I don't use StockSubmitter for this because I want to keyword my images in Lightroom so I can later find them. I could keep a separate catalog of my stock images, but I like to have the originals keyworded.

Steve

My latest earnings report shows the earnings for the main stock agencies I submit to (including 500px). So that will give you an idea of the bigger sellers (as does the poll on the right). But I have 12000 images, so your earnings with 5 will not be huge!

Steve

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2019/07/earnings-from-selling-photos-online-june-2019/

Stock Submitter

Tricky question - as for contributors with mixed video and photo portfolios, the high value of the video will bump up the average even though the number of them might be small.

I use Microstockr Pro to track such things and I think I can get somewhat close to the answer. For the 12 sites that the App tracks, in February I got 2595 downloads for $2092 - 81c.

iStock brings that down a lot with its less than 10c downloads. Adobe Stock is about 90c, Shutterstock is about 72c. But it varies from month to month.

The real answer though isn't the income per download although that might make you feel good. Isnt the question how much your images would have earned if they weren't exclusive? Not sure your question is getting you there because you don't know how many times they would have sold on other agencies.

Steve

I'm confused... did you earn $9,650 or $3663?

Your post says $9650, yet - you only list $3663???

My attempt at an April Fools report was perhaps too subtle. It was, of course, $3663. I thought the rest of the post made that clear. Sorry.

Steve

This is getting much better. I like the alternative ways to browse the images, the selection is keywords is easy. In fact this is now my "go to" keywording tool.

Steve

First you have to add the release (as a Jpeg) to Stock Submitter. You do that in the manage releases section over on the right. Once the release is in the system, you click to select the file (s) you want to add a release to, type part of its name in the release field and select the appropriate release, then click save, and that is it. You should see a small badge over the thumbnail saying MR or PR. When that file is uploaded to an agency, the release goes to the agency with the file.

I'm not sure you can reference releases that are already with the agency that StS knows nothing about. I believe you need to add it to StS first, but the app is intelligent enough to refer to that release once it is aware of it. I don't think it submits a new one every time.

Steve

I just export with the file name that the image has in my system - nothing special. I don't change that because I think Stock Submitter uses it own file names for uploading and submission, and also the stock agencies change the file name to something else as well. As far as I know, the file names we use don't make it through to the final agency file.

Steve

As an experiment, can you put some keywords, descriptions and the like into a JPEG and then modify the keywords in StS? When I look at one of my files that has been changed there (I alter the order of keywords when I get them into StS), and right click the file to look at properties and then details, I see all the information still in the JPEG itself. You can see the title and description are there  with the tags. I assume that the long set of characters in the comments field are what the StS system writes into the file to identify what has happened to that file in the application - ie has it been uploaded, submitted etc. Certainly I didn't put all those comment characters in there. I assume that each time you do something in the App, that information gets updated and that is why you are asked if you want to save changes.

Steve

I wrote in some detail about how I handle my images (and videos) on my blog. I don't think much has changed since I wrote it:

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/12/my-current-workflow/

Steve

I added several videos to Adobe this past week using Stock Submitter (and Microstock Plus) and all of them have been submitted to and accepted by Adobe. Not sure if the extra involvement of Microstock Plus made a difference, but I haven't had issues.

Steve

Hi Jacob

I went to your newsletter and then to your own site. Very smart and modern looking. But I scrolled to the bottom of the page and was looking at the footer when the screen froze. My other Chrome tabs were fine. It started working again and I looked at a specific image and it froze again - I was trying to press "Extended" but nothing worked. After a while, it starts again. Don't know if this is a server issue, but worth looking at.

On the more general point, I still have my Symbiostock (Version 2) site and it works fine. I recently moved it to a new hosting company to give myself some more storage for new images, but sales are rubbish - one or two a year. I only keep it because I put so much effort into it (and I know that make zero business sense but I'm attached to it!)

Steve

I've been playing with it and while I may not understand everything about your color codes, I'm finding it helpful to get me started on my keywords. What I found would be helpful is that when you click the arrow to show more images, at the moment you just show one more. It would be better if you showed a new row of images to choose from - ie replace the current set by a new set.

I plan to do a blog post at some point comparing these different keywording systems - it would be interesting to see how they all compare.

Steve