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General Stock Discussion / Microstock is DEAD ?
« on: September 09, 2010, 00:28 »
The end of microstock ?

You guys must admit i was right in any of my prophecies !

Now feel free to move your portfolios on SS, FT, and DT, wait a few months and see them screwing
you up even more after january with the excuse of bad economy downturn and yadda yadda... (FT did it already
in the past).

What options do you have after all ?
Macrostock ? Forget it, it's in deep sh-it exactly because of you microstockers accepting getting paid a pittance.

You created a monster, and now you pay the consequences on your skin.
There's justice in this world after all.

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Image Sleuth / Pirated istock images ?
« on: March 26, 2010, 05:06 »
No idea if this was already discussed but i found out that there's a lot of "stock photo packs" released on Rapidshare, they're mainly vectors and hi-res pics taken from iStock and even a couple packs from Getty :

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/

http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/stock/2560-stockbyte-by-getty-images-sd122-seniors.html


How to deal with this ?  :-\

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General Stock Discussion / Getty sold a 65K $ image !
« on: February 28, 2010, 16:25 »
here's the photo sold on Getty for 65K $, the author also sells on Alamy :






original Alamy thread :
http://www.alamy.com/forums/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=7519

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General Stock Discussion / Yuri admits he's losing money !
« on: February 27, 2010, 12:52 »
check this out :

http://www.ellenboughn.com/shannon-fagan-asks-whats-your-position-on-global-positioning


in the comments Yuri says :

"I will bring some numbers to the table. Lookstat. Its not just as simple as adapting to new waters.

I still shot, but it is not a good market situation we are in. RPI for microstock non-exclusive has dropped from 9.8USD per image per month two years back to 4.5USD per image per month today. I am expecting it to drop to less than 3 USD per image per month this year, at which point it does not make much sense to be producing. I could produce and make money at this RPI, but that would be at a stabile RPI of 3USD per month, not if it keeps going down. Right now I have to produce 11000 images per year to maintain my income.
My production is very streamlined and probably uses every technology known to man on how to produce great stock images. We go a long way to optimize for 5% more/better output. Thats 5%, not 50% and still we cant really make sensible money from it in one-two years from now. Its not about adapting and changing, its about accepting that what we could once make a living from, will be a hobby for the crowd. A crowd that does not care about RPIs, model fees, overheads.its their hobby."

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