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Of course buyers want cheap, unlimited and simple over expensive, limited and complex. Maybe they should have come up with a simplified RM model. On my website RM is nearly as simple as RF but is single use. Of all of the subscription models across movies, music, etc RF photos is the only one I can think of where it's nearly unlimited usage even after your subscription ends. Plus even higher cost RF seems to be dying due to micro and subscription which shouldnt be a surprise to anyone.
Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on November 06, 2019, 08:34Of course buyers want cheap, unlimited and simple over expensive, limited and complex. Maybe they should have come up with a simplified RM model. On my website RM is nearly as simple as RF but is single use. Of all of the subscription models across movies, music, etc RF photos is the only one I can think of where it's nearly unlimited usage even after your subscription ends. Plus even higher cost RF seems to be dying due to micro and subscription which shouldnt be a surprise to anyone.Although I don't doubt it, what is your evidence for higher cost RF dying?
Of course Getty wants to migrate all their buyers on to the premium access model, because profit seems to matter more to them than total sum.
Quote from: ShadySue on November 06, 2019, 10:44Of course Getty wants to migrate all their buyers on to the premium access model, because profit seems to matter more to them than total sum.gazillions of new contributors join daily to submit gazillions of new images
I keep wondering where the bottom is to where supply starts dropping and these sites are forced to reverse the downward trend on contributors. Given the record profits of the sites and the massive amount of new contributors who are okay earning peanuts, seems to be a long long way off. Or maybe there is no bottom and stock photography is replaced by something else like AI to where we're no longer needed.
Quote from: wds on November 06, 2019, 08:54Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on November 06, 2019, 08:34Of course buyers want cheap, unlimited and simple over expensive, limited and complex. Maybe they should have come up with a simplified RM model. On my website RM is nearly as simple as RF but is single use. Of all of the subscription models across movies, music, etc RF photos is the only one I can think of where it's nearly unlimited usage even after your subscription ends. Plus even higher cost RF seems to be dying due to micro and subscription which shouldnt be a surprise to anyone.Although I don't doubt it, what is your evidence for higher cost RF dying?Personal experience and I've also seen other contributors commenting about it. I used to get large royalties from the several hundred dollar RF sales. Over time these have been replaced with a few cents from their subscription model. I havent had a large sale in a long time. Why would anyone spend $500 on an image that they can get either through a subscription model or find a similar "good enough" image on a micro site.I keep wondering where the bottom is to where supply starts dropping and these sites are forced to reverse the downward trend on contributors. Given the record profits of the sites and the massive amount of new contributors who are okay earning peanuts, seems to be a long long way off. Or maybe there is no bottom and stock photography is replaced by something else like AI to where we're no longer needed.
Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on November 06, 2019, 09:43Quote from: wds on November 06, 2019, 08:54Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on November 06, 2019, 08:34Of course buyers want cheap, unlimited and simple over expensive, limited and complex. Maybe they should have come up with a simplified RM model. On my website RM is nearly as simple as RF but is single use. Of all of the subscription models across movies, music, etc RF photos is the only one I can think of where it's nearly unlimited usage even after your subscription ends. Plus even higher cost RF seems to be dying due to micro and subscription which shouldnt be a surprise to anyone.Although I don't doubt it, what is your evidence for higher cost RF dying?Personal experience and I've also seen other contributors commenting about it. I used to get large royalties from the several hundred dollar RF sales. Over time these have been replaced with a few cents from their subscription model. I havent had a large sale in a long time. Why would anyone spend $500 on an image that they can get either through a subscription model or find a similar "good enough" image on a micro site.I keep wondering where the bottom is to where supply starts dropping and these sites are forced to reverse the downward trend on contributors. Given the record profits of the sites and the massive amount of new contributors who are okay earning peanuts, seems to be a long long way off. Or maybe there is no bottom and stock photography is replaced by something else like AI to where we're no longer needed.You make valid points, and too a large degree, let's face it, in many cases you can find low cost RF that is as good as premium high priced RF content. I guess the high price collections save users time in not having to wade through zillions of images. Of course some business person will come up with a solution that does that for the user....much like hotel aggregation sites....a gatekeeper of some sort that filters out non-"premium quality" images so the buyer can buy quality imagery at a lower price.
try plainpicture