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« on: March 16, 2013, 19:11 »
Just found a bunch of weird bot visits today for about 15 of my images overnight. First a visit from NY, NY then 13 to 21 minutes later a visit from Guangzhou, China. Why would an image be cataloged twice by the same bot system half way around the world within 20 minutes? If they want to mirror the data, wouldn't make more sense for them to visit once then share the data with the mirror?
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« on: March 15, 2013, 16:53 »
Shutterstock closed today at $39.99 up 135% from the $17 IPO price and up 90% from $21, the lowest price the general public could have purchased it at. The stock is up $4 in the last two days following the publication of a Thomson Reuters Stock Report which costs $25 but apparently says really nice things about Shutterstock. http://reports.finance.yahoo.com/w0?r=61905286:1Oringer is now worth something like $750 million.
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« on: March 15, 2013, 15:43 »
Note that the first sentence from Google introduces the concept of fair use, a pretty complex area not fully settled in law, but does not advise to check to see if your usage is permitted by the license. You have to read down the page to find that.
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« on: March 15, 2013, 15:31 »
I can't believe how much these firms get paid to put this cr*p together! What a waste of my time (and my money too I guess as it's a cut of my commission going to pay for it!)
I met a tip-top consultant once, she had been employed by Maggie Thatcher at one time, she explained to me that the job basically consists of listening to people tell you what the problem is and then tell them what they told you, since they really know the answer, anyway.
Good money for old rope.
It's interesting to see that a few of Shutterstock's higher ups worked at the Boston Consulting Group before joining Shutterstock. Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, Calvin Peng and Thilo Semmelbauer, President and Chief Operating Office
Do you guys love the Boston Consulting Group now? 
Actually I would expect people who worked at BCG to be pretty sharp, capable, and good to have in management as they've spent a lot of time analyzing bad management. Its more the use of consulting businesses that I don't like. As BaldricksTrousers quoted, it is basically telling people what they already know and sending them a big bill. Really I blame the people who hire them, not the consultants themselves.
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« on: March 14, 2013, 18:39 »
I think it is more h@ck-up fatigue then fear. I'm certainly not afraid of Istock. I'm simply not surprised that this has happened. I would not be at all surprised if somebody came forward with proof that Getty was fiddling the sales numbers either.
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« on: March 13, 2013, 09:43 »
Maybe try a proxy server. Sounds like you are getting caught in the Great Firewall.
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« on: March 12, 2013, 19:53 »
They are just pissing this money away. BCG will give them a bunch of BCG boxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth-share_matrix, tell them that they had a star that they turned into a cash cow, that is on its way into becoming a dog, and send them a bill for $5,000,000.
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« on: March 12, 2013, 13:38 »
I'm a big fan of the Dell Ultrasharp line as well. Very good price point to image quality ratio for me.
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« on: March 12, 2013, 10:21 »
if I may add Tyler too (http://www.istockphoto.com/Stalman)
I wonder what the facts behind this one are?
I thinks he's an administrator at Stocksy, as well as Ivar. Not sure they have been boted, maybe they just resigned.
Based on personal experience, they both have strong relationships with Bruce and reasonably similar photographic styles, so it is no surprise to me that they would be involved in Stocksy as more than contributors
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« on: March 11, 2013, 10:08 »
I thought it was just because no-one works at iS on a Sunday to switch it off, but according to Sean's blog:
To anyone concerned, or interested, my portfolio will continue to be licensed on iStockphoto for a couple more weeks, due to a technical issue. Thats fine, because the extra income will help in the upcoming dry spell when it is no longer there. Thanks.
Great for Sean - as the technical issue isn't his fault, he is no doubt free to sell anywhere else he chooses from today.
That does give him a buffer until stocksy opens and other sites get his work.
Other sites? I doubt it. Sean has never exactly embraced the microstock subscription model and somehow I don't see that changing. I think he may choose to place his entire portfolio exclusively at Stocksy instead, at least for as long as he can afford to do so, depending on how it takes off. Good luck to him whatever he chooses anyway.
