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This is a big deal for subs.  Maybe the others will follow soon. 

Are we not getting screwed once again with a drop in commissions though?

In DT particularly, except for the forced opt-in in subs, there have not been any change that was detrimental to us, am I wrong?

I'm happy to see improvements in subs, but very upset about the reduction in credit comissions - up to 60%!  I think not even FT was so aggressive, although it is true DT started in a higher level.  And the disappointing thing is that this (FT's 30-40% commission, IS's 20%) will be used as a justification for the reduction. 

Wow, very disappointing.  Thanks for posting this py.  

News just seems to keep getting worse in micro.  It's not surprising that once Fotolia managed to lower commissions the other sites would follow suit.

I have always been one of the biggest cheerleaders for Dreamstime, but there is very little here to feel positive about.  The high royalties for PPD sales has been the only thing compensating for the rising number of sub sales.   Now with those royalties slashed on the majority of files I don't see how my income from DT can possibly sustain itself.  

They have been a consistent 2nd tier earner for me (behind istock) along with FOT and SS.  Now it is likely they will join BigStock, StockXpert, and 123 on my third tier.

So sad  

I wonder if IS will get any new exclusives as a result of this deal?  

(freedom, I notice you posted the same thought while I was typing )

I have stopped uploading because they suddenly started rejecting more of my photos.  It isn't the quickest site to upload to.  How will this motivate me to upload more?  I am going to spend more time building my portfolio on alamy, they pay a decent commission and higher prices than most of the microstock sites. 

So are DT now going to spend more on marketing or are they going to keep the extra money?  I haven't seen an increase in sales since FT lowered our commissions.  Unfortunately I need my microstock earnings or I would leave the sites that cut commissions.

We should all get behind zymmetrical, as they are paying 70% commissions.  If they can do it with fairly low sales, the big 6 sites should all pay at least 50% and more to exclusives.

More rejections here too, photos that I was sure would be accepted like objects isolated on white.

Also got a rejection notice for a "too many in same series" when it was the only photo in the series. The rejections don't even make sense.

Yeah, those too "oops" statements may be the actual silver lining.   Let's keep our fingers crossed this turns out okay. 

Wow! That is really crap-tacular. Hopefully, their credit increase will offset that a little. I ran some rough numbers based on July and it looks like a decrease of 30% for me. Who knows how it will actually work out, but it doesn't look good.

Well, their 50% commission had been on for years, so it is not like they had just done it to attract us...

Yes, insignificantly. I didn't counted those. When I say fotolia I can only think of the latest comission drop.

I'm happy for you. For the vast majority, the reduction wasn't that positive. Me included.

I am not commenting directly the math behind DT's latest move, however I am having a wild guess that it's not gonna be good for us, just the same as their change in search engine affected a lot of us quite badly, not so long ago.

I didn't like the reduction either, but it seems like earnings have gone up lately for me too.

Xalanx has a point that the trend definitely seems to be against contributors interests. 

But I still think it is worth discussing here.  Members of this group have managed to band together to get some positive changes or at least make improvements in the worst changes the sites have tried to put over on us. 

Until/unless we really get serious about forming a trade group to represent our interests we can probably expect more unappealing changes in the future.