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iStockPhoto.com / ELs on iStock

« on: June 10, 2016, 08:04 »

So, I'm curious what are your experiences with EL sales on iStock compared to other agencies, especially Fotolia and Shutterstock.

I had only 1 EL in 2 years, while at the same period had about 20 on FT and 10 on SS. Even of 123rf I had more ELs (mostly LELs, but still)

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Shutterstock.com / Congrats! You've had your first content approved and it's live on the Shuttersto

« on: May 24, 2016, 15:15 »

So I just got this message on my contributor main page.

Congrats! You've had your first content approved and it's live on the Shutterstock site. Now go ahead and upload some more images or videos!

Anyone else seen this? What is that supossed to mean?

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123RF / Monthly earnings not calculated correctly

« on: May 01, 2016, 01:24 »

So my sales from April 27th till April 30th were not added to my overall earnings for April.

Now, I know it usually takes a day or two for the "Earnings" page to update, but it's been now 4 days and my earnings for April are still short for sales that I had in the last 4 days in April.

Is anyone having the same experience?

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Adobe Stock / Fotolia views

« on: December 26, 2015, 09:13 »

Is anyone else experiencing unusual high number of views?

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Bigstock.com / Same vector downloaded twice at the same time

« on: October 16, 2015, 02:05 »

So, I had this sale of a vector file, which was sold twice at the same time. Each for 3.31$. Bigstock says it's "Bigstock Partner Basic" sale. Anyone knows why would someone buy same file twice?

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iStockPhoto.com / Sale missing in "My uploads"

« on: September 21, 2015, 13:32 »

So, I was checking my sales and I noticed a sale, that was reported on 8th of this month at statistic page (graph) , but if I go to "My uploads"-> "Last DL it isn't shown. Anyone else had this experience?

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Bigstock.com / EL

« on: June 16, 2015, 14:32 »

I just had one EL on BigStock. It netted me 25$ !! I didn't know, EL's exist on BigStock. Really nice surprise, since 99,9% of downloads are sub sales.

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CanStockPhoto.com / Image views and sales

« on: May 02, 2015, 11:21 »

So, I had 1 sale, 1 month ago, but in my image stats it still says 0 views, 0 downloads. What's up with that?

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Veer / Tax form

« on: April 08, 2015, 06:04 »

So, I'm trying to fill up this tax form.

And when I try to submit it, it says, I need to check the box in the 9a question for reduced tax witholding.

So, where is this 9a checkbox? Am I blind or something?

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Newbie Discussion / Uploading photos on microstock agencies / all at once or every few days?

« on: March 20, 2015, 07:04 »

Hi.

I was always wondering what is better, to upload all photos at once or upload them every few days?

For example, if I have 100 photos, is it better to upload them all in the same day, or upload 20 of them every few days to stay noticed in the "new files" section.

I would prefer to upload all of them at once and just "get over with", but I have this feeling, that if I do that, I will be pushed into oblivion in the "new files" section.

What do you think?

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Adobe Stock / Credits price change

« on: March 12, 2015, 03:00 »

Hi.

This is my first post.

I have a bronze level at fotolia, and if someone purchased a file for credits I got: 5 credits for M, 7 credits for L and 8 credits for XL downloads.
Since last week, this has now been changed. Now I get 6 credits from M, 8 credits for L and 10 credits for XL downloads.
Does anybody know, why this has changed? Not that I'm complaining though

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Thanks