I closed my account about a year ago.
I asked them to pay what they owed me, but they never did.
Yesterday I received this email from them:

�Hello, hello!

Here at the newly formed YayImages, along with new owners and management (working from home), we are undergoing some changes.

As one of our valued contributors, we would like you to be the first to know about some new initiatives at Yay.

First, customers can now purchase your images and vectors for $4.99 each, on our refreshed website.

We are seeing strong traffic and sales growth with the new single sales model as customers start to prefer paying for what they need, when they need it.  Some contributors are starting to see average image sale prices move up.

Second, as you know, we are refreshing our contributor dashboard and moving more services away from yaymicro, to the new https://contributors.yayimages.com/ dashboard.

Third, we are launching video footage single sales. The pricing model will be single sales only, customers pay for what they need, when they need it. We will share commissions on a 50/50 basis.

Pricing for video single sales, will be as follows:
   �   SD: $49
   �   HD: $59
   �   4K: $149

The first step you need to take to become a video contributor, is to login to the contributor dashboard and request approval.

Once approved, you will be able to easily send your mp4 and mov source files, through sftp.

With the current stay-at-home measures around the world & the work from home movement, we're seeing a high number of requests for video content.

Click here to login and request approval to become a video contributor.

Stay safe!

Together in photography,
Alex @ the YayImages Team�

So the worse an agency treats you the more you will do marketing for them.

?

I just shared some news, isn't that what you're supposed to do on a forum like this?
Also if the name of the site is the same it seems that the owners and managers are different (which remains to be proven).

Quote from: Microstock Posts on April 24, 2020, 04:32

So the worse an agency treats you the more you will do marketing for them.

?

I just shared some news, isn't that what you're supposed to do on a forum like this?
Also if the name of the site is the same it seems that the owners and managers are different (which remains to be proven).

Agreed - like them or not - it is a 'newsworthy' post and worth a conversation.  If you don't like them for whatever reason, you can feel free to share why not as well.

unscrupulous

A new word for me, googling it i think it goes for most agencies.

Let's give them the benefit of "new administration" before judging them.

I like the video related message part:

The pricing model will be single sales only, customers pay for what they need, when they need it. We will share commissions on a 50/50 basis.

Pricing for video single sales, will be as follows:
   �   SD: $49
   �   HD: $59
   �   4K: $149

unscrupulous

A new word for me, googling it i think it goes for most agencies.

Let's give them the benefit of "new administration" before judging them.

First of all for some reason they are trying to spin that they are newly formed. Yayimages is not newly formed, they have been around at least 4 years if not longer. 4 years is by no stretch of the imagination newly formed.

New management/owner? On their old site yaymicro they still show the same management as usual. In the whois information on both sites they are hidden behind Godaddy's privacy protection. So they pay $30 a year to hide themselves.

@Chichikov Would that $30 cover what they owe you?

unscrupulous

A new word for me, googling it i think it goes for most agencies.

Let's give them the benefit of "new administration" before judging them.

I like the video related message part:

The pricing model will be single sales only, customers pay for what they need, when they need it. We will share commissions on a 50/50 basis.

Pricing for video single sales, will be as follows:
   �   SD: $49
   �   HD: $59
   �   4K: $149

Currently I don't have any more pictures on this site, I removed everything about a year ago and asked to be paid. Which never happened.
On the other hand my earnings are still active on the site.
I've always been, very critical of Yay and their way of doing things (or more exactly of not doing things), and those who have read my comments about this site know it very well (so when the first idiot who comes by says I'm advertising to them it freaks me out a bit...)
It seems to me however that this new offer could be interesting, and in any case not less interesting than those offered by many other sites.
Today Pond5 is selling off our videos and I don't even want to talk about the prices practiced by agencies like Shutterstock or Getty...
Right now the big question is: "Is this really serious?"
Moreover, as far as I'm concerned, I wonder if it's really worth wasting time to reload photos and videos, and in what quantity, knowing very well that on this kind of site the quantity is important if you want to have any chance to earn money...

First of all for some reason they are trying to spin that they are newly formed. Yayimages is not newly formed, they have been around at least 4 years if not longer. 4 years is by no stretch of the imagination newly formed.

I registered 2008/03/20...   so, more than 12 years ago... you don't know anything about them and should keep your statements for yourself.

Quote from: Microstock Posts on April 24, 2020, 10:51

First of all for some reason they are trying to spin that they are newly formed. Yayimages is not newly formed, they have been around at least 4 years if not longer. 4 years is by no stretch of the imagination newly formed.

I registered 2008/03/20...   so, more than 12 years ago... you don't know anything about them and should keep your statements for yourself.

I know that they are not a "newly formed" company. You need to ask them why they are trying to spin it that way. Yayimages was actually registered in 2009-04-16 but they only actively used it since they switched from Yaymicro about 4 or 5 years ago..

I also know that they are a microstock site which uses privacy protection on their domains to hide their details from the public which very few microstock sites feel the need to do.

Closed my account about five years ago, i have no regrets

As I am considering uploading.

