Did anyone receive a Getty bump in November for E+ files sold on Getty?

Did anyone receive a Getty bump in November for E+ files sold on Getty?

I didn't, but I didn't have many files migrated during the month.
There were some E+ Getty sales reported on the iStock forum.

A few people sold a couple E+ files on Getty.  None here, though.

I'm hopeful but am not expecting much from E+ on Getty. My regular RF on Getty used to get excellent RPI a few years ago but it is now comparable to IS. That's not a bad thing but it's now more of an extra revenue stream than a great opportunity.

Plus I was doing some searches and E+ doesn't seem overly well placed on search results. Just about every other collection including Flickr seems to be ahead of E+. So unless you have images that are really unique or have little competition the E+/Getty thing may not help sales much.

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on December 02, 2012, 09:25

I'm hopeful but am not expecting much from E+ on Getty. My regular RF on Getty used to get excellent RPI a few years ago but it is now comparable to IS. That's not a bad thing but it's now more of an extra revenue stream than a great opportunity.

Plus I was doing some searches and E+ doesn't seem overly well placed on search results. Just about every other collection including Flickr seems to be ahead of E+. So unless you have images that are really unique or have little competition the E+/Getty thing may not help sales much.

Yes but Paul, in all honesty. I had a wade through all that the other day. Getty nowdays is very, very much conceptual and in every category. Now these E+, no doubt they have come over on automatic transfer, not reviewed a second time that is.
It shows!  the majority of these E+ files have got that sort of "look" of micro. You know like lets say a dentist with patient, dentist doesnt look at what he is doing but instead gives a giant Colgate smile right into the camera, posing.

not exactly overly creative, is it?  I even saw a surgeon standing in the theatre, giving the thumbs up , in fact on every other shot its the silly thumbs up. Its outdated.

Agreed. With as strict as Getty is I'm surprised E+ stuff isn't being reviewed. But it goes the other way too. There is a ton of stuff I've seen on Getty that already exists on micro.

So the shift will continue. Traditional photographers who have a bunch of ordinary work will probably find themselves slowly pushed out of Getty and micro shooters who have high value work will do will probably do well with E+ on Getty.

Then there's the gray area of E+ stuff that probably shouldn't be E+. I'm pretty sure a lot of that will work itself out. Contributors who just tag anything E+ will probably find those files will stop selling on IS and not at all on GI. They will then remove the E+ to try and jumpstart that file's sales on IS again. 

It will take some time, years, to shift everything around into its appropriate value level.

Have you ever browsed the PC collection ? It's a very mixed bag. Some of it excellent and some of it less so. Seems to me that E+ is roughly the same opportunity.

True but PC RM is $50 per image placement and PC RF is limited to 40 per quarter so that somewhat keeps things under control. E+ allows a large percentage of a portfolio to be tagged E+.

Some people seem to have a good handle on what should be E+. Some don't and just tag hundreds or thousands of images in their portfolio regardless of how good, or bad, the images are.

It's a mistake. No surprise there.
It's been reported on the iStock forums, and on the current last page on this thread.  They're pulling them (I had a total of nine added earlier today, but they've gone as of a refresh just now).