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« on: November 01, 2015, 07:43 »
50% drop since Adobe!
Not that much, but about 25 - 30% down. October, however, best month since Adobe took over, but mostly from some ELs On the other hand, October has always been the best month of the year.
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« on: September 23, 2015, 07:26 »
So you want to upload to a site that pays $ 0.005 per DL?
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« on: September 23, 2015, 07:13 »
Hooray, it seems DT has at least removed half of his portfolio
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« on: September 17, 2015, 03:44 »
Yes quite obviously he uses parts of other designers vectors. Other than that I wonder how he got that huge load of similar stuff accepted anyway. I even get a rejection when I try to upload a completely different illustration of the same subject.
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« on: September 17, 2015, 03:26 »
When I look at your vector port at SS I don't have to wonder you're rejected as an illustrator at istock. Try something more elaborate and diverse like complex illustrations and icon sets - that stuff sells (better than photos, for me at least)
Viel Glck!
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« on: September 16, 2015, 01:33 »
FT was #5 for me, for a long, long time. Now #2. Go ADOBE!!!
FT was my #2 since the istock debacle in 2011 - but when Adobe took over sales started to crumble, and it fell far behind istock again. Nowadays I have to rely on the constant growth at SS. Go Shutterstock!
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« on: September 16, 2015, 01:26 »
Have four so far this month and a couple of single-sales. It's all the ODs that have vanished.
Regular business regarding ELs for me, 3 son far this months and 8 in August, but ODs have become rare as unicorns
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« on: September 13, 2015, 06:07 »
...and having sales (and how many per icons online?)
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« on: July 03, 2015, 02:42 »
I saw this and it started me wondering:
i have lower sales too, my rank drop from 600 to 850, my explanation was , my images are not popular anymore, my rank fall, so someone must sell more.
Supposing there are 40,000 contributors on FT, anyone under 1000 (the top 1000) is doing pretty good? Right or am I wrong?
Then I started thinking, is this rank that flexible and Cesar will jump up with a few sales more next month. There's a big pool of people with similar numbers, so rank can change 250 on a couple sales?
What does it take, if anyone can estimate, for someone to be a top 1000 on FT per month. How many sales or better question, how many "Credits".
Not asking for anyone's personal finances, just the question, what's the edge of the top 1000?
Weekly rank can change by some hundreds - in a good week I'm in the 800s (earning about 200 credits/week), this (bad) week I'm at 1500 (below 100 credits/week). Overall rank is far more interesting, highest I ever had was 267, now down to 342 - not only have I submitted less last year but also opted out of dpc - shortly after that I dropped from 270 to 300. So, to answer your original question: A weekly rank of 1000 equates to an income of around 600 credits. Considering all posts in this thread, an overall rank of 1000 equates to an income of 150-250 credits
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« on: July 03, 2015, 02:28 »
Nothing.
Just kind of a stimulus for contribs.
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« on: April 16, 2015, 02:12 »
I've had some files deactivated for hilarious reasons, but this one tops them all (showing the file from FT, because on IS of course no longer visible): Original description: Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park with the Monopteros temple on a hill Deactivation reason " The content is not suitable for our broad Royalty Free license; the reason given was: This content is not suitable for the Royalty Free Licensing model. Please see: http://wiki.gettyimages.com/castles-in-europe/" Besides that we have Freedom of Panorama in Germany I can't spot the castle in the image. Can you?
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« on: April 02, 2015, 03:33 »
tips are only a north american thing, in the rest of the world waiters are paid a normal salary like everybody else.
Not so: in many low to middle range UK cafes/restaurants, wait staff are on minimum wage.
So are many in Germany, especially seasonal employees.
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« on: April 02, 2015, 03:28 »
Shutter - a little lower than expected (usually March is the best month of the year) due to lack of ELs (only 2 compared to an average of 5)
Fotolia - disappointing: down 15%
DT - slightly better, downward trend seems to be stopped
istock - surprisingly up 20%, but mainly due to 2 big ELs and PP, no change in regular DLs
veer - average
123 - disappointing: down 20%, a downward trend seems to establish
Pond5 - way below expectations, 2Dls in a month
Panther - still on a very low level, almost only subs
motsphotos - way down from previous months, almost only subs, too
Alamy - average, some DLs but not of high value
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« on: April 02, 2015, 03:19 »
Congrats! I started five years and 3 months ago after I was fired and even as I work more and earn less than before I don't regret it.
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« on: March 21, 2015, 03:30 »
You have to remember that when you have a client commissioning they always get more demanding than you thought... and you end up investing much more time than if you were just doing something for stock.
It never fails for me...is like they want this and that...it sounds simple, straight forward, but then..things start to change, and you spend more time doing this and that...
I rarely have that problem with my clients (fortunately I can handpick them), and they wouldn't want to pay more. I earn the bigger money with other services they hire me for, like advertising and photography.
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« on: March 20, 2015, 10:59 »
Depends on the customer, the usage, the number and the complexity of the icons. I usually ask for 10 to 30 EUR per icon including exclusive rights.
But if I can manage to draw 25-30 icons on one topic, I rather sell the complete set on the agencies (vector icons, that is) and earn a lot more
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« on: March 13, 2015, 04:17 »
I wonder how they will manage to get "over 100,000 new pieces of content every month" (from their FAQ), when no serious stock vector artist will supply, because "Its exclusive! Youll never find our content anywhere but on StockUnlimited." (from their FAQ)
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« on: March 10, 2015, 12:04 »
Got the email, too, If I recall right, 12 zooms this month that make for a CTR of 1.10 for the better of my 2 pseudos. Only 4 sales this year, though.
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« on: March 06, 2015, 12:07 »
But back to the OP, I'm only having good days after good days at SS
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« on: March 06, 2015, 12:04 »
Also, I believe Shutterstock is more of a long term project with the benefit of staying stable in the long run, images need some time to get established in the searches and then keep selling consistently. Fotolia has far more focus on new files but they might disappear from searches in a few months or a year. At least that's what I believe without being able to prove that with hard facts.
Fully agreed upon. My bestsellers on SS are still selling one or two times each day after 5 or more years online, while sales of the same files on FT and IS have declined significantly after having had a peak after 6-24 months online. Interestingly, the decline on FT was even faster than on IS
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« on: March 06, 2015, 11:53 »
So the same question as the OP. I should be saving the JPG as 5000 pixels on a side? That's rather large isn't it? Assuming it's only a square that would be a 25MB file? If photo ratio, even larger. Over the file upload size limit for some sites.
That's not 25MB but 25M P, which is usually much less in bytes due to JPG compression. I never had an accompanying jpg above the file size limit - yet I sometimes have to reduce details in the illustration to get the eps below 15MB And while we're at it, all formats that are not square are smaller than that, when the LONG side is 5000px
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« on: March 03, 2015, 03:18 »
First: Some agencies want a minimum of 5000px on the long side, but for most 4000 will do. 2nd: AFAIK all agencies want illustrator 8 or 10 compatible eps files 3rd: For Fotolia and Pond5 you have to put eps and jpg into a zip-archive, mostphotos wants the eps only, dreamstime wants the jpg first, then you can add eps as additional file (or, via FTP, there's an extra folder for the eps). At the other agencies you can submit both files at the same time, but they must have the same filename (except for the ending .eps or .jpg respectively)
Hope that helps
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« on: February 06, 2015, 08:38 »
The site looks quite professional; how can you be sure they didn't purchase proper licenses for the images?
I found one of my pics, but it has been sold several hundred times over the last 8 years, so I cannot exactly say they must have stolen it...
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