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Dreamstime.com / Re: "Confidential" email from Dreamstime
« on: May 30, 2014, 09:38 »
Anyway we should thank DT for this deal. If there were not DPC from FT and this "super deal" from DT - many stockers continued to work without paying attention to all this "Megaprojects".
Now all spend much more time to know about all nuances of work with microstocks. Now stockers really understanding that he has his own voice. It's great thing for all of us.

But DT employees, are you still can't understand one simple thing? Be honest with your contributors. You've made big work - you've made enviroment for this project, you've selected works from contributors portfolio. So you have information about selected works in your database in separate table, right? So i think this database have minimum 2 fields like  Contributor Login and Image ID. And are you want to say to us that simple button which will send one request to your database and will erase selected image ID's of specified contributor it's so hard for you? It will take 2 hours maximum including programmer's breakfast, smoking time and many other. Why do you not to do this?

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Dreamstime.com / Re: "Confidential" email from Dreamstime
« on: May 29, 2014, 10:58 »
Again, nobody is forcing you to participate. Feel free to opt out if the deal is not for you.

Why you lie? You force all contributors who had received "secret" letters to participate it's images in this partnership by default.

Be respectful and you will be respected.

Exactly! But you should say this phrase yourself first.

Microstocks MUST respect their contributors.
If you need to include some images in beta-test of some partnership program you MUST ask it first, even if they'll get their royalty afterwards. 
You shouldn't take their images by default. Yes, you've send email notice, but: some contributors have vacation now and can't do required actions to opt-out. Also some mail services was placed your letter in Spam or Junk folders. Also some stockers don't read microstocks newsletters.
You must provide to your contributors full conditions of their works usage and royalties.
You must provide separate opt-out option for this partnership program (in current case you force people to opt-out from all partner services, not only from your beta-test PP)

It's minimal requirements. Simply be honest with people who helps earn money to you.
Only after this you can require respect to you and your microstock.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 16, 2014, 13:15 »
So here's the list that PhotoBomb made (and I've added the extra set of names you e-mailed me)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12956972/LINK REMOVED DUE TO PUBLIC DISPLAY OF EMAIL ADDRESSES

Let me know if you have any trouble accessing it - Steve (PhotoBomb) said it didn't work for him. If that doesn't work I can try GoogleDrive instead (with Google's spreadsheet which anyone can edit online).

Perhaps an email should be sent to Mat Hayward

Why do we send this letter to Fotolia's employee?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 15, 2014, 15:15 »
Why is that a success? DPC isn't intended to be an add-on for Fotolia. DPC can't exist without taking customers away from other places, including Fotolia itself. Or, worse yet, from places that pay better than Fotolia. Fotolia was even advertising DPC on it's own website recently. The increase in royalties at FT is negated by the loss of buyers.

You're buying in to what they're trying to sell you on, that some aspects of this are good for you. Please know this: None of what Fotolia has been doing lately is done for your best interests in any way. The royalty increase is an empty gesture intended to make you think you've achieved something. Obviously it's working.

Oh, c'mon, Mike :) You're a bit pessimistic :)
Yes, this steps are very small - but even these steps would not have been if not for all of you activity
That's no reason to give up. Fighting with the DPC, of course, continues.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 15, 2014, 14:18 »
Mike, you're wrong.
At first - Fotolia increases comissions for it pseudo-subscriptions so anyway, people who opted-out in DPC but continue cooperate with FT will get more honest earnings. Even this - big success for our boycott.

At this moment i think we need to work with customers. Let me explain - you should make posts and articles not for stockers, but for people who buy pictures in stock.
Why? Because they direct auditory on microstocks. So what advertisment DPC promote? Unique private club? Ok, write about it. But don't forget said that many stockers stopped upload and opt-out from it. Show difference in 25% between FT and DPC. Talk that FT lies to customers when promises exclusive content. Talk about your and your friends, that you're generate great images, but customer didn't find it on DPC.

