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Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: November 10, 2022, 01:32 »
That's a whopper!

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 09, 2022, 18:05 »
Saying that your sales increased after you emailed SS regarding low sales isn't lying. I mean, assuming you haven't made that up, but we'll assume you haven't. But anyway... then interpreting that to mean that SS flicked some kind of switch for you and that they manually decide on the placement or sales performance of individuals isn't far off from a lie. I mean, I can't prove that's not the case, but you also can't prove it is the case.

Feel free to share your facts, feel free to present your opinions (however misguided they may be), but don't present your opinions as facts. And maybe dig a bit deeper into the possibilities for why something is why it is. There's plenty of reasons considerably more likely for your sales increase other than SS feeling sorry for you and deciding to send some more sales your way to make you feel better. I'm guessing they didn't call an emergency board meeting upon receipt of your email. 

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Shutterstock.com / What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: November 09, 2022, 17:54 »
A thread for all your positive SS news and big-ish sales! I'll start... after a pretty poor summer, sales are back up to around the $200/$300 a month mark (I only have 292 videos there), and here's a pretty decent one from the end of October.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe profits more than double in latest quarter
« on: November 04, 2022, 23:39 »
103.7 for SS... you just have to hover over the agency name with your cursor.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 03, 2022, 06:12 »
So sarcasm is appropriate if people are uploading new content?! Sure, that makes perfect sense! And I'm still constantly uploading videos, just not to Shutterstock.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 02, 2022, 17:40 »
Yeah, and Mars has been moving from west to east for the last two years and now it's suddenly changed direction... as a result, the gods must be angry. I mean, what else could it be?!

I'm not sure if you've been living in a bubble for the last 10 years, but those 10 years of experience don't seem to have given you the wealth of knowledge that you think they have!

'Rare', 'few people dare to upload it'... I wish! 'Very often, such stock agencies get banned for such space'. Perfect example of what I'm talking about... no they don't. You're wrong.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 01, 2022, 20:28 »
...everyone I spoke to confirmed a very strong decline in shutterstock revenue.

I didn't.

And Zero Talent didn't, Her Ugliness possibly didn't, and if we're going with your original 2020 to 2022 comparison, then Jaggy didn't. So if everyone you spoke to 'confirmed a very strong decline', then you obviously have some form of selective hearing.

Sure, I've noticed the collapse in some people's revenue. I've also noticed the increase in some people's revenue... and while the former is more common than the latter, not everybody is experience a strong decline in earnings.
So shutterstock has dramatically changed its search algorithms since January 1, 2021. Or manually promotes only certain authors, assigns them a higher rating. You are lucky, you are among the lucky ones.

You're once again making assumptions, and also changing the subject because you were proven wrong, but that's fine. My SS income for the first three months of 2021 was over 75% less than the last three months of 2020, so if anything I was unlucky as a result of the algorithm change. I was 'among the unlucky ones'. Why the earnings improved later in the year... I have no idea, I barely uploaded any new content... maybe they changed the algorithm again. I wouldn't be surprised if they're tweaking and tinkering with it on a monthly basis. I would if it results in more sales.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 01, 2022, 11:41 »
...everyone I spoke to confirmed a very strong decline in shutterstock revenue.

I didn't.

And Zero Talent didn't, Her Ugliness possibly didn't, and if we're going with your original 2020 to 2022 comparison, then Jaggy didn't. So if everyone you spoke to 'confirmed a very strong decline', then you obviously have some form of selective hearing.

Sure, I've noticed the collapse in some people's revenue. I've also noticed the increase in some people's revenue... and while the former is more common than the latter, not everybody is experience a strong decline in earnings.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 01, 2022, 02:50 »
It's increased by about 25%

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: October 31, 2022, 22:24 »
Her Ugliness, here in the subject everyone complains about the drop in income, except for you.  8)

A) People who don't have a drop in income are less likely to talk about it. People love to complain... not as much when it comes to honking their hooters.

B) They never said they didn't have a drop in income. You've just assumed that based on the data provided.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 28, 2022, 22:47 »
I concur... the forum is to get hints and tips, give hints and tips, keep abreast of the latest news and happenings in the world of stock, have the occasional argument, share the best recipes for homemade doner kebabs etc etc. It doesn't all suddenly become pointless at a certain dollar amount.

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My average month with their marketplace sales was about $350, and while it dropped considerably near the end, and slightly with the introduction of the subscriptions, it gradually increased after that and now it's up to about $700 a month.
storyblocks is your number one in terms of income?

Storyblocks second... Elements first.

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Not if you can't tell they're fake. A lot of them you can, but they're getting there.

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I also recommend storyblocks, but it's not easy to get there either.
I actually left storyblocks when the entire subscription thing happened. For some time it was giving me decent sales but it had started plummeting so it was an easy choice

My average month with their marketplace sales was about $350, and while it dropped considerably near the end, and slightly with the introduction of the subscriptions, it gradually increased after that and now it's up to about $700 a month.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 23, 2022, 10:36 »
All you need is a single 28 sale to earn more than what you get for 3 years in the free collection.
And we will sell it for $28, and we will get $8 for participation in the program. One does not interfere. Plus advertising portfolio.

