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« on: March 31, 2015, 03:01 »
Can someone tell me what gets a print run of more than 500,000 ?
Newspapers, monthly magazines, council publications, political newsletters, promotional flyers for national events, door drops, etc. You would be surprised, 500,000 in print industry is nothing really.
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« on: March 30, 2015, 23:53 »
I anticipate this will cost me in the region of $200 or so a month, and it will not be made up on volume. Other sites have 500,000 limits and an EL is like gold dust on those sites, SS will now be the same. You have to assume SS did the math and if they will respond no doubt it will be along the lines of "over X% of our EL purchases are for print runs of over 500,000 so this will have little impact to the numbers purchased" which really translates to "please bend over and touch your toes whilst we provide shaft you with figures we know you cannot check but please rest assured we are better off and fuc% you very much".
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« on: March 30, 2015, 16:18 »
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« on: March 24, 2015, 11:03 »
http://raycollinsphoto.com/Check this guy out. Amazing photography, breath taking bravery, awesome nature and video footage telling the story. Amazing stuff.
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« on: March 20, 2015, 10:57 »
I may be wrong but I don't think Offset contributors are SS contributors as well
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« on: March 20, 2015, 08:48 »
Uploading sync slow but has been for a while now. Sales slow to show but they do come through and more or less in line with what I would expect this time of year. So all slow, but normal.
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« on: March 20, 2015, 07:14 »
Depends.
If all similar of same subject then spread them out, if a variety of shots then why not all at once?
I upload a variety of subjects in batches of around 50-75 each week.
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« on: March 18, 2015, 03:50 »
Basically SS is creating a Vetta collection and now favouring contributors.
A combination of IS and DP.
I don't think so, weren't Vetta images exclusive? Hasn't Oringer been on record as saying he would never offer exclusivity?
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« on: March 13, 2015, 00:50 »
But once you have worked those 40 hours you don't work them again, but the images continue to earn you the money week in, week out so that should be factored into your calculations
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« on: March 12, 2015, 04:12 »
Yestearday I submitted 209 photos and only 4 got accepted. It seems SS have * high standard now.
NEVER submit that many at one time.
Why not? Do the factories only submit fifty at a time to play it safe? If the images are good enough they will be accepted.
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« on: March 10, 2015, 00:34 »
Has nothing to do with a reviewer.
Who did you review for and how long?
And how long ago?
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« on: February 27, 2015, 10:24 »
Mine are consistently reviewed with 7 days of upload, been like that for over a year
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« on: February 19, 2015, 06:33 »
unsplash.com is a side project of Montreal based pickcrew.com. It has a similar feel to VSCO Grid but is not mobile specific.
I know that not many here like free (Creative Commons - Zero) content. But there is some wonderful photography there and it is worth a look - if only to see where things are going.
Why is this an indication of where things are going? Also, excuse my ignorance, but even though these may be creative commons images, they still contain models and property needing releases, no?
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« on: February 11, 2015, 09:59 »
Saw on SS forums to try Chrome and it works for me, uploaded twice since Sunday with no problems
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« on: February 05, 2015, 14:06 »
Hi,
I understand your "no middle man" role but will/can you provide standard license templates for us to use? In principle it sounds good and has piqued my interest but dealing with the licensing could be very time consuming, at least if there is a standard to start negotiating from it would help? Similarly some guidance regarding pricing would be helpful. Whilst being able to set your own prices in appealing, massively over or under pricing your images will do no good to anyone.
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« on: February 03, 2015, 05:17 »
Word
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« on: February 03, 2015, 05:09 »
Guys, I think automated reviews are sci-fi  From my point of view it is nearly impossible to create reliable automated reviewing software. Firstly, approval would be instant and as we know on many sites we wait for review. Secondly, the software would need to deal with legal issues, copyrights, model releases and missing releases not only keywords or quality issue. No software can make judgement if the photo is still ok or no-go. A man must do that. Software can give hints but it is allways up to reviewers to make a judgement. And thirdly, such a software would be very expensive and under a constant need to upgrade and update which would make it not very practical. In the case of problematic keyword: as far as I know Canstock accepts nudes so their system has to accept related keywords. I just think image got lost in the system. Have you tried reuploading? It helped in my case several months ago (but I had no problem with keyword just with some stuck images).
Shutterstock have confirmed previously they have some form of proprietary software for reviewing (came out at IPO if I remember corectly) but software to check images meet certain specs would be easy e.g. minimum pixel count, minimum MB size, recognition software, certain banned keywords, etc are all basics which a software programme could reject immediately without processing to a person for a full review. Think of the savings..... 1,000,000 images submitted, reviewers paid $0.05 per image = $50,000 whether image accepted or not Software cost $25,000 and $5,000 annually updated (pure guesses!) which rejects 25% of all images based on criteria = $12500 saving each year on reviewer payments, only takes a few years to get retrun on investment and then software is saving you money. If it was my busines I would certainly look very seriously into it as a cost saving option.
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« on: February 03, 2015, 03:57 »
Are the 'normal' reviews there done by machines?
Any joking aside, I have always thought it is automated, certainly an initial pass is anyway. Images get rejected for "submitted before" but they haven't, only similar images from same location. I think a programme picks outs matching points in an image and auto rejects if a number is exceeded e.g. if three or more points match then auto reject for "submitted previously".
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« on: January 19, 2015, 06:16 »
Uploaded on ftp fine last night
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« on: January 16, 2015, 11:12 »
Just realised..... Helloitsme is having a conversation with Me! 
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« on: January 16, 2015, 09:57 »
My pond5 sales is down in January. Shutterstock sales finally surpassed for the first time since I joined SS about 2 years ago. Is this the trend? Are the buyers switching to SS from Pond5? Or is it just me? Anybody seeing the same trend this month?
The first time something happens does not make it a trend, hopefully just a blip.
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« on: December 12, 2014, 05:58 »
Successful people tend not to post otherwise the copycats crawl out of the woodwork and suddenly best sellers are not best sellers any more
That would be a relatively new paradigm if true, since everyone used to post glorious reports when things were good.
But no one ever backs it up with actual information. Anyone can go onto a forum and claim BME month after month but without posting some information it means nothing.
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« on: December 12, 2014, 04:29 »
Successful people tend not to post otherwise the copycats crawl out of the woodwork and suddenly best sellers are not best sellers any more
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« on: December 11, 2014, 10:53 »
Good luck, this is a very elite club. I think it is mainly artists that visit so I am not convinced about sales on there. Not many artists buy from other artists although many use the site for inspiration.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 06:37 »
Maybe there was no communication to contributors because there is no impact - i.e. no reduction in commission and they are taking the hit
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