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Quote from: Groucho on January 28, 2021, 03:48

for IS you can see the number of sales for the current year in the profile tab

I don't seem to have such a tab. (I think I asked about where that can be found here before, because someone mentioned it, but got no reply.)
I only have Overview, ESP User Info and Performance as tabs. Peformance has more tabs, Recent Activity, which shows views, and Download, which only shows me downloads up to Decmeber 21.
 

Here is the direct link to the Profile tab : https://accountmanagement.gettyimages.com/Account/Profile
To access it, you can also click on "account management" on the high top right  of iStock page (between ESP and Contributor Community links)

Quote from: Groucho on January 28, 2021, 02:30

Quote from: Firn on January 28, 2021, 02:05

 January just isn't a good month for microstock anywhere for me, especially the first half of the month. But it's starting to pick up and I am optimistic for February.

For me, the  volume of sales on SS is normal (similar to January 2020). The issue is the number of $0.10 sales (around 80% to 90% of all sales, but I was Level 1 for 3 weeks) and the consequence on the RPD. Low RPD is new compared to 2020 and I don't see why it would improve in February.

I can't compare January 2020 and January 2021, because I only started microstock around 2019 and my portfolio was much smaller last year. But comparing December 20 and January 21 my download number is down by a almost 300 and there are only 3 days left in January, so my sale numbers are definetely down in January. They are also down on Adobe, though the difference is smaller (But Adobe hasn't been performing well for me since around August last year) and on iStock I can't compare sale numbers before next month, but my views are down by a lot and at least for me, that's usually a good indicator for sales. Last month my most viewed image had around 200 views, this month it's less than 50...

Every portfolio is different.
In my case, number of sales for January 21 is similar to December 20 for SS, AS and IS (for IS you can see the number of sales for the current year in the profile tab). I have a lot of sales on the Covid-19 subject this might explain why a have a good number of sales and a low RPD (costumers for these images are medias with big contract and low prices).

Thanks for the info Firn.

In my account manager I have the following:
  - Payment date Additional information Monday, January 25, 2021
And no "Payment carried over to the next month".

If you received your payment on the 21th, I probably have a problem.
I sent a request to iStock support. I hope my payment information's on iStock  was not hacked.

I didn't receive my iStock payment on January 25th. Royalties to be payed is above $100, so I should normally get payed. Last payment from iStock on my Paypal account was in November 2021.
Anyone having the same problem ?

Hi all,

Royalties report for December is available.

I was surprise to discover two sales with $0.00 royalties at "China FotoPress VEER / Porta".  It is not the connect royalties, it is not refunds; it is subscription sales with a $0.03 price; and 15% of $0.03 result in a $0.00 commission.
I already had $0.01 commission but I never had $0.00 royalties (excluding Connect).

However my RPD on iStock is much better than my RPD on Shitterstock : $0.62 vs $0.14 (in January). So, for me, SS is really the worst stock.

ALL either

But I couldn�t find any of my Shitterstock portfolio.
Can I do it the same way: portfolio name+keyword like Bali?

This work for images only (not for footages). For me, all images from PROMO.com are coming frim iStock and all footages from Shutterstock.

We contacted Promo.com already, but does anybody already contact Getty/iStock/Shitterstock about this? And what were their answers - also in case of a law suit? Any terms again that allows them to do it and we didn�t read or didn�t understand about the consequences for us?

I sent a request to iStock to remove my images from PROMO.com. I guess it will take some time to get an answer; and I am not sure to get a positive response. We would have more strength if every contributor send such a request to iStock.
I also posted a message on iStock forum.

About SS, I only saw my footages on PROMO.com (all images come from iStock). And I understand we get some (very) small commissions from SS, for sales on PROMO.com. This is probably an explanation to the $1 commissions I receive from time to time on SS. So I guess all this is legal for footages. This is why I stopped publishing footages on SS (I am now Pond5 exclusive for my new footages). I will probably remove my footage from SS in the future to avoid this.

Here is the final response of PROMO.com to my request for more information's: "Thanks for reaching out! To follow up on your questions I would suggest you reach out directly to Shutterstock / Istock . All content provided to our customers by Promo is licensed for use so best step would be to reach out to them on that content's use."

I tried to know if they reported images/videos uses to IS/SS so that we can get commissions. They refused to answer and send me back to SS and IS.

I send an email request to PROMO.com to have some more information's:

I write you because I am a contributor to both iStock and Shutterstock. I saw some of my photos from iStock and some of videos from Shutterstock on your website.
My question is about the commissions for these videos and photos:
�   Will I receive a commission each time my videos are used by your costumers?
�   What about the �free photos library�; will I receive a commission each time one of my photos is used by your costumers?

Here is their response: "If you don't mind I will post a note to our Team regarding your request, and we will follow up with you on that via email."

And they offer "free photo" too.
The FAQ it say "We provide over 1.4 Million photos in our FREE image library. There are no limits to how often you can use these images."
I found some of my bestselling there . They come from iStock. I wonder if I get paid by iStock when  they are used by promo.com costumers.

If you do a search with Google and "aerial flyover small town beaufort", the first result is on Shutterstock. This is how Pond5 found it.

It look like SS keep the footage available from Google search but not from it own search engine. Clever way to say it is not their fault.

I found my images too on this site. But it look like ALL images are watermarked with "Adobe Stock". Maybe they have a distribution agreement with Adobe ?

The best is probably to ask MatHayward.

You are lucky with your $3.20; Today I only got $1.17 for a 4K timelapse 
It look like Pond5 is not beter then Shutterstock for the commissions you get.