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As best I can tell, any image marked iStockphoto did in fact come from iStockphoto.  StockXpert images are supposed to be labeled Hemera.  In my own case, I have a set of iStock images I opted into partner programs.  These are all poor or nonsellers at iStock, so I don't feel I'm losing much by offering them cheaply.  Most of them show up on Thinkstock; for some reason there are 250 fewer on Thinkstock than I have opted in.  So far none of my StockXpert images have come across.

As for payment, I see 21 partner sales in January and 37 in February on iStock.  The February sales showed up today.  Interestingly, they showed up in two batches; the count was 23 a couple of hours ago but just jumped to 37.  I'm wondering if they represent two different sources, say Photos.com and Thinkstock.  What I'll be curious about is whether this is how things will be, with iStock image sales on Thinkstock reported on iStock and Hemera image sales on StockXpert.  Or maybe it'll all shift to StockXpert whenever they manage to move those images.

It still works that way, at least it does for my photos. Everything on ThinkStock marked as "Hemera" is ex-StockXpert, everything marked as "IStockphoto" is coming from IS...


Couldn't agree more - and don't forget to have faith in TPTB  *SCNR*

IS and StockXpert are different companies, owned by Getty. We don't get paid by Getty, we get paid by the individual companies.

You can't have sales from one company (StockXpert) being payed to an account on a different companies books (IS).

You wouldn't expect a sale on DT to be paid on your FT account would you, just because they sell on the same partner site?    Maybe that's an easier way to explain it.

However what you proposed would mean that all the IS people would suddenly have StockXpert accounts, for ThinkStock payments only? Many people on IS never had and don't want a StockXpert account, especially considering the exclusives. No I don't think so.

Ah Ha, the first light that something is fishy. Thanks. You have just proved the impossible happens. (not blaming you, but questioning how IS and StockXpert are being merged into ThinkStock) It should be impossible to have more images on ThinkStock than you have on IS. Interesting!

Same thing happened to me.  I also emailed support.  After more than a week, they responded wanting details.  I don't have any details.  I was logged into someone else's account.  I looged out and logged in again and it worked correctly. 

Veryyyyyy Strange.