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Well dont!  today is a typical day for me. Dozens of subs, 12-SODs and yesterday even ELs and its only half day gone. This agency, let me tell you all, is like Tony-Stone and Image-Bank, were in the film days,  just delivering all the time, no nonsense, hassles or anything, just pure business knowledge and know-how, followed by a friendly atmosphere.

Wonder if you will feel the same when you have managed to entice more and more contributors to join you over there....

I have no doubt SS are the most solid agency at present, and I hope they will keep their n. 1 position forever.

Nevertheless, forever means nothing in this business and I feel safer if there are a number of other sound agencies around.

Oh!  I only just saw this after posting my figures in the November thread.  We're seeing similar results this month, Gostwyck.  SS constituted 42.24% of my total.  A new record high for me too.  It'll be interesting to see if other indies have a similar story to tell this month.

Youre wrong there, ( sincerely) I mean, not trying to recruit anybody or anything, not my religion actually. Its in my interest as a contributor that as few as possible joins up, competition you know. However, credit where credit is due, its a fantastic agency. Its a breath of fresh air to find that today.

PS. Im a bit surprised over your post. Not like you.

best.

Amateurs! I'm at roughly 50% 

Apart from the commission!

Thanks, I'll do that.

Shutterstockers are flying sky high now  .  Sooner or later they will fly to close to the sun and fall down.

People have always spread the good news when a site is doing well, there isn't much point in trying to keep it a secret.  I don't like the thought of lots of exclusives joining SS but its hard to get sales going for new images now.  Hopefully if more people drop the crown, more buyers will move as well.  The big problem could be if SS becomes too big, I would like to see istock stay strong to provide some competition but its hard to see their decline stopping.

SS is so good it's almost worrying. 55% of my sales at the moment, and IS is struggling to stay ahead of DT and 123. Strong competition is needed to keep them on their toes though, so hopefully we won't have to many stumbles among the competition. Hopefully also we won't see anymore takeovers/killings of good agencies like the IS/StockXpert thing. It's bad for the whole business.

SS is doing well for me right now, but I am a little troubled by the lack of traction that new images are getting there for me. It might just be my not so great images, but my older ones continue to sell, so right now it still looks rosy.
I do wonder if sales will just take a while to show up for my new images like they do on DT and used to on IS or if those images that don't get sales in the first few weeks will be forever buried. There certainly isn't the new image boost on SS that there used to be.

I would like to see some of the smaller decent places like GL, 123, stockfresh etc. make some advances as well as DT. I'd hate to see SS become too dominant. As far as I'm concerned IS is dead to me.

It´s been a difficult week as you know. I am aware that many people with a smaller portfolio are jumping ship, especially if they have a day job. However the results from the people I know have been very mixed, i.e. it is very likely they would have made more money if they had stayed and just started uploading regularly again.

To see such a huge port leave...all I can think of is that he must be setting up his own site and has some contacts into macro as well. I find it very hard to imagine that he can recover the loss in 12-18 months. The Vetta files alone are probably earning more money than all my 3000 images together.

I am focussing on video and having a look around, but IMO istock can definetly turn things around with the right attitude and careful management. (I can imagine what you are going to say...)

Fotovoyagers journey into independence  will be watched by many people.