Yeah, me too.
I mean, they sell HD videos for 8 dollars?? 25 for 4K video (which cost 4 or 6 times more on all other agencies)?!

Why should we practically give our videos away for free? And yeah, I'm sure they have quite a lot of sales... But we receive next to nothing!

Quote from: StefC on August 17, 2017, 03:55

We should all boycott agencies like iStock that don't respect us and our work. Both for videos and images.
I mean, 15% commission?!? Who are we, their slaves?

Slaves are not paid anything.

Jesus.... a little flexibility, try to grasp the meaning. Not everything you read is to be taken literally. This is called hyperbole, it's a figure of speech, you know?

Buyers may not search the way you think all the time, so sticking to what's in your scene/footage is important, but - as an example - including living room, cozy, house, home, interior along with fireplace, mantel, mantelpiece, gas fire (or wood or whatever) may well help your files sell if the buyer looks for "cozy living room" not "warm fireplace".

Looking at Shutterstock's list of keywords used to find my sold files,  I see some files have house selling more than home and others the opposite - so I now always include both; for interior shots, sometimes room is more important than bedroom or living room, and so on.

Also consider that buyers may use local versions of a website (for example, it.fotolia.com) and your keywords will be translated automatically to be found by those users. So you don't really know what foreign buyers will search for, what words they'll use.

Quote from: StefC on October 05, 2016, 04:33

I don't really remember. But even if they didn't sell many EL, they will begin now, if word spreads out that you can buy one for 1 dollar instead of 100. Selling out our hard work...

Is this information from their website? Because I couldn't find anything about extended licenses in their new plan.

I'm sorry, I was mislead by how they display prices next to each photo. They say: price 1 download, next to all sizes and including EL. So it looks like a small photo and an EL have the same price. But this is not the case.
But still, selling full resolution photos on demand at subscription price is just wrong and terrible for us.

On a side note, I found a nice autoclicker that does just what's needed here (except solving captcha!)
https://free-mouse-auto-clicker.it.uptodown.com/windows

Quote from: StefC on October 04, 2016, 17:08

Their statement that this thing doesn't involve enhanced licenses is clearly false, just look at any photo. You can buy it for 1 dollar, even the enhanced (or extended) license. On Shutterstock you can get 25 dollars, on depositphotos 0.30 or so.
But no, this will not affect our earnings... How can you even think such a thing?

They mean that it will not affect our earnings on Depositphotos, because on this site, in any way, you will never get a sale for more than $0.30�

But there used to be a difference between normal license and enhanced license. Anyway, f**k them and their brilliant ideas

Hello, am I the only one having problems with online dating sites using my photos?
Some agencies do prohibit this type of usage, as it's a personal matter (it may look like the person depicted is using an online dating service and if he/she is in a relationship it could be embarassing at the very least). Other agencies don't put this in the "sensitive use" list, so there's no restriction.

One of my models has found a photo of him on an ad for plentyoffish, I tried contacting them several times on several email addresses but never got a response.

If only they finally decided to PROTECT OUR WORK with a decent watermark!
At least in the Marketplace album.

But no, the "previews" are really huge (more than enough for most online uses) and the watermark is a tiny logo in a corner.
It's like saying "Hey, come here, the images are fully searchable, with tags and full descriptions and when you find it... you can steal it, it's so easy!"

Just want to ask, when buying the "Unlimited Owned License", can one still avail of the regular updates of the program in the future?

Yes, I have the Unlimited license and get all the updates.

If only they added Bigstock, too! This year, it has become my 3rd earner, after Shutterstock and Fotolia. So their data would be very important to analyse, but I can't! 

So, any news about the watermark issue?

I have uploaded a few hundreds photos some months ago for test and the other day I sold my first for 35 dollars (not on Prime though, but from the "social network" side of 500px). But seeing my photos on Prime ready to be stolen at 900 pixels width, with that ridiculous watermark on top is just unacceptable (they're not even right-click protected, you just save them and on most removing the watermark takes 10 seconds!)

It's like they do all they can to push us away!

In response to the person saying that you can easily steal photos from personal sites anyway (or Flickr etc...), that is true but you don't put ALL of your portfolio there, do you? They are used to showcase your work, so they contain a tiny fraction of your production.
The idea here on 500px, on the other hand, is: "Upload all your portfolio here, we'll give you good money for each sale but we'll do next to nothing to protect it. People wanting to use your photos on the web will flock in and easily steal them! What are you waiting for?"

How hard is it to remove the watermark on the attached file?

Hi everyone, I think it should be a requirement to link to symbiostock.info if one wants to be included in the global search engine, otherwise those websites will only receive and receive and not give anything back to the community. Or, if they choose to "go solo", they shouldn't be added to the global search engine either.


a quick question: I haven't added Dashphoto.eu to my network, yet it appears both on my network page and in my search results. How come?

Jo Ann, that would be very kind of you, please do.

I'll look for matches in the meantime