Quote from: pro@stockphotos on October 30, 2012, 14:32

This is the real funny thing about indies.  They actively root for the company that pays them less for the work.  It makes no sense.  But then again there is that cheap hooker vs high priced call girl thing.  I know which one I would choose.

Hahaha, and even more funny is you're writing this while selling on micros earning maybe 1$/download.

Sorry dude,   I am averaging more than $5/dl as istock exclusive.  A dollar for a large dl was back in 2006

Istock pay some of the lowest rates when you take thinkstock into account. I'll have to double check when I've got access to to my stats, but I think as an indie I am under 1 dollar rpd on IS/TS counting both sites together as we are forced to upload as if they are one site.

I've just looked at my figures for last month and my RPD at IS/thinkstock was 64c!!!!!!!
This compares to
71c at SS
2.18$ at DT
1.21$ at FT
and I earnt considerably more  at each of these sites than I did at IS.

Quote from: Microbius on November 06, 2012, 14:50

Istock pay some of the lowest rates when you take thinkstock into account. I'll have to double check when I've got access to to my stats, but I think as an indie I am under 1 dollar rpd on IS/TS counting both sites together as we are forced to upload as if they are one site.

I've just looked at my figures for last month and my RPD at IS/thinkstock was 64c!!!!!!!
This compares to
71c at SS
2.18$ at DT
1.21$ at FT
and I earnt considerably more  at each of these sites than I did at IS.

Wow, I'm getting 10x that (6.5 $ per download, and that is before Getty sales). Even wirh the Exclusive factor the difference seems too big.

For comparison:
w/o PP: 6$ RPD
with PP: 4$ RPD

Exclusive at 35%
Photos only

Quote from: loop on November 06, 2012, 17:37

Wow, I'm getting 10x that (6.5 $ per download, and that is before Getty sales). Even wirh the Exclusive factor the difference seems too big.

Loop, do you have your port mirrored in the PP?  If not, that would explain the difference.  Most of us independents are getting more sales on TS than IS these days.  Those .25 sales really drop the average. 

For example, my average RPD on Istock in Sept. was $1.79.  But when you factor in the PP sales, it drops to .85.

Just a little percentage of pics that I put there at the beggining, many of them deactivated from Istock. I don't ever look at my PP sales. Few files, as I said, and the older and worst ones, te kind of stuff I imagine can be sold fort 0.38.

PP must include more than just TS. 

There's Photos.com; but people tend only to mention TS for whatever reason.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on November 06, 2012, 18:03

PP must include more than just TS. 

There's Photos.com; but people tend only to mention TS for whatever reason.

I think most of the sales are coming from ThinkStock - I don't check the details across the board, but whenever I've looked at an image's PP sales, TS outnumbers Photos.com by a factor of 10.

** Edited to add that I checked one of the early files to make it over to the PP a year ago. It's had 107 PP sales since then, 10 of which were Photos.com. **

The Image Packs - which are credit bundles or similar to SS on demand - bring higher royalties than 28 cents per.

For September 2012 (the last month I have PP numbers for) my RPD from all the IS properties is 83 cents, but from IS "proper" it's $2.04. SS was 86 cents, so roughly comparable.