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« on: June 23, 2020, 01:13 »
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« on: June 06, 2020, 00:17 »
For all these years, Dreamstime have not reduce our royalties as well.
Dreamstime cut royalties at least 2 times as far as I remember. I remember the outrage in their forums. Based on this history they will cut royalties again. The rise in royalties now is a timely tactic which is working for them, but the royalty rise now is temporary. They lock your images for 6 months and their $100 payout threshold is the highest I know of.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 13:50 »
In the light of Shutterstock's cash grab, YayImages now sounds like an interesting deal. I might actually look into uploading now!
Downloads of 2.5 cents and 5 cents with YayImages. They acted far earlier than ss in giving tiny amounts, but no uproar as they're not popular.
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« on: June 03, 2020, 10:07 »
Shutterstock goes to war against their own producer community in the middle of the corona pandemic and global recession cutting income of producers aggressively with just 6 days notice. Those who complained most about losing income abruptly got deleted from the platform
Seriously, which brilliant mind at HQ thought this would be a fantastic headline to be spread all over social media??
How will that grow their business?
It really is so sad. We have seen so many similar things before. Going to war against producers is simply bad for business. No company with a sane mind intentionally provokes a global online shitstorm.
The content can easily be moved elsewhere and the customers go where the content is. It takes a while, yes.
But why would producers support a company that treats them like this.
SS was such a great place. What happened? It feels like this is a completly different business.
the 'great' (barf) jon oringer left after cashing in
He didn't leave Shutterstock. He's now Executive Chairman of the Board.
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« on: May 27, 2020, 17:50 »
Folks, you need to go to Twitter and retweet the many post....search #Shutterstock....There is a lot of post but very few retweets... It just take a few minutes and your retweets can make a world of great sharing. Retweet NOW...#Shutterstock
Exactly! Can someone retweet this? https://twitter.com/microstockposts/status/1265718346651140097?s=20
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« on: May 27, 2020, 14:38 »
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« on: May 25, 2020, 10:54 »
I think it is a real sign of an ethical person to allow us to ask for any remaining balance before it finally closes. I had about $9 over there - so thanks John for this. After losing $80 or so with Crestock (yes, my own fault for never going to the site), it is refreshing to see a different approach.
Steve
Would have been even more ethical to send a notification to contributors. I guess it's too late for me. Yes I know, it's my fault that I did not check so often.
According to the posts before yours, it seems like final payments haven't been made. It's been a month. I didn't receive my balance when I dropped them years back.
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« on: May 11, 2020, 22:06 »
These days people fly off their handle if rejected, especially artists.
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« on: May 11, 2020, 09:38 »
Yes, you heard it right. 7 videos for 14 usd.
Shocking! Will you be dropping them?
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« on: April 24, 2020, 14:24 »
They still owe me money from 12 years ago...
In this short thread already 2 people have said Yay owe them money. Even Cutcaster is paying out and they will be closing on Saturday.
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« on: April 24, 2020, 14:21 »
First of all for some reason they are trying to spin that they are newly formed. Yayimages is not newly formed, they have been around at least 4 years if not longer. 4 years is by no stretch of the imagination newly formed.
I registered 2008/03/20... so, more than 12 years ago... you don't know anything about them and should keep your statements for yourself.
I know that they are not a "newly formed" company. You need to ask them why they are trying to spin it that way. Yayimages was actually registered in 2009-04-16 but they only actively used it since they switched from Yaymicro about 4 or 5 years ago.. I also know that they are a microstock site which uses privacy protection on their domains to hide their details from the public which very few microstock sites feel the need to do.
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« on: April 24, 2020, 10:51 »
unscrupulous
A new word for me, googling it i think it goes for most agencies.
Let's give them the benefit of "new administration" before judging them.
First of all for some reason they are trying to spin that they are newly formed. Yayimages is not newly formed, they have been around at least 4 years if not longer. 4 years is by no stretch of the imagination newly formed. New management/owner? On their old site yaymicro they still show the same management as usual. In the whois information on both sites they are hidden behind Godaddy's privacy protection. So they pay $30 a year to hide themselves. @Chichikov Would that $30 cover what they owe you?
