Is the information in the title an accurate assessment of iStock's royalty schedule for non-exclusive contributors? In other words, you make about 90 cents a video download?

Well, no, not totally accurate.
An Essentials video costs 6 credits, so it depends how much someone paid for the credits.
I can only see UK� prices, so I can see 1 credit for �7 down to �1443 for 300 credits.
So that seems to be published prices between  �7 down to �4.81 per credit.
However, big buyers can get big discounts off much larger bundles of credits, and a lot of my sales seem to be to these discounted buyers.
Also, if they do an offer, 15% off, 25% off, whatever, we share in that discount.

You'd have to check the dollar prices for yourself on the 'buy credits' page

I just rechecked - yeah, it's not a dollar per credit. At 15% it's about 6-9 dollars per sale at full HD. Thanks for the feedback on that.

Quote from: EM on February 15, 2015, 09:09

Is the information in the title an accurate assessment of iStock's royalty schedule for non-exclusive contributors? In other words, you make about 90 cents a video download?

All I can tell you is that as a non-exclusive, I make $6 to $8 a sale, full HD. I am considering killing my video on IS. They keep way too much of the pie.

They are keeping the same amount they always did(not always but for a while now), they just lowered the pricing didn't they?

Quote from: tickstock on February 16, 2015, 12:08

Quote from: Mantis on February 15, 2015, 11:29

Quote from: EM on February 15, 2015, 09:09

Is the information in the title an accurate assessment of iStock's royalty schedule for non-exclusive contributors? In other words, you make about 90 cents a video download?

All I can tell you is that as a non-exclusive, I make $6 to $8 a sale, full HD. I am considering killing my video on IS. They keep way too much of the pie.

They are keeping the same amount they always did(not always but for a while now), they just lowered the pricing didn't they?

Does it really matter? I used to get $23 commission and now i get $6-8. Thats a reduction to me of some significance. A result of their rc concoction six or so months ago.

I'm not saying it isn't significant,  just that your "slice of the pie" hasn't changed.