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« on: March 27, 2017, 12:41 »
I did send them about 20 emails at the adress you have posted....So I guess I am the only one with this problem...
I am a videographer who did not upload in the past years. They did send me the link to activate but when i try to login its telling me the email adress is allready in use...I then use a different adress to create an account and when I try to login whit that new adress I am prompted with the same error...
Have you told them that you have a pending invite from 2 years ago? They should resend you that old link.
Is this the mail that you are talking about ? "Hi Vladimir,
It appears that you have not yet accepted the ESP invitation that was created for you as a video contributor. Please click on the link below to activate your account:.....
I have received a few and still getting an error. ... everytime I am replying back that I get the same error and then I dont hear nothing from them....
I said contact them through that form again and tell them you have an invitation pending from 2 years ago but you have lost the email containing the link and ask them to resubmit it. I don't understand why but the 2 year old and the new invitations to ESP are not the same. Sorry but I cannot help you more.
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« on: March 27, 2017, 05:06 »
I did send them about 20 emails at the adress you have posted....So I guess I am the only one with this problem...
I am a videographer who did not upload in the past years. They did send me the link to activate but when i try to login its telling me the email adress is allready in use...I then use a different adress to create an account and when I try to login whit that new adress I am prompted with the same error...
Have you told them that you have a pending invite from 2 years ago? They should resend you that old link.
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« on: March 27, 2017, 03:49 »
Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.
I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.
i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.
So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.
Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want
Can you elaborate on this please? ExifTool is not easy to use and cannot find export csv in DeepMeta.
Good luck as Indie!
Just select files what you want to export to csv, right mouse click, copy and then paste in Notepad or other program. That's all 
Exiftool is quite hard to explain. This link helps me a lot:
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=3468.0
You have to figure it out by yourself. It took me about one hour to solve how this program works.
Copy/Paste multiple images doesn't work in DM3, but yes it does work in the older version. Once I get the csv from Deep Meta and figure out what to do in ExifTool is the meta writing automated on all files?
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« on: March 27, 2017, 03:15 »
Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.
I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.
i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.
So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.
Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want
Can you elaborate on this please? ExifTool is not easy to use and cannot find export csv in DeepMeta. Good luck as Indie!
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« on: March 26, 2017, 03:17 »
You need to write them an email and let them know your situation. Don't expect them to find the error by themselves. I suppose you are also a videographer but who hasn't uploaded a video in the past 2 years? In that case they will need to resubmit the ESP invitation which they've sent you 2 years ago. Contact them here: https://esp.gettyimages.com/contact
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« on: March 26, 2017, 02:48 »
Where else do you get $15+ for a sub sale?
How many of these have you got? 1 out of 1000?
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« on: March 24, 2017, 15:03 »
What's your biggest challenge selling stock in 2017?
It is hard to convince myself to carry on uploading new content.
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« on: March 24, 2017, 14:48 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
Good for you.
For me, Jan and Feb were both far lower than every month last year. And every month in 2016 was the worst Jan, Feb, March since becoming exclusive in 2007. Certainly no reason for me to resume uploading - far too many tiny value sales (sub 10c as an exclusive) which isn't fair trade, but interesting to see at least one person is having a different experience.
The lowest you could get paid is 19c for subs.
you say you are exclusive at istock and that you are happy with 19c per image? btw I got even lower than that...
19c is for the lowest royalty rate, not my rate. That's also the minimum for a sub sale some sub sales get $10 or $15.
Ha ha ha ha ha... $10 and $15 for a sub sale. How many of these have you got??! I got ZERO! PS: seriously Lobo or whoever you are from istock/getty STOP the fake news!
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« on: March 24, 2017, 14:39 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
Good for you.
For me, Jan and Feb were both far lower than every month last year. And every month in 2016 was the worst Jan, Feb, March since becoming exclusive in 2007. Certainly no reason for me to resume uploading - far too many tiny value sales (sub 10c as an exclusive) which isn't fair trade, but interesting to see at least one person is having a different experience.
The lowest you could get paid is 19c for subs.
you say you are exclusive at istock and that you are happy with 19c per image? btw I got even lower than that...
