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« on: July 15, 2016, 15:42 »
I was asking earlier and still am confused about editing keywords - please, enlighten me!
The message says:
QTE
In the meantime, between August 20th (or shortly thereafter) and until contributor tools are fully unified.....
..You will no longer be able to edit your keywords via iStock.com or other third-party applications once submitted.
UNQTE
And then:
QTE
"The functionality for editing keywords may still appear on the file edit page, but it no longer supports updates to iStock.com. In fact, you may have already noticed that keyword updates are not being reflected on the ADP and/or do not surface in search results."
UNQTE
So if we re-keyword images now, prior to Aug 20, the search results won't be updated anyway?
Yes. You'll be just wasting your time.
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« on: July 15, 2016, 14:16 »
"Please note that we will only consider deactivating files for legal or similar justifiable reasons as it provides a negative experience for customers when files are suddenly unavailable for license. "
As I read this, we could still deactivate files when we make them exclusive elsewhere (DT or FT) or sell them as RM at Alamy. These are "legal or justifiable reasons". For pictures with people we could just remove the Model Release.
Do you really think Getty will agree to deactivate a file so you can make it exclusive somewhere else? Don't think so... And as far as I know there's no way to remove a model release from an image.
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« on: June 06, 2016, 17:09 »
Hope those who were not in iStock before 2012 are not voting. I noticed 26 have reported their income has not dropped at all. That's hard to believe.
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« on: April 04, 2016, 16:35 »
It seemed like for a couple months IS was on the move again then last month and this month went back in the toilet.
Haven't you noticed yet that this month has just started? 
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« on: March 23, 2016, 18:05 »
I think Getty's bad reputation is mostly due to iStock and not Getty itself..
You don't know much about Getty. Do you?
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« on: March 21, 2016, 16:01 »
"We still believe it is important to reward the creators..." What a cheek! Did KT write that? When will all these "agencies" understand they are not doing us any favor when they pay us our part of the money of each image sold? It's OUR WORK, OUR IMAGES, OUR MONEY!
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« on: March 20, 2016, 19:33 »
I closed my account in 2010 and forgot I had a balance. Got it today.
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« on: March 17, 2016, 16:00 »
Client does not care about this. They see only "per hour". And often you can hear that "oh you want such money for a button click!" :-)
Which brings up a good point. In design, I hardly ever work on an hourly basis or quote my hourly fee for exactly the same reason. I give a price per job (which I base on my hourly fee). The psychology of it seems to work better. As soon as people hear $100 per hour, or whatever the hourly rate, they compare it to what they themselves make. No matter that the comparison is irrelevant. In their mind, you aren't worth it.
So maybe dispense of an hourly rate (if you charge that way), and come up with package prices. For example, $300 gets you this, this and this. For $400 you get this, this and this, AND this extra. Etc. etc.
Excellent advice.
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« on: March 17, 2016, 07:51 »
I'm using "Who stole my pictures?" extension for firefox and it seems to work quite well
And how I know is stolen and no sold?
If you find it as a personal Facebook cover or profile photo you can be 99.99% sure it's stolen 
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« on: March 16, 2016, 08:39 »
500 shots in 1 hour? You should better take a video 
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« on: February 29, 2016, 22:18 »
You must be one of the two persons making over a million!
Yes, over 1 million Chilean pesos. 
Ok. Now that explains how you are gonna make 40K in a year or 2. L L !!!
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« on: February 29, 2016, 22:15 »
40K is quite achievable, even in 2016. 2015 was my first year in Microstock and I see that number as being very achievable in a year or 2.
R F L !!!
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« on: February 20, 2016, 19:58 »
those guys know how to sell, it is still valid even 120 days after this thread was posted. 
THIS THREAD IS MORE THAN 6 YEARS OLD!
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« on: January 11, 2016, 14:46 »
WOW! Never thought there were so many specialists in linguistics working as stock photographers!
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« on: December 23, 2015, 11:09 »
I have been shooting 5ds for years.
I had to read this a few times, you know Canon 5DS is a camera model? 
"s" is for plural. Perry must have used different models of 5d.
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« on: November 29, 2015, 19:16 »
Credit Sales are not dead, but subs are clearly growing while credits have been decreasing. When it will level off is anyone's guess. Personally my sales are on an upswing now despite being down overall from 2014. Q3 and Q4 are both up from last year.
Not dead yet, but getting closer. Obviously, with a port as huge and good as yours it will take longer for credit sales to get to a critical level, but eventually they will, if the people in charge of iStock keep things as they are now. As for subscriptions, they have grown during Q4, but nothing impressive. iStock is far from reaching the volume needed to make it worth investing time and money in new productions that will be sold mainly/only in subscriptions. And as for Getty sales...
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« on: November 28, 2015, 17:24 »
Nov best month this year for me.
Another newbie?
