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General - Stock Video / Surprise! Uploading to SS now s*cks b*lls.
« on: November 06, 2017, 14:47 »
I can't believe, with all their website issues, they have once again "fixed" something that was not broken and was easy to use. Are they hiring away all the staff at iStock?

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Shutterstock.com / "Filters" button at SS
« on: August 08, 2017, 07:37 »
Is everyone else seeing the new "Filters" button at the top left of image search pages? The default seems to be "newest," meaning that unless buyers notice the new button and think to click it for more options, they'll never see the most popular images.

I'm expecting an even faster decline in sales thanks to this new "improvement."

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I'm suddenly having to navigate through a new interface to find my daily sales stats. They're hidden from the main dashboard. Anyone else, or did I click something strange?

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Shutterstock.com / 39 SOD
« on: June 23, 2017, 06:35 »
One whole extra penny for a single sale rather than a subscription sale. Yay.

SS continues its sad decline.

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General Stock Discussion / Another request for cheap work
« on: May 24, 2017, 04:38 »
I'm surprised when I see folks here saying they've gotten decent gigs from clients through stock sites. I only seem to get requests from people either wanting a discount on SS prices or custom work for pennies.

I promised myself I wouldn't respond to these people any more, but over the past couple of days I've been emailing back and forth with someone who seems to be from a legit marketing company (I'm not familiar with companies in the UK) to see if it would pan out. She asked for my rates. I asked for their budget. They don't have a budget, she says (yeah, sure...we always spent whatever we wanted in ad agencies, lol). So I quote her a very reasonable price for non-exclusive licensing, and sure enough she comes back with some hogwash about paying other illustrators 1/10 of what I'm asking for exclusive rights to amazing, high-quality illustrations (not cr@p like mine...gotcha).

I politely explained that in my work as a Creative Director we've paid illustrators ten times what I was asking, and we've paid millions to license music (we once negotiated a Boston song for the incredibly low price of $250,000 for limited usage).

I guess as soon as they say they have no budget I should just say best of luck.

I think I'll go back to not responding.

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Off Topic / Plane crashed in my front yard
« on: May 17, 2017, 12:28 »
Happened last night. (Everyone's OK.)

Think I can make some money from editorial images? Lol.

I'd just like, as a public service, to let everyone know that small planes are extremely dangerous. In the U.S. they crash several times a day, with fatal crashes about 5 times a week. There's a saying that you're more likely to die in a car on the way to the airport than on a plane, but that saying only applies to large jetliners, which are extremely safe. Small planes (general aviation) account for 90% of air travel fatalities in the U.S.

In addition, they're one of the last forms of transportation to run on leaded gas (avgas), which has levels of lead 8 times higher than the leaded gasoline banned for use in cars. In fact, small planes contribute half the lead in he atmosphere.

This pilot had just filled his balsa-wood-and-papier-mache plane with lots of leaded gasoline, which all poured out into my front yard, where it will enter the water table. We've been warned not to drink our water (we have wells).

The plane missed my house by just a few yards, snapping branches off my trees as it traveled down my driveway and crashed into a stand of trees near the street. The pilot is from Texas, so I suppose I should feel honored that he flew all he way to my yard in New Jersey to crash.  ::)

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They're looking to hire a senior product manager for "Freestock:"

https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1c250646253d0e3&from=ja&alid=5746ab99e4b00f6d0c3f007c&rgtk=1bfoqpvtk05224fd

Freestock.com has a logo very reminiscent of Shutterstock's:

https://www.freestock.com/

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Shutterstock.com / Sales reporting glitches
« on: February 27, 2017, 11:28 »
My subs numbers are bouncing all over the place...one second there's one number and the next there's a number much lower. If I try to click through the subs pages to see my DLs page 3 will just disappear, along with all the sales reported on it.

Is that new IT guy ready to spend more time with his family yet?

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Shutterstock.com / I hope SS compensated these photographers.
« on: January 14, 2017, 11:42 »
This was from a FB post by SS about their most viral photos. So these photos were shared like crazy on social media (I'm assuming with no compensation), and now there's a link to these large unwatermarked versions of the photos on the site for people to steal freely.

