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« on: November 17, 2018, 05:26 »
I don't know why people dislike iStock so much, it sells.
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Heh I was making steady 7,000$-8,000 $ per month and then istock replace credit system into subscription, they removed lightboxes and gave one price for all photo sizes. After a few changes my income dropped in just one and a half year into about 1,500$ per month. So yeah, I don't like them
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« on: February 03, 2018, 10:46 »
I assume it is this now from what people are saying.
0 1,999 Level 1
30%
$0.216
2,000 4,999 Level 2
40%
$0.288
Well, I'm at 1400 and level 2.
Yep because they only remove 35% and 45% levels. Everything else stay the same. This change hit only contrubutors on this two levels.
No I don't think so I was at level 2 and now at level 1 earning $0.216 per sub instead of the $0.25 per sub.
These people are disgusting.
No more uploads from me
Level 2 was 35% So now you are at level one with 30% and 0.216 per sub. What's wrong with that?
Whats wrong with that?
I was getting $0.25 per sub and using the old tables I was at level 2
Now with the new schedule I'm getting $0.216 per sub and have been dropped to level 1 even though under the old schedule I should be at level 2.
Nothing difficult about that is there?
OMG  And now you are on level 1 because they removed level 2 and level 4. That's all. I still don't get why you wrote "No I don't think so"
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« on: February 03, 2018, 06:19 »
I assume it is this now from what people are saying.
0 1,999 Level 1
30%
$0.216
2,000 4,999 Level 2
40%
$0.288
Well, I'm at 1400 and level 2.
Yep because they only remove 35% and 45% levels. Everything else stay the same. This change hit only contrubutors on this two levels.
No I don't think so I was at level 2 and now at level 1 earning $0.216 per sub instead of the $0.25 per sub.
These people are disgusting.
No more uploads from me
Level 2 was 35% So now you are at level one with 30% and 0.216 per sub. What's wrong with that?
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« on: February 02, 2018, 14:06 »
I assume it is this now from what people are saying.
0 1,999 Level 1
30%
$0.216
2,000 4,999 Level 2
40%
$0.288
Well, I'm at 1400 and level 2.
Yep because they only remove 35% and 45% levels. Everything else stay the same. This change hit only contrubutors on this two levels.
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« on: February 02, 2018, 03:51 »
They remove 35% and 45% levels and everyone who was on this two levels are one level down and have lower commission. This is so unfair
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« on: February 02, 2018, 02:10 »
This is a screen shot of the table from Sept 2 2016; From the Wayback Machine:
I'm 100% sure that they cut commisions even without informing the contributors.
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« on: September 18, 2017, 13:13 »
First day of marketplace. Has anyone made any sales yet?
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« on: September 12, 2017, 02:43 »
Bugged, very slow, still no adobe stock support - i'm out too
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« on: July 27, 2017, 12:49 »
Hi Mat
Any clue when will be available charts on Adobe stock? Download number per month etc?
Greets
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« on: June 19, 2017, 11:25 »
real there is still somebody that don't think ss and other agency are controlling the level of sale for any contributor?
do you think that company like monkey business for example, who employ 10 15 people and have cost of 200 thousand pound minimum year, still produce content without any insurance that at least they file will be positioned good? dreamer
No I don't think the agencies conspire to control or manipulate our income or sales.
No I don't believe that they insure sales and money to the big ones.
My sales go up and down. Some with the seasons, some for the time of year that images are needed, sometimes lower just because the whole market goes down. I upload more, I sell more, but it's not a direct ratio or relationship. Now and then I get a better image with more demand which takes off and sells over and over. We are up against a million new images a week, how does anyone expect we can continue to grow or hold our sales against that?
Instead of blaming the agency and making claims of agencies manipulating our sales or income, people should spend more time finding good, interesting, new subjects to upload. Making more of what there's all ready too much of, is just chasing your tail. Copying popular is also just chasing a bus that already left, and you missed it.
Over the last couple years I sold on Istock content for more than 1 million dollars. For about two months I'm independent and for 99% I'm sure that shutterstock control sales and sets limits for new contributors. But this is just my opinion. I'll share with you when I'll have more data.
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« on: March 31, 2017, 07:18 »
I was a Diamond level video artist when I dropped about this time last year. My sales have still been decent as when you drop they don't move your clips into the cheap section. If I upload more material then they all go in the cheap seats and I get peanuts. Is it more work uploading to other sites? YES but I am happier and enjoy shooting again and I don't stress over the $0.11 video sales anymore. I would be happy to upload to iStock/Getty if my files where not sold in the cheaper section. I have around 10,000 files there and was exclusive for over 10 years. Earnings are better but not amazingly better I just have more peace.
