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Messages - stoker2014
2601
« on: November 10, 2022, 11:05 »
I can give more than one
I'm waiting for a link. Or are you a liar!
Someone's education has definitely failed - throwing around accusations and insults like 'liar' should actually be enough for a ban, shouldn't it?
Have a nice day@All
I can't answer your question, because I don't know the answer to it. However, I am surprised that trolls are not banned on this forum.
2602
« on: November 10, 2022, 10:12 »
I can give more than one
I'm waiting for a link. Or are you a liar!
2603
« on: November 10, 2022, 10:10 »
Where did you get this information?
From my experience. Is this not enough? Also I read not only this forum.s You don't shoot a video, don't upload it to SS, which is what you're trying to argue about. Here you go... content.shutterstock.com/investor-report/index.html analyze away!
OK. https://d3kqgz5iyf5gxy.cloudfront.net/invester+report+Q3+2022/jarrod-revenue-export.mp4The income of the SS is growing, while the income of authors is declining. The answer is obvious. What?! Well you've said you're not getting a consistently good profit, so by your logic doesn't that make SS a normal honest site? And as for it collapsing sharply in 2021, that may be true for you, and some of the people you've spoken to... but where is your info for this happening to everyone?
This forum does not allow editing the post, so if I wrote the text with an error, I cant fix it. I'm saying that a normal honest site can't drastically collapse income. And for now, we dont see many videographers whose income has not decreased in 2021-2022. What are you trying to prove in the topic of bad SS? Your flood is off topic.
2604
« on: November 10, 2022, 08:12 »
Brasilnut, I do not quite understand how to sell videos through tiktok. Probably it is necessary to insert links to this video in stock agencies.
I think the same can be done on YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook.
2605
« on: November 10, 2022, 08:04 »
807$ !!! 
I dont remember such commissions on the SS, something new, hmm.
Just to clarify, as you often seem to add two and two together and get... I dunno... skateboards?! The something that is new here is you hearing of a sale as high as $807... what's not new is somebody getting a sale as high as $807. Sounds like a trivial difference, but it's actually very important.
I can count, I can write. Where, when and from whom did you see a $800 video being sold? How many examples can you give? I write honestly and openly. And you are trying to troll.
2606
« on: November 10, 2022, 08:02 »
Devotio777, if you are interested in the money, not the process, then do not shoot the editorial, few stock agencies accept editorial, and it sells very poorly. Waste of time. Yes, and you can get on the head, and the camera will be broken  .
2607
« on: November 10, 2022, 08:01 »
I can see the climate change protestor stuff selling and hopefully you're also putting them up on other agencies, including Alamy.
Terrestrial timelapses and videos are OK but nowadays would highly recommend you get a drone + qualifications now as will give you an edge on the competition.
Drone videos don't sell well in my opinion. Yes, and in the cities of Europe you cant fly a drone, it will be taken away and a fine will be issued. Also, the drone is an expensive thing that is easy to break or lose.
2608
« on: November 10, 2022, 07:57 »
Did you miss the whole royalty rate reduction and subsequent reset in January every year?! That's basically the very definition of 'the income of the SS from the sale of videos has not decreased, but the income of the authors has decreased'. I mean, I guess that feels a bit like theft, but it's their website and they can do what they want unfortunately.
I didn't miss anything. Usually the authors by March-June (someone like) already reach the normal percentage of deductions. So, somewhere there was statistics on the income of the SS from the video, and here it is necessary to cite and analyze it here. Yes, the site belongs to the SS, so they do what they want. A normal honest site cannot give a consistently good profit, and then from 2021 it will collapse sharply. This is already a reason for investigation.
2609
« on: November 10, 2022, 04:45 »
Her Ugliness, is this a stone in my garden? Where and when did I complain about my general income?
And the fact that I participate in topics that interest me is my right.
Don't write lies.
2610
« on: November 10, 2022, 04:43 »
807$ !!! I dont remember such commissions on the SS, something new, hmm.
2611
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:31 »
Whoah.... I mean WHOAH!!!
Did you buy a photo or a video?
2612
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:31 »
I had a big sale at the beginning of the month. There will probably be a little more money this month than last. Happy for those from whom they buy.
2613
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:27 »
On Adobe, you need to sort the tags by importance. Does everyone do it?
2614
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:26 »
On Adobe, you need to sort the tags by importance. Does everyone do it?
2615
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:24 »
When shooting a video, the main thing is that there is no stupidly static video. There must be some action in the frame or you must pan the camera slowly.
The main tools of a videographer are tripod, gimbal, slider. On GH6 I can shoot a lot handheld, the camera has a good stabilizer.
If you shoot at home, you need light. You can make your own soft boxes from cardboard, or you can buy them, they are not expensive. But I think that's all you have.
