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« on: September 29, 2018, 06:44 »
Just opinions. And i can't be bothered or have the time to spend doing indepth analysis but i also don' t believe that sorting our potrfolios by popular or new is the same algorithm as the logged in buyers search algorithms?
But I am certain that nothing SS does is designed to make me or you money.
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« on: September 27, 2018, 19:08 »
Shuttestock does not make money by having buyers download more in a subscription based model. They tweak the algorthm in the hopes that buyes find what they want quickly without downloading unnecessary extra images. Lightboxes work against us as well. They can save dozens of images to show clients and only download the one they pick. Gone are the days of buyers downloading ten apples on white to let the client pick one.
There's no way algorthm changes are meant to benefit contributors.
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« on: September 07, 2018, 10:54 »
Title - is usually no more than 7 words
Description - is up to 200 characters
Sites should put more weight on the Description than the Title
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« on: September 03, 2018, 15:44 »
yes, symbio is easy to setup & maintain, but still takes time, esp'ly to add hundreds/thousands of images; I've stopped adding to my site and instead point to SS - simple to do and generates real $
How come? I upload photos and it's easiest of all 'agencies', just drop files on favorite FTP program and they will be ready for sale in minutes. No need to apply model releases and all that jazz, no rejections ...
AND symzio has never taken off - very few artists, and lacks coverage in entire areas (look what you get for searches on India, Italy, Germany or Paris. 'Grand Canyon' shows 14 images of the Hawaii version!!!!! ) so why would a buyer go there rather than SS et al?
Agreed. We just need to look in mirror 
Those sites are like ... minutes to set up. Uploading to them is faster than most of the agencies and lately it seems like uploading is getting to be more ridiculously confusing. When Symbio first was released everyone was all excited ... for a few months. Then realized that it does take time to build momentum and sales. Once it started looking like work and patience people started dropping off.
There were a lot of reasons people gave up on symbio - I think building the site was the least of them.
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« on: September 01, 2018, 12:23 »
Hi Jim
Sounds interesting, but how would most microstock contributors know the answer? I do both commercial and editorial images and submit them to the agencies that accept them, but no-one breaks out the sales between those categories (as far as I know). Wouldn't you have to track the sales performance of every single image?
Steve
Hence the "Not Sure" Option
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« on: August 22, 2018, 08:37 »
Sales are wildly sporadic - but I've had 5 this month.
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« on: August 18, 2018, 20:43 »
Hi folks
What do you think about my Portfolio? https://www.shutterstock.com/g/cicloco
....
By the way, i'm not very into special art postprocessing..., would it be an upgrade to my portfolio more saturating my landscapes or doing other HDR and/or art postporcessing with it? Ideas? Till now i tried to let it natural...
Thanks in advance!
Sorry but your colors don't look at all natural to me.
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« on: August 17, 2018, 17:14 »
No not yet, but they have totally screwed up their accounting with the wrong withholding and reimbursement that it is almost impossible to know what's due.
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« on: August 17, 2018, 17:12 »
Thanks Adobe.
Just redeemed my code and it has nicely extended my plan.
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« on: August 01, 2018, 09:53 »
The last three months graph from SS (there is a 40 cent difference between them)
And 27% ($900) less than the same period last year.
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« on: July 01, 2018, 11:06 »
You now have to click on the contributors tab from the Account settings link - but there is a glitch there as they have two View payments links.
The top one is for the current months sales the bottom one is for the payment details.
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« on: June 21, 2018, 16:17 »
It doesn't work for the current month unless you put todays date in the top field and June 1 in the bottom field
Seems Bass-Akwards
edit: that seems to be the case always - you need to put the 30th in the top field and the 1st in the bottom field.
Just awkward. And the opposite of the Fotolia stats way of doing it.
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« on: May 25, 2018, 09:53 »
you said: "The photographer is a freelancer - this is not a 'work for hire' scenario"
wrong. he was approached by a woman who asked him to film her animals. it is a work for hire.
freelance would mean he shot a bunch of animals and then proposed selling them to the woman, which he suggested as an alternative.
Thank God there's an ignore button - I recommend everybody put this (can't think of an appropriate adjective) on that list.
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« on: May 23, 2018, 17:49 »
Thanks for making me look I had a sale and 10.00 waiting to be cashed out.
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« on: May 22, 2018, 09:27 »
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf
Owner of the Copyright in a Work Made for Hire
"If a work is made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared [for] is the initial owner of the copyright" (not the photgrapher)
Read the whole thing - The photographer is a freelancer - this is not a 'work for hire' scenario.
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« on: May 16, 2018, 23:06 »
I thought their terms were by the 15th.
But...
From their site:
1. My account has surpassed the minimum payout limit. How do I request for payment?
No request is necessary. If you are eligible, we will pay you according to the payment method you have selected in your profile. Payments should reach you by the 17th of the month for all forms of payment.
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« on: May 13, 2018, 08:15 »
Don't buy your own stuff you could be booted for that.
Why would they boot you for that? Are some agencies afraid that you'd find out you weren't been credited? It makes no sense...
It's in their terms. From SS Shutterstock has the right to refuse to establish an account or to close any existing account, for fraud, intellectual property infringement, violation of a third party's rights including those of privacy or publicity, artificially inflating downloads,
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« on: May 13, 2018, 00:31 »
Very good idea. I have always wonder if some of the small sites are honest.
I wonder about all of them!
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« on: May 10, 2018, 16:00 »
That happened to me the other day but it corrected itself in an hour or so, and the commissions were applied.
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« on: April 13, 2018, 11:13 »
Phew - the amount on the 1099-Misc is exactly what I reported for that company!
Same here - this is a first for them.
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« on: April 10, 2018, 19:11 »
I requested mine on the 1st and got it the 4th.
(not bragging or anything - just wanted to let you know some were timely).
I would be concerned too at this point.
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« on: April 03, 2018, 22:05 »
My apologies, I was looking at my 2016 return earlier comparing earnings with 2017 and then checked 123 again. I got my years messed up. I need a vacation ...
Don't we all?
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« on: April 03, 2018, 20:14 »
They are OUT!
BUT it is WAY higher amount than my Paypal says. A $951 difference. Anyone know about the difference?
I still only see the 2016 - And BTW they have never matched my figures.
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« on: April 03, 2018, 10:15 »
It seems so. Sometimes I need to just quckly find and download an image from my portfolio. I always used 123rf for that purpose, now they want to charge me for downloading my own images.
Is there any agency out there which allows to find and download one's own images for free ?
Thanks,
Bummer - that's was an added bonus to upload there.
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« on: April 03, 2018, 07:32 »
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