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

QuoteWe 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.

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

"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.

Quote from: Sion on May 19, 2013, 03:41
At last the common sense of not flying a group of gorgeous models to an exotic island staying in a 4 stars hotel...

Maybe its as they say, you can't be in it for the money...

Quote from: SNP on May 19, 2013, 04:02
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. 

I think we can continue the discussion in the original thread.. the one that was used as the source of the article
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/yuri-arcurs-is-is-exclusive/