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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: lisafx on November 18, 2013, 18:43
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Redeemed Credits Update:
There will be no changes to any of the RC targets over the previous year's targets. All redeemed credit targets for all file types will stay the same for 2013.
These targets will determine your starting/minimum royalty rate for 2014. If you reach a new target during the remainder of 2013 you will move up to the higher royalty rate, otherwise your current rate will remain in effect.
If you fail to reach your 2013 target, you will not drop a royalty rate at the start of 2014. If you miss your target, you will have your current royalty rate grandfathered. For example, if someone who is now on 30% only got 10,500 RCs by the end of the year and missed the 30% target by 500 then they will still start next year earning 30%.
Please refer to the Redeemed Credit chart here for additional clarity on the target amounts.
If I am interpreting this correctly this is good news. I know I won't be making my target this year.
A couple of questions I have. It says if you missed your target you will keep your current rate "at the start of 2014". Could this change during the year?
Also, the example given was someone who missed their target by 500 RCs. Does that mean you are only grandfathered if you're within a certain range of meeting your target, or even if you have fallen way short of it?
Sorry to be looking a gift horse in the mouth, but it wouldn't be the first time we thought we got a gift horse and instead of its mouth, we found ourselves peering up the other end. (to torture a metaphor)
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Hahahaha, I knew that if I reached my target, it wouldn't matter. I thought the targets would be lowered, but a minimum of grandfathered in is good. I'm glad for those who won't reach their targets to be grandfathered, as this year they seem to have been doing everything possible to cut RCs.
Lisa:
It's all smoke and mirrors with iS, but I read it as meaning (in answer to your questions, both of which I asked myself when I got the newsletter):
1. That everyone will be grandfathered in, the 500 was just an example.
"If you fail to reach your 2013 target, you will not drop a royalty rate at the start of 2014. " seems pretty unequivocal, but they've reneged on a promise to 'grandfather in' before.
2. I think that 'not drop a royalty rate at the start of 2014' should mean just that. If you didn't reach your target this year, you should still start next year at your current rate because of the grandfathering in. It is possible to go up a level if you make the next up target during the course of the year.
Well, that's what what I see as the logical interpretation of what the newsletter said, but not only they often interpret what I see as unambiguous in a very different way that I do. IANAL, and an iStock promise is worth ...
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Sounds like they admit that their projections from last year were terribly off, but they're desperate to keep contributors.
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Sure, it's better then nothing.
But I still remember the grandfathering promise from 2010. They convinced me to became exclusive and few month later my promised 'canister' became another color icon without any value.
I don't trust them.
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Sounds like they admit that their projections from last year were terribly off, but they're desperate to keep contributors.
Sounds like they are desperate to hide the number of people who would go down a level, which might reveal something about how their overall business is doing. I wouldn't pull my portfolio if I dropped a level (which I would) but I would probably tell the world that their price changes this year made what started as an easily achievable target nigh on impossible to reach. Which means iStock is making a lot less from me than it did last year.
This way, there won't be any kerfuffle from downgraded contributors.
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I think it is positive they are announcing it now and not in January. So people can relax and just focus on working in peace.
And they obviously buy themselves some time. I know many exclusives who have said that if they drop a (another) level, they will go indie. Even with this reassurance everyone is working on their exit strategy, unless istock shows a very visible and reliable upswing it will not stop people leaving.
other agencies have proven they can offer a public business vision and deliver what they announce, so how will istock catch up with a company that has a 9 year track record of reliabilty?
Of course a turnaround is possible, but unless they embrace and encourage the digital entrepreneur, they will lose the race. That will need a real change of the companies DNA and a huge influx of new people who feel comfortable doing transparent and public business online.
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Sounds like they admit that their projections from last year were terribly off, but they're desperate to keep contributors.
