And the name Superhug? It's a name, it's just a name. In terms of its etymology I believe our Canadian Director came up with it somewhere in South London circa 2006.
Jen x

I bet he was high when that name magically appeared in his head. 

The new part time boss is enjoying herself by hitting the on/off switch to contributors ports. just like the easy button that staples has 

Quote from: VB inc on August 18, 2011, 10:55

pseu.. or suynnymars..

why do u say "you suckers" like your not one of them? You clearly have it in your head that your somewhat better than some people on this forum. Who are your really referring to as suckers? I just wished you would be less angry and not so happy to attack others. im being sarcastic too. i hope i can use that excuse whenever i feel like hating on people.

Sorry to disappoint you VB, but you're not that important to me to actually make me angry.  I shake my head in frustration, but there's no anger.  As for "suckers" I'm saying that's how the microstock view us.  Can you really argue that they don't view us that way?  Can you argue that anyone doesn't view us that way?  We're selling our images for $0.27 *, are we not suckers?  How much time, effort (and money) does it take to create these images and we're selling them for $0.27 and they can use them their entire life.  Sorry, but we're SUCKERS.  lol we are!

As for 'hating on people', calm down, jesus.  It's constructive criticism.  If you can't take it, you're not just a sucker but a *(cat) as well.

im sure most ppl that read your posts think its angry. dont try to hide it by saying your being sarcastic. Im sure your frustrated, without much talent, its hard to make it in life.
 
haha... im not sure if your aware that i am exlcusive vector artist at istock  that is averaging around $7 a dl with my regular files. i dont concentrate on photography since i think its too little money for the return in my case. I come on this forum to guage the market because for some time last year i was actually thinking about committing more of my time on it. I have to wade through angry posts to get any good deal of info around here. Someone else said the most vocal people here are the ones making the least amount of money. I kind of see what they were talking about.

Zazzle? gimme a break... get some real clients. oh wait, zazzle is where you upload anything and everything you want with no restrictions on how many crappy products you put in your store that you have to advertise yourself and compete with millions of other crappy stuff? thats a better business model right there for the owners. talk about suckers

yeahh... and booooo for more competition for me... hahah congrats anyways.

its pretty easy to complain about problems. Its very hard to come up with solutions. I think the overall nature of any crowd sourcing type of business will always be a lot more beneficial to the agency rather than to the supplier. There are too many willing suppliers and i dont see that trend slowing down.

All the things that the agencies are doing recently is to slow down the tide of contributors and images. harder to get in, lots of rejections, cutting commissions. Im afraid fotolia will get away with this and still be fine but i hope they go down in flames hard.

Which brings me to another point. At what point will you drop fotolia? Its pretty simple to shout about abuse and unfair practices of certain agencies and drop them when you make less than xxx amount of money a month. I would guess it gets pretty tricky to drop if that agency brings in XXX amount. At what point would be a comfort point for you? If i was an independent, $200/month or more would be tough for me.  thats monthly cable and phone bill. it would make an interesting poll.

could it be about the weird cookie issue exclusives are discussing in the exclusive forum? I find it odd that the search changes drastically to show more independent files over exclusives at different times.

It could be one of the first decisions by the new part time boss of istock to maximise the companies profit at the expense of exclusives. many of which are complaining about weird severe drops.

for all those reporting droppings in earnings. It might be due to flood of newly ingested images from istock and elsewhere. They did fix the broken link from istock to thinkstock recently.

Hello folks

I have got another pic - maybe this will sway the judges decision.

here is the link

http://www.fablephotos.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Cow1.jpg

grateful for your feedback.

Love the image. I wish it had more blue sky and less clouds and some of the cows in bg blend together with sky. If you have some PS skills, try to make more blue sky in this pic.

this might be the reason why women couldnt have children in that sci fi movie "Children of Men"

its been going downhill since march. i cant even tell if its a best match shift or the result of less buyers/more competition.

I'd ask all iStockphoto staff for their opinions on why there's such a negative attitude towards iStockphoto on the site's forum, on public forums like this, and in the wider industry.  And I'd ask them what they believe could/should be done to improve things.

Then I'd ask the same questions of groups of customers and contributors.

Using the information gained I'd move quickly, and set about restoring confidence in the site and the brand.

I might even come up with a Google-like "Don't be evil" mantra, and then make sure the company sticks to it.

nice ideas. unfortunately none of this will matter if the main objective for the managing director is to hit a certain amount of revenue this year.

very nice images! my fav is the boy with binoculars! least fav is kid with aeroplane since it seems the white balance is off somehow and not a fan of his shirts stripes.

what percentages of sites would need this feature? Which site in its right mind would still have this feature in it if it started getting all the negative dislikes. You cant possibly expect every site to have this feature including blog sites, the govt sites will will get tons of dislike features...