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« on: April 05, 2025, 20:37 »
I just started testing Imstocker studio this weekend and while most of the other agencies are working i keep getting a 504 command error with Shutterstock. I'm sure my login details are correct. How do i solve this?
@Imstocker : if you could guide me please
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« on: February 16, 2025, 06:19 »
Hi All
It's been almost 3 months with persistent issues of submitting on Pond5 using Stock Submitter. Has anyone figured out a way around this?
Currently Stocksubmitter will tell me that I need to pass the captcha. However the browser window that it used to display in the past for login does not show up at all so not sure where to pass the captcha.
Please help, there is now a massive pileup of videos for Pond5
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« on: October 25, 2024, 23:05 »
With Christmas and all coming I'm sure we are all planning some bit of gifting to ourselves with all the sweet sweet moolah that stock has made us (silently cries in the corner)
Share it here and give ideas to the group. My list is
- Sony 50mm f1.8 lens
- mini smoke machine - need to figure which one
- DSLR gimbal, mostly leaning towards the Zhiyun Weebill
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« on: October 25, 2024, 14:46 »
Not sure how many Stocksubmitter users are left here. For the past few months I've been struggling to upload photos using Stock Submitter on Pond5. Usually it gives me a "The server has timed out" kind of error and won't upload the file. Does anyone have some advise or suggestions to correct this.
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« on: May 18, 2024, 05:36 »
Guess we are in the summer slump already, or maybe its just me. Lower than even half of last month where a few big sales pushed it almost to 3 digits.
BTW have been a fan of todayis20 to analyse my file data. But they've been having issues with showing the actual photo. What have you all been using?
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« on: November 18, 2023, 06:48 »
Was just going through some old stuff on microstock and came across some vidoes detailing the works and life of Yuri. Whatever happened to him after his apparent departure from microstock? I remember him having a site called people images or soemthing?
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« on: August 30, 2023, 01:16 »
Adobe just sent out a mail for uploading images to training their AI datasets. No key wording or relases needed Sharing the mail below We are reaching out to let you know that weve enabled a new feature in the Contributor portal to allow some selected contributors to submit content datasets for training Adobes AI and machine learning tools. The new portal feature is called Missions. Our goal is to acquire large volumes of images for specific topics which are explained in the Missions Content brief and for which we pay a fixed amount as published on the Missions tab. To allow for an easy submission process, we dont require keywording or post processing for these datasets. Neither do we require releases, because we are currently only sourcing content that has no recognizable people or property. Check out the new Missions feature in the contributor portal and we hope this is of interest to you to participate. If you have questions, please reach out to [email protected]. Regards, The Adobe Stock Artist Relations team
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« on: March 14, 2023, 09:44 »
Shutterstock is simplifying content standards as per a mail that came in today. Sharing info from the link on the mail
Content Publishing Standards and Policy Updates
Shutterstock is introducing a simplified approach to the standards for content review.
Shutterstock is committed to continuously improving the contributor experience. Last year we focused on rolling out improvements to the contributor platform, which continue into 2023. This year we are turning our attention to simplifying our content review standards and the requirements for getting your submissions approved on our marketplace.
We are starting off with the following changes, which will become effective on April 1, 2023.
No longer required:
Witness information for Model or Property releases will no longer be required.
Reference images for the following content will no longer be required:*
Silhouettes, including photographs with composited silhouettes
Auto-traced vectors
Gradient meshes (non-abstract)
Photos filtered to look like illustrations or used as the basis of an illustration
Low-poly (non-abstract)
Pixel/mosaic art (non-abstract)
Software and license information for 3D renderings of interior spaces will no longer be required (i.e., 3D Interior Property Releases).*
Vintage content (content shot between 1930-1990) will no longer have special release requirements:
Content featuring recognizable models will no longer require an explanation of the contributor's relationship to the model on the Model Release form.
Creative (non-editorial) vintage content will require a standard property release proving you are the owner of the content, but additional information with an explanation of how the contributor became the owner of the content will no longer be required.
Thumbnail previews of the vintage content will no longer be required to be attached to the property release, but are still recommended.
Editorial vintage content will no longer be subject to a property release at all.
*Content submitted with releases that are no longer required after April 1, 2023 will be rejected.
New requirements:
All Model Release forms must include the models date of birth.
The age requirement for models depicted in mature content will be changed from 21 to 18 years of age, to align with industry standards.
All Minor Model Release forms are required to include a parent or legal guardian name.
Note: Any releases submitted after April 1, 2023 and missing the above information will be rejected.
We have published new support articles on Legal Documentation, Intellectual Property, and Contextual Metadata standards to familiarize our contributor community with Shutterstocks streamlined approach to content review. Existing articles on content review will also be updated to reflect the new standards and requirements.
Change is never easy, but we hope that these improvements designed to simplify and streamline your content submission workflows will be a welcome one. We will continue to update this article as new resources become available. In the meantime, if you have any questions or feedback, be sure to contact us!