Sounds like they are desperate to hide the number of people who would go down a level, which might reveal something about how their overall business is doing. I wouldn't pull my portfolio if I dropped a level (which I would) but I would probably tell the world that their price changes this year made what started as an easily achievable target nigh on impossible to reach. Which means iStock is making a lot less from me than it did last year.
This way, there won't be any kerfuffle from downgraded contributors.
Right. I believe that this wasn't done out of the goodness of their hearts, rather it is a tactical business decision for strategy unknown. Maybe they saw a significant contributor defection with the commission cuts, enough to raise a red flag on their operating income. Another drop might lead to greater loss either in terms of complete defecting contributors or uploads of saleable quality, or both. I mean look how they are wooing key contributors.
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It's pretty clear to me that they are holding everyone at least at their current rate for the entire 2014 - as they state your rate can't go down in 2014.
I think this is a clear sign that the site redesign, the site being down so frequently, the site's slow speed, and various decisions have impacted sales overall in a negative way. I think they are doing whatever they can to keep exclusives from bailing. I sure hope this trend doesn't continue as it's been a nice ride so far - would hate to see it end.
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I was there. I've been every year. But Murphy's law says that if one year I don't reach it, they won't grandfather anyting.
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also the move to remove the XS size from the signature + collection must be a choice to help exclusive to reach their canister target....from my perspective as customer there is a lot of difference to buy an image from 10 or 20 credits.
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also the move to remove the XS size from the signature + collection must be a choice to help exclusive to reach their canister target....from my perspective as customer there is a lot of difference to buy an image from 10 or 20 credits.
I completely missed this in the announcement. What a stupid decision! Unless they are planning a price cut of the Sig+ collection so that S files become 10 credits (I doubt it).
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Sounds like they admit that their projections from last year were terribly off, but they're desperate to keep contributors.
Odd comment considering your last couple of years.
It does say Istock is not growing at all and is probably tanking. Every comment on the forumns is happy. Seems to me the exclusives should be conerned about the falling sales.
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I'm a total outsider. I wanted to get into the stock industry a couple 3 years ago, but realized I didn't have the skills. Been trying hard to become better, so I've been watching the whole IStock deal from an outside point for a while here.
I predict IStock will be sold again.
I think Getty is going to squeeze all the juice out and then throw the rest away.
They've tried to move buyers over to their other stock sites - how successful have they been? Is this why PP sales are up?
They've tried several moves that make no sense from an industry perspective, but I bet they look good on paper as a positive for someone to buy IStock.
1. no upload limits/quality or key word checks - it's about the total number of images.
2. rebranding so it is new and shiny
3. touting the cost cuts to look more competitive.
4. the amount borrowed against IStock.
Pretty sure those that have been here forever could point out a ton more - They may not have realized how bad the coding/infrastructure was and they are dumping money into it because then it will be another 'plus' they can show a potential buyer. They won't put a dime into any remodel of old code to help the contributor, more than likely.
So I think all will get to keep their rate - until the new owners move in.
JMVHO. They'll do any deal with anyone's images that will gain them more money. They will make promises they don't plan on keeping because they won't have to. They want to keep their contributors just long enough for the new owners to take over.
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Thanks, Liz, for answering my questions. I know your guess is as good as mine. I think you're right in your interpretations. That is what it seemed like to me too, but wanted to get other opinions.
Sadly I no longer take anything said by IS at face value.
I'm relieved, because although I have been able to easily achieve - and even double - the required RCs to keep my level in the past, the one-two punch of low sales/migration of sales to TS, and slashed prices at IS has made it impossible this year.
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I predict IStock will be sold again.
I think Getty is going to squeeze all the juice out and then throw the rest away.
No. Getty will be sold again (with IS included). Carlyle have a lot of money tied up in Getty and, with the level of debt and falling revenues reported, it's not clear to me where they are going to get a decent return from it.
Getty have already squeezed all the juice out of IS anyway. So much so that they nearly killed it.
