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lisafx

« Reply #450 on: August 22, 2008, 14:12 »
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No Photos.com sales for me yet - that I know of. 

How can you tell them from StockXpert sub sales?  Is there a different line for them in the account/balance area?


« Reply #451 on: August 22, 2008, 14:16 »
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No Photos.com sales for me yet - that I know of. 

How can you tell them from StockXpert sub sales?  Is there a different line for them in the account/balance area?

a third line will appear on your monthly stats that says photos.com.

« Reply #452 on: August 22, 2008, 14:16 »
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We've been looking at the Compete/Alexa numbers with respect to iStock.  If you do the same for Stockxpert and Photos.com, you will find that Stockxpert gets much more traffic than Photos.com. 

In July, StockXpert had 93,000 unique visitors while Photos.com had only 58,000.  By comparison, Dreamstime alone had 344,000.

Based on these numbers, the maximum amount of sales we could expect from Photos.com initially would be 1/3 that of our regular StockXpert sales.  In addition, not every Photos.com subscriber is going to be a Plus subscriber, so that cuts into it significantly more.  I'm going to guess 1 out of every 10 sales will come from Photos.com.  If they can grow the traffic there, then it could become a significant increase for us.

Dan, but Photos.com, is not so much a site were a lot of photographers hang arround, contrary to stockxpert or dreamstime. As I understood the old content from photos.com was entirely owned by jupiterimages. So photographers probably very seldom access this site. If there are more addicted photographers like me who check their sales daily at stockxpert I think that probably generates a lot of traffic. Good to hear, there are already a few sales.

lisafx

« Reply #453 on: August 22, 2008, 14:25 »
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No Photos.com sales for me yet - that I know of. 

How can you tell them from StockXpert sub sales?  Is there a different line for them in the account/balance area?

a third line will appear on your monthly stats that says photos.com.

Oh, well then none for me yet.
Thanks :)

« Reply #454 on: August 22, 2008, 14:48 »
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Hmm..  I opted in to allowing my stuff on Photos.com but none of it is there from what I can tell...  Guess their search is broken.

« Reply #455 on: August 22, 2008, 15:20 »
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I had my first one today.  Nice to see the sales start up so soon.

DanP68

« Reply #456 on: August 22, 2008, 18:12 »
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Nothing yet, but very high hopes.  What I really want to hear is that someone had a PPD sale through Photos.com.   ;)

« Reply #457 on: August 22, 2008, 19:35 »
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when you are sure i will jump in...

cphoto

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« Reply #458 on: August 22, 2008, 23:30 »
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Nothing yet, but very high hopes.  What I really want to hear is that someone had a PPD sale through Photos.com.   ;)


Well I encourage you to check your images over there because some of mine does not show available as PPD and EL, even though they meet the image size requirement.

This is my image, 8MP, but only available as SUB :(
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?eqvc=551038&oid=9334850&a=a&pt=&k_mode=all&k_exc=&t_plus=1&cid=&date=&ct_search=&k_var=9334850&first=1&ofirst=&srch=Y&hoid=90f40a286b5874fb1528163a02ad0c24&bl=%2Fen%2Fsearch%2Findex%3Fa%3Da%26k_var%3D9334850%26k_mode%3Dall%26f_plus%3D1%26first%3D1%26

« Reply #459 on: August 23, 2008, 00:36 »
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Nothing yet, but very high hopes.  What I really want to hear is that someone had a PPD sale through Photos.com.   ;)

Excactly... that's the only thing making it worth.
If photoscom will only produce sub sales over the first months the hype will only be thin air.

Patrick H.

cphoto

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« Reply #460 on: August 23, 2008, 11:53 »
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KB

« Reply #461 on: August 23, 2008, 18:18 »
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Of the 8mp images of mine I've found, luckily they are all available as PPD and EL.

But most of the images I've looked for do not appear in the search results! I tried the identical searches on StockXpert, and they show up fine (obviously, since they've been selling!). It seems much of my portfolio is missing.

Definitely not going to sell them if they can't be found.   :(

« Reply #462 on: August 23, 2008, 18:35 »
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I will try to see if I can find mine, because they are not supposed to be there!