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« on: March 24, 2017, 13:08 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
thanks for popping in Lobo!
Sorry you don't like hearing differing views.
I am happy for you if that is true! Do not forget to take off the December GI sales from the January statement though.
Even taking out some sales from Jan, it was up year on year. Feb. was way up though and that's why I'm optimistic.
You have to see how many more images you have sold compared to last year jan and feb. Now everyone is in the fog because of the new pricing system and I wonder how much more we would get with previous royalties system.
As an exclusive I think I get more per sale under the new system.
Good for you! I don't get the same rpd.
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« on: March 24, 2017, 13:00 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
thanks for popping in Lobo!
Sorry you don't like hearing differing views.
I am happy for you if that is true! Do not forget to take off the December GI sales from the January statement though.
Even taking out some sales from Jan, it was up year on year. Feb. was way up though and that's why I'm optimistic.
You have to see how many more images you have sold compared to last year jan and feb. Now everyone is in the fog because of the new pricing system and I wonder how much more we would get with previous royalties system.
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« on: March 24, 2017, 12:35 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
thanks for popping in Lobo!
Sorry you don't like hearing differing views.
I am happy for you if that is true! Do not forget to take off the December GI sales from the January statement though.
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« on: March 24, 2017, 12:19 »
Hi , Long time lurker here . I finally decided to pull the plug on iStock/Getty . I have been a member since 2010 and up to the acquisiton sales were really good .
What do you mean by acquisition? Getty bought iStock in 2006.
He means the aquisition of Getty by the Carlyle Group (AKA Bushes and Clintons) for $3.3B in 2012. Read here article and comments as well, so that you know who is your master: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/aug/15/getty-images-bought-carlyle-group
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« on: March 24, 2017, 12:10 »
As an exclusive I can say I'm excited about IS for the first time in a long while. Jan. and Feb. earnings were better than almost every month from the past couple years.
thanks for popping in Lobo!
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« on: March 23, 2017, 07:51 »
Why is this happening, was there a price change in February?
It's the changeover from the old model - where independents could earn up to 20% to the new one where it's a flat 15% for all indies. As they had "grandfathered" rates for several years, I was still getting 18% (which is still pathetic) even though I'd removed most of my portfolio in 2013. Not sure what the rate was for the person posting the chart but you get the idea
Thanks. I thought the changeover happened on 1st of January?
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« on: March 23, 2017, 07:44 »
I too can confirm that January and February totals were higher for me than previous months.
I have not uploaded anything since November.
Do not open the champagne yet!
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« on: March 22, 2017, 06:53 »
GI earned more but me less.
That visual really puts it in perspective doesn't it?
Why is this happening, was there a price change in February?
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« on: March 19, 2017, 15:23 »
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« on: March 19, 2017, 07:58 »
Re: Disappointed after three months microstock - need advice on whether to keep goin
More you stay in more disappointed you will get. Microstock is getting unsustainable for many: prices are lower and lower, contributors share of sale is getting lower and lower at every agency, while the number of contributors are constantly growing. Honestly why do you except to make a profit when you only get 2cents per image?
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« on: March 18, 2017, 11:43 »
Getty is selling now all alamy content with the gettyimages watermark...
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« on: March 18, 2017, 11:41 »
So I looked at my Nov. earnings from Getty in the Portal before they turned it off. I had earnings of $1,122.00 and no red returns on that statement! I just got an email from them that said that $1020.00 are returns so now I owe them $1020.00 and they will deduct that from my future earnings. I can not go back and pull that text file to prove it so I am just shafted. These were Premium Access sales. So 98% of all my Getty PA sales are returns for the month of Nov. 2016!
How many pictures are in this refund story?
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« on: March 17, 2017, 12:47 »
I just learned on FB that a black diamond contributor dropped their exclusivity. Would you mind sharing the link to fb post? Thanks
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« on: February 26, 2017, 05:29 »
Cannot find how to submit editorial with DM3. Can anyone help? Thanks
When you create a new batch choose editorial image in batch type rather than image.
Just discovered! Thanks anyway.
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