Tony ALS Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 33 minutes ago, Ints Vikmanis said: Do you mean other site than SS? Which one? Yes, not on SS. This was with Alamy. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 35 minutes ago, Whiteaster said: Congratulations. What were you expecting? By the time some people here will move their port elsewhere, all agencies will do the same thing. Or they won't. Not if the reaction from contributors here is strong enough. You have removed your content I see. i will do the same at the end of the year as everyone should. Link to post Share on other sites
Ints Vikmanis Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 I am afraid that by end of year other agencies will follow SS example and will start paying us 0.10 or less… Other agencies will see that SS image count is still growing. So they will understand that contributors agree and are happy with 0.10 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Whiteaster Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 38 minutes ago, Tony ALS said: Or they won't. Not if the reaction from contributors here is strong enough. You have removed your content I see. i will do the same at the end of the year as everyone should. There must be some mistake, I haven't removed my content, I just stopped uploading until a week ago (or so). For me all other agencies earn much less than SS, so I don't see why would I remove my port. I don't care how much SS earns on me, the same as I don't care how much the supermarket earns on me increasing the producers' prices 10-20 times in this corona era. All I care about is how much goes in my pocket and somehow I got lucky in these last two months. I realize that it is a lottery though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Whiteaster Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 1 hour ago, Tony ALS said: Yes, not on SS. This was with Alamy. That is surprising, I didn't know they have such commissions too. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 32 minutes ago, Whiteaster said: There must be some mistake, I haven't removed my content, I just stopped uploading until a week ago (or so). For me all other agencies earn much less than SS, so I don't see why would I remove my port. I don't care how much SS earns on me, the same as I don't care how much the supermarket earns on me increasing the producers' prices 10-20 times in this corona era. All I care about is how much goes in my pocket and somehow I got lucky in these last two months. I realize that it is a lottery though. Apologies, I can see your images are still on sale. I too stopped uploading in July. I get nothing but $0.10 per image here now. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 16 minutes ago, Whiteaster said: That is surprising, I didn't know they have such commissions too. And that is towards the smallest paid. Average is much higher. Link to post Share on other sites
N_A_Z Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 3 hours ago, Ints Vikmanis said: I am afraid that by end of year other agencies will follow SS example and will start paying us 0.10 or less… Other agencies will see that SS image count is still growing. So they will understand that contributors agree and are happy with 0.10 i i think this is what the future is. there is too much stock images in this world. i just hope micro stock agency will compete on quality than price. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ge-No Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Can anyone explain it to me, Please? I've sold 127 images and got level 2. But earning is not change still earning 0.10 for images. Link to post Share on other sites
CLWphoto Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 I think most of contributors are waiting to hit the minium payment to disable the account. I know I am, Link to post Share on other sites
Trinet Uzun Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 It is really not fair. I raised a few levels but still EARN 10 cents. I still don't believe it and hope they compromise somehow to us. FOR ALL THE HARD WORK 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Piotr Krzeslak Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 54 minutes ago, Trinet Uzun said: It is really not fair. I raised a few levels but still EARN 10 cents. I still don't believe it and hope they compromise somehow to us. FOR ALL THE HARD WORK No matter what is your level. 10c are majority for all levels. This levels are pure bullsh..t. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Philll Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 I'm rich, boys, I made it! 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Primus1 Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 10 hours ago, Piotr Krzeslak said: No matter what is your level. 10c are majority for all levels. This levels are pure bullsh..t. What an image port you have! Splendid! I've noticed you are video specialized too. Very, very nice. Wish you best with your work. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 1 hour ago, Primus1 said: What an image port you have! Splendid! I've noticed you are video specialized too. Very, very nice. Wish you best with your work. Yes, I agree! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Piotr Krzeslak Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 1 hour ago, Primus1 said: What an image port you have! Splendid! I've noticed you are video specialized too. Very, very nice. Wish you best with your work. Thank You guys! Nice to hear it. I'm level 5 and 90% of my earnings here are 0,10$. Totally waste of time. From 1 june my portoflio growing only on other stock sites. Uploading here is pointless. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Primus1 Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 3 minutes ago, Piotr Krzeslak said: Thank You guys! Nice to hear it. I'm level 5 and 90% of my earnings here are 0,10$. Totally waste of time. From 1 june my portoflio growing only on other stock sites. Uploading here is pointless. You are welcome! Yes, it is pointless. Sad. :( 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Dunn Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 20 hours ago, Whiteaster said: That is surprising, I didn't know they have such commissions too. No Alamy don't I see that he meant 15 x $0.10 = a $1.50 sale! which sounds very low for them. Link to post Share on other sites
