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« on: December 02, 2011, 09:01 »
No real predictions because I don't really care what happens to them.
yet you care enough to keep saying you don't care.  I predict that if iStock brings exclusive commissions down even one more notch they'll start losing exclusive contributors in droves. the expression about thin ice comes to mind.
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« on: December 01, 2011, 21:46 »
^ to reiterate what I said yesterday, I'm not defending iStock. but yes, I believe that they were are the industry leader. if I didn't, I wouldn't be exclusive there. I'm not trying to convince you. and I wouldn't say that I believe they will continue leading. lots of red flags the past two years. I think they're screwing around with a good thing and making it a mediocre thing because of short-term gains, fattening the calf, at the expense of endurance and contributors being dealt with fairly. but I think their search is better than any other, by a lot. course it would help if the site worked.
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« on: December 01, 2011, 17:18 »
iStock still seems really slow. pages are taking forever to load. I'm home now on my regular computer
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« on: December 01, 2011, 15:36 »
I know you don't take it personally, i think the search does hit indies really hard. My increase this month is really the work of some new big sellers. Unlikely files I wouldn't have expected to take off. It certainly wasn't anything portfolio wide in my case though me sales were steadily good even without the high performing new files
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« on: December 01, 2011, 15:24 »
@pancake: your comments seemed pretty personal. But anyways, I hear what you're saying.
Lisa, you're one of the contributors feel like I know well and by all rights you shouldn't be down the way you are, not that anyone 'deserves' poor sales. It's just tough to see your sales so low
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« on: December 01, 2011, 14:22 »
@pancaketom: i'm not claiming objectivity. I don't think anyone invested could. We are discussing November sales. Not the big picture. Concerning big picture, I've regularly criticized istock for making company benefitting decisions at the expense of contributors. What makes you think I don't have my finger at the ready over the crown eject button? You're reading what you want to as much as anyone else is. I don't think your comments are fair or accurate. I don't passionately defend istock. I do sometimes defend individuals who are being personally attacked by sophomoric twits. There are real people at work, good people. And fwiw I can't scroll easily only iPhone. I'm currently sitting in a cessna 4000 ft above Georgian bay. I wasn't intentionally inflating monthly reports. I was simply stating that there are some diamonds doing well and there are reasons why some contributors don't appear to be doing well. I don't know why
Contributors compare this year to x year. Those numbers only matter if ports are growing at the same rate as the collection. Obviously not possible for any of us
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« on: December 01, 2011, 13:26 »
@wut: I'm a regular poster here and there aren't a lot of istock exclusives that regularly post on msg. Because of that I try to include meaningful posts like monthly stats. I'm not any sort of cheerleader for anything. I say what I see, regardless of where it falls in the popular opinion. Over here that often finds me in the minority. If you had any sort of analytical skills, you might have acknowledged that I'm frequently critical of istock too. And you might also want to work on counting. Since you used diamonds as your baseline - about half the reporting diamonds in the istock thread report solid months.
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« on: December 01, 2011, 12:24 »
IS exclusive
Income and downloads were my BME by quite a bit, even without last week's reported dls. Not including ELs.
$ - 22.5% above previous BME
DLs - 20.5% above previous BME
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« on: November 30, 2011, 23:08 »
2. Explain to the overlords at Hellman and Friedman that money isn't what's going to make them happy.
they should put this on the error page...great answer
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« on: November 30, 2011, 22:54 »
"Sat to work and got a laugh from the devolpers at t.co/EfNu4StT. Check their "site is down" page."
Just seems like a weird response to that page. Maybe the text is funny and I don't get it. I just thought it was missing its CSS or something.
maybe you have to be a total nerd to think it's funny...I'm only half-nerd.
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« on: November 30, 2011, 22:53 »
Don`t under estimate the amount of time required to become non-exclusive. The biggest hurddle by far is re-keywording your entire portfolio. If you just copy paste your iStock controlled vocabulary you will sell yourself short.
one of the many reasons I'm still exclusive. the work isn't what scares me though. I've just talked to enough independents and done enough homework to know, that although it may be satisfying for some contributors to have dumped their crowns, the grass isn't greener as an indie. I prefer to be exclusive overall, but at times it makes things difficult (it's not exactly exciting contributing to iStock's wannabe editorial collection).
