Author Topic: September Partner Program started! (Read 12579 times)

steheap · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2013, 08:44 »

Where do you see the individual sales? I can see how much each image in the PP actually earns.

Anyway, September was a spectacular for me - $109 on main site and $282 on Partners - including (I assume) about 4 extended licenses.

Steve

tickstock · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:34 »

luissantos84 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:37 »

never tried the app but I can tell that it's quite fast at StockPerformer as well

tickstock · « **Reply #29 on:** October 17, 2013, 10:59 »

luissantos84 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 17, 2013, 11:03 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 17, 2013, 10:59

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 17, 2013, 09:37
never tried the app but I can tell that it's quite fast at StockPerformer as well
I don't know what you mean by 'fast' but the livestock app shows you a list of PP sales by date with royalty paid and from where it was licensed.

same at SF, by fast I mean a cool monthly chart and then just a few seconds to check each day where you can see number of downloads, rpd, royalties paid and also where it was licensed

tickstock · « **Reply #31 on:** October 17, 2013, 11:03 »

luissantos84 · « **Reply #32 on:** October 17, 2013, 11:06 »

Quote from: tickstock on October 17, 2013, 11:03

That's cool, is it free.

SF ain't but it is very worth, that said I am a beta user

tickstock · « **Reply #33 on:** October 17, 2013, 11:09 »

steheap · « **Reply #34 on:** October 17, 2013, 11:10 »

The App is free - I've just loaded the Android version and am waiting for the iStock site to populate the results. Looks interesting so far, but the initial scan of the site probably will take some time.

Steve

Yure · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2013, 12:13 »

It seems that the round is finished: I have dowloads up to Sept 30. But, strange thing, my PP dowloads according with Livestock are all from TS and nothing from Photos. It's only me?

Ron · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2013, 12:32 »

Very disappointing, only 12 DLs for 3.36$ I was hoping to break 100$ so I could close my account. ( I know I can leave now, but I want to reach pay out)

Monty-m-gue · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2013, 13:04 »

Is there any way to narrow down an app search for "livestock"? I'm getting lots of search returns that are most appropriate for cattle farmers!

tickstock · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2013, 13:07 »

heywoody · « **Reply #39 on:** October 17, 2013, 15:52 »

About a third of PP this month were non-sub so 3 times as many DL averaging twice the RPD of IS proper - I've had the occasional non-sub but nothing like this and quite a few are reporting similar.

I also had my first censored post over there having voiced the opinion that buyers were now moving to the PP and that I wouldn't be surprised if exclusives were shortly given the option to put main collection stuff over there. Must have touched a nerve.

I'm convinced that is gonna be Getty for RM, PP for all main collection and IS to be re-positioned in the stocksy / offset space with the pricier exclusive collections at which point the "re-branding" will mean something and most of the site performance problems etc will go away.

lisafx · « **Reply #40 on:** October 17, 2013, 16:37 »

With the PP having finished reporting, I sold around the same number of images as last month, but with a 35% bump in income.

The PP is now far out-performing Fotolia for me, and if separate from Istock would be my fourth place earner.

I'm almost tempted to try some uploads at Istock with an eye to getting them in the PP. Is the connecter to the PP fixed yet?

MichaelJayFoto · « **Reply #41 on:** October 18, 2013, 04:32 »

Quote from: lisafx on October 17, 2013, 16:37

With the PP having finished reporting, I sold around the same number of images as last month, but with a 35% bump in income.

The PP is now far out-performing Fotolia for me, and if separate from Istock would be my fourth place earner.

I'm almost tempted to try some uploads at Istock with an eye to getting them in the PP. Is the connecter to the PP fixed yet?

For me, the PP is the second best earner - after Shutterstock, before iStock itself and far ahead of any other place.

No, the connector isn't fixed. I had a bunch of images (old and new ones mixed) moving over in August but then it stopped again. From my latest batch of 64 uploads accepted at iStock exactly 6 made it to Thinkstock. Those moved within 24 hours but not a single one followed in the last few weeks.

hjalmeida · « **Reply #42 on:** October 18, 2013, 05:12 »

In my PP sales from September I received $0,46 p/dl ... not bad for a subscription site.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 18, 2013, 05:16 »

Last month PP+Istock out sold Shutterstock for me - A first - surely I stock cant be getting something right?

gostwyck · « **Reply #44 on:** October 18, 2013, 06:09 »

Quote from: lisafx on October 17, 2013, 16:37

With the PP having finished reporting, I sold around the same number of images as last month, but with a 35% bump in income.