I understand they can use our images for marketing purposes, but I don't get why they would make large unwatermarked versions available. I hope these photographers were compensated somehow, or got an uptick in DLs, or something out of SS giving their images away.

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/viral-photos-2016?utm_content=viralimages2016&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=fbk

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iStockPhoto.com / Giving myself the gift of no more iStock
« on: December 23, 2016, 10:47 »
So, today's the deadline, and as my Christmas gift to myself I'm requesting they close my account. No reason to wait and see my royalties drop or to wonder whether they'll try to steal my sales from other sitesthose are givens.

When a door closes a window opens. Let's hope it's a very small door and a very large window.

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Dreamstime has an entire website giving images away free?

And when you search for an image at stockfreeimages.com, you get a popup offering you one premium image per month for 5 which "renews at 5 per month" (a 5/month one-image "subscription").

Is this new?

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dreamstime-adds-10000-free-images-and-customer-experience-analytics---give-marketers-tools-to-help-images-go-viral-on-social-media-300360400.html

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iStockPhoto.com / Input for a Getty petition
« on: November 03, 2016, 06:08 »
Ok folks, we've seen that a petition can be effective. It's time for a petition to Getty. But we need everyone's input (anyone can write a petition, of course).

It's important that we keep the "ask" simple and send it to the right person. IMO we should simply request that Getty keep its current royalty structure and not reduce our subs royalties by 93% beginning November 25th, at the height of the holiday season.

What do you think?

Who should we address the petition to? Someone high up at Getty.

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Adobe Stock / Reporting Copyright infringement at Fotolia
« on: November 01, 2016, 11:19 »
How does one report copyright infringement at Fotolia?

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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock contributor site down?
« on: October 10, 2016, 07:52 »
"Something went wrong." Anyone else?

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Shutterstock.com / Disappearing and reappearing images
« on: October 04, 2016, 09:39 »
Some of my images have been disappearing from my port and are missing in the search results, then reappearing, but have "this image doesn't exist" messages when you click on them. Anyone else?

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So, after stealing who knows how many of my vectors and giving them away for free for years, Freepik now has the unmitigated gall to email me and offer to buy my vectors.

They mumbled something about compensation back when i caught them and got SS to tell them to remove my images, but not a penny has been forthcoming.

These people are scum, folks. I'll continue to remind everyone.

Scum.

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General Stock Discussion / Video/still assignment L.A.
« on: August 25, 2016, 10:14 »
I know nothing about this job, just saw it on Facebook in a creative jobs group. It looks like the website in question sells medical clothing, just FYI. I have no idea what they're paying, etc.

Hello!!! For a very exciting project, I am currently looking for videographers and photographers! Must be based in LA, and will be able to start in September! Email me for details: [email protected]

Facebook group for creative jobs in L.A.: https://www.facebook.com/groups/162131661992/

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Shutterstock.com / No search results, no image portfolio
« on: August 24, 2016, 20:16 »
Anyone else?

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Shutterstock.com / SSTK stock hits new high
« on: August 15, 2016, 13:16 »

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Shutterstock.com / Most popular/most recent screwup
« on: August 11, 2016, 15:28 »
Suddenly my most popular and most recent images on page 1 in my port have disappeared. Anyone else?

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"In lieu of salary, SSTK's CEO was granted stock options that are only exercisable if SSTK trades at or above a set target price. Incentivizing executives solely with stock price can have damaging effects, as business decisions can be made only to drive stock price appreciation with little regard to the long-term economic success of the business."

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3997693-shutterstock-content-redistribution-platform-winning-strategy

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Shutterstock.com / Unreported sales today? Glitch?
« on: July 23, 2016, 09:44 »
My sales today seem to have completely stopped after about 1 AM. And the sales map stopped popping up new sales even earlier, showing sales I made sometime yesterday.

I'm hoping I'm not the only one...and it's just a glitch?

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I don't really do video, so not sure how this sounds to those of you who do.

http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/videoblocks-takes-shutterstock-enterprise-video-footage-launch/2016-07-20

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Shutterstock.com / Oringer on appeasing investors
« on: July 10, 2016, 05:34 »
"because I didnt have investors in those early days that I had to listen to or appease, I was able to build the company faster"

Closing in on a million images added per week.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2107180-turning-a-camera-into-a-billion-dollar-business/

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