Author Topic: Uploaded limits raised to 999 (Read 47525 times)

aeonf · « **Reply #25 on:** April 22, 2013, 18:31 »

Quote from: sjlocke on April 22, 2013, 18:20

Quote from: gostwyck on April 22, 2013, 18:16
I think this is a hugely significant development. Istock are s-l-o-w-l-y waking up to the idea that it is the customer, not they, who are king. Whatever gave them the idea that it was better business, for example, to only have about 15% of Yuri's portfolio available ... when pretty much all of their competitors had the whole shebang?

Istock's bean-counters must be cr*pping themselves on the spreadsheet projections for this to have happened. Far too little, far too late unfortunately.

No one is not going to IS because they're missing a portion of Yuri's work. There's plenty of clones to fill in anything missing.

Agree with Lisa, it's a way to further annoy exclusives by allowing factories to flood the collection with plenty of same old.

Add to the fact that high quotas is one of the perks exclusives had. One less perk, one less reason to remain exclusive.

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #26 on:** April 22, 2013, 18:50 »

Quote from: asiseeit on April 22, 2013, 17:46

Quote from: WarrenPrice on April 22, 2013, 17:23
The change must not have hit DeepMeta. It still shows 20 for me, even tho I haven't used the quota in a long time.

It works for me. Try clicking the refresh button. Not that it matters, but the 'Used' also reset to 0.

Thanks. that did it.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #27 on:** April 22, 2013, 19:09 »

jjneff

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Funny I see the opposite, now I do see that they want to squeeze the artist out of every penny, I do think that this could happen later this year. I would think you could still load to iStock but the images would be on thinkstock and some other sites with all exclusive files being here and Getty

heard that the 1st time back in 2010 from an exclusive contributor, believe we are in 2013 and yes a lot have changed just not that but who knows right? iStock is the real chameleon

gostwyck · « **Reply #28 on:** April 22, 2013, 19:46 »

Quote from: sjlocke on April 22, 2013, 18:20

No one is not going to IS because they're missing a portion of Yuri's work. There's plenty of clones to fill in anything missing.

Agree with Lisa, it's a way to further annoy exclusives by allowing factories to flood the collection with plenty of same old.

Of course they do. Yuri is, like it or not, the most downloaded photographer in history. That's because buyers really, really do like his stuff.

Similarly, buyers did go to Istock, in their thousands, to download your work that they couldn't get anywhere else.

ShadySue · « **Reply #29 on:** April 22, 2013, 20:05 »

I wished they'd been more specific about:
Additionally, we've also relaxed some of our technical requirements for photos which will help reduce the number of outright rejections for small issues that don't compromise the composition nor limit the usefulness of the file. Emphasis will be placed on the overall beauty and composition of file.
so that I could decide if it's worth Scouting any rejections.

Mantis · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2013, 20:12 »

All this is going to do it push out more exclusives. Didn't IS just do a recent "we love you, exclusives and are doing a lot more to keep you" campaign? Now this? Ohy Vey

tab62 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2013, 21:01 »

Hasta la vista, baby!

shudderstok · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2013, 21:28 »

let's be honest with ourselves for a moment...
who ever really used their complete upload slot allowance anyway? i am allowed 150 per week and never even cracked 99> per week.
so many immediate speculative theories on this forum it's silly.

gillian vann · « **Reply #33 on:** April 22, 2013, 22:56 »

^ people like me probably, on 18/10 days. I was always running out and you could never tell when the next time was coming up without a lot of clicking, so I didn't get to use my upload time efficiently. then I stopped uploading and deactivated files so I was back to @150, and now I've started sprinkling a few over there. this new offer is good for ppl like me: still building up my port.

what I choose to do yet I don't know. there is no trust.

shudderstok · « **Reply #34 on:** April 22, 2013, 23:12 »

^ yes i can see where it is a bonus if you only have a small number in your quota.
personally i have stopped uploading for several months now. the best match is broken and no new files are being found so it's a complete waste of my time for the time being whether it be 1 file a week or 999> per week.

Xanox · « **Reply #35 on:** April 23, 2013, 00:40 »

this new move from IS clearly shows management finally had come to terms with reality.
they're no more the king of the hill, they're just in the top-4.

besides, sales will suffer for the exclusives as IS will soon be flooded by new uploads.
it's gonna be a numbers game, more than before.

Xanox · « **Reply #36 on:** April 23, 2013, 00:43 »

but i've also a new conspiracy theory : first they allow unlimited uploads but next they will automatically move underperforming images into a new dump collection .. it would make sense and keep the site fresh.

Sion · « **Reply #37 on:** April 23, 2013, 02:46 »

Quote from: landbysea on April 22, 2013, 16:38

IStock just announced that they have effectively eliminated upload limits. Upload limits never made a lot of sense to me anyway.

