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MicrostockSubmitter / Status quo?
« on: February 20, 2011, 10:35 »
At first, congrats to your move to Bulgaria Niakris! A beautiful country :-)

How is the Status quo of MSS? I was trying it about 3 weeks ago and it had some bugs for me, so I decided to wait a bit until I use it regulary...

One of the main bugs which prevent me from using it was the missing localization support for Fotolia. E.G. when you are not in an US location, but e.g. registered in France or Germany, MSS wouldn`t work. Any news on that?

How is the general state atm? Does it work reliable for you?

Thanks for your opinions!

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StockFresh / Re: What????
« on: February 13, 2011, 15:51 »
e-mail, which I sent some 30 hours after the original one, was read, and acted upon within a couple of hours.  It's a pity that someone from the site didn't reply to either of my e-mails, before acting so swiftly on my request to close my account. 

They closed your account because you complained?

Personally, I stopped taking care about my approval ratio since it doesn`t seem to have anything to do with the financial performance of the site. On the sites with an high acceptance ratio I usually find lots of trash and competition from lower quality versions, on the sites with higher quality standards there is less competition and I get more performance per Image.
Ironically, my two best sellers are shutterstock, which accept like 95%, and istock, which accept maybe 50% of my works.

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Veer / Re: New Veer Contributor Agreement Posted
« on: June 16, 2010, 08:50 »
> That many of you are worrying that you won't hit $100 in royalties over the course of a year is unacceptable to > me.

Than change it to $ 50! lol
I`m tired of all that marketing talk...

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Database cleanup
« on: October 28, 2009, 20:03 »
To melastmohi:
>Why minimum of 3 years?
The timeframes are just an example....put one year or ten years, this would be up to discussion. Its about the Idea...

To alias:
>And if all the sales were yesterday because something change at Google ? Sometimes an >image suddenly starts selling after a few years.
Thats the Idea: deleting images after some time even if they generate _some_ sales. This is eliminating compteition from old files and is rewarding active contributors.

>A real person has to actually look at millions of image to decide ? Who pays their wages ?
No. If the image has sold more than x times it just doesn`t get deleted. This process is automatic. If an image is from a niche market the inspector could note it at approval.

>One solution for old images is to recycle them as subscription and traffic bait.
Yes, good idea!

To Dirkr:
>Why care about deleting old images anyway?
For the contributor: Because the are diluting the database and inflating the value of the general content. Just read and understand the initial post.
For the agency: quality standards move on. Older files are more likely to be lower standard, if they sell nevertheless or are not, they automaticly just don`t get deleted.

>There are subject (you call them "niche markets") that may not sell that often, but how to >identify them? That would be a manual process which would certainly outweigh the >savings in storage cost...
See above. Personally, from a business point of view, I wouldn`t bother to just delete them too.

Have a nice day

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General Stock Discussion / Database cleanup
« on: October 28, 2009, 14:08 »
Hi all,

Just some thoughts I posted allready elsewhere (not only) regarding the database cleanup of dreamstime, but the situation in general....I prefer to stay anonymous but am a contributor since 5 years.

I welcome the step of dreamstime to delete old, unsold images.

However, I don`t think it`s enough. We have to go one or more steps further in Microstock.

When we continue like this the database faces an extreme dilatation and inflation to the value of our images. Our sales will go down and some actually are already going down. At some point the revenue per image won`t justify professional Stock photography anymore.
Professional contributors will step out. This will cause an decrease in quality and quantity, which is bad for the Company too.
(off course all this is speculative :-) )

Deleting images with no sales doesn`t help to improve our sales, since they haven`t been in competition ... with zero downloads. The amount of money in the market is the same. So I see it more as an advantage for the dreamstime servers than for contributors.

My solution would be even more radical:
- After three years: delete every image with 0 sales
- After four Years: delete every image with 1 sale
- After five Years: delete every image with 3 sales or lower
- After six years: delete every image below 10 sales.
- As exeptions you can exclude certain images of e.g. niche markets etc. from the removal.
- Old images with real value are staying in the database forever.

Results:
- A constantly high image quality of the Database. Many old Images just doesn`t match current standards anymore, even if they have generated one or two sales in the past.
- Active contributors have the chance to maintain a certain level of sales due to the removal of older files which actualy had been in competition. Inactive contributors lose sales over the years.
- It keeps profitable to produce high quality images for the stock market, which assures a certain quality level.

I know that NO artist is very pleased seeing his work deleted from an (commercial) database, but I`m not only an Artist, I`m a business man too.

Thanks for listening....

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