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Read all about it;

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=197731&page=1

Exclusive + photographs to be priced as follows:

XSmall: 5 credits
Small: 10 credits
Medium: 15 credits
Large: 20 credits
XLarge: 25 credits
XXLarge: 30 credits
XXXLarge: 35 credits

Looking good for exclusive contributors.

It does look good for exclusive contributors.

But I don't share your optimism. Down the road a year or two, when this becomes an "unsustainable" business model for istock/getty and the commissions are lowered substantially and exclusives are now locked in to IS/getty hook, line and sinker, it won't be such a good deal. I'm a "glass-half-empty" kind of person...wish I could change that sometimes!

Hope I'm wrong, for all you exclusives' sake.

So true Loop!!   Certainly the Thinkstock issue caused me to do a reThink.

Assuming anyone can find them!  

I don't know if it's the search engine or Easter break, but my IS sales have been tanked this month.  

Either that or someone has rolled the clock back to 2007 and I am having average to good sales

You're not alone. I cash out every Sunday and this week's request is going to be about 45% down compared to the last week of March. Ouch.

Yes, quite down, maybe 20%. But I've noted every year the wicked effects of spring break.

Yes way down here also

as said it would seem good news for Exclusives however creating yet more divisions within the Exclusive contributers ranks and no doubt pushing independents lower priced content yet further back may prove to be counter productive in the long run,  yet another price hike? there has to come a time when the customer base says enough is enough and talk with their feet, and it's not always going to be TS 

Thank heavens for SS and the steady ELs there right now which is more than making up for my downturn at IS 

I really wonder if this could harm the sales after all. The images are locked in Exclusive + for 6 months after you made your choice. If those higher prices harm the sales even a little, that can kill a file in the best match...

Though, I already had to buy images at Dreamstime that were level 2 and more. I needed those particular files and the higher prices didn't stopped me from paying more

sales for last two weeks are now about only 55% of average, looking like creepersmas time again (FT has about the same drop though)

I played with pricing on 8 exclusive image on Fotolia last 2 months. Doubled the pricing and the income ended up less overall for those images (one stopped selling altogether). They are all pretty generic with a lot of competition, so I think for those images people just grabbed the next one in line.

+1 thinkstock, wonder when the ppd is coming....

Good news then. I'll probably opt in all my best selling files, but I'm still not sure right now.

Same here.

Hi everyone,
 
I don't understand some of you. Yesterday, we were complaining about low commissions and about how agencies are cutting our commissions, but now that IS raised commissions, you are skeptical.  Cheer up guys, at least somebody is doing something good for the contributors. I am not an IS exclusive, but I welcome any raise in commission.
Loop is right, everything has its price. So, please stop complaining and being skeptical about the future.
Personally, I don't think there is a single buyer that can't afford to buy an image on IS. If they can't afford it, they should not be in that business. Period. 
Everyone makes more money than we do off of our images. So maybe it is about time something changed.

Kone

I think people mostly complain about the commission percent and its steady creep downwards (except at IS where it was already at the bottom).

Had IS introduced per image exclusivity back in the day, they would be the sole market for all of the images that ever hit the big time there, and probably have almost no competition. If they did the same for Vetta and exclusive+, that would further their control of top selling hard to re-create images. Instead they went with the unsustainable goalposts and thinkstock mess.

I am all for premium content at premium prices. I'd like to see all of the sites move that way.

--=Tom