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« on: August 08, 2016, 08:59 »
VB isn't making customers happy when they pay monthly and then have to pay again for additional content.
Well, technically, the subscription fee doesn't just mean access to free clips. It also means $30 off HD clips and $130 off 4k clips in the marketplace. I still think they should charge us 10% though to want to market our clips.
1652
« on: August 07, 2016, 09:48 »
The business model is to get subscribers not to make video sales. That is where they make money and where they focus their advertising. Look at it as amazon prime for video. I am happy that the pricing is good for the artist and like it or not I think they have the best chance at the fastest growth.
Yes, but I do think the 100% is not really doing us any favors. Why not take 10% and we get 90% so they at least have some reason to promote our clips???
1653
« on: August 07, 2016, 06:59 »
Yeah, 10,000 clips and a 256kb upload speed isn't outside the realms of possibility... and if I'm not mistaken, that would take five years if each clip is 500Mb.
Yes, but to be honest I very much like this barrier now as I happen to have a very fast internet connection. This prevents the incredible over-saturation like on the image side. As soon as everyone has 100mbit upload speed the footage world will suffer.
1654
« on: August 07, 2016, 06:55 »
So yeah, on Envato, if you've filled in the W8 then you won't have tax withheld on non-US sales. Based on the amount of info provided and preparation Envato did to get people ready for it, I'm going to assume that Envato are doing it correctly. Either way, they can't both be right, so one of them is withholding (or not withholding) taxes incorrectly.
Yes, all places I sell on that require W8 forms do it this way. I pay $0 on VideoBlocks as it should be. By the way, @alijaber, how do you know what countries your VB sales are from?
1655
« on: August 07, 2016, 05:53 »
Posting a hard drive is sensible. It can take forever to upload thousands of HD clips.
Yes, having the option is sensible. But having it as the ONLY option is not sensible in 2016. I'd rather not post anything at all, ever. I, like many videographers, have a fast internet connection and don't mind sending 100 GB of footage in a day.
1656
« on: August 06, 2016, 15:06 »
Yes, fill out the W8. Now. They are required by US law to tax you until you do that. If you happen to live in the right country you will pay 0%. If not, just tax on US sales.
1657
« on: August 06, 2016, 08:12 »
What really bothers me is this 33% tax on all my sales: US and non US, unlike all other agencies. For me I get more with regular P5 sales (50%=39$) than those from VB (100%=33$), that's the real sadness
Well, to be fair, Pond5 should be doing the tax thing too... Don't know why they aren't forced to already.
1658
« on: August 05, 2016, 18:02 »
Can't believe they still ask you to ship drives... What is this, 1998?
1659
« on: August 05, 2016, 11:37 »
The problem with Envato is the low prices and if everyone uploads their portfolio, sales will be diluted and none of us will make much.
Correct. But it's very likely that they will introduce author pricing soon. Then I will upload.
1660
« on: August 04, 2016, 14:21 »
I specified "Vertical" in the original post, for example.
Ah, my bad. Brings it down to 2,454 and doesn't look as good, no. It seems like you're looking for something very, very specific then... And of course I'm sure that many photographers (like me) look at each of their images and if it's a 10/10, it's simply not going to SS. It's going somewhere more expensive and the "it's alright I guess" shots go to SS.
1661
« on: August 04, 2016, 14:10 »
16,439 horizontal "winter sweden" images on SS. Many of them seem to be quite good. What are you looking for exactly? Surely you haven't even scraped the surface of the supply.
Isn't the problem more that there are too MANY images and the good ones get lost?
1662
« on: August 04, 2016, 06:29 »
Fotolia do know this full well: their pricing structure for footage (significantly cheaper for those few European buyers they still hope to attract) very clearly reflects this fact.
Can you explain what you mean by this? Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Fotolia footage prices are slightly higher than Shutterstock for example, no? I sell footage on Fotolia, comparable to Shutterstock and now more than P5 which has died...
1663
« on: August 03, 2016, 02:53 »
Is a pretty good start.
I can image that you come from photography. You have quite a good idea for composition, but video is very much different from photo: you have to look for situations that have movement, or else create it with camera movement (less interesting in my opinion).
Exactly (although I don't think camera movement is less interesting, quite the opposite). For example, your "Beach Hut Ocean View" clip is now mostly usable as a background for someone to animate some small characters or text on, BUT, if you had shot it with a drone or steadicam going THROUGH the hut and out toward the ocean it would be a really cool clip usable as a "wow" effect in any travel/lifestyle commercial. Smooth forward, backward or side movement is very effective when shooting landscapes or other mostly static scenes like a hallway or house interior. Panning and tilting looks a bit dull in my opinion but is of course usable too, but much less wow...