jjmillan Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 ¿Alguien ve las ultimas fotos aceptadas ? Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 3 hours ago, Tony Dunn said: No Alamy don't I see that he meant 15 x $0.10 = a $1.50 sale! which sounds very low for them. It is low for Alamy but at least it's not $0.10. There is some stunning work in SS's database which deserves so much more. Link to post Share on other sites
NAXStock Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 On 8/6/2020 at 2:00 AM, RoJo Images said: The answer is simple .... delete your images. Same situation here, but I cannot even see my files, never mind delete them. My portfolio shows nil files, yet I just sold three after disabling my account. Link to post Share on other sites
Don Landwehrle Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Personally I find this all very sad. Back in the day I had some photos sell through TIB for 4 and 5 figures. When a great man, Larry Fried passed away TIB changed for the worse. Bean counters came in and changed the way things were run. The people in charge went for short term profits at the loss of long term profits. It did not take long. Then came computers and digital. The drop of prices accelerated. What would take years and many rolls of expensive film and processing to learn was thrown out the window. I use to be able to go to something like fireworks and knew maybe 1 other person knew how to capture them. Now, take a photo on your digital camera, repeat, repeat, repeat, now I have a photo. Then came micro stock. Pros were reluctant to go there, but with sales at traditional agencies plummeting they did, me included. The quality at MS agencies went up. Photographers made money on volume but not like it was. The Dollar Photo Club was a harbinger of things to come. Most stopped submitting and it killed the DPC. Now we have .10¢ Shutterstock royalties. I turned off my portfolio after about 7 days of seeing the results. It was always questionable about it being worth my time to upload to any micro stock agency. When Getty finally axed their RM images and offered15% RF royalty I decided it was time to end my relationship with them. Now that SS has dropped our commission and increased their percentage I decided to drop them. The real problem is I fail to see is how any photographer can create quality images at the current rates of compensation to the photographers. I enjoyed knowing people would pay money to use my images. They felt my images were worth purchasing. I now find myself with literally over one hundred thousand beautiful salable images that will probably NEVER be seen by anyone except myself. I continue to shoot photos for myself but like I said, other than self satisfaction, no one will ever see them. A sad time for sure. For income I will be looking for something else to do. For anyone who would like to see what SS and most likely the other MS sites will be missing you can see my images here... http://landwehrle.com 16 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Dunn Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 10 hours ago, Don Landwehrle said: Personally I find this all very sad. Back in the day I had some photos sell through TIB for 4 and 5 figures. When a great man, Larry Fried passed away TIB changed for the worse. Bean counters came in and changed the way things were run. The people in charge went for short term profits at the loss of long term profits. It did not take long. Then came computers and digital. The drop of prices accelerated. What would take years and many rolls of expensive film and processing to learn was thrown out the window. I use to be able to go to something like fireworks and knew maybe 1 other person knew how to capture them. Now, take a photo on your digital camera, repeat, repeat, repeat, now I have a photo. Then came micro stock. Pros were reluctant to go there, but with sales at traditional agencies plummeting they did, me included. The quality at MS agencies went up. Photographers made money on volume but not like it was. The Dollar Photo Club was a harbinger of things to come. Most stopped submitting and it killed the DPC. Now we have .10¢ Shutterstock royalties. I turned off my portfolio after about 7 days of seeing the results. It was always questionable about it being worth my time to upload to any micro stock agency. When Getty finally axed their RM images and offered15% RF royalty I decided it was time to end my relationship with them. Now that SS has dropped our commission and increased their percentage I decided to drop them. The real problem is I fail to see is how any photographer can create quality images at the current rates of compensation to the photographers. I enjoyed knowing people would pay money to use my images. They felt my images were worth purchasing. I now find myself with literally over one hundred thousand beautiful salable images that will probably NEVER be seen by anyone except myself. I continue to shoot photos for myself but like I said, other than self satisfaction, no one will ever see them. A sad time for sure. For income I will be looking for something else to do. For anyone who would like to see what SS and most likely the other MS sites will be missing you can see my images here... http://landwehrle.com your pictures are too good for Micro Stock. Have you tried Alamy? Link to post Share on other sites
Dobrin_Dobrev Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 I have mixed feelings about the new earning structure. Most of my downloads are 0,10$. I have one download which i got 1,47$ Some 0,44$ And for my last download I got 9$. I was shocked when I saw it yesterday. I'm level 1 and my main is uploading photos. I've never got more than 1,88$ for downloaded photo before structure changes. May be this was a pure luck. I hope for more of these downloads for all. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jjmillan Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Los nazis calcularon cual era la cantidad de comida mínima para sus trabajadores esclavos .Lo que no se dieron cuenta es que las armas que estos fabricaban salían defectuosas. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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