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Adobe Stock / Re: Review time
« on: July 29, 2023, 03:27 »
Its not only review time that has taken a hit in recent times. There are mainly three items which are bad in shape.

1. Review Time (my old is Submitted 21 days ago, 86 are in review queue)
2. Pending Payment (Requested on 21st July, still in pending state)
3. Sale (Earlier every other day sale used to be. Now Nothing after 11thJuly)

Looks like Adobe Stock is in Pause mode for strange reasons. Not sure Why Adobe is facing the issues which other agencies are not having at all. SS is reviewing fast even the illustrations. May be it is workflow issue or just bad luck on the sides of contributors. I still miss old Fotolia which used to be the most contributor friendly company.
Take care Buddies. That's how life works !

Finally my payment was released on 28/29 July.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Review time
« on: July 28, 2023, 06:35 »
Its not only review time that has taken a hit in recent times. There are mainly three items which are bad in shape.

1. Review Time (my old is Submitted 21 days ago, 86 are in review queue)
2. Pending Payment (Requested on 21st July, still in pending state)
3. Sale (Earlier every other day sale used to be. Now Nothing after 11thJuly)

Looks like Adobe Stock is in Pause mode for strange reasons. Not sure Why Adobe is facing the issues which other agencies are not having at all. SS is reviewing fast even the illustrations. May be it is workflow issue or just bad luck on the sides of contributors. I still miss old Fotolia which used to be the most contributor friendly company.
Take care Buddies. That's how life works !

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istock Keywords CSV file import for videos
« on: November 18, 2021, 11:47 »
Right now I'm using the old interface to apply the CSV file - you can switch back to the 'classic view' in the ESP settings. I know it's a temporary solution but it works.

Thanks thats a good suggestion. I will definitely use this. Have a very nice day !!

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: DeepMeta terrible lagging issue
« on: November 17, 2021, 15:00 »
I suffer with its basic objective itself. What good software is if we have to all meta data manually. I have CSV file for large batch. But neither deepmeta or esp site seem to accept any format.

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iStockPhoto.com / Istock Keywords CSV file import for videos
« on: November 17, 2021, 14:58 »
This is frustrating as Nothing seems to work for uploading the CSV file. I tried the format from sample for CSV metadata file. Tried to apply meta data from CSV file. I get option to upload but nothing happens after that. I tried the other buggy software called deepmeta. The documentation says you can upload CSV file along with your main files. This is false too. Deepmeta does not accept CSV file for videos. Am I missing something here. Any help or direction is helpful.

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This is very good offer. This brings the smile on the face and also mind brings the memories of very friendly Fotolia. Happy to see that legacy continues. Fotolia was friendly, the adobe stock is the friendlier agency.

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Mostphotos.com / Re: Mostphotos updated terms?
« on: March 10, 2021, 13:28 »
mostphotos site is having an error 403 Forbidden. The site seems down since yesterday. Not sure what happened to it.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 29, 2020, 10:39 »
Since 24 July 2020, the sale seems to be picking up. I got almost every day. Seems the old world is getting back to work again.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 18, 2020, 11:50 »
Finally, dry spell is broken. Got a sale today.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 18, 2020, 01:11 »
Sale seems to be frozen for now at AS. No sale since 25 June 2020 so far. July is absolutely dry so far. Not sure, if it is general trend now or just I am experiencing it.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Latest sales - down quite a bit
« on: May 20, 2020, 10:26 »
It is a significant dip indeed but not so much so that would inspire one to exit the agency. April data is everywhere same. On other platform Youtube, During April, I got 35% more views and 35% lesser pay than March. Yes, Payout is not a problem there. Now, for this month of May, if you take any indicators from numbers, the CPM value has increased and Per 1000 views pay is getting better. This all indicates that world is returning to work, advertisers are coming back, film and creative industry is getting back to production. May data looks better than April. On Microstock sites too, the sentiments are same. May looks better than April.