That interesting. I was also video exclusive and when i drop the crown(about 8 months ago) they move all my video files to E collection. Strange
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« on: March 30, 2017, 01:13 »
There aren't too many exclusives who come here any more. I'm curious to hear how others are doing too. If it is just me then maybe these two months are outliers and I shouldn't get too optimistic.
I wish I was in your situation. Despite uploading, my trend of total revenue is slowly going down since 2012. The bleeding has increased another 20% since the last changes. I think by many posts of the monthly revenue thread at Getty forums, most established diamond and blackdiamonds report the same trend to the bottom. So whatever makes you not being in this downward direction... congratulations! I wish I could say otherwise but that is the reality for me.
Yep, I'm full time diamond and compared to 2012 my income is less by about 85%-90% I just drop the crown. I've been waiting to long to do this.
Wow, 90% drop is bad. I hope you'll let us know how it goes as an independent.
Sure  that is my plan. I will give you charts, data etc but you have to wait about 2-3 months for this
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« on: March 30, 2017, 00:51 »
There aren't too many exclusives who come here any more. I'm curious to hear how others are doing too. If it is just me then maybe these two months are outliers and I shouldn't get too optimistic.
I wish I was in your situation. Despite uploading, my trend of total revenue is slowly going down since 2012. The bleeding has increased another 20% since the last changes. I think by many posts of the monthly revenue thread at Getty forums, most established diamond and blackdiamonds report the same trend to the bottom. So whatever makes you not being in this downward direction... congratulations! I wish I could say otherwise but that is the reality for me.
Yep, I'm full time diamond and compared to 2012 my income is less by about 85%-90% I just drop the crown. I've been waiting to long to do this.
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« on: March 27, 2017, 03:58 »
Copy/Paste multiple images doesn't work in DM3, but yes it does work in the older version. Once I get the csv from Deep Meta and figure out what to do in ExifTool is the meta writing automated on all files?
I was using DM by the almost ten years, so all my data are in second version. You have to put exiftool program, all images and csv file in to one folder. Exiftool read csv file and replace IPTC in all files from csv list.
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« on: March 27, 2017, 03:36 »
Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.
I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.
i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.
So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.
Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want
Can you elaborate on this please? ExifTool is not easy to use and cannot find export csv in DeepMeta.
Good luck as Indie!
Just select files what you want to export to csv, right mouse click, copy and then paste in Notepad or other program. That's all Exiftool is quite hard to explain. This link helps me a lot: http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=3468.0You have to figure it out by yourself. It took me about one hour to solve how this program works.
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« on: March 26, 2017, 23:58 »
Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.
I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.
i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.
So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.
Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want
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« on: March 22, 2017, 01:55 »
From monday there is no way to log in to old DeepMeta. Now only way to check credit sales is old Istock widget for Mac and Iluciddata for iOS. Download DeepMeta 3
http://www.deepmeta.com/Downloads/
In DM3 you can't check credit sales.
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« on: October 29, 2016, 01:50 »
But paying the exact percentage of royalties for any single sale (credits and subs) looks to me like a fair move.
Sounds ridiculous to me. They are not known for their accounting acuity.
I am not talking here about their accounting acuity, Im just saying that from now on, we will get the exact percentage of royalties for any single sale (credits and subs). It does not mean either that we are going to make more money, this is something only time will tell. So far I don't see a reason to panic about the latest news (if you are exclusive)
Yeah it looks like a small raise but once again they introduce stupid targets. Since four years I triple my portfolio and my income fell by 80%. Now they easly can reduce my 40% to 30% and I'm pretty sure that they do it.
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« on: June 03, 2016, 09:51 »
My numbers looks very similar. In five years they reduced my income by 80% and i'm still exclusive contributor.
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« on: August 27, 2015, 05:27 »
Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?
No. If anything it's a decline.
PP and Istock Subs are two different things. Hartman ask about subs I'm exclusive and my subs are flat from about couple months..
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« on: July 09, 2015, 10:48 »
If seasonal is a factor, compare with same time last year and year before etc.
Seasonal is one of many various factors, and everyone's experience will be different
Yes, but if you have a large portfolio and your income is 60% lower compared to last year that it means something.. There is no more hope for Istock. Every change what they made in the last three years was against contributors.
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« on: May 11, 2015, 01:44 »
From couple weeks some downloads are not showing up on 'recent downloads'. I have large number of this "invisible downloads" also i don't receive any payment for them. More here: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=366689&page=1I noticed that this bug may be started a few days before Easter.
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