MicrostockGroup

I was happy when I found Isyndica about one month ago. Sad to see them close.

With a photo collection close to 3500 pics, som RM, some RF, is was er very nice way to keep track og which images was accepted where, earnings etc.
Only thing I was missing was earnings on the single pic.

Wll - sad to see them close - I found their pricing very resonable i view of what they offered.

To be of any walue to me, a replacement should offer just about the same possibilities to be of any interest.

Just wanted to add my voice of support to the project even though I'm unlikely to use it while I'm exclusive I'll support it in whatever way I can.

I think its important for independents to have a service like this, even though many don't realise how much value it actually brings.

One of the problems with the graphical interface isyndica chose was that it made things slow when you were on a slow connection, which ironically was when you most needed the service. Simple FTP is possible from photoshelter, so what's really missing is the ability to send to IS and places like Veer where you need a different FTP protocol (at least you used to).

Some of you guys and gals may be interested in this thread:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/picniche-toolbar/isyndica-ends-service-on-10th-does-anyone-need-to-export-their-images-by-then/

While I do miss the ability to "Upload Once and Syndicate Everywhere", I'll be honest it's not what I miss the most about iSyndica...

What I miss the most is the analytics.  The ability to long in every day (or several times a day) and review my sales data.  The daily tracking... the historical data... it was all critical to my workflow as it helped me to understand sales trends at different sites.

The picNiche Toolbar is nice to see what's happening right now on the few sites it supports, but the lack of historical data is debilitating.

As a video guy, I realize that duplicating iSyndica's video distribution abilities is going to be expensive and not likely to be affordable because of storage costs.  So I am resigned to handling distribution myself and I don't think I'm likely to sign up for any new distribution service unless it's really cheap.

BUT!! I would sign up for a service which duplicated iSyndica's analytics and took it even farther.  It would need to at least support all of the sites that iSyndica did plus the ability to import data (something iSyndica did) and allow manual editing of the data (something iSyndica did not directly do).  In my opinion, it would also need the ability to track my portfolio on every site.  I realize that for most sites automatic import of data won't be possible, but just a web site which allows me to import a CSV with all of my clip data and then update via a web interface manually and give my reports would be worth its weight in gold to me.  The ability to compare my portfolio on different sites to see what I still need to upload... The ability to track what gets rejected so I know not to re-upload...  The ability for me to compare individual file sales across sites to see what is popular at which site.  Those are the things I would pay good money for.

I know that a couple of sites have some of these features, but I want a site that has ALL of these features.  I don't think the other sites even support footage, just images.

So, I hope that you will consider adding analytics support to your new site and the ability to subscribe JUST to the analytics features and not the syndication features.  I would imagine that a lot of other people like myself would pay for those features and not the file service, but that additional revenue could possible help to lower your costs for the file service and offer it at a better rate.  Perhaps if iSyndica had offered just the analytics as a separate subscription they'd still be around.

^^^ Well, he obviously specializes in video. On IS he has 9 files and 9 downloads, on pond5 1200 videos...