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General Stock Discussion / Whatever happened to Yuri Arcurs?
« 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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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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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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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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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock - Open AI deal : tool rollout
« 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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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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General Stock Discussion / 500px shares exciting news
« 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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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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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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MicrostockSubmitter / Stocksubmitter not starting today
« 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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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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iStockPhoto.com / Earnings for Mar'21
« 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

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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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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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MicrostockSubmitter / Ability to upload editorial to Adobe stock
« 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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Shutterstock.com / Free images for Microsoft ads
« on: July 22, 2020, 02:34 »
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-advertising-offers-free-stock-images-for-audience-ads-337938

One more way to lose revenue? Have they put out any information on how the contributors are affected. Do we get 10c, do we get "exposure"

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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



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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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 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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At one time it seemed every youtuber was talking about it and now suddenly nothing. Did they all get super rich and move to a private island? How have the results been in general?

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MicrostockSubmitter / Invalid mtime file content error
« on: March 16, 2020, 09:41 »
Hi, started seeing this error while stock submitter is updating. Any idea what to do?



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Cameras / Lenses / Sony A7III : how editable is the 100mbps video
« on: February 02, 2020, 05:14 »
Hey everyone

Have just started doing some color correction and grading of the video from my sony a7III, but shutterstock rejects most of it.

Settings : 4k XVAC 100 MBps

Editing : Premiere - mostly saturation, exposure, contrast and adding some color on the highlights and shadows. Exporting in H264 at 100mbps with max bitrate 200mbps

Where am i going wrong? I've heard the video from the a7iii is very detailed and editable

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Alamy.com / Alamy continues support for RM, even after Getty mail
« on: November 19, 2019, 18:37 »
Got a mail today motioning from Alamy that they continue to support RM despite Getty deciding to pull the plug. The mail is below, nice to know Alamy wants contributors to also earn

Is Rights-Managed licensing dead?

Not according to Alamy.


There's been lots of discussion in recent weeks about the future of Rights-Managed licensing. Alamy have no plans to discontinue offering RM images and will continue to offer photographers a choice to license their photos as Rights-Managed or Royalty-Free.


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General Macrostock / Getty to retire RM and move completely to RF
« on: November 06, 2019, 04:40 »
Just got this in the mail some time back. Seems the champion of RM has fallen

Continued success of royalty‑free licensing and our plans for a phased retirement of rights‑managed creative images

 ‌ 

Over the years, customers needs have changed. Complicated licensing models create friction and customers demand simplicitythey want the most simple and most flexible access to relevant, authentic imagery.


Royalty‑free (RF) imagery is now the preferred and dominant licensing model for our customers due to the simplicity, value and quality available. Licensing complexity has only led customers to other content, and in many cases, another provider as the broader industry is now essentially an RF‑only model.


We conducted extensive customer research and testing on RF versus rights‑managed (RM), including Market Freeze. We have confidently concluded that the RM creative image licensing model no longer meets our customers needs, especially given the flexibility demanded by digital marketing and the increasing reuse of imagery, and it actually reduces our overall competitiveness.


As a result, we plan to simplify our product offering through a phased retirement of RM creative images, moving to an RF‑only creative images offering during 2020. This will benefit customers and provide an opportunity to grow overall licensing volume and revenue for both Getty Images and our contributors:

When a customer uses GettyImages.com, they will have only one simple licensing model (RF) which contains all of our creative images.

Images appearing in customers' search results will be the most relevantno longer will the results include RM, regardless of relevanceopening up more search exposure for creative RF.

Our customers will be able to focus on the one thing that matters to themfinding authentic quality content that connects with their target audience.

We see this fundamental change in our business model as key to furthering our growth and increasing the accessibility of amazing content to new customers and new markets.  


Your RM creative images
By the end of January 2020, your RM images will be removed from single image licensing (sometimes called la carte) on GettyImages.com. Customers will still be able to complete renewals and purchase RM creative images for at least the following 30 days after that. Premium Access customers will still be able to access RM images until November 6, 2020.


When RM is fully retired, you will be able to distribute your RM images as you wish, with the exception that you must not license any RM images (or similars) in a way that conflicts with any active, unexpired exclusive licenses. We will contact you again in November 2020 to confirm that RM has been fully retired and provide a report detailing such licenses.

We will stop accepting new RM creative images on November 6, 2019 at 11:59pm CET/ 10:59pm GMT/ 5:59pm EST/ 2:59pm PST. You can find out more in our FAQs, below.

RF opportunity
We encourage you to grow your RF portfolio with new fresh imagery to meet current customer demands, which you can do under your existing agreement.


For guidance and inspiration, you can review our creative briefs, which identify the most needed subjects for our customers and enable you to respond to gaps in our RF collection. Our briefs reflect the research of our industry‑leading Creative Insight team, including market trends and customer licensing data, and are available on the Contributor Community Website and our Contributor app.


If you have any questions or need to contact us, please refer to the frequently asked questions below and regularly updated in our online contributor forums on the Contributor Community website.
 

Best wishes,


Paul

Paul Banwell
Senior Director, Contributor Relations

Getty Images | iStock


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