Has anyone had issues with getting paid from Yay Micro?  I just tried to cash out this year and didn't check on it for a while and noticed it is in an error...whatever that means.  If you have or have not gotten paid let me know as I found this very odd.  I have contacted their support via email.

This is the message I see for my account:

�40.59   Feb 18, 2018 4:32:38 AM   IN_ERROR

I guess this is how they are going to pay that 1 billion dollar lawsuit.  Well I stopped uploading a while ago because their painful key wording tool was not worth the $0.28 sub sales...now with $0.02 I don't know why someone would even bother with them.  I will leave the last 218 photo's just to see how common $0.02 sales are.

Quote from: Moonb007 on July 09, 2012, 13:59

However Photo Dune is always in my top 5 and does better then iStock.

[OT] That was so surprising, I had a look at your iStock port. Can I say that at iStock the title and description aren't searchable? For instance, you've got this nice photo of Santa Mara della Salute #14209310, and I was surprised to see it had no dls. It turns out you haven't got "Santa Maria della Salute" which is in the CV in the keywords, so if someone wants a photo of that church, and searches on Santa Mara della Salute, they will never find your image. (You don't need 'canal' in that pic).
Also an editorial of Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, without "Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas" in the keywords, same again. (You don't need 'tourist' or 'gambling' in this image).
I know that some other sites search titles and descriptions, but iStock doesn't, it only searches the keywords.
Good luck!

Thanks, I didn't realize that either and will have to take a look.  I send my images to several sites and I know a lot of them break all the keywords apart which makes it hard to search for images on istock.  I have never bothered to go back and do a keyword like "Santa Mara Della Salute" sense I figured the title searches too.  Guess I should fix that and see what happens.  Typical DT, 123RF and SS are my top sites.

I uploaded a small batch of images to see what their system is like and so far I am not impressed.  They accepted a few images and made them directly live, but almost all of the rest where put in a bracket to get property releases.  They are waiting property releases for things like a chess piece, row of chairs, a bed, etc....but things like a boat are fine.  Not sure what this is all about, but it looks like it might be a hassle if I had to create all these releases for non-buildings.  Oh, out of my 20 images they accepted 9, rejected 4 and the rest are in property release purgatory.

FYI, they are still around.  However I cashed out my earnings just incase...they let you take what ever is in your account every three months which is nice for a slow earner.

DT sometimes just does not take the risk for any property.  I would clone out the number to, I remove those all the time.

Problem with Flickr is you can download any image that someone post on that site...even if you check the don't allow download button.

Make sure you submit how its says on their website.  DeepMeta has the date and then location.  All my images got rejected because istock requires location and then the date...I guess they are really picky on the order of things.  So I wanted to point that out as their third party software does not have the correct format...or I just got a crazy inspector.

I have found some...I always just use a google images search.  Name | Company and some items come up.  Also I will do Name | Photographer

again it is quite weird and hard to explain the difference between contributors.. I do 6x more money on 123 that I do at BigStock or CanStockPhoto.. my BigStock/CanStockPhoto are dead dead.. like 5 to 10 sales monthly

this month
123RF - 64 sales - 51.35$ (no "EL")
CanStockPhoto - 4 sales - 2$
BigStock - 3 sales - 2$

I am the same way

Yeah, Alamy is a different beast but worth the effort if you play by their rules. I still upload in small  batches as the risk vs reward is too high. Their all or nothing policy is based on the assumption that every image you upload is from the same shoot and that they are all the same quality. I've had  a couple of their SOLD rejections and have learned to keep all images in my Alamy folder until they are reviewed. If I get a rejection, I delete the image they rejected and take another careful look at the rest of the batch. If I still think they are ok, I upload the entire batch again minus the reject. I've never had a second rejection.

OTH, my highest sales there are mundane but well executied shots that would get an LCV at the quarter a pop sites.

My wishlist would be that, now that you don't have to get a check in the mail (they discontinued beaver pelts last year) that the payment threshold was a bit lower.

I do the same thing, its painfully a slow process so I limit my uploads to 10 images only.  I noticed also if you have multiple tracking images they will reject all your qued images if any of the others get rejected.

I don't have a problem with a year lock time...if I owned I site I was get sick of users submitting photo's and then pulling them all down in a few months.  As most underdog sites, it take a while to grow the business and its a waste for both parties.  If someone is considering going exclusive then the shouldn't be uploading to the smaller companies.

Quote from: madelaide on November 01, 2010, 15:00

This is only about new uplaods, right?

its all good now.. it was in the unfinished area

Thanks for processing my images for me :-p