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« on: July 17, 2015, 01:39 »
I've had payouts two months in a row with no problems. The people not getting paid...are you sure your tax info is correct?
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« on: April 30, 2015, 03:48 »
Personally I think Canva has been an amazing start up and has been a boon for contributors (and designers). Well done to Lee and everyone at Canva.
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« on: April 13, 2015, 03:35 »
I don't know why there is so much negativity. It's fair to say the average price of a video on Pond5 is around $50 but we certainly don't get all of that...so to get the full sale price of $49 is an attractive proposition. I think some people are missing the point that VideoBlocks may actually be trying to do something constructive for the contributors with a different concept.
If you go back and read all the recent VB threads here including this one from the beginning you will come to the (sad) conclusion that this "different concept" has never been described or proposed officially.It is wishful thinking from our part and nothing else,and i cant blame us.
It is something that we all hope it exists and actually someone or some people with that frame of mind actually said that major internet personas such as neumann wouldnt be crazy to upload there as well and that the VB model reminded them of the walmart model or something
and of course VB spokesman came in at just about the right time and said in his deep sensous voive "yes, bingo, thats pretty much it kiddo" and we all lost it and went to upload our stuff there.
Well then sorry for sounding negative but this is almost way too surreal to take seriously so i will sound like a comedian then (a mediocre one).
At the risk of sounding simplistic...if they have to charge a commission on sales in the end, we're not going to be worse off than we are with any other agency.
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« on: April 13, 2015, 02:50 »
(...) for the moment, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
(...)If the current models outgrows itself and management starts to make questionable decisions, I'll pull my files.
(...) I doubt they will be able to steal a significant amount of market share from SS or Pond5 in the near future.
And this is exactly what I am talking about.
So, you are willing to take a risk on an agency that you recognize haven't answered valid questions in this topic and others (I would add vital questions) that could severely damage the market and endanger your portfolio, when you do not even believe they will have great relevance in the near future... Oooook...
Anyway, if in they do get a significant amount of market share and one of the worst scenarios arises, you believe that by then pulling out the portfolio will make a difference...
Let me tell you that I've seen tenths of boycotts and pulling of portfolios from several agencies. In some cases agencies being the target for these actions more than once. But not only they are still around and strong but the damage they've done endured to this day. Once a price has dropped, they will never go up.
And once an agency becomes very relevant to you your income, contrary to what you say, you will not pull your portfolio. Even if you do, 99% of the other contributors won't, making your action irrelevant. This is what I've been seeing since 2006 with the consequences we are facing today.
Video is still a very controlled market. Keep it that way supporting only agencies that leave you absolutely no doubt about their intentions, strategy and capacity to finance themselves without having to resort to dubious actions in order to survive.
The right side of this page is full of these cases. Almost all never got relevant but helped damage the photography market in senseless price wars, dilution of portfolio, and loosing of control of the artists portfolio.
I don't know why there is so much negativity. It's fair to say the average price of a video on Pond5 is around $50 but we certainly don't get all of that...so to get the full sale price of $49 is an attractive proposition. I think some people are missing the point that VideoBlocks may actually be trying to do something constructive for the contributors with a different concept.
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« on: February 15, 2015, 22:37 »
Not working for me either...
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« on: February 12, 2015, 18:21 »
I just don't understand how any video contributor would agree to such a ridiculous deal....I just don't get it.
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« on: November 12, 2014, 22:30 »
It's so ridiculous that it's hard to believe....
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« on: November 12, 2014, 21:55 »
Where are they getting the content from? Which video contributor would agree to those prices?
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« on: November 09, 2014, 20:03 »
I never wanted to be exclusive, but I fear the marketplace is forcing me to that end.
I started again to throw clips ClipCanvas' and DepositPhoto's way in the hopes I can expand my income base.
When you say 'exclusive' I gather you mean you may be forced to go exclusive at iStock?
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« on: September 29, 2014, 16:39 »
I have over 700 clips there....used to make the odd sale in the early days but haven't had a sale for over 7 months.
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« on: September 01, 2014, 18:48 »
This happens to me ALL the time. It happens so frequently month to month that is is impossible to be coincidental. They do cap your income. There can be no other explanation. It's not like this happens now and then. It happens every time I get a big sale. And lately, even subs stink. without a large sale I would be 50% down from my peak. Every time I get an EL or big SOD, I say, wooohooo, then prepare mentally for a drop to the center of the earth....every time because it happens every time.
