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« on: March 09, 2013, 03:05 »
It is very impressive that you have recovered most of your exclusive income in a few months.
I have not recovered my exclusive income, I am making more. Fact. When thinking of my istockphoto income do not take august in to account. Some say it was istockphoto deliberately boosting my sales to make me regret dropping exclusivity ; )
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« on: March 08, 2013, 17:29 »
Seeing that teeny little red bar for Revo makes me think it may be best left alone.
It is some income for close to no additional work. I have spare upload bandwith, I send them my csv, pretty much nothing else needs to be done.
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« on: March 08, 2013, 06:41 »
If you are still interested in sales, not views, pricing, and review times, visit my blog targoszstock.blogspot.com, where I share sales statistics. They are an interesting read, as five months ago I have dropped my is exclusivity.
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« on: February 15, 2013, 13:53 »
The slider shot of the football (soccer) players in a distance is very cool!
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Thanks. I wish I did not open up so much though. They are too much out of focus.
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« on: February 14, 2013, 02:33 »
It was footage, this was the only batch waiting for approval, and no these files have not been accepted by istockphoto yet. Not even submitted actually.
When it comes to you guys waiting a week or so, I would not be mad about that. A week really is not that long and this is what I usually experience.
I know this super fast acceptance was a one off, but anyways it was great to see that happen : )
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« on: February 13, 2013, 17:16 »
Can you imagine! Less than an hour between a message saying oh we have received your upload and an other message saying all of your files have been approved. I am blown away.
Back in a day when I was an exclusive istockphoto contributor I have witnessed inspection queue being a few months long, as well as only few days short. That being said my most recent istockphoto upload has been accepted after six weeks. This is what? Over a thousand times longer isn't it.
I had some more footage to submit tomorrow, but I am going to do this today! This is just the motivation I needed.
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« on: January 07, 2013, 08:33 »
My IS model releases worked with every agency. Now I use a modified version with more personal information on witness and contributor. Just my way of future proofing my release.
Sales with revostock are bad with me. Their team however is so nice and optimistic, I will keep working with them.
With fotolia it is a different story. I closed my us account (1credit equals 1USD on checkout) and created a European one (1credit equals 1Euro on checkout) Since I live in Europe I should have done this in the first place. As a result they were ignoring my questions and eventually, without any notice, deleted my account. Some time before, they mentioned I have to register with the country I live in, and since I live in Poland, this can either be fotolia.pl or ...fotlia.us. No fotolia.eu for me. I really do not like this agency. Did I mention no csv support?
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« on: December 12, 2012, 02:51 »
I did the math again, this time taking into account that 1credit may equal 1euro on checkout.
I was quite surprised!
Someone gets a 1 credit picture, in dollars for the cheapest $0.74 credit
Europe registered contributor gets 1euro for 1credit on checkout
Diamond photo exclusive contributor gets 63% of credits
With today's PayPal exchange rate 1euro is $1.23
In such scenario the picture cost $0.74 while the artist got $0.78 which means 105% of the actual picture price goes to the contributor.
+1 for the guy who created this royalty structure
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« on: December 11, 2012, 05:19 »
Think of this as getting a better deal for cable TV than others. With this example you get a different rate than your neighbor. With fotolia the credit value is different for different country, you probably accept this on signup, which in my humble opinion makes this totally fine.
As for them changing your account from euro to usd, which is more profitable from them, well it all depends on the law that would apply. I can only speak of polish law which, if it could apply at all, seem to have regulation or two that may justify going to court.
My advice is, If you lost a lot this way, go to a lawyer that specializes in private international law. He will then identify the applicable law system and try to figure out if this system protects against such practice.
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« on: December 10, 2012, 14:49 »
What you guys are saying is, regardless of the purchase currency, if you registered an account in UK than for your checkout 1credit = 0.75GBP?
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« on: December 10, 2012, 10:36 »
You are exactly right, it works both ways. If your file is purchased with cheap credits, you get a higher percentage of the sales price. If the credits were expensive you are getting ripped off, and you are made believe it is always 30% or more.
With currency conversions, there is always someone else in line for profit. I think it is like this with every agency, isn't it?
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« on: December 10, 2012, 09:49 »
Fotolia response to my question on how they calculate their payout for Contributors cashing out: 1 credit = $1.00 Current best offer is $0.74 a credit. Let's do the math. A picture cost, lets say, 30 credits. They say the highest possible photo royalty rate is 63%. Royalty may get as high as $18.90. Lowest possible price is $22,20. In such scenario you royalty is actually 85% of what the customer paid. A video file cost, lets say, 75 credits. They say the highest possible video royalty rate is 49%. Royalty may get as high as $36.75. Lowest possible price is $55.5. In such scenario your royalty is actually 66% Why not advertize it? Other thoughts on targoszstock.blogspot.com 105% came with this reply http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/fotolia-is-actually-paying-up-to-85-for-pictures-and-66-for-footage-without-ad/msg284508/#msg284508
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« on: December 01, 2012, 14:43 »
there has been an other update on my blog, this time with November statistics.
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« on: November 26, 2012, 02:53 »
1. as an exclusive what was your commision rate ?
25% -> 16% 2. Is your port fully uploaded to all of the sites you mentioned ?
Yes. My goal was to simultaneously launch my sales on all other agencies with all files ready for sale. It worked with P5, SS, RS. There are slight differences in portfolio size, since not all files get accepted everywhere, but it is close. It did not work with ClipCanvas. The were reviewing my application to become submitter close to a month, after that they still have not reviewed my first ten files upload, than they offered to submit all my other files for me (adding tittle, categories etc.) and they have not yet been submitted for nearly two months...
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« on: November 24, 2012, 04:51 »
What work flow are using to submit to multiple sites?
I will be answering this question in my next blog post in a few days
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« on: November 23, 2012, 03:15 »
Does your graph plot dollars or # of sales? For a meaningful comparison, I'd have to say only dollars makes sense.
It compares dollars, not sales. Just as you said comparing sales would not make much sense. Though I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by this.
Let me answer your question by yet an other quote Blogs like this are part of the puzzle to try and understand the market.
People who understand the concept of sharing with the community helped me a lot, why not do the same Trying to encourage more iStock exclusives to drop exclusivity and compete against your files on all other sites?
competition is good, makes you improve your skills
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« on: November 22, 2012, 10:16 »
As of first October 2012 I am no longer an iStockphoto exclusive contributor, if youre curious how did it work out for my portfolio of 500 files, youll find statistical data, as well as my thoughts on the subject right here targoszstock.blogspot.com
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