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^^ I'm assuming that piece was produced via a substandard voice recognition software, and not manually edited. Queen of Typos can spot these things. But it is, like you say, very difficult to decipher.
However, this has to be the (mis)Quote of the Month:
"it was really difficult to get some of the traditional players in the space that celebrates toady"
I will make sure to wide-berth that space. ;)
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I predict IStock will be sold again.
I think Getty is going to squeeze all the juice out and then throw the rest away.
No. Getty will be sold again (with IS included). Carlyle have a lot of money tied up in Getty and, with the level of debt and falling revenues reported, it's not clear to me where they are going to get a decent return from it.
Getty have already squeezed all the juice out of IS anyway. So much so that they nearly killed it.
I don't think it's been nearly killed. You are forgetting that iStock is still making a lot more than Shutterstock, at least according to Jon Oringer.
I do agree that IF iStock is ever sold it will be as part of Getty, there is no way to separate them now.
I believe they will want to take it public again. But not yet. At the moment they seem to be in the process of building value. The down economy and pessimistic expectations gives them a good space within which to reinvent yet again IMO.
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I believe they will want to take it public again. But not yet. At the moment they seem to be in the process of building value. The down economy and pessimistic expectations gives them a good space within which to reinvent yet again IMO.
It's a thought __ if the public would buy it. The stock owning public seemed pretty grateful to sell out to H&F in 2007 though. Revenues have fallen since then, they've got all that debt and now a major competitor/threat has emerged in the form of SS. Seems to me that Getty's prospects now are a lot less rosy than they appeared to be in 2007.
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^^ I'm assuming that piece was produced via a substandard voice recognition software, and not manually edited. Queen of Typos can spot these things. But it is, like you say, very difficult to decipher.
However, this has to be the (mis)Quote of the Month:
"it was really difficult to get some of the traditional players in the space that celebrates toady"
I will make sure to wide-berth that space. ;)
Sometimes there is some good content on Seeking Alpha. But much of the content worse than useless. I have no idea why so many people outside of the financial community continually link to it - possibly, I think, because the site seems to score well in Google searches when people are looking for articles to justify their points of view - often about subjects they only pretend to understand. No disrespect intended to tickstock because he is not guilty of this.
Basically any old blogger or day trader can push an opinion on SeekingAlpha. It's the finance equivalent of, say, Trip Advisor - where their bad may very well be your good.
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The stock owning public seemed pretty grateful to sell out to H&F in 2007 though. Revenues have fallen since then, they've got all that debt and now a major competitor/threat has emerged in the form of SS. Seems to me that Getty's prospects now are a lot less rosy than they appeared to be in 2007.
The stock was over-valued in 2007 on the back of having risen unrealistically in the credit fuelled boom. That made it very difficult for them to operate as a company. Going private was surely the best thing. Many other companies were going private or buying back shares at the same time. And look how much money it has made for people since.
You talk about debt as if that were always a pejorative thing. It's no different from a mortgage. Others would simply call that corporate finance. Certainly I think there is a danger of over-exaggerating its importance - and ultimately the debt exists because the lenders believe in the company. And because Getty continues to do what it has always done - which is to make money. You always talk Getty down - but it's a valuable company run by bright people who obviously have a clear sense of their vision of image as commodity. Yes we might not love it in the same way as we could love some other stock agency. Though I love much of the very intelligent and creative work which people have been able to produce because Getty exists.
SS is a great company. But you definitely couldn't love that either. And TBH I believe that they were extremely lucky with their IPO. Perhaps there would have been a point after Facebook when they worried about going ahead with it. And they have been lucky since the IPO that stocks have continued to boom. FWIW I think that they remain desperately over exposed to the microstock subscription market. That seems like having nearly all of your eggs in one basket. And, lets face it, the investors haven't got much of a clue if Seeking Alpha is anything to go by.
