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Messages - yuriy
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« on: May 23, 2024, 07:28 »
Not going to nominate any of my selected images.
Some of them are already good sellers on Adobe and others even more so on other agencies.
Also, I value my work enough not to give any "free photos".
I respect other photographers enough not to endorse free photos.
fair enough but if you do microstock then you only value your work at $.10 and potentially $0.00 if it never sells. i think of the free collection as renting my image for $5/ year so theoretically if they get picked multiple years it could earn a lot more than 90% of my images in that same amount of time.
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« on: May 23, 2024, 07:20 »
ok in the interest of transparency i followed up yesterdays ridiculous 9 sales for less than $1 with my biggest ever image sale on SS. this is more than 4x my previous largest so i guess miracles are possible (or they heard me complain and threw me a bone).
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« on: May 22, 2024, 20:37 »
i had 9 image sales today. i didn't make $1. pathetic.
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« on: May 22, 2024, 11:46 »
just to be clear... 10% of your whole portfolio or 10% of the assets you nominated were ultimately selected?
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« on: May 22, 2024, 10:11 »
timing seems about the same as last year. what portion of people's assets nominated get accepted?
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« on: May 12, 2024, 21:59 »
seems like it's all quiet on the free image front
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« on: April 22, 2024, 15:31 »
but I have to be realistic when I see that top 1000 rank on adobe makes what I made a year ago as 2000 rank, and you can't argue with that
how do you know what top 1000 makes? i can be ranked #1 when the rankings reset on monday with maybe 40 sales and earnings of $25. if i'm number 1 on sunday night that could be in the $1000s w/ a lot more downloads. people have been posting more/less random download and rankings screenshots from throughout the week, not comprehensive weekly earnings. not sure how much data you can get from that.
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« on: April 22, 2024, 12:12 »
a year ago the min price was .25 on adobe. the min on ss is and has been for a while .10. most sales that i'm seeing are at that .10 amount. min at istock is .01 and it's not uncommon to get sales below .10. adobe is the only agency that raised the floor in recent memory. i haven't seen sales below .33 and even if there is the odd one at .29 or .32 or whatever the RPD on adobe is considerably higher (for me at least) than any other agency. make of that what you will.
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« on: April 21, 2024, 21:36 »
just want to chime in and say i appreciate all the responses, nice to know many of you did well even if only for a short while. really wish i got into it when the getting was good but i feel every market has its golden era so maybe i'll catch something else.
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« on: April 19, 2024, 17:44 »
right, good call, it was just regular stock back then. i didn't realize ss did the levels thing a while ago, did they just lower the thresholds in 2020?
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« on: April 19, 2024, 16:23 »
any old timers who have been doing this for a while willing to share their early experiences with some of us newer contributors? curious about what it was like before digital and in the early days when digital cameras weren't great but the market was also unsaturated.
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« on: April 19, 2024, 16:00 »
these "russians," are they in the room with us right now?
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« on: March 29, 2024, 17:09 »
according to the profile page i made my first 2 video sales on istock this month. i hope they're not both returns! fingers crossed.
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« on: March 22, 2024, 14:51 »
i don't see anything to complain about, look at this useful and informative chart
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« on: March 20, 2024, 13:45 »
why is istock selling my images for negative dollars? are they stupid?
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« on: March 20, 2024, 13:44 »
what's especially fun is all my "refunds" are dated to Nov.
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« on: March 20, 2024, 13:30 »
wow, was that worth the wait or what? mine are mostly refunds like reported above. just a few cents above losing money for the month.
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« on: March 11, 2024, 12:48 »
I just had a bunch of files accepted with a lot of spring/easter content..andhad sales immediately!
I was so scared it would be approved after spring.
The longer inspections take, the more difficult it is to time it.
my queue is empty except for 9 images that have been stuck for months (reported in a separate thread). it seems review times are finally back to reasonable 1-3 day levels (at least for photo/video, no idea about ai stuff).
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« on: March 11, 2024, 12:43 »
Slow start this week. I'm just not good at this. I should quit.
10,000 photos now. 0 video. I deleted 7,000 videos one by one for hours last May when RPD kept going down to ridiculous cheap price.
agreed, you're not very good at this. i've never seen anyone recommend deleting content to increase sales so i'm not surprised it's not working for you.
Yeah, definitely I'm not an expert like you are. I really suck despite doing stock videos since 2011. I would love to learn from you!!!
you can sign up for my course, "i earned $10k a week doing stock for an hr in my spare time." i'll PM you the link and a 10% off promo code, i'm sure it'll help.
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« on: March 11, 2024, 12:10 »
Slow start this week. I'm just not good at this. I should quit.
10,000 photos now. 0 video. I deleted 7,000 videos one by one for hours last May when RPD kept going down to ridiculous cheap price.
agreed, you're not very good at this. i've never seen anyone recommend deleting content to increase sales so i'm not surprised it's not working for you.
I think he makes up for it with exclusive Pond5 sales. How's your Pond5 sales blvdone? You must be earning at least 1,000 to 2,000 each month with your ports?
I sincerely hope that it is much, much more for him.
His port is huge and he sets high quality prices.
It should be a full time production income at least.
I might be inspired to go Pond5 exclusive if blvdone could show his results given how he feels his performance is poor on Adobe, it would be an inspiration to get a glimpse on his Pond5 success strategy.
all i've heard about p5 recently is sales have nosedived since the takeover. i currently have $0 lifetime sales and have stopped uploading months ago. i'd be surprised if it was different for exclusives though i'm sure a much larger port will still earn a few crumbs.
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« on: March 11, 2024, 11:26 »
Slow start this week. I'm just not good at this. I should quit.
10,000 photos now. 0 video. I deleted 7,000 videos one by one for hours last May when RPD kept going down to ridiculous cheap price.
agreed, you're not very good at this. i've never seen anyone recommend deleting content to increase sales so i'm not surprised it's not working for you.
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« on: March 06, 2024, 12:15 »
Is it normal to have never received anything from the "contributor fund?" I didn't even opt out of the data crap they're doing now and have a bunch of images in there. Most of my portfolio is on the younger side but I have some images in my port that are about 2 years old.
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« on: March 04, 2024, 20:43 »
and just to confirm for the folks with the ability to provide answers. these were not images that you uploaded 3 months ago but only submitted yesterday right? they've been hanging on the vine for some time waiting to be picked?
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« on: March 04, 2024, 14:48 »
correct @Her Ugliness, these were submitted months ago but got lost under the couch cushions. i currently have 6 images in this state plus 1 that says "2 months ago."
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« on: March 04, 2024, 12:33 »
is it one decade ago?
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