I'm a dead branch for SS - more explanation below (*). I used to be level 3, now I'm level 2, so yes, my RPD dropped for sure, but if they want to cut me out, I see their point. Maybe someone who started uploading recently and is doing a good job, but had not yet reached level 2 or 3 on the old system, maybe is now level 3 or 4 with the new structure and is earning an higher RPD?
Someone here is in such a situation?
I would understand if SS would prefer to favour him/her at my disadvantage!

(*) I stopped uploading to SS and to any other MS agency about 5 years ago, without ever thinking of removing my images. It was a work done, it gave a small income, it would become a trifle soon, but why work to stop it sooner? I decided to starve the beast! Five years later the beast is still alive and makes over 1000 $ per year to me, asking me to check once a month if I should ask the payment to any agency. Of course I could do this because I never thought to have MS as a primary source of income. I was level 3 on SS and I was thinking I could become level 4 this year or the next.

This boat is sinking. So why aren't we jumping?

'cause we all hope that if enough people will jump, the ship will stop sinking and we, which did not jump will survive!

We forget to look that for each one which jumps ship, ten new jump in!

Btw I stopped uploading (jumped ship?) to all sites between '14 and '16, maybe earlier, and I still make about 100$ per month. The problem is that every now and then I think that I could upload something new !

Quote from: RCerruti on October 12, 2018, 14:18

wouldn't say the problem is the plane design: a property release would not solve it!

So you're saying property release isn't needed for Boeing planes? Adidas shoes? Ford cars? I would think you need a property release for branded products. A plane is a branded product unless the manufacturer cannot be identified.

What I mean is that, should the problem be the aircraft, they would reject the photo for copyright/trademark. They would not ask for a property release (from the owner of the aircraft?)

rpd $ 0.71
rpi $ 6.27

I lived with a 240G SSD Win 8.1 for a few years with PS LR office and quite a lot of other sw. During last winter I added a second 480G SSD because my LR catalog of over 300,000 images was taking more than 140GB. SSD will deteriorate faster if they are too full of never changing data (i.e. sw).
Now I moved the LR catalog and PS scratch files on the new SSD and I feel like I can manage 500k more images. Of course image files and LR catalog backups are on an external NAS which takes care of automatic daily backups.
Two SSD actually are faster than a single one if you put OS scratch files on one and sw scratch files on the other.

Quote from: RCerruti on March 22, 2018, 06:04

Quote from: MatHayward on March 15, 2018, 18:09

Quote from: RCerruti on March 15, 2018, 10:22

Hi Matt, I didn't notice this is option until I read this thread about a week ago.

(I've not been so much following microstock in the last years). Now I found and followed instructions and had the accounts synced (I already had an Adobe account as LR&PS user). All my 612 images on Fotolia went to rejected bin instantly (no time for human review), either for 'technical issues' (e.g. File ID: 59960808) or for 'file could not be accepted' (e.g. File ID: 60793638) or even 'SIMILAR IMAGE(S) ALREADY SUBMITTED' (e.g. File ID: 50543551).

Why this happened?
Thank you in advance!

The reviews are done manually by humans. I checked your uploads and see that it was fast but not automatic. Looks like you submitted just over an hour after you uploaded and they were reviewed about 3 hours after you submitted.

-Mat

Hi Mat, thank you for your reply. It still sounds odd to me that out of 612 photos accepted on Fotolia, not a single one was accepted on Adobe Stock. I still think I made some mistake in the procedure. I can not even find the way to contact support, or a forum on the website!

Are you submitting the same content separately to Adobe Stock and Fotolia? If so, that's a problem. Fotolia and Adobe Stock are one and the same. Any content that is approved via Fotolia is automatically online at Adobe Stock and vice versa. If you are submitting separately to two different accounts, that is essentially spam as you are sending the same files to both sites twice. Please contact me directly if this is the case so we can get it sorted out.

Email: [email protected]

-Mat

Thank you again Mat,

no, this is not the case. What happened is that I synced the AS and FT accounts only at the beginning of the month. (I had never uploaded anything on AS). All the images I had on FL were immediately rejected on AS.

Roberto

Hi Matt, I didn't notice this is option until I read this thread about a week ago.

(I've not been so much following microstock in the last years). Now I found and followed instructions and had the accounts synced (I already had an Adobe account as LR&PS user). All my 612 images on Fotolia went to rejected bin instantly (no time for human review), either for 'technical issues' (e.g. File ID: 59960808) or for 'file could not be accepted' (e.g. File ID: 60793638) or even 'SIMILAR IMAGE(S) ALREADY SUBMITTED' (e.g. File ID: 50543551).

Why this happened?
Thank you in advance!

Not yet updated to the 'classic'. I just wonder, if they will make this obsolete and force you to work on the cloud, they will lose a good amount of customers around the world, and here is why:
I live in a city in northern Italy and I have one of the best Internet connections you can get for a reasonable non-corporate price, which is higher than what I pay for LR+PS subscription. I can upload up to 20 Mb/s. I'm sure in many places the situation is even worse.
I'm a sport photographer hiring other photographers for a few important events. In those cases I get over 1TB of images taken in a few days around Italy. It means I would need more than a week to upload at full speed the images to the cloud, before starting to work! Completely impossible to accept! I think I'm not the only one.

I've heard very good things about C1pro, and - even if I don't like many things about LR - I don't think I will ever be able to give up its amazing speed in working parallel batches on hundreds of similar files. How is this feature in C1pro?

Strange. I still get a payout every few Months for many years now. I was a big Fan of the original site a long time ago. Jupiter bought them I think. I get paid by them.

The same here, Laurin, every year or so!

Please read title and posts before writing!

The title says The doom of the industry and Shutterstock is delayed
So I understand (even if English is not my mother language!) that the title does not mean at all it is imminent. Many went on ranting about the end of the industry without reading, even after the OP Pauws99 in a later comment stated  the title is ironic

The article says that the 49% increment is from 30 Sept 2014 to 30 Sept 2015 (see the table) so it's over one year, not over a quarter. It's an huge increment anyway but you do not need to increase your portfolio by 49% per quarter just to keep the pace. Why did someone write so, even after Nikovsk stated, clearly enough, that the increment is yearly?

Now my two cents: probably to increase your portfolio by 49% yearly is very easy if your portfolio is 100 or 1000 images, quite difficult if your portfolio is 10,000 images, and almost impossible if got 100,000. So it's easier for contributors with a small portfolio to see and increase of the income while for contributors with a larger portfolio it's more difficult. This assuming that all photos sell the same, which of course is not the same, but if we speak about the thousands, statistically it is the same!

Pauws99, Thank you for sharing

Thank you for posting!!! not receiving the approval e-mail for my feb 10th batch, I just forgot to upload more!

Yes Steve, it was directed to you. Thank you for your answer. They are really negligible. I asked because I have very different situations, especially on DP where my referrals are a large share of my income!