Looks like this are only Jan earnings. Where are December PP sales? Also, my credit earnings from this graph doesnt match those on iStock statistic page. They are a few cents short...

How do you see the iStock income on ESP? Or any reference to iStock actually. Please be specific.

The problem is that I already had an account on ESP (Flickr contract) with the same email/username, but at the moment I do not see any reference to iStock, let alone payment info.

Getty has been totally unhelpful to this moment.

Thanks

Quote from: sigalavaca on February 21, 2017, 23:05

i just got access to my january royalties and summary: its a bit hard to analyze the data, plenty of useless info in charts. So far none 0.02 sales, but many 0.05 and 0.09 

Where do you see the price you got on every subscription?
I'm glad I didn't let my best sellers with them. No transparency at all. They really need to go down. I needed about 20 Dollars to meet my threshold. Now I did it!

I have succeed to open the pdf with my earnings. Indeed, there are a lot of files given up for free (I do not recall to give them my permission for this) and I also have 2-3 files marked with red. Should I sign a check to send them money for covering the expenses? Because it sounds I owe them some money.

Now, seriously, if we don't help them to go down, they will destroy the Microstock. Nobody will pay 0.25, 0.33. 0.38 on a subscription on Shutterstock if it is possible to be acquired for less money. Shutterstock will be forced to give our images for less money to survive.

Quote from: Luka on February 22, 2017, 03:46

I have succeed to open the pdf with my earnings. Indeed, there are a lot of files given up for free (I do not recall to give them my permission for this) and I also have 2-3 files marked with red. Should I sign a check to send them money for covering the expenses? Because it sounds I owe them some money.

Now, seriously, if we don't help them to go down, they will destroy the Microstock. Nobody will pay 0.25, 0.33. 0.38 on a subscription on Shutterstock if it is possible to be acquired for less money. Shutterstock will be forced to give our images for less money to survive.

Although for buyers I'm not sure they ARE cheaper I-stock just take twice as much from us. Independents are subsidizing exclusives...for the first time I'm seriously thinking about pulling the plug on them.

Quote from: Luka on February 22, 2017, 03:46

I have succeed to open the pdf with my earnings. Indeed, there are a lot of files given up for free (I do not recall to give them my permission for this) and I also have 2-3 files marked with red. Should I sign a check to send them money for covering the expenses? Because it sounds I owe them some money.

In my case most of the .0 sales are always accompanied by the same title/agency sale with positive royalty, so it must be some sort of accounting element that they needed to include. Same goes to negative figures marked in red; they are also most of the time go with the same figure but with "+", at least in my case. Now, I still counted 13 sales with "0" gross royalty and absent figure in Licence Fee (as if nobody did buy anything, or was given for free) and one case where Licence Fee was $1.29 but I received .0 royalty. Finally, from a very quick look I noticed that PDF statement may differ in some figures with the txt statement (which you can import to Excel, comma separated). So if you want to have a more detailed and controlled analysis of your royalties, I recommend the latter format.

Finally, I must also add that I had quite a lot of sales grossing 0.04 - 0.09 (since 0.10 sales should be considered already as significant ones, lol). If not for a couple large sales and total overall quantity of sales (grossing more than 50% of all other agencies' revenue), I would quit the next day. For the moment I'm still observing, whether this ship is sinking or merely stagnating.

Clearly, the 0.00 sales in the PDF are not given away for free, that'd be ridiculous. If you look closely, they're always paired with an actual sale of the same image.

Don't like this way of reporting, though. Stupid graphs with useless info, separate file download for my sales and worst of all, terrible sales. I saw some 0.07 and 0.08 sales in there as well.

It's hard to fathom how iStock has gone from promising market leader to an average-performing agency.