PM me your youtube channel

Sent you PM with link to channel.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Latest sales - down quite a bit
« on: May 20, 2020, 03:56 »
It is a significant dip indeed but not so much so that would inspire one to exit the agency. April data is everywhere same. On other platform Youtube, During April, I got 35% more views and 35% lesser pay than March. Yes, Payout is not a problem there. Now, for this month of May, if you take any indicators from numbers, the CPM value has increased and Per 1000 views pay is getting better. This all indicates that world is returning to work, advertisers are coming back, film and creative industry is getting back to production. May data looks better than April. On Microstock sites too, the sentiments are same. May looks better than April.

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Microstockrank was last updated for statistics on  January 26, 2020. That may be the reason your numbers do not match. You can find use of this website for finding who are the top most.  Other great resource which is always updated is dreamstime 's our photographers section page. You can more data who is doing what.

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Image part of microstock is over-saturated now and there is fierce war. The video market has almost no competition. If you search for keywords such as car on SS, you get millions of images, few thousands in videos and further filter it for 4k and non-editorials, the result is in thousands. The myth of Russia, Ukrain and Thailand based contributor's dominance in microstock market is also busted with hard-core numbers.
I spent good amount of time if location has an advantage for contributor. It has an edge but none if there is no business sense.
Top 3 contributors on SS are : 1st is from Kazakhstan, 2nd is from Canada, 3rd is from Russia and I do not see Thailand in top 10 list anywhere.  Yes 4th is from Britain.

We have to operate it like business. You have to look at gorodenkoff, google it you will get everything. He is able to run it like business and has team of people.

Finally, look at the microstockrank site. The numbers are till Jan 2020 but those numbers speak a lot of value.

My graded plan is working, moving slowly from image to videos. Right now doing 4k. and for future, upgrade the video camera and move to 8k and put yourself at right angle. 

Another interesting statistic is : Each of 90% of total contributors has less than 1000 images/videos on sale. 20% of 10% are ruling the game.

how/where are you seeing who the top contributors are? and you do you mean by volume? or sales?

You can see who are top contributors at SS on the site microstockrank . Add dot com at the end of microstockrank . By volume I mean, number of videos or images. You have to have material to sell.


Yes but this is only rank by volume and that means nothing. Rank of earnings would be much more informative!  you can have 100K files of virtually just everyday subjects earning almost nothing and then another guy who's got just 10K files with top notch content earning a fortune!

I do not think any agency will ever reveal how much each of their contributors is earning. This data is not available. You have some data which is usable. Such data is number of files in their ports. Contributors websites which also reveal what kind of structure they have. Like gorodenkoff has presence on SS and has the website as well. You get good data this way.

You have to avoid few things in this business. One is trying too much to walk path of idealism and producing piece of art. Produce what has commercial value. You need material to sell. Have enough to sell and let your customer decide what he wants to purchase from you.




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Shutterstock.com / Re: Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: May 07, 2020, 15:10 »
Theres the problem.  A: theres no way anyone can make 300 -good- and -useful- videos a day.  Its just spamming the system.  To the detriment of all.
100% this. The limit forces people to be selective in what they shoot and only upload their best.

Stops everyone's work being swamped by a sea of same-ey rubbish from the same contributors, keeps the collection fresh and makes it possible to survive as a contributor. Win win.

Shame SS started pushing collection size as a metric at every shareholder meeting and announcement backing themselves into a corner and us off a cliff.

Top contributors have nearly 1 million files for each portfolio. It is not one two or three, there are many such ports on SS. Such numbers are not possible in one life-time without team. This is the market of volume. When you have a team with you, quality control is your key function to sustain your unique position. My policy is, not more than two variation of same shot to submit to agencies.  It has to be operated like any other business.

...and what does it cost to pay a full team?