1664
« on: August 02, 2016, 09:53 »
I'm also confused regarding Google's 'Duplicate Content Penalty'
If you supply the same image with the same meta to every agency in theory that image will be penalized as 'Duplicate Content'.
Shouldn't we be supplying the agencies with media that has different Titles, Descriptions, TAGs ?
That will more penalize the agency. It is up to the agencies to handle that and it's not exactly an uncommon thing. But of course it doesn't hurt to write a new description and new tags for each agency so that an uncommon type of image may show up several times in a Google search... I guess the only bad thing is that you will only be able to upload one picture per year...
1665
« on: August 02, 2016, 09:03 »
For your own website there are many things you can do to optimize your Google placement. Tagging images for other sites like SS or Fotolia is much less complicated. A few quick searches on each site will tell you how their search engines work.
1666
« on: July 30, 2016, 16:36 »
That said, we have had to remove a large chunk of products from our providers in the past where they have completely replicated others work, so I'll certainly look through the references, thanks for the help!
But you said: "We also generate all the content ourselves".
1667
« on: July 30, 2016, 08:47 »
and he was non-exclusive
...but, he's not. 
1668
« on: July 29, 2016, 09:07 »
Are you from Thailand? Was just there for a month, now in Cambodia. Doing the rounds!
Going by his name I would guess Sweden with 98.7% certainty.  That being said, nice clips yeah, but you probably won't sell much of those since there are so many just like them that have been around for years gathering sales and search engine exposure. I have many shots from Thailand, Malaysia etc. and sell some here and there but mostly wildlife shots.
1669
« on: July 28, 2016, 02:39 »
but, objectively, is she going to get a billion?
how does she come to validate that these photos are worth a billion???
i am not even sure if you put Yuri, Lise G, SJLocke, Dolgachov,etc.. it would come to even
close to a million. how does the donated images account for a billion???
It's in the article: While the statutory damage liability for Getty in this case is $468,875,000, PDNPulse reports that Highsmith is seeking $1 billion based on the precedent of photographer Daniel Morels lawsuit against Getty, in which he was awarded $1.2 million for the widespread infringement of one photo.You don't just sue for an exact value of the images, you sue for infringement and illegal behavior.
1670
« on: July 23, 2016, 14:42 »
It's always been like that as Spacey says. That is just more incentive for people to sign up.
1671
« on: July 21, 2016, 05:12 »
Those files aren't going anywhere. The torrents are just picked up by the next torrent tracker. No real change there.
1672
« on: July 18, 2016, 17:08 »
Well, in most countries it's a requirement to have a business so you can invoice and pay tax correctly unless we're talking very little money. One-man business = individual.
1673
« on: July 17, 2016, 11:30 »
I'm still trying to learn to fly my $80 mini quad before I even invest a couple of grand in a reasonable system. For some reason, I am pretty clumsy flying these things.
Believe me, the bigger DJI drones are 100 times easier to fly than the mini quads. A pure joy!
1674
« on: July 17, 2016, 06:46 »
Relevancy is the most important.
If your images pop up in searches for "flower", but your image is of a person you described as "cute as a flower", no one will buy the image based on that search and your image will be buried further and further down the search results, effectively becoming invisible.
If your image of an actual flower pops up and is bought when they search for flower your image will get stronger and stronger and keep its place high up in the results.
The hard thing is to nail the abstract, conceptual keywords. I have images that show up first in searches of certain concepts, concepts that could be shown in a thousand different ways - with animals, people, cars, simple illustrations etc.
But based on that search, many people bought those images meaning the abstract conceptual keyword proved to be relevant and the images stay on top for those keywords. Those conceptual keywords might not be the most obvious to think of when keywording, but illustrate the idea.
1675
« on: July 16, 2016, 15:18 »
Thats a very good suggestion. Back in 2005, the word on the street was to include anything you could see in the photo. Since then, search algoritms have become more sophisticated and keywords need to be focused on the main subject of the image. I have been going back and looking at my keywords, and particularly the early ones have many extraneous keywords that are just interfering with a good search.
This is different on every site. They all have different algorithms so you really have to do your research and do it differently for each agency if you want to maximize your SEO.
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