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Messages - Mantis
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« on: March 05, 2023, 13:58 »
123 is dead. Useless agency.
52
« on: March 05, 2023, 06:39 »
Well it's not working for me. I uploaded 10 images this morning and only 6 submitted. One wouldn't let me add missing categories, so I deleted it and tried again - same problem. The remaining 3 are in a loop of saying they've been submitted, but then turning up again as unsubmitted, and I've tried 3 times over. I've even deleted them and uploaded them again - same problem.
YES. And your post was 2-3 weeks ago and DT still hasn't fixed the issue.
53
« on: March 05, 2023, 06:38 »
This upload process is a disaster. I just did a simple 20 image upload. Half the images their system didn't pull in the metadata. Some where it did pull in the metadata won't accept a submit unless All of the "sell rights", "Web Use" etc are checked. I submitted four images with these checked and it accepted them. Those where I unchecked will not submit.
What a monstrosity. Don't really understand the need to change it when there seems to be no need.
54
« on: February 22, 2023, 17:22 »
very low, worst month in years
Same here. In fact 1/2 of the same month last year.
55
« on: February 03, 2023, 19:35 »
I emailed them and got this response:
"We are aware of the issue with the 1099s.
An unfortunate error occurred with the file and we are working quickly to get this corrected and new 1099s sent out."
56
« on: January 24, 2023, 12:21 »
New thief (about 2k photos, food, agrarian, backgrounds) on Freepik:
https://www.freepik.com/author/arfo8
About 1k my images. There must be another one infringed author if to judge by style.
Thief is gone. RIP.
For now.
57
« on: January 19, 2023, 11:21 »
Garbage.
58
« on: January 19, 2023, 10:00 »
I have about 4,000 images there and 1200 videos. I make $5-$15 a month. Honestly, I don't know how they stay in business. Then again, Canstock is a dead site as well. I am at $73 for 2022 with them. In the end, we can't expect 123 to perform like the giants (Adobe, SS, Getty), but we should be making something reasonable. But if everyone's sales are so anorexic I can't see how they stay in business. I predicted that they would go out of biz last year but that didn't happen. This month, January, I am at $3.25 cents for the month. I don't really pay much attention to 123 anymore. If you want to be productive across MS sites, you need to downsize images to 30 or below MB. 123 caps uploads at that per image. Even some of my downsized images are bigger than 30 MB. So I just upload and whatever goes through goes through. I don't resize those images that don't go through and resubmit. FK that. 15 years ago I might have, but today, not worth it as sales are non-existent for me.
59
« on: January 19, 2023, 08:03 »
Pond has been selling better since joining Shutterstock.
I haven't seen one ounce of improvement. The only thing I've seen at Pond 5 is about 50% of my sales for a few dollars.
60
« on: January 15, 2023, 12:59 »
Toothless.
You say toothless, I say criminal and crooked.
THIS^^
61
« on: January 11, 2023, 08:07 »
I just had another distributor sale for $23. I am opted out of distributor sales. So whatever they claim is fixed is not fixed.
I just received this from Alamy.
"Ive had a look in your account and can see the distribution sale and that you are indeed opted out of Distribution. I have asked our distribution team to make sure this does not happen again. Please accept our apologies."
That's it. An apology, just like the China sales, yet their opt out system still doesn't work. Alamy will hide behind an apology stating it won't happen again yet they aren't doing jack s-h-i-t to actually fix the problem.
I just emailed them back and asked for the distributor commission be added to my account. I'm sure they won't do that but....
62
« on: January 09, 2023, 11:46 »
This stuff is so rampant. People making money off the backs of good, solid artists. Pisses me off.
63
« on: January 05, 2023, 12:28 »
Mantis, I'm not interested in regular sales at fixed prices, but subscription sales or unlimited subscription.
More details here
https://www.motionelements.com/subscribe
You go right ahead.