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« on: November 30, 2011, 22:46 »
It seems like some are seeing images or something. "I love the error page" - there must be something else. I don't get the 1979 reference or why it's hilarious.
are there people actually saying it's hilarious? I don't think anyone is seeing graphics, but someone correct me if that is wrong
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« on: November 30, 2011, 22:36 »
I'm reading twitter and some think the page is funny. All is see is text. Is there something I'm missing?
you're not missing anything. it's not funny. the reason I thought it may have been hacked is because of how ridiculous the codes are. 1979sucks.....doesn't exactly scream professional
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:49 »
they have been replying to contributors' tweets too....
Well, not me. But if so, what exactly are they saying they're going to do to compensate the contributors? Nothing, I'm sure.
nothing you don't already know. just that they are working on it. I think they've been hacked too. no basis for that other than appearances.
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:33 »
I'm not independent. but I set up accounts at the other agencies just to be prepared. acceptance at SS took one submission. if you're on your 6th, as jsnover said, I'd hold off until you get accepted at SS. if I were to go independent at some point, SS would be first on my list of sites to submit to...
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:29 »
They've upped the ante - 15% vs. 10% - I assume because the site's been out so long.
I really, really wish that when they give out "sorry" discounts it would come fully out of iStock's unreasonably large share of the gross and not mine as well. It's bad enough that I can't sell if the site is down but then when we can sell again, it'll be with some lowball royalty amounts.
I don't begrudge the buyers a discount at all; I just don't want to fund it when it is 100.0% iStock's fault.
I agree. we shouldn't be gouged when they offer discounts for technical issues.
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:28 »
they have been replying to contributors' tweets too....
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:16 »
but the messages on that page seem off the wall. is some strung out little techy writing ad-hoc messages or something? what happened to the angry octopus? or the weird vector creatures? at least those error pages showed some design prowess
so, reading all the tweets in order (because we should have to do that).....my guess is that the "error" descriptions are probably internal script for the graphics that usually appear on error pages. seems they can't display graphics right now either.....at least we know the messages aren't the result of some wacky tabacky-smoking, cheesy-throwing server room party gone awry....
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« on: November 30, 2011, 21:04 »
I'm stunned that the site is still down with that error page.
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« on: November 30, 2011, 18:11 »
^ could be. I wouldn't know, that is true. but I would argue that part of why the other sites don;t have major technical errors is that they don't push as many envelopes. iStock, IMO (and clearly I am biased) is still the industry leader. they seemed to be hell bent on changing that though....
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« on: November 30, 2011, 18:03 »
So naive! I mean there are no words for this complete melt down!!!
naive....personally I would have used a different adjective. but otherwise you have it just about right
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« on: November 30, 2011, 18:00 »
IS is saying on Twitter the outage is only expected to last 30-45 minutes.
only!?.....unbelievable
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« on: November 30, 2011, 17:54 »
I also believe they have very good tech people working for them.
Really? Why on earth would you think that? This is the highly professional message that Istock customers are currently being greeted with;
"The glitch monsters are at work down in the dark internety room, but they sent a note up that said: Dear You, Me fix broken thing. Sorry for trouble. Love, Monsters.
They, and the site, will be back up soon. In the meantime, wed like to offer you 10% off your next purchase of 50 or more iStock credits using the coupon code below."
Either they've just returned from a very good 'lunch' or its a bunch of 12-year olds they've got working there.
I'm not going to say anything to defend the current situation. there's nothing to say. but, when iStock works, it's a fantastic working machine. the search is wildly accurate. I know you don't agree but I'm giving credit where it is due to techs that accomplish what they do most days. this week I'll give deserved criticism. the current errors, and the management of communication this week--shite....
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« on: November 30, 2011, 17:35 »
yup. getting the same screen.....bye bye sales
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« on: November 30, 2011, 17:25 »
someone probably already figured this out, but Deepmeta can't give me anything either. thought I would be wily...I tried to see last downloads after fetching all my data in DM...nope, cuts off on November 1st. I can't update any files via DM either. it returns a 500 error. I don't feel any confidence about my royalties over the last two weeks. I sure hope they clear this awful mess up soon. no way this should be happening this time of year, or any time of year for that matter.
seriously. I totally understand, and am usually patient about technical problems. they happen, they are inevitable. I also believe they have very good tech people working for them. but they don't have enough of them and we're WAY too big and too busy to be mickey mousing around with things like this. this is brutal.
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