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Messages - Karen
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« on: November 24, 2015, 06:06 »
ShutterStock because their search engine is much better...
As of now SS has the best search engine IMHO.
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« on: November 24, 2015, 03:31 »
My choice is Stockfresh. I really don't understand why they could not make it into Big 4.
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« on: November 22, 2015, 01:35 »
Thank you Jo Ann for this info!
Do you believe Thinkstock intentionally overpriced?
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« on: November 21, 2015, 15:00 »
50 downloads / month Subscriptions: Thinkstock $139/month iStock $89/month Make sense? 
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« on: November 20, 2015, 13:49 »
HUGE drops in October... My iStock PP earnings dropped fivefold during last year.
I think Getty will close Thinkstock and move it's customers back to iStock.
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« on: November 19, 2015, 03:21 »
October was one of the worst months on DT...
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« on: November 18, 2015, 13:15 »
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« on: November 17, 2015, 14:41 »
"Omendrive" SS port is down.
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« on: November 17, 2015, 08:37 »
weird... Omendrive registered as vietnamese account on SS and ukrainian account on 123rf
http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Omendrive
Do these sites check you when you join uo?
If so, this guy could be into much more than image theft.
You mean anti-money laundering tax interview?
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« on: November 17, 2015, 08:26 »
Thanks for that link Shiyali - I'll check it out.
Thanks for the link!
112
« on: November 16, 2015, 12:08 »
Another cunning plan how to steal and not to get caught?
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« on: November 16, 2015, 05:59 »
But the SS reviews are completly unpredictable, at least for me.
For me too 
114
« on: November 16, 2015, 00:16 »
What do you mean "Finally shutterstock accept my port"?
Why did not they accept your port before?
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« on: November 13, 2015, 07:53 »
amazing... 
116
« on: November 13, 2015, 07:50 »
27 days. Video.
Same here
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« on: October 13, 2015, 11:55 »
But it's OK, because Adobe pays only 33%, but iStock pays up to 7%.
Oh, wait...
I'll be kind. He's right about Adobe paying too much for mostly the same pictures that any buyer can find anywhere. Except the people who quit FT.
He's right about the marketing power that Adobe could push. But it would only squeeze out the bottom of the barrel that's already on life support.
He's right about mediocre image standards but forgets that IS has lower standards now.
His point that 33% is low is well made, but IS is 15% which is half the money and twice as bad for artists.
I think he makes many good points about what Adobe could do, the review of how he evaluated agencies before joining them, is interesting, we can learn from that. If he was on 50 agencies before going contract on Getty, I don't believe he followed his own evaluations for cost and investment vs returns. It blows holes in his whole science of finance claim, used to discredit Adobe Stock.
How does that translate into polite opinion? He is tainted and not at all credible because he contradicts his own words, history and claims, with his own real actions. His review is biased and only picks or chooses what fits. He neglects IS speed, search, pay, and information, while only including SS and Adobestock.
You of all people Mr. Wackerhausen should strive for honesty and accuracy. That's what got you to the top. Clear science and business foresight into the stock industry. If you want credibility and respect beyond your marketing and photography reputation, you need to have the same standards for your own reporting.
This latest blogpost has missed the mark of anything close to fair, unbiased or scientific. Not like I would expect from you.
He is the top, that's not a personal claim, it's the truth, based on 2011 best selling microstock photographer in the world. I don't know about today.
Very well said!
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« on: October 13, 2015, 01:38 »
It would be good advertising for Getty if Yuri could write an article how his income has doubled or tripled since going exclusive with them.
If he could manage to write that convincingly he should give up photography and get a job writing fiction
ROFL 
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« on: October 12, 2015, 08:37 »
He breaks more than a year of blog silence to do a "review" on Adobe for no particular reason? I'm guessing the Getty/IS marketing guys poked him to do it.
Maybe he prepares to jump from the sinking Titanic to a promising Cruise Ship?
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« on: October 12, 2015, 05:15 »
While the total number of subs from iStock has remained more or less the same (for me), I am seeing the portion of PP subs declining while the portion of iStock subs is on the rise.
iStock subs prices are lower then Thinkstock subs prices. Getty is eating its own market and in so doing, hoping to get a bigger share of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_cannibalismEventually they will kill close Thinkstock.
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« on: October 08, 2015, 13:47 »
Where is our fearless low royalty crusader?
Probably refreshing Shutterstock subscription and credit plans page to see if anything has changed.
ROFL
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« on: October 08, 2015, 00:50 »
This looks like a very simple business plan - "let's screw our suppliers and take all the money for ourselves".
Thats been their business plan for 4-5 years now. Just accellerating as they get more desperate. The water is starting to simmer. Us frogs will be boiling by January 2016, methinks.
Very simple business plan - squeeze as much juice as they can from the lemon... whilst they can.
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« on: September 24, 2015, 10:24 »
Sales seem to be fine for me on Fotolia.
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