64
« on: January 05, 2023, 09:19 »
I pulled all 2,000 of my videos. Only had 3-5 sales a year and their upload system is/was horrible. Was not worth it for me. Technical team was always in denial of upload issues so it was difficult to even get new content uploaded. Also, I haven't checked their terms lately but it was something like for every video sold it had to remain in the collection for 3 more years after that sale. In that case I just went in and removed all keywords of the sold videos and then put in one meaningless keyword like angolob, which is bologna spelled backwards. Done with that c-r-a-p-p-y place.
65
« on: January 03, 2023, 09:32 »
On my dashboard is shows that I am having fees removed from each sale (like normal). I just received a response from their contributor team that this is in error due to technical issues. It is supposed to be a top up but their system still took commissions. They said that was in error and will get back to me. Geeze.
66
« on: January 02, 2023, 18:01 »
I wouldn't be happy to be dropping in someone else's skies. Most sites require you to own the copyright to all elements you use.
Drop in your own!
Correct. I keep a folder of my own skies and cloudscapes and, in some cases I use them. Just depends. But I use my own is the point.
67
« on: December 29, 2022, 09:16 »
Mine came with a "Top-up amount for Jun-Aug sale." for whatever that's worth.
Strange. Mine all had commissions taken out. Now, that being said, if these are how you claim, I will breathe a sigh of relief that the technical issue is resolved. But we were supposed to get 100% commission. I didn't. Thanks for the intel.
68
« on: December 29, 2022, 09:12 »
I had 57 downloads for pennies. They all have commissions removed so these are new, not the original garbage from 4-5 months ago. I guess their "technical" problem is either not fixed on purpose or the I.T. employee needs to be fired. I emailed Alamy but they aren't back in office until Jan 4th. Will be interesting to see how they spin this mess.
69
« on: December 29, 2022, 08:57 »
I just checked my account and had 57 downloads overnight. Most for 2 to 10 cent royalties. I did receive an email stating that I'd be paid "in full" for the last debacle where I opted out of all special sales. This is either another "glitch" or they are giving me the whole amount as a follow up to the last ripoff. The whole amount is, again, peanuts if this is indeed what the downloads are.
Otherwise, check your account. We may have another technical issue on our hands.
70
« on: December 24, 2022, 17:00 »
Y'all will have another good SS experience in a week or so 
71
« on: December 16, 2022, 20:01 »
Wishing you a lovely rest of your day and with warm regards,
Man, that makes all my work worth it.
Hahaha, indeed.
72
« on: December 15, 2022, 16:49 »
Well, some good news, I guess. I wrote to SS and asked about opting out of the CF. A little fluffy in her response but here it is.
"Thanks for reaching out to Shutterstock Contributor Care.
We sincerely appreciate your business trajectory since 2007 with us and with great pleasure would be attending to all of your inquiries and request.
Allow me to start by thanking you for having brought this to our attention; I realize the importance of this matter for you. I have reached out to our Higher Office in regard to your request, and they have confirmed that, in the coming weeks, our Tech Team will introduce a way for all contributors to opt out of having their content included in datasets. Until then, your patience is much appreciated.
If there's anything else you need from us or if you have any additional concerns regarding this, please let me know; It's always a pleasure to assist you.
Wishing you a lovely rest of your day and with warm regards,
Daniela
Shutterstock Contributor Care Team"
73
« on: December 15, 2022, 08:09 »
You have to scroll to the right. It's hacked off on all my devices, requiring you to scroll to see it.
74
« on: December 14, 2022, 09:36 »
And I'm sure they don't offer an opt out
75
« on: December 09, 2022, 08:36 »
Pond 5 Exclusive ...really exclusive sale  for time lapse priced HD $79 sold for $1.68
Is unfortunately normal now with P5. Have also almost only such low sales. Market place and GPP, both.
I have had higher RPD on my non-exclusive P5 account than on my exclusive account for the last 3 months.
You used to be able to disable these cheap sales, you can't do that anymore.
There are more reports about this in the P5 subforum.
Yup. I had four video sales yesterday that netted me $2.56 each. And this is before Shutterstock forces other changes that net us much less with the promise of much more. And the only reason "this is what the customers want" is because the agencies have allowed it.
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