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« on: June 17, 2013, 16:53 »
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3052
« on: June 17, 2013, 16:46 »
Exclusive, but not really. Amazed that nobody wants to take a stand on anything anymore.
http://www.michaeljayfoto.com/distribution-channels/the-danish-taking-over-istockphoto/
Take a stand on what? Is the idea that in a year and a half RC levels will be set too high for us, maybe or maybe not? The two guys that joined up are regular exclusives as far as I know aren't they? And again with Yuri, he's said he's taking down his microstock images from all the other microstock sites, I guess you're calling him a liar? I think if any of us legitimately wanted to join with another contributor through the proper legal channels there wouldn't be a problem from Istock with doing that, like michael says maybe that's what some of us should be looking into.
3053
« on: June 16, 2013, 16:46 »
The latest uploads don't look too horrible and many of those same images that I would say shouldn't have been accepted were also accepted on Shutterstock.
Not sure why you'd be so excited about your earnings being diluted by the engorged competition.
I'm not excited but again what are the options? I could leave Istock because they are accepting lots of images (half as many as Shutterstock) and then contribute to Shutterstock and 20 other sites and make less money than I am now and be competing in an even more diluted market. I don't see the alternatives as being better, in fact they look much worse.
3054
« on: June 16, 2013, 16:40 »
The latest uploads don't look too horrible and many of those same images that I would say shouldn't have been accepted were also accepted on Shutterstock.
3055
« on: June 16, 2013, 16:08 »
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« on: June 16, 2013, 15:14 »
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3057
« on: June 16, 2013, 15:07 »
..these days I see no quality or any other difference between IS and other content. With all the * about, I just don't know why buyers stay there...
With the latest policy of accepting 999 images a week from contributors with what looks like almost no QC, I think istock is going to fall way behind most of the other sites in terms of overall quality.
I did a few searches of new content on Istock and Shutterstock, I don't think the Istock content looks any worse and many of the same nonexclusive files are both sites. I don't see how Istock having 999 uploads a week and Shutterstock having infinity uploads a week means Istock is going to fall way behind because they are accepting too much stuff. Shutterstock is still adding twice the number of images, I guess you think all those are gems? I do agree with you though that Istock shouldn't be lowering it's standards to allow more nonexclusive work into the collection.
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« on: June 16, 2013, 11:51 »
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« on: June 14, 2013, 20:46 »
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« on: June 13, 2013, 22:45 »
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« on: June 13, 2013, 22:30 »
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« on: June 13, 2013, 22:09 »
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« on: June 13, 2013, 22:04 »
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« on: June 13, 2013, 22:01 »
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3065
« on: June 09, 2013, 08:54 »
Shame Yuri doesn't dip in here to add some clarity. Why should he? Well he's happy to use this forum as a soundboard for ideas and his sunglasses copy-write issue; an explanation would end the speculation.
Why am I starting to think his input here only goes on way.
Hi Guys.
We have found a good distribution partner (Getty Images) for the kind of content we produce. We will be removing all images from microstock doing the next few weeks. Microstock, especially subscription sites, are not suited for the kind of high production cost images we produce.
Best Yuri
He said he's going to take down all his images from the other microstock sites, I doubt he's lying.
3066
« on: June 08, 2013, 10:59 »
Yeah, his dad said he referred Yuri, and said Yuri had 3-4k dls per month.
And Yuri was pretty active in trying to get referrals from what I remember. He said 3-4k dls per DAY not month.
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« on: June 08, 2013, 10:56 »
Why don't one of you guys contact IS support and pose the question? Obviously, they wouldn't answer me if I asked.
They wouldn't answer even if they knew the details. The deal is between him and Getty so they probably don't know everything. Besides what kind of answer would be satisfactory? Everyone already knows he got a special deal and he was allowed to keep his images up at other sites at least for a few weeks, he said that much. What more do you need to know?
3068
« on: June 08, 2013, 10:43 »
May 29 - 0 sales (http://web.archive.org/web/20130529080941/http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=10204782)
June 8 - 3500 sales
3.5k sales (8 week days and 2 weekend days)
1 week left for a full month and still portfolio all around
I really don't understand what's going on here. There's surely no reason that his FT portfolio for example couldn't have been disabled at the same time as his SS portfolio (unless he had another 'special deal' with them too)? Even at DT Yuri doesn't appear to have uploaded for over a year so again his entire portfolio could be gone from there too.
Maybe he just really doesn't like Shutterstock? How much of a pay cut did his family just get from the changes to the referral scheme? $100,000 per year? Who knows but I bet it was very significant.
I calculated 40k dollar
From Yuri alone right? He probably had hundreds of referrals of his own that disappeared over night.
3069
« on: June 08, 2013, 10:07 »
May 29 - 0 sales (http://web.archive.org/web/20130529080941/http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=10204782)
June 8 - 3500 sales
3.5k sales (8 week days and 2 weekend days)
1 week left for a full month and still portfolio all around
I really don't understand what's going on here. There's surely no reason that his FT portfolio for example couldn't have been disabled at the same time as his SS portfolio (unless he had another 'special deal' with them too)? Even at DT Yuri doesn't appear to have uploaded for over a year so again his entire portfolio could be gone from there too.
Maybe he just really doesn't like Shutterstock? How much of a pay cut did his family just get from the changes to the referral scheme? $100,000 per year? Who knows but I bet it was very significant.
3070
« on: June 06, 2013, 15:57 »
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« on: June 06, 2013, 14:16 »
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« on: June 06, 2013, 09:58 »
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« on: June 05, 2013, 13:23 »
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« on: June 05, 2013, 13:21 »
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3075
« on: June 05, 2013, 11:28 »
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