I wouldn't.  I've had a few sales recently, with royalties between .05 and .12.  I asked them to close my account; the response was suggesting that I upload more in hope of increased sales.  Nope, not gonna happen.

I started uploading to Yay about two months ago after I heard they were under new leadership. I also noticed these 5c and 9c sales which seemed to contradict the story about their 50% commission to contributors. I got an answer this morning from their Director of Marketing - these are from legacy accounts that they are closing down. The new pricing plans would have a minimum payment of 25c. His full response is in my blog post.

He also said their FTP for images is overloaded and they are trying to fix that. The one for video is newer technology and working well and I'm currently uploading my videos to them. I don't know how they will do with sales but they have been very helpful to me over the past few days.

The full article is here: https://backyardsilver.com/yay-images-update/

Steve

You need to apply for submitting videos (they don't sell them to the public yet). I understand that they are likely to take some appropriate editorial images and videos but it might be on a contributor by contributor basis depending on what they think might be in demand.

Steve

I closed my account about a year ago.
I asked them to pay what they owed me, but they never did.
Yesterday I received this email from them:

�Hello, hello!

Here at the newly formed YayImages, along with new owners and management (working from home), we are undergoing some changes.

As one of our valued contributors, we would like you to be the first to know about some new initiatives at Yay.

First, customers can now purchase your images and vectors for $4.99 each, on our refreshed website.

We are seeing strong traffic and sales growth with the new single sales model as customers start to prefer paying for what they need, when they need it.  Some contributors are starting to see average image sale prices move up.

Second, as you know, we are refreshing our contributor dashboard and moving more services away from yaymicro, to the new https://contributors.yayimages.com/ dashboard.

Third, we are launching video footage single sales. The pricing model will be single sales only, customers pay for what they need, when they need it. We will share commissions on a 50/50 basis.

Pricing for video single sales, will be as follows:
   �   SD: $49
   �   HD: $59
   �   4K: $149

The first step you need to take to become a video contributor, is to login to the contributor dashboard and request approval.

Once approved, you will be able to easily send your mp4 and mov source files, through sftp.

With the current stay-at-home measures around the world & the work from home movement, we're seeing a high number of requests for video content.

Click here to login and request approval to become a video contributor.

Stay safe!

Together in photography,
Alex @ the YayImages Team�

Hi,
any sale on ,,new,, Yay Images? Video and image?

I received an email from Yay today:

Quote

Hello again!

A brief update about where we are at with our video contributor technology.
We have recently launched video pricing tiers. This means you can price all of your videos or just one individual video at another price point.
Existing high quality contributors are grandfathered into the "Premium" tier.
New contributors will start at the "Regular" tier. After uploading 100 approved videos, you can apply for the "Premium" tier.

Here's how the new pricing works:
    "Budget" (HD - $5, no 4K)
    "Regular" (HD - $24.99, 4K - $59)
    "Premium" (HD - $59, 4K - $149)

Some videos, like a time-lapse or a less offered content drone shot or a video shot with a DSLR at 4K higher bitrate has different value than a GoPro video for example.
To solve this problem, you can now reprice existing approved videos by clicking the checkbox next to the desired video, in the "Videos" navigation tab.
 

Regular is priced way too low, in my opinion. So I've applied for Premium tier. hopefully this will be applied without any hassles.
I've uploaded my entire vector and video portfolio last week, let's see if that brings me any sales.

How's that working out for you?

absolutely not

zero sales 

Has anybody sold anything there lately?

Does yayimages accept editorial images or not?

I ask this because I uploaded hundreds of images there a few weeks ago and ALL commercial images got accepted, but ALL editorial not - strange!

I wrote them two times already and asked them about the editorials. Might be I did something wrong. But I checked editorial images from other users and could not find any differences.
I could understand if they reject some or maybe many of my editorial images, but ALL? (Nearly all images are online on many other agencies.)

I read that yayimages seems not helping much if we ask them. So I ask you to get a faster answer.

Thank you in advance.

Yay do accept editorial images try live chat if you are having difficulties.
 

Quote from: Noedelhap on July 21, 2020, 18:04

I received an email from Yay today:

Quote

Hello again!

A brief update about where we are at with our video contributor technology.
We have recently launched video pricing tiers. This means you can price all of your videos or just one individual video at another price point.
Existing high quality contributors are grandfathered into the "Premium" tier.
New contributors will start at the "Regular" tier. After uploading 100 approved videos, you can apply for the "Premium" tier.

Here's how the new pricing works:
    "Budget" (HD - $5, no 4K)
    "Regular" (HD - $24.99, 4K - $59)
    "Premium" (HD - $59, 4K - $149)

Some videos, like a time-lapse or a less offered content drone shot or a video shot with a DSLR at 4K higher bitrate has different value than a GoPro video for example.
To solve this problem, you can now reprice existing approved videos by clicking the checkbox next to the desired video, in the "Videos" navigation tab.
 

Regular is priced way too low, in my opinion. So I've applied for Premium tier. hopefully this will be applied without any hassles.
I've uploaded my entire vector and video portfolio last week, let's see if that brings me any sales.

