I see the industry adjust in the future due to the avalanche of ULed images with minimal commercial value. From my "art buyer" chair, it is a 20 page search in many cases to find the good stuff. I think SS is already doing that more than IS. I sense the goal for the major microstock sites is less images of weak subject matter and poor execution equating to better relevant keyword searches. Ultimately, it is about ART.

The business model to accept their deluge of non-selling images will just bog down the system -- if it hasn't already. Getty isn't a fool. I suspect they are filling the corrals before they thin the herd.
WOW did I call this right. I posted this the other day and IS did just what I suspected.