Regards,
Adelaide

« Reply #463 on: August 23, 2008, 19:41 »
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I have found several of mine on photos.com, but their search engine is really strange (as is bad).  For example, I have a silly image of a purple hair scrunchy (which I did not find on photos.com).  I did a search for scrunchy and found about 20 results.  When I narrowed the search by adding hair scrunchy, it went up to several thousands because it added ALL hair images.  When I then tried to search for purple hair scrunchy, it added ALL purple images to the mix, increasing the number of images even more  ::)

« Reply #464 on: August 23, 2008, 19:58 »
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I found about 50% of my 8MP images NOT available as PPD and EL on photos.com, even though their longest size is 3504 pixels.

This is also really bad because the largest size (XL - 8MP) is available for SUB !! 
I think you guys should check your portfolio too...

If that does not get fixed soon I'll pull out from photos.com.

Some examples:
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=9335124&hoid=e0510cd199898572784a99e726f84f7f&eqvc=1031190&vidx=0
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=9334851&hoid=31d39236e162930282e2c03571d7f13a&eqvc=554264&vidx=0
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=9335215&hoid=e59539dd89fd610d57c9a2c5f4c37f2d&eqvc=1031221&vidx=0
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=9335216&hoid=3238c70f1e0a2bfcf857cc0ea9c42507&eqvc=1031222&vidx=0
http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=9334840&hoid=539ae4e3196d6be712ffeb735adc0fb3&eqvc=554253&vidx=0

....


Gotta admit I'm not crazy about the sizes, since 1/2 of my portfolio was shot using a 6 mp D70 and therefore doesn't qualify for PPD. 

« Reply #465 on: August 24, 2008, 02:05 »
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I have found several of mine on photos.com, but their search engine is really strange (as is bad).  For example, I have a silly image of a purple hair scrunchy (which I did not find on photos.com).  I did a search for scrunchy and found about 20 results.  When I narrowed the search by adding hair scrunchy, it went up to several thousands because it added ALL hair images.  When I then tried to search for purple hair scrunchy, it added ALL purple images to the mix, increasing the number of images even more  ::)


Try searching with "match any".

Anyway, I still can't find most of my portfolio. I can find all the photo's, but none of my vectors.
« Last Edit: August 24, 2008, 02:18 by Gregor909 »

graficallyminded

« Reply #466 on: August 24, 2008, 18:51 »
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Wow, I'd never thought I would see the day when my own images were available for sale on photos.com 

This is huge.  I've only made a few sales so far this month, but for those of you that don't know how bigtime photos.com is...it's a widely know subscription site in the graphic design world, ad it's been around forever. 

« Reply #467 on: August 24, 2008, 19:40 »
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Wow, I'd never thought I would see the day when my own images were available for sale on photos.com 

This is huge.  I've only made a few sales so far this month, but for those of you that don't know how bigtime photos.com is...it's a widely know subscription site in the graphic design world, ad it's been around forever. 

Are you saying it's got a good reputation and is used often by those like yourself in the graphic's world ---- or are you saying it just old?

graficallyminded

« Reply #468 on: August 24, 2008, 20:54 »
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Yes, excellent reuptation.  Everyone knows about it.

« Reply #469 on: August 25, 2008, 08:34 »
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Yes, excellent reuptation.  Everyone knows about it.

;D COOL!  ;D

lisafx

« Reply #470 on: August 25, 2008, 12:33 »
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Good to know, the site is well known in the design world.  :)

I just had my first couple of photos.com sales.  Hope to see a lot more!

vonkara

« Reply #471 on: August 25, 2008, 12:35 »
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I just had my first couple of photos.com sales.  Hope to see a lot more!
Just curious on how much did you get... Do it was subscription or PPD?

« Reply #472 on: August 25, 2008, 16:09 »
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Last update from Steve on the StockXpert forum:

"All vectors should be included in Photos.com. We are aware of this issue (that not all images can be found yet) , and the team is currently working on all reported bugs".

Good to know!  :)

lisafx

« Reply #473 on: August 25, 2008, 18:19 »
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I just had my first couple of photos.com sales.  Hope to see a lot more!
Just curious on how much did you get... Do it was subscription or PPD?

Yes, unfortunately just subs so far at photos.com.  I've made a grand total of .60 ;)

Definitely going to need to see good volume to make it worthwhile...

« Reply #474 on: August 25, 2008, 19:20 »
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I just had my first couple of photos.com sales.  Hope to see a lot more!
Just curious on how much did you get... Do it was subscription or PPD?

Yes, unfortunately just subs so far at photos.com.  I've made a grand total of .60 ;)

Definitely going to need to see good volume to make it worthwhile...

Hey Lisa we're neck and neck on Photos.com earnings! ;)


 

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