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Messages - Deyan Georgiev Photography
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« on: November 02, 2019, 05:00 »
Forget Depositphotos they only give 30 cent sales never anything higher and the volumes of sales are too low.
Plus you can't delete your images you can only deactivate them.
I have 1500 photos with them and made $400 in 5 years 
Dreamstime are hardly any better in terms of sales however you do tend to get somewhat higher amounts per sale but not often.
I made $1000 in five years with over 2000 images.
Not true, there are sales up to dollar or two, yes less often, but there are. Just to be correct. (There are also sales 0,16 and 0,19 ..)
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« on: October 30, 2019, 09:23 »
From pixels to pennies
a catchy slogan for any new agency nowadays.
LOL!
Ah, again pennies. Where disappeared the dollars? lol
Over time, of course, those pennies should add up to dollars. At least there still are sales.
It was a joke, I notice recently very good move on up in Adobe, this month to me will be almost as October 2018 which is good achievement.
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« on: October 30, 2019, 04:01 »
There are agency ( ClipDealer ) on the list who refuse to pay contributor's royalties and don't reply to the e-mails sent for months!
They don't deserve to get any publicity to help them steal more of the hard earned money from more and more contributors!
How long do you wait for payment? I have payment request from 3th of August and still wait, sent a couple of emails - no response. They have this very bad practice to delay payments and to not respond emails, but finally always paying. This is my experience, delays and no responses, but payment received.
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« on: October 29, 2019, 05:59 »
From pixels to pennies
a catchy slogan for any new agency nowadays.
LOL!
Ah, again pennies. Where disappeared the dollars? lol
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« on: October 24, 2019, 21:49 »
As for balancing the income ... they added the subs to the monthly tally but that has not been added to the final tally. If you go back several months you will see all the subs that have not been added into your payment total.
I have had tickets in since the 9th and the only response has been an autoresponder. I then asked on FB whether they actually looked at tickets and they assure me they do. They said they would escalate it, so far still no response and the figures are still inaccurate.
Same problem here. Sub earnings not added to my payment total. No response to my ticket to them.
If you mind the October subs earnings, they will appear after the month finish.
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« on: October 21, 2019, 14:17 »
I do not sell editorial and can say Alamy give me a more money than iStock for example.
That's interesting. What are your port sizes on each?
My port is a bit (c12%) bigger on Alamy and iS far out-earns Alamy each month (except May this year, first time in ten years Alamy earned more than iS, but that was definitely a one-off, in my case )(e.g. 4.5x more in Sept). But my files are editorial or 'most likely to be used editorially' and that's a big difference. I know some people personally who are doing well with Live News on Alamy, but you're the first commercial shooter I've read of who is doing well there. Well done!
Unfortunately no. I can't say for both that I'm doing well there. My port in Alamy is double times bigger than iStock. I postpone uploading to iStock from years due the complicated submission process. Alamy is stable while iStock is dropping each month for me. Before a couple of years the proportion was way different in this two. I wanted to say that it's easy and fast to upload to Alamy and it worth when a man is non-exclusive to use this additional source, but that's simply my opinion.
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« on: October 21, 2019, 10:10 »
Crushpixel (46 sales with 2000 images since they opened in Feb 2019)
https://www.crushpixel.com/?ref=4249
Thanks, I think I'll try this one. So, roughly 2 per month for 2,000 images... Doesn't seem like it would be worth the wear and tear on my keyboard to open a new tab for the site.
https://www.crushpixel.com/?ref=4249
I submit to low earners, yes it cost a bit more work to submit to them, but they all together make good piece of the pie...and I don't have so expensive keyboard lol
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« on: October 21, 2019, 05:32 »
I wonder if there is agencies not presented in the list on the right by meeting this requirement: The agency to report at least one sale per month per 1000 images on sale.
I'm aware that this is depend of the images, however it will be useful to share if there is some less known until now agency.
By the way on the right have a lot which do not meet this requirement, some of them even do not exist anymore (Macrografiks, PhotoSpin, ViscoImages, Stockami.. )
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« on: October 21, 2019, 03:04 »
Time and expense wise Alamy is not really worth it. However people are still prepared to waste tehir time doing it. Some weird sort of masochism IMO
I upload let's say 150 images just with two clicks in 2 sec, then I continue with my other work. After upload i spend 5 min to select releases and some other info in groups usually. And that's it. I don't know how expensive is your time, but to me it absolutely worth uploading to Alamy. I do not sell editorial and can say Alamy give me a more money than iStock for example.
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« on: October 15, 2019, 10:54 »
Nice times was when we could see in Fotolia and iStock sales level on each image.
Can't see much of anything on IS. 
Sales by image on AS is there? That's one of my favorite links. https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/top-sellers?