You can't force all FT contributors to opt-out. But.... You can create bad reputation for DPC. You can make the buyer assume that DPC is shop for poor people with strictly limited content, with poor prospects and without great updates because many stockers stop upload to FT. That if he even will buy images - he can cheat image's author because these works can be sold without his knowledge so cheap.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 15, 2014, 09:31 »
On 3rd May DPC had 18% less files than Fotolia (calculated with the search tearms Business, People, Animal, Nature and Beautiful).
On 10th May it was 21%.
Today it is 23,9% (or 6.750.000 files less).
I suppose that means that since the announcement of the higher subscription royalties, MORE files/contributors are opted out instead of less ...  ;D
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that their next move will be :  DPC entry level 99 $


Some contributors returns to DPC. But anyway, people continues to opt-out from DPC. You can check hourly changes in DPC by categories here: http://stockalliance.org/ru/dpccatstats.html

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Wow! Great news, Mat! So nice that Fotolia cares about its contributors and increases the commission on "pseudo-subscriptions" from 6-7% to 20%.

But... Oh, wait, holy s**t, are you kidding us? Who needs 5 XXL images for 25$ when you promote your DPC where a user can get 25 XXL for 25 bucks?

Look the truth in the eye - Fotolia came to a death agony, more than 6,500,000 images opted-out of DPC and the number keeps growing. Do you really think that you can return that many images back to DPC with the help of this news?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 16:26 »
http://stockalliance.org/ru/dpccatstats.html - detailed stats by DPC categories. Maybe it'll help someone who needs analytics.

As shown by stats i think some of big contributors was opted-out during past 4 days.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 15:34 »
Dollarphotoclub: 21 802 109 images (appr)
Fotolia: 28 126 945

Whoa. Over 6 million images? Is that really possible?

My script counts total qty of images in categories of DPC every hour. If you need detailed stats by categories for past days - i can try to make new stats.
Anyway i'm afraid that 6kk opted-out aren't opt-out in May durind D-day. I think some of big agency and stockers was opted out from start of DPC.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 15:22 »
Am I reading that right...is it close to a million images difference in some categories? Does that mean more than a million have been opted out?

Dollarphotoclub: 21 802 109 images (appr)
Fotolia: 28 126 945

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 06:29 »
Is there some reasone warez people would want photos removed from DPC? I don't understand why anyone would support warez and be bothered about DPC. Perhaps someone can explain what all this means.

I can explain many things about Dolgachev and his targets, i think i can write detailed desription of his behavior and behavior of some russian-community admin later. Also i'm NOT a warez people. Please, read previous posts carefully.

So speak clearly!

For what fileshare company are you employee ?

Letitbit.net if it's so important. I can repeat one more time - i'm not a fileshare's admin, only employee which works with DMCA abuses.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 06:14 »
Is there some reasone warez people would want photos removed from DPC? I don't understand why anyone would support warez and be bothered about DPC. Perhaps someone can explain what all this means.

I can explain many things about Dolgachev and his targets, i think i can write detailed desription of his behavior and behavior of some russian-community admin later. Also i'm NOT a warez people. Please, read previous posts carefully.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 05:18 »
No, it isn't true. I'm employee of fileshare and work with DMCA abuses so my work - to help delete piracy files from file-shares. I haven't any relations with warez sites.

Lev, i understand that you and some of your colleagues targeted to blacken this project, because you and your colleagues will lose part of your audience in future if our project will popular, but in fact - it will made anyway, free, honest and independent.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 05:01 »
We've had idea to share stocker's works which have bad/no sales on some warez sites to prevent piracy...

am i the only one who sees a nonsense here?

Not only. But, the fact that we observed a 90% reduction in piracy of the project participants.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 12, 2014, 04:33 »
I am confused why suddenly the site shows different projects that are related to stockalliance.org.

In the Google cache I found that in March 2014 there have been three big illegal WAREZ sites involved, see screenshot attached:

From start stockalliance.org site was created with cooperation with some stockers. We've had idea to share stocker's works which have bad/no sales on some warez sites to prevent piracy of works this stockers. So we've had good results from this but we need to close this idea due to no enough time to continue this.

At this moment i'm planning to transform this site (because domain name sounds good :) ) to stock portal with news, alarm button, microstock's analyse and "test purchases" from microstocks. English translation will be available later, after main functions of site will be created.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 05, 2014, 15:18 »
Absolutely correct. I was approved 20 min later after payment and used absolutely fake name and surname.

How were you able to pay using a fake name ? Isn't that fraud ?

I'm using PayPal during my purchase.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 05, 2014, 14:45 »
I understand it's possible, but the odds are poor that (a) both are within the 30% and (b) you're doing much validating when you allow fake e-mails on sign ups (which would seem to be a path to future credit card fraud and other not nice things).

