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go to Stats in your profile and then below you can see this chart and other for monthly downloads, the last one is regular downloads across all year

Thank you; thank you; thank you.  Now, all the stuff I see folks talking about is starting to make a lot more sense ... to me.

This is much more detailed (and accurate) than what I have been able to see in Deep Meta.   

It's possible it may have just been coincidence. If I wanted my portfolio at TS, I'm not sure what I'd do to get it there - I now have 17 files at TS (of 2500) and none of them are Photo+. I made an image Photo+ a day or two ago and it hasn't shown up at TS.

I don't know how IS is doing overall at getting the entire indie collection at iStock over to TS/photos.com, but I'm assuming they're nowhere near finished. Unless they're attracting new buyers, the earnings for those long-term supporters of the partner program are going to drop when they get all the files moved.  My take on the big hit (if there is one) to SS is that it would come when (if?) they forced all the exclusive content at iStock onto TS/photos.com. At that point there'd be something other than a Getty discount that TS offered that SS didn't.

There are lots of things about where Getty thinks it's going with Thinkstock that I don't understand (put more bluntly; I can't see how it could possibly be a good idea).

 Case in point is their current free image which is from the Stockbyte collection. It's on Getty Images priced from $10 to $350 and also on TS where you could buy it via an Image Pack for $20. It's even credited with the photographer's name, so it makes it very easy to find elsewhere.

Agree 100%.  They make all these collections to differentiate between higher and lower quality content, then shuttle it all to their subscription dumping ground.  Makes no logical sense at all. 

Hi all,
I used to sell more of my vectors to PP before the change and still I was doing very well on IS. But now - really - I have hardly any DL-s... 
Thanks for all the info in the thread.
I`m really wondering what to do next.

Thinkstock sells "Image packs" - small credit bundles in effect - so for $20 ($99 for 5 is the smallest you can buy) you get to buy a license to the image. No subscription requirement. It's possible that the maximum print run or other things are different between the Getty License and TS, but even if you add on an EL (and their licensing section says they have extended licenses for image packs and for subscriptions, but I don't see the prices for those on the site).

And the subscription license says you can keep using a photo after the subscription term in projects that were started during the term of the subscription. How on earth you could police that I don't know; what's a revision of an existing design vs. a new project.