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Messages - Pacesetter
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« on: July 02, 2025, 17:46 »
May and June were better months for me in the stocks with overall combined earnings of $1300 in May and $1105 in June. I found out on 29 May I was accepted in Storyblocks partner program and have managed to upload over 2100 videos to the platform over the month of June. Will be much slower now with fewer videos in my collection. This is good for adding another revenue stream. Can't say much for earnings at this stage as only early days with estimated earnings of $55 in June (not included in the above earnings for June). Hopefully will pick up in time.
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« on: July 01, 2025, 05:27 »
Not a bad start to the week. A little slow on the weekly ranking however. I'll have to work on that.
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« on: June 29, 2025, 17:39 »
Pretty good week with earnings though sales volume was down some. Probably be a slower week this week and / or lower RPDs.
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« on: June 26, 2025, 22:02 »
One thing is for sure the business is losing it's ability to make a living out of it. Sure there are some doing well but most of us, myself included, are seeing loses with each passing year. I no longer depend on my income and will not purchase another professional camera just continue to use my iphone for pics-vids. I've accepted that the end is near and just ride it to the sunset...
Are you dong anything else in photography to support your income or something else entirely?
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« on: June 24, 2025, 05:27 »
I've reached my weekly earnings goal however at the expense of a poor week last week which was less than half this.
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« on: June 23, 2025, 06:39 »
Not a bad start to the week with earnings but that's what I thought last week and that ended with the worst week of all year 2025.
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« on: June 20, 2025, 21:06 »
So I exported a video from Sony Movie Studio and uploaded it to SS. I was also planning to upload the same file to AS and P5 but I got an "unsupported file" error on SS. And this has me puzzled. It's an mp4 video and has a frame rate of 25fps. According to VLC, it has the h264 codec and it's also an MPEG-4 video. And apparently, both SS and AS accept MPEG-4 videos. The codec information in VLC also mentions AVC (part 10) and avc1. I thought that surely, a video with those specs would be acceptable but I don't know much about AVC. Would anyone have any ideas on why I'm get an "unsupported file" error for this video file on SS?
Curious what is the resolution of the video and what file extension does it have for its file name?
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« on: June 20, 2025, 16:52 »
RPD of 58 cents for photos and RPD of $2.67 for video. Second highest month this year in earnings but slightly down on last year and earnings down 19% on May 2023.
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« on: June 20, 2025, 04:53 »
Adobe Stock has lost its shine. It was going well there for a time, probably gaining some customers from Shutterstock, but it's recent clumsy and chaotic curation of AI content has seen it decline.
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« on: June 19, 2025, 20:54 »
things have picked up, 2 video sales yesterday and a few image sales...let's hope for the best! 
huh. sadly my sales dropped liek a stone the last 2 days 
Congratulations Injustice, good to see a couple of better sales. Motivation for uploading videos hey? Superphotos, my sales have also fallen of a cliff this week, not only on Adobe Stock but others as well. Also the sales I am getting are all under $1.
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« on: June 19, 2025, 03:38 »
I may have ideas, I have a lot of such ideas. But I have a question for you, are you one of those who put pluses under offensive posts addressed to me from a Russian troll nicknamed zeljkok?
Nobody has to answer you with this irrelevant pathetic question.
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« on: June 16, 2025, 04:51 »
The position / rank must be rolling week as I thought (and maybe I am slow of learning) it restarted at the beginning of a new week so it clearly doesn't. For once I have more downloads than Cobalt but curiously the weekly position is less than half.
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« on: June 14, 2025, 02:53 »
How long was it down? A day or two?
it was down since last friday, so around one week
Cobalt, glad you were able to count the days. My recollection of time and days is getting increasingly vague for me these days.
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« on: June 13, 2025, 23:09 »
Any idea why the adobe sales are so low right now? And how to get them back up? Thanks!