2616
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:19 »
Devotio777, stop taking photos at all, don't waste your time on photography. In the photo you will not earn normal money. Shoot only video. That's all that you took in the photo, shoot now on video. Get yourself a tripod, gimbal. Yes, you can hire models and shoot them however you like, but models are a cost and you have no income. Therefore, shoot videos without models for now, and only videos.
If you are not satisfied with your camera, I can also recommend the Panasonic GH6, an excellent camera for drains. But the camera is not the main thing, the main thing is to constantly shoot videos so that the size of your portfolio grows to 6000 and more videos.
Look at my posts, I wrote on which stocks you need to upload a video or where you should strive to get.
That's all.
2617
« on: November 10, 2022, 03:11 »
Saying that your sales increased after you emailed SS regarding low sales isn't lying. I mean, assuming you haven't made that up, but we'll assume you haven't. But anyway... then interpreting that to mean that SS flicked some kind of switch for you and that they manually decide on the placement or sales performance of individuals isn't far off from a lie. I mean, I can't prove that's not the case, but you also can't prove it is the case.
Feel free to share your facts, feel free to present your opinions (however misguided they may be), but don't present your opinions as facts. And maybe dig a bit deeper into the possibilities for why something is why it is. There's plenty of reasons considerably more likely for your sales increase other than SS feeling sorry for you and deciding to send some more sales your way to make you feel better. I'm guessing they didn't call an emergency board meeting upon receipt of your email.
I can prove my words. I have correspondence, there are dates, there are sales statistics on SS. Naturally, I will not attach screenshots, because i am not in court and my privacy is also important to me. It is unlikely that the SS himself bought my videos after my letters. But my conclusions about not correctly or manually working algorithms, as well as about theft, remain with me. As well as the conclusion that for some reason buyers abruptly left the SS. Once there was an opportunity to see the income of the SS from the sale of videos, it would be nice to post these statistics for 2018-2022. And if the income of the SS from the sale of videos has not decreased, but the income of the authors has decreased, then the SS is stealing money.
2618
« on: November 09, 2022, 15:55 »
I follow the thread to listen real opinion, not your conspiracy nonsense claim, or absurde suggestions like "write email, and the day after you will see big sales" 
1. Unlike you, I write here about my experience and my experiments. You are accusing me of lying. 2. I do not accept flooding and trolling, so I send you to ignore following the rest of your troll friends. Goodbye.
2619
« on: November 09, 2022, 15:51 »
You started with first posts in the forum crying against Adobe cause they didn't appreciate so much your great clips and nominate only few for the free section.
And this is what it's for. What does it have to do with a separate program for a stable monthly income. I must have had more videos nominated than you, so you're jealous. From you in the subject only flood.
2620
« on: November 09, 2022, 11:53 »
Why is there a lot of trolls in the topic that discusses bad income on the SS?
2621
« on: November 09, 2022, 11:52 »
SS, like any other agency, has a business: they have to sell images and clips. Nothing else
I have no complaints about other agencies, I, like most in this thread, only have complaints about the SS. In other agencies, I received and receive a good income. And that means that my work is not crap. Let me remind you in what topic you write here: "SS continues to deteriorate." If you are satisfied with the income from the SS, then what are you doing in this thread? Create your own theme, like what a cool SS, how well he sells.
2622
« on: November 09, 2022, 11:43 »
It's completely nonsense.
You really think that SS should PAY a group of well skilled people that works looking and MANUALLY adjust the search position
I would love to work in that department.
I've been experimenting. I wrote in support of the SS that I was not satisfied with the sales, and after a few days I received sales in my account, and in a month the SS reached at least the minimum that was two years ago. Hence the conclusion that certain authors are manually promoted on the SS. Yes, it is obvious that they somehow manually set a temporary rating, after which their works are the first in the search, for example. I never wrote anywhere that I have bad work. Until the beginning of 2021, CC was giving a very good income every month. Yes, forum trolls really want to laugh at everyone who writes the truth here, and tell that the author has crap work. But this is a lie.
2623
« on: November 09, 2022, 06:35 »
But many of them - like me - have not uploaded anything because they are frustrated with the way shutterstock has dealt with the contributors. And for that they are currently being punished.
The more I upload videos to SS, the less my income. Probably the SS is punishing me for not loading only masterpieces. I think everything is simpler, or the SS is stealing my money, or the search algorithms there work in such a way that the SS manually decides which authors to promote and which ones to push.
2624
« on: November 08, 2022, 14:13 »
I assume that you will be penalized if you simply upload anything for the sole purpose of increasing your portfolio.
If the SS accepts the job, then the job suits him. The CC bears the cost of storing the work. Yes, good works should sell better than bad ones. But I would say that stock works should sell better. But when the SS is in such a mess as the last 2 years, the authors of good works also have poor incomes. These are at least those authors whom I personally have known for a long time.
2625
« on: November 08, 2022, 12:33 »
Wilm, no wonder, SS has long broken search algorithms and promotes authors in manual mode. Obviously you are not in favor. The SS has sunk to the bottom, worse than ever, the income is meager, the authors are being fooled.
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