do they count subscription sales and thinkstock sales in the quota ? They are 98% of my sales, not that I'm exclusive.

the purpose of this is to feed the highest ranked contributors which are paid in five-digit incomes and more for their work. Why feed the bottom part. Even governments rather take more money from the low and mid paid workers than millionaires.

Is it true that istock received less than 10 million files this year?

Shutterstock gets over a million a week, so the number of people uploading to istock must have dropped dramatically.

The exclusives are the only ones feeding them with really good content and as a reward they get punished.

Because even with �only� 10 million files added, no contributor can shoot to fight dilution. They can never outshoot the flood.

Even if levels stay the same, it a �cold� raise, because the library keeps growing.

I even stopped uploding video. I had 5 sales, but 4 were for 68 or 62 cents for 4k video and ine sale was for 8 dollars.

So although they increased it to 20%last year for video, they killed it immediatly by throwing our files away for less than a dollar.

There is no need to destroy the video market, but here they go...

Good luck to the poor exclusives, I am so glad I am free. No agency is perfect but most will treat you better than istock.

Yeah well any agency getting 10 million files a week, its no wonder its going downhill!

Who's getting 10m files a week?!