Well, I would never buy a Lilly Allen cd but I might download a song or two, so who benefits?  She gets paid, I get a song that I could really live without.  Who is downloading the music?  Likely 15-25 year olds who couldn't afford to buy more than a few cd's a month.  Downloading from Apple just means that they can have a more diverse playlist. 

You are forgetting that buyers have to be able to afford subs.  Subs packages aren't affordable for most.  They are only really suitable for a buyer with huge content needs.  If only we were privy to buyer demographics.   There's a lot more regular guys with blogs and websites buying images today (itty bitty sizes sell very well).  Small businesses create their own newsletters.   I even visit scrapbooking sites and the scrappers talk about buying little details for their pages from Istock.  I definitely don't think subs will take over.  How many scrapbookers and church groups would buy a subscription?  It's just a bummer that the demographic that presumably has the most money is buying the subs packages. 

I think nobody work at StockXpert anymore LOL.

Maybe you are right?  http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/03/03/the-dark-side-of-jupiter/

DT takes a while to take off.  At least 3 months.

Go through your photos and make sure that your most important keyword(s) are in both your title and desctiption.

Do not send photos just to see if they will pass inspection.  Approval % matters.

Do not spam.  If your images are reported for keyword violations they will drop to the bottom of searches.

It took me a year to make my first $100 on DT and one month to make my next.

The thing that really, really troubles me about these partnerships (It's not just this PM one, it's also JI subs for example) is the fact the copyright holder is not given any form of credit.  It's just not right.  Jan Will's penguins will appear in a magazine with a credit line something like "Photo by Lynx" or "(c) Zymmetrical".   Agencies are our distributors, not the owners of the content.

Lizard, I removed my photos before I had any sales so I shouldn't really comment but I can't keep my mouth shut.  This shiz is so disturbing it makes me jumping mad.  I also notice that Crestock has been quiet on this board for quite a while.  Have they hit hard times?  And if not, why can't they cut you a simple cheque?  That must be a heck of a lot of 25 cent sales to get you to $500.

It's not my highest earner, but DT is my fave agency.  And for what it's worth, I had made more or the same by March 2nd than I had made all of Feb at any of StockXpert, BS or 123. 

OMG, I'm GREEN with envy.

Digging up an old thread here, but I was shocked to see a FT payment waiting for me this morning - I just requested it last night before I went to bed.

The Art Manager was live tonight.  Stats still coming.  Nice to see our info all in one place.

LOVE it!

Very clever.... But the whole time I was wondering what he was REALLY saying.

We'll have to ask Freezingpictures !

To be fair, the big deal was just approved this week, and whenever I have worked on a sale of a company (in that other hellish life I had working for lawyers in the entertainment industry) virtually all spending of money was suspended in the weeks leading up to the closing (of the transaction).    If Getty plans to keep StockXpert in business, we'll have a better idea in 3 months or so once marketing campaigns kick in.   I wondered if they would close shop, but I'm guessing that they will want the content that StockXpert has that Istock does not.  Not to mention, what are their subsctiption networks without StockXpert?

I though this deal was done months ago, so this is good to know.  Perhaps this explains the poor sales at StockXpert.  With the looming date of closing they surely stopped spending.  Hopefully (if StockXpert is not absorbed by some other entity) they will begin marketing again.