Do you have a link to this announcement? Is this going to be a temporary thing? If it is so anyone is staying up all night to upload to kae full advantage of the opening?

Another conspiracy theory: IS has bought the major world supply of coffee beans. They want to jack up the price of coffee by encouraging sleepless nights of uploading.

Microbius · « **Reply #38 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:01 »

They did it a while ago for the vector upload limit with some BS reason.

It makes sense as having exclusive content doesn't add anything if you are missing the bulk of the good work on other sites because of these limits. I said before, there was more work "exclusively everywhere but IStock" than "exclusively on IStock" thanks to the limits.

Having said that I doubt that is why this has happened. It's pretty clearly because of the number of people pulling work or stopping uploads.

picture5469 · « **Reply #39 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:04 »

Quote from: landbysea on April 22, 2013, 16:38

IStock just announced that they have effectively eliminated upload limits. Upload limits never made a lot of sense to me anyway.

Desperate times come for desperate measures!

I will upload when i get it in writing that my work isn't going to be given away for free or on some pointless rental loan scheme

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #40 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:06 »

Love this comment......

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but they are just most disgusting "agency" (they are not agency they change in contract that they are DISTRIBUTORS of our property)
for me whatever they do now is pure green puke...

And yet, you're still uploading there, the last one a few days ago so actually not that bad then.

Smithore · « **Reply #41 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:10 »

I've raised my deletions from 20 to 30 a week.

ShadySue · « **Reply #42 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:21 »

Quote from: shudderstok on April 22, 2013, 21:28

let's be honest with ourselves for a moment...
who ever really used their complete upload slot allowance anyway? i am allowed 150 per week and never even cracked 99> per week.
so many immediate speculative theories on this forum it's silly.

That's exactly why the speculative theories.

michealo · « **Reply #43 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:32 »

Quote from: Smithore on April 23, 2013, 03:10

I've raised my deletions from 20 to 30 a week.

rofl :-)

ShadySue · « **Reply #44 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:41 »

If we're doing mad conspiracy theories, how about they are targetting indy material, then they're going to force all indy stuff onto the PP only.
That is purely mad speculation on my part, but it's theoretically possible.

kobajagrande · « **Reply #45 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:46 »

Quote from: ShadySue on April 22, 2013, 20:05

I wished they'd been more specific about:
Additionally, we've also relaxed some of our technical requirements for photos which will help reduce the number of outright rejections for small issues that don't compromise the composition nor limit the usefulness of the file. Emphasis will be placed on the overall beauty and composition of file.
so that I could decide if it's worth Scouting any rejections.

Hmmm... that is strange, cause yesterday I got two rejected photos with a standard generic response, of the flat/dull, on camera flash (which was not used), incorrect wb text.

gillian vann · « **Reply #46 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:47 »

hard to know what whacky things those crazy kooks will come up with next! It's been a v interesting year at iS, that's for sure. Perhaps we should start a betting thread; you're allowed one prediction only. Could be fun.

gillian vann · « **Reply #47 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:51 »

Quote from: kobajagrande on April 23, 2013, 03:46

Quote from: ShadySue on April 22, 2013, 20:05
I wished they'd been more specific about:
Additionally, we've also relaxed some of our technical requirements for photos which will help reduce the number of outright rejections for small issues that don't compromise the composition nor limit the usefulness of the file. Emphasis will be placed on the overall beauty and composition of file.
so that I could decide if it's worth Scouting any rejections.

Hmmm... that is strange, cause yesterday I got two rejected photos with a standard generic response, of the flat/dull, on camera flash (which was not used), incorrect wb text.

ditto, but in a way it's almost a relief, there's one more file out of their clutches. It's terrible, it's like being trapped in a marriage that we're too afraid to leave, but we know isn't great.

ShadySue · « **Reply #48 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:53 »

Quote from: Sion on April 23, 2013, 02:46

Quote from: landbysea on April 22, 2013, 16:38
IStock just announced that they have effectively eliminated upload limits. Upload limits never made a lot of sense to me anyway.

Do you have a link to this announcement?

Right at the top of the discussion forum:
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=353223&page=1
Though as the thread title is "New - Upload Limits Announcement" it should surely have been posted first to the Announcements forum with a link to the discussion forum. Else what's the point of an Announcements forum?

rubyroo · « **Reply #49 on:** April 23, 2013, 03:58 »

They seem to be trying to solve the wrong problem.

Fix the Google Drive deal guys. We need to be paid fairly for our images in order for this business to be SUSTAINABLE for us. Just really REALLY try to understand that. Please.

Once you've done that, give us information and opt-out options on future deals, and I'm sure you'll see an avalanche of wonderful images start coming your way again. It's no good opening the floodgates until you've done something to encourage contributor trust and enthusiasm.

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Author Topic: Uploaded limits raised to 999 (Read 47525 times)

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Smithore

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