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Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: Did you make cash on your mobile?
« on: May 15, 2016, 15:30 »
Lol well that's good to know, thanks.
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Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: Did you make cash on your mobile?« on: May 15, 2016, 15:30 »
Lol well that's good to know, thanks.
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Pond5 / Re: Balance reset to 0, payment hasn`t arrived in Paypal« on: May 15, 2016, 15:25 »
I got paid today, but I'm using Skrill
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Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: Did you make cash on your mobile?« on: May 15, 2016, 15:23 »What about footage? Do agencies accept the quality from a phone?Yes they do 4
Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: Did you make cash on your mobile?« on: May 15, 2016, 15:20 »
Mobile sites like 20twenty and EyeEm but not Snapwire, I don't get them. I have the feeling they don't want any new photographers and always have the same people getting nominated.
Westend61 for macro, they distribute to Offset, Getty, Fotolia and others as well and accepts mobile. I always find keywording too troublesome at Alamy, my portfolio there is tiny and sales are almost absent. Not sure if they change the keywording procedure at Alamy nowadays. In order of importance for me at the moment: Westend61, Getty, mobile, microstock agencies with Westend61 getting my best images and microstock my worst. 5
Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: Did you make cash on your mobile?« on: May 15, 2016, 11:02 »
Doing pretty well with mobile, in fact my sales at the 'mobile' websites are outperforming microstock nowadays. I'm considering to pull out of microstock and only doing macrostock and mobile for images.
I've kind of had it with all the changes at the (greedy) microstock agencies. 6
General - Stock Video / Re: Anybody participating Pond5 membership program? If so, how's revenue?« on: May 15, 2016, 10:53 »The 50 cents a month rent price for all downloads, is what pond5 said publicly.Of course P5 can do whatever they want, I got paid out today and it might well be the last, I won't submit to them anymore. If they reject an award winning image (as a test) for noise and saying I should consider getting a camera with a better quality sensor I know they are not taking contributors seriously. Btw the image was taken with a Nikon D810 at ISO64 during bright daylight. 7
CanStockPhoto.com / Re: no salses at canstockphoto« on: May 14, 2016, 12:44 »
I have monthly sales at CS, my portfolio has less than 200 images and videos
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New Sites - General / Re: any recent sales at 500px?« on: May 14, 2016, 12:34 »
Same here, closed my account and never looked back.
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General - Stock Video / Re: Anyone having "normal" sales on Shutterstock and Videoblocks?« on: May 13, 2016, 06:44 »
SS and macrostock sales more than made up for the lack of sales at P5.
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Photography Equipment / Re: Canon 6D not switching on. Battery flashing.« on: May 13, 2016, 06:39 »
If it flashes and counting down, it means it will self destruct
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Delete old crappy images? What do you think?« on: May 06, 2016, 16:27 »
I don't delete, since I don't decide what is crap or not. Ultimately the customer decides if it's crappy by not buying.
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CanStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejecting everything« on: May 06, 2016, 16:17 »firewall, i still get the occasional white balance off rejects over at ssResubmitting should get it accepted 13
CanStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejecting everything« on: May 06, 2016, 16:13 »They all think they are Magnum.With the rejection rates at CS I am starting to feel like SS never rejects a thing. :-) 14
CanStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejecting everything« on: May 06, 2016, 13:20 »With the rejection rates at CS I am starting to feel like SS never rejects a thing. :-)SS hardly rejects nowadays. Just about any other agency rejects more 15
Shutterstock.com / Re: Latest results« on: May 04, 2016, 09:48 »
Increase in paid downloads mainly due to new customers. They can thank Pond5 for that
Oringer says they are adding more high quality content than ever before, that's far from the truth, I see a lot of garbage being approved. 17
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock search algorithm just changed.« on: May 02, 2016, 15:19 »
I have more sales than usual today. Most of the sales are from Europe
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Pond5 / Re: Pond 5 review changes« on: May 02, 2016, 10:42 »I heard some people still report sales, a few customers are still there. The question is more how fast before all of them are gone and once a customer is gone, they will be gone forever.I noticed when my video sales at P5 stopped, SS sales went up. My guess is most of their video customers went to SS. Not sure about Fotolia, I don't upload there. I think they got the new CEO to aim for IPO or to sell it. But at this rate only a fool would want to buy or merge with P5. With 60 million they can operate for some time. In a couple of months we will probably get a notice they will be lowering commissions. Then they hope their sales will go up for the Holiday season, only to find out their customers and contributors all took off and that's when they will file for bankruptcy. If I were working for P5, I would start looking for a new job. 19
Pond5 / Re: Pond 5 review changes« on: May 02, 2016, 07:44 »
I noticed when my video sales at P5 stopped, SS sales went up. My guess is most of their video customers went to SS. Not sure about Fotolia, I don't upload there.
Btw I'm not as pessimistic as SquirrelPower, I think they go bankrupt in January after the Christmas dip hits P5. Unless the exodus of all customers comes first Anyway it's no use uploading, even if it gets accepted there will be nobody left to buy. 20
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock - Images reviewed in minutes« on: April 30, 2016, 15:29 »I must have had the same reviewer. Last weekend was the first in a long time my images were rejected. Resubmitted and accepted a few days later.I've seen it. They were reviewed while I was uploading them.Lately I've been uploading on weekends and pictures were reviewed on Monday and almost everything passed, until last weekend. It was reviewed immediately and almost everything declined. I guess the bad-ass reviewer has reached another level of bad-assness and just decline immediately everything which is not produced with leica glass, fullframe camera and studio lightning. 21
Shutterstock.com / Re: Why deleting the Worst month ever topic?« on: April 29, 2016, 01:06 »
Just when I thought this month is going to be the worst since 2013, I got some nice SODs, now it's an average month.
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Newbie Discussion / Re: Are the Low Earners worth uploading to?« on: April 27, 2016, 13:35 »I have severe problems with my arms and I am only uploading to 4 agencies. Would it be better to go with just one exclusive in order to get more paid? If yes which one? I do like DT because they tell me what's wrong with my photos. I get views on DT but hardly any on Fotolia. No sales yet. Would it be best to go exclusive with SS ?Not sure if uploading to many agencies is the answer. You have to find the balance between the time and effort spent uploading and the sales. I stopped uploading to many low earners and will probably delete them once I reach payout, including DT. All my best images go to macrostock, the rest goes to SS, FT, Alamy and some mobile sites. 23
Newbie Discussion / Re: Are the Low Earners worth uploading to?« on: April 26, 2016, 06:38 »Is anybody earning money from selling on 500px?A lot of people left after they lower the commission from 70% to 30%. Sales for me were rare 24
General - Stock Video / Re: Co-founder and CEO Tom Bennett out of Pond5« on: April 13, 2016, 11:35 »CTO and founder no 2 is gone too....WOW!We should leave as well. Their rejections don't make any sense at all, it's like they are saying we want you to go away. Besides Videoblocks, can anybody recommend another agency? 25
Mobile Stock Photogrpahy - General Discussion / Re: snapwire« on: April 12, 2016, 02:51 »
Snapwire is a joke. They only favor the same people over and over again. If you look at their requests submissions, there are really good images which don't get nominated or bought, while snapshots from the 'pros' get nominated.
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