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Shutterstock has given up on reporting detailed collection size
ShadySue:
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--- Quote ---To be fair, TrustPilot is untrustworthy.
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it is not, because they remove fake reviews whenever detected, but you cannot stop them all. its one of the better review sites out there
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You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't think it's very trustworthy that I was invited to write a review just by googling TrustPilot Shutterstock. How would they have 'detected' that I had never been a buyer if I'd written one?
Les:
Fixation on the absolute number of images is the only thing SS can talk about. No doubt, the quantity will go up.
Quality is something entirely different, and that is being diminished by deactivation of successful images and by not adding new quality stuff. The library is being diluted by inferior and similar images. The shareholders can be fooled temporarily by the rising numbers, but many buyers will be turned off by the deluge of useless assets.
offisapup:
https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2020&no=848417
In this interview to a Korean news site 3 days ago, Stan says, "the company’s goal was to “have the biggest library in the world,”". I know corporate CEOs are the most notoriously unreliable when it comes to telling the truth but maybe Shutterstock is hiding numbers because their database hasn't been increasing at the rate they were hoping for.
Which probably means, at least some of the strategy to delete/deactivate ports appears to have worked.
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: offisapup on August 21, 2020, 13:01 ---https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2020&no=848417
In this interview to a Korean news site 3 days ago, Stan says, "the company’s goal was to “have the biggest library in the world,”". ...
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Thanks for posting the link to that. It's painful reading - so many bubbly words, but saying so little - but one thing caught my eye.
Pavlovsky mentioned Twitter releasing a subscription product, something I wasn't aware of. A Google search found me an article about what Twitter is thinking of (but hasn't yet implemented)
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/31/twitter-survey-reveals-the-subscription-options-its-eyeing-including-an-undo-send-option/
The idea that I'd pay extra to change some colors or have a badge to go with my profession seems mad. But then enthusiastic CEOs making a pitch for whatever initiative they're currently engaging it to woo the investment community often seem disconnected from reality.
I was also amused to see the comment about a grant program:
"We are launching a grant program, which is dedicated to support photographers artists videographers and musicians"
Seems to me, that supporting contributors might have been better done by skipping the June 1 royalty reductions...
Microstockphoto:
--- Quote from: ShadySue on August 20, 2020, 20:54 ---
--- Quote from: Microstockphoto on August 20, 2020, 16:42 ---
--- Quote ---To be fair, TrustPilot is untrustworthy.
--- End quote ---
it is not, because they remove fake reviews whenever detected, but you cannot stop them all. its one of the better review sites out there
--- End quote ---
You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't think it's very trustworthy that I was invited to write a review just by googling TrustPilot Shutterstock. How would they have 'detected' that I had never been a buyer if I'd written one?
--- End quote ---
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