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A mortgage can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the financial situation of the person who takes it out. As for " the debt exists because the lenders believe in the company", that is in the wrong tense, it should be "believed" at the time they made the loan. We don't know whether or not they still believe in it, but Getty's admission that it failed to produce the performance it said it would must have gone some way to undermining the original belief.
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Still waiting for them to do for photographers what they did for vector artists and just drop the RC system.
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Haven't uploaded since the D-day and will not anytime soon, at least until their DNA changes as it was stated earlier by Cobalt. In fact, i'm half step from pulling my entire portfolio out. I guess I'm just waiting to the final drop...
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They must have lost a lot of exclusives to SS this year, it's not like them to play anything other than hardball.
It's kind of reassuring to see the RC system bite them on the arse, other agencies should take note.
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They must have lost a lot of exclusives to SS this year, it's not like them to play anything other than hardball.
It's kind of reassuring to see the RC system bite them on the arse, other agencies should take note.
I really don't understand the conclusions being drawn from this (which isn't to say that I wouldn't love to see the RC system outlawed on the entire planet).
They did the exact same thing last year, so how do we tell anything from them doing it again this year?
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=349961&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=349961&page=1)
If you have not made it back to your 2012 level you will not move down on Jan 1, instead you will stay at your current level/rate going into 2013.
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Still waiting for them to do for photographers what they did for vector artists and just drop the RC system.
Won't happen if people keep uploading.
It's true. Vector uploads plummeted (the review queue went from several days down to several hours despite no additional reviewers being added) and lifting the upload limit didn't give them the numbers they wanted from the people who continued to upload. They finally had to relent and give back the 20% rate to get uploads back on track.
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They did the exact same thing last year, so how do we tell anything from them doing it again this year?
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=349961&page=1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=349961&page=1[/url])
If you have not made it back to your 2012 level you will not move down on Jan 1, instead you will stay at your current level/rate going into 2013.
Big revenue losses from iStock this year and SS revenue up this year.
Getty won't care of course because they have Thinkstock & Getty Images but the future doesn't look stable or particularly sustainable for exclusives.
New files being dead on arrival are compounding the problem, 2014 will be a pivotal moment for many exclusives IMO.
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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8294845/vectors.JPG)
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On a side note the hearts and minuses things is pretty silly when I get 1 negative and your post gets 5 hearts for agreeing with me, glad I stopped paying any attention to that. I can say for sure now that some people give negatives without reading what I've written so even less of a reason to pay attention to it. Too bad Leaf doesn't offer an opt out.
I can't speak for everyone, but when I've given you minuses I've read every word. (I've also given you pluses on the rare occasions you provide useful info)
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On a side note the hearts and minuses things is pretty silly when I get 1 negative and your post gets 5 hearts for agreeing with me, glad I stopped paying any attention to that. I can say for sure now that some people give negatives without reading what I've written so even less of a reason to pay attention to it. Too bad Leaf doesn't offer an opt out.
I can't speak for everyone, but when I've given you minuses I've read every word. (I've also given you pluses on the rare occasions you provide useful info)
Same here
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I never got banned. Told you that before.
I see you cant handle up votes. I will vote you down then from here on out, so you feel right at home again.
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See its happening to me too. Lisa gets 3 votes up, I agree with her, I get 4 votes down.
Its about who they like not about what is being said.
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See its happening to me too. Lisa gets 3 votes up, I agree with her, I get 4 votes down.
Its about who they like not about what is being said.
No, it's probably because Lisa CONTRIBUTES to the discussion. You just seem to write hundreds of nothing posts. Look at your last 4 above. Not one word about the subject of the thread.
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See its happening to me too. Lisa gets 3 votes up, I agree with her, I get 4 votes down.
Its about who they like not about what is being said.
No, it's probably because Lisa CONTRIBUTES to the discussion. You just seem to write hundreds of nothing posts. Look at your last 4 above. Not one word about the subject of the thread.