I have a theory but I note from discussions on FB others are reporting slow sales on Adobe with some suggestions of public holidays and special days such as Eid etc happening around the world. We had a public holiday on Monday which definitely affected my sales this week. My theory is, and I know this is gonna sound bizarre, like I've gone BS crazy even, is Shutterstock are winning back customers from Adobe!  I'm finding higher commission sales are returning on Shutterstock this past two months while those higher commission sales have fallen on Adobe Stock. How to get them back up on Adobe Stock is a question I couldn't answer but if there's any truth to my theory I think having strong ports on as many agencies as possible is probably the way to combat slow sales on any one agency. I had three consecutive slow months overall in February, March and April and much better results in May and going well so far in June (overall). So some of this could be algorithm changes or time of year. I often read contributors experience a summer slump in the northern hemisphere if that could also be a contributing factor? But otherwise I am reading contributors posts on FB saying sales are slow on Adobe as well.
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« on: June 13, 2025, 22:53 »
How long was it down? A day or two?
Yes, a day or two. But a day or two is a long time in MSG land. Even 1 minute is a long time if, for example, you challenge yourself to hold your breath for the entire expanse of time. 
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« on: June 13, 2025, 06:41 »
@Superphotos, sales were going well in the beginning of the month but have fallen on Adobe this week. Overall this month, earnings are higher on Shutterstock than Adobe. IStock seems to be performing well so far this month with 60 videos downloaded as of 13 June. ETA 2 sales on Pond5 for $30 each which is probably not bad... for Pond5.
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« on: June 13, 2025, 04:26 »
Welcome back everybody. How's everyone going? How's sales? The world has changed a little more since we were last on the forum.
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« on: June 04, 2025, 18:52 »
I had another decent sale on Shutterstock with $150 - another aerial drone video shot. Attached is the sale in May and new sale in June.
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« on: June 04, 2025, 18:21 »
As it turns out there were 64 contents removed but they were potential IP issues so I'd much rather have that than my port shut down altogether. Yes they shouldn't been accepted in the first place but at least I am clear the content is not suitable and it's not just some random rejection.
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« on: June 03, 2025, 18:03 »
Finally a better month following three consecutive poor months with $1300 on the microstocks and bit over $500 on YouTube for $1800 USD total for May 2025.
You made $500 on youtube, in adsense in a month? How many clips? That would be like... 71k views only?
Yes around high 70k views ended up at $530 which I think is pretty good for second month monetized. I added 4 videos to the channel during May. I'm doubtful I will make 500 this month as RPD has fallen some and don't know why but we'll see how it goes as only early days in the new month.
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« on: June 03, 2025, 05:57 »
The Internet is not the place to disclose your personal data.
A lot is known about me, I shoot videos and a few photos. This information is enough for questions and answers.
Hold on, hold on! I'm reading between the lines here. I see the cryptic message we've all missed! It's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy!!Bro, what brings you here?! You're shooting videos? And a few photos? Mate, you're shooting missiles into Russia! And a few drones!
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« on: June 02, 2025, 21:08 »
I think I've just lost a further 9 or so files on Adobe port. Still have old files waiting to be reviewed but no just go after the accepted files instead and take them out. These agencies can't criticise Trump for his apparent policy madness when they are just as BS crazy themselves.
And a further 8 + 14 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 6 + 9 contents (just updating this each time i see a drop - don't know if its photos or videos) just gone now. Adobe's free collection is over (I didn't participate) and now their razor gangs are out on a rampage to tear up ports. Oh that's right, nearly forgot... gotta make room for...... 
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« on: June 02, 2025, 17:02 »
I think I've just lost a further 9 or so files on Adobe port. Still have old files waiting to be reviewed but no just go after the accepted files instead and take them out. These agencies can't criticise Trump for his apparent policy madness when they are just as BS crazy themselves.
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« on: June 02, 2025, 16:57 »
Travel for the purpose of microstock is no longer a consideration for me. In 2023 it was a different story when adding to ports translated to increased sales and income but that's no longer the case for me (others' experience might be much different).
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« on: June 02, 2025, 06:48 »
Finally a better month following three consecutive poor months with $1300 on the microstocks and bit over $500 on YouTube for $1800 USD total for May 2025.
Are you uploading stock video to YouTube?
Lately I've been shooting for the primary purpose of YouTube and then taking some clips from this and uploading them to my stock ports. So kind of the other way around really. Most of the clips are editorial so can only go on Shutterstock and Pond5 and to my other ports on iStock and Adobe if suitable.
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