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« on: September 01, 2016, 08:51 »
Me too. 6000 down to 99. 
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« on: August 29, 2016, 19:04 »
Glad it's not just me. OUt of 6,000+ I only see 99 in my portfolio.  Someone at SS HQ must be eating too much free pizza and fell asleep on their treadmill. Their head it the delete button on our portfolios.
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« on: August 10, 2016, 13:16 »
I get sporadic sales here, but I like it (as an illustrator). Thank you for reaching out to us here. Good luck. Best success for all of us!
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« on: August 09, 2016, 19:07 »
Web.com has a decent web hosting service (NetworkSolutions)., But my experience with their web marketing service was a big waste of money. https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/09/stock-photo-marketplace-pond5-brings-on-a-new-ceo-ex-web-com-coo-jason-teichman/
"But the CEO declined to disclose any sales data."
Interesting facts:
Jason (41, 3 kids) holded more-less every single title in his career - used to be COO, CMO, SVP, VP, General Manager, Director... He spent 8 years with American Express and 6 years at http://www.web.com/
No experience with stock media, as per his LinkedIn profile.
And in June 2016 he sold 30K of shares at web.com - http://www.franklinindependent.com/web-com-group-inc-nasdaqwebs-insider-jason-teichman-unloaded-30000-shares/
Ex CEO Ryan Scott who served for 1 year only left P5.
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« on: August 07, 2016, 19:29 »
When it comes to a person bringing up this subject for the #th time, at least offer some encouragement. Look at the glass half-full. It can only lead to some bit of progress. Refer them to the link of previous discussion (as some have done). But don't try to shut them down. We're all on the same team. United we are strong. Divided, we are weak.
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« on: July 26, 2016, 12:39 »
Did anyone see the new contributor dashboard: http://www.123rf.com/contributor/index.php
Clean design, like it!
I'm not sure what they mean by 'Top downloads'.
It would be useful if it shows unpaid $ amount as well.
Wowsah! What a nice improvement! Hoping they don't cut our royalties because of it. 
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« on: July 26, 2016, 12:34 »
On July 19, 2016, Craig Felenstein notified Shutterstock, Inc. (the "Company") of his intention to resign from his position as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Strategic Finance, effective August 19, 2016, in order to accept a Chief Financial Officer position with another public company.
As in Shutterstock SEC Filing IRS
Does this mean something?
Not enough Pizza Fridays and gym time. 
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« on: July 17, 2016, 17:01 »
Corporate gobblygoop. NONE of it makes any sense. I had to check this forum to get the truth. A big reason I quit working for others. Yeah, self-employed can be stressful. But not as stressful as working in a culture like this. I feel some pity for Getty employees.
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« on: July 02, 2016, 18:49 »
Obviously some folks at SS HQ have been spending too much time in the fitness room and eating free pizza.
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« on: June 11, 2016, 09:18 »
Although it's a paid service, it might be worth it to look at http://picworkflow.com/
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« on: May 26, 2016, 11:22 »
Hi all,
Was wondering if it's fine that Shutterstock requires a property release for a picture where the only subject is a close-up of an animal (cow), with no visible signs attributing it to a specific place, property, etc. Obviously, the picture was rejected as no property release was attached (and could never be attached, for that matter). I'm a bit confused, to say least...
Maybe the cow is wearing a tattoo  . I say just resubmit it.
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« on: May 23, 2016, 14:51 »
Yeah, I've got less than 60 clips! I'm working on it though 
Oh, then you should feel happy. You're doing great in my opinion!
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« on: May 23, 2016, 08:35 »
Not much! I mean, yeah, there's a definite upward trend which is great, but it's very intermittent compared to everyone else!
Hmmm...My portfolio size is over 6,100. That could make a difference in daily sales. I think the others have more as well.
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« on: May 22, 2016, 19:08 »
Lol!
Put up May to May. Maybe better??!
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« on: May 21, 2016, 23:04 »
No, I have the opposite of your.
Same here. See attached. I only add 2-3 photos per week (if any)
What's interesting with the graphs on display here and other posts is, if you cut off the tops of the peaks they fill the troughs and you get a steady average. A simple pointer would be, a very large peak is often followed by successive drops until a balance is established (the average of the highs and lows match the overall average over a larger period of time). I think it's part and parcel of their ranking system.