Of course. Its a reaction to the all the votes down. Just trying to collect a few more. You are talking about the last 4 comments, I am talking in general. By the way, Lisa;s comment was off topic as well, so its not even true.
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Few random comments..
Grandfathered, get to keep my 15% ;D
@tickstock, despite disagreeing with you on virtually everything, have never given you a minus (the only time I ever do it is to prats who minus me for speaking the truth)
Read a comment from the founder of a company I used to work for about his disappointment that the company he founded and built over 20 years had been "managed out of existence" - sound like a familiar story?
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Desperately important things, these pluses and minuses. I don't know how I survived the first 50-something years of life without them. (Please, no minuses for this post, just lots of pluses, or I'll spend the whole day feeling depressed!).
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Anyone else experiencing a drop in commission rate for 2014, despite the message that rates would be grandfathered?
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yes my rates have dropped too
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.......dropped
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Is there any buzz on the IS forum about this?
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Mine dropped as well, from 18 to 17%. Some people already mentioned it in the forums.
Let's see how long it takes to correct this. istock is never boring...
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No surprise here. When they wanted to take something from us (can't remember what - was it the clawback of the extra 10% Exclusives used to get on ELs? or ...?), they ran the script two weeks before the announced date, and here they're not allowing people to get their promised grandfathered rate.
Hopefully you'll get it sorted before sales get back to 'normal' (whatever that means) figures.
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Dropped 5% here as well! I am sure it will be fixed but this is uncalled for
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Enjoy waiting four months for a random retro amount to be added to your balance :( .
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Add me to the list of 5% drops
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Enjoy waiting four months for a random retro amount to be added to your balance :( .
And then removed because it was the wrong amount, and a few more months of waiting for another (also wrong) amount to be added back.
Yes, fun, fun, fun.
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Mine's so low it can't drop.....at least, the percentage can't.....
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Add me to the list of 5% drops
Me too. And +1 on the suggestions that this will probably not be a top priority item to either fix or reimburse.
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anyone have noticed the increase of the price of Signature and Vetta collections ?
regarding the drop of targets, i think it is only a glitch on the displaying and not in the calculation
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anyone have noticed the increase of the price of Signature and Vetta collections ?
No, I hadn't. :( HOW can they do that? >:(
M: 13-->15
L: 17-->20
XL: 20-->25
XXL: 25-->28
XXXL: 28-->30
M+: 33-->35
L+: 40-->40 (unchanged)
XL+: 45-->50
XXL+: 50-->55
XXXL+: 55-->60
There's a HUGE amount of room now to increase Main prices and still make their 1/2 price claim.
I don't keep track of Vetta pricing, but the new prices do appear very high.
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Maybe they're trying to make exclusivity uncompetitive. Who knows? ::) :o
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They seem to have dropped me down. The "new" trust in action.
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anyone have noticed the increase of the price of Signature and Vetta collections ?
No, I hadn't. :( HOW can they do that? >:(
M: 13-->15
L: 17-->20
XL: 20-->25
XXL: 25-->28
XXXL: 28-->30
M+: 33-->35
L+: 40-->40 (unchanged)
XL+: 45-->50
XXL+: 50-->55
XXXL+: 55-->60
There's a HUGE amount of room now to increase Main prices and still make their 1/2 price claim.
I don't keep track of Vetta pricing, but the new prices do appear very high.
Ouch.
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I think this is brilliant marketing strategy by IS. Sales are down, what's the best way to stop the slide? Simple, put prices up! It shows the high quality of strategic planning at IS. :-\
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^^ I'm assuming that piece was produced via a substandard voice recognition software, and not manually edited. Queen of Typos can spot these things. But it is, like you say, very difficult to decipher.
However, this has to be the (mis)Quote of the Month:
"it was really difficult to get some of the traditional players in the space that celebrates toady"
I will make sure to wide-berth that space. ;)
Sometimes there is some good content on Seeking Alpha. But much of the content worse than useless. I have no idea why so many people outside of the financial community continually link to it - possibly, I think, because the site seems to score well in Google searches when people are looking for articles to justify their points of view - often about subjects they only pretend to understand. No disrespect intended to tickstock because he is not guilty of this.
