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« on: October 05, 2011, 08:54 »
It becomes clear that iStockphoto works on ThinStock and is about to compete with newcomers using this very website with its prices and opportunities it gives without damaging the existing relationship model with iStock's suppliers.
We can also observe that DepositPhotos confidently follows iStock's and not Forolia's policy and therefore, is surely going to increase prices as soon as some particular level is reached. 123RF obviously keeps to low pricing even though it has reached positive results.
I believe that prices on the microstocks like DepositPhotos will rise while on some others they never will. Still, the market itself will determine the consumers' needs. It's important to raise payments for authors and I'll never delete my portfolio from the source where I'm treated with full understanding and where I'm able to earn money.
The industry is in no danger. It's silly.
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« on: September 30, 2011, 10:12 »
To me, this issue appears disputable in the following context: At the moment or in the near future, who stands a better chance of becoming the best image seller?
Sales and profits are exactly what we, as well as microstock owners, care of most of all. Moving away from growing microstocks will mean even greater destruction to our business model which keeps transforming every single day.
Think about the mobile communication pricing at the very beginning of its existence as compared to nowadays. This one is a good example. Things change from day to day and there is no way to maintain positions on the market by exercising tyranny towards the suppliers.
123rf and Depositphotos breathes down the neck of all large-scale stock photo agencies. Fotolia exceeds the traffic of Depositphotos just 3 times and is almost equal (as it is for me) in profitability per photographer. Moreover, it tends to reduction of the traffic gap and sales growing. I feel that Depositphotos is a professional team with a firm intention to succeed and display steady growth. Fotolia does a very foolish thing blackmailing its partners while Depositphotos, as well as others, take steps to be closer to photographers. In this very case, Fotolia studies its own mercenary interests, not the interests of the industry as a whole. Speaking about industry in the name of Fotolia would be wrong and quite silly since Fotolia itself is a pretty small-scale source in the framework of the industry.
The task of a businessman is increasing profits while the goal of this fraud (there is no other way of putting it) is intimidating and confusing the photographers through just thinking up some market laws. The main trait of the market is that its supposed to develop according to its own and not Fotolias laws.
All the other means of impacting it are nothing but dictatorship which is the last stage in the development of a project. Fotolia is way too small to dictate and way too unskillful to consolidate the market members.
Here, I can see some kind of unfair competition, an attempt to create some secret deal of large market players with the aim to eliminate the competitors.
When taking a closer look, one may see that there is not a bit of dumping in the policy of Depositphotos. Moreover, it pays more to its photographers. The prices do not vastly differ from other large microstocks like 123RF etc., and even from Fotolia.
I feel like to ask for the withdrawal from Fotolia and have a careful look at how it all is progressing. And of course, Im not going to delete my portfolio from any microstocks.
By the way, Fotolia also had a dumping policy when it entered the market and I wonder how it would act if iStockphoto had degraded all the photographers just to show that Fotolia had been destroying the industry.
Serious-minded people know what business ethics means. Fotolia doesnt.
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« on: July 15, 2011, 11:46 »
I believe they gave contributors an explanation about this issue.. all major top contributors and TONS of more are there, agency has almost 4 million pictures and sales are really increasing..
I'm sure they did give a very convincing explanation to anyone who asked. The fact remains, however, that there are some pretty clear ties to the pirate site DepositFiles, regardless of whatever explanation management is willing to offer.
Everyone has to draw their own line in the sand somewhere. Mine is drawn here, and I won't do business with a company that was started on the heels of a site that actively enabled the piracy of images by some of the same artists they now represent, even if that companies shows growth and sales volume. I don't care if they become the next Shutterstock. I'm not interested in working with them.
That's just me. If everyone else is comfortable working with DP, that's fine as well. Best of luck to you, hope you make lots of money with them.
DepositFiles is NOT pirate site. This is FILE SHARING SERVICE, the same as Rapidshare and Dropbox, google docs and many many other. If you see pirate content on this sites - you can always send complain in support of this sites and pirate content will be deleted. Do not mislead peoples.
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« on: July 15, 2011, 09:14 »
Today my diamond was sold by extended license. $26 dollars goes to my ballance. Cool!
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« on: July 01, 2011, 09:49 »
How about to discuss a level of sales?
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« on: July 01, 2011, 09:41 »
Maybe this is investor. Maybe this is owner. I think, that if the company works very well and have a big investments - this is very good. Owner can be from any country, but for us, I think, level of sales - is most important.
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« on: July 01, 2011, 09:33 »
Maybe this is the big investor?
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« on: July 01, 2011, 09:18 »
Oops. I really do not seen this. My mistake.
But this address is Director, maybe this is personal home address. But not company.
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« on: July 01, 2011, 08:18 »
Effective Date of registration is 10/01/2009.
Site was started in 09/11/2009!!! - after 10 months from registration date.
Registration information - is official documentation and could not be changed.
In Fort Lauderdale by this address placed very big office buiding with many offices. It is absolutely normal.
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« on: July 01, 2011, 03:58 »
Where on the screen do you see the words Cyprus/Greece??? I think the author of this topic represents a competitor of Depositphotos and specifically wanted to be provocative.
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