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I read somewhere on the IS forum (in the thread of Frank DM and his brainchild DeepMeta) that the project has been delayed. He was promised to have the API for the new Getty subs site by December, but he still didn't get it 2 days ago.
I'm not so sure any more StockXpert will be phased out by Getty. We all thought so last year, but perhaps they found out too that Peter Hanza (the original coder of StockXpert) is making a new site very deep under the radar.

If I were Getty, I wouldn't just phase out the market segment that StockXpert has now. Maybe they just will give a face-lift to JIU and position StockXpert as their B-site, JUI as their subs site, keeping iStock as their A-site. That makes total sense to me, having a presence in all the market segments, and attacking SS on their USP. Market shares are very difficult to come by, so why throw them away?

I can only dream of sales like Sharpshot reports there, and his reduction to 1/10th sounds almost incredible. I had a reduction when photo.com went, but just by 30%. In short, I'm not giving up at all on StockXpert for now. They might have some surprise in petto.

The ones that really goofed up are SS-BigStock. My sales on BigStock went down a lot, not compensated at all by an increase on SS. In fact, SS is losing for me consistently. 123RF wil cut itself deeply with the new strict acceptance policy and they weren't much anyways.
It looks like we will have a tripolar world soon, with the Getty-empire, SS-BigStock, and DT, - and with FT as a wild card.

I know, reading all the reports here from the big guns (like you). I'm probably biased. I don"t fly there at all and I have my doubts about their coding and attitude about contributors. In the long run, that might prove detrimental. By the years, I predicted the downfall of LO, Snap and Zymm just by gut feelings. I never opened my bad mouth about Zymm   but Keith knew my feelings.
I also predict the fall of Veer and CutC, but not of FP since the girl has balls (and a nice cat!). But for FT I'm probably wrong... sometimes my gut feelings are wrong. That's why I called them a wild card. A lot will depend on the way they play. They have very nice cards in their hands.

I'm experience a mild improvement over past months.  I only sell credit, no subs.  What I have noticed recently is the disappearance of large size sales.  I don't sell an XL since October, and an L since November.

Overall in 2009 I saw a huge decline over 2008.  My worst month in 2008 was the same as my best in 2009.