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« on: December 20, 2019, 09:46 »
I wouldn't be surprised if payments are also delayed.
And calculated wrong.
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« on: December 19, 2019, 19:29 »
Is anyone else getting the "unexpected error" instead of the message about importing?
I'm getting them alternating.
Oh the fun!!!
(Couldnae run a menage)
Magical Christmas spirit is here, brought to us by Getty / Istock.
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« on: December 19, 2019, 19:18 »
Is anyone else getting the "unexpected error" instead of the message about importing?
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« on: December 19, 2019, 17:35 »
Good timing in the year for such a screw-up. We all feel more Christmasy now.
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« on: December 15, 2019, 11:01 »
Sometimes it's also a matter of sheer luck, of being at the right time, at the right place, with a unique, quality product or concept that people didn't know they needed. Or having the right connections in your network to spread the word quickly among the big names out there.
Most people don't have access to that, so most of their ideas or products will fade into obscurity.
Knowing the right people makes the huge difference. And if you don't know them, I guess it's very difficult to connect with them. If you are someone completely anonymous, I guess connecting with some of those people would require that you pay them for their favors / services, because otherwise they will just ignore you. Hopefully that's not the only option available, because it seems very difficult and too expensive.
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« on: December 15, 2019, 08:12 »
This subject relates not only to selling stock direct or making a new successful stock site, but also to succeeding with any king of content - site, blog, forum, video, etc, with which people can try to make money on the internet.
1st basic generic crap I see on the internet is "content is the king - just have the good content and the money will come (automatically)". Wrong. Even the best content in 99% will not do anything alone because it will mainly stay invisible. So how to make your content visible and how to attract people / buyers to it?
2nd generic crap I see repeating all over the internet is "share your content and write about it on the social media, that is so awesome strategy and it so works". Wrong again. People on the social media couldn't care less about what you are doing (unless maybe if we talk about the closest circle of people). People are inert. People don't want to spend time, energy or money on something which is not already established. So how in this circumstances to get people really interested and invested in your non-established name and content? How to become established?
little more "advanced" and insightful, but still crap advice I see on the internet is to invest into paid ads on google and facebook. Still wrong. Many people who tried this reported that it doesn't work, and why would be when vast majority of people don't like seeing ads, some of us use ad-blockers, and there is still a story about really reaching out to people and gaining their trust - seeing your spamming ad obviously won't achieve this.
We all (should) know that the difference between successful and the rest on the internet is proper marketing. It's also familiar that successful people usually don't share their secrets. But 1. someone at least moderately successful will maybe decide to share something useful, and 2. the rest of us together can try to figure at least something out.
So the question is - what are the real working secrets of marketing your content? Instead of wasting our time on usual generic crap advices, what are we really supposed to do in order to succeed?
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« on: November 14, 2019, 07:47 »
It will arrive but text here: 'We have some exciting updates coming up for our Shutterstock contributors. These will help our customers get to know you a bit more and enable you to better showcase your great work!
We cant share any details beyond that (for now) but we highly recommend you take another look at your Shutterstock Portfolio page.
Make sure you have an updated (larger) profile photo, add your website plus any social media handles, and tell us more about yourself by updating your tagline and creating a bio. You also might want to get your image and footage sets tidied up - especially the footage ones *hint hint*.
Go give your portfolio page some TLC and stay tuned for some exciting updates coming your way!'
I find this news E X C I T I N G
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« on: October 14, 2019, 14:46 »
Some posts about reviewers don't having time and training do have a point, but 1 second and a common sense is enough to see when images are not even close to being too similar.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 12:47 »
Seems like SS tracks their users on their site. Hopefully they'll stay away from tracking their users elsewhere.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 11:15 »
since the similar policies i have probably 0,5% rejected for being similar..maybe you should review better your content.
Then I guess maybe other agencies who accept and buyers who buy that "similar" content should review their needs better.
this has nothing to do with similar content...
If all other agencies accept something but SS doesn't, than SS (reviewers) definitely took it too far. "Similar" is a relative term which should be adjusted according to the needs of buyers which SS clearly didn't do. And no, my content isn't even close of being "too similar".
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« on: October 14, 2019, 10:48 »
since the similar policies i have probably 0,5% rejected for being similar..maybe you should review better your content.
Then I guess maybe other agencies who accept and buyers who buy that "similar" content should review their needs better.
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« on: October 14, 2019, 09:57 »
Pard my French, but I just have to let it out.
They reject left and right even images with good selling potential for being "similar", and when something gets rejected, there is no use to resubmit because 100% of rejected images just keep getting rejected for the same reason.
I don't think this is that much due to SS's policy itself, I think it's more about incompetent reviewers. They are not just incompetent, they are f*cking idiots.