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« on: April 24, 2020, 06:41 »
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« on: April 24, 2020, 04:32 »
So the worse an agency treats you the more you will do marketing for them.
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« on: April 11, 2020, 21:48 »
I think picworkflow has more functions than xpiks including the ability to store your files with them and also you only need to upload once if using picworkflow and they send to all sites using their bandwidth, where as xpiks works as traditional ftp.
I dont know what xpiks does but with picworklflow I do indeed upload a picture once to their storage and click which 10 or 20 agencies I want them to submit to. They then downsize to the allowed size and submit my picture to all agencies I asked for.
I had a very slow connection until recently and it took every picture 4 or 5 minutes to upload. So I was happy to only upload them once and they distribute them.
Xpiks sounds more like an FTP upload like FileZilla?
You have just repeated what I said. 
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« on: April 11, 2020, 13:20 »
https://www.picworkflow.com/
You pay 1 or 2 cent per picture per upload (via credits you have to buy first).
There is a plugIn for LR, so you can upload right from LR after keywording.
But you still have to visit the different agencies to do the "last bit" - like distributing them into the right category.
Did a lot uf uploads via picworkflow last year.
Now I do most via FTP and only a few via picworkflow. Those, that require small sizes like 20 MB max- picworkflow downsizes pics if you want that option. So they downsize and than upload for the money I pay.
So it does exactly the same thing as Xpiks but takes your money?
I think picworkflow has more functions than xpiks including the ability to store your files with them and also you only need to upload once if using picworkflow and they send to all sites using their bandwidth, where as xpiks works as traditional ftp.
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« on: April 08, 2020, 05:11 »
Many years ago I emailed them asking how I can remove images, it was not a request to remove images, I just wanted to know the procedure. The reply I received was..
"This email is to confirm that the images which were formerly active
in your portfolio have now been removed.
I can leave your account active, or close it if you wish. Let me know what
you prefer and I will take care of it for you."
I was surprised by their reply to say the least. I responded by asking them to close my account.
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« on: March 30, 2020, 16:33 »
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« on: March 02, 2020, 04:16 »
It does seem that CanStockPhoto are having problems then. I noticed also they recently stopped advertising on msg, after advertising here for years.
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« on: March 01, 2020, 15:53 »
I submitted 3 support tickets, all got an automated reply saying they got my message, I also sent email to [email protected], but they never reply at all.
I was get paid 2 or 3 times previously, the last payment was about 9 months ago. May I know when was the last time you guys get paid?
I got 7000+ images there, I submitted the support ticket ask them how to delete the images in bulk, they also never reply. Very disappointed with this irresponsible agency.
Anyway, I just tried to warn everyone here, if you think the site is okay then keep going.
So you're trying to remove your images and also requesting payout. Have you reached the payout threshold?
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« on: February 18, 2020, 00:09 »
DT is my first too since 2013... I was once exclusive. Combining the sales of my renderings with uploaded bonuses and helped me through to get some really tough times. I had to stop uploading and leave exclusivity after they stopped giving bonuses to contributors over 10.000 accepted images. It was sad for me since I get used to it very much.
I think I remember reading that you have to pay back the bonuses if you stop being exclusive. Is this correct?
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« on: February 16, 2020, 16:50 »
there is currently a deep waiting list of interested artists
Is there a difference between a 'deep list' and a 'long list'?
How deep is a piece of string? 
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« on: February 14, 2020, 10:42 »
Cant say anything about CANstock since they rejected my application
My pics have no potential for sale they told me. *rofl*
The only agency that ever rejected my application.
So they must have quite different buyers compared to ADOBE and SS cause my pics sell quite well with those two agencies....
Given your username I'm guessing that your port is mostly images of flowers?
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« on: February 10, 2020, 06:54 »
What do you expect they pay reviewers peanuts and recruit anyone with minimal oversight 
Pay peanuts what do you get ?
How much do they pay?
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