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Oh you're right.Without .com, there is a clear crossover.Apparently coinciding exactly with the announcement of RCs at iS. That was the beginning of contributor-shafting at iS, but the downturn ...
Quote from: ShadySue on May 10, 2014, 16:39Oh you're right.Without .com, there is a clear crossover.Apparently coinciding exactly with the announcement of RCs at iS. That was the beginning of contributor-shafting at iS, but the downturn ... As a IS buyer that is exactly when I started purchasing images on other sites. And I will follow suit for any site that shafts contributors.
But as far s I can see Getty generates additional income to exclusives to overcome the gap between reduced DL from signature and S+ collections
I am still missing PP income from Feb which showed on my stats but NOT in my balance. My support ticket is almost 2 months not answered. When I posted on the forum it was locked and I was told to be patient.
I don't understand how being exclusive works so well anymore. sure you may be placed higher in the search, but thanks to the price sliders buyers can simply remove your stuff and still have cheap and high quality offerings.
Quote from: gillian on May 11, 2014, 05:03I don't understand how being exclusive works so well anymore. sure you may be placed higher in the search, but thanks to the price sliders buyers can simply remove your stuff and still have cheap and high quality offerings.Gillian, exclusivity only works if there is a dominant industry leader, which iStock was when it was under good management (up until 2011). I've been with the agency for 12 years, and have amassed about 300,000 sales, but iStock needs to perform an extremely dramatic turnaround if I'm going to maintain my exclusivity in 2014 / 2015. At this point, I'm sure a lot of artists, myself included, are just riding out the last little bit of sales and looking forward to a more healthier way of marketing our work.
I'm exclusive and income has been bouncing around as iStock fiddles with the prices. The bad trend is the continuously decreasing downloads. Like Paulie, weekdays with no downloads are becoming all to common. Selling price is of no matter if there are no sales at any price. PP and Getty income is only a few dollars a month most months and not worth considering for me. I haven't decided if or when to make the break. Based on early last year trends I expected to already be dead - but I'm hanging on barely. One question still lingering - if I break Exclusivity, to where to I jump? SS for sure. After that I don't know what makes sense.