How's that working out for you?

So far zero sales, only 2 cents for promotional use by YayImages.

zilch, zero, none

Yup, they really need to drive some traffic and drive some sales

About the RPD of 0,05 I got informed a few month ago. Enough reason to delete my portfolio there, but was to lazy until today.
But the # unlimited DLs packages for $29 per month # forced me to delete all images just now, one by one. uff. Finished!
But of course my portfolio still shows all images, so I did not delete the whole portfolio/account. I left ONE image and will prove, if all others will disappear for sure in the next days.

Also found this

https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/the-most-valuable-agencies-for-selling-vectors-in-2019/msg542682/#msg542682

Looks like they were making sales and not reporting/ paying contributors. This also rings true for me, I found a lot of my images on partner sites through YAY where I make a lot of sales yet no sales through YAY for the same images on the same sites...

Anyone know if Morphart got any satisfaction or posted an update? I have PMd him asking of he wants to chime in here.

Another group law suit needed 

Let�s do it!

Also found this

https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/the-most-valuable-agencies-for-selling-vectors-in-2019/msg542682/#msg542682

Looks like they were making sales and not reporting/ paying contributors. This also rings true for me, I found a lot of my images on partner sites through YAY where I make a lot of sales yet no sales through YAY for the same images on the same sites...

Anyone know if Morphart got any satisfaction or posted an update? I have PMd him asking of he wants to chime in here.

Hi!

Didn't read the full thread nor what you are experiencing with them? Basically my experience with them was the following:
- Didn't have any answer for a while there and had a small balance.
- Yay got ''bought out'' buy a few guys I think in Fall 2019 and they contacted me to get my content online but early on they did a huge promotion where they almost give away the images.
Those special offer / subscription sales are reference in the PROMOTION line on each month at the top. For those PROMOTION, I get that we don't know how many image were dowloaded, only the total revenue. You can check it when login to your contributor account here https://contributors.yayimages.com/login or direct link to last month: https://contributors.yayimages.com/downloads/2020-11.

But for me I didn't reupload after my initial upload of photos/videos. The sales are low, and revenue per image is low. I asked one payout since I'm with them which included the small balance I had before and everything was paid out. Hope this helps out?

Thanks for the update. Also worth mentioning they have no contributor terms on the site. Link is broken. Has been like that since I first tried to read them some time ago.

May be worth trying to delete a couple of images, they seem to not care and will continue to sell them. You may want to verify for yourself. This is a nightmare from a site I thought I was done with.

Thanks for the update. Also worth mentioning they have no contributor terms on the site. Link is broken. Has been like that since I first tried to read them some time ago.

May be worth trying to delete a couple of images, they seem to not care and will continue to sell them. You may want to verify for yourself. This is a nightmare from a site I thought I was done with.

Playing advocate of the devil, this was apparently going on years ago under the old management? Who is to say the new management is going to be just as shady?

That said, the site seems dead to me. No sales, nothing. I've spent quite some time uploading and tagging my portfolio, but if RPD and sales are low, it seems to have been a major waste of time.

Got my first couple of sales.

A pitiful $4 per video download, apparently some cheap ass subscription sale.
I put up my videos in the Premium tier at $59 per video, 50% commission, but they sell for this cheap?
What a joke of a site. I'm going to delete my entire portfolio, can't believe I fell for this crap.

After delete all videos and photos on your portfolio, write yay every three days, that they should defenitly delete and remove all files from your portfolio AND from all other agencies, where they also sell them for example Alamy and agefotostock. AND tell them you will keep the forum updated if they do it or not. With that way my photos were finally deleted and removed all. You can read about it also in the other thread:
�Yaymicro - Legal solution ideas�

Requested my first video payout a little surprise though they do bring in some money

crossed finger i'll have consistent monthly payout from them but best of luck to YaY.

Open_ how much per sale have you got? Because I had there only $4 sales...

Open_ how much per sale have you got? Because I had there only $4 sales...

Same, flat $4.

better than SStock 0.84c/clip

Are there people still uploading to YAY? even after all the posts here?

No. I've stopped uploading and deleted most of my clips. Soon I will delete rest of my portfolio...

Same, flat $4.

better than SStock 0.84c/clip

I don't know how anyone could be satisfied with $4 per clip. That's pretty insulting. I was considering submitting some commercial videos of mine to Yay but now I'm glad that I didn't. I think I'll keep my distance from this agency.

Quote from: Open_ on March 02, 2021, 12:29

Same, flat $4.

better than SStock 0.84c/clip

I don't know how anyone could be satisfied with $4 per clip. That's pretty insulting. I was considering submitting some commercial videos of mine to Yay but now I'm glad that I didn't. I think I'll keep my distance from this agency.

So far I have no problem with them.

Just requested my 2nd payout with them. Yayhooo!

What the heck, did they change the minimum payout to $60? I'd swear it was $30 earlier?

Not sure if they changed it, i didn't pay attention to payout threshold before and my payouts always over $100.

good luck sir