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iStockphoto / Getty Images admiting defeat and inviting people to contribute
April 7, 2017
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This could just be a rumor or badly interpreted information, but there is a source saying that almighty iStockphoto / Getty Images is in their last heartbeats and is using most sneaky tactics to save itself from miserable death. They
Professional stock footage sell more than everyday lifestyle themes?
April 6, 2017
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Stock footage industry has more levels of quality media. But their sales depends from buyers use. Not every company is searching for best and most creative media to tell their story or fill some blank spots in their video projects.
Shutterstock 2017 March number of sales rise but income is worse
April 2, 2017
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In the last post about “Shutterstock number of sales rise but income is lower” we mentioned that number of sales are rising, but our income not that much. We blamed our newly uploaded photo media which are most likely stealing
Not uploading to Videoblocks because of Dissolve forced high priced stock footage
April 1, 2017
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About a year ago we planned to try Videoblocks stock agency nevertheless the HD pricing tier is way bellow industry standards. Some contributors reported good income and because there is no agency share, the contributor receives 99% of the income.
Undervaluing your 4K stock footage on iStockphoto / Getty images ?
March 30, 2017
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Working for iStockphoto / Getty images is like working for exploitative employer. They don’t appreciate your work neither with attitude or payment. Not to mention dumping stock video market price. And this stock agency is doing exactly what we mentioned. Underselling 4K
Istockphoto / Getty Images affecting search results with only specific media
March 29, 2017
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EDITED: Look at bottom part for update! Worlds worse stock media agency is winning another battle against contributors that don’t like them or don’t anymore upload to their database. We stopped uploading more than a year ago and left stock
Shutterstock number of sales rise but income is lower
March 24, 2017
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For half a year we tried to upload some photos to Shutterstock to test out the sales with this kinda media. Because we thought that selling a variety of media types would improve our exposure, number of sales and give
Shutterstock stock footage rejection double standards: Release Not Needed
February 27, 2017
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After long years in stock footage industry, we’ve received hundreds of different rejection reasons. Some were actually our mistake because we didn’t notice glitches, missing blurs of logos or forgot to attach release forms. But none of them is such
Challenges when making stock footage
February 24, 2017
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You might think, that making stock footage is simple and you’ll be making hundred new files every day? Well, after many thousands of processed files you can find a suited workflow that could work if you make hundred of new
