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Shutterstock.com / SS and Adobe similarity!
« on: August 19, 2017, 00:27 »
Seems to me that whatever SS do it only takes a few months and adobe/ft will follow and imitate it. Now adobe have started with this captcha crap which is just so stupid its unbelievable!
Their search algorithm seems to go hand in hand. Useless! lower end contributors favoured and both are pushing subs packages all the way and both are at the moment producing crummy results if peoples comments here and everywhere else is anything to go by.

As soon as my two new macro sites have taken off oh man I am well out of these two places. So sick of seeing these 0.38c sales and the 10 hours downtime at adobe. Take my port of 5K files and upload the lot at the Getty RF or even Istock is better!...my moth there was great! 843 bucks and for Istock that is good for an indy!

Ok rant over but Im serious actually fed up with micro its just hassles and all for nothing really.

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iStockPhoto.com / Istock daily stats! where??
« on: August 14, 2017, 00:35 »
Im a bit out of touch here. At Istock where do I see the daily stats, takings? anybody?

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iStockPhoto.com / Istock selling well!!
« on: August 13, 2017, 03:16 »
Yep! Istock is beginning to show good signs selling well actually and for an independent as well. Spoke to a few mates who like me has been with them for over 10 years and the sales are doing fine.
Might be worth uploading there again instead of backing these old boilers like SS and Adobe etc. All we seem to get there nowadays is pennies from heaven and weird stuff. :)

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Adobe Stock / new fotolia forum!
« on: August 04, 2017, 12:36 »
Just paid a visit and just one question. What on earth is it supposed to be??????????????? :-\ :-\

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Adobe Stock / Adobe stock way down in middle tier???
« on: August 01, 2017, 00:59 »
Geez!  can this poll result be accurate? Adobe/ft down in the middle tier?  dont seem possible really I know theyhave produced low sales but not that low surely?

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Shutterstock.com / Lovely sales pattern!
« on: July 31, 2017, 03:08 »
All through May and June my pattern was exactly the same. zero during all night! and waking up to 2 sales! Now during all July Its dead during night and morning and at exactly around 11 comes the sales and it dies at around 22.00.  exactly the same during all July.

No big deal but it makes me wonder how they manage engineer this???? ::)

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Shutterstock.com / SS search is just beyond belief!
« on: July 24, 2017, 11:57 »
I guess I should be quite happy really! was approached by a customer before the weekend ( bought before) who privately bought off me 4 EL's  for $ 70 a piece. Why?  simply because the 4 pictures I pointed out for him at SS were bookmarked pages etc. Today when he wanted to buy them at SS they had moved them in their silly search and of course it was going to take ages trying to find them. He got fed up!

so much for their brilliant search! one minute there next gone!

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Blimey whats it come to?  now the reviewers cant even tell the difference between a 3D image and a photo image/illustration. I cant believe it! I suppose if one supplied a 3D image they would think its a photo. ::)

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Adobe Stock / Adobe?? deadly quiet!
« on: June 12, 2017, 13:24 »
Whats happened to Adobe/Ft?  anybody else experienced a complete stand-still?

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Site Related / clicking on agencies in the column!
« on: May 22, 2017, 00:29 »
It dont work if you click on an agency in the column to the right the MSG is just doubling up itself??

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A guy over at SS whom Ive known from the very start told me something strange here. He is very very good with softwares and computers etc. He said that in a geographical search they will either halt or slow down servers to certain regions in the world and thereby they can easily direct where they wish sales to go.

I have noticed myself that when SS is going bad so is Adobe and vice versa.

I know sod all about the ins and outs about servers this and that but would this be possible? I mean would it be technologiacally possible?

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Shutterstock.com / Curious: uploading SS or not?
« on: May 08, 2017, 06:47 »
Just curious really. I havent uploaded one single file to SS since Jan and since this new search came and even so new material isnt really promoted anyway. Anybody else here who havent bothered to upload for a while? and if so are downloads down or up or stagnat?

Mine are the same in fact a few dollar more now and then and thats after no uploading for three months. Could of course be that my port is studio conceptuals and quite niched in many ways but not big only around 4000 files.

Anybody else?

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Shutterstock.com / Another identical week at SS!
« on: April 22, 2017, 00:46 »
Well people here is another weirdo week at SS. See what you say about this one.

Monday.  43.56
Tuesday.  41.91
Wednesday. 43.11
Thursday.  43.88
Friday. 42.56

Considering I am down the usual 40% not bad I suppose but Oh dear its just so identical to the past 12 weeks. ;D

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Shutterstock.com / please tell me this makes sense!
« on: March 22, 2017, 14:16 »
I simply have to share this just to see if anybody have experienced the same. To me it seems very very odd indeed.

Last week. thursday.  $. 43.02
                  friday.           43. 93
                  Monday         44.34
                  Tuesday.       43.77

It just seems very funny to me. Is it some sort of a machine haha! determing how much we are going to earn? ;D

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