Comments on: Microstock Mash

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:46:57 +0000

Nice post. I’ll have to check out all of these.

By: Perrush

Perrush — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:25:18 +0000

@ dreads :

yes, you are correct, these sites make it more easy to copy (y)our work and probably they benefit from it too. But …

In real live their are two ways to stay on the top.

The first is to become better and thus keep an advantage to your competitors
The second is to suppress your competitors

Dictators always choose the second way … …

By: dreads

dreads — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:43:07 +0000

Is it any wonder that contributors keep complaining about increased competition, copycat creators and sales losses ? The people that run these tools just give more tools to your competitors to profit of your and others’ work. The argument that all this data is just scraped from sites and is available to anyone doesn’t hold water when it is so easy to access and take advantage of here. Sorry, jmo.

By: Perrush

Perrush — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:52:03 +0000

interesting observation from istockcharts:

Ranked by # downloads a day over the last 300 days : only 1 non-exclusive in the top 50 !! (Yuri)

Greetz
Stefan

By: Rahul Pathak

Rahul Pathak — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:06:28 +0000

Peepo,

My pleasure and ‘decent lad’ is good praise indeed. Thank you. Lee & Andres (among others) have been great early supporters and we’re lucky to have them in our corner. Also, thanks for the istockroyalties tip. I’ll definitely take a look.

Regarding your position on LookStat, while I’d love it if you decide to try us at some point in the future, your good wishes in the meantime are very much appreciated. Again, if I can answer any questions directly, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Rahul

PS: Even if the service is not for you, if you ever feel like sharing your thoughts on metrics you find useful, I’d love to hear them.

By: Peepo

Peepo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:49:51 +0000

Hi Rahul

Many thanks for the reply. From the few posts here you come across as a decent lad, and also being endorsed by Lee and Andres Rodriguez is a big plus too.

The csv upload idea came about as I found this: http://wavelength.org.nz/istockroyalties/ It’s specific to istock and you import the csv file that you can download directly from your profile.Im not sure if other stock sites do the same thing, and if not, I can see why it may not make sense to include that on your site.

I would be interested in using lookstat – it looks great from the screenshots, but for me, giving out my password is not something I want to do.

Thanks Rahul and I sincerely wish you all the best with lookstat

By: Mikhail Lavrenov

Mikhail Lavrenov — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:50:43 +0000

at the moment I use DeepMeta for iStock and FTP upload to the other sites. However with optimization of my workflow and gradual increase of the number of photos I produce per month I am starting considering using one universal program like CushyStock…

For the keywords I use sometimes PhotoKeywords.

By: Artem Sapegin

Artem Sapegin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:18:29 +0000

DeepMeta.

By: Gary Cookson

Gary Cookson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:17:39 +0000

Thanks Lee, really enjoyed that article and fascinating to play around with the stats on istockcharts. Cheers.

By: Bob Davies

Bob Davies — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:58:57 +0000

Heya Lee

Thanks so much for inclusion in the post, always good to see people are getting use out of the site

I’m hoping to add some new features soon (working on finding a server that’ll do what I need) will drop u a mail when I know more

Cheers
Bob