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General - Stock Video / Re: Vertical video sales - anyone?
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General - Stock Video / Re: Vertical video sales - anyone?« on: October 03, 2023, 04:30 »
What about Pond5, does it display correctly?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock is an embarassment« on: July 03, 2023, 06:33 »My SS earnings used to be 15x higher than now, and they just keep nosediving from month to month. Once a good earner, now abomination. Seems like it will join mid-tier agencies soon. Inexcusable. Identical experience for me too. 3
General Photography Discussion / Re: Advice Needed« on: June 18, 2023, 07:03 »Hello, I would like an advice since I really don't know what to do. I will try to keep it very short, although the story is a long one to tell fully. Ha, where I come that's just a normal business life, you have to call them everyday until they run out excuses and pay. Just call him, nothing low about asking for your money, however low it might be, he should feel low for not paying it. If you want to run your own business you need to learn to be more aggressive even if it's not in your nature, as it stands you are too apologetic, sharks will smell it on you and take advantage of it. You know your worth, own it. Good luck with new business. 4
Shutterstock.com / Re: Race to level 2« on: January 20, 2023, 08:17 »Been to Germany a few weeks ago, there are recycling machines at the super market, you insert one empty plastic bottle and out comes 25 cents, euro 25 cents. Sure I understand it, for one thing there are no plastic bottles lying around in Germany, unlike in my country, where you could find thousands anywhere you look around (thou if we had those recycling machines in the first place people wouldn't toss them around ). It just made me wonder about SS and 10 cents a download. 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: Race to level 2« on: January 17, 2023, 21:28 »
Been to Germany a few weeks ago, there are recycling machines at the super market, you insert one empty plastic bottle and out comes 25 cents, euro 25 cents.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations« on: November 02, 2022, 08:52 »So do we know when will the results come out? Thank you Mat. 7
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations« on: November 01, 2022, 07:10 »
So do we know when will the results come out?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations« on: October 27, 2022, 08:29 »They asked for vertical videos claiming they are in high demand. So, I uploaded 100 vertical background animations on July 2022. To me it sounded more like that social network vertical stuff is in demand, I don't know, some kind of premade generic reels for "fake" social accounts to use and gain following, rather than animated backgrounds. Not trying to be smart here, just thinking out loud. 9
General Stock Discussion / Re: Where does it make sense to advertise a stock portfolio in Internet?« on: September 21, 2022, 08:01 »I have a lot of videos on stock sites. To increase sales, is it worth it to advertise a video somewhere on the Internet with a link to a stock portfolio? I don't think so, your efforts would be like a grain of sand on a beach compared to marketing that stock sites do on their own anyway. Also if you manage to get someone onto your portfolio, nothing warrants they'll stay there and not just click on similars and you just successfully marketed (wasted time and money) someone else's portfolio. 10
Adobe Stock / Re: 2022 Adobe Stock Free Collection nominations are now live« on: June 30, 2022, 12:48 »
I think it's live now, I got the money I can't account for with downloads.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: iStock From July 1, 2022, we will be increasing the minimum customer price« on: May 27, 2022, 16:39 »
Can anyone translate all that please? Are we not having anymore of those cent sales or not?
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: April statements are in« on: May 20, 2022, 08:56 »
No surprise there, as I said before, it's either late or early, never on 20th.
Very strong month, all in all IS seems to be the best one for me. 13
General Stock Discussion / Re: Faster to add Title - Description - Tags« on: May 16, 2022, 06:14 »I just uploaded 100 pictures to 3 sites, it took me half a day even with the AI keyword tool and stuff, and I have thousands more. 100 images to 3 sites in half a (working?) day, doesn't sound slow to me at all. That would be 3000 images a month with half a day free time. In a year that's about 36000 images online, that's a serious collection and could make considerable revenue if all other things are sound. 14
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock photography less interesting for me« on: May 04, 2022, 05:46 »To me it's a challenge. All the whining about 10 cent sales is a waste of time.No I won't upload, upload, upload to SS because I don't like to be paid dimes, dimes, dimes when my time, effort, equipment, models and ... worth tens of thousands of dollars, dollars, dollars. Not taking sides, but in defense of Upload, maybe a change of strategy, less expensive gear, no payed models just friends and family and other "real" people, more CGI (Blender is free) less photography, etc. 15
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS strict rejection policy« on: May 04, 2022, 05:35 »Well, I must be one of the lucky ones, as about 90% of my submissions get through first time. I can normally guess which ones wont. Those shots normally contain water and foliage, that the AI classes as noise or focus issues. It's not faulty, it's just not very intelligent. 16
General Stock Discussion / Re: Is it too late for me to start?« on: April 12, 2022, 08:34 »I've been lurking in this forum for a while now, and it was very depressing lol. The longer you wait the less sense it makes. Just go do it today and see how it goes for you from there. 17
Adobe Stock / Re: Time for a redesign?« on: March 30, 2022, 08:06 »I think it would already help A LOT if, whenever you have pushed one keyword to the top, the whole page would not also jump back to the top so that you have to scroll through all keywords again. That's really the only thing that annoys me and takes up more time than it needs to. That and that randomly some random action just automatically sorts them alphabetically. 18
iStockPhoto.com / Re: February statements are in« on: March 21, 2022, 13:30 »
Really mediocre month for me, usually IS is my top, low number of downloads. Still better than SS regarding both downloads and returns but both way below AS in returns where every other sale is 0.99 or more.
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Off Topic / Re: Russian photographers should be banned!« on: March 09, 2022, 08:42 »Yeah, because them Russian photographers have been the most vocal when it comes to pushing for war? Yeah, I heard that Russian secret photographic group actually forced Putin into war, threatening to blind him with Godox flash. 20
Shutterstock.com / Re: Adult content not showing in port« on: February 22, 2022, 12:45 »Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the way I remember it, mature content is hidden by default and you have to unhide it when seraching for content in the search options, but you don't have an option to make mature content visible in individual contributors' ports, just on the overall search page. Thank you, that makes sense, i'll try searching for it from buyer side. Edit: You are correct, it is as you described. 21
Shutterstock.com / Adult content not showing in port« on: February 22, 2022, 08:01 »
Recently I uploaded some images to SS which I marked as adult/mature content in additional options and they were accepted, yet I don't see them showing up in my port. Is this some kind of normal behavior? I don't see any option to make such content visible.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Review Inspection time very long« on: February 21, 2022, 07:33 »
Five days unacceptable? Remember when IS reviews took 20+ days?
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Januray 2022 royalties are posted« on: February 20, 2022, 15:42 »
Decent month, wasn't expecting due to holidays.
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General - Top Sites / Re: copy keywords from other people ?« on: February 03, 2022, 09:03 »
Of course keywords are not copyrighted, they are just common words not intellectual property.
You should definitely observe and study how people keyword their successful assets, that's how you learn, especially if you are not native English speaker. Also there are many keywording tools made just for that. All that said, I don't think it'll do you any good in sales if you simply right out copy keywords from other images without adding your unique ones. 25
Shutterstock.com / Re: Are Shutterstock trying to fool their customers? Popularity Score / Usage Score« on: February 03, 2022, 08:58 »
I think it simply doesn't work as intended, rather than deliberate fraud.
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