Absolutely correct. I was approved 20 min later after payment and used absolutely fake name and surname.

UPD: We're online :)

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: May 05, 2014, 13:57 »
Good day!
Unfortunately, in the data center where the server is located the accident occurred. Data center specialists are now engaged in this issue. Please do not worry.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 30, 2014, 08:38 »
His motivation is the same as each other petition signer's motivation: we wish to save the industry and make sure our future as microstock contributors is bright and promising.

In an earlier post he claimed that he has no microstock affiliation whatsoever, so I find it a bit strange to organize such a boycott, when he is totally unrelated to the industry.

Boycottfotolia.org maintained by 2 people. First of it - coordinator, also known as Frbird from microstock.ru forum. He's Fotolia contributor off course.
And i'm - technical developer of site. I've many friends from microstockers community from all the world. And i really don't affiliated with any microstock or their affiliated companies.
So when you need to repair your car - you going to autoservice. When you need to buy new camera - you going to shop or ebay. And what you'll do if you need a web-site? Right, ask programmer about that :)

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 30, 2014, 07:39 »
@fotoramka: Who are you?

And who is the "we" you are mentioning in your posts?

I'm boycottfotolia.org developer.
It's translated text of my open letter to microstockers which was published on Rissian-speaking forums.
What do you mean about "we"?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 29, 2014, 17:36 »
@ fotoramka: Some of the receivables are satisfies.

Some not, is there a way to mark the unfulfilled at the website? Some of the contributors think almost is ok now, so there were an actual status optimal.

Off course. On May 1st, we'll write on our site - if fotolia fullfilled petition or not. You should unserstand that we CAN'T require people who signed for petition to do anything. It should be it's choice. Otherwise Fotolia can take legal actions against us.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 29, 2014, 16:40 »
Hi all!
Here's my translated text, which i posted on Russian microstock forum and livejournal.

Please, read it carefully. Also some conditions was changed from Fotolia side, but 99% of my post are very actual for you all!

---------------- START --------------------------------

So guys, it's time to give a personal comment.

DISCLAIMER 1: Let me make it clear. All this text is point of view of only one person and shouldn't be considered as any different person position except mine. This personal opinion may not match the position of boycottfotolia.org.

There will be a lot of text, but I want to describe the situation in the most convenient way, the way that even people who never heard about DPC can easily form a clear judjement about this project and about people, who made it. I also want to show some examples, where DPC promotion leads.

Considering Oleg Tscheltzoff's position shown in already published correspondence, I have to say:

DISCLAIMER 2: All my participation in boycottfotolia.org project, including creating and maintaining a website, and also writing of the original version of the petition is voluntary and gratuitous. I'm not a microstocker. I'm independent of microstock business and I'm not affiliated with any photobank, microstock or any other organization that competes with fotolia.com or represents the interests of of third-parties competing with fotolia.com. I don't receive any material or other benefits in any form from this project or its participants and any third-party organizations. In my work I represent the interests of my friends microstockers and all these people, who cast their votes in support of petition.

Let's see how it started.

The dollarphotoclub.com project (hereinafter referred to DPC) was launched in January this year. Well, but so what? Just a project that has been declared as new Fotolia's partner. But after that an interview with Fotolia's co-founder Oleg Tscheltzoff was published: Russian news site

So, let's make it clear what kind of thoughts could be learned from this interview by common reader? I'll provide some excerpts from the article with my comments:

1. "This service designed for professionals who are constantly in need of images, for those who are engaged in the design personally or works in the agency."

So that is, Oleg imagines the audience of the project as already established market created by his and other microstock agencies. He is definitely not talking about all this "new infusions from the side". Professional designers and agencies already have a corporate subscription plans from Fotolia or other microstock agencies. And given the need for images, even semi-professional studio consumes a lot of pictures and subscription plan is more profitable than being a "club member".

2. "We launched a pilot version of the project in the United States three months ago. I participated in the launch of more than 50 start-ups and to be honest, I've never seen such growth: after the first quarter, we already had a multimillion business, although we have only begun to advertise."

It should be noted that part of this multimillion business is contributors' direct losses on other microstock agencies and Fotolia itself (Suddenly, right? I'll explain later.) So what will happen with the project becoming fully operational as inherent in their business plan?

3. "Members who, for example, previously shopped at Shutterstock, write us about it."

Just as required, people ran for a freebie, and you all have lost part of your extended and on demand sales.