What are you talking about? Once you lock your clips in the free section, you cannot sell it for $28 anymore for at least 1 year.

There is no evidence that enabling free assets results in more sales of your regular portfolio. MAYBE some customers purchase other clips, but not necessarily from YOUR portfolio. So the only real winner here is Adobe, not the individual artist.
"Can Adobe offer Free collection content in paid offerings?
Yes - content in the free collection can be offered by Adobe to customers for free or for a fee (e.g., as part of a subscription or enterprise contract). "

In any case, it means that I will sell this video on other stocks. This video hasn't been sold on adobe for a year, do you understand that?
As for advertising my portfolio, I don't mind if buyers go into my portfolio and see what I have there. Let them go more into my portfolio than into the portfolio of those who do not participate in this program.  8)

You really need to read things through thoroughly... i.e. you might want to read the section directly after that!

"You will receive an upfront payment within 30 days after the start of each 12-month period where your content is in the free collection. Content in the free collection will not receive any additional royalties beyond the upfront payment".

i.e. it may be offered by Adobe to customers for free or for a fee, but you're not getting any of that fee!


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iStockPhoto.com / Re: September sales statement in
« on: October 20, 2022, 03:47 »
Best September ever on iStock, but September is usually a slow month for me for some reason, so still less than half of my BME. Still, can't complain.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 14, 2022, 05:37 »
The math here is simple. The more videos that are initially nominated, the more videos will be included in the free collection and the more money will be transferred to you.

The math here is that this is an initiative by a publicly traded company which you can guarantee will have a set budget, which will result in a set number of selections for the free collection. If 100% of people nominate 100% of their eligible clips, then I'll put good money on Adobe not select all of those clips. Sure, if a total of only 1% of eligible clips are nominated then that changing to 2% will mean more clips in the free collection... but a change from 99% to 100% isn't going to increase anything. And while the more videos that are selected, the more money will be transferred to you, that's based on them all being selected which they probably won't be... nominating more doesn't automatically mean more money.
I'll make it easy to understand. You have 20 videos nominated. I've had over 200 nominations. Let's see now who gets the most money from this.

I have 32 eligible videos, I have zero videos nominated currently... I'm still deciding. I think you're missing the point... obviously you stand to make more money all things being equal. That could be because you just have more videos that have never sold, but it's purely a numbers game... you have a lot more videos than me so it stands to reason that you'd have more eligible files. My point is that you're highly unlikely to make $1600 unless they adjust the eligibility of files... i.e. not every video that is nominated is going to be selected. 

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 13, 2022, 18:49 »
The math here is simple. The more videos that are initially nominated, the more videos will be included in the free collection and the more money will be transferred to you.

The math here is that this is an initiative by a publicly traded company which you can guarantee will have a set budget, which will result in a set number of selections for the free collection. If 100% of people nominate 100% of their eligible clips, then I'll put good money on Adobe not select all of those clips. Sure, if a total of only 1% of eligible clips are nominated then that changing to 2% will mean more clips in the free collection... but a change from 99% to 100% isn't going to increase anything. And while the more videos that are selected, the more money will be transferred to you, that's based on them all being selected which they probably won't be... nominating more doesn't automatically mean more money. 

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 12, 2022, 12:18 »
They are selecting more videos, it's just those videos are from other people. If they select every video of yours then they have to select every video of everyone else .. and then there won't any paid videos on the site. Everything is free!

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Free Collection: Video Nominations
« on: October 12, 2022, 02:47 »
I didn't get an email either. There's a notification on my dashboard, but I never go on my dashboard normally, so wouldn't have known about it If I hadn't seen this thread. I have 32 eligible videos, two have 2 downloads, four have 0 downloads and the rest all have 1 download, so not quite sure what's going on there.

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...they stopped the policy change.

Cathyslife will be breathing a sigh of relief!

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Canva / Re: Canva 1.9% commission?
« on: October 09, 2022, 14:46 »
Is it maybe a bit like Pond 5 where they show the price, what the buyer paid, and what you earned... but they just don't have a column showing the 'what the buyer paid' part? I.e you might have got quite a bit more than 1.9%, but only as a result of the buyer paying quite a bit less than $60. That might not be it all all, just considering possibilities. 

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: October 07, 2022, 21:47 »
...at this rate I won't make $100 minimum payout for the first time in 7 years.

Change it to $35!

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General Stock Discussion / Re: How much do models pay?
« on: September 18, 2022, 05:24 »
If we take the US as an example... 'ordinary people', on average, make about $25 an hour. If you pay them $10 to $15 then that's either minimum wage, slightly more than minimum wage or less than minimum wage... depending on the State. So yeah, depends on the country, but if it's the US or a good portion of Europe etc... $25 an hour is not very, very much.

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By 1997, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a staggering 9 out of 10 American households owned a microwave oven.

Well you lot have got to boil your water somehow!  ;D

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