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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Lana on March 25, 2016, 10:33
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It was a good thread for whining and not only! :'(
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Why my topic Worst Month Ever is removed? We were getting amazing stats from fellow contributor and it was kind a help to heal our wounds :'(
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I wasn't paying attention...did someone post their earnings at SS? If so, it's against their TOS. Maybe that's the reason?
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I wasn't paying attention...did someone post their earnings at SS? If so, it's against their TOS. Maybe that's the reason?
If it was the reason I think that the admin could just delete the offending post.
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I wasn't paying attention...did someone post their earnings at SS? If so, it's against their TOS. Maybe that's the reason?
Nobody ever quoted their earnings but just the random feedback instead. Not sure why admin removed that. It was working fine in last two months but removed all of sudden.
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Im posting my sales. Today will be below 100.
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Maybe...
just maybe it was the sockpuppets that did it ! ;D
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18559850/Neil-3.jpg)
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there were a lot of insults thrown around, thats my guess why
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there were a lot of insults thrown around, thats my guess why
It wasn't that bad, even amusing at times :)
Is it really not allowed to post earnings in this forum? That's the juiciest part of it!
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there were a lot of insults thrown around, thats my guess why
It wasn't that bad, even amusing at times :)
Is it really not allowed to post earnings in this forum? That's the juiciest part of it!
I believe I've read on msg that SS forbids their contributors from posting their earnings.
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there were a lot of insults thrown around, thats my guess why
It wasn't that bad, even amusing at times :)
Is it really not allowed to post earnings in this forum? That's the juiciest part of it!
I believe I've read on msg that SS forbids their contributors from posting their earnings.
Ok, I didn't know, I believe there were some quotes and screenshots..
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One reason to keep discussions here.
I am surprised though, SS is usually open minded.
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hi. i have slow sales in april, is it just me?
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Ave Cesar
Same here, but very good sales in March.
Volume is as usual but only subs...:(
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Very few sales and all subs, 18 days since I had an OD or SO! Will be lucky to make payout at this rate.
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April is on pace to match my March earnings on SS.
FT is on fire and I'm on pace to a new BME.
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hi. i have slow sales in april, is it just me?
Not just you. Too early for summer slump, but it feels like that. Almost halfway through the month and on track for WME.
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there were a lot of insults thrown around, thats my guess why
It wasn't that bad, even amusing at times :)
Is it really not allowed to post earnings in this forum? That's the juiciest part of it!
Personal attacks and insults like calling out a entire country or accusing people of what they aren't. Same cat have had many of his threads removed. You can't cure stupid.
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that bad it isnt, sales are lower about 8-10% if i compare to march
Not just you. Too early for summer slump, but it feels like that. Almost halfway through the month and on track for WME.
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i didn't even notice it was deleted LOL
but if it was due to the two reasons assumed..
1) ss forbid
2) too much backstabbing
it could have been better to just ban the b*st@rd for commiting 2)
and as for 1), since when has ss been the moderator of this forum>???
what good is a forum if there is such a restriction??? it would no longer be a forum.
back-stabbing has driven a lot of old commentors away from this forum,
and if we just let topics go to only allow the nice woo yay topics, this would be
no longer a contributors forum to visit.
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yes, it was a good topic to whine... (no harm done)...
but if it was removed due to report issues, that too is absurd..
if it was in fact your worst month on ss,
how do they justify banning the truth???
that would be as bad as censorship by despotic govt, which i am sure no one likes.
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Yeah, it was removed because it was degraded to a simple back and forth spat. I could have removed the last page or so of the discussion but chose to simply archive the entire thread and be done with it. Sometimes it feels easier to start fresh. :)
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Yeah, it was removed because it was degraded to a simple back and forth spat. I could have removed the last page or so of the discussion but chose to simply archive the entire thread and be done with it. Sometimes it feels easier to start fresh. :)
good point/ thx for letting us know .
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hi. i have slow sales in april, is it just me?
Not just you. Too early for summer slump, but it feels like that.
Summer slump? Were there even after winter rise? Haven'r really felt anything
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Very average sales in April, March was way better (exept for a few Easter days). Hmm, I actually expected that April sales would be like wow ;D since it is high season and no big holidays
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oops!
