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Honestly I have seen these management changes so much during all the years I have been there, some 15 years and no dice for the members so its hard to be optimistic.
As far as the GI/IS relationship its even worse. I know people there who are double even black-Diamonds and they are getting like two downloads a day.
The syaing used to be " from rags to riches" in this case its " from riches to rags"

Good to know I'm doing much better then black diamonds. The GI/IS relationship is like king and the house servants. IS is worse then the ugly step child of Getty. New CEO might make IS have some leader for a change, because right now the workers are all sheep afraid to do anything. 6 months for a support answer if you get an answer at all?

We can all give her a chance and then by April determine that A leopard can't change its spots. Getty is behind this, nothing will be different for us. We will get the same terrible earnings, or less. They will find ways to undercut our earnings and blow smoke up our accounts telling us how much we should be happy. Nothing will change or things will get worse. That's my prediction.

I was going to type something similar but you said it well. With the greed and debt Getty/IS is in, any upward commission adjustment simply takes away from their ability to deliver to those two factors.

Here we go again! Once more "Greed" as THE explanation!
When will people stop falling for buzzwords and fashionable pseudo-intellectual arguments?

Just to be clear, at your level, you are as "greedy" as they are, for example when you ask for a better pay. The same goes for everybody else who try their best for themselves and for people that matter to them.

He that is without "greed" among you, let him first cast a stone....

The butcher is serving you well not because of his generosity, but because it is in HIS interest to serve you well, or because of his "greed", if you insist in using this word. When he stops serving you well, you only have to switch butchers and he will be penalized.
When he stops serving you well, not "greed", but his lack of understanding of his market, his competition and his customers will sink his business.

If there is something to be blamed about Getty, is not greed, but their incapacity to keep up with the competition, to innovate, to have a decent relation with their suppliers... iStock's RPD is the shame of the industry!

Greed, business practice, or whatever anyone wants to call it, in a agent/distributor relationship each party wants to get as much and give as little as possible. Right now agencies/distributors have the upper hand in the get lots and give little game.

Unfortunately, by contributors continuing to flock to micro sites and send gazillions of images we are telling these sites we are super-happy with the current deal. And they will continue to give us less and we will continue to say thank you for giving us less by sending bazillions more images. Maybe one day when we're earning under 10% but don't know if because of some vague license scheme we'll finally have had enough. Oh wait...

Regarding the CEO, who knows what'll happen. Hopefully something better than what's happened with past personnel changes. 

So you don't believe what I quoted from your own post
 "Even more, I believe that it is a governmental duty, indeed, to ensure public safety and a proper operation of such courts of law."

I thought I clarified this matter: by public safety, I mean police/national defense, and not interference in economy or rules about how big a cup of coke must be in order to keep me healthy.

But maybe it is better to go back to that iStock video boycott.

oh wow - the stink in the room - the reason they hired a women? maybe take your cynical self out of your cave? awesome stupidity . . . probably a big whiner too

You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. No not the new CEO, I mean Getty hiring a woman is putting lipstick on the iStock pig. I don't expect anything to change for the better. They cut staff, services and commissions. Takes 2 months to get paid. What's next?

What has the fact the new CEO is a woman got to do with anything?

Has nothing to do but joke, just like a new CEO has nothing to do with what Getty orders her to do, is also a joke. Nothing is going to change.