Well, I sent a message to support about that 3 months ago! No response. I have this problem with ZIP (EPS/JPG) going through FTP. When I go through the website, I have no problem.

I was impressed with this presentation from iStock for us. Although they ignore illustrations, it's still useful. https://www.brighttalk.com/community/customer-experience/webcast/10189/150537?utm_medium=web&utm_source=brighttalk-portal&utm_campaign=community-live-recorded

We only need to assign one category. That's a good thing. 

Not surprised with PhotoDune. Submitting there, especially as a cartoonist (Graphic River or ENvato(?), was an absolute waste of time. Ridiculous submission process and outrageous rejections.

I just roughly checked my last 1400 photos and Photodune have accepted about 140. I have an acceptance rate of 10% on PD. 

Bigstock is 96%
CanStockPhoto is 94%
123RF is 95%
Shutterstock 90%
Fotolia was 60%
Alamy was 100%
Deposit was 95%

Fast, probably not�unless you have 30,000 people shots with signed model releases (or illustrations with reference images). It will take many years of sacrifice and starvation. But if you stay focused, it can happen.

Sorry, I cant take a risk on downloading a zip of files.

Hello!

I want to start stock photography, because I became unemployed and I need to make a living fast.

But first I need to know, if my pictures contain at least 10 that worth a try. I would like to join Shutterstock.

If you have the time, could you please mark the pictures that are good for submission, or if not, what are the errors.

Thank you very much.

P.S. Pictures are in a zip file. I wont post the pictures to shutterstock with the copyright mark.

http://www.2shared.com/file/V9E3tMaK/kldeni.html

Quote from: Striving on April 12, 2015, 12:55

Time to increase our pay, Mr. Oringer.

LMAO as if he comes here to read this. maybe you go tweet his own site he might read it
really, i don`t expect any raise any more than you get a raise watching porn 
i would say at least let the total monthly earning be increased across the board
with SOD of those $28 to $120 per single earning
so we still end up making better than having 1000 dls of 30 cts per month.
as someone alteady started a new thread, even that new good thing seem to have disappeared lately...

Truthfully, I don't watch porn nor do I expect the lords of microstock to care about those of us who bring them wealth. I only hope to inspire my fellow artists to never be satisfied until we all can make an equal profit from our work. Addressing him was symbolic as his name is now symbolic with the most wealthy in our industry. Peace.

Quote from: Striving on April 07, 2015, 23:01

I'm glad you got paid. I haven't been paid yet and was owed over $200.00+. Now my balance reads $7.00!!!! Yeah, same here: No response to my inquiries.

Same here - contacted IS 10 days ago who a few days later told me to contact Getty - not a word back - the customer service issues are appalling - have no idea what is going on, can get no one to respond other than to pass the buck and meanwhile over a $100 missing from my account for a month. I think its time to pull images from IS - too much hassle for too little return.

Disgusting company. I won't pull my images out, but resentment is growing. I'm sure their salaried managers are getting paid weekly. But they can sit on our money for months.

A very timely post. We needed to hear a success story. 

Do I really have to jump through these hoops to submit an EPS vector image https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/203269650-A-step-by-step-guide-to-the-upload-process

This is what  am designing, its not rocket science

That site's process is ridiculous. Then after you spend an hour submitting, you get all rejections. Don't waste your time. 

This discussion is truly insightful. As an American, I'm very glad to have a worldwide perspective on this forum. Good question! 

Sometimes they take a while to show up - has the count of online files increased?

You I could very well be seeing things. It's been a rough week of various work projects. So you might be right. Since no one else has confirmed it, it's probably me. 

Pisses me off to watch that video. They need to share the wealth a little more with us. Let's all send messages to support to protest the unfair wages.  Better yet, all those contributors that live in NYC can do a picket line�maybe not so easy since they pay us so little.

I can't help but think about this forum post: http://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/i-think-we-need-a-well-deserved-raise-this-year/msg409569/?topicseen#new

I say yes, but only if you don't manually add those extra keywords (a real pain). I'm an illustrator. They force you to choose manual keywords, so I choose "illustration." I have been making a $100 every couple months with 3,000+ images.