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« on: December 13, 2018, 14:36 »
https://www.shutterstock.com/license
From what I understand from here it requires an enhanced image license.
It certainly looks like an Enhanced license is required but see the retail price of the T Shirts - $10 or $12 or so. That certainly doesn't allow for paying for the license and the production costs of the T shirts themselves yet alone a profit margin. Perhaps someone who has their designs being used should contact Shutterstock for clarification. Regards, David.
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« on: December 13, 2018, 14:23 »
Just did mine yesterday so it is still fresh in my mind. When you go into the Tax Interview it gives you a list (country by country) of what number to use if you are not based in the USA. For example, here in the UK, you put in your National Insurance Number. Suggest you go back in and see what is listed for Canada and then use that. Hope that helps! Regards, David. On a side note I also did my Adobe one yesterday and was impressed that the moment I hit Submit, I got an email back saying my form was validated 
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« on: September 22, 2018, 14:25 »
Any sense when the royalty info will be out? Still can't access it!
Don't expect anything before Monday. None of these 24 hour, Seven days a week hi-tech companies seem to do anything much at the Weekend other than to run on auto pilot. Today Is 24?
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« on: August 12, 2018, 12:55 »
Contributor site back up in the UK. Tried uploading a single file but it vanished into "your file is being processed". Obviously not fully back to normal yet 
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« on: June 19, 2018, 08:50 »
Asked and answered on their own forum -you get paid for the free downloads as normal. It is their promotion at their expense.
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« on: May 02, 2018, 11:44 »
Deleted my pending editorials which had been sitting there since December. I stopped uploading anyway after their latest commission cuts and I'm just waiting for $5 to reach payout then it's goodbye 123rf. There clearly is no "good news for contributors" coming as they stated.
On a related note (which nobody has mentioned I think) their sister company - macro agency Inmagine has closed down as a separate site with buyers being re-directed to the Evo (premium) collection at 123rf. This might be another reason for low sales as Inmagine had a Value RF section populated with 123rf images. I have no idea how many sales came through that but it must have an effect - not all Inmagine buyers would just automatically start buying through 123 instead. Whether this move was cost cutting or streamlining is open to speculation.
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« on: April 25, 2018, 11:26 »
Also, after I fill in the keywords (cut and paste from notepad, words separated by commas) the words don't appear as separate blocks with stars and askerisks on each side
This. Where are your keywords that you pasted in? Are they still in the narrow box labelled "add new tags" ? As Noodle said you then need to click the + sign at the right hand side of that box. Your keywords will now move below that box and be in seperate blocks. Until you've done that you haven't added your keywords and the image won't go on sale. If you think of any additional keywords type them directly into the "add new tags" box and click the + sign again. Best of luck with Alamy! Regards, David.
Correction you just need to type the words separated by a comma and hit enter.
If you are using a keyboard of course
Thanks Sammy, I didn't know that!
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« on: April 25, 2018, 08:11 »
Also, after I fill in the keywords (cut and paste from notepad, words separated by commas) the words don't appear as separate blocks with stars and askerisks on each side
This. Where are your keywords that you pasted in? Are they still in the narrow box labelled "add new tags" ? As Noodle said you then need to click the + sign at the right hand side of that box. Your keywords will now move below that box and be in seperate blocks. Until you've done that you haven't added your keywords and the image won't go on sale. If you think of any additional keywords type them directly into the "add new tags" box and click the + sign again. Best of luck with Alamy! Regards, David.
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« on: April 01, 2018, 11:26 »
It's the logo for Imagine China a major photo agency which handles images for a host of other agencies. Google it and you will get a list of some of them (though I didn't see any micro sites listed). Hope that helps.
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« on: February 18, 2018, 15:21 »
Steve - the Yay Images site is just for buyers. You can still log in and access all your contributor information/sales reports at the old Yay Micro site and that is also where contributors upload to (should they be so inclined). I just emailed them the other day asking them to close my account (no response so far) but in any case I have opted out of all "partner" sites including Yay Images (if that makes sense) so I have nothing for sale with them now. Shame, they were a good little agency at one point (pre 2013) and always very responsive to any queries I had. Hope that helps! Regards, David.
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« on: January 20, 2018, 13:45 »
Sales report is being loaded as I write (UK time 18.45).
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« on: January 04, 2018, 17:01 »
Here's a thread that covers this. Just contact Canstock support if you want to opt out of this (I did because I already sell on POD sites). They replied very quickly and confirmed my opt out. BTW opting out of this doesn't affect their other partner sites. http://www.microstockgroup.com/canstockphoto-com/exciting-announcement/
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« on: April 10, 2017, 11:56 »
Checkout this thread http://www.microstockgroup.com/canstockphoto-com/exciting-announcement/ . When it was announced they offered an individual opt out (for just this partner site) and hopefully still do. Those of us selling on POD sites like Redbubble and FineArt America are, obviously, not interested in getting 25c for a print sale and opted out.
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« on: February 18, 2017, 09:32 »
I wouldn't worry about it. It is just an automated measure of how many keywords you have used compared to the maximum allowed of 50. If your keywords are accurate and appropriate for your image that's fine - don't start adding on irrelevant stuff just to change that Poor Discoverability tag. My whole port there is "Poor" but show up fine on keyword searches - try it for yourself with your own images.