Hire them from freelance market once. Keep in touch with them and re-hire them when you need. Does not cost tons. Or better have a weekend team. You get access to talent on weekends. I get lot of people interested in working over weekend for extra money. I always pay same day without fail.

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Image part of microstock is over-saturated now and there is fierce war. The video market has almost no competition. If you search for keywords such as car on SS, you get millions of images, few thousands in videos and further filter it for 4k and non-editorials, the result is in thousands. The myth of Russia, Ukrain and Thailand based contributor's dominance in microstock market is also busted with hard-core numbers.
I spent good amount of time if location has an advantage for contributor. It has an edge but none if there is no business sense.
Top 3 contributors on SS are : 1st is from Kazakhstan, 2nd is from Canada, 3rd is from Russia and I do not see Thailand in top 10 list anywhere.  Yes 4th is from Britain.

We have to operate it like business. You have to look at gorodenkoff, google it you will get everything. He is able to run it like business and has team of people.

Finally, look at the microstockrank site. The numbers are till Jan 2020 but those numbers speak a lot of value.

My graded plan is working, moving slowly from image to videos. Right now doing 4k. and for future, upgrade the video camera and move to 8k and put yourself at right angle. 

Another interesting statistic is : Each of 90% of total contributors has less than 1000 images/videos on sale. 20% of 10% are ruling the game.

how/where are you seeing who the top contributors are? and you do you mean by volume? or sales?

You can see who are top contributors at SS on the site microstockrank . Add dot com at the end of microstockrank . By volume I mean, number of videos or images. You have to have material to sell.

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08stock08!  sounds promising and its good you have a plan! I guess most of us who's been in this business long enough also had plans and agendas but it seems that when putting it into works most agencies especially the big ones always find ways of wrecking any plans and voila you're back to square one! :)

You are right. Currently struggling with unplanned situation arising from Coronavirus. Waiting to get it over and resume the work. As long as the right volumes are pushed to agencies, we are good. Nothing to worry about. Money will also follow soon.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: May 06, 2020, 10:48 »
Theres the problem.  A: theres no way anyone can make 300 -good- and -useful- videos a day.  Its just spamming the system.  To the detriment of all.
100% this. The limit forces people to be selective in what they shoot and only upload their best.

Stops everyone's work being swamped by a sea of same-ey rubbish from the same contributors, keeps the collection fresh and makes it possible to survive as a contributor. Win win.

Shame SS started pushing collection size as a metric at every shareholder meeting and announcement backing themselves into a corner and us off a cliff.

Top contributors have nearly 1 million files for each portfolio. It is not one two or three, there are many such ports on SS. Such numbers are not possible in one life-time without team. This is the market of volume. When you have a team with you, quality control is your key function to sustain your unique position. My policy is, not more than two variation of same shot to submit to agencies.  It has to be operated like any other business.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: May 06, 2020, 07:52 »
what I have analyse from last 3-4 weeks:
#1: They have Reduce the Company Size, Fired 100 Employees due to Covid
#2: Off-Shore office (Mostly Reviewer - India) is limited now, because I noted when and what time my stock is being reviewed, Before Lockdown mostly Indian Day Time was reviewed  Now EST.
#3: Yes, Some agencies are uploading more than 500/day and mostly having Team of Vectors / Illustration Designers.
Those team can produce 1000+ Vectors/ Illustration in a day.
#4: Freelancer / Stock photographer is hardly achive this limit, For media agencies their per day target is 2000 (Depeneds on Company Size and Quality of Work)
#3 and #4 are really good info. My guess for per day target was 300 videos per day (6 seconds each) to produce with small team. It can be achieved easily. 7000 per day is lot of work. Create, edit, keyword and submit. It requires a big team to produce everyday.
Good insights indeed !!!

300 "high quality" videos per day with a small team?
Impressive!!!
Care to share more info?
Are you speaking about real footage or cg animations?
thanks

Real Footage. CG is time taking stuff.

