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lisafx

« Reply #100 on: March 07, 2013, 21:19 »
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I'd be interested in seeing average portfolio size at IS for independents versus exclusives. Just a guess but I bet the exclusives in general have much larger portfolios.

You may be right in general.  In my case, though, I had pretty much exactly the same content and number of images on all sites, until I deactivated 1,000 leading up to D-Day. 


« Reply #101 on: March 07, 2013, 21:47 »
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I'd be interested in seeing average portfolio size at IS for independents versus exclusives. Just a guess but I bet the exclusives in general have much larger portfolios.

You may be right in general.  In my case, though, I had pretty much exactly the same content and number of images on all sites, until I deactivated 1,000 leading up to D-Day. 
Isn't there a minimum number of sales required just to apply for exclusivity? Seems to me that newer contributors with smaller ports would almost certainly be independent. At least to start. Therefore the average earnings on the left would be lower for the other sites.  It would be more interesting to compare earnings for indies versus exclusives if we had an average port size to use in the comparisons.

JFP

« Reply #102 on: March 07, 2013, 23:30 »
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So what?  A contractor job is not a lifetime position and can be (should have been) terminated

Lobo

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I'll run this up the chain to see if we can make this a priority! Thanks for the great idea! I will make sure we get people on this immediately. It's comments like this that help us continue to make sure our contributors are heard!

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule. I know you didn't have to do us this great favor but because you have I will name my new bamboo plant after you. I hope you don't mind if I shorten it's name, as it's name tag will only allow for 5 characters due to the fact that I use bubble letters for all my name tags.

is Lobo aware that such a comment to a customer would make him fired on the spot in any other normal company ?

why nobody writes to istock's CEO ? i can't believe Getty is employing such an unprofessional employee.

They're not. He's a contractor, not an employee.

« Reply #103 on: March 07, 2013, 23:44 »
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« Last Edit: May 12, 2014, 15:46 by Audi 5000 »

ShadySue

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« Reply #104 on: March 08, 2013, 06:52 »
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Really, though there is no way of making an accurate comparison. Some people cull their non-selling files after so long, so their RPI would be much higher than those who left everything up. (Unless they could actually remember how many they'd deleted from where).
There are so many imponderables, the most important being the actual content of ports, otherwise you're comparing apples with oranges. If apples are more popular, my port of 20 apples might outperform your port of 100 oranges.
Also there's acceptance policy.
Let's say you have a port with subjects A, B, C, D, E which sell moderately at site 1.
Site 2 however, isn't interested in subjects B, D and E, so will reject them.
Clearly that means buyers of subjects B, d and E will son lean not to bother with site 2.
Or it could be that both agencies take all, but competition in subjects A and D is much fiercer on one site.
photos/vectors/other/mixture
Or ...

So IMO, comparison charts are only for fun and vague interest, and don't give any useful help to those pondering what to do with their files.
« Last Edit: March 08, 2013, 10:41 by ShadySue »


 

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