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« on: May 18, 2014, 20:49 »
I thought PP was starting but the increase in my account was due to a video download from March finally being credited to my account, but only after I randomly noticed that one of my videos was listed as having two downloads while I'd only been paid for one. I then alerted Istock. Wonder how many more sales like this go under the radar.
502
« on: May 18, 2014, 20:42 »
Anyone who still has photos in DPC is guilty of helping to bring down prices and assisting in ruining our industry. With most agencies, extended licenses, one off downloads etc can boost your average download royalty. DPC does not offer this potential.Fotolia are taking us all for idiots and thankfully many people won't tolerate this and have opted out. It doesn't matter what size your portfolio is, there is no economic reason to remain opted in.
503
« on: May 18, 2014, 08:59 »
Keep opting out fellow contributors so we can be united and bring about the downfall of DFC!
504
« on: May 16, 2014, 00:46 »
I respectfully disagree. I think the amount of images that have been opted out in just a few days is phenomenal, considering the number of years it took to build up that library. More buyers are getting aggravated with disappearing files and tweeting about it. More of us are making those buyers aware of the boycott and other options for images. I see the message getting out there even more.
I'm sure every boycott, protest, and revolution seemed impossible at the beginning. Yet many of them worked. If citizens can overthrow governments, we can shut down one little website.
I wish we could, but it's not going to happen. We can already see the stagnation of opt-outs. The image count isn't changing and will likely begin to go up.
Even if the protest succeeded in getting more images opted out, Fotolia has the trump card. They can just shut off the opt-out and force inclusion. There is no scenario in which they just agree to shut the thing down. It won't happen.
That is a defeatist mindset. If you have photos at DFC make sure you opt out - everyone should be opting out and sending a clear message that this sort of business model is not acceptable. Nobody will miss the pittance royalties generated by DFC, only the owners of Fotolia
505
« on: May 15, 2014, 02:45 »
Here are my current results:
istock 144 dollars, 13 sales, average sales royalty: 11 USD
SS 132 dollars, 8 sales, average royalty: 16.5 USD
pond5 109 dollars, 5 sales, average royalty 22 USD
fotolia 7.35 credits (?), 3 sales, average royalty 2.45
No other sales from other sites. I am submitting to these three and also clipdealer and clipcanvas and am slowly starting to add revostock and 123rf.
What impresses me with pond5 is that you can set your own prices and if the quality is good customers will pay the 80 dollars I am asking for a file.
fotolia and ss have unbelievably fast review systems, fotolia sometimes inspects files in 30 minutes. However they reject a lot, much more than istock and Shutterstock. And the returns so far are very low.
SS has an excellent upload system, very good sales for such a tiny portfolio.
istock has an extremly slow and cumbersome upload sytem. Feels like the stone age. Months of inspection time. Sales should be much higher, considering that I have an active port with customers hitting my portfolio daily.
I have around 40-70 files on the different sites, so I am not uploading enough. But that I get sales at all with such a tiny portfolio is amazing. there must be a real need for video out there. Nobody would notice me if I only had 40 images online.
So I am very optimistic for my video future and also bought some expensive gear on photokina in September.
You would be doing yourself a favour by deleting your Fotolia clips
506
« on: May 15, 2014, 02:36 »
I have deactivated my files from DFC as of a few minutes ago.
A few months ago I deleted all my footage clips as Fotolia couldn't be trusted to sell them for realistic prices. I've also deleted most of my photos apart from the best sellers. In time I may just delete everything. I agree, agencies who bottom feed and drag the industry down need to be punished by contributors - WE HAVE THE POWER OVER AGENCIES AS A UNITED WHOLE AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
507
« on: April 10, 2014, 06:25 »
Couple of days ago I got 1.70$ for small web DL. The script I use showed me 0.10 $ per credit (small web - 17CR - 32$ - regular price). So I`m not surprised.
$1.70 for a video download is way below what you should accept. There simply isn't the high sales volumes in footage to enable those sorts of prices to be profitable. Footage creators should take responsibility and not offer their work for such low prices. That's the only way to keep pricing respectable. $1.70 is absolutely no use to you as a contributor. Meanwhile the buyer gets a steal and the agency makes enough profit to make it worth while.
508
« on: April 09, 2014, 04:48 »
unless you rely on the money from Fotolia, make a stand and delete your account. Photographers have to make a stand. I have $1 more to make a payout and then I'm gone.
509
« on: April 09, 2014, 03:29 »
I sell a lot of phone cases at zazzle but none at FAA. I doubt they've had any impression on the phone case market and I can't see them making much impression in image licensing. Pixoto.com are also trying to enter the licensing market from a different angle but it's just not going to happen. At best the owner of FAA may be able to sell his site for a better price somewhere down the track.