I feel better now, but these idiots will remain being idiots and they'll just keep rejecting left and right without using their brain even a little.
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« on: August 20, 2019, 04:34 »
SS is pretty much every month my best earner by far. Every August on SS was pretty solid for me.
This month so far SS is barely my 2nd earner, probably 3rd (depending on how is my August on IS).
I guess this month is my turn to get bamboozled by SS's algorithm.
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« on: May 30, 2019, 11:02 »
Saturation 10% - that really made me laugh.
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« on: May 13, 2019, 13:00 »
The thing is whether or not will poster frame be used as the thumbnail is up to each individual program. For example, poster frame is the thumbnail in Adobe Bridge, but it isn't in Windows.
If you ask me, everything should just use the poster frame instead of making it's own interpretation. That would be better for everyone.
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« on: May 13, 2019, 10:05 »
Instead of giving us limited options and forcing us to select thumbnail manually on each site, or not giving us an option at all, every agency should recognize the poster time / frame and set it as the thumbnail on their sites automatically. This would make it easier for both sides and it would potentially increase sales (we all know how much the adequate thumbnail means for a video).
For anybody who doesn't know, you can set the poster frame / time in After Effects (composition > set poster time) and in Quicktime pro (view > set poster frame).
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« on: May 12, 2019, 04:01 »
Dear contributors,
We have some exiting news to share with you.
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This is a new opportunity to increase your earnings! Your work will be competing with work from numerous of partner sites! Your royalties will be 1% of each subscription sale, and most of the money will be invested into marketing which will get you even more sales! (we promise). Isn't that exciting!? Stats will get reported on 25th of the each following month. And if you are good enough to be accepted to our premium collection, your work will be a part of our unlimited downloads for $1.99 program and you will have to group your work into collections and do appropriate descriptions, instructions and promo videos to maximize sales. All the stats for individual files will be hidden for the greater good. This is simply the next level earning machine. And yes, this program includes videos too!
We take a great care of contributors and their families, and we listen to their suggestions and feedback closely! (we promise we won't do anything stupid)
Do you have what it takes to be a part of Exciting Stock? Join us now and look your earnings go sky high!
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« on: May 04, 2019, 03:03 »
Those technical stuff like building a website and seo are not too hard, especially if you have money to invest in good hosting, maybe hire some web developers, etc.
The real tricky part is marketing (getting buyers) - facebook ads and stuff like that ain't gonna cut it. Being active on social media as many "experts" advice is laughable. If marketing isn't so tricky, there would be much more people successfully living from their own shops and probably not dealing with agencies. Instead of that, people are lucky if they earn from their shops enough to pay hosting and domain.
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« on: May 02, 2019, 09:31 »
So Canva is reducing itself to cheating on buyers or lying to us about it, and blackmailing contributors? Nice going Canva. You are ruining everything you've build and worked for in the past years. Unless somebody is pointing gun to your head and forcing you to shoot us and yourself in the foot, there are no excuses for all of your "decisions" - they are both stupid and unethical.
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« on: May 01, 2019, 02:41 »
I decided to try out Quicktime pro (again), and it actually can do the job. To make the frame accurate selection, you have to select the time bar and use arrow keys. And then edit > trim to selection. And then just save as.
iFFmpeg does this as well. It has a passthrough mode and simply use the trim filter. You can enter the start and start frames quite easily. However what I don't understand is how you would know in this case or with QT that they aren't re-encoding.
Re-encoding requires time, this in QT doesn't - it's instantaneous.
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« on: April 30, 2019, 13:43 »
I decided to try out Quicktime pro (again), and it actually can do the job. To make the frame accurate selection, you have to select the time bar and use arrow keys. And then edit > trim to selection. And then just save as.
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« on: April 30, 2019, 11:06 »
Is there any video cutter / splitter which can open HD and 4k MOV photojpeg files, which can save parts of the video without re-encoding, and which is frame accurate?
Smart Cutter doesn't work with these files.
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« on: April 28, 2019, 20:46 »
Agencies sure like the word "exciting". Like they all went to the same "how to convince contributors into anything" class.
Premium quality for cents are definitely one of those EXCITING news.
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« on: April 27, 2019, 06:32 »
This is maybe a noob question, but I want to be 100% sure.
I've seen some stock videos which look like they are using the real photos of nebulas or galaxies (not impossible these images are top quality illustrations, but I would say some of them are definitely photos). I know there is at least one site with the space photos available for commercial use, which should technically be safe to use, but on the other hand I thought that our motion graphics have to be 100% ours.
So can we safely use the space photos for our motion graphics or is it better to stay on the safe side and do everything from scratch?
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« on: April 26, 2019, 09:21 »
Canva is on the roll lately with "exciting news". I don't know if we can handle all that excitement.
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