Martyn Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Article in the UK Daily Mail today about earning money from the Alamy "S" division that can't be mentioned on here. The article has lost a bit of impact though in the way that only the Mail can achieve by illustrating the story with an image sourced from a micro stock agency .... oops ... !! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-7061985/Earn-money-stock-photography-Stockimo-app-launches.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Well spotted! A new app. - When was S*o launched? And a major UK paper calls it new? Surely this is not just the fault of the newspaper. (the app was launched Feb 2014, more than 5 years ago) wim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 So...what's the point of the article at this moment in time? Are the Mail just trying to actively encourage readers to sign up for S*o in order to get more images at an even cheaper rate (£2,780, my ass)?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 23 minutes ago, losdemas said: So...what's the point of the article at this moment in time? Are the Mail just trying to actively encourage readers to sign up for S*o in order to get more images at an even cheaper rate (£2,780, my ass)?! According to a Stockimo tweet earlier today, a lot of people had signed up, so they had an inspection backlog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) The same misleading article started here. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-7061985/amp/Earn-money-stock-photography-Stockimo-app-launches.html?__twitter_impression=true Edited May 30, 2019 by Thyrsis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Thyrsis said: The same misleading article started here. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-7061985/amp/Earn-money-stock-photography-Stockimo-app-launches.html?__twitter_impression=true Just had a quick read of this article and it's basically full of lies. As for illustrating it with images sourced from another agency - well, it just makes the writer look stupid, doesn't it?! 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 My last license on there netted me $25, so not bad at all. Ey***m, which I'm not on, just stopped "subsidizing" sales (so people got $2/per sale) and now some have received even less than a penny. Gotta love the big G. The article reminds me of the time my daughter was all excited about the new show she found, The Brady Bunch. But she was 8, so it was an understandable mistake.I worry about the future of journalism even more than I worry about the future of photography! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I don't think the article mentions that the smart phone has to be an iPhone, unless A has managed to delve into Android too. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 36 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: I don't think the article mentions that the smart phone has to be an iPhone, unless A has managed to delve into Android too. Allan "However, one of the main drawbacks of the service currently is that the system is only available to iPhone users who have an iPhone 4 or above and Stockimo has not revealed whether Android users will be able to contribute in the future. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreign Export Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Daily Mail has been rapidly going downhill for years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 37 minutes ago, Foreign Export said: Daily Mail has been rapidly going downhill for years Yeah but it is good for a giggle - and making me look like I predict the future. I gaze into my crystal ball and see somewhere in the next few weeks a DM article about "huge shark spotted off Cornish coast" with photos and descriptions of the silhouette in the water and wonderful coastline before somewhen in the last 3 or 4 lines it will admit the shark is indeed a basking shark, native to this country, that appears off Cornwall in large numbers at this time every year. I was spot on with my prediction on the article about hedges wrapped in silk by caterpillers - unfortunately, my local example of this phenomenon is on a piece of national speed limit quite twisty road with no safe way of visiting on foot with the camera, so I was unable to send them a photo and get paid for predicting what they were going to write about. On the other hand I recommend beach snappers see if they can get a couple of shots of the weaver fish in for August - as there is usually an article about the "rare" (it's not) "tropical" (it's not) fish with highly venomous spines that buries itself in sand in shallow water and causes nasty injuries if (when) trodden on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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