Beautiful portfolio. I think you just nailed Stocksy look!

Quote from: onepointfour on March 13, 2014, 20:29

No, they won't. They have almost 100K Flickr photographers who willing to do anything just to be be able to post Getty Artist badge on their Flickr page. There are good bunch that have huge RM ports. The embed program will not affect this group too much because they are not interested in small sales, and this campaign might give them the right exposure as their photos stand out and there is potential that buyers could be coming back to them. However, the majority are amateur with mediocre and replicable portfolios, have no where to go.

I remember the "istock charts" that had over 30 000 names of contributors entered and where we were ranked by sales. I was in the top 300, numer 272, until I stopped uploading for a while and others overtook me.

I really don't think of myself as a top level artists, just good nice useful sold stock production.

So if I can make it into the top 1% of that list, I really don't think the masses of 100 000 flickr producers worries me.

The number of people who produce useful stock on a regular basis is very small, even if a huge flood of files enters the sites every week.


It is the top 5000 artists from all media types, those that regularly produce sellable content, that the agencies need to keep happy.

Maybe that is still enough "mass" for them to ignore us and treat us like idiots, but I believe the agency that can tap into the talent pool will have a distinct advantage. Especially those agencies that treat us as independent web shop owners and give us the tools we need to work.

All we need is a good plattform, the market is self organizing.

And how many shop owners want to have their products used for free by the world, even if their name is below and there is a backlink?

The loss of control is the biggest problem. Like we have established before - if this move was really about advertising and increasing sales, it would have been easy to offer an opt in.

You only force people into something if you know they don't want it and when they can benefit immensely from having everything available at once.

In this case a new business of data collection and ad space, built on the back of 500 dollar files.

The correct way to do this would have been to pay the artists for every embedded file. If they want to offer it free to the bloggers, then Getty should be the one paying, at least a sub level royalty for every embed.

To say "the files would have been stolen anyway so you don't deserve any money" is  wrong because the value of the blogs and articles is increased by the embedded image.

I'm with you.
A few years ago, I was over the moon to be with Getty. Now I have nothing but hatred for them.

Interesting article here from the Motley Fool (sorry if it's been posted before) http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/10/why-gettys-new-image-sharing-doesnt-threaten-shutt.aspx regarding Getty vs Shutterstock. This quote stood out: "Getty's new policy does allow media companies to use free images, but Getty retains the right to place ads on the images or use them to collect user data, making companies unlikely to use them for free. The plan could even backfire as the decision has upset photographers who don't want their images used free for only Getty's benefit, and that could drive more of them to develop relationships with other buyers such as Shutterstock."
Maybe the media is starting to take notice of the photographer's side in all this.

No, they won't. They have almost 100K Flickr photographers who willing to do anything just to be be able to post Getty Artist badge on their Flickr page. There are good bunch that have huge RM ports. The embed program will not affect this group too much because they are not interested in small sales, and this campaign might give them the right exposure as their photos stand out and there is potential that buyers could be coming back to them. However, the majority are amateur with mediocre and replicable portfolios, have no where to go.

Getty and Flickr are officially split now. Getty Flickr collection will now named as Moment.

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on March 06, 2014, 08:31

I thought the race to the bottom is when we're no longer earning money.

No, the bottom is when we're no longer earning any money but continue to allow agencies, social media sites and end users to use our images to earn money.

It could be still worse. The next step would be, you have to pay for your images to be on Getty

Isn't that happening to photographer choice collection? They pay $50 to submit photo and to be given for free to bloggers.

Nice set of portfolio you have. This will do really well elsewhere but by reading the requirements on Stocksy call to artist page, i think your portfolio still appear a little too stocky to their taste. Just my 2 cents...

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Yup, it's not entirely about the images but the names behind those photos. That's what I feel about offset.

I applied  and never heard back, same as with Stocksy. I will take the silent hint. LOL

I got rejected by Stocksy and plan to reapply with proper curated portfolio matching their stlye. I'm still hopeful for Stocksy though but Offset seems far above my reach. I love creating images and hate marketing to core especially in social network. So I don't see any way my works will be noticed, popular and cool enough to be accepted by Offset.