It seamt to me that John Oringer of SS, simply gets in right in just about everything, at least for contributors and buyers, just look at the new editing system where keywords comes up in little squares and the entire interface for that matter, brillant! followed by the keywords that were used to find youre shots.

At the moment he is by far the market leader and got it all in the palm of his hand, so why doesnt he do a clever move and take over the whole damned micro thingy, Im sure we would be a lot happier.

The differance between how SS, is run, compared to the computer-nerd clowns at IS, is staggering, frightening! actually!

Leads me to speculate that if SS, introduced exclusivity, they would have a line-up of 70% of all contributors in the entire Micro industry. A down out Kill !

Yeah, Shutterstock is the only site I completely trust and I would actually consider for exclusivity, yet I'd prefer to stay independent. Tomorrow never knows.

Sure!  but IF you ever consider exclusivity, thats the one to go for.

By far the best site, easiest to use and what's most important it's the best earner for me. I'm only submitting to IS and SS so if there was an exclusive option, I'd go for it. IS can't get anything right (and on top of that the new best match favours exclusives even more heavily) and SS couldn't get that * up even if they try. Really hard.

I just wish they would drop the categories.

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I just wish they would drop the categories.

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but when it comes to the bottom line it's money that counts.

I agree, but couldn't possibly care less about RPD. I only care how much my payout is at the end of the month.

Once you have been in business for a longer period, you will find that the payout is secondary, stabillity and security is worth just about 1000 times more, why?  because without that your payout will soon drop.

This is where IS finally failed and became the most instable and insecure place in the business, regardless of exclusive or independant.

...I don't expect I will be considering exclusivity anywhere else, even if it were offered. 

+1 If you can, it is good to avoid putting all your eggs in any one basket; diversify in every way possible. This leads to stability. The more good microstock agencies there are, the better off we will be IMO.

...but the RPD is only (under) 20 % from the RPD at istock, dreamstime or fotolia for me. And this is horrible for me as a free illustrator !

 

I love Shutterstock, and certainly agree they are doing things right.  No drama over there.   However I can say the same about Dreamstime too.  Everything just works at both sites. 

My big compliant with DT currently is their stupid upload limits; 36 a week is to constraining, 18 if you are below 80% approval.

Leads me to speculate that if Shutterstock, introduced exclusivity, they would have a line-up of 70% of all contributors in the entire Micro industry. A down out Kill !

SS won't introduce exclusivity. Why would they? They'd have to increase commissions to pay for it ... that means they'd have to introduce additional price tiers for customers ... the additional cost does not confer any benefit to the customer (who just want an image that suits their purpose) ... thus making SS less competitive ... etc, etc, etc.

The reason that SS are so successful is precisely because they haven't introduced exclusivity, or price tiers, or expensive imagery. That's exactly where most of the other agencies have gone wrong, Istock being a current extreme case-in-point.

Quote from: Perry on May 02, 2011, 04:51

I just wish they would drop the categories.

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I donīt see the problem on categories, you can even pick a few pictures and add the same category

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but when it comes to the bottom line it's money that counts.

I agree, but couldn't possibly care less about RPD. I only care how much my payout is at the end of the month.

Once you have been in business for a longer period, you will find that the payout is secondary, stabillity and security is worth just about 1000 times more, why?  because without that your payout will soon drop.

This is where IS finally failed and became the most instable and insecure place in the business, regardless of exclusive or independant.

I'm not really sure where that "been in business for a longer period" comment came from. I've been submitting since 2004....