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Messages - Mrblues101

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SS was such a great place. What happened? It feels like this is a completly different business.

I think they just can't keep the business by using the traditional payout rate.

We are all angry with them and they have been very unprofessional with us, but I think this is a situation of either "we make a drastic change" or "we end up bankrupt"

I'm not defending them, I'm just trying to understand the movement.

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I think he means the post below the color sciences one:

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We recently announced a change to our contributor earnings structure which has raised concerns from our community. We are actively reviewing all feedback and addressing contributor questions directly.

Please contact our contributor support team via [email protected] with any questions you may have.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime increasing royalties
« on: May 29, 2020, 16:05 »
I start with them

If they keep working hard and improve them plataform design, they can take bigger portion for stock market

I will re-start upload with them

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock just became iStock 2.0
« on: May 27, 2020, 14:25 »
I wonder if SS paid for the images on their wall or stole them....

They dont stole them, just pay 10 cents for each of them

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock just became iStock 2.0
« on: May 26, 2020, 18:38 »
Regarding to subscription sales, that always was main sale; we never was paid based on the subscription package that buyer buy. There are 4 subscrption packetes:

10 images for 49usd (Packet 1 or P1)
50 images for 125usd (Packet 2 or P2)
350 images for 199usd (Packet 3 or P3)
750 images for 249usd (Packet 4 or P4)

Based on this and the % presented for SS the earnings per sale under new criteria is:

Level 1   0,74 usd(P1) ---- 0,38 usd(P2) ---- 0,09 usd(P3) ---- 0,05 usd(P4)
Level 2   0,98 usd(P1) ---- 0,50 usd(P2) ---- 0,11 usd(P3) ---- 0,07 usd(P4)
Level 3   1,23 usd(P1) ---- 0,63 usd(P2) ---- 0,14 usd(P3) ---- 0,08 usd(P4)
Level 4   1,47 usd(P1) ---- 0,75 usd(P2) ---- 0,17 usd(P3) ---- 0,10 usd(P4)
Level 5   1,72 usd(P1) ---- 0,88 usd(P2) ---- 0,20 usd(P3) ---- 0,12 usd(P4)
Level 6   1,96 usd(P1) ---- 1,00 usd(P2) ---- 0,23 usd(P3) ---- 0,13 usd(P4)

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Pond5 / Re: Will Shutterstock csv work with Pond5?
« on: May 18, 2020, 23:00 »
You mean: Why does not work?

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General Stock Discussion / Re: More or fewer keywords
« on: May 13, 2020, 14:33 »
What is better, to have more or fewer keywords? Some microstock agencies suggest having fewer keywords, which helps in image discoverability. Or is it that only advantage for buyers? Is there anyone who uses only some keywords? ???

We actually dont know how microstock search algorithms works. Each agency have its own alogrithm.

Maybe some agencies gives your images a better postion in search if the image uses less keywords. If not, then there is no reason to dont put as much keywords as possible.

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In response to original post (i didnt read any reply yet)

Wise words. When i read the title of post i think it was a COVID related post... but it isnt.

As vector illustrator my earnings in one month are now the half of what i earned in my best time (2016). And slowly the amount is lower and lower...

The main problem is the dependence to this incoming; and the fact that due to the time im spent over the last 10 years by working as MS agencies contributor, i didnt develop any new ability (job ability) and i was unable to spend time creating my own business.

Time to reinvent myself, but i cant stop uploading vector illustrators in the process.

Sleep later and wake up earlier is the only way. To spend time in something new.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: April 21, 2020, 09:58 »
Interesting feedback...

I think this situation is evidence agains the IA reviewing software theory...

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Shutterstock.com / Image Upload Limit due to Covid-19
« on: April 21, 2020, 06:16 »
Recently SS show to contributors a warning box claiming that due COVID-19 image review time will be larger

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PLEASE NOTE: Our review teams are taking the necessary steps to continue operating safely and at full capacity. However, you may experience longer than usual wait times for review due to the global impact of COVID-19.

One week ago the also implement an image limit:

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PLEASE NOTE: There is a temporary limit on the volume of content each contributor can submit weekly due to a reduction in review capacity. Contributors can submit up to 500 images and 100 videos in a 7 day period. Thanks for your patience while we provide the opportunity for all contributors to get their work reviewed.

Nobody really care about this, i think because most of us are not able to upload 500 images per week. For me, even making basic vector illustrators, 500 designs per week is an unattainable goal.

I've been thinking about this a little bit and i can't make sense to the fact that reviewers have trouble doing their job due to covid-19, because reviewers are doing remote work, as most of us, they stay more time at home and are really able to review more images, so no reason for longer review time or for a collapse in reviews that requires to put a limit.

