Good job Bruce and company!  As an exclusive with 50% growth for each of the last 4 years I don't think I'll be joining just yet but I applaud your efforts and hope it will be so successful I won't be able to stay away for too long. 

I didn't get around to responding while you had Tyler in your post (before you edited it)   I was going to take a bow.... now what am I supposed to do..

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Good job Bruce and company!  As an exclusive with 50% growth for each of the last 4 years I don't think I'll be joining just yet but I applaud your efforts and hope it will be so successful I won't be able to stay away for too long. 

I didn't get around to responding while you had Tyler in your post (before you edited it)   I was going to take a bow.... now what am I supposed to do..

Ha sorry I read a few of the early posts and wasn't sure you wanted to be named yet.   Thanks Tyler and company!

now I'm confused.... I was just joking.  At first I thought you had me mixed up, then thought you just made a mistake now I'm not sure what to think.

I don't have anything to do with this project (however you can feel free to show me where to sign up).  I just heard the info and posted it here.

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Quote from: leaf on February 07, 2013, 15:19

Quote from: tickstock on February 07, 2013, 15:02

Good job Bruce and company!  As an exclusive with 50% growth for each of the last 4 years I don't think I'll be joining just yet but I applaud your efforts and hope it will be so successful I won't be able to stay away for too long. 

I didn't get around to responding while you had Tyler in your post (before you edited it)   I was going to take a bow.... now what am I supposed to do..

Ha sorry I read a few of the early posts and wasn't sure you wanted to be named yet.   Thanks Tyler and company!

now I'm confused.... I was just joking.  At first I thought you had me mixed up, then thought you just made a mistake now I'm not sure what to think.

I don't have anything to do with this project (however you can feel free to show me where to sign up).  I just heard the info and posted it here.

Maybe he's getting you confused with Tyler Stalman, one of the admin there.

Wow. Exciting times! 

I am a small time stock photographer, I entered my email and asked to join the group.


If this is for the big guns only, then I wont be part of this, but I am hoping I can join too.

Exciting times, punched in my email and tried to join the group.    This is the raft we always talked about and we should embrace it with both arms.

I believe if we only submit the very best shots from our portfolios then we probably have a good chance of creating a killer site quickly with the traffic necessary.  Word of mouth will be automatic.

Video I hope will be in the cards, same for illustration. 

Regarding the iStock sale we only have bits and pieces of what happened and I believe the creditors wanted their cash and Bruce had two options, go Public or sell to Getty. He chose the latter because it was in his view at the time the springboard necessary to get the site to grow while at the same time stay in control for years.

He didn't pocket the 50million he had to pay creditors which I believe was the majority of that share. But as I say we don't really know what happened.  He did stay in the loop for years then came KK which did I believe a good job with the strings that grasped around him.  The Getty machine was in full control and it really didn't matter who was in control.

So many bad news are finally leading to a very good one!

Hmm, the facebook group was on 96 when I asked to join, now its on 100 but I am not in it    Too bad.

I don't see anything on the site about it only being for the big contributors.  I think that would be a mistake, as one of the strong points of microstock is diversity.  Some of the smaller contributors have great images that any serious stock sites should want.  Lots of new sites have started with the big contributors first before opening the doors to everyone.

Yea that's what I meant.  Big as in "knows their crap", but port size shouldn't matter. What you produce should.  Thanks for pointing that out.

I don't see anything on the site about it only being for the big contributors.  I think that would be a mistake, as one of the strong points of microstock is diversity.  Some of the smaller contributors have great images that any serious stock sites should want.  Lots of new sites have started with the big contributors first before opening the doors to everyone.

Not all my port is good, but I do have some good sellers. I might even be inspired to start shooting and uploading again if I were in.

Just got accepted on the Facebook Group. 

Lots of good info regarding their plans but they admit they are really in early stages and kinda overwhelmed.  More news to follow. I don't think they had plans for it to go viral so quickly. Looks like only photos initially. The energy feels just right. 

Let's keep in mind we built iStock, we can do it again and even better this time this is not starting from scratch, yes it will take some time but we can do it!

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