510
« on: April 09, 2014, 03:07 »
Don't waste your efforts uploading footage to 123RF, FOTOLIA and other such sites that are OK for photos but bottom feeders for footage. Stick to P5 and SS and any other site that has decent returns. Don't feed sites that pay pitiful amounts. They need to be starved of submissions unless they sort their pricing.
You can decide this by having a bottom line average net threshold per clip that you won't go below. Once you sell half a dozen clips on any given site, if that average is below your preset threshold then delete all your clips. It's the only way and I reckon that threshold should be around $17 based on my experience.
511
« on: April 08, 2014, 23:41 »
I deleted all my Fotolia video files a couple of months ago because of the pathetic pricing. No regrets whatsoever. I will now also delete my photos and be done with Fotolia. I only have a small account so this won't impact Fotolia or myself, but if enough contributors take a stand then we actually have the power over the agencies. That's the only way to control pricing, by uniting together and leaving en masse agencies which consistently try to bring the market down further to gain market share. However I appreciate that for Fotolia contributors with substantial accounts this is no so straight forward.
512
« on: April 08, 2014, 20:01 »
Any thoughts on this new fotolia venture. I thought it was supposed to be exclusive photos but i saw one of my non-exclusive photos in there. I have a small portfolio with fotolia, I'd consider deleting my account over this new bottom basement club.
513
« on: March 29, 2014, 11:52 »
stay well clear of Fotolia for selling footage as it just drives the market down. I had about 50 clips and had 8 sales for an average of less than $3 a download. I deleted them all a few months ago and let them know their prices are a joke. My average footage net price on SS is around $18 and on P5 about $24 so I just stick to them and send a few to Istock.
514
« on: February 13, 2014, 22:51 »
To my shock when searching the SS library for a similar image to the one I was about to submit the return was 0
And this is a shocking result as it is a very normal subject. I looked in Shutterbuzz if there was a restriction but there was nothing about it.
It might get rejected for reasons I dont know yet, but surely it will be the only image in the library of that subject if it gets accepted.
Weird.
When I got Bell's Palsy last summer I searched SS to see if there were any images of it and there weren't. Not only is the market (small, I grant you) all mine, but you can't copy it without having it (or some injection of a paralyzing drug). And yes, they do sell 
There are niche subjects out there if you're not trying to be Yuri or the like
My comment you quoted was voted down by someone, as if I am lying making stuff up or something (Not meaning you ). I will PM you the image as it has been approved.
I checked other libraries, no one has an image like mine, and I am flabbergasted. I did find it on Alamy. Its a very normal, obvious image, I would expect to see more often.
Ron where do you find time to take any photos?
515
« on: February 05, 2014, 01:39 »
Nov/Dec $200 each month, Jan back to $100. Losing the bonus scheme was a big letdown but compared to cafepress they are very generous since you can set your own percentage. I set mine at 14.5% after a lot of trialing.
516
« on: February 04, 2014, 21:35 »
In the macro world, Alamy is a perennial bottom feeder. You will get sales as your portfolio increases but RPI is very poor compared to most other agencies of any type - micro/macro/POD.
That's my experience and I have 6300 photos on Alamy.
517
« on: February 04, 2014, 20:33 »
They were probably subscriptions. If you go into your profile settings you can opt-out for subscriptions and get only on demand sales. An HD video sale give you around 20 credits, which is more ore less the amount you get on other sites...
Depends on price You set. So, on POND 5 for 80 $ footage is 50 % ...
That's right... But pkphotos wrote "both averaging around $20 a download", so I guess he price 40$ on P5.
Anyway, yes, P5 and SS are always the first one to receive my new clips too!
I've been bumping my P5 prices up as my portfolio grows. Average now about $23 net download. SS about $18. It's worth noting that the very least you can make from a SS footage sale is about $4.2 net (web subscription), however most of my sales have been HD which are around $20 net. Since most of my FOTOLIA footage sales seemed to be for around $1.25 net, even that figure is way short of SS minimum of $4.2. So FOTOLIA are basically gifting footage, possibly in an attempt to gain market share?
518
« on: February 04, 2014, 06:43 »
I just deleted my 50 footage clips from Fotolia. That's because after a trial period where I had eight footage downloads the average net price was $2.80 per download. Since I have around 1,000 clips on P5 and SS, both averaging around $20 a download, I decided I was shooting myself in the foot having my footage clips on Fotolia. I suspect IStock could also be almost as bad as Fotolia but will wait and see.
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