, so I'm a happy bunny. Wow wish I knew what I was doing wrong, Inhave 1300 images and only make payout every other month. But at least Inget that so Im not a looser haha Ill gladly take any advice! 7
Pond5 / Re: Pond 5 Sales & Discounting« on: July 18, 2022, 11:51 »Today I sold 3 clips on P5, and 2 of them were discounted by over 50%. I checked and none of those clips are available as subscriptions when you filter as Subscriptions in the search under Collections. So I am assuming it cannot be that. You mean you guys are making sales? 8
Dreamstime.com / Re: Unsold images now automatically moved to free section?« on: July 18, 2022, 11:49 »Email now reads: Why i left them and wirestock. Theyre just waiting for you to slip and take your images 9
General Stock Discussion / Re: Why you should never ever work with Wirestock« on: July 15, 2022, 11:01 »Hello Whatever helps you sleep at night but thats how they do it. Thats what they did to me. 10
General Stock Discussion / Re: Why you should never ever work with Wirestock« on: July 08, 2022, 21:07 »Hello I was there for a little while amd left once I found my images were being given away in a free site just because they didnt sell well. That really sucked. 11
Adobe Stock / Re: Numbers significantly improving on Adobe Stock recently« on: June 23, 2022, 11:11 »Hi guys. I could have agreed untill this month, since they started with this give us your worknsonwe can give it away for free my sells went to aero. 12
General Stock Discussion / Re: Is it too late for me to start?« on: May 29, 2022, 19:06 »I've been lurking in this forum for a while now, and it was very depressing lol.You mention your 'art'. Imhave a question here. Been uploading since 2018, and wonder how do you know what youre doing? What sites do you recomend to get metric data on tendencies? Thanks! 13
Adobe Stock / Re: strange rejections« on: May 11, 2022, 11:42 »I keep getting photo rejections for 'technical reasons' on adobe when there's nothing wrong with them, they are at least properly focused, lit & exposed. Is there anything I'm missing there? I even shoot in RAW now and get slightly sharper and better quality images. Some photos rejected had a small DOF area in focus intentionaly but will the rewiewer realise that? Me too whole batch on technicalities. Perfectly exposed, always use exposimeter and in focus. Dont get it. 14
iStockPhoto.com / Re: March Statements are in« on: April 25, 2022, 16:57 »In March i had about 12 000 connected sales, mostly from Australia (revenue ~$53) . This was the first time while I am in IS. Did I understand correctly that you sold 12,000 images and made 53 bucks? 15
Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime makes an automatic move of images to free section« on: April 19, 2022, 10:18 »Got this: I talked about this before in other forums and people got mad for some reason thought I was lying. Anyway this was the reason I left them. They had 3 of my images in a so called free site but the site did charge a one time fee. 16
Shutterstock.com / Re: Sale have stopped?« on: February 23, 2022, 13:22 »They have dropped for me like 60% compared to how it was a few months ago.You should not compare your February sales with sales from a few months ago. Sale numbers are very different in different months, depending on what your port has to offer. February tends to be a rather slow month for most contributors comapred to other months.If you have a rejection rate of 90% on Shutterstock and 50% at Adobe you should really re-think your strategy, because there is something seriously wrong with your content. It's not Shutterstock, it's your photos. 17
Shutterstock.com / Re: Sale have stopped?« on: February 23, 2022, 11:06 »
They have dropped for me like 60% compared to how it was a few months ago. I mean it wasnt like I swimming in success or anything but definitly feel that images that sold all the time suddenly stopped selling. While others have gained traction.
Anyways they reject half of everything so I guess theres hardly any new content for clients. I uploaded about 1000 images and around 300 videos and guess how many got accepted? around 300 photos and les than 10 videos. Compare to Adobe stock they accepted around more than 500 photos and about 100 videos. 18
General Stock Discussion / Re: Yuri Arcurs leaves exclusivity with istock« on: February 18, 2022, 10:32 »Looks like Yuri isn't exclusive anymore or has made some weird deal with istock. 19
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Q4/2021 full year financials« on: February 16, 2022, 11:19 »
Our biggest enemy is free stock images and videos. Those sites are becoming more and more popular. Those sites are owned by companies like dreamstime, wirestock etc. Wether you are aware of it, agreed to it or not some companies like ones mentioned give your work for free in exchange for a small rate. Smaller than what shutterstock charges but without the overhead of reviewing photos, categorizing or keywording since thy come straight out of our ports.
If nothing was given away we would have a business. 20
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Sales are so slow this days« on: January 18, 2022, 18:00 »Adobe has become a ghost ship. Tripled portfolio size on last year and the sales have dropped off a cliff for several weeks. I've had 2 sales in the last month despite being on page 1 of quite a few images. Ive seen my portfolio shuffling about with images rising to the top and sitting there but nothing gets bought. Then they drift down again. I know what that looks like to me. Adobe is slow to adapt and learn. Its like a giant corporation that gets it until its late in the game. They're problem is the same problem they have with adobe CC, its called regionalization. Every image and customer is regional. For instance If youre in Central America, some countries there cant buy any adobe stock images, you just cant subscribe to them or the CC cloud for adobe software. So theres a lot of customers that can't buy stuff from all over the world. All they do is search for references and either shoot the images or get them from somewhere else. 21
Shutterstock.com / Re: I reached level 2 today! How is your progress?« on: January 06, 2022, 17:06 »It took 6 days to reach level 2 and earn $33. It's 33 cents per download thanks to today's $18 single. How is your progress? * I must be doing something wrong hahaha 22
Dreamstime.com / Re: deactivate dreamstime account« on: December 08, 2021, 17:12 »Hi I contacted this lady [email protected], and she helped me close the account. I closed it because of the same reason I closed wirestock, my images ended up in freeware sites. Attached is a screen shot of an email I got after I asked what was going on when I found my stuff out there in the wild, where they explain clearly, "They give you a chance to opt out". Otherwise your stuff is out there for them and others to profit for nothing. Good luck but I stick with what is clear to me and am not waiting on emails for opting out or whatever man. 23
Dreamstime.com / Re: deactivate dreamstime account« on: December 07, 2021, 16:57 »Hi I contacted this lady [email protected], and she helped me close the account. I closed it because of the same reason I closed wirestock, my images ended up in freeware sites. Yeah its a shame, we keep wondering whats going on only to find our content being made available for free just because we "Didnt opt out" of some hidden check box or email we didnt notice. But yeah its going down the drain... 24
Dreamstime.com / Re: deactivate dreamstime account« on: December 07, 2021, 11:39 »
Hi I contacted this lady [email protected], and she helped me close the account. I closed it because of the same reason I closed wirestock, my images ended up in freeware sites. Turns out if you dont opt out when they send you some email about images that dont sell, they then give them for free but for a fee in a site that is a spin off of they'res. I thought it was shady. I much prefer straight forward practices like adobe, they pay you 5 bucks and after a year its back to business as usual. They're not waiting and hoping you miss an email or an opt out check box. best. 25
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Sales are so slow this days« on: November 22, 2021, 12:19 »Adobe stock has given me zero sales for about a month now. Shutter is doing better than it was before, but Adobe has taken a huge plunge ever since this free stuff and regional sales started. Yeah agree its something hehe good thing is I got around 500 plus pics and footage I've manage to do that have to key word and upload but am not done editing some videos but am almost there...
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