The PP is now far out-performing Fotolia for me, and if separate from Istock would be my fourth place earner.

I'm almost tempted to try some uploads at Istock with an eye to getting them in the PP. Is the connecter to the PP fixed yet?

September was a surprisingly good month with the PP for me too. The PP ended in 3rd place, just behind IS themselves, with an average RPD of 40.5c.

As far as I can tell most, if not all, of the 100-odd images I uploaded to IS in June do appear to have been transferred to TS. Those images have generated 140 sales (of which 50 were from one particular image) and generated about $45 from the PP. That works out at about 50c per image ... over 4 months. On IS those same images have generated a further $26.

(NB: On SS those images have made nearly $1K although they have been on-line for about 3 months longer).

I will keep monitoring the situation but at the moment it is certainly not yet worth my time to upload to IS. It has become incredibly difficult for new images to get noticed and sell in any quantity. I also don't want to support the agency with by far the lowest royalties with new content.

Mantis · « **Reply #45 on:** October 18, 2013, 07:27 »

My split was about 50/50 with IS vs. PP. Regarding what Getty will do with IS, well, IS could have introduced a subs model into the IS platform (if they had the talent) but instead they chose to build a separate, distinct model. Lot's of probable reasons for doing so, but to me the most obvious is the spinoff of IS as a higher price point collection. How they pull this off with their current collection is a mystery, unless their mentality is simply that our exclusive contributor base offers enough clout in their collection to warrant significantly higher price points. Otherwise culling millions of images is an unrealistic option, so is it a do-over? Start from scratch? Maybe, but in my humble opinion non-exclusives (and maybe even exclusives) will ultimately be forced into PP as their only source of income from that revenue bucket. I am speaking generally with an 80/20 mentality, not the one-offs for which some may use to defend IS.

At this point my only hope is that PP yields the same level of aggregate pay as IS, PP.

ShadySue · « **Reply #46 on:** October 18, 2013, 07:37 »

Quote from: Mantis on October 18, 2013, 07:27

My split was about 50/50 with IS vs. PP. Regarding what Getty will do with IS, well, IS could have introduced a subs model into the IS platform (if they had the talent) but instead they chose to build a separate, distinct model.

There is an iS subs model within iS. I don't get many sales there, but others who sell more marketable images probably do better.
http://www.istockphoto.com/help/buy-credits/subscriptions
(top option)

pancaketom · « **Reply #47 on:** October 18, 2013, 11:04 »

with IS+PP I got .64 rpd. That beat .39 last month and .37 the month before. Admittedly my depleted port is a small sample but it is a big jump up. For comparison on SS the last 3 months I got .81, .77, and .80 . The total dl #s are down there, but the occasional higher $ sale are propping the totals up somewhat. The question is are the PP and BS successfully skimming off regular subs buyers?

MichaelJayFoto · « **Reply #48 on:** October 18, 2013, 11:53 »

Quote from: Mantis on October 18, 2013, 07:27

Regarding what Getty will do with IS, well, IS could have introduced a subs model into the IS platform (if they had the talent) but instead they chose to build a separate, distinct model. Lot's of probable reasons for doing so, but to me the most obvious is the spinoff of IS as a higher price point collection.

No, the subs model at IS was introduced in a way that it would never be competitive with other subscription models because the contributors would not have accepted a subs model. And it was at a time when IS was still listening to the contributor base quite often.

Thinkstock/the partner program was later introduced because it would run without consideration of contributors, so they also made it optional for iStock exclusives. And they could add images from their own collections to that offer without pushing them to IS. I think we were all happy (happier) the way they made this happen outside of the IS platform.

steheap · « **Reply #49 on:** October 18, 2013, 14:27 »

Just going back to the Livestock App (which is great!), how do you make it go back more than a month to see all the PP downloads in the past month. As far as I can see, mine stops at the download on 17 September and won't go back earlier?

Steve

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