In his intial blog post he did say over the next several weeks he would be moving part of his portfolo to several other sites, but he did not say if they were micros or not.
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« on: March 08, 2013, 20:55 »
I've personally learned a lot thanks to this forum and I recommend it to every CEO to get here and try to swim in these wild waters. My English improved a lot by reading posts here over and over. Even the negative ones are good to see. They make the discussion a bit more real as "positive only" discussions seem a bit unbelievable. That's the crazy virtual world we live in.
I love msg. It is the perfect place to understand how social media and forum communication works. I believe anybody working on a site that sells on the internet should learn how to operate and communicate well on a site like this. And msg is a very friendly place, compared to all the other business forums I go to.
Companies where employees only work on their internal forums sometimes have no idea what the real world is like. Many come across as completly detached from the industry because they have isolated themselves in their own little "protected" bubble.
Companies whose CEOs know how to communicate here, i have a lot of confidence that you guys understand how to do business on the internet. And that you also really care about your business.
So let us see what you can do together! 
Could not agree more.
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« on: March 08, 2013, 00:25 »
Looks like a pirate site to me.
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« on: March 07, 2013, 17:21 »
I shouldnt have included the exclusives. 82 is really low for SS, it used to be 95-98
Ah! I understand now. I do think part of it is that February is a short month, so the number is going to be a little bit lower naturally. But the rest of it, I don't know how to explain.
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« on: March 07, 2013, 15:58 »
Shutterstock 81.9
iStock 37.8
exclusive 276.3
I dont know but it seems IS is gaining and SS is losing compared to last month. SS is falling further and further. IS seems quite stable IMO.
Or I am missing something.
I think this is more that the poll results for exclusives get posted until mid-month last month. The number was something like 216 when it was first posted and climbed to 280 or so over about a week. Until the system is around for a couple of months and more IS exclusives come to vote, I think the data is going to be a bit unreliable. If you look at the poll results graph http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?page=PollResults you can see that SS has been in an uptrend over the last year and IS for independents in a down trend. We don't yet have a graph to compare IS exclusives to, so I'm not ready to make any conclusions. ETA a link to an old thread where Leaf weighs in on the issue of poll results with few votes. http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/how-easy-is-it-to-rig-the-msg-earnings-poll/msg227394/ Note that the graphical results for the poll came after this thread.
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« on: March 07, 2013, 14:01 »
I don't remember 1900 ever being used. It's been 1884 for as long as I can remember, the wiki is wrong about a lot of things so I wouldn't put too much weight on it and that's the old wiki. http://wiki.gettyimages.com/
You'll have to trust me when I tell you that 1900 is what inspectors are currently instructed to work to. It was changed from 1884, and added to iStock's wiki, back in November 2012. The new Getty wiki isn't fully populated yet.
Two different admins said 1884 two weeks ago. http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=351753&page=1
I'm shocked that people who work for Istock are giving conflicting messages.
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« on: March 06, 2013, 22:03 »
Anglee, Thanks for the update. Know the timing on site changes and newsletters/press releases/MSG comments is hard, but all over microstock it feels like nobody is looking out for contributors but us, so its easy for us to get worked up. More transparency is a good thing. 
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« on: March 06, 2013, 21:50 »
Been a while since I did an update so I added a bunch today.
