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« on: July 01, 2011, 09:39 »
Sorry, I'm quite a newcomer here - well, you have some connection between two companies. And?..
What are you afraid of? Your personal information being stolen? - come on! In a world where everyone uses Facebook, Twitter, smartfones letting know where you were and what you purchased... There are lots of more easy ways to stole your personal information, there is no need to create such a big site (just count how much it cost - just to pay programmers, admins, managers...), keep it working for almost two years, pay for the images sold...
Well, if you don't want to create your account here - don't do this, that's all. I don't have a feeling they are going to say "bye-bye, we won't work any more" (as some _other_ stock sites did)...
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« on: February 11, 2010, 04:35 »
Don't know what about main page - I only noticed changes in blocks of images in the left, - but I noticed they have German and French languages now.
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« on: February 04, 2010, 12:44 »
Think this information is somewhere at the forum already, but will make a note in this section just to sum everything up. SXis now closed, instead we have a Thinkstock. If you: 1) have a SX account and turned On selling through subscription and you don't have account at Istock, your portfolio will migrate to Istock 2) have a SX, turned Off selling through subscription and would like to sell images at Thinkstock you shall turn subscriptions On (My Account->Profile , flag point 7 and save changes) 3) have both IS and SX accounts and have subscription sells turned on at both - your SX portfolio will migrate to IS, but duplicates from IS pack will be deleted from SX one. In all the cases your payment from the one sell at ThinkStock will be $0.25 More detailed information can be found here - http://ministocking.blogspot.com/2010/02/thinkstockphotos-what-where-when-who.html-- I'm sorry I'm not quite sure if I'm allowed to give this link but hope moderators wouldn't be against --
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« on: January 21, 2010, 12:06 »
Maybe this will be interesting for you.
Information on IS what shall be done if you are the inheritor, but no account of dead person exist and you wish to create it and start selling images.
"We will need a copy of the will stating that he willed copyright of his images to a specific person. If this is not mentioned in the legal will, then the executor of the estate can write a letter stating who will inherit copyright of the images.
iStockphoto will need a copy of the will stating who inherits the images (or stating who the executor is, and then a letter form the executor) and a copy of a death certificate.
These documents are kept on file, and you will be able to upload his images for sale at iStockphoto"
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« on: January 21, 2010, 11:58 »
And from the size of agencies - don't think it's a good idea from the legal size. i mean, every agency have it's own rules on image upploadings, on site usage, privacy policy and so on. Its rather alike, but still different. How can they be sure you apgree with their rules if they simply take your images from the third-side place?
How can they be sure you are the author of the works - and how can they proove they have the right to sell this images in case some promlems occures?
When a person upploads images throug FTP or web-interface, he or she is logged in, and the agency have base of linkings, a list of IP and so on to proove - this logged in user upploaded this pictures. And if they simply take images - you may say "I didn't allow you to use my images, I don't agree with your rules" and so on.
Maybe for big agencies with law department working for them it's not a problem, and the small ones wouldn't agree for it, I suppose.
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« on: January 21, 2010, 11:47 »
Well, in my oppinion everything is quite logical. They have no reason in paying you for image upploading if not to be sure they'll have your works for at least some time - and for some of professional stockers there can be no interest in loosing the control under their works.
And it's really good they give a posibility to moneyout immediately, - I faced with some new stocks that also made promo programs for sellers, but you couldn't have your money until your works are sold for some sum... As a rezult you only have a beautiful number on your computer, not money in your pockets.
The only thing they could do better is to show you a page of promo program with activation button when you enter the site after passing the exam - just to be sure you have read it and understood you wouldn't be payed before you activate it, so not to be in situation of donding. But the fact they promiced to pay for approved images makes me quite optimistic - as far as I understood while looking throug topics on this stock none of the members was deceived by them.
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« on: January 13, 2010, 10:31 »
Well, according to their rules you must have $50 for request - it will be a long time to have it only from referrals...
Maybe upploading images under their promo program is a good idea? They pay you "up to $100", plus referral money - in general it seems to be an interesting proposition.
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« on: January 13, 2010, 09:18 »
Hi Jonatan! Hi All,
I was under the impression you only got to raise your price point at Fotolia based on your sales status or how many downloads you already have. Am I mistaken and anyone can choose there price point at Fotolia, that would be great news. Please fill me in more on this topic, I am clueless to their agreement for pricing images.
Thanks,
Jonathan
No, i was talking mostly "I wish I could" - as far as I remember in Fotolia you can change for a little some prices - double it for the small image for example or simply make bigger for the extended license. The higher you level is the greater freedom of changes you have. But all the same you're not totally free in pricing, its a pity.
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« on: January 13, 2010, 08:55 »
Sounds quite interesting - I never came across affiliate program with the payment for the images simply upploaded by your referral...
And what about their promo? Did anybody try it?
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« on: January 12, 2010, 04:51 »
I don't claim to ultimate truth, but it seems to me Fotolia type of work - or something like this variant - is the optimum both for sellers and buyers. If you are a real professional and you're making really good shoots - with all this equipment - your images can't be of a small cost. And the buyers must have a chanse to choose, if they wish to have an amateur image for the small price or really good work from the professional.
What I want to say is that in the market there is a need in all types of shoots with all types of pricings, and it's fair to give you a chanse to choose if you want to have higher price and more rare sells or a low price and lots of buyers for your works. Ideal scheme in my oppinion is when an agency sets you a "roof' for your prices for the image according to your professional level and you're free to set desired sum for the shoot.
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« on: January 12, 2010, 04:21 »
SS reviewers are also contributors? Do all agencies do that?
yes, and yes.
Are you absolutely sure? - I never came across such information. Or is it only your suspicions? And in general, is there any way of changing SS decisions about images but resubmitting them?
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« on: January 06, 2010, 09:42 »
Looks like they made a kind of script to emulate sells, don't you think so? So many sells at once just after some time of total silence...
I'm now thinking on uploading a part of portfolio there but don't know if it will bea good time investment
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« on: November 26, 2009, 09:21 »
Could it be something else?
With micro prices customers may value their time in searching and selecting the right pictures a lot higher than the actual price of the pictures.
So maybe if a customer is working on a project he just sends an intern (or even multiple persons) to download suitable material from different agencies - and ends up downloading the same file from different agencies without knowing.
It seems to me this is the most realistic variant. If you have the same names, keywords and description its no wonder for the same searches at different sites they'll have the same - yours - pictures. So during the mass action like collecting pictures for the subscription limits your works are in the pack
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« on: November 26, 2009, 09:02 »
Even if you have the same username in Bigstock and Shutter I don't think they have a possibility to compare information on your portfolio on both sites. Pay attention they are not usually good in rejection duplicates even in the measures of one portfolio...
"Buying" of the company usually means they have the same name at the line of CEO but doesn't mean the same database, inspectors and politics of acceptance.
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« on: November 26, 2009, 08:55 »
Hope it's not too late for you. If you have a blog or your profile somewhere in Facebook you probably have at least a couple of models only waiting for work with you. Really, if you post something like "Please, please - can somebody save me from staying alone with camera" - even in this case some of your friends write you back. And if to write: "Special action only for you! Only here, only now and only for the first 3 guys" - you'll have a chance to choose the best variant from the huge amount of propositions...
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