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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock don't take stolen work seriously
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And another George Steinmetz v. Shutterstock, Inc., et al., 21-cv-7100 (Hellerstein)
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock don't take stolen work seriously« on: April 28, 2022, 06:02 »
And another George Steinmetz v. Shutterstock, Inc., et al., 21-cv-7100 (Hellerstein)
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Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 27, 2022, 17:04 »
3) Adding detailed information, location, keywords or concept word combinations, will still help get an image found. Updating older images may not change the rank, but it will make the image more searchable.
Well that is either incorrect or outdated or both. You cannot put concept ideas in keywords. I mean I know its obvious you should and only a halfwit would think you shouldn't but it isnt permitted. E.g you cannot have a photograph of just a tray of bulbs (plants) and use keywords like gardening, borders, flower bed, planting, etc. Although invoking words that are clearly linked to the image or conceptually linked you cannot use them. Keywords are: type what you see. A duck nestling in a clump of grass cannot have pond as a keyword if a pond is not visible. The rule is so ambiguous as to be moronic but there we are. 428
Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 26, 2022, 15:01 »
Just checked the one of mine that's sat at the No.1 page 1 slot for a few months and it's slipped to No.2. Never sold. In fact I've had 4 on page 1 for probably a year now and none have sold. And a 5th has joined page 1 which is only a week old. That's out of 2000 images. No.1 don't mean sales I guess. Though if it dropped and bounced back up to 1 like it does, why does it bounce back up?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 25, 2022, 01:42 »April is also worse for me at AS than March. But that has always been the case over the years. I can't see any change in the algorithm.my port isn't affected by month - there are ups & downs, but they average out - which why a 35-month running average is more appropriate to such a stochastic process as ms sales(even more so for small portfolios- cf law of small numbers); and worse, we don't have detailed reporting from the agencies to create a statistically significant result, so individual anecdotes can't explain varying results Therefore you meant to say it cannot explain it to you. With the data you have available to you. You cannot speak for others logically because you do not have enough data from them to understand their findings, anecdotally or otherwise. Wilms post however makes perfect sense given information I have about my port, that you do not. Other than that your anecdotal opinion had some useful views. Thank you. 430
Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 24, 2022, 16:37 »
Interesting Wilm thank you. If you have noticed April is down then on a port as small as mine this could translate. Thanks again.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 24, 2022, 14:58 »
Well there is a few assumptions there, I of course get your point.
I have a small portfolio of 500+ images. About 200 are new. 1 year old or younger. 40 videos 4k. Many of my images are on page 1 of thousands. A few are at the top of page one. And two are No.1 on page 1 never sold but been there for several months. But as I know very little of the inner workings I also know you don't either. But dribbling increasing sales over normall dead periods with increasing port size shouldn't stop dead for a month. 432
Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 24, 2022, 02:14 »
Well whatever Adobe did they did something. I had a slowly increasing portfolio. And slowly increasing sales. Then end of March my last, a sale of just over 1 which was happening more often.
And then sales died. And when I say died. I mean zero since March 26th. Not a single sale. Shutterstock sales however have been growing slowly and regularly. So whatever Adobe did despite claims to the contrary something has changed. 433
General Photography Discussion / Re: Man Ray photograph might sell for 5-7 million« on: April 23, 2022, 05:56 »I really like the Gursky stuff. It's very, very impressive in the flesh, the images are huge and flawlessly detailed. I wasn't expected to be impressed, but I was. Jeez. I have a photo of a puddle if anyone is loaded and high on embalming fluid. You can have the processed file, the raw file, the laptop its on, and the puddle. Ill dig that sucker up and deliver it dressed in nothing but a tu tu and a firemans helmet singing a love song if you want to part with a million dollars. While I wait for any takers, I'll be taking a photo of me crapping into a sink. 434
Shutterstock.com / Re: "Exciting" news ahead?« on: April 08, 2022, 02:25 »
Hahahahaha I knew there would be a thread here:
"Exciting news ahead" [shuttertranslatatron] "pay you less" 435
Adobe Stock / Re: Time for a redesign?« on: April 07, 2022, 02:53 »
Prioritising keywords should not be required. Petes spiel just amounts to "I think its better because it helps me game the system in my favour - maybe"
