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Messages - Contemporary Dave
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« on: Yesterday at 11:24 »
I went exclusve with P5 3 months ago. Not had a single sale since... 
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« on: November 13, 2024, 03:56 »
I went exclusive with P5 and Shutterstock in August - and haven't sold anything on P5 since, whilst clip sales have increased on Shutterstock.
Curious - what price range have your SS clip sales been since going Ex?
On average, about $6 per clip.
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« on: November 04, 2024, 12:27 »
I went exclusive with P5 and Shutterstock in August - and haven't sold anything on P5 since, whilst clip sales have increased on Shutterstock.
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« on: September 06, 2024, 10:47 »
I stopped submitting to them when...
a) They dishonestly "trained" all assets (sold the data) to probably openai/sora/midjourney/etc, "then" gave an "option" to "opt-out" (after they stole the data & sold it)
What evidence have you got to substantate that claim? As for $0.10 video sales, I've never had one of those, and I think that's unlikely to be true either.
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« on: July 22, 2024, 06:39 »
Just curious to know how you find out if your work has been stolen by another Shutterstock contributor? Do you just right click the photo and search for the image on Google - or do you use another method?
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« on: June 18, 2024, 05:51 »
I sell images on both Etsy and AS. No problems at all.
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« on: April 16, 2024, 08:05 »
Interesting to note that since SS aquired Pond5, the speed of them reviewing submissions has gone from about 4-5 days to a few hours.
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« on: March 18, 2024, 09:03 »
Congratulations on getting $1.88. I once got paid 10 cents for an image that ended up on a classical music CD cover. Furthermore, it was an image that was classified as editorial, because it had IP content. Understandably, I was very unhappy about this and contacted SS complaining that an editorial image had been used for commercial purposes. They politely told me to sling my hook.
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« on: February 19, 2024, 13:33 »
There may be another explanation. As an example of this, on Alamy, some sales do not show up in your sales history for ages. On one occasion, I noticed a shot of mine that was exclusive to Alamy had been used in a calendar. The actual sale did not show up for at least 3 months.
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« on: February 18, 2024, 07:39 »
October & November were OK for me, with a slight decrease in sales/earnings in December. In January, the amount of sales was the same (around 130), by my earnings were less than half what I did in Oct and November with the same amount of sales. So far this month, I've had about 40 sales, where normally it would be around 60. Revenue is still on the low side.
Whilst at Adobe and with less than half the amount of images and clips than I have at SS, sales and revenue are pretty stable.
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« on: February 07, 2024, 12:32 »
are anybody recieve payment from shutterstock this month?
usualy 3-5 of the month
but this month no letters no money
I received payment today.
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« on: February 02, 2024, 12:15 »
Despite doing the same amount of downloads I do every month (around 120), my earnings from those DL's were about 45% down from previous months. My downloads and earnings on Adobe are where I expect them to be.
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« on: January 22, 2024, 12:48 »
Looks like a little bit of updating has been done.
You can now copy and paste keywords by clicking the '...' at the end of the keyword field. Plus, the Location field has been put back.
Hopefully they will add the filter/keyword search field back in the Catalog Manager too.
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« on: January 08, 2024, 12:53 »
I normally get to the $100 mark every 6 or 7 months. I do find it curious that as soon as I get around the $95 mark, sales always seem to slow down to a snails pace. I'm sure it's just a coincidence...
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« on: December 24, 2023, 12:12 »
I'm not sure why they bother having the Catalog Manager at all. If you can't even do the absolute basics - such as searching for a specific image using a keyword, it serves no purpose.
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« on: December 18, 2023, 09:58 »
Why do they do this?!!
It's terrible! They've removed the search / filter facility in the Catalog Manager, so you now have to trawl through pages of images to find the image you want. It basically makes the manager completely useless.
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« on: September 15, 2023, 03:45 »
I can't seem to access the contributor dashboard on both my desktop and app. Anyone else having the same issues?
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« on: September 13, 2023, 05:50 »
Just come on here to ask the same question! About $50 has been added to my earnings.
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« on: September 11, 2023, 08:42 »
More than likely, no.
Might be worth backing up your stuff next time...
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« on: September 08, 2023, 04:16 »
All fine with me.
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« on: August 27, 2023, 12:45 »
Yes, their review times are ridiculous. I've been waiting around 3 weeks for some images to be reviewed. Sites like Shutterstock and Alamy only take a couple of days to clear at their very worst.
It's a pity. Despite having a very small portfolio (around 300 images) on Adobe, they sell quite well. I would supply far more images to them if their submission page was more user-friendly, and if their review times were massively improved. If they want to compete with the other libraries, they really need to get their act together.
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« on: August 05, 2023, 05:51 »
My hunch is that the lower payout figure is to butter people up in preparation for an 'exciting' announcement, where they are going to lower the commission rates, again.
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« on: July 25, 2023, 12:37 »
Curious to know how many people manage to hit Level 6 on image and / or video sales. Does anyone know? The highest I've managed to hit is Level 4 on images, and TBH, I think it's unlikely I'll hit Level 5.
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« on: April 26, 2023, 05:55 »
Bosh!
Nice start to the day.
For photos or videos?
Editorial photo.
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« on: April 26, 2023, 03:01 »
Bosh!
Nice start to the day.
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