4. "The site itself cost us a small amount of money. It's about a few hundred thousand dollars. But we plan to invest a lot of money in advertising."

5. "Since we've done 18-month turnover in three months, I'm also thinking about advertising im mass media."

It's all at your expense, dear contributors.

6.
"- What audience do you expect in Russia, at least for the first year?
- I think if we have 20-30 thousand members by the end of the year, it will be a good result. And if we grow up to 20% market share next year, it will also be good. I see no problem if it doesn't happen, because we have the biggest accessible and legal database of photos, and it is also the cheapest on the market today."

That means Oleg expects minimum monthly payments of $200.000-300.000 for the smallest subscription or 20% of market share, which is actually more. It reduces the entry price (I will explain below how).

7.
"- Price is really important advantage. What do you think, will competitors follow your lead?
- It won't be easy for them, we have great opportunities for maneuver. Shutterstock is a public company, which should show higher profits to shareholders, they can't cut prices either. iStock has a lot of debt. They took a bank loan, which must be paid, so their hands are tied. Smaller companies don't have the opportunity to compete with us."

And, unfortunately, it's the bitter truth. Promotion of DPC will lead to dire consequences for the whole market.

Interview received a huge amount of negative comments and provoked a strong wave of discussions on the forums. People began to demand from the support to remove their content from DPS, but they received only formal reply that the only way to remove content from DPC is removing it from Fotolia.
This caused even more stormy wave of perturbations and one forum user known as frbird decided to move forward and I helped him by creating our common boycottfotolia.org site. I'm also grateful to all of you who supported us and helped with translations. Without you guys none of this would have happened and community would have continued to be silent about all that crap Fotolia literally feeding us.
By that moment Fotolia closed topic related to DPC on its own official forum. At the moment of this publication (April 27, 16:00 GMT) Fotolia still haven't sent some official representative to
community forums (except copy-paste bot) and they haven't made any public announcements regarding DPC. And this happens despite the fact that all your images were moved to DPC without any notice and without the possibility of quick and convenient refusal (as of this writing).

One day passed and realizing that something goes wrong, Fotolia started to send to angry microstockers emails inviting to contact Fotolia's representative in Russia. After that, when finally crap hits the fan, letters have changed dramatically.

So what exactly are the DPC:
1. DPC position itself as CLOSED club (according to Fotolia's representatives, but also was refuted by several people after test purchases), when Fotolia selects the major market players and examines each application for membership. But there are two tariffs on acquisition page: 10 USD/month with allegedly consideration (disproved) and 99 USD/month for INSTANT membership without consideration.
2. DPC license differs from Fotolia's one. So Fotolia's Standard License has limitation of copying for 500 000 pcs. For DPC it's UNLIMITED. Moreover, the main page, which says "Unlimited edition - Unlimited Use" misleading bona fide purchaser. Do you really think he's going to read license terms about prohibited printing and reselling? REMARK: Maybe I could have won the court case, if I print a photo on a mug, because of misrepresentation of this "Unlimited Use" advertising.
3. Unused part of subscription plan is TRANSFERRING to the next month. I'll explain this highlighting below.

And now attention!
This is the most crucial and important part of my treatment. To those who still thinking about cooperation with the DPC and Fotolia in particular.
Just maths, just hardcore!

Let's try to find out if DPC is really so beneficial for contributors.
An experiment.
I made two cases and four spreadsheets

FIRST CASE
We assume that some design studio or agency monthly needs 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750 (And only so much! Nothing more or less!) images of M and XXL size. I did it for you to assess the extent of the changes. Also assume that all of you have "Gold" status. It could be "White", but "Gold" is better for averaging and non-exclusive prices. Here we go!

Explanation to the spreadsheets:
"Contributor Estimated Income (CEI)" is calculated under the condition that the buyer didn't download more than previously described number of images.
"Buyer Entry Price" is amount that buyer must pay to join Fotolia and download images, which that would be also obtained by photostock.
"Club Benefit Indicator": positive amount if the buyer saves and negative if he loses.

Table 1. Size M. Price of demand in points for "Gold" is 6 (31%). Price of subscription in points for "Gold" is 0.31.



Table 1. Size XXL. Price of demand in points for "Gold" is 12 (31%). Price of subscription in points for "Gold" is 0.31.



Here is a summary.