Not newbie. 2000+ images
Since iStock removed QC, anyone can easily have 10000+ images port. Even newbies. So, you say this Nov is already your BMY. How many sales? And how many sales in Nov 2014, 2013, 2012, etc?
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« on: November 28, 2015, 14:33 »
This month, even if it is not finished, is my best month ever
Not sure that sales collapse for everybody.
For me it's the same, I'm exclusive with 9000 images.
And how many sales?
Sean this is my report:
162 subs
33 istock downloads
12 GI sales
1 extended license
6 pp
Previously it was:
100 subs
24 Istock dowls
6 GI
4pp
It seems to be a trend because in November Number of Istock sales has rise up ...even if I have to see the subs and GI ...
Sorry but such low numbers mean nothing. That's not a trend.
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« on: November 28, 2015, 14:29 »
This month, even if it is not finished, is my best month ever
Not sure that sales collapse for everybody.
Newbie?
Five more cents made it a BME?
Newbie?
No, almost 4 years now - 3200 images
I generally make around $ 100 / 150 a month and this month I have already got $250 (due to some unexpected EL)"
That really doesn't prove anything, but obviously is nice for you. For some reason my March this year was by miles my BMY for credit sales, but it was only a blip (and still much worse than most previous Marches).
Of course it does not proves anything.
But it does not prove the contrary too
I never said that it proves something and I have only told about my personal experience.
Then some arrogant, knowing absolutely nothing about me, came and called me newbie, and fooled me with stupid affirmations, from the heights of his pedestal
Do you really think that the 15 or 20 persons regularly present on this forum are the reflect of all the microstock industry??
Generally people come on forums:
1) because they have some problem and they need some help to solve it or to understand it
2) to lament of something.
People not having problem or not wishing to whine about something are the majority and don't come here.
I don't know how many contributors there are on iStock, but the 10 persons writing on this thread probably represent no more than 0,01% of these contributors
So draw your conclusion
There are a few key players in here, one who is probably the top five microstock contributors of today. Nobody ever claims here that MSG is all things microstock. You are right about the .01% statement, but i seriously doubt that the remaining 99.99% would say much different than what is posted in here. Some do better than others is the basic claim made by opposing opinions on msg. But if you don't think that those who post here represent the basic 80/20 rule then why join?
Because there are some interesting discussions on this forum, and good information.
Excuse me I have only told about my personal experience, and somebody attacked me calling me "newbie" and telling that "Five more cents made it a BME?"
Do you think that it is normal to be offensive with people when you don't agree with them?
Ok... not a newbie. But you're obviously a very low exclusive seller who behaves like a newbie: You get an EL and it makes your month a BME. Then you think things at iStock are improving. The collapse of credit sales is simply an undeniable fact. Many of us would need more than one EL a day to make up for the huge loss of credit sales we've had.
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« on: November 27, 2015, 11:37 »
This month, even if it is not finished, is my best month ever
Not sure that sales collapse for everybody.
For me it's the same, I'm exclusive with 9000 images.
And how many sales?
That's interesting, but not fully relevant. They're saying that they are having their personal BME for credit sales, so the downward trend isn't universal.
No exclusive iStocker is having the amount of credit sales we still used to have just a couple of years ago. Not even the current top sellers with really huge and excelent ports. So, the only way to have a BME for credits nowadays is by being a newbie. They are used to subscriptions and a single credit sale can make a month a BME.
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« on: November 27, 2015, 11:05 »
Nov best month this year for me.
Another newbie?
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« on: November 26, 2015, 19:13 »
This month, even if it is not finished, is my best month ever
Not sure that sales collapse for everybody.
Newbie? Five more cents made it a BME?
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« on: November 22, 2015, 17:33 »
[...] I am very happy to hear what is going on behind the scenes at Istock by Getty. It is happening now, not in the future. So no one is fooling anyone.
You happy with the new carousel? Is that one of the wonders they were doing behind the scenes? You think that's great for exclusives?
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« on: November 20, 2015, 09:37 »
bunhill, theres nothing malicious being posted here
I disagree.
Anyhow - most of what has happened in microstock including iStock is inevitable economics. If it had not been them it would have been someone else. Basic issues are that the economy collapsed about the same time as Facebook and the iPhone went mainstream. For many former customers that meant that they realised that they no longer needed a website (in many cases they never did). Content today is often something shared from 'friends' and followers.
Plus over-supply. The price of using mainstream stock photographs is trending towards zero.
I disagree. What happened to iStock started the day they changed the royalty system. The other agencies just took advantage of Getty/iStock bad decisions.
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« on: November 20, 2015, 09:27 »
It is clearly simplistic and potentially malicious to personally blame Kelly Thompson for what happened at iStock during that transitionary era. I think we all agree it wasn't all Kelly Thompson's fault. But several times he proved to be completely incompetent for the job. As Jo Ann said above: " I don't know what he was supposed to be good at - other than being Bruce Livingstone's friend I don't know why he was there"
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