Quote from: tickstock on July 31, 2013, 17:37

Quote from: ShadySue on July 31, 2013, 17:20

There have been other reports of indies having GI sales.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=355278&page=1
Good luck getting a CR person who clicks the right auto-response button.

In that link he says they show up as partner program sales in green and the details say from Getty Images.  GI sales show up purple and Connect show up as black.

But green represents the PP, and his GI sale was 12c, but his PP rate is 28c.

Maybe (idle speculation) Getty has just got into another nanopaying deal without telling TPTB at iS.

I still cringe when I read the way some people speak to others here, including many of the comments made to Yuri. yikes. anyways, have read through most of this thread and my two cents.

flooded microstock libraries with factory-produced images; that is what I have known of Yuri for the last eight years. I don't know you Yuri. I'm sure all in all you're a nice person. but you have stated that your 'exit' from subs microstock to higher ground is some sort of epiphany. that statement can only be interpreted as egotistical and hypocritical. I'm not begrudging you success; you're arguably the most prolific and highest paid microstock photographer in the world, however, slamming the door on the microstock models that you helped build claiming their detrimental affect on the fair pricing of images, well, I can't believe that is coming from you given your longstanding contribution to those very models. You're looking for better prices, but pushing phone camera image sales. Again, that leaves me confused.

You've gotten into bed with Getty at a moment when the chasm between Getty and contributors has never been deeper or wider. you're not in the trenches with us Yuri. You have made decisions that benefit you, that's your prerogative, but with respect I doubt you know what it is to be a 'normal' contributor, a regular photographer who is not privy to special exclusivity and deals with companies that are disrespectful to their suppliers. If I were in a position of influence such that you are, I hope I would use it to do some good in the industry along with achieving success for myself. I'd like to think those two things can be achieved simultaneously. cheers.

Quote from: tickstock on July 31, 2013, 18:03

I'm saying it wasn't a GI sale, it was a Partner Program sale from Getty Images.  At least that's how it was listed.

Fair enough.
Have we had any intimation/explanation of such a possibility for indies?
What does it mean?

Or it may just be an accounting mistake.

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 01, 2013, 08:36

1 week after and Yuri's distribution team is still having trouble removing pictures from DT

Probaly busy with the 82k images still up on Mostphotos

Quote from: SNP on August 01, 2013, 01:09

I still cringe when I read the way some people speak to others here, including many of the comments made to Yuri. yikes. anyways, have read through most of this thread and my two cents.

flooded microstock libraries with factory-produced images; that is what I have known of Yuri for the last eight years. I don't know you Yuri. I'm sure all in all you're a nice person. but you have stated that your 'exit' from subs microstock to higher ground is some sort of epiphany. that statement can only be interpreted as egotistical and hypocritical. I'm not begrudging you success; you're arguably the most prolific and highest paid microstock photographer in the world, however, slamming the door on the microstock models that you helped build claiming their detrimental affect on the fair pricing of images, well, I can't believe that is coming from you given your longstanding contribution to those very models. You're looking for better prices, but pushing phone camera image sales. Again, that leaves me confused.

You've gotten into bed with Getty at a moment when the chasm between Getty and contributors has never been deeper or wider. you're not in the trenches with us Yuri. You have made decisions that benefit you, that's your prerogative, but with respect I doubt you know what it is to be a 'normal' contributor, a regular photographer who is not privy to special exclusivity and deals with companies that are disrespectful to their suppliers. If I were in a position of influence such that you are, I hope I would use it to do some good in the industry along with achieving success for myself. I'd like to think those two things can be achieved simultaneously. cheers.

My part in bold and then you go on saying you dont know him and call him egotistical and hypocritical. And that makes you what?

Quote from: ShadySue on August 01, 2013, 12:46

Looks like SS's stocks are bouncing back, so the Yuri effect, as he would like us to believe, was very temporary:

as confirmed by Yuri it seems SS has no plans to raise our fees or to launch a new expensive product line.
and frankly speaking i would do the same, their core business is being the leader in low cost so they better avoid risky adventures in news, reportage, midstock, etc

their strategy will be about cutting costs to the bone even more than now, as for their new collection i'm afraid they've something nasty in store, like all-you-can-eat mobile pics or whatever cheaper than chips.

in any case they can't stay idle, public companies usually announce something new every quarter to keep high the investors's attention span, no matter if it's all smoke and mirrors as in most of the cases, see the recent jump in FB's mobile profits, anyone following the industry knows very well the ugly truth and it will all crumble soon like a sack of potatoes.

at this point they could also find the money for some M&As .. including buying FT or DT, we'll see but it would be a logical step.