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Thanks?

I just read it & it is certainly better than the original plan.

Still looking at a huge jump to gold after I make silver...

I thought this quote makes quite a good point:

You've also effectively made it hard for anyone to give up exclusivity moving forward too because it can be assumed that they could only re-enter exclusivity under the new levels...

I don't see anything in there for me, except they specifically stated "Our plans for next year had one goal: make more money for our exclusives" - which is of course a load of $%^&  - Their goal is to make more money for themselves, and if they have to make more for exclusives, that is part of how they get there.
Unfortunately they don't seem to have much concern for the source of a lot of their content - pity.

I fear that the BM will become a BEM. oh well.

I seriously doubt that will happen.  We will be gathering dust at the back of the BM. 

If you would be serious about exclusivity at diamond level you should call or e-mail support and let them know so maybe they will grandfather you in.  It is certainly worth a try

I didn't see that in there or was it in another thread? All I saw was that they said they reserve the right to offer exclusivity to people under 500 downloads. That and a lot of unicorns and rainbows.

I know that I always have different optics then they from iStock, but what is that?

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=155531&page=7

look third post someone want to be they iStock T-shirt of the 2010?!???

First of all, they are angry when I called them Stoka (Cattle in my language but is obviously that kind of animal is present on "illustration")
Second rainbow flag and something on head suggest other side.
Third this wanabee "illustration"!? They will never accept this if I upload something like this poor doodle and has more than 60dls?! Maybe little improvement in this "illustration" with stick man and rainbow umbrella on the back side in BruceLee or Chuck Norris pose in action of doodle creature will have more impact because for now we see only reaction of "horse" and third law of thermodinamic says that any action must have reaction or vice versa  

For my "bad tongue" about them (iStok) I receive few warnings and about 15 or more Ignore buttons for my "wannabe jokes" about them.

Whats you conclusion in this case? Am I so wrong?

Anyhow to not to bee so offtopic. I only need bigger canister levels when I started with them and for bronze was border 500 dls same with now they announce for february. In that stage I dont remember other borders because they are been so far away from me. For now I maybe few times needs few more uploads for my current canister level but it was not so horrible to wait day or two.
Maybee they drop they canister levels when they see big drop (in Alexa and wee also in our sales while experimenting with BM algorithm) last half of 2008. to attract more submitters. Now they have recover growth from last year and now they screw pipe to old level.
My only concern is if they dont dig or hide so deep nonexclusive images for buyers.
Sorry if I was "rude" again...

Did Suljo think it was a penis? Oh my....

I just assumed HHUR was an iStock forum thing like Woo Yays. I've never heard either of those before iStock. Regardless, I like the illustration. A unicorn vomiting a rainbow? That's awesome!

I followed your advice and I opted out of subs, both on IS and on SXP. My content will only be on SS (0.36$) and on DT (0.35$) as subs. I don't want Getty to undercut my best selling agents.

(The year of the predator)

Actually not at all. My first allusion was about missing Action and Reaction like on "improved illustration". On original image is only Reaction without visible reason why mythical horse is puking rainbow.
Not like in this song. Sorry again...

Let3 feat Seve - kurcem u celo

I did the same. I wish some of the other agencies would get creative and reward people doing this. Doesn't have to be monetary, maybe give people opting out of Getty subscription offerings a bump in the best match. And an even bigger bump for people who don't submit at all to Getty.  That would also increase the chances of customers jumping from site to site, seeing content they haven't already seen.