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Maybe they want to know how I feel about the 17 cents I got for my latest sale. 

I thought it was a good survey. You really get to say what you want. I said I wanted 50%. We'll see how that works out. 

crap i havent gotten mine... was it all sent out at once?

I thought it was a pretty good survey too. Gave you plenty of chances for comments.

Since I have nothing to lose I gave my very honest opinion in both the positive and negative.

I thought the fact that they had questions on the forum and it's moderators was telling. What it tells is yet to be seen.

Quite frankly, after the thousands of messages from contributors on their forum, if they still don't know how we feel then this little survey isn't likely to do them much good.

When SS did a similar survey last year they did it properly and used the services of an independent professional survey company. All the interviews were done on camera (from home PC's) and the contributors who agreed to take part were paid $100 for their time (it took less than 30 mins). Much better than being entered into a raffle for a couple of iPods.

I guess the lack of investment into this 'survey' is a fair reflection of how much they actually care and how much notice they are likely to take of contributors' views. Not a lot.

Why these guys need a survey to figure out what's wrong with their company is beyond me.

I gave 'em hell.  I told them exactly why I wasn't uploading, and am in fact removing what content I have there.  I expressed my views on the royalty changes, the zero sum nature of the current system, and the dishonest explanations from Kelly.  I also said the forum was a failure, and had been moderated into a state of utter uselessness.

Somehow I don't think I'll be asked for a followup.

I'd suggest that Rebecca has simply breezed in to her new job, had a meeting and been told that dissatisfaction amongst contributors is one of the issues facing the business. So she's decided to have a survey to find out why (she doesn't know because she wasn't there). She probably thinks that giving contributors the opportunity to vent will probably help anyway.

I wasn't aware that she had started yet. I thought the change was to take affect after this month.

It's a nice thought ... but I suspect it's not how it's going to work. The people that run H&F only understand numbers expressed in P&L. KT did not satisfy their expectations so out he went. Rebecca's job will be to grow the business and improve profits ASAP. 'Concern for contributor sentiment' is unlikely to sway many of her decisions because it doesn't add directly to the bottom line and takes a relatively long time to have a measurable effect.

I think Istock are basically f**ked because their (bosses') time-lines are too short to enable them to grow the business properly. It seems to me that their attempt to rapidly boost profits, with total disregard to both contributors and customers, has imploded fairly spectacularly in their faces. The route back is obvious enough but I doubt that anyone within the organisation has either the guts, the authority or the understanding of the the situation to make it happen.

Maybe KK is filling out 3000 himself

I am still waiting for mine. I think that they are sending out a survey to everyone is good.

They can always follow it up with interviews of a smaller group later. Certainly sounds interesting what Shutterstock did and that they paid the participants properly for their time shows how much they appreciate their input.

I hope that istock will do surveys like these every year. The contributors are paying the agency a lot of money for the service the agency offers. It is always good to get feedback from your customers.