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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Sales have tanked big time
« on: November 06, 2011, 17:24 »
Baldricks, that was some of the most sensible opinion I've read, regarding the exclusive vs independent argument. Well stated!

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Off Topic / Re: Worlds finest Whiskey? which one?
« on: November 03, 2011, 11:13 »
GRANTS, reasonable taste for a reasonable price allowing me drown my sorrows on a bad microstock day. Also DALMORE, better taste but double the price, nice though when celebrating a good microstock day!

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Veer / Re: Veer Subscription Royalties Update
« on: October 02, 2011, 09:15 »
Thanks to Microstock Group for making this positive dialogue possible!  Would most likely not have happened on an agency forum.

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Veer / Re: Veer Subscription Royalties Update
« on: September 30, 2011, 12:07 »
Sounds like a very good improvement on the first offer! Finally a site that is listening and making an effort to balance the equation to be more equitable for the contributor regarding subscription sales! Bravo Veer!

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Pond5 / Re: Photos at Pond5
« on: September 27, 2011, 13:03 »
I'll be very interested to see if they keep the 50% royalty rate. That could possibly start a game change given how successful they have been in the video market. Here's hoping!

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Pond5 / Re: Photos at Pond5
« on: September 27, 2011, 01:15 »
Great to finally see someone from Pond5 on the forum. Thought they would have been accepting photos directly by now.

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Nice new look, but why still no profile for footage collection?

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Panthermedia.net / Re: What Happened at Panther Media?
« on: April 15, 2011, 09:34 »
The review process seems to be quite arbitrary on many sites including here at PM. I find that different photos are rejected or accepted from site to site all the time. Some of my best sellers at one site are rejected at others for quite bizarre reasons. Seems to depend on whether the reviewer is having a bad day or not. For PM to limit the upload rate according to some stupid approval rating from the last submission is just a silly idea that wastes time and is very disrespectful of photographers trying to build a business for both themselves and PM!

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Nice one, gave me a good laugh this morning!

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: istock video upload keeps crashing
« on: February 16, 2011, 20:28 »
Crashing? Sort of like their commission rates then.
Why bother with them when most other video sites pay 40 or 50 percent without the upload hassle? Others also generally regard contributors with some degree of common courtesy and respect as business partners.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Jon Oringer interview on PicNiche
« on: February 13, 2011, 11:45 »
Primarily being a video shooter, it was of interest to me that they are closely watching market developments and might start paying more attention to the HD video side of their business.

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Shutterstock.com / Jon Oringer interview on PicNiche
« on: February 12, 2011, 22:57 »
Interesting interview with Shutterstock's Jon Oringer on PicNiche blog
http://blog.picniche.com/

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock royalty cut goes live
« on: January 14, 2011, 16:11 »
The only way to make them go "poof" is if contributors would stop complaining and just pull their portfolios.

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jbarber873

That point of view is fair enough. However if serious video contributors would only build their portfolios with better paying agencies the clients would certainly follow. As the microstock video market becomes saturated the price pressure will certainly be downwards. 15% of $90 is very low, 15% of $50 - 30 - 20 would be nuts.

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"High Downloads" is a crappy rational to submit to a site that only pays 15% and the corporate fat cats walk away with 85% of your work! There is just no upside to that kind of thinking. I strongly encourage people to contribute and build portfolios with business partners that treat contributors fairly.

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General - Stock Video / Re: Top Video Sites
« on: December 07, 2010, 17:23 »
If you are just beginning to submit video clips I suggest that it might be wise to favor the sites that let you set your own pricing or at least pay a good royalty percentage.
Pond5 and Revostock are both good sellers. SS is OK and sells regularly but is a lower royalty. CC and CD have good royalty rates but so far slow sales. At 15% Istock is an insult and I won't submit to them for that reason and hope others might want to help protect the integrity of the market and do the same.

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StockFresh / Re: StockFresh - from Peter Hamza and Andras Pfaff
« on: November 27, 2010, 12:10 »
For a company eager to build it's library it does seem a bit odd that new contributor applications are taking months and months to review. Perhaps there are just too many photographer serfs in the market now.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Great names of the past!
« on: November 17, 2010, 14:18 »
Interesting that it's always described as the first "person" to be photographed. Don't people see the second "person". I think the little shoeshine boy makes it "people".

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General - Stock Video / Re: Top Video Sites
« on: November 17, 2010, 13:02 »
Still waiting for a replacement since PIxamba did not deliver a platform yet:(
Pixamba as such is out of business.

I honestly don't see how video can add added value to a website (you can't use it in print). Personally I block all video on sites. Another waterfall or ocean waves? No thanks. It's useless.

I do video on my 5DII but only editorial and assignment (weddings, seminars, etc...). Video for stock is stillborn.

Very good, keep thinking that! ;)

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Veer / Re: Unacceptable review times at Veer
« on: November 14, 2010, 13:34 »
I had a submission in the queue for about 4-5 weeks. Reviewed them yesterday with a high acceptance rate so they are chipping away at the backlog...

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New Sites - General / Re: Know Stockmedia.ca?
« on: October 21, 2010, 19:19 »
I have a few video clips and photos at MediaStock. Very nicely designed site offering multiple media products. Worth checking out. It still has a small collection and modest number of contributors. Given their present low profile I'm a bit surprised to have had even a small quantity of both photo and clip sales. It has done better for me than some of the other low earners that have been around longer and have a much higher profile.

Have experienced a few odd rejection notices which I thought strange given that the same work was accepted at many other agencies and sells quite well.  Doubly weird given their small library at this point.

I wish them well and hope they succeed but right now not sure they can build their library fast enough and do the marketing necessary to survive the heavy onslaught of competition....

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Newbie Discussion / Re: How many agencies do you use?
« on: October 17, 2010, 19:18 »
I like the fact that most of the smaller sites pay higher commissions and they might provide some competition to the bigger sites, if they can get enough images.  Sticking to the top 4 sites gives them too much control and we can already see where that is going, lower and lower commissions.

Excellent point! Selling on the top few sites is of course in one's best self interest...today... or maybe even for the next few years. However we've seen what happens when one company seems to think it can control the marketplace. IMHO it's far better to also work on strategic diversification in order not to become a total pawn in any one company's game.

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If it can be done for less than what iSyndica was charging, I would be very interested in using it for footage syndication and analytics. It would be great to see this service available if it can be done cost effectively.

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