Insights>MyStatistics>Top Sellers... click display statistics
You have to set the date if you want more than the last three months, but you can set it to lifetime by picking some date way back like 2000 and then click.
For me the Adobe visualization (the bar chart of earnings and downloads) only goes back to 2012.
Or for downloads, instead of income, https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/portfolio?limit=100&page=1&sort_by=download_desc
Thanks, but I mean public data for all images not just mine.
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« on: October 15, 2019, 04:11 »
Nice times was when we could see in Fotolia and iStock sales level on each image.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 03:06 »
I know it's old news, but I'm asking myself now does it mean 50 times less income for the existing photographers in Elements? I mean it's logic if the user can choice/buy for unlimited on the same price not from 1 mln images, but now from 51 mln images.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 01:16 »
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« on: October 13, 2019, 10:48 »
For the moment I only uploaded a hundred videos on Istock and zero photo, I should perhaps have started by doing the opposite ... do you think it is better that I stop uploder videos ? Is it so bad compared to other stocks? ok for about 15 dollars for one video but not much less ... on average in any case.
If you feed agencies that sell your work for peanuts you'll lose pontential sales on other agencies that pay you better!!!
I'd love to be on that way, but unfortunately it doesn't work on that way. The client who would buy your image in one particular moment on one exact search result in one particular agency, even will buy this image just because of the conviction in the moment.... this client will never buy your image on other agency searching you and your portfolio, or if yes will be in 1% of the cases.
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« on: October 11, 2019, 08:53 »
Has anybody else noticed their DL numbers randomly decrease in the new interface?
Last night when I made a final check of sales before calling it a day I had 100 dl's this morning I only have 98.
It happened once during the day yesterday when I seem to have lost a sale...
And I'm still having trouble reconciling my records with this month payment.
I may have just hit my frustration threshold with these clowns.
I noticed today. I have decrease with about 10 sales compared to 8 hours earlier (as numbers and as amount too). I'm traditionally positive about Canva, but now I'm already hesitant if all there is OK.
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« on: October 10, 2019, 08:42 »
I'm impressed how iStock is 50% form the Shutterstock's earnings in September, in my stats they are way less. 
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« on: October 09, 2019, 13:09 »
It's amazing how all agencies thinks about digits, numbers, units, percentages and so on, like all photos are the same and worth nothing each individually. So sad...
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« on: October 09, 2019, 05:35 »
This is first month (may) 1000 files portfolio
0,08 per sale
Waiting response of close account
Let we be honest, this is only in May by my opinion. Each month after May have average 0.20 USD on subscriptions which is not much but not 0.08
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« on: October 07, 2019, 02:15 »
Things like that are usually done right before to close the doors.
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« on: September 26, 2019, 08:35 »
Having a monster month on SS...
You have some big sales in September, right?
6 large ELs (including a $90 sale) and 3 clip sales making a big difference this month. Don't know what they did to change the algos, but more please!
Full report out in a few days on my blog.
Keep rocking!
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« on: September 26, 2019, 06:27 »
Having a monster month on SS...
You have some big sales in September, right?
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« on: September 26, 2019, 06:06 »
I have more than 10K images there and I was in around top 30 in Canva before the drop last year. I don't see any of this subscription sales.
Hey Deyan, please see my last reply.
You will see subscription sales in the new interface, which is rolling out by next Monday. I can confirm you have subscription sales. Sorry that it's not showing up on the old dashboard.
Thanks Danny, I'll expect it.
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« on: September 25, 2019, 00:55 »
You should see Photos Unlimited earnings on the following page: https://www.canva.com/account/sales
Even at the correct link, I show no subscription sales. My sample size should be big enough, although I'm down 75% in DLs from last August and even more in $$$.
Someone else here said they wouldn't have shown up yet at all.
I have more than 10K images there and I was in around top 30 in Canva before the drop last year. I don't see any of this subscription sales.
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« on: September 23, 2019, 10:39 »
My favorite thing about Shutterstock is either 100% acceptance of a batch of work or 100% rejection for ludicrous reason and logic. Waste of time these days.
Well, you sometimes come across a guy who works as rejector or sometimes on other guy who works as acceptor, that's why lol
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« on: September 21, 2019, 09:22 »
Since some month Adobe stock sell more and more. here is my stats
June 2018 1337
July 2018 1390
August 2018 1430
September 2018 1403
October 2018 1656
November 2018 1771
December 2018 1368
January 2019 1835
February 2019 1699
March 2019 1787
April 2019 1857
May 2019 2067
June 2019 1816
July 2019 1924
August 2019 1983
Shutterstock lost sell but Adobe stock is rising
How big was your port on June 2018 and how big on August 2019 ?
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