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« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2011, 16:49 »
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I'm hoping it's sold or spun off, sheds a layer of corporate carpetbaggers from Getty, regroups, simplifies everything and becomes what it used to be - a good microstock site.

IStock's current problems all stem from one source - new owners and mangers that couldn't stop changing the rules and the business model, churning it all up week after week, demanding implementation of ever-more-complicated pricing and commission schemes.  That's why there site is all screwed up.

Think about it.  IStock's software people are probably just as sharp as those at any other agency. What's different about IS, compared to SS and DT, is that IS has been in constant flux the last year.  No software group can keep things working smoothly when management comes in every Monday morning with demands to change things around yet again.  The kept pushing it until they broke it.
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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2011, 19:02 »
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They will just implode in they own greedy guts.
The only thing I wish would be that the smell will not spread to my country.
God bless you iS T O K A, PLS go away in silent fart and RIP.

« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2011, 23:58 »
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Since they seem to have learned absolutely nothing in the past couple years, I predict that they:

1.  Will lower commissions while raising redemed credits
2.  Will raise prices
3.  Will break something that wasn't broken

« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2011, 01:29 »
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Since they seem to have learned absolutely nothing in the past couple years, I predict that they:

1.  Will lower commissions while raising redemed credits
2.  Will raise prices
3.  Will break something that wasn't broken

4. And will continue their slow yet inexorable decline - then be sold off at the end of the year before it get too pear shaped.

lagereek

« Reply #30 on: December 03, 2011, 02:52 »
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Another scenario would be this:  keeping Vettas and agency files. Out with independants but also with all the "ordinary" exclusives, from silver and downwards, they really have no place there anymore.

RacePhoto

« Reply #31 on: December 03, 2011, 02:56 »
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Nonsense.

I must agree, there will be more nonsense from IS in the next year.  :P Why should they stop now.

I think we'll discover the truth about how many people will earn the same or more with the new system is a pile of horse pucky.

« Reply #32 on: December 03, 2011, 16:32 »
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Three F5s per day.

« Reply #33 on: December 03, 2011, 21:16 »
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The same people that wrote the code are now fixing it.  The same people that are fixing it will write the next code.  So I can only see more and longer outages.  Eventually we will hit one where the accounting is so screwed up that iStock will have to admit it can't be fixed. Oh that will be a bad day - but I see it coming in the trends.

TPTB see Glory Land across the river.  The worker bees are taking bridge parts from behind them and laying them in front.  At some point in the middle the bridge is disconnected from land at both ends. And great was the fall thereof.

« Reply #34 on: December 04, 2011, 05:47 »
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The same people that wrote the code are now fixing it.  The same people that are fixing it will write the next code.  So I can only see more and longer outages.  Eventually we will hit one where the accounting is so screwed up that iStock will have to admit it can't be fixed. Oh that will be a bad day - but I see it coming in the trends.

TPTB see Glory Land across the river.  The worker bees are taking bridge parts from behind them and laying them in front.  At some point in the middle the bridge is disconnected from land at both ends. And great was the fall thereof.

The same people simply gave up even attempting to provide real-time statistics, several years ago. Too difficult for them. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. And lo, it came to pass.

« Reply #35 on: December 04, 2011, 11:18 »
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Since uploading and keywording was a lot of work, I have left most of my existing photos on iStock, but I haven't uploaded in the past year due to the commission reduction.   Istock used to be my top earner, but it is now generally number two or number three each week.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.   While it's true that there are a lot of people who continue to upload, different photographers have different images, and buyers will eventually start to notice that there are a lot of good images at DT, 123RF, etc. that they can't find on iStock.   That's probably already happening

« Reply #36 on: December 04, 2011, 11:34 »
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Since uploading and keywording was a lot of work, I have left most of my existing photos on iStock, but I haven't uploaded in the past year due to the commission reduction.   Istock used to be my top earner, but it is now generally number two or number three each week.

I can't add a word to that - I quit submitting months ago. Too many hoops to jump through; and I think it's only a matter of time before they dump non-exclusives completely.  Even if things changed,  the CV keywording is just too much work, for the expected return on an image.

antistock

« Reply #37 on: December 04, 2011, 12:11 »
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The same people that wrote the code are now fixing it.  The same people that are fixing it will write the next code.  So I can only see more and longer outages.  Eventually we will hit one where the accounting is so screwed up that iStock will have to admit it can't be fixed. Oh that will be a bad day - but I see it coming in the trends.

TPTB see Glory Land across the river.  The worker bees are taking bridge parts from behind them and laying them in front.  At some point in the middle the bridge is disconnected from land at both ends. And great was the fall thereof.

technically speaking, Getty is to blame for this.

after buying IS they should had used the same CMS running gettyimages.com and make a migration.

another obvious hint that the MBAs at Getty have no clue whatsover about the technology and the tools needed to run their own business.

i wonder if they're even aware of all these persistent technical issues, i'm sure they know sh-it about it and think it's all running smooth, wondering why customers are leaving in droves.

« Reply #38 on: December 05, 2011, 01:49 »
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No real predictions because I don't really care what happens to them.

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« Reply #39 on: December 05, 2011, 01:58 »
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Like with an ex-lover, with the love the hate should go away too. It's over. I don't like to bash them since they're not my business any more.
I can just hope that after their financiers sold them off, they regain their senses again and become the community site they once were.

« Reply #40 on: March 04, 2014, 16:21 »
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The same people that wrote the code are now fixing it.  The same people that are fixing it will write the next code.  So I can only see more and longer outages.  Eventually we will hit one where the accounting is so screwed up that iStock will have to admit it can't be fixed. Oh that will be a bad day - but I see it coming in the trends.

TPTB see Glory Land across the river.  The worker bees are taking bridge parts from behind them and laying them in front.  At some point in the middle the bridge is disconnected from land at both ends. And great was the fall thereof.

« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2014, 16:29 »
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The same people that wrote the code are now fixing it.  The same people that are fixing it will write the next code.  So I can only see more and longer outages.  Eventually we will hit one where the accounting is so screwed up that iStock will have to admit it can't be fixed. Oh that will be a bad day - but I see it coming in the trends.

TPTB see Glory Land across the river.  The worker bees are taking bridge parts from behind them and laying them in front.  At some point in the middle the bridge is disconnected from land at both ends. And great was the fall thereof.

Prophetic.  :(

Uncle Pete

« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2014, 23:36 »
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Will lower standards fit into your plans as well?

YR   Files   Uploads
05   1.1M   1.1M
06   2.6M   1.5M
07   5M   2.3M
08   8.1M   3.1M
09   11.5M   3.4M
10   15.2M   3.6M
11   18.8M   3.5M
12   22.7M   3.9M
(new rules start)
13   32.4M   9.7M

(thanks to Slobo of IS forums)

Lower standards and lower prices = lower commissions.

#3 is an all around winner in so many ways.


Since they seem to have learned absolutely nothing in the past couple years, I predict that they:

1.  Will lower commissions while raising redemed credits
2.  Will raise prices
3.  Will break something that wasn't broken

w7lwi

  • Those that don't stand up to evil enable evil.
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2014, 11:15 »
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How about they will fix/improve something that doesn't need to be fixed/improved.  Of course that could apply to GI as well.   :o


 

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