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General Stock Discussion / Sales on Zoonar
« on: March 27, 2013, 19:57 »
Around 1 year ago I uploaded half my archive onto Zoonar and in the following 7 months had regular and reasonable sales, mostly partner sales by DDP and AGE.
Very pleased by this pattern I decided to invest my time uploading the remaining half of my archive, similar subjects and image quality.
But since then, around october last year, those regular sales suddenly stopped. Haven't had a penny more reported, even though doubled my collection.
What are your experiences with Zoonar? Similar patterns? Any information that I might have missed that justifies this (severe) drop?
It doesn't seem to make sense those regular sales stopping all of a sudden, specially having doubled my portfolio.
I checked on the partners and my images are still there, are they just extremely late reporting sales (5+ months)
?

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Cutcaster  >:(

I uploaded around 700 images all at once onto Cutcaster to test sales, and had very high acceptance (over 90%).
Over the following few months I uploaded a further around 500 and they sat stuck in review cue for over 3 months.
Yesterday I sent a polite email notifying them of this fact and today checked that all but 6 of those 500 were automatically rejected with the same reason 'we are not looking for this at the moment'!!!
The files were the same range of subject matter and same caliber or better as I upgraded my camera to a D600 and always shoot raw (I've been a professional for 20 years and currently university professor of photography).
Thank you cutcaster for wasting my time, I'm shocked by this attitude "oh we're too busy or don't care and will reject everything so we solve your queue problem"

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Very happy with SS
« on: March 09, 2013, 13:03 »
Just saying that all of the 21 sites I submit to have big earning variations month to month, up to 1000% or more in some cases. Noticed that SS has a massively different pattern of only around 10% or so variation, so asking fellow long time contributors if they found something similar.
What is the reason for SS reported sales patterns being so very dramatically different from all the others?
If you owned a restaurant somewhere you couldn't access/check personally, business that has similar variables with just a few customers on slow days and packed full on others, and your manager reported you made the same profit every day, what would you think?

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gift horse, mouth?

Just saying that all of the 21 sites I submit to have big earning variations month to month, up to 1000% or more in some cases. Noticed that SS has a massively different pattern of only around 10% or so variation, so asking fellow long time contributors if they found something similar.
What is the reason for SS reported sales patterns being so very dramatically different from all the others?
If you owned a restaurant somewhere you couldn't access/check personally, business that has similar variables with just a few customers on slow days and packed full on others, and your manager reported you made the same profit every day, what would you think?

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Shutterstock is definitely top earner for me, with similar size folios on many agencies.
After I uploaded my first around 300 files every month yielded around 50$ (with very little variation).
For some months with no further uploads these earnings remained stable.
At a later stage I uploaded around 300 more (double the files) over a couple weeks, then the earnings went up to 100$ (double the earnings) and remained so for months until I
recently uploaded 150 more and the earnings grew proportionally again, with very little variation.
It seems strange these figures, and this is over a 2 year period total.
The monthly variation is never beyond 10%, so I can predict quite accurately the earnings at the end of each month.
So you have x files you make x money, you have 2x files you make 2x money, you have 3x files you make 3x money...?
This doesnt happen with any other site I'm on.
Some sites can make 5$ one month and 50$ the next, a variation of 1000%
A strange recurring coincidence? What are your experiences? Is this suspicious?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Very happy with SS
« on: March 08, 2013, 13:41 »
Shutterstock is definitely top earner for me, with similar size folios on many agencies.
After I uploaded my first around 300 files every month yielded around 50$ (with very little variation).
For some months with no further uploads these earnings remained stable.
At a later stage I uploaded around 300 more (double the files) over a couple weeks, then the earnings went up to 100$ (double the earnings) and remained so for months until I
recently uploaded 150 more and the earnings grew proportionally again, with very little variation.
It seems strange these figures, and this is over a 2 year period total.
The monthly variation is never beyond 10%, so I can predict quite accurately the earnings at the end of each month.
So you have x files you make x money, you have 2x files you make 2x money, you have 3x files you make 3x money...?
This doesnt happen with any other site I'm on.
Some sites can make 5$ one month and 50$ the next, a variation of 1000%
A strange recurring coincidence? Is it suspicious? What are your experiences?

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