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« on: February 07, 2023, 11:25 »
So it officially starts, received a mail today saying that there is an update to the contributor agreement with SS being added as a party to the agreement
The % royalties remain the same for now but I see a clause for flexible pricing for subscription etc at their discretion (not sure if this was there earlier)
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« on: January 26, 2023, 06:42 »
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/after-inking-its-openai-deal-shutterstock-rolls-out-a-generative-ai-toolkit-to-create-images-based-on-text-prompts/"When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAIs Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Today the company took the wraps off that product. Customers of Shutterstocks Creative Flow online design platform will now be able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2." - an excerpt from the article The strange part is that while all other AI tools say that the person making the image has full rights to the image, Shutterstock says the created images are ready to license as soon as they are created
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« on: October 25, 2022, 21:44 »
Its always been hard to see where the pics you've sold have been used. My goto has been a google image search. Recently started to use https://tineye.com/ and its been a good find. Usually gets me more results than a google reverse image search. What else have you all been using and is there something similar for vidoes as well?
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« on: August 04, 2022, 22:04 »
Maybe not as bad as the others, but seems like they are trying to lure people back. Would you restart post this As a photographer, you deserve a place to share your photos, connect with a global community and make money doing what you love! Have a hard time picking which photos to share? We've got you. Starting September 1 were not just doubling but TRIPLING your upload limit from 7 to 21 images per week. With triple the uploads, youll be able to get even more feedback and engagement on your photos, participate in more community activities like Quests and have more chances to have your work featured in the exclusive Editors Choice. And if that's still not enough, you can always upgrade to an Awesome or Pro membership for unlimited uploads! Plus, were making a few exciting changes to our Licensing payout structure starting September 1: If you submit exclusive content (youre not submitting it to other stock websites) you will receive a royalty of 60%. If you submit non-exclusive content you will receive a royalty of 25%. If you upgrade to a Pro or Awesome membership, you will receive a royalty of 100% on all exclusive content. (  thats unheard of in the stock photography business
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« on: July 27, 2022, 08:55 »
Given the cost and issues with Adobe I'm planning to switch video editing to DaVinci Resolve. Wanted to know if any others are using it and if the workflow (after the steep learning curve) is better
In Premiere, I usually take one long video or multiple clips. Turn them into 10-15 sec compositions. Edit, stabilize and color them and then use media encoder to create the output files for upload. Can all this be done
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« on: July 19, 2022, 12:33 »
Hey everyone
I've been using Stock Submitter to get my files up across stock sites including iStock. However for the last few months I've been getting an error when I try to pull ESP keywords using stock submitter.
The error reads "Error fetching ESP terms for keywords : ParseErrorDelayed (Got an internal server error in response to a knock.)
I've been using the following API key in the past : bq9gg32wtfed9kshgtjrxwd
Not very sure what is going wrong. Can someone please guide me. Using stock submitter is loads better than going through qhero
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« on: February 26, 2022, 12:25 »
Hi
Strangely when starting stock submitter today it goes to the screen showing 0 updates (files changed) then suddenly disappears and nothing else starts. Any ideas? Trying to avoid a reinstall since i have some videos with meta data that i haven't uploaded yet
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« on: May 21, 2021, 12:29 »
Probably one understanding is that our lack of unity and lack of strong resistance to Shutterstock has led to all agencies going the same route.
What now? How do we now learn from this and push back. Alamy has barely any significant earnings. Can they be dropped enmasse
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« on: April 20, 2021, 09:03 »
It seems like iStock hasn't yet gotten round to telling us what we've earned in Mar. Or its a super low number and it'll hardly make a difference so why bother  Sent from my SM-G996B using Tapatalk
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« on: March 23, 2021, 03:48 »
With 2021 mostly being dismal in stock earnings so far what positive steps have you taken to maintain or grow earnings? Some options I've seen people take
1. cut out low paying agencies completely
2. This is the new normal, make more stuff, put it on all agencies
3. Started something new like book covers - brutallyhonestmicrostock.com style
4. Focussed more on inperson shooting gigs
5. Left this side of the business entirely
6. Go to aggregators like blackbox, wirestock etc
Hopefully some postive way forward stuff
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« on: March 13, 2021, 21:47 »
Hi, are you all using any android app to track your earnings across a lot of agencies? Had been using the pretty good stock stats, however that seems to be getting retired soon. Wanted to know some good alternatives
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« on: February 08, 2021, 11:45 »
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« on: October 28, 2020, 14:37 »
With Adobe now making illustrative editorial open to even bronze tier submitters it would be great if stock submitter can start up loading and submitting editorial to Adobe stock
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« on: July 09, 2020, 09:07 »
So shutterstock just put in a message that once you disable content you can't turn it on for 30 days. And that it'll negatively affect performance Wow, these people just don't let up on the arm twisting and scare tactics. Since when did having a fair dialog go out of style  Sent from my HD1901 using Tapatalk
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« on: June 16, 2020, 10:52 »
So while profile activation and deactivation will happen lets stay ahead of the curve and figure out how else we can get our point across to Shutterstock.
Some ideas seen till now
1. Contact buyers, suggest move to Adobe
2. Media - especially places that buyers frequent
3. Youtube, Insta influencers talking points
4. Spread the word on deactivations
We are supposed to be creative people, what else comes to mind
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« on: June 06, 2020, 08:46 »
Hi
Considering that we've all started to test new agencies it would be amazing if you could update the FTP server for YAYimages (video upload) sftp://intake.yayimages.com and maybe build in support to submit to them
Some changes
- They now support editorial
- They have a new FTP for video sftp://intake.yayimages.com
- They have support for video now
As always, love Stock Submitter
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