Author Topic: New Pricing (Read 23101 times)

brm1949 · « **on:** July 15, 2013, 13:38 »

Is this new, I have lost track of how they are screwing us:

http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1560?esource=50407_iStock_ABC_Wave_2_RNB_EN_em&sp_rid=&sp_mid=5577078

ShadySue · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2013, 13:41 »

Quote from: brm1949 on July 15, 2013, 13:38

Is this new, I have lost track of how they are screwing us:

http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=1560?esource=50407_iStock_ABC_Wave_2_RNB_EN_em&sp_rid=&sp_mid=5577078

No, not new, they've just started advertising it. The change was announced by email and istock's announcement thread on 27th June.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354618&page=1

fotoVoyager · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:18 »

Press release from Yuri Acurs and iStock:

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2737094

Ploink · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:24 »

"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:29 »

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24

"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?

Never 'eard of 'er.

Ploink · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:32 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:29

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24
"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?
Never 'eard of 'er.

...dropping "Hs" everywhere,...

*SCNR*

ShadySue · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:39 »

Quote from: fotoVoyager on July 16, 2013, 04:18

Press release from Yuri Acurs and iStock:

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2737094

That is so embarrassing.
In addition to the new content and pricing changes, iStockphoto has also improved its online search experience. With more enhancements on the way, iStock recently updated the way search results are displayed with a streamlined grid and rollover capabilities that offers customers a cleaner, faster and simpler way to find specific content and the information they need. Other enhancements include a price filter to help creatives find the best content within their budget, new "Only from iStock" and "Editors' Pick" icons that make it easy to identify and purchase the perfect, stand-out content, and an improved search experience that helps creatives access exactly what they're looking for, free of hassle.
... at at time when:
1. The default search is said to be Best Match, but it is usually Age or Downloads, and takes three clicks to get to best match, but someone arriving for the first time would assume it was the best match.
2. refine search doesn't work, as in if you type e.g. woman in the main top search field, then try to refine it via the left hand column, nothing happens. (However, inputting woman, dog to the top search field does work.)
3. If you type woman, dog and choose illustrations only, it works, but if you then search e.g. man, cat, it defaults back to photos only*, whereas probably if someone chose illos only for the first search then tried another, there's presumably a better than 50-50 chance they'd want illos for the second.
* Actually that was only in FF, logged in. In IE, logged out, the second search defaulted to photos, illos and video. Still, you might think it would keep illos unless the buyer chose otherwise.

ShadySue · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:43 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:29

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24
"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?
Never 'eard of 'er.

Maybe that is the new announcement Lobo promised in the exclusive forum, firstly for Friday, then for first thing yesterday (Monday) morning.
Hasn't appeared yet.

Ploink · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:45 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:43

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:29
Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24
"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?
Never 'eard of 'er.
Maybe that is the new announcement Lobo promised in the exclusive forum, firstly for Friday, then for first thing yesterday (Monday) morning.
Hasn't appeared yet.

Ellen, the new and improved Rebecca?

Ploink · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:51 »

Just found this: Click

ShadySue · « **Reply #10 on:** July 16, 2013, 04:57 »

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:51

Just found this: Click

Having worked at Dow Jones, is she the one who doens't know what 50% actually means?

Ploink · « **Reply #11 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:00 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:57

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:51
Just found this: Click

Having worked at Dow Jones, is she the one who doens't know what 50% actually means?

Come on, what's a few percent compared to the "...site's commitment to its 'by creatives, for creatives' heritage..." and a "...a remarkable ability to drive impactful results...".

Impactful - what a word - but, yes, indeed...

ShadySue · « **Reply #12 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:15 »

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 05:00

Impactful - what a word - but, yes, indeed...

When I saw it, I thought "That's not a real word", but I checked, and apparently it is.
At least, it's in Merriam-Webster, but possibly not in the OED.
However, according to Washington State University:
"Many people in business and education like to speak of things that have an impact as being “impactful,” but this term does not appear in most dictionaries and is not well thought of by traditionalists. Use “influential” or “effective” instead. "

And in the Urban Dictionary:
"1. impactful
September 23, 2009 Urban Word of the Day
A non-existent word coined by corporate advertising, marketing and business drones to make their work sound far more useful, exciting and beneficial to humanity than it really is. This term is most frequently used in "team building" seminars and conferences in which said drones discuss the most effective ways to convince consumer zombies to purchase crap they clearly do not need or even want."
2. impactful
Something that conveys significance.
I.e. utter marketing gash, it's words like this that make society bad and help meaningless marketing plebians ascend the rungs of their pointless evil careers and step on anyone creative in their path. For shame marketing ... for shame.

Ploink · « **Reply #13 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:20 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 05:15

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 05:00
Impactful - what a word - but, yes, indeed...
When I saw it, I thought "That's not a real word", but I checked, and apparently it is.
At least, it's in Merriam-Webster, but possibly not in the OED.
However, according to Washington State University:
"Many people in business and education like to speak of things that have an impact as being “impactful,” but this term does not appear in most dictionaries and is not well thought of by traditionalists. Use “influential” or “effective” instead. "

And in the Urban Dictionary:
"1. impactful
September 23, 2009 Urban Word of the Day
A non-existent word coined by corporate advertising, marketing and business drones to make their work sound far more useful, exciting and beneficial to humanity than it really is. This term is most frequently used in "team building" seminars and conferences in which said drones discuss the most effective ways to convince consumer zombies to purchase crap they clearly do not need or even want."
2. impactful
Something that conveys significance.
I.e. utter marketing gash, it's words like this that make society bad and help meaningless marketing plebians ascend the rungs of their pointless evil careers and step on anyone creative in their path. For shame marketing ... for shame.

