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Messages - MircoV
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« on: February 15, 2018, 02:41 »
I never understood why somebody would search on alamy first to afterwards buy the license on microstock. I think they would search directly on microstock and skip the alamy part.
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« on: February 06, 2018, 16:08 »
Hello fellows,
Yesterday I left the gate open and my hairy cow escaped into the bushes.
Somebody saw it?
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« on: January 31, 2018, 07:59 »
And in fact, on some of the micros, buying a single image can be pretty expensive.
FWIW, I've seen at least a couple of magazines and editorial publishers who seem to buy mainly from SS and Alamy. I'm guessing (pure speculation) that they buy most from SS to keep end price down (which as a consumer I have to appreciate), but buy from Alamy when they can't get what they want at SS. And maybe use specialist agencies occasionally where even Alamy fails.
The Shutterstock images being finable on magazines and other publications i can confirm.They seem to get deeper into the editorial market besides commercial. Mirco
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« on: January 31, 2018, 06:36 »
Yes. But the reward in this time we wait for will be most of the time much lower then the total of sales already made on microstock. It is again the 200x1 or 1x100 thing(when lucky).
You will not favour yourself by ignoring it. Take a well know microstock agency. 10 years ago they paid 3 million per year to.contributors. Now in 2017 they paid in 12 months time 115 million to contributors. Only in this 12 months. 1 agency. This says allready a lot where the money is.
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« on: January 31, 2018, 05:58 »
You can simply forget that contributors will all stop at once supporting Microstock. Top contributors only on Shutterstock are making good money on there and i can not believe that they will just cancel this.
I never will understand the statement of "making pennies". Are people really seing at the end of the month a balance of few pennies on SS or maybe 400 dollars. The amount that is paid to the bank is important. A stock agency can make a payout of 115 million per year to contributors. I dont care if it contains millions of 50 cent sales of thousands of 500+ sales.
People support the agencies that gives the best monthly income and not per sale. Should i choose an traditional agency because it gives me 2 sales totaling 200 dollars or microstock that gives me 1000 sales for 500 dollars.
Its to late for changes and we life only one time to wait for a miracle.
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« on: January 31, 2018, 03:00 »
I dont know anybody there. But again I would use to time, in the case you are not, to register with Alamy. They listen and help.
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« on: January 29, 2018, 14:11 »
But they have the most easiest system. Images only needs keywords and title. Upload them and they are directly on sale.
True. But how much exposure do they get if the keywords aren't prioritised and if you don't fill in the optional details? If failing to prioritise your top 10 keywords pushes your image behind all the prioritised ones, then your chances of getting a sale will be greatly diminished.
If a file doesn't make the first five or six pages for a given search it is pretty much dead.
At the moment, I'm not sure that doing that makes all that much difference.
I'm going through my back catalogue (am at Aug 2011 now), I guess I should test to see if their system is working yet.
Yes, but uploading is not much extra effort. It is just uploading. So still worth it.
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« on: January 29, 2018, 13:04 »
If you upload the same images to Alamy and to cheap sites, people buy them on the cheap sites. Alamy can work for you if you upload your premium stuff there and only there.
I disagree with this in general. I have quite an overlap of images that are both on macrostock and microstock and they sell in both worlds.
This way the customer gets all his files from one source with the exact same license and especially buyers with bigger budgets are not going to hunt it all down with the various exclusive licenses to make sure all files have the same rights.
Plus the macros offer editor services, so you dont even have to spend so much time looking for files, they do it for you.
I wish Alamy all the best, if they give me a sensible and simple upload system I will upload directly again.
But between low sales and the complicated uploads I very discouraged. But some of my images go there via partner portals, that is a lot easier for me.
But they have the most easiest system. Images only needs keywords and title. Upload them and they are directly on sale.
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« on: January 29, 2018, 06:07 »
If you upload the same images to Alamy and to cheap sites, people buy them on the cheap sites. Alamy can work for you if you upload your premium stuff there and only there.
You should not be so sure about this. For every image you can find a microstock version even if they are not completely similar. Also for a buyer there is no guarantee that a Alamy image will be not added later to microstock. I made some high value sales on Alamy of images being in microstock. I think if someone needs a cheap image they go directly to microstock. Why search in Alamy and buy on micros instead of searching directly on micros. All those point let me think that Alamy buyers buy on Alamy for the largest part. Mirco
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« on: January 12, 2018, 01:13 »
by paying SS contributors 0.25c per download and turning a once very sustainable industry upside down. he could not have done it without the support of people willing to undersell their own worth.
Let me turn this around. 
He is a visionary entrepreneur, a Clair Voyant! He, he! 
He enabled a multitude of talented people to tap into a market and a revenue stream they would have never been able to access otherwise. I'm one of them and I'm very grateful to people like Oringer, for the extra, unexpected 6 digits bonus I was able to earn during the last 4-5 years.
He deserves to be rewarded for his courage to innovate and revolutionize a market, to take risks very few dared to take.
Best answer here by far. Mirco
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« on: January 12, 2018, 01:10 »
Recently SS earned a milestone of $500 million in total payouts for thousands of contributors which means we are happy with penny earn.