1. What we see:
Contributor Estimated Income is a value which shows exactly how much you will get from the specified value of the downloaded images theoretically. In fact this is how much you will get from subscription as with DPC, and without it. As you can see, CEI is the same everywhere except of situations with demand and size M. So in fact, participation in DPC robs you of even such a * demand! Essentially, it's more beneficial than any demand, since the minimum recharge amount on points is 14 USD.
Now you can forget about demands on Fotolia. You can also forget about any other microstock agencies' demands. Just think of how much it costs a minimum "on demand" package on any other microstock agency which you use. Draw an analogy. They are gone. At all. Once clients of other microstocks will learn about DPC.

2. Buyer Entry Price is a buyer paid price to enjoy pictures. As you can see, with a minimum of 14 USD it dropped down to 10 USD and remains there up to 25 USD point. Now ask yourself, if you have a sales? Do you have a sales at all, for God's sake??? So where . did they come? Yep, right, it's because the buyer has paid the price for entrance to download your pictures. And besides other microstock agencies' price is HIGHER. But people pay! And they are your customers.
Do you think these people want to pay 25 USD for 10 pictures in M or 40 USD for XXL, when DPC entry price is 10 USD? Just think about it, these people were paying 25 USD and 40 USD before. There is no new market. Here is just a huge DUMPING. DPC will entice those who already purchasing pictures for more money in other microstock agencies, so you will lose your demands EVERYWHERE. Not right now. Not in a week. Just wait until DPC becomes famous. If you could get at other microstock agencies some HUGE wad of money, or fat wad, or even tiny one for demand before, so after that you have to be satisfied with your "Gold" 0.31 USD on DPC. I don't even want to comment "White"/"Bronze" levels. By the way, forget about all the extended licenses that are bought for large circulation, too.

3.Club Benefit Indicator.As we see here, DPC is advantageous for size M up to 50 images/month and up to 100 images/month for XXL. Are they those "major buyers", which Tscheltzoff talk about? Are they not-for-everybody (oh, really?) private club members who buy up 100 images monthly in their own elite way? DPC becomes equivalent/unfavorable to buyers since 100 M and 250 XXL pics. If people want to buy more, they'll pay more than the standard Fotolia's license.

After that, do not forget, that DPC subsciption are transferring between months. Tscheltzoff skillfully presses on mentality. If I want 5 pictures, another 5 will stay. So I'd rather prolong my subscription, let it be 15 next month. He wants to get a stable flow of monthly low/mid subscriptions this way, which will be prolongated. But it's not a fact that people will "spend" these pictures. Somebody can pay 10 bucks to Tscheltzoff, but you won't get anything from it. Maybe it will accumulate by the end of the year.

Do you realize now that any bulk purchases out of the question? Tscheltzoff wants to entice mid/low budget buyers. Large agencies sitting on subscriptions will not change partners to disreputable microstock. Especially because in the actual large scale all the prices almost the same on the market.

Latest news promise to give us the ability to disable DPC. Some people on forums are screaming "thank you" and your morale partially decreased. I have no right to ask you for something. Neither moral nor of any other. I understand that. Really. You have a family, kids. Pictures on Fotolia sell well and you don't want to lose some revenue. But I ask you. Just ask not to pick up a bone, thrown by Tscheltzoff. I expected this and it was the worst scenario. Now you are at the mercy of doubt. There shouldn't be a doubt. Only two options: either fulfillment of the petition requirements or deletion of portfolios. I will not change the text of the petition. I wrote it myself, then all of you have corrected it. Please don't think that I put myself above others. I'm not. frbird kicked this idea, it's only to his credits. All who help us, who translate, communicate, repost, post, phoning microstocker friends did a good job. But like everyone else, I have the right to vote on an EQUAL basis with all of you.

Now to the movers and shakers who feels good and comfortable and those people who don't believe in this initiative, who's laughing at us. I'll show you an example, more close to reality, how you'll crap your pants with the introduction of DPC not only for low/mid market share, but also on bulk downloads.

SECOND CASE

Previous case successfully showed us that theoretically DPC ALREADY pulls ALL low/mid buyers to Fotolia, which brings loss to On Demand and Extended sales (in terms of the number of copies) on other microstocks. Now let's imagine that buyers don't want to lose unused subscription pictures and they're pumping out entire subscription to the last penny. Agree that it's a much more real case. Two spreadsheets again. But I introduced some additional points for ease of understanding.

