I don't get it. 

"Don't limit yourself. We w..." it's a reference to SS but can't tell what without knowing what the cut off part of the ad says.

Looks like iSuck has Peebert writing ad copy now.

"Don't limit yourself.  We want you to go to SS and get more than a measly, stingy 15%" ??

Maybe it's a message to contributors.  Ah, desperate times at IS, and serves them right indeed.

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on March 28, 2016, 22:57
"Don't limit yourself. We w..." it's a reference to SS but can't tell what without knowing what the cut off part of the ad says.

The cut off text appeared when I hovered over, the full text is Don't Limit Yourself. We Won't. Stock photography that won't make you "shutter".

Quote from: Microstock Posts on March 29, 2016, 13:16

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on March 28, 2016, 22:57
"Don't limit yourself. We w..." it's a reference to SS but can't tell what without knowing what the cut off part of the ad says.

The cut off text appeared when I hovered over, the full text is Don't Limit Yourself. We Won't. Stock photography that won't make you "shutter".

Istock must realize that they are mocking themselves and/or their contributors. I'd say quite a few non exclusives have their work on Istock and SS.  So does my Istock work make Istock buyers "shutter" since the same port is on SS?

Looking for logic in istock business decisions is....well, I wouldn´t waste my time trying to understand...

Images that won't leave you iStuck.

Images that won't cost you an iStack of money.

And for contributors:

Royalty rates that don't iStick it to you.



And now I've run out of vowels...and really bad puns.

For contributors:

"Money won't make you happy". Choose a stock agency that won't make you richer. 

When a company starts sniping at its opposition its never a good sign.

This reeks of desperation.

Then there's this

They've lost their marbles! 

Shutterstock has millions of images that you wont find on istock because contributors don't like getting 15 to 19%.

And SS have twice as many likes on their FB page compared to iStock 

Quote from: Pixart on March 31, 2016, 17:05
Then there's this

Next step: Getty buying shutterstock and closing the site with redirecting buyers to isuck

Quote from: Albert Martin on April 01, 2016, 09:06

Quote from: Pixart on March 31, 2016, 17:05
Then there's this

Next step: Getty buying shutterstock and closing the site with redirecting buyers to isuck

The reverse is possible SS have a mountain of money Getty is up to its neck in debt

You always have the impression that Getty needs "enemies" they can blame for everything instead of focussing on their own business, customers, suppliers and making money.

If all that energy and attentiom that is wasted on hating shutterstock was redirected at improving themselves they could maybe innovate their way back to growth...

...except instead of innovating organically they like to buy...but that only works as long as the innovators are ready to sell...

Quote from: cobalt on April 01, 2016, 10:21
You always have the impression that Getty needs "enemies" they can blame for everything instead of focussing on their own business, customers, suppliers and making money.

If all that energy and attentiom that is wasted on hating shutterstock was redirected at improving themselves they could maybe innovate their way back to growth...

...except instead of innovating organically they like to buy...but that only works as long as the innovators are ready to sell...

They can't innovate anything. They are just one big corporation full of incompetent managers... As in almost all big corps... They live to feed their stockholders and their managers... Innovation is for small and fast - not for big and slow! You saw that with Samsung and it's NX system... Big, slow and no success!

I'm really new to stock photography and have a very small port that I'm trying to build but for the dozen sales I've had on iS I've received almost as much as the 50 on SS because they are almost all 25c. Things look pretty grim!