Exactly. And 500 million is not really pennies. If you have a total earning of 15k then it is 15k earning. You can also have few macro sales for 1k. What is better? I prefer 15k.
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« on: January 12, 2018, 01:02 »
Wrongly posted
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« on: October 05, 2017, 01:22 »
Hi all,
Sine short time I am also.using capture one pro for sony. As a Sony user I only paid 50 USD for the pro version. However it makes only sense if you only use sony. Other cameras you can not attach within.this version. But great opportunity for Sony users.
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« on: July 20, 2017, 12:53 »
My wifes mother makes the best bigos. If i take a photo of them we will have a new leade
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« on: April 19, 2017, 07:31 »
To answer the question. YES.... totally worth it. Large part of my sales are coming from editorial photos (not news related).
Mirco
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« on: February 10, 2017, 05:01 »
1. Shutterstock (by far)
2. Alamy
3. Istock
4. Fotolia
5. 123RF
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« on: February 06, 2017, 15:09 »
No it is not right. It are not all customers of Alamy. In the search statistic are only a handful customers of Alamy included. It is not all Alamy. So no worries. Alamy pays to contributors yearly around 12 millions.
Mirco
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« on: February 06, 2017, 11:34 »
Actually i agree with the poster. I am not anonymous and i fund it also a pitty that it is only about how bad the business is. The forum used to be full of tips and information. Now the most popular sentence is race to the bottom. I think such things doesnt belong here and also it will not solve anything. I make a choice ...submit and do the best out of it or find other ways to make income from photography.
Anyway i dont think that anything is dying. Agencies are making more revenue than ever. So contributors should also. The thing is only there where years ago 5.000 contributors. Now it is 200.000. Free market. Nobody has a golden ticket to keep all the revenue. Everyone has the right to take his part.
Mirco
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« on: December 07, 2016, 13:25 »
First of all.... i know the thread is old but somebody brought it alive..... anyway the fact that somebody opens such a thread with such title is a joke for me. Just because somebody dont manage to make sales doest mean it counts for others. Also Alamy is not microstock.... most biger earners are not voting here. People that vote here are microstockers that put the same images on Alamy. Out of the give up after two months because they dont understand the way Alamy works. This explains the rating on the right. About the rejections........ Alamy expects that you submit technically good photos. It is more unprofessional to submit unsharp photos then Alamy rejecting all batch. I never understand why somebody would send bad photos and expect that the agency has to filter them out. I got on Alamy around 24000 images and never got an rejection. Just dont send crap... what is not difficult at all  . Mirco
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« on: September 21, 2016, 11:07 »
I also think that editorial is a important thing. From all top sites adobe/fotolia is only one not offering it. There are lots of people designing editorial pages. Is there any editorial plan?
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« on: September 10, 2016, 11:57 »
Are we in the stock photography business or writing? If i have to write to sell more photos i would think...what am i doing?  Like go swimming to be able to dance??
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« on: September 09, 2016, 01:12 »
Five years from now.... it will be half a billion images or more...
Five years from now the company won't even exist. All internal problems, staff this and that bean-counters at the steering wheel coupled with mounting competition plus all external problems.
Who knows maybe if SS folded we would be back to square one and a much healthier stock climate?
I am sorry but what a bull%$^ you are saying. I am always surprised how much many people pretend to know....... The managing part SS will know far much better what to do then us. They are running the company for year..... we are the photographers. For sure we dont know better what to do. It is always easy to talk on the other side. I dont say it is true but i dont belief that SS will close any time soon and for sure not in 5 years. Just because you dont like that there is so many competition (best would be to have all agency for your own) doesnt mean that it is going bad with the company. Just to be short. SS is for everybody and everyone has right to submit their images. If you dont like that start your own website and sell them there. No competition on your site. 100 million is still far and far not much. There is so much to be covered in different ways and everything is needed. Especially in the editorial section is much work to do. The possibilities are endless. And also no need to say again where is the quality. What is quality. Your image need to be technically correct along with a good composition. Then most is sold. I said it already but when someone needs a pear photo for an fruit article he just needs a pear on the photo. Done. A HDR colorwonder of a hybrid pear on a futuristic table is not needed. Useful images are needed and not wall decorations. My last 20 sales are of subjects that are the most common things photographed on most simple way. To be short 100 million is nothing in this business. 100 million dollars in my pocket is a different thing.
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« on: September 07, 2016, 08:56 »
You need to be opted in for distribution. They have a large network of partners. You will get 30 percent. It is still higher percentage then you would get from many micros. Upload to Alamy and have your photos on many others on the same time. It is like a free distributor.
So Upload to Alamy and images will appear on:
1. Alamy itself.
2. On around 100 other agencies
3. Google search engine.
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« on: September 01, 2016, 01:12 »
First Alamy was lost in the top 4....now envato... Who starts the next trip to wonderland? Canstock or Vivozoom?
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« on: August 27, 2016, 13:24 »
Everyone will have different experience but in my case i make far more with SS on editorial then alamy
Maybe because i am not in the uk?
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