Quote from: gostwyck on November 12, 2013, 17:30

Quote from: Shelma1 on November 12, 2013, 17:23

iStuck.

"Professionals deal with professionals!"

Hope Yuri's enjoying his new 'professional' partnership.

Well, he hasn't been too chatty about it lately...

never was, only to drop a bomb here and there and also to distract us and then leave

he said he had a game plan "in 6 months" so in January he will show up

Quote from: pancaketom on November 08, 2013, 01:59

Does anyone want to place bets on if we will get the regular stats update before PP sales are reported?

Looks like the Partner Program has started.

It has, and the PP stats are working. You will see them if you go to last month's figures. It just seems to be iS ordinary sales that they aren't working for.

I wonder if the figures coming through for pp are right though, with 29 sales reported so far I've got $24, which is more than double my normal RPD. Are others seeing the same (in which case the chances are we can expect the results to be scrapped and re-run later) or have I just struck lucky?

Oh dear, it's all going to go wrong again....... or maybe not, it seems to have calmed down with the last few sales. Perhaps they've got a credit sales plan going well or something.

Also seeing quite a few sales for around $4 and $2 in my October PP stats so far

1 sale, 0.28 cent

Hmm. My stat's have clicked up $195 for about 200 PP sales up to 6th Oct. Something's going on. Unusual to have a 'nice' surprise at Istock nowadays.

LOL! I remember you telling me a long time ago that people would be lucky to see even $30 a month from pp! Congratulations on getting that sort of return, it looks as if it will end up being a really big boost to your October tally.

At this rate, iS/pp is going to move back into contention with SS in the poll.

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 08, 2013, 02:03

Quote from: pancaketom on November 08, 2013, 01:59

Does anyone want to place bets on if we will get the regular stats update before PP sales are reported?

after, who collects the bets?

IS will take up to 85%, so it doesn't much matter.

jackpot!

Quote from: gostwyck on November 13, 2013, 04:02

Hmm. My stat's have clicked up $195 for about 200 PP sales up to 6th Oct. Something's going on. Unusual to have a 'nice' surprise at Istock nowadays.

LOL! I remember you telling me a long time ago that people would be lucky to see even $30 a month from pp! Congratulations on getting that sort of return, it looks as if it will end up being a really big boost to your October tally.

At this rate, iS/pp is going to move back into contention with SS in the poll.

Bizarrely, out of the 10 days of the PP so far declared, they actually beat SS on the 2nd Oct and equalled them on the 9th. What's going on?

Quote from: gostwyck on November 13, 2013, 04:02

Hmm. My stat's have clicked up $195 for about 200 PP sales up to 6th Oct. Something's going on. Unusual to have a 'nice' surprise at Istock nowadays.

I really can't believe what a total c**k you are making of yourself here in defending what is so clearly against the interests of all contributors.

Aren't you in the PP?
Even if not, that's an observation and opinion, not a defence.

Sorry just joking with gostwyck, I should have added quotes.  He said that about the Getty 360 deal before.  Now it seems to be a nice surprise?

What are you talking about? I couldn't have expressed an opinion about the "Getty 360 deal" because I don't even know what it is. I've heard references to it but assumed it was something to do with exclusives.

What exactly is the Getty 360 deal?

Quote from: tickstock on November 13, 2013, 11:27

Sorry just joking with gostwyck, I should have added quotes.  He said that about the Getty 360 deal before.  Now it seems to be a nice surprise?

What are you talking about? I couldn't have expressed an opinion about the "Getty 360 deal" because I don't even know what it is. I've heard references to it but assumed it was something to do with exclusives.

What exactly is the Getty 360 deal?

Here is your response from March in a thread in which it was being discussed with respect specifically to non-exclusives. You even quoted a bit about 360:

Quote from: tickstock on March 22, 2013, 16:56

Quote from: sjlocke on March 22, 2013, 16:52

Quote from: tickstock on March 22, 2013, 16:42

Quote from: sjlocke on March 22, 2013, 16:39

Quote from: tickstock on March 22, 2013, 16:35

As far as I can tell and from what has been said (read what I quoted above, standard Getty pricing) this is just offering all Istock content to a small amount of buyers at the normal prices.  Big buyers might get a discount but I don't know how much, I've said what my average RPD is at Getty so I would expect about the same from this.  Getty Connect is a totally different model and I don't think it has any similarity to this deal at all.

To come into this without the ability to comment on the actual pricing details is just asking for trouble.  Look, it's hidden behind a log in.  You'll never know what the prices are, how big the discounts are, or anything.  All you'll know is you got $2 for a sale.

That's how the mirroring of Vetta, Agency and E+ already is, isn't it?  I don't see any additional problems coming from this, please correct me if I'm wrong.  I have some $1 Getty sales and some $80 sales but the average is higher than Istock.

Well, you're wrong because we can go look at the pricing of those.  You can't see the pricing of 360.

We can't actually look at the pricing (what the buyer pays) of course, $1 sales are impossible for me since the lowest price is $10 when I go to the website but some buyers get discounts.  Lobo has said: " the fact that they will be licensing content at the Getty Images Standard RF pricing ".    I think the pricing(what is written on the website) will be the same but the discount unknown as is the case now.

I really can't believe what a total c**k you are making of yourself here in defending what is so clearly against the interests of all contributors.

The proposition, when it happens, is that Getty will be selling an unknown variety of OUR images to unknown buyers, at an unknown price, at an unknown discount with, effectively, an unknown value to the OWNER OF THE CONTENT (and you don't actually have any real choice about it) with no possibility of said owner of content being able to check that sales are being reported. Good luck with that.

At least with any other of Getty/Istock sales we have the opportunity to become 'secret shoppers' in that we could actually club together and test whether sales are being reported properly. With the 'exclusive' nature of 'Getty 360' we can't even do that.

If Getty wanted to design a system by which they could effectively pay zero royalties, because there was no possibility that the content providers could actually track any sales, then this would be it.

I really can't believe what a total c**k you are making of yourself here in defending what is so clearly against the interests of all contributors.

if that was stated from someone else (not you, of course!) guess it would be called jealously

IS is one funny agency, stats graphs not updating as we know but I had an EL today and it is showing up on the stats