stevemart Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 3/8/2021 at 5:19 PM, Thijs de Graaf said: Never heard about Chromorange. i've looked on internet, but I can find much about them. Reinhold Tscherwitschke is the founder I believe. Me neither but I looked 'em up and noticed that eg food&beverage section seems to be dominated by a few contributors. Many photos by Bernd Juergens. Struck me as a bit of a private club! 😀 Link to post Share on other sites
Thijs de Graaf Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 7 hours ago, stevemart said: Me neither but I looked 'em up and noticed that eg food&beverage section seems to be dominated by a few contributors. Many photos by Bernd Juergens. Struck me as a bit of a private club! 😀 Yes I think so too. The founder Reinhold Tscherwitschke also has his photos on dreamstime.com Apparently he started not so long ago. I don't think he's on Shutterstock. Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Reminded me of a seriously old TV ad in UK from the 70's! "If you want a lot of chocolate on your biscuits, join our CLUB"! 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmZCMmNPkM Link to post Share on other sites
enricoRubicondo Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 A change in the remuneration structure of contributors instead of stimulating the production of quality, it produces the abandonment of contributors and stimulates those who remain not to produce quality. A perfect example of strategic idiocy? 12 Link to post Share on other sites
Rudy Matchinga Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Just to keep the falling on deaf ears thread alive. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Ints Vikmanis Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 It looks that some vector artist or artists has decided to left SS. I checked by myself that at this moment there are "61,955,408 vectors and graphics are available royalty-free." Is it possible that some large studio/studios are forcing SS to offer them better deal than other contributors? Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 10 hours ago, Ints Vikmanis said: It looks that some vector artist or artists has decided to left SS. I checked by myself that at this moment there are "61,955,408 vectors and graphics are available royalty-free." Is it possible that some large studio/studios are forcing SS to offer them better deal than other contributors? You did see this? Right? https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/101829-file-type-was-forcedly-changed-from-vector-to-raster/ Link to post Share on other sites
Ints Vikmanis Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 21 hours ago, HodagMedia said: You did see this? Right? https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/101829-file-type-was-forcedly-changed-from-vector-to-raster/ You are right! It looks that way Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 1 hour ago, Ints Vikmanis said: You are right! It looks that way I'm afraid to look at mine, when people are reporting 60% of their files have mysteriously changed file types. Maybe after they fix it you can run another analysis. Link to post Share on other sites
William E. Fehr Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I gave them some time, more than deserved actually, but SS is now officially DEAD TO ME. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Marko Duca Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 3/19/2021 at 3:09 AM, Rudy Matchinga said: Just to keep the falling on deaf ears thread alive. They are deleting at least one page of this thread per week 😆 1 Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 2 hours ago, Marko Duca said: They are deleting at least one page of this thread per week 😆 Really? And I was marking each new page with a number when someone else said the same. My marker for page 295 is now middle of 294. Yes there are old posts being deleted, but I don't seem to see "one page a week"? That and most of the same posts are here that were always here. Did you know that people delete their own posts? A couple times people have deleted thousands and that somehow meant that any thread they started was wiped from the system. Not a real solid design is that. If I start a thread and a year later, I delete it, then all the messages from everyone else will be deleted. 🤪 So maybe I missed who you meant by THEY? Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Wow. Today, something EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING, MAGNIFICENT, SUPERB, SPLENDID, IMPRESSIVE, FIRST-CLASS, ETC, ETC happened. I went up to level 3. I can't believe it, I am on level 3. I am going to drink a glass of water. It is the thing I can afford after the increase. I just went up from USD 0.10 to... USD 0.10 1 Link to post Share on other sites
vladwel Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Oh, it is really happened %( SS went to 3-rd place of income during the year, after it was main feeder for a long time.. unbelievable sad. Strange tactic at least. Really hope someone in SS will hear anyway, as the contributor focus is being changed. Link to post Share on other sites
mpessaris Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 earning what I used to 5 - 7 years ago...good times.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DOCTOR BLACK Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Summing up: SS from the leading site, in just a year, turned into a mediocre stock, the second echelon. I have Adobe in the lead. What the SS achieved: made the sale of the EPS-10 vector unprofitable, turned away professional authors, forced the authors to upload here in the last place (giving preference to Adobe and Deposit). Congratulations to the company on hiring "effective managers." I wonder if they will be able to paint and shoot in the same way as the departed authors? [sarcasm] 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 12 hours ago, DOCTOR BLACK said: Summing up: SS from the leading site, in just a year, turned into a mediocre stock, the second echelon. I have Adobe in the lead. What the SS achieved: made the sale of the EPS-10 vector unprofitable, turned away professional authors, forced the authors to upload here in the last place (giving preference to Adobe and Deposit). Congratulations to the company on hiring "effective managers." I wonder if they will be able to paint and shoot in the same way as the departed authors? [sarcasm] No need. In a couple of years if the stock price doesn't keep increasing, they'll be off to pastures new with bigger and better options/stock packages. They've already cashed out for millions......and there's always a newer and better opportunity out there on the horizon. Link to post Share on other sites
DOCTOR BLACK Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 12 hours ago, stevemart said: No need. In a couple of years if the stock price doesn't keep increasing, they'll be off to pastures new with bigger and better options/stock packages. They've already cashed out for millions......and there's always a newer and better opportunity out there on the horizon. If so, then we can say that is "the end of SS" 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Clupeidae Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 On 4/12/2021 at 7:48 AM, DOCTOR BLACK said: If so, then we can say that is "the end of SS" For us not for SS. Link to post Share on other sites
Pietersma Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Shutterstock, please reconsider stopping with this 10 cent earnings, it is only 8 eurocent. Please go back to normal earnings. It is better to sell a few images for normal prices then a lot of images for only 8 cent. Thanks! 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Harper Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I notice that one of the Bullet Points on the contributor guidelines for this forum is: Refrain from making defamatory remarks about Shutterstock, our contributors, our customers, or our competitors. Please report inappropriate comments using the Report feature. Now why would anyone want to make defamatory comments about an organisation as equitable and fair as Shutterstock? Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Harper Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 On 4/1/2021 at 7:47 AM, ribeiroantonio said: Wow. Today, something EXCELLENT, OUTSTANDING, MAGNIFICENT, SUPERB, SPLENDID, IMPRESSIVE, FIRST-CLASS, ETC, ETC happened. I went up to level 3. I can't believe it, I am on level 3. I am going to drink a glass of water. It is the thing I can afford after the increase. I just went up from USD 0.10 to... USD 0.10 Congrats, i just sank a glass of de l'eau in your honour.👐 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 On 4/16/2021 at 8:51 PM, Mick Harper said: Congrats, i just sank a glass of de l'eau in your honour.👐 As long as the water came out of a tap but not out of a bottle.....for 10 cents you can afford it! 😁 Link to post Share on other sites
Sarah2 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Any info re Shutterstock Flex and how it affects us? Can't see any but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.... Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Looks like SSTK investors have cottoned onto the expected boost to SS earnings (from the January reset to Tier 1for contributors) that will undoubtedly be presented at Q1 2021 earnings announcement in 10 days time! If only I had ploughed my monthly earnings at the end of every month last year into SS stock.......I'd be back to my old 2014/15/16 earnings level again with 31 SSTK shares. Funny though, how the 'estimated' earnings per share are now so wildly off from the actual...load of analcysts asleep at the switch!😁 No wonder the stock price is up by 300%! Link to post Share on other sites
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