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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: crazychristina on April 24, 2010, 18:30

Title: Mystery person
Post by: crazychristina on April 24, 2010, 18:30
We all know that Lise Gagne is on the verge of 1 million downloads on istock. I thought Yuri, at 860,000+ was second, but the istock contributor charts (http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/) shows two mystery people above him. One is obviously lise. So who's the other?

ETA: After the server problems istock had a little while ago a couple of contributors were reporting that their stats showed millions of downloads. Perhaps one of those has gone unrectified. Or maybe I'm missing someone obvious.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on April 24, 2010, 18:48
Probably bimbim.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: crazychristina on April 24, 2010, 19:08
Thanks Sean, that's probably who. Just a bit odd that she's chosen to go incognito in the chart, most people haven't. Not that the chart is complete either.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: lagereek on April 25, 2010, 01:19
No its not. Its Patrick Demachelier.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: crazychristina on April 25, 2010, 01:59
No its not. Its Patrick Demachelier.
Or perhaps Annie has joined istock to help out her debt situation.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: cathyslife on April 25, 2010, 07:20
No its not. Its Patrick Demachelier.
Or perhaps Annie has joined istock to help out her debt situation.

LOL
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: Phil on April 25, 2010, 15:42
bimbim is a silver illustrator with >16000000 downloads :)
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: lisafx on April 25, 2010, 16:55
Just a bit odd that she's chosen to go incognito in the chart, most people haven't. Not that the chart is complete either.

Perhaps most people haven't, but a seemingly large number of those on the first couple of pages have.  Seems pretty obvious why... ;)
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: crazychristina on April 25, 2010, 17:00
Just a bit odd that she's chosen to go incognito in the chart, most people haven't. Not that the chart is complete either.

Perhaps most people haven't, but a seemingly large number of those on the first couple of pages have.  Seems pretty obvious why... ;)
Indeed, but in the case of bimbim she hasn't really had 16,000,000 dls, and isn't 'really' on the first page.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on April 25, 2010, 17:33
Except that all istockcharts does is skim the actual page, so she would show up there.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: Pheby on April 26, 2010, 08:27
When someone started a thread on istock about her 16 Million downloads, she was on the first place on the charts, and she wasn't anonymous. Cool screenshot to have, if she took one.

BTW, I suppose it's due to all the other problems istock is having right now that her profile page is still showing the 16 Million. Also, I like the fact that she started a thread in the help forum herself.
Title: Re: Mystery person
Post by: RacePhoto on April 26, 2010, 15:09
No its not. Its Patrick Demachelier.

Not complete but shows over 90% of the photos and contributors. Just like a survey or poll, you don't need 100% to get an accurate view of the contributors. For all we know, the missing 10% are members who never passed the test.

#1 is Lisegagne, #3 is DNY59, the last two missing from the top 10 are 9 = spxChrome and 10 = urbancow

Not that anyone cares, I'm in the top 18000  ;D

Middle number of downloads, which would be half the contributors, not by number of downloads, is 100. That means Half of 29404 contributors have over 100 downloads (cashed for sure) and half do not, which means maybe never claimed anything yet. No way to know for sure, but rough figuring that's a good percentage.