Here are more details:
Staff
=================
2 photographers / videographers full time.
1 Creative head.
2 Editors
1 for Keywording
1 in Research team.
=====================
Production Targets
300 clips a day. (10 Seconds each).
300 x 30 = 9000 clips ( acceptance 50-60%) = 5550 clips a month. 5550x12 = 66000 clips an year. ( it is a good target).
=================================

 

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Image part of microstock is over-saturated now and there is fierce war. The video market has almost no competition. If you search for keywords such as car on SS, you get millions of images, few thousands in videos and further filter it for 4k and non-editorials, the result is in thousands. The myth of Russia, Ukrain and Thailand based contributor's dominance in microstock market is also busted with hard-core numbers.
I spent good amount of time if location has an advantage for contributor. It has an edge but none if there is no business sense.
Top 3 contributors on SS are : 1st is from Kazakhstan, 2nd is from Canada, 3rd is from Russia and I do not see Thailand in top 10 list anywhere.  Yes 4th is from Britain.

We have to operate it like business. You have to look at gorodenkoff, google it you will get everything. He is able to run it like business and has team of people.

Finally, look at the microstockrank site. The numbers are till Jan 2020 but those numbers speak a lot of value.

My graded plan is working, moving slowly from image to videos. Right now doing 4k. and for future, upgrade the video camera and move to 8k and put yourself at right angle. 

Another interesting statistic is : Each of 90% of total contributors has less than 1000 images/videos on sale. 20% of 10% are ruling the game.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: May 05, 2020, 12:53 »
what I have analyse from last 3-4 weeks:
#1: They have Reduce the Company Size, Fired 100 Employees due to Covid
#2: Off-Shore office (Mostly Reviewer - India) is limited now, because I noted when and what time my stock is being reviewed, Before Lockdown mostly Indian Day Time was reviewed  Now EST.
#3: Yes, Some agencies are uploading more than 500/day and mostly having Team of Vectors / Illustration Designers.
Those team can produce 1000+ Vectors/ Illustration in a day.
#4: Freelancer / Stock photographer is hardly achive this limit, For media agencies their per day target is 2000 (Depeneds on Company Size and Quality of Work)
#3 and #4 are really good info. My guess for per day target was 300 videos per day (6 seconds each) to produce with small team. It can be achieved easily. 7000 per day is lot of work. Create, edit, keyword and submit. It requires a big team to produce everyday.
Good insights indeed !!!

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I almost joined BB and then pulled out for two reasons. First is terms and conditions for exiting their platform(18 months lock-in). Second, even if you come out of it, you will need to post those videos from your account and it will again go under the approval process. I see as a producer or creator of content, I get nothing except money here and there while BB builds its portfolio. It would have been really great if BB would tag the the videos in existing portfolios of the creators and sell under agreements. The prime reason for not joining them is lock-in period and BB not using creator's portfolio accounts in these agencies. I am not really sure of how much percentage of creators have abandoned their own portfolios for BB.

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These sentiments are everywhere. The number of images/videos sold have increased but the total shared revenue have gone down. In other platform, I run an Astrology channel on Youtube. April month views are higher than any previous months, but the total money earned is lesser. Now, there are lesser number of advertisers than the past on these platforms where the produced content is consumed. Some of this content also uses the stock images and videos. As the lockdown is eased in countries, the advertisers, film-makers will return to work in future, the over-all situation around our earning will also improve.

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DepositPhotos / Good sale numbers this month April 2020
« on: April 22, 2020, 06:59 »
I am experiencing upward sale on depositphotos this month. It used to sell few images a month. But this month seems far better than anyone month before. I have close to 6000 images in my portfolio there.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: March stats are in (istock)
« on: April 21, 2020, 11:09 »
Good numbers indeed. I see lot of connect type sale. I read connect type is great method now as revenue is shared with the image creater. In fact connect numbers are much better than regular. That has contributed a lot this month. Plus a $300 sale is also a great news indeed.

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