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on my way to the worst month since march 2013
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I just had the worst day for god knows how long statistical quirk I hope month is pretty average
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4 consecutive days without any sale on the American continent… It never happened before.
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April will be the 40% lower than march 2016. I have really big portfolio.
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April will be the 40% lower than march 2016.
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Sound about on par with my stats.
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I am heading to do slightly better than March. So no change here.
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After a BME in march, april is almost exactly at average.(Mostly Video)
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"normal" month for me nothing to get excited or depressed about
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After a BME in march, april is almost exactly at average.(Mostly Video)
me also
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I just noticed that my gallery views almost disappeared after the changes made few weeks ago
Sales are lower but still ok, but gallery views are from 15-25 weekly to 1-2
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I am slightly down from March but ebb and flow is normal. However, what I see that's newer on SS is significantly bigger deltas between months. For example, once month is $600 and the next is $1200. That is a huge swing and I see that happening more and more on SS, just not this particular month.
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I am slightly down from March but ebb and flow is normal. However, what I see that's newer on SS is significantly bigger deltas between months. For example, once month is $600 and the next is $1200. That is a huge swing and I see that happening more and more on SS, just not this particular month.
Maybe they implemented the istock "ebb and flow" system where your files are available some of the time to give other files a greater chance...
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I am slightly down from March but ebb and flow is normal. However, what I see that's newer on SS is significantly bigger deltas between months. For example, once month is $600 and the next is $1200. That is a huge swing and I see that happening more and more on SS, just not this particular month.
Ditto. But More than slightly.
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Hit BME today with a few days to spare.
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Maybe they implemented the istock "ebb and flow" system where your files are available some of the time to give other files a greater chance...
Off topic : what is this "ebb and flow" system ?
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Worst month since early 2012. Not just in earnings, but downloads as well :(
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Hit BME today with a few days to spare.
How many Images do you have? and How long you been submitting?
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Hit BME today with a few days to spare.
How many Images do you have? and How long you been submitting?
Just a little over 1500. 14 months.
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Just when I thought this month is going to be the worst since 2013, I got some nice SODs, now it's an average month.
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my sales went drastically down since last 4 months on ss ,
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The handwriting was on the wall when they lowered the minimum payout from $100 to $35. They knew full well then that earnings were going to drop drastically due to whatever changes they were putting in place and they needed to make the change to keep the lower earners mollified. Otherwise it could be months or longer between payouts for them. They also needed to do that to keep their accounts payable numbers at a reasonable level for accounting reasons.
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The handwriting was on the wall when they lowered the minimum payout from $100 to $35.
Just for correctness sake: $100 was the default proposal, but anyone could set the minimum payment to $75.
Anyway, this April is far from my March BME, indeed.
I'm only dollars away from matching April 2015 and this will most probably happen today.
Nevertheless, I'm happy for having reached my 4 $digits monthly quota on SS, so I can't say it was a bad month, maybe only average.
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A top month despite the last few days which have been diabolically bad which is a concern
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Just for correctness sake: $100 was the default proposal, but anyone could set the minimum payment to $75.
Anyway, this April is far from my March BME, indeed.
I'm only dollars away from matching April 2015 and this will most probably happen today.
Nevertheless, I'm happy for having reached my 4 $digits monthly quota on SS, so I can't say it was a bad month, maybe only average.
Do you enjoy keeping everyone jealous with your posts? ;D
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Just for correctness sake: $100 was the default proposal, but anyone could set the minimum payment to $75.
Anyway, this April is far from my March BME, indeed.
I'm only dollars away from matching April 2015 and this will most probably happen today.
Nevertheless, I'm happy for having reached my 4 $digits monthly quota on SS, so I can't say it was a bad month, maybe only average.
Do you enjoy keeping everyone jealous with your posts? ;D
What? Not at all.
When things are average I prefer to see the half full instead of the half empty :P
All this doom and gloom is not healthy for photography!
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My month was pretty good too.
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New BME already. Don't know how I'll top this next month.
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New BME already. Don't know how I'll top this next month.
Same here, May was, and still is, great, indeed!
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Yep, even though started slow ;)