3-6-13 - Added Glowimages.com to 123RF
3-6-13 - Added Profimedia.cz to 123RF
3-6-13 - Added Clashot.com to Depositphotos
3-6-13 - Added Ibudgetphoto.com to Depositphotos
3-6-13 - Added Pond5 to Depositphotos
3-6-13 - Added Eapoo.com to Dreamstime
3-6-13 - Added Apimages.com to Fotolia
3-6-13 - Added Glowimages.com to Panthermedia
3-6-13 - Added Depositphoto to Pond5
3-6-13 - Added Pixmac to Pond5
3-6-13 - Added Yaymicro to Pond5
3-6-13 - Added Ibudgetphoto.com to Pond5
3-6-13 - Added Ingram to SignElements
3-6-13 - Added Fotochannels.com to Veer
3-6-13 - Added Ibudgetphoto.com to Veer
3-6-13 - Added Pocketstock.com to Veer
3-6-13 - Added Profilephotolibrary.com to Veer
3-6-13 - Added Veerchina.com to Veer
3-6-13 - Added Ibudgetphoto.com to Yaymicro
3-6-13 - Removed Pond5 from 123RF
3-6-13 - Removed Profimedia.cz from unknown
3-6-13 - Removed Pocketstock.com from unknown
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« on: March 06, 2013, 21:48 »
Profimedia lists my portfolio there as 4,129 which is amusing as I don't have that number of images anywhere.
They have images from 123rf, Alamy (both RM and RF) and Veer. You can check the alamy fairly easily via the list of sources on the left side; you can see Veer from the watermark, but they aren't in the list on the left. None of the Corbis names (Ivy, blue, ...) bring up the Veer images.
They don't list Inmagine, or 123rf but by looking at CanStock (which sends content to its parent company Fotosearch) and 123rf portfolios, I was able to pretty clearly see it was 123rf. I haven't uploaded since early 2012 to 123rf, whereas CanStock, Alamy are up to date. Veer images are marked and I only have 800+ there.
This is such a mess (a) because they have multiple copies of the same image and (b) because they're at different prices.
One, two, three.
The price for the largest size ranges from 200 Czech crowns to 600 to 9,100 depending on which copy you buy (~$11 to ~ $33 to ~$500)
If I swtich the language from Czech to English (using the site's option to do so, not Google translate), some of the copies of the image stay around and one says
"Object id 0141117161 was deleted"
So I guess they only have rights from some of their suppliers to sell it in certain markets? I can switch to Hungarian for that image and it still shows. This explains why my portfolio size there is only 2K+ images if I set the site to English.
I suppose it's not entirely my problem that they're doing this and my name doesn't appear anywhere - I'm just artist PC-0128468216! But it just looks so stupid and I hate to see my work on a site that looks stupid.
For the item with the Veer watermark, the prices in crowns translate to $2.75 for the small size and $33 for the largest which is reasonably close to the $2 to $30 that Veer charges for that item
The more I learn about these partner deals the less I like them. And why would a buyer shop there given what a total shambles the "store" is?
Added profimedia.cz
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« on: March 06, 2013, 19:52 »
Thanks for tracking all of this. Will you eventually put Istock exclusive on the chart as well? Would be interesting to see.
Isn't it there already?
iStock 36.6
exclusive 271.7
On the History Graph.
I'm thinking of being able to see the exclusive Istock poll numbers in a chart rather then just the number from the last month.
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« on: March 06, 2013, 19:50 »
Thanks for tracking all of this. Will you eventually put Istock exclusive on the chart as well? Would be interesting to see.
I don't know that I will. Adding them to the graph would just reduce the size of the other lines and make it hard to read. It would also add some confusion as it isn't totally self explanatory that you'd need to add up all the other sites to figure out the correct comparison for an istock exclusive. If anything, I'd add it to a separate chart..
Agree it would compress the other lines, so a separate chart would make sense. Given that it is one of the most hotly debated topics going, maybe that separate chart could just be comparing istock exclusive and the sum of all the independents. Would make for fun conversations. 
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« on: March 06, 2013, 13:41 »
Thanks for tracking all of this. Will you eventually put Istock exclusive on the chart as well? Would be interesting to see.
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« on: March 06, 2013, 09:08 »
I'm thinking about "sponsoring" some search terms. It says in exchange for their additional promotion of my images, I need to post links to my sponsored search somewhere on the internet and let FAA know where it is. I don't have a webpage where I'm promoting my work and don't really want one.
My question is where are people posting these links?
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« on: March 06, 2013, 09:02 »
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