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Canva / Re: Magic Creator Payment is now completely zero
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For me is some 10-15$ magic... stuff each month, nothing changed.
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Canva / Re: Magic Creator Payment is now completely zero« on: February 12, 2024, 17:52 »
For me is some 10-15$ magic... stuff each month, nothing changed.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Free Collection $5 Payments Are Back« on: June 26, 2023, 16:30 »
84 from me. Thanks, Adobe!
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Artificial Intelligence killing the whole industry« on: January 04, 2023, 12:02 »
https://www.freepik.com/author/dembaxx here's a portfolio made entirely with AI tools. Far down to the oldest "creations", the images look like crap. But the newer ones are increasingly better. Have a look at the captions and keywords, for a good laugh.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Contributor Down?« on: June 30, 2020, 06:16 »
I get
"contributor.stock.adobe.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 503" on any browser and any device. 5
General Stock Discussion / Re: How much time do you spend in this forum?« on: June 08, 2020, 10:33 »
Two hours in 5 years.
These two hours have been spent in the last week. 6
Shutterstock.com / Re: Stop uploading to SS & join the action« on: June 08, 2020, 10:29 »https://petapixel.com/2020/06/08/is-this-the-end-of-microstock-photography/Dayum! I've seen a fine a$$ closeup of a pebble on white! ...on the first page of most popular. 7
Shutterstock.com / Re: Stop uploading to SS & join the action« on: June 07, 2020, 10:29 »
I'm in. 44000 images portfolio. Videos (2000) are already disabled and will stay that way.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: With new earning structure made by Shutterstock will you disable your portfolio?« on: June 03, 2020, 09:47 »Here's an idea: [] Surely not thousands and surely very small portfolios in the vast majority. As I said, not nearly enough. 9
Shutterstock.com / Re: With new earning structure made by Shutterstock will you disable your portfolio?« on: June 03, 2020, 09:23 »
Here's an idea: A petition stating that on 1st of July all the contributors that sign it will disable their portfolios for 3 days.
Now - for this to work it's necessary to reach big contributors with big portfolios, to really make an impact. It's a matter mostly of how to contact them, rather than them doing the 3-days pullout, because I saw on forums contributors with hundreds of thousands of images saying they will stop uploading. If the petition gathers only level 3-4 portfolios with few hundreds to few thousands images it's no good. BUT, imagine that if we muster a total of 30% of the whole SS library to simply disappear for 3 days, it would definitely make an impact, like a strike. Surely, the big contributors will take a pay hit but they're already taking what SS served us, so I'm thinking it's worth it. The meaning of this would be for SS to acknowledge the fact that without us they're not worth not even 10 cents and to listen. I am doing stock full time, I have a portfolio of almost 50.000 images and some 2500 videos and I cannot simply disable my portfolio forever. I need to sustain my family and the SS money MUST come in. However, I stopped uploading and will not resume until all this is cleared up and we know where we stand. Also, I can and I am willing to take a 3 day even 5 day paycut, just to smack SS in the back of the head and let them know that they have to change their appalling royalties scheme. Or there can be strike 2, strike 3 and so on. In my view, this would be more effective than some bad reviews on trustpilot and whatnot, but we have to get together on this somehow. I never made a petition or whatever is needed to put this idea in practice, therefore I encourage more learned people to do it. 10
General Stock Discussion / Re: Big Stock« on: February 20, 2018, 03:39 »
Anybody get this message when trying to login?
"Login failed due to administrative reason. For customer service assistance, please contact 001-646-794-1094." I haven't uploaded there in a long time and I hardly pay any attention to them but since a few days I'm unable to login. Nobody answered to my email regarding this. Autopilot much? 11
Envato / Re: account deleted ? Not yet« on: August 07, 2017, 18:05 »They kept a minuscule amount of images out of my 20k portfolio (while sending me emails of praise about the high quality of my content) and logically, those aren't generating any sales. I waited a month, got zero sales, told them to delete my images, close my account and sod off. What a bunch of imbeciles! Yes James, you are one of them... unfortunately. I don't know who's doing the math at Envato right now but things like "we're hoping to create a sustainable earning environment for photographers", "new ways of earning with higher-end content", "new way to earn with Elements" not backed up by anything, at the same time leaving people with irrelevant-sized portfolios is not gonna fly for anyone. Many of us have lots of years of working with stock and are not willing to start rebuilding portfolios from scratch because Envato thinks that good old days of stock are over. Also many of us still get the vast majority of photography-related income selling stock which is not quite dead. Want to sell different, higher priced content? Macrostock or sites like Stocksy, Offset are already doing it. If you need an example of something that REALLY is new and works, take a look at Canva. They are the newest in my book and already in the top 4 earners. Envato? Almost vanished my portfolio, left me with a handful of images and I got an absolute zero, from a regular 70-100$ / month. That's a no-no for me so yea, I had your people remove my account. Good luck with whatever you're doing there. 12
Envato / Re: account deleted ? Not yet« on: August 02, 2017, 02:53 »
They kept a minuscule amount of images out of my 20k portfolio (while sending me emails of praise about the high quality of my content) and logically, those aren't generating any sales. I waited a month, got zero sales, told them to delete my images, close my account and sod off. What a bunch of imbeciles!
