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In the past few days I've seen a spike in istock earnings, but the "recent downloads" do not change much or at all in sync with the earnings. They are like ghost earnings or something.

How do I know where the money is coming from? It occurred to me I might have a secret admirer at their headquarters.

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I need some help here.

I was hoping to find an image of a corporate looking guy sitting in front of a webcam with a backdrop behind him. From the waste up he has on professional attire, from the waste down he is in his underwear with hairy legs. The shot is taken at an angle so as to show that behind his professional backdrop is a disheveled home.

Does it exist?

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General Stock Discussion / Why New Agencies Fail
« on: February 03, 2016, 08:50 »
Every now and then a new agency comes around. Then its gone...

It is so easy - host pixels, sell pixels. So how could they possibly close their doors when image sites have the potential to at  worst sit idle indefinitely? Billions of people on the internet...you'd think success was a birthright to any new image site. Why do they fail?  :o

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Has any contributor ever become a millionair selling images? Is it possible for anyone to do it?

Even outside of reality, perhaps in the area of the hypothetical, how could one do it? What would it take?

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Whenever I upload to shutterstock I feel like some images are getting lost in a black hole.

If I 'time' it wrong and process some images while others have yet to show up, do images get lost in the process? In my case, its as though they never show up for editing.

Vectors are never successful either unless I use the browser.

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Do any of you ever have corresponding text or csv files with your images as an alternative to metadata? If so, is there a standard practice in how they correspond?

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General Stock Discussion / Clarification on Fotolia Keyword App
« on: January 29, 2016, 15:44 »
Forever I've been keywording via fotolia's browser interface.

I'd like to go through fotolia and do a huge sweep of images and fix their keyword hierarchy. I came across this app:

https://blog.fotolia.com/us/2014/01/30/ask-the-expert-fotolia-keywording-tools/

Is this correct for the purpose? Or is this for people who take iphone pics? Does it apply to the same system the same as the browser interface?

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General Stock Discussion / Do you enjoy adding meta data?
« on: January 16, 2016, 20:48 »
I'm curious how keywording is for  other people. I create images in large amounts and keywording is a very mentally taxing process for me because my brain does not handle redundancy well. In fact, some of my errors / rejections are result of a mind that keeps forcing itself into auto-pilot during submission process. This goes double for Istock's disambiguation system.

What is the experience like for you? Similar? Different? How do you approach keywording not only for effective sales but also (if you are like me) to avoid the mental fatigue it brings?

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