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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: lor4nt on May 03, 2017, 03:03
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How many times in a week do you guys upload to SS?
How consistent do you need to be?
After a shoot is it better to upload everything in one go or spreading the clips throughout the month?
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Well in order to stay on top yes I would probably say once a week the least! thats why I quit uploading three months back dont have the time for it nor the patience.
What happens is that the few that sell immediately from an upload are pushed forward and the ones that dont sell are gone. I personally have never noticed a drop in earnings from not uploading but many say they have.
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For me it can be one or two dozen in a month and then nothing for a few of months. I should be more consistent, and do more work, but I'm just too lazy.
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I try and do twenty a week sometimes more (photos). Whether it makes any difference I couldn't honestly say. But it kind of spreads the risk/reward of being buried or submitting on a favorable date. But mainly it keeps me sane by not working 25 hours a day for peanuts.
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Mine used to be very consistent, weekly in fact. But since agencies keep screwing with our content, have horrible inspections (weed collection, for example), allow keyword spamming, reducing the value of our work and, overall, making it next to impossible to give a hoot anymore, I upload when I want and I don't do studio commercial shooting anymore. I just shoot pretty scenery and upload when I have a few minutes. Discipline doesn't really matter anymore.
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Around 100 images per month but it's pointless nothing sells on SS anymore just old stuff
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Usually I shoot over the weekends and then slowly pp and upload during week days, or if I don't shoot I unload something from pre-stock archive or revisit previous shoots for anything useful, but I'm very not regular due to dayjob and other projects. I'm constantly procrastinating starting a plan to upload a daily self set quota.
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I used to upload Pictures almost every day. Like 1000 per year.
Not so anymore.
it simply doesnt pay, I am better off growing cellery in my back garden.
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This thread reads like my own experience. I used to upload around 20-25 images per week consistently. Then hit the wall and started uploading a couple dozen once a month. Income continued to drop like a hot rock.
Now my income has steadied to a slow decline. My uploads are the most consistent they've ever been. I religiously upload the same number of files daily....0. It's the most fun ive had doing stock in years. ;)
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I used to upload however many pics I had ready (none to 20 plus a week) to SS to have them accepted Sun night / Monday morning. Of course that timing didn't always work out. Now I still try to do that but with less success and care - more like Mantis - I upload the pics I want to when I feel like it. I don't think this helps my income any, but the big drop was while I was still uploading. From time to time I get inspired to do more work, and sometimes I am busy with other stuff and ignore stock (at least the processing and uploading) for months on end. (this is 99% photos). As far as I can tell the number and timing of uploads only has a vague and long term effect on my sales. (unlike years ago when uploading a batch of images would result in an immediate bump of sales of those images and perhaps older ones too).
The timing on SS has been weird lately - uploaded Sat evening - accepted in minutes. Uploaded Sun Morning - partly accepted Thursday afternoon. So much for that batch.
Perhaps I should try the PixelBytes strategy.
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I use to upload 7-10 every week but then things just got so bad. I'm lucky to upload 5 a month ...
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Zero times a week. I stopped uploading when I stopped seeing results.