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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: GeoPappas on July 19, 2006, 08:30

Title: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: GeoPappas on July 19, 2006, 08:30

As the subject matter states, do you plan on opting-in (in which case you don't need to do anything) or opting-out of the VOX initiative on iStock?

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: leaf on July 19, 2006, 09:11

i have voted opt in for now... i am not sure i agree with the vox thing yet, but opting OUT of all marketing could hurt sales... maybe not though.. maybe I should opt out.. :S

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: mattb on July 19, 2006, 12:06

Opting out until I can remove my model released images and then probably opt-in

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: madelaide on July 19, 2006, 22:11

At first, I would opt-out.  Having bloggers use our images is not marketing, it's unlicensed use.  Marketing would be a random image unrelated to the blogger or blog post appearing somewhere with a link to iStock. 

I see however that they at least reduced the image, made the watermark more visible and added a credit to the photographer.  This is good.  I haven't found out if photos do not show as "my photos" anymore.

Regards,
Adelaide

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: fintastique on July 20, 2006, 03:38

I would opt OUT if I knew how - please help I always get lost in iStock!

Come to think of it this signature is looking quite bulky how do get a bit of text staying one thing with a link to the relevant part of my site, HTML doesn't seem to work. - Thanks CJ

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: CJPhoto on July 20, 2006, 04:17

fintastique

[url = http://put in your url ] put in text [ /url ]  - no spaces

Title: Re: New Poll: Opt-in or Opt-out of VOX?
Post by: melking on July 20, 2006, 06:02

I am in for now too!

Melissa