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« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2020, 20:31 »
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As others have said - the drops at pretty much all the agencies have killed most of my motivation, SS was just the last straw after a long string of kicks to delicate parts and gradually decreasing sales.

Recently as part of another effort I have been going through my old records all the way past my microstock days. From about 2007 to 2013 or so there were interesting little notes about BME and BDE and other milestones. I had BDEs that rival entire months this year. I check every day or few days when I am online, but usually I don't have much to add to any threads, so I don't.  I think some of the rise and fall of microstock was unavoidable simply based on the numbers, but it could have been a whole lot better with a few decent agencies shaping the overall business instead of what happened.

I turned my SS port back on to get to a payout for December and the rest of my $ and to see how things were there - pretty sad - but it is turning off before the new year unless SS makes some changes.


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« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2020, 07:43 »
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I just looked at the chart on the right. The "Top Tier - Big 4" is down to 3 with the lowest of those being DT at 3.1.

Looks like the whole game is now between AS and SS. For those of us who took ourselves out of SS, the pickings left behind are pathetically slim.

Or, as somebody else said, not much motivation.

EDITED TO ADD (2 days later): the numbers on the chart have shifted. There now are an actual "Big 4" and DT has dropped to #6. This makes more sense. I'm actually glad to see that change.

Maybe people reading the thread decided to vote?  8) But honestly, and Leaf is the only one who can answer how it works, until an agency gets 50 votes, it shows nothing. I don't know how long the time period is for a vote sticking, before it rolls off.
I didn't realise it was as many as 50.
Anyway, when I saw that remark about the Big 4 and saw iS was off it, I realised I hadn't polled, so I put mine in, and the next time I  looked, the iS stats (both!) appeared. That could have been pure coincidence, I couldn't possibly say. But would me voting bring up both iS indie and iS exclusive? Maybe - they're linked in some way; I don't poll for Alamy because when I do that, my iS score goes into indie. A friend pointed out he's exclusive for stills on iS, and doesn't submit video to iS, but does submit video to SS, P5 but if he puts his video income there, his iS stills exclusive income goes into iS indie on the poll.

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« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2020, 10:18 »
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I just looked at the chart on the right. The "Top Tier - Big 4" is down to 3 with the lowest of those being DT at 3.1.

Looks like the whole game is now between AS and SS. For those of us who took ourselves out of SS, the pickings left behind are pathetically slim.

Or, as somebody else said, not much motivation.

EDITED TO ADD (2 days later): the numbers on the chart have shifted. There now are an actual "Big 4" and DT has dropped to #6. This makes more sense. I'm actually glad to see that change.

Maybe people reading the thread decided to vote?  8) But honestly, and Leaf is the only one who can answer how it works, until an agency gets 50 votes, it shows nothing. I don't know how long the time period is for a vote sticking, before it rolls off.
I didn't realise it was as many as 50.
Anyway, when I saw that remark about the Big 4 and saw iS was off it, I realised I hadn't polled, so I put mine in, and the next time I  looked, the iS stats (both!) appeared. That could have been pure coincidence, I couldn't possibly say. But would me voting bring up both iS indie and iS exclusive? Maybe - they're linked in some way; I don't poll for Alamy because when I do that, my iS score goes into indie. A friend pointed out he's exclusive for stills on iS, and doesn't submit video to iS, but does submit video to SS, P5 but if he puts his video income there, his iS stills exclusive income goes into iS indie on the poll.

Yes from what I've seen, you have both parts right. If you vote for only iStock, you go into exclusive, if you vote for any other, you go into "iStock" and a vote for either counts for the total of the 50. Might as well add, in case someone new is reading. The rough way to read the number is that the average is 5 times what we see. So 11.1 would be $55.50

With that, there are some pretty successful people coming here and voting to make the top two over $200 a month. I know many people who aren't making that. The number is an average, not what to expect.  ;)

If I was making $15 a month on DT, I'd be very happy. As it is, I make about $15 a year.

Last note: If you hover the mouse pointer over an agency that isn't displaying a value, you will see the number of votes and the value number. They are ranked by value, not votes, in order of average earnings from the people who did vote. Eight people voted for self hosted which is at 21.3 = higher than all the showing sites, except SS and AS.

When 123RF gets 3 more votes, it will possibly, go up, just above DT.

« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2020, 14:52 »
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MSG used to be pretty active. Now there's a handful or less of new posts or replies daily.

Right, you would think with the lock down, we'd have more people participating?

The Adobe discord is popping. Daily stuff about challenges, news, updates ... whathaveyou.

« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2020, 19:41 »
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There is no motivation to earn a few pennies, but very few, if they were many at least, another would be the story. Nothing to do here!

« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2020, 16:16 »
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Long time, no see.  :)
Glad to see some old members still around. I hope you are all fine in these tough days.

« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2020, 17:21 »
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Long time, no see.  :)
Glad to see some old members still around. I hope you are all fine in these tough days.

Wow, you havent been here in forever! Glad to see you. Still shooting? I came across your name the other day and wondered how you were.

PaulieWalnuts

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« Reply #32 on: December 07, 2020, 15:58 »
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I think once the "old" ranters and "troublemakers" either got banned or left any forum will slowly die out. They sort of keep the place alive. Some of the old ranters here was BIG contributors as well. As an example just look at the DPR forum!

I laughed and then I realized I may be one of these people  :)

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« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2020, 11:06 »
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The agencies might have killed the motivation but not the characters we used to have here. They might have been instigators and sometimes caused quarrels and so on but as I said they kept it alive!
What do we have now? negativities and bitterness in almost every thread and post. Most of these people are either banned or just left but I often bump into some of them in the the world of commissioned photography and in the rights-managed agencies ( not many left) but under different pseudos of course so they are still around but not here!

« Reply #34 on: December 12, 2020, 04:25 »
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First time I've looked here for months. I used to ba addicted to this forum. I think it just got too depressing. I miss the Lucky Oliver days :)

PaulieWalnuts

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« Reply #35 on: December 13, 2020, 07:34 »
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First time I've looked here for months. I used to ba addicted to this forum. I think it just got too depressing. I miss the Lucky Oliver days :)

Wow old school.  Haven't heard Lucky Oliver brought up in a long time. Back when micro was still like the USA Wild West and entrepreneurs had the opportunity to experiment with new concepts. Lucky Oliver was fun.

« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2020, 17:45 »
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First time I've looked here for months. I used to ba addicted to this forum. I think it just got too depressing. I miss the Lucky Oliver days :)

Wow old school.  Haven't heard Lucky Oliver brought up in a long time. Back when micro was still like the USA Wild West and entrepreneurs had the opportunity to experiment with new concepts. Lucky Oliver was fun.

yep, fun with a great crew & forum; an attempt to build an active community - reminded me of the old compuserve days

« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2020, 19:28 »
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Photography as an art form is still in me, and I still do some
Micro what?
Glad to see old names first time here in months

« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2020, 03:41 »
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First time I've looked here for months. I used to ba addicted to this forum. I think it just got too depressing. I miss the Lucky Oliver days :)

+ being 15 years younger plays a bit of a role too  ;D


 

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