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Ron

« Reply #75 on: January 11, 2014, 07:14 »
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Good luck Sean, I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised at your returns on SS with the rep you have and your port. I'm only a small fish but compared to what IS does and is doing, real professionalism is plain to see. Enjoy your success. SS is really not a bad company.
7 year old images also show 7 year old clothing, hairstyles and interiors. Lifestyle is the toughest category, and Seans 7 year old images will be competing against new fresh up to date content, and millions of it. Its not going to be an easy ride, but I am sure with more and new content he will make a decent return.

A lot of it is more concept then lifestyle, which should help.  The really dated stuff, I'm avoiding.


  Good thing monkey business did not take this advice.  Most of the images theyt put on istock were taken with an outdated camera and lifestyle shots of 7 years old or more.  It did not seem to hurt their sales.  Generic clothing and looks don't change much even after ten years.  I have a photo from  1997 of me with friends that looks like it could have been from 2 years ago.  Only change is every one would look older now.

Same with the getty junk they sold as agency on IS.  That stuff was from the 1990s.  No one seem to notice.  The only dated item was the file size.
No one gave any advice not to upload older images.


« Reply #76 on: January 11, 2014, 08:08 »
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Just wanted to say that I agree that dreamstime is a very interesting and friendly site as well. Since istock removed the artist page and our blogs, Dreamstime has been sending out some very charming newsletter highlighting individual blogs and I think they even ran a small competition? They are certainly encouraging the artists to use their pages for self marketing, so i am not surprised that their revenue is rising.

Happy artists that feel comfortable in their community and forum and enthusiastically support a site can have a good influence. It creates the warm fuzzy background chit chatter that the real marketing of the salesteam can build on.


« Reply #77 on: January 11, 2014, 08:37 »
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Is there no way to get a list of downloads sorted by "last download"?

« Reply #78 on: January 11, 2014, 08:49 »
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I don't think so, though they seem to appear in order as they flash up on the map of the world

« Reply #79 on: January 11, 2014, 08:52 »
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Is there no way to get a list of downloads sorted by "last download"?

Not as far as I'm aware of. Just the daily sales sorted by age. The map is the only thing that allows you to see the last 10 downloads as and where they happened.

« Reply #80 on: January 11, 2014, 09:05 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.

« Reply #81 on: January 15, 2014, 16:08 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .

Ron

« Reply #82 on: January 15, 2014, 16:11 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .
http://submit.shutterstock.com/darkroom/gallery.mhtml

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #83 on: January 15, 2014, 16:13 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .


What does 'couple' refer to? (Some American sports reference, I'm guessing)

« Reply #84 on: January 15, 2014, 16:14 »
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You get to that list Ron linked to from the submitter interface Insights -> Image Gallery Stats. Unfortunately only some columns are sortable - number of downloads or date uploaded

« Reply #85 on: January 15, 2014, 16:17 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .


What does 'couple' refer to? (Some American sports reference, I'm guessing)


That's just my way of indicating an image is a part of a series - the rest with him is him and a "girlfriend".

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #86 on: January 15, 2014, 16:17 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .


What does 'couple' refer to? (Some American sports reference, I'm guessing)


That's just my way of indicating an image is a part of a series - the rest with him is him and a "girlfriend".

Ah. OK.

« Reply #87 on: January 15, 2014, 16:48 »
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Just wanted to say that I agree that dreamstime is a very interesting and friendly site as well. Since istock removed the artist page and our blogs, Dreamstime has been sending out some very charming newsletter highlighting individual blogs and I think they even ran a small competition? They are certainly encouraging the artists to use their pages for self marketing, so i am not surprised that their revenue is rising.

I agree with Cobalt. Definitely give your work to Dreamstime. Your portfolio would fit in very well, and probably fill a few gaps for them.

« Reply #88 on: January 15, 2014, 16:51 »
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For every month stockperformer shows you the uploads to any agency for that month. And if you have downloads, you will see them next to the files.

It doesnt work exactly like the lists on istock, but it is the same for all agencies, so you can go and look at your monthly uploads and results quite easily.

You can ask them any question you have, they will reply really fast.

It is worth trying them.

« Reply #89 on: January 21, 2014, 17:35 »
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Well, it took me 12 days, but I broke $100.  Reminds me of iStock in 2005. :)  Just Fyi...

« Reply #90 on: January 21, 2014, 17:40 »
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This will probably be one of my favourite Popcorn threads ;)

Yuri was known to have 3-4000 downloads a day Sean...we have great expectations!!

Looking forward to your first 1000 Dollars...

« Reply #91 on: January 21, 2014, 17:40 »
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This will probably be one of my favourite Popcorn threads ;)

Yuri was known to have 3-4000 downloads a day Sean...we have great expectations!!

Looking forward to your first 1000 Dollars...

I don't think I'm professional enough to break that.


« Reply #92 on: January 21, 2014, 17:41 »
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LOL!  ;D

Ron

« Reply #93 on: January 21, 2014, 17:45 »
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Well, it took me 12 days, but I broke $100.  Reminds me of iStock in 2005. :)  Just Fyi...
Thats sick. Man. Took me 3 months. Shows that good stock still sells. You'll hit 33 cent within the next 4 weeks and then things accelerate. 

« Reply #94 on: January 21, 2014, 17:56 »
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But at iStock in 2005 there was no option for a single sale that would net you $114 in royalties (that's the largest single SOD sale I've had so far at SS). Just sayin' :)

Shelma1

  • stockcoalition.org
« Reply #95 on: January 21, 2014, 18:55 »
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I hope there are a lot more of those in our future. I had a $70 one yesterday. :)

BD

« Reply #96 on: January 21, 2014, 21:18 »
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stock performer is your friend Sean. I wouldt know what to do without them.

The stats on SS are useless with the exception of the world map, but that just shows you the last 10 files, so you dont get country specific data you can analyse for targeting your shootings. It is more of a gimmick, but a lot of fun.


Does SP show you a "last upload" list?

Is there any way to see the keywords used on the site, or do you have to use the mobile app.

Thought this was interesting.  Uploaded this on early this morning, got approved in a batch, and sold already. It's from way back in '06. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171415634 .


What does 'couple' refer to? (Some American sports reference, I'm guessing)


That's just my way of indicating an image is a part of a series - the rest with him is him and a "girlfriend".

Ah. OK.


You might consider adding the keyword American to your football images as people outside the U.S. call it American Football. This is just a suggestion based on personal experience. You are always helping other people on this forum (:

« Reply #97 on: January 21, 2014, 22:42 »
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You might consider adding the keyword American to your football images as people outside the U.S. call it American Football. This is just a suggestion based on personal experience. You are always helping other people on this forum (:

I think I have added that in the past.  I'll check it.  thx!

« Reply #98 on: January 21, 2014, 23:19 »
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Best of luck Sean!


stock-will-eat-itself

« Reply #99 on: January 22, 2014, 09:39 »
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Well, it took me 12 days, but I broke $100.  Reminds me of iStock in 2005. :)  Just Fyi...
Thats sick. Man. Took me 3 months. Shows that good stock still sells. You'll hit 33 cent within the next 4 weeks and then things accelerate.

You're right it is sick, SS dragging everyone back to 2005 iS income levels.
If they could bring it back to iS 2010 exclusive levels I'd be impressed but SS have f$%^&ed any chance of that ever happening again.


 

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