The only way I can make sense to this is that contributors are uploading more content due to covid-19... because other activities was cancelled so they have more time to upload pics and illustrations...

Any thoughts on this?

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You can try Stocksubmitter program

It works with .eps files??

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Justanotherphotographer is totally right.

I just start to upload COVID-19 related vector illustrations 20 days ago. At beginning i also get "Objectionable Metadata" rejections, but nothing looks wrong, i remove for metadata, China, Asia and Wuhan terms and i never get "Objectionable Metadata" rejections again.

Covid-19 origin in China has produced some discrimination against the Chinese, so i think SS wants to avoid any possible association.

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Contact them, they always pay

Maybe you dont fill the tax form, or your payment method is not properly configured.

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After longtime i decide to editing the metadata of my vector illustrations with Adobe Bridge and not anymore with the SS browser-traditional-system.

It is more confortable for me to use Bridge, but i still need to put the files category on the SS browser-traditional-system.

It is any way to put Categories directly in the file metadata of the .eps files??

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Shutterstock.com / It is possible to be a contributor from China??
« on: February 21, 2020, 17:44 »
Hello community

Even when the incoming in this business is less and less each month, for me this is still a profitable business, but this question is not about me.

China situation is getting harder and harder, my good friend is in Hunan province and due to quarantine she is not able to go out from her house. Few weeks ago she was able to go out for food, but now all the stores are closed and the only way to get food is to buy from internet to those government-enabled stores and wait for the delivery. Goverment dont allow them to go out and if police found you on street and you don't have a good reason to be there, you can have serious problems.

The issue is money and food... she have some rice reserve at home and she also have some extra money to keeping buying food online, but if the quarantine is extended things can get ugly.

She is not able to work in the traditional way so i was thinking for her to uploading some illustrations and vector illustrations to ShutterStock; her designer abilities are not at proffesional level but much better than the average of what is currently uploaded by contributors.

The only problem is that i dont know if it is possible to be SS contributor from China. Actually the only way to get access to "western" internet from China is by using VPN. I also dont know if it is possible for Chinese people to get the money by Paypal.

Do any of you have experience in this and could you give me some feedback?

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not only that, this user is using 2 worded keywords for all of his keywords on all of his work without any consequences, reported it long time ago.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/fizkes

unfortunately, SS dont care anymore

Whats wrong with two worded keywords?? Did i lose something??

Based on my knowledge this will hurt your exposition on the site...

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Now they are really overdoing it. I made one image where the object is isolated on white and one image where the object is in snow and a snowball is next to it. Where is that similar? I had the image with snow and the snowball rejected for similar. I have never made similar images like others where I couldn't even see the difference in the photos unless I looked at it for 10 minutes.

I do mostly editorial video and I am sure it's an AI/software application that's screening their massive database of 600 million files for similar content and rejecting it or flagging it for the reviewer to reject, I don't even know if SS has human reviewers anymore, could all be AI for all we know.

All I know is if pretty much any part of the images in the video are similar to anything already on the site it now gets rejected, I went from about 10% rejection to 90% rejection.

They most definitely are conserving server space.

They totally use an IA algorithm, but i dont think the dont have any human working for the review process; maybe just a few for very specific tasks.

If the algorithm is a learning algorithm or it is updated based in new information, maybe the experience for us will be more friendly in the future...

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Im planning to start upload animations footage soon, but i want to know what is the best resolution and aspect ratio to upload videos?

It is horizontal and vertical uploads a good strategy or i may only upload horizontal ones?


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Dreamstime.com / Re: Im sorry about Dreamstime
« on: September 13, 2019, 21:24 »
I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

Wow, almost same here, i started at 2013 and now at 86 usd...

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: August 30, 2019, 15:05 »
This is bad new... SS was my first company for long time, i hope they can recovery soon

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Just wonder if any of you looks less image spam now they implement new "policity" about this...

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Photography Equipment / Canon-EOS-M50 vs iPhone???
« on: August 05, 2019, 12:12 »
So, im artis illustrator and im looking for good camera for non-MS related project (video marketing project).

So, sadly; i dont know anything about taking photos or recording

The recomendation i get is to buy a Canon-EOS-M50 because it is the camera that brokes with the amateur quality of pics/video, and anything better that this one will be a high jump on price (as the one who recomend me this camera told me).

The problem is that i can see iPhone and other Hi-Tech mobiles taking amazing quality videos and pics.

It is worth buying this camera?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS contributor being sued
« on: July 26, 2019, 15:23 »
The sued contributor maybe open thread first in SS forum and the thread was deleted, and the open post here... i think it is the same case...

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS contributor being sued
« on: July 26, 2019, 11:24 »
I think some of you are talking about SS fourm thread and others are talking about MS group forum thread.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock FTP login being declined
« on: July 06, 2019, 08:55 »
Same problem here...

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