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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: Dook on February 06, 2010, 09:19

Title: One more Istock exclusivity question
Post by: Dook on February 06, 2010, 09:19

Since Istock is redirecting buyers to ThinkStock for cheaper subs, are this sub sales at Thinkstock counting for total downloads number in out canister levels? If not, how can we ever get to the next canister level, because, I guess, there will be less downloads on Istock. Does anybody know?

Title: Re: One more Istock exclusivity question
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on February 06, 2010, 09:22

No.  Only iStock sales count towards iStock cannisters.

Title: Re: One more Istock exclusivity question
Post by: Dook on February 06, 2010, 09:34

Thanks, Sjlocke

Title: Re: One more Istock exclusivity question
Post by: PenelopeB on February 06, 2010, 19:27

One more question...

If your StockXpert portfolio went over to thinkstock, then you went exclusive, would your file have to be deleted off thinkstock to be exclusive?

Title: Re: One more Istock exclusivity question
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on February 06, 2010, 20:50

To become exclusive you'd have to delete your StockXpert portfolio. Once that's done it'll (eventually) be gone from Thinkstock.

If the idea was to keep items formerly on StockXpert that hadn't passed IS inspection, I can't imagine IS would let that back door stay open.