Whilst this is true because the first 10 words are given priority in image searches with the adobe algorithm its also false. If everyone knows that's how they system works it becomes redundant. What would be better is if all keywords are made equal. The reason they aren't isn't because of technical advantage its because it makes it lighter on the adobe servers. Obviously. So let's be honest. 1. Slows down work flow for you. Instead of keywording rapid fire anything that occurs to you that you think could help find the image and all your options searched for equally- now you need to imagine what a buyer is looking for and why. If retail knew that magic element they'd make billions. Instead they employ other tactics. A pictures use is sometimes obvious but you would be stunned off your arse at how many pictures are used in ways that are unimaginable. All keywords should count equally. To do otherwise forces you to imagine what all the customers world wide would use to find your image. It's a nonsense. 2. When you tinker with them (many dont but should) down the line its a pig to do. You can't just go in and add it on the end and be done. You have to faf about reording them. I often notice when surfing the Web aspects of pictures usage that had enver occurred to me. I can add a keyword or two to push mine in that direction. But I have to decide how important the millions of customers might think that keyword would be. Adobe have a shop window but they run it like a supermarket shelf. Supermarkets have a shelf kill zone. Level eyeline costs the most to put your product on. Higher up less and ankle level less. But you pay more to them they put it nearer the 45 degree eye lie kill zone. There are also zones in the whole store where buying is more likely so they map them via facial mapping and time spent in these zones vs product and spend amount. If the store could put every product in that 45 degree kill zone it would. They are limited by space. Adobe are running the search like that. The 10 keywords may place your product in that kill zone. If your English is bad you'll be on the ankle shelf. If your imagination is bad you'll be on the ankle shelf. If your vocabulary is bad - ankle shelf. If you don't do your research ankle shelf. And the same applies to those buying. If they lack imagination, have poor English or lack vocabulary skills they are going to miss your image. These variables need to align well to get a good sale. Done need to make the selling space smaller by limiting the amount of keywords that can find the image. Is everyone that amazing with their keywording, linguistic skills, imagination, research, customer need knowledge to pin it on 10 keywords. No you aren't. None of us are. Less hits = less sales. 436
Adobe Stock / Re: Something very bad happened to the algorithm today« on: April 01, 2022, 07:42 »First of all: I keyword everywhere in english. Reading the conversation it was you that piled in telling someone off. It really doesn't matter what your intention or impression is of what you wrote you are patently wrong. The OP has explained repeatedly that they are successful doing it their way and suddenly the system altered the way its search system gives results. It changed how the OPs images were found. Now it has reverted partially. The OP was asking for help in resolving this. They were not asking how to best keyword their images. The company may be American which is irrelevant as the customers are world wide. It is a warehouse of photos which doesn't have a base and floats around the Internet for all to find. The OPs images appear to sell well in Germany and are found via the German keywording. Enough that they feel they have done well. If you are completely lost I would suggest it is because you do NOT appear to read posts correctly before you are thumping at your keyboard. Further, despite others more knowledgeable than you attempting to explain it to you, you are still pushing your ridiculous point. Floating warehouse full of crap that people around the world can buy. It may be an American warehouse but it isnt in America. Its in cyberspace and it sure as crap doesn't contain only American crap. 437
Adobe Stock / Re: Time for a redesign?« on: March 30, 2022, 07:46 »
Must admit I find the prioritising of the first 10 keywords a nonsense. And that they must be in order of importance for search purposes. And cannot be alphabetical.
This isn't a technical advantage it is clearly a poorly designed system. If the search algorithm requires you to make tye first 10 words the priority then clearly it implies that only the first 10 are searched from a buyers perspective. And that is stone age. Even a basic search tool can search hundreds of thousands of documents in seconds for a collection of words. What's the point of having the other 40 if they'll be ignored or given less priority. I also find it a nonsense to keyword only what's in a photo. Well it isn't abided by anyway but still. Even the auto keywords throw words in that are not in the photo. The implications are significant. I regularly sell a forest photo that is keyworded spiritual and is found as such. You won't find a single vicar or somersaulting kung fu monk no matter how hard you peer into it. Not even a whiff of joss sticks 🙄 438
Shutterstock.com / Re: Why is Shutterstock still selling in Russia« on: March 12, 2022, 09:30 »Ukraine has no allies in the West. All these ridiculous demonstrative support is just for the sake of PR. All collected charitable money will be stolen and all weapons sent will be lost. Such a country... The UK is helping Ukraine by sending them trucks of weapons. As are various countries in the west. Yesterday they were deciding on adding anti air craft weapons and anti tank weapons (missiles) to the trucks. We are also sending food and aid. We are also taking in Ukranians as are Poland, Germany and Spain. I'm not sure what reports you are watching but the ones I'm seeing are Putin considering middle East mercenaries to top up his under funded, under educated and under age 'crack Russian forces' which rather than rocking up to Ukraine and handed flowers, have been handed their arses. Perhaps you've been listening to too much borschit? Now Putins calamity squad have allegedly found chemical and biological weapons. No doubt the Ukranians will suffer those as well. As if borscht wasn't punishment enough. Russians are certainly talented though they seem to have had a democracy bypass and while they can build almost anything from the scrap heap of dead microwave ovens and hip implants even they can't build anything useful with just 'attitude'. I pity the Russian and other people who suffer these stupid and in this case, spectacularly inept dictators, who run feral until like everything that goes feral - it gets put out of everyone's misery. 439