That's the reason why I love to come here: Not only is it entertaining, but you learn something new every day - thank you!

ShadySue · « **Reply #14 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:29 »

Quote from: fotoVoyager on July 16, 2013, 04:18

Press release from Yuri Acurs and iStock:

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2737094

Glorious example of double-new-speak:
"New Unique Content: The Arcurs Collection - Only at iStockphoto
iStockphoto is now the only site where the Arcurs Collection of photo, video, audio and vector elements can be found. Thousands of files are available today at http://istockphoto.com/yuri with more than 85,000 available by the fall of this year."
So I thought, Oh, has Yuri closed People Images, but I see he hasn't, though the front page is considerably cheapened by nasty big text over the banner slideshow:
http://peopleimages.com

(I'm trying to get my head around, "Purchase additional site credits if you need more money" Must check it on The Motley Fool.)

ShadySue · « **Reply #15 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:30 »

So if I declare some of my work as the ShadySue Collection, I can have other stuff elsewhere?

Oh, that's called 'image exclusivity'.

gostwyck · « **Reply #16 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:35 »

Read all about it in the Sacramento Bee too;

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/15/5569175/getty-images-names-ellen-desmarais.html

I notice that she lives in Manhattan and is based in Getty's NY office. I'll bet she's got no immediate plans to move to Calgary.

Yuri's stuff is still available at DT too.

ShadySue · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:36 »

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:45

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:43
Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:29
Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24
"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?
Never 'eard of 'er.
Maybe that is the new announcement Lobo promised in the exclusive forum, firstly for Friday, then for first thing yesterday (Monday) morning.
Hasn't appeared yet.

Ellen, the new and improved Rebecca?

iS ~~CEO~~ boss seems to be as much a Killer Job as manager of the Scotland football team.

Ploink · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:37 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 05:30

So if I declare some of my work as the ShadySue Collection, I can have other stuff elsewhere?
Oh, that's called 'image exclusivity'.

Go ahead, write them an e-mail asking them to consider the ShadySue Collection, but be sure to make it impactful

gostwyck · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:38 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 05:36

Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:45
Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:43
Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 04:29
Quote from: Ploink on July 16, 2013, 04:24
"...said Ellen Desmarais, the new general manager at iStockphoto..."

Did I miss that one?
Never 'eard of 'er.
Maybe that is the new announcement Lobo promised in the exclusive forum, firstly for Friday, then for first thing yesterday (Monday) morning.
Hasn't appeared yet.

Ellen, the new and improved Rebecca?
iS CEO seems to be as much a Killer Job as manager of the Scotland football team.

She's the GM ... as was Rebbecca. The previous numpty was actually the COO.

ShadySue · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:40 »

Quote from: gostwyck on July 16, 2013, 05:38

She's the GM ... as was Rebbecca. The previous numpty was actually the COO.

Tx, it's all the same to me, but I've made the correction.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:47 »

oh I was waiting for something exciting, is that all Yuri?

gostwyck · « **Reply #22 on:** July 16, 2013, 05:55 »

Quote from: ShadySue on July 16, 2013, 05:40

Quote from: gostwyck on July 16, 2013, 05:38
She's the GM ... as was Rebbecca. The previous numpty was actually the COO.
Tx, it's all the same to me, but I've made the correction.

There's a huge difference between being GM and CEO (or MD). Essentially one is responsible for internal matters and the other is responsible for external matters and strategy. On a warship or submarine for example the captain is the CEO who decides where the craft should be, how fast it travels, etc, to achieve it's mission whereas the First Lieutenant's job (the GM) is to makes sure the decks are clean and the crew are properly trained, etc.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2013, 06:09 »

Wow, they certainly are liars, aren't they?

"iStockphoto is now the only site where the Arcurs Collection of photo, video, audio and vector elements can be found."
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4431227-whats-that-up-there.php
http://peopleimages.com/image/whats-that-up-there-eye-beautiful-portrait

"iStockphoto customers will also notice substantial cost reductions with half of the library now at half the price. This long-term pricing change reassures time-pressed creatives that they no longer have to shop around for a better deal. Almost half of the iStock library includes unique content that is not available outside of the Getty Images family."

Nice how they talk about "half the price" - independent collection, and then switch to talking about the half that is exclusive. And we know that they are believable when they've promised things in the past, so "long-term" is certainly believable.

"With more enhancements on the way, iStock recently updated the way search results are displayed with a streamlined grid and rollover capabilities that offers customers a cleaner, faster and simpler way to find specific content and the information they need."

Faster, with a loupe that takes seconds to load, simpler, with how you have to move the mouse around to see the next loupe, and cleaner, with the double grey frame on images.

"new "Only from iStock" and "Editors' Pick" icons that make it easy to identify and purchase the perfect, stand-out content,"

And we all know what lies those are. Wow.

Gio · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2013, 06:18 »

Lies are the foundation of almost any marketing. Sadly.

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Author Topic: New Pricing (Read 23101 times)

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Ploink

ShadySue

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gostwyck

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gostwyck

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