Getty just made a huge portion of their collection very cheap via istock. Instead of paying 400 dollars on the getty website for an XL, for instance from Yuri, you can now just go to istock and get it for 36-45 dollars in full resolution.
Does anyone know how many files from the regular getty collection have been mirrored to istock?
Customers will soon find out that istock is the cheapest way to buy getty content, so I expect quite a migration from getty customers "downstream" to istock.
Maybe this is part of the grand plan - to attract as many macro buyers to istock as possible to remove them from corbis and offset.
So right now you can look for free embed images on getty and then go to istock to buy them in XXXl if you need a print version.
How that combination is supposed to grow their revenue is beyond me, but we keep reading that "brilliant" minds were at work behind this new plan. And anyway, they will change it all again next September, so I guess it doesnt really matter.