In the praise email they even specified photos they especially liked that were actually NOT selected from my portfolio. Sent them an email "uhm, you know, those pictures you liked so bad were not selected", got a reply with "hang on, my bad..." and that told me everything I needed to know about their new approach to fcking things up. 13
Shutterstock.com / Re: June algorithm change?« on: July 13, 2017, 04:25 »
I wonder if all my latest sales coming from below equator is a coincidence. Given the completely abnormal numbers I'm getting in my stats (my nearly 30k size portfolio produces half the sales of 2 years ago), I'm not convinced.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Email from SS - Regarding Repeated Words and Phrases in Image Titles« on: June 30, 2016, 16:46 »
Blithering idiots. I am with them since 2007 and have 21.000 images in my portfolio. "We found something somewhere, fix it or else" is utter bullsh!t. I sent an email demanding a specific list of the "troublesome" images. I never spammed, not even in keywords, let alone description.
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Off Topic / Re: Designer slams Showtime for asking for free work« on: August 19, 2014, 15:38 »
First comment on the article - and brilliant:
klyon 3 hours ago As a musician, I am often asked to play "for the exposure." My reply? "Exposure" is something you die from when your boat sinks or you get lost in a snowstorm. 17
Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1« on: May 05, 2014, 11:50 »
Took them a few days, but my 12.500 images are off DPC.
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Bigstock.com / Re: account hacked ???« on: February 19, 2014, 15:32 »
I stopped using Filezilla ages ago, when finding that all sensitive data is stored in plain text files on local pc. I always had antivirus, firewall and every imaginable security feature but I still didn't like how Filezilla developers actively refused to introduce some sort of encryption to login data - saying that its user's responsibility. I've been very happy with CuteFTP Pro since then
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Microstock Services / Re: Microstockr - Android app for contributors« on: February 02, 2014, 16:26 »
See my comments in red. I'm looking forward for a future version.
Also, the timeout for getting my SS sales is about 3 minutes (extremely long!). See the attached screenshots. First one is when I tap on Shutterstock and second one is exactly when I get the data. Look at the time. This being the third time in a row when requesting sales. Caching does not do much good, it appears. 20
Microstock Services / Re: Microstockr - Android app for contributors« on: January 28, 2014, 04:44 »
Also, the timeout for getting my SS sales is about 3 minutes (extremely long!). See the attached screenshots. First one is when I tap on Shutterstock and second one is exactly when I get the data. Look at the time. This being the third time in a row when requesting sales. Caching does not do much good, it appears.
You might want to think of getting sales by day, not by month. It may be fast for contributors with few sales, but for 1000-2000 sales per month is dead slow. 21
Microstock Services / Re: Microstockr - Android app for contributors« on: January 28, 2014, 04:41 »
Paul, Photodune is still not working. See in the first screenshot that I had sales (the blue dots over the amount of money). In the second screenshot you see what I get when I tap on Photodune.
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Off Topic / Re: Happy new year to all of you guys!« on: December 31, 2013, 19:30 »
Happy New Year, everyone!
Just like Lisa, I'm glad 2013 its over. Here's to a more prosperous year. 23
Microstock Services / Re: Microstockr - Android app for contributors« on: December 26, 2013, 08:53 »Just bought the app. The concept is nice, the implementation still suffers. I also have bought some of the payed "plugin agencies" or whatever they're called and I just found out that: Shutterstock is slow every single time I open it. I tried on various internet providers, with the same result. Photodune: I am having daily sales there, I just had one right now and the program isn't showing anything. Just the total amount. Alamy: you are getting the "balance carried forward" value, from here http://www.alamy.com/statement.asp and you should have also the "cleared balance" - thats the money that are ready to be payed. 123RF: its just wrong, very simple. It shows about a third of my current sales and when I go to details, the "latest sales" are since 3rd Dec. ClipDealer: its plain wrong, it should show the value from this page https://eu.clipdealer.com/index.php?ACTION=profile&page=provision and instead of that it shows a completely arbitrary value. Also, its in $ instead of euro - and no, is not due to conversion. As an idea, the amount shown in your program is bigger than the real amount. Suggestion: it would be nice to have somewhere written the number of sales per current day for every agency. If I want to see how many files I sold on SS I need to scroll like crazy and count them one by one. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3 so its powerful enough for anything. 25
Microstock Services / Re: Microstockr - Android app for contributors« on: December 24, 2013, 15:20 »
Just bought the app. The concept is nice, the implementation still suffers. I also have bought some of the payed "plugin agencies" or whatever they're called and I just found out that:
- Shutterstock is very slow (maybe because there are many sales or whatever but still...) - Photodune is not working - it shows the total amount, but when I go to details says "no recent sales" which is false. Same problem to canstockphoto. - 123RF figures are completely wrong, as are Alamy's. - Alamy shows the total amount, it should also show the cleared amount otherwise is not very useful. LE: ClipDealer amount is also wrong. |
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