+1 every single time for me as well. The only time it doesn't is if I get a large sale in the last few days of the month.
Me too..I had an $89 sale at the start of the month and then after that everything slowed to a trickle. Instead of having a bumper month based on the platform of that early sale, it all just led to my average monthly earnings total...which basically hasn't changed for a couple of years now. I fail to see how I always seem to earn roughly the same figure regardless of whether I upload or not...especially over such a long period of time.
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« on: July 19, 2014, 03:27 »
My advice would be to upload to Shutterstock, Dreamstime, 123RF and possibly iStock and until you hone your skills (I wouldn't touch Fotolia for all the reasons mentioned in this forum). You will also make sales at Depositphotos but there are issues with that agency as well. When you find a niche and increase your skills as a stock photographer, your sales will increase. I'd leave the scattergun approach out at this stage and have a more targeted approach until you start making decent sales. At the moment it sounds like a lot a work for little return.
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« on: June 30, 2014, 03:04 »
I've had the worst month in memory...sales have crashed for the first time really...
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« on: June 20, 2014, 22:28 »
Think that's bad? They owe me 4,278. I requested payment in April 3rd.
For that sort of money I'd pay a lawyer to make a phone call to them...
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« on: June 15, 2014, 02:19 »
250 Euros is a lot of money....I'd call them and try and get the money out of them. Their phone number is on their 'About Us' page.
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« on: June 10, 2014, 18:58 »
Yep my sales have dried up as well...just the odd sub sale every three or four days if I'm lucky.
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« on: June 06, 2014, 20:28 »
Well I guess that's the last we'll hear of the OP.....what a shame.
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« on: June 04, 2014, 01:48 »
the newest update from my FT account: 1 download this month 
Same here!
Same here as well.....if I didn't know better you'd think we were being punished in search for opting out of DPC.
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« on: June 03, 2014, 19:04 »
What is really incredible is that they continue to sell and collect money without paying anyone. Blatantly out in the open, stealing from artists and nothing can be done about it, it seams.
Yes it's been a terrible fall from grace...
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« on: June 01, 2014, 18:31 »
Sounds like everybody is wasting their time....sad.
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« on: May 30, 2014, 03:34 »
There is NO risk in this beta test. The ACTUAL risk is in it not going well and the partner not wanting to proceed.
You read that right... there is NO risk to you! This is for an online advertising platform. Testers of this program would NOT be buying your images elsewhere if they didn't have access to them through this test. They just wouldn't be running ANY images in their ad if it weren't for this test. You are out NOTHING. And DT says they will actually try to compensate you for images used in the test! What have they done to you to earn your mistrust?
Everyone is fixating on these few weeks of POSSIBLY unpaid image usage during the beta test!!! Don't you see the forest for the trees?!! Do you really want this to fail? Imagine who this big player could be and what this could mean!
STockmarketer, are you a DT employee? I guess you must be because you are the only one on this board who knows that there is no risk, that it is a "big fish" they have "hooked", that it will mean a lot more money for all of us if we are in it and it is a success, etc. etc., that it won't be something that sucks lots of other agencies into "great deals" where we might get paid a lot if it succeeds.
You clearly know the sort of sums of money involved, that it isn't a click-through scheme, that we will get a good commission percentage etc. etc. ... in fact, all the things that DT refuses to tell us about. Therefore, I presume you are informed about details of the deal.
Either that, or you are building castles in the air.
Does sound a bit like an employee doesn't he....shades of Matt.
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« on: May 29, 2014, 03:37 »
As for Dreamstime and its royalties. We still award 60% royalties to our exclusives like in day one.
What about the commissions the rest of us are being paid?
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« on: May 29, 2014, 03:06 »
I think Laurin speaks on behalf of all of us....I know that after nine years of this I've just about had a gutful. Who do these people think they are?
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« on: May 29, 2014, 02:14 »
Spiteful, vindictive, unethical, immoral, hateful....and above all typical. Good to see them live up to their reputation.
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« on: May 19, 2014, 16:40 »
Who are they kidding...that video is an insult.
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