Adobe Stock / Re: occasional re-keyworded images on upload« on: March 01, 2022, 03:51 »
If the keyword isn't in the photo you aren't permitted to use it. I had this discussion with Matt. Perhaps it was removed because it wasn't deemed - "in the photo"
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Shutterstock.com / Re: How do people manage to avoid the rejection for Identical Submissions?« on: December 02, 2021, 09:49 »441
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Sales are so slow this days« on: November 26, 2021, 14:03 »
Adobe has become a ghost ship. Tripled portfolio size on last year and the sales have dropped off a cliff for several weeks. I've had 2 sales in the last month despite being on page 1 of quite a few images. Ive seen my portfolio shuffling about with images rising to the top and sitting there but nothing gets bought. Then they drift down again. I know what that looks like to me.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: This month's sales« on: October 21, 2021, 03:27 »
Adobe - dead.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: SS Account Suspended, $1400 Earnings Gone« on: October 18, 2021, 16:21 »If the OP is the original artist, they will re-instate his account and return the money. I'm afraid we gauge 'everyone' and 'everybody' substantially differently. If you and 'everybody' assume aggression from my question despite a clarifying answer, this says something about your perceptions or interpretations of things. But please think whatever you wish it is apparent that your mind has been made up. And nothing it seems can change that. Even the truth. Odd behaviour indeed. 444
General Stock Discussion / Re: SS Account Suspended, $1400 Earnings Gone« on: October 18, 2021, 13:18 »If the OP is the original artist, they will re-instate his account and return the money. 😳 I asked a question. Would be good to have a direct liason with SS in here like adobe do. You should take your own advice and stop being so hostile. If you do not like responses to the tomes you write, you should perhaps restrict what you have to say to prevent anyone daring to interact with you. Something I will not attempt again. How aggressive. 445
General Stock Discussion / Re: SS Account Suspended, $1400 Earnings Gone« on: October 17, 2021, 13:00 »If the OP is the original artist, they will re-instate his account and return the money. Are you Shutterstock liason? Curious how you state as fact. 446
Shutterstock.com / Re: Murdered Shutterstock Forum Refugee Thread« on: October 15, 2021, 13:47 »
Hi thijs may not be anything spectacular insect wise to shoot but I had to leave our dogs poop on the lawn because we were in a rush. Picked it up the next morning in a poo bag. But when I turned it through there was what I can only describe as a fluttering against my hand. I wondered what on earth it was but our dogs poop had been completely taken over by little dusky green and dusky copper beatles. Hundreds of them. I almost freaked and flung my hand away but if you have a dog it might create an interesting photo.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Sales are so slow this days« on: October 13, 2021, 10:26 »
I was doing quite well. Better than expected given port size but in september it began slowing down. To a stop. I have a very small port but the payout's are better, when they come. But since during august I had sporadic sales. Last sale September 6th and again yesterday.
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Adobe Stock / Re: rejections due to technical issues« on: August 17, 2021, 13:53 »
Agree.
Items rejected for data issues. 1. Titles must not contain copywritten words or offensive language - common and scientific names for insects used. No offensive words. 2. Keywords must be in order of relevance not alphabetical and must be in the language of origin - relevant to whom. Alphabetical or not a keyword is supposed to guide a search towards the item. How do I know what order a buyer is likely to type in a set of keywords. Again Latin for group and sub group. There isn't an equivilant in English. Very disparaging and monotonous. At least support do support. But waiting 4 to 5 days for video submissions to be knocked back a second time for slightly different reasons as above is not helpful to anyone. 449
Shutterstock.com / Re: Someone tricked the Shutterstock algorithm?« on: April 25, 2021, 17:46 »
His linkd profile does exist. You need to search Google for his profile picture. This takes you to a contact. He is listed in that persons contacts on linkd. Listed as his current position are these details.
QA Test Lead AS PNB Banka AS PNB Banka Nov 2012 - Present8 years 6 months Latvia - Organize the work of the testing department - automatic test creation (Java, Selenium, JUnit) - Control the quality of products developed - to provide a technical task of developing - authorization device (DigiPass) Storage and Release. - Internet bank and the bank's Web page maintenance / administration. - The update preparation to the real environment (Internet banks and the bank's web-site, SVN, GIT) - Incident solving. Source https://tinyurl.com/27sthyp7 |
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