http://www.microstockposts.com/yuri-arcurs-drops-microstock-and-goes-with-getty/

We have found a good distribution partner (Getty Images) for the kind of content we produce. We will be removing all images from microstock doing the next few weeks. Microstock, especially subscription sites, are not suited for the kind of high production cost images we produce.

At last the common sense of not flying a group of gorgeous models to an exotic island staying in a 4 stars hotel and sell the photos for $1 has prevailed.

This is going to be good for stock photography as a whole.

"If you could go back in time to 2012 and you told people that in 2013 Sean Locke would leave iStock and Yuri Arcurs would be exclusive istock/getty, I think people would believe this less than if you told them you had come from the future."

Ha!  That's great.

how about selling them for $1 (and probably closer to an average of $20 per PAYG sale)....one million times? ^ that argument is so silly and old....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yuri has all your answers.