If you create a rolling 30, 60 & 90 day average it irons out the larger swings and you can see the overall trend from a smoother line. A rolling 7 day average is also a useful stat to track. The 60 & 90 day trackers + the 7 day one allowed me to forecast my earnings for the coming week..... was 94% accurate. The joys of being an ex-city analyst :-)
Thanks! So do you think I'm doing pretty good then?
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« on: May 20, 2016, 16:33 »
mine is much more sporadic than yours with a slight trend towards growth rather than decline.
i always keep a batch ready to submit while there is a batch in review so there is a constant flow of new stuff into my port even when I am too busy to be shooting new stuff at certain times of the year.
Indeed. Same here. I cut back from 60 submissions a week to about 10 so I could focus on a separate project deadline. I was thinking that was part of the cause. But it looks like it's just the nature of this wacky microstock business.
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« on: May 20, 2016, 12:47 »
I am just curious if anyone out herethat submits new content weeklyhas similar result in their earnings chart?
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« on: May 19, 2016, 13:00 »
Good job shutting them down Fotobia!
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« on: April 19, 2016, 12:33 »
PayPal sent me e-mail this morning saying that their investigation was complete and they were releasing the funds (and I've been able to request the transfer to my bank a/c).
There was no explanation of what happened. Other than "We appreciate your cooperation." there was nothing even close to an apology for the delay...
I think it has something to do with Hillary Clinton's email server at her Chappaqua mansion. 
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« on: April 19, 2016, 12:32 »
Finally... We have lifted the temporary hold on the funds. You now have full access to
those amounts in your account.
We appreciate your cooperation.
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« on: April 15, 2016, 09:31 »
Yes! Same thing here. I attached a PDF of the email in my response to them. Pond5 is trippin'. I went to PayPal this morning as 123rf and Pond5 had paid me and found that there was an unresolved "issue".
PayPal has placed a temporary hold - " Inquiry by PayPal Temporary Hold". I clicked the Resolve button and most of the questions were about the shipping address I had sent the goods to as they thought the payment had come from someone other than Pond5 GmbH:
"You have received a payment that we believe may not have been authorized by
the PayPal account holder. Here are the details of the transaction we are
investigating:"
They recommend that I don't ship the item 
At the end of the resolution process I get to provide details about the transaction and I explained that Pond5 was a stock agency and they were paying me (as they have before) for licenses of my work. No physical goods involved and I couldn't understand why PayPal was so far off the mark in what was going on with this business. Surely there have been enough PayPal payments to contributors that they understand what's going on.
"This payment will remain on hold and unavailable to you until we complete
our investigation. We will email you when we complete our investigation."
So PayPal is demented and I don't get paid - lovely. It's a small amount (I don't sell much at Pond5) so it doesn't matter, but I wondered if this had happened to others or if it was just me
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« on: April 08, 2016, 13:04 »
This image was rejected for potentially infringes on intellectual property rights.
Maybe it could have other kind of problems but were is "potentially infringes on intellectual property rights"?
Thank you in advance.
It's the evergreen tree air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror in the red car, third from bottom left.
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« on: April 08, 2016, 13:03 »
hmm, good news !!!
maybe ss finally sacked the renegade reviewer, and she/he found a job with cs.
think many will be starting to upload again to ss, if this is the case.
Maybe so! After a month of smooth sailing, all of my illustrations of a woman on a cell phone crossing the street were rejected for having irrelevant keywords such as these:
careless, cartoon, cell phone, clueless, communication, crossing street, dangerous, dialing, distracted, female,
You should resubmit them, I think there's some reviewer who doesn't understand english and just rejects everything to earn his/her money.
Agreed. I have just resubmitted.
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« on: April 08, 2016, 11:05 »
hmm, good news !!!
maybe ss finally sacked the renegade reviewer, and she/he found a job with cs.
think many will be starting to upload again to ss, if this is the case.
Maybe so! After a month of smooth sailing, all of my illustrations of a woman on a cell phone crossing the street were rejected for having irrelevant keywords such as these: careless, cartoon, cell phone, clueless, communication, crossing street, dangerous, dialing, distracted, female,
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« on: April 02, 2016, 08:55 »
Yeah, sales have been disappointing. Their similars policy is ridiculous.
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