Basically any old blogger or day trader can push an opinion on SeekingAlpha. It's the finance equivalent of, say, Trip Advisor - where their bad may very well be your good.
Did you read the article?
It's less about the jargon and financial stuff and more about the business of stock photography. Shutterstock's CFO talks about contributor royalty rates going forward for example and Jon Oringer talks about Getty and iStock.
One of the gripes I have with SS is the impact its pricing has had on other stock sites. IS has had to contend with SS's grab for market share in the form of SS not raising prices for over 5 years. SS have been able keep pricing low at the expense of contributors even though increasing content standards have increased our content productions expenses. They are well aware of our increased costs. If SS had to pay to produce it's assets you can bet they would have been forced to raise prices.
One of the biggest problems I have with SS is that their growth strategy comes at the expense of it's contributors.
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Duck Swartz
So what’s changed in the marketplace that’s giving you the opportunity to locate in the enterprise in a more, in a more robust way?
Timothy E. Bixby - CFO
The quality of the images has increased pretty dramatically over the past 10 years and as that now work keeps moving back and forth. The contributors 40,000 of them all over the world are constantly competing with each other.
So in the past five years the contents gone up to a level where the biggest publishers in the world mediated either starting to notice that is price, these images are not only price well, but they are also similar to some images that they have paid thousands of dollars for and also had to be on the phone for an hour negotiating the license for that image.
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Duck Swartz
Talking about your present strategy longer term?
Timothy E. Bixby - CFO
We think we can raise the prices over the long term but we’re primary in the growth mode right now and we would like to continue to cover as much of the world as possible and take as much as growth in the business that we can before we play with the pricing level. We haven’t raised prices in many years and then been a great strategy so far to grow.
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Jonathan Oringer - Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
It still multiples. So it's order of magnitude whether it's if you look at us compared to other stock marketplaces like an iStock or others, it's two or three or four times more expensive to not use Shutterstock. If you look at the higher end sort of more traditional marketed might be 6 or 8 or 10 times more expensive.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1841072-shutterstocks-management-presents-at-the-goldman-sachs-us-emerging-smid-cap-growth-conference-transcript?page=2&p=qanda&l=last (http://seekingalpha.com/article/1841072-shutterstocks-management-presents-at-the-goldman-sachs-us-emerging-smid-cap-growth-conference-transcript?page=2&p=qanda&l=last)
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One of the gripes I have with SS is the impact its pricing has had on other stock sites. IS has had to contend with SS's grab for market share in the form of SS not raising prices for over 5 years. SS have been able keep pricing low at the expense of contributors even though increasing content standards have increased our content productions expenses. They are well aware of our increased costs. If SS had to pay to produce it's assets you can bet they would have been forced to raise prices.
One of the biggest problems I have with SS is that their growth strategy comes at the expense of it's contributors.
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Duck Swartz
So what’s changed in the marketplace that’s giving you the opportunity to locate in the enterprise in a more, in a more robust way?
Timothy E. Bixby - CFO
The quality of the images has increased pretty dramatically over the past 10 years and as that now work keeps moving back and forth. The contributors 40,000 of them all over the world are constantly competing with each other.
So in the past five years the contents gone up to a level where the biggest publishers in the world mediated either starting to notice that is price, these images are not only price well, but they are also similar to some images that they have paid thousands of dollars for and also had to be on the phone for an hour negotiating the license for that image.
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Duck Swartz
Talking about your present strategy longer term?
Timothy E. Bixby - CFO
We think we can raise the prices over the long term but we’re primary in the growth mode right now and we would like to continue to cover as much of the world as possible and take as much as growth in the business that we can before we play with the pricing level. We haven’t raised prices in many years and then been a great strategy so far to grow.
