My sales are going down month after month. I got more downloads five years ago with a much smaller portfolio...
I'll probably be forced to go independent in 4-5 months.

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Quote from: Red Dove on May 15, 2014, 04:28

I don't think about iStock anymore I think about Thinkstock - As an indie the PP accounts for 60-70% of my earnings there which means iStock is not much more than an uploading portal.

Initially Getty created Thinkstock as subs site to compete with SS, but it looks like Thinkstock failed to do it.
With the introduction of subs at iStock I guess they will soon close the Thinkstock
and move the subs business back to iStock.

I would like that when TS close. In 1995, Mark Getty and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein co-founded Getty Investments LLC, they still carry investments and manage the company. H&F paid 2.3 billions, Carlyle paid at $3.3 billion. Getty and Klien own Getty with equity companys and other investors.

Oh ya exclu with them is suididal anyway! What you advice me among the best agencies? Since lm a newcomer to microstock.


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Sales are so bad right now that I'm actually worried (or should I be glad?) that iStock may go bankrupt in a not too distant future. Of course my sales doesn't necessarily say anything about iStock as a whole, but even the top sellers seems to be in a lot of trouble. Too bad there's no way to see iStock's sales figures.

Sadly, not only I can report decline of sales, but images that I've sent this month (beginning of May) have 0 views, let alone new sales. This didn't happen since 2013 and infamous best match failure.