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Over the past few weeks I've had my first exclusive sale at DT, very happy with that and with the $550 that brought me

Do you mean you sold the rights?

Care to elaborate more Ssuper.?.

Patrick H.

Ssuper seems to be trying to stir things up. He's only made 3 posts and one of his others is

"Fotolia, my friends, is for sale...That means your images, and revenue, are being negotiated, as we speak. or as you read this..."

The other post of his upset people before he edited it.
 
Leaf I think you should consider banning this troll.

The question wasn't put to me, I will give an answer anyway. Before that, who are the lot of people quitting DT - Contibuters or buyers? Why are they quitting? If they are buyers, it doesn't have any effect on me, because this is my best month ever, its only the 20th and I'm at my second best month ever +50%. If contributors are quitting, good for me, less competition.
The reason why I'm still contributing:
1   DT is my no 1 earner: at this stage more than SS and iS combined.
2.  As far as I'm concerned the friendliest site with the most helpfull staff.
3.  I have an acceptance rate well over 90%, beaten only by Yay (and that doesn't count). 

As long as this piece of info leaked to competitors (or whoever) who have too much time on their hands, I think our contributors need to be correctly informed.

Ellen will no longer write the blog from March, as she will write a book about stock photography (which is truly great for the entire industry). The announcement was to be made during the next week with her last article. We believe she did a great job with her blog, leaves a very good resource for all our users (even outside photographers who read them from time to time). Please keep in mind that the blog was published for more than 2 years now and it covers all subjects extensively. Nonetheless, the Blogs! are now a significant resource of our site and continue to grow.
 
Of course, each departure is difficult, we had such a great time together. There is no such thing as internal conflicts, many persons leaving etc. No one else is leaving, in fact we've just increased our sales force and the editors' team. Most probably this person learned the news from us at UGC and tried to use it in such a 'nice' way.

To end up on a positive note, we have some great features just to be released, great plans for marketing and new records being surpassed daily and monthly. This thread was too much offtopic so I'll stop here.

Thanks for the update, Achilles.  I wasn't worried, both because my interactions with Dreamstime have all been positive, and because Ssuper's note read like someone spreading malicious gossip for his own nefarious reasons.