Table 3. Size M. Price of demand in points for "Gold" is 6 (31%). Price of subscription in points for "Gold" is 0.31.



Table 4. Size XXL. Price of demand in points for "Gold" is 12 (31%). Price of subscription in points for "Gold" is 0.31.



And what do we see here? Due to the fact that you have lost all other microstocks' demands, position UP TO 10 images is slightly more profitable than Fotolia and also equivalent to other microstocks (don't forget that one On Demand sale can be as big as CEI for 10 images).

But since 51 pictures (in fact 11, but I'm just already angry and tired, I don't like to write all the numbers) becomes much more interesting. First of all, pay attention to the CEI, as well as on the microstock income flow. Let me remind you that CEI is a money, which drips into your pocket, and microstock income flow is how much microstock received from all of this.
Draw conclusions from Table 3: from 51 to 100 images CEI grows from +0.31 USD up to +15.5 USD. For the insanely gifted I'll explain: EACH downloaded "FOR THE FUTUTRE" image brings to our pocket ADDITIONAL 0.31 USD in case of old Fotolia's subscription, but not DPC.
100 pictures is a turning point.
After 101st picture because of the need to take a "25 a day" subscription plan CEI increases from 0.31 USD up to 201 USD (for 750 pictures).
AGAIN. In case when number of images exceeds 100 and buyer purchases from 1 to 649 images more by standard SUBSCRIPTION plan for the future use, your wallets are replenished for the total amount from 0.31 to 201 (!) bucks. In contrast to the DPC, where people have to pay for each additional picture and think a hundred times to download something useful but not for right now.
Now pay attention to the income flow of the microstock agency. As you can see, starting with the 101st picture standard subscriptions become extremely disadvantageous to them. While DPC brings a stable 0.69 USD multiplied by the number of images in case of paying to "Gold" mickrostocker. Figuratively speaking, Fotolia's income from DPC starting from 1st picture increases linearly, and this fact allows them not to think about buyer to choose all the pictures of subscription plan or not. This kills the second rabbit: Fotolia will try to entice high-budget buyers to DPC, to pay you less.
Now take a calculator and count CEI numbers for 125 or 200. Come on. Done? Do you realize now how much much weight will lose your asses, even if you are Fotolia supporter because it gives you a lot of money? So finally tear it off the chair! What is happening is a global price collapse for your work. Buyers can be enticed by low prices in one month. But it takes years to explain why he have to pay more for your work and success isn't guaranteed.
I really wanted to write a lot more: about trade union, global perspectives and unprofitableness of subscriptions for all microstocks... No way. I tortured this text in 9 hours. Are you be able to understand it? Excellent. Not? So what trade unions we're talking about? It's a turning point. All microstock market waiting for our reaction. If we don't win the dragon, wait for the dragons from the other side. I'm just sad that we can squander everything achieved these days because of pathetic sop.
Don't be fooled. All business is about doing profit for owner.
Sorry for my harsh tone sometimes.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 28, 2014, 12:20 »

Jo Ann is right. The DPC is clearly not directed to high volume buyers, but to On Demand customers. I was also offered "preferred admission" via email and I have never purchased an image from Fotolia. I only downloaded a couple of free images a few years ago. The email said:

Quote
Dollar Photo Club from Fotolia is the next wave in stock photos offering 25 million RF images for one easy price.

$1 for any high res image and any vector guaranteed!

Discover downloads that NEVER expire - cancel your membership and purchased downloads will STILL be there when you need them, always...

Dont ever pay more than $1 for professional stock images and vectors!

Join Dollar Photo Club today!
P.S. Fotolia customers like you can get preferred admission to Dollar Photo Club; just choose Fotolia when asked which stock agencies you currently use but hurry, places are strictly limited!

(My bold)

When you've receive this email?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 28, 2014, 10:09 »
Hi all!
Thanks for your kind support in our protest!
Please, remember - our position specified in petition won't be changed!

I've made big text with some math tables which shows that if DPC will get mass traffic - EVEN Fotolia contributors will lost their income. At this moment it's translating to English so we need some time.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia D-Day (Deactivation Day) - May,1
« on: April 26, 2014, 18:10 »
I've just sent on some edits of the English version, to make things a bit clearer. Hope they help!

Thank you so much! I've fixed main page text.

And thanks to all for your support and cooperation!

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