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« on: February 13, 2017, 09:30 »
Don't know if this is still the case but when it launched they offered an opt out from the Free Art site (without effecting opt in to other CS partners such as Fotosearch). I sent them a support ticket and was opted out within a couple of hours. In my case I sell direct on POD sites like FAA and Redbubble so it wasn't an attractive deal for me. I guess if you've no intention of ever selling direct on art sites you could see it as a bit of extra income. More information from when it launched here http://www.microstockgroup.com/canstockphoto-com/exciting-announcement/
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« on: February 13, 2017, 09:06 »
Top left of the ESP submission page is a box that says Istock creative submission (or something like that). There's a drop down on that to change it to Istock Editorial.
When I'm logged into ESP, there's no drop down option on the iStock Creative Image tab.
Well it IS there so you may have a browser issue. I'm using Google Chrome and can toggle between Creative and Editorial. Try from a different browser. Good luck!
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« on: February 13, 2017, 08:46 »
Getty Connect income isn't for "sales" of images. It's a share of advertising income from ads appearing where somebody (blog etc) has been allowed to embed your image from Getty. Their argument is that these embedded images only go to uses where somebody wouldn't normally have purchased a license for images and, therefore, is extra monetisation for your work. Just Google "Getty Connect for contributors" and you should get the full info. It's a bit like someone coming to my blog and clicking on one of the Google ads there -I get a penny or so per click.
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« on: February 13, 2017, 08:31 »
In the "My Content box" on the home page click "upload and review content", then click the green button "+new submission", it will generate and show you a new tab titled "Submission batch istock creative image" with "upload files" in it, drag them on there or click the + and you can upload away
I still can't work out how to mark submitted images as editorial.
Top left of the ESP submission page is a box that says Istock creative submission (or something like that). There's a drop down on that to change it to Istock Editorial. BTW they have recently posted that editorial submissions no longer have to an exact format for captions. You just have to have all the relevant information in your caption (e.g. Who/What/Where/When etc).
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« on: February 13, 2017, 08:26 »
In the "My Content box" on the home page click "upload and review content", then click the green button "+new submission", it will generate and show you a new tab titled "Submission batch istock creative image" with "upload files" in it, drag them on there or click the + and you can upload away
Thank you for the explanation, but, been that I can't see my portfolio on ESP, if I upload new images, where do they go? This was my concern...
Your portfolio remains where it always was on Istockphoto.com (which is now the site for buyers). Think of ESP as an upload and account management platform. To see your portfolio click on Account Management (top right) on ESP and scroll down to Portfolio where you will find a link to our port.
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« on: February 04, 2017, 15:21 »
Just a straight question. Has anyone ever seen an iStock 2c commission or anything from Getty saying that number is real? Or is it just a contributor reading a table and making up news?
It was in the Istock Royalties Update that Getty sent out on October 25 2016. For non-exclusives this is the "worst case" (my words) scenario where a subs buyer downloads their whole allowance giving a Price Per File of 10c and commission to us of 2c. The flip side is that there is no upper limit to what we get when the buyer only downloads a portion of their allowance. Most buyers don't use their full allowance (Shutterstock would be out of business if they did). What we'll end up averaging for sub sales is the big question.
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« on: February 04, 2017, 09:46 »
No e-mail for me yet either. I have received all of the other e-mails leading up to the change-over. Not unexpected.
They said (last night) that they are still working through non-exclusives and emails would continue today.
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« on: February 04, 2017, 09:11 »
Ok..so i don't understand nothing....and it's really frustrated.
1) Where is my portfolio now? All my files? I saw them in Deep Meta v2 , now Deep Meta v3 is empty...
Also i can't find my portfolio on GettyImages, Esp profile is also empty. Should i upload all files again but via ESP??? ( i'm non- exclusive contributor)
2) What about sales : i saw SOME (of course i have no idea which one because Deep Meta v2 doesn't work properly also ) sales in January . Do they pay the money about 25 February with specific information about what kind of file was sold?
3) Where is support center??
Its' really hard to understand everything when English is not your native language, but thanks to this Istock/Getty/Deep Meta thing it's a kind of disaster..
Your portfolio is where it always was at Istockphoto.com - which is now the site for buyers (you can still log in as ever and see your files). No need to re-upload! Sales data for rest of December and January will be posted on the ESP site on February 20 with payments (where applicable) going out on Feb 25. Support is via link on top right "need help?" or go to the forum ("Contributor Community") for answers -link to that is also on top right.
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« on: February 03, 2017, 06:09 »
Got the email. It wasn't a clickable link and I couldn't copy and paste it (just selected the whole of the email). Tried (and failed) patiently typing the very long code into my address bar and then, finally, just got into ESP using my existing Istock password! So what was all this new password business about?
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« on: January 30, 2017, 06:36 »
Not just new accounts now. Looks like the roll out is well under way - check out the numerous threads on the Alamy forum for a lot of useful information on how to get to grips with the new system. Still waiting for it myself though!
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« on: January 18, 2017, 14:21 »
For anyone who didn't get or read the notification sent out some weeks ago this is all part of the Unification process with Istock Editorial becoming Unreleased Creative. Essentially all the stuff that Istock didn't initially allow when they launched Editorial some years back, then started to allow, is now out again. This includes politicians, celebrities, professional sports, elections, political protests/demonstrations etc. The sort of images that buyers would expect Getty to be covering (as they put it). Anything requiring press credentials would also be out (even if you have them). Still allowed, for example, are travel/street type images, parades etc with unreleased people (as long as they are not famous people!). In my own case I had about 35 disabled -most of which were of British Home Secretary Amber Rudd (she's my local M.P.). Also out for me were performance shots of local bands at a local music festival -they weren't exactly famous but probaly got interpreted as "celebrities". Oh well, they're all still for sale at SS/BS/123/DT etc.
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