If you wana make a sound that Istock can hear...delet you acct. thats the only way to get respect. your deactivating a few files is a joke.

I don't think deactivating any amount of money making files is a joking matter. It's a serious income loss. A lot of us aren't doing it as a protest. We are protecting our work. If, in the future, a new deal is made that won't give away our photos, or strip the metadata, then we'll still have an open account.

I think you are wrong. Everithing is good, its a protest. And a sign. If you delete the account, why istock would concern?

They don't care. This is not a sale platform now (was 3-4 years ago) with full respect for photographers. This is a part of global business, managed and directed from different place.
It reminds me a situation in a big German shop chain n Eastern Europe - who cares about suppliers there - paying them with 6-12 months delay, adding fictional costs to all invoices, etc. - they can get rid of 10% of them and still be in good position.
BTW, it looks like all deactivated files are still counted as 'in the collection'. Only -5000 files change in 8 hours.

reading this thread i cant stop feeling sad. you all are acting like little children pouting cause you are being made to go to bed early, cause you were bad. and you say "well il go to bed but you can make me sleep!".

If you wana make a sound that Istock can hear...delet you acct. thats the only way to get respect. your deactivating a few files is a joke. i can here istock laughing watching ppl deactivating files. they are probably having an office party placing bets as to how fast ppl reactivate them. they know you want a bite of the carrot they dangle in front of your face and they know you wont stop trying to get a bite of it.

even if istock wanted to go back and not make this deal with google. its not up to them anymore its up to google.

and where are the big hitters who were all gung ho abt feb 2nd?, and soo very loudand pushy abt making this movement happen, pushing ppl to deactivate there act. where are they today? did they just use you to send istock a message,yet they themselves did not delet a file??  i dont se any of them on here telling us how many they deactivated???

i guess im even more of a sucker then you all, cause i did not deactivat my acct i deleted it. but i would have dun it anyway cause i know the only way to be heard is to take all your marbals an walk away from the game. thats what yo need to do. cut your losses and walk away. cause its abvious istock has a pattern of trying to get as much from us as possible and so fare always getting away with it! the only way to stop them is to not play with them.

but then there is that darn carrot to think abt hugh?!

I'm keeping my account open (with 1 file in it) until PP earnings are posted so that I can request my LAST payout. I have no intention of reactivating ANYTHING! Once I get my last payout, then I'll delete my account.

I can't trust them to play by the rules and actually pay me my earnings if I delete my account now.

true- yea its something (deactivation), better then nothing. but when you delete the act with the intent or preceived intent of not returnig, thenistock will be asking you back not you asking istock for something. at the very least whe nu go they cant use you anymore.

but just for the recort i HOPE this worked out and im compleatl wrong and istock says yes we are wrong yo are right and wi will fix it.

Do you honestly believe that iStock will come crawling back and ask you to return because you deleted your account?  Good luck with that....

I'm not deactivating because I don't hold iStock responsible for the Google Drive deal....they didn't even know about it ahead of time.  What I did do, however, is put the final touches on getting out of Getty House and also making sure they are removing files of mine (macro RM and RF) from their affiliate sites.  I'll go elsewhere with my RM stuff.

I posted this last night in the Feburary 2 thread, but I'll repeat the info here. I'll send something to Tyler asking if he can pull all the posts about actual deactivations into one so we can keep track.

I deactivated 2,496 images, leaving 153 (editorial and iStockalypse) images in my portfolio. I'm leaving it open so I can collect my PP money from January in February and keep my stats.

For all intents and purposes I have left iStock.

I blogged about it, changed the timeline image on my Facebook page and sent out a tweet.

My Thinkstock image count started dropping last night while I was deactivating. Checking this morning, it's now down to 1,869 (it was 2,486 on January 28th).

Quote from: ouchie on February 02, 2013, 12:10

reading this thread i cant stop feeling sad. you all are acting like little children pouting cause you are being made to go to bed early, cause you were bad. and you say "well il go to bed but you can make me sleep!".

If you wana make a sound that Istock can hear...delet you acct. thats the only way to get respect. your deactivating a few files is a joke. i can here istock laughing watching ppl deactivating files. they are probably having an office party placing bets as to how fast ppl reactivate them. they know you want a bite of the carrot they dangle in front of your face and they know you wont stop trying to get a bite of it.

even if istock wanted to go back and not make this deal with google. its not up to them anymore its up to google.

and where are the big hitters who were all gung ho abt feb 2nd?, and soo very loudand pushy abt making this movement happen, pushing ppl to deactivate there act. where are they today? did they just use you to send istock a message,yet they themselves did not delet a file??  i dont se any of them on here telling us how many they deactivated???

i guess im even more of a sucker then you all, cause i did not deactivat my acct i deleted it. but i would have dun it anyway cause i know the only way to be heard is to take all your marbals an walk away from the game. thats what yo need to do. cut your losses and walk away. cause its abvious istock has a pattern of trying to get as much from us as possible and so fare always getting away with it! the only way to stop them is to not play with them.

but then there is that darn carrot to think abt hugh?!

I'm keeping my account open (with 1 file in it) until PP earnings are posted so that I can request my LAST payout. I have no intention of reactivating ANYTHING! Once I get my last payout, then I'll delete my account.

I can't trust them to play by the rules and actually pay me my earnings if I delete my account now.

GOOD! thats what we all should do.

i bet you will then see a reaction from them and all this crap would stop. everytime we do/say nothing they know thats another inch they can take from us.

jsnover: you are one of the bigish accts if everyone with photos in the thousands had the balls you do that then we might get somewhere! my hat off to you both!

but we have some big accts who do things like...well i have a fam to feed and i will just delete 500pic's (temporarilly). its something but not much.

no pain no gain!

if they clean up there game-il see abt opening my acct again if allowed or il just resubmit everthig slowly.

if the big hitters would vote with there feet TOGETHER they would not be doing these things. they would try it once or twice and realise hey ho these guys/galls are not playing. we better be nice to them or they will realy take there product to sutterstock!!!

Just so we can keep things a bit organized.  Remember that this thread is mostly to discuss D-day and this thread is to post your numbers count.  Perhaps there should have only been one thread but it is a little late now to change.

Top 25 deactivated so far... many to go. I will post my final number in the other thread.

Deactivated a third of my tiny port in solidarity - 15 photos. Rest will go when I reach next payout.

I find it sad that I was setting goals to boost my earnings and I was hitting targets.  It was making them more money than me.  Then they take away my motivation, I no longer want to work hard at increasing my earnings there and they lose a lot of money.  I'm sure all the links to our images going will lose them traffic.  Someone searching for a specific image on Google will now find it on the other sites, not istock.  Perhaps that's why people see their earnings increase on other sites when they remove images from istock?

Now how do the photos come off thinkstock and photos.com?  About 20% are gone.  Was hoping to cash out in Feb, but looks like there will still be partener sales coming through in March.

I'm sure all the links to our images going will lose them traffic.  Someone searching for a specific image on Google will now find it on the other sites, not istock. 

I did a search for my xmas ball on the beach which shows up still in Google images as an iS image, just deactivated. likewise all my deactivated xmas files are still there.

I have deactivated 23 since the Google drive disaster was discovered, can't afford to do anything more at the moment as I lose exclusive royalties in 2 weeks and finances will be tight!

I did a search for my xmas ball on the beach which shows up still in Google images as an iS image, just deactivated. likewise all my deactivated xmas files are still there.

I'm sure that once IS "sells" and image to Google, there's no way the photographer can pull it back through IS.   You'd have to take action against Google.  And good luck with that.