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Jonathan Oringer - Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
It still multiples. So it's order of magnitude whether it's if you look at us compared to other stock marketplaces like an iStock or others, it's two or three or four times more expensive to not use Shutterstock. If you look at the higher end sort of more traditional marketed might be 6 or 8 or 10 times more expensive.
[url]http://seekingalpha.com/article/1841072-shutterstocks-management-presents-at-the-goldman-sachs-us-emerging-smid-cap-growth-conference-transcript?page=2&p=qanda&l=last[/url] ([url]http://seekingalpha.com/article/1841072-shutterstocks-management-presents-at-the-goldman-sachs-us-emerging-smid-cap-growth-conference-transcript?page=2&p=qanda&l=last[/url])
^^^ What does this have to do with the question of whether IS have grandfathered our royalty rates or not?
In my case, no they have not. Quelle surprise!
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^^^ What does this have to do with the question of whether IS have grandfathered our royalty rates or not?
In my case, no they have not. Quelle surprise!
You really need to ask this question? The state of the market has everything to do with the moves each microstock company makes and SS's growth strategy drives business strategy at other sites. Including the latest moves by IS to retain contributors.
I guess I am not at all surprised that key drivers of SS business strategy post undisguised business objectives and you can not make the leap. SS's long term price undercutting has everything to do with falling revenues at IS and the micro industry in general.
By the way what does your below post have to do with grandfathered RC's at IS?
I believe they will want to take it public again. But not yet. At the moment they seem to be in the process of building value. The down economy and pessimistic expectations gives them a good space within which to reinvent yet again IMO.
It's a thought __ if the public would buy it. The stock owning public seemed pretty grateful to sell out to H&F in 2007 though. Revenues have fallen since then, they've got all that debt and now a major competitor/threat has emerged in the form of SS. Seems to me that Getty's prospects now are a lot less rosy than they appeared to be in 2007.
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anyone have noticed the increase of the price of Signature and Vetta collections ?
No, I hadn't. :( HOW can they do that? >:(
M: 13-->15
L: 17-->20
XL: 20-->25
XXL: 25-->28
XXXL: 28-->30
M+: 33-->35
L+: 40-->40 (unchanged)
XL+: 45-->50
XXL+: 50-->55
XXXL+: 55-->60
There's a HUGE amount of room now to increase Main prices and still make their 1/2 price claim.
I don't keep track of Vetta pricing, but the new prices do appear very high.
By the way, I found that they also raised price per credit, for a double hit.
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^^^ What does this have to do with the question of whether IS have grandfathered our royalty rates or not?
In my case, no they have not. Quelle surprise!
You really need to ask this question?
Joe is mostly moaning and winging about people not posting useful comments. The irony. :)
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anyone have noticed the increase of the price of Signature and Vetta collections ?
No, I hadn't. :( HOW can they do that? >:(
M: 13-->15
L: 17-->20
XL: 20-->25
XXL: 25-->28
XXXL: 28-->30
M+: 33-->35
L+: 40-->40 (unchanged)
XL+: 45-->50
XXL+: 50-->55
XXXL+: 55-->60
There's a HUGE amount of room now to increase Main prices and still make their 1/2 price claim.
I don't keep track of Vetta pricing, but the new prices do appear very high.
By the way, I found that they also raised price per credit, for a double hit.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358448&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358448&page=1)
From the lobo
We haven't formally announced price changes for some time now. There are price adjustments occurring all the time. Sometimes up, sometimes down.
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Re the royalties, It seems the lobo doesnt know when it will be fixed and keeps pushing the ETA
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358438 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358438)
Posted Wed Jan 1 5:29PM
We are aware of the issue. It's been added to the bug thread. I'll have an ETA on when everything will be resolved by the end of the week.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358452&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=358452&page=1)
Posted Thu Jan 2 1:18PM
We should have an update soon. Probably not before the end of the week, but early next week.