Yup.. sales around 50% of usual. :/

What a rude and intrusive poll. My answer is that it's none of your business. So put me in there at a big fat $0.
Only two people need to know what I make, my wife and the IRS.
Nuff said.

I would agree completely if there wasn't the "my wife" part.

Anyway, I responded like some, only reporting my microstock income. My overall income is none of your business?

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As a private individual, I have come to expect nothing of benefit to me from large publicly-owned corporations.....and, so far, I have not been disappointed. Every individual, whether employed or as freelance, has to work harder and harder for less and less reward to satisfy the demands of the stockholders for ever greater return. It's the way the system works and I'm used to it by now. 

With all do respect, if everyone thinks like that, you give them free hand to screw you over till you have no other choice then to pack up and find a day job.

Reminds me of a docu called Food Inc. Chicken farmers squeezed dry by corporates  to the bone until they cave.

So what are YOU going to do about it?

I closed several accounts and started my own site selling direct. What about you?

Any of the big earners, though?

It's easy to close an account on an agency which is responsible for 1% of your income, how about 15%+ range?

BME. (+ cca. 10%)

Still waiting for iStock's PP and subscriptions.

Lee, I am wondering if other types of licenses will be offered to buyers? It'd be nice to have a big sale here and there, so I guess I'm wondering if the contributors can expect that or it will be 0.35$ forever?

upload by ftp with iptc and pick 1 default category, easier than ft, marginally more hassle than ss but a dream compared to is

Fotolia has batch processing (it's called indexing there).

Aaaanyway, yeah, they're probably trying to reduce the "spam"/similar images and so on, cause I'm sure they have the technical capabilities to implement batch processing. They don't want to. Fine.
I earn less there - they earn less from the content I could have provided.

It's actually a loss-loss, but somehow in their heads it's probably a win-win. Too bad.

so we are presenting the top 80 photography trends 2015 and of course shooting ideas for photographers (some of them might surprise you).

Here are the 80 Surprising Stock Photography Trends 2015

so, which is it, will some of us surprise us, or are there 80 surprising ones? aaaaaanyway...

clickbait.

try again in 2016.

Microstock Analytics gets updated regulary. Supports 6 sites now. Every time on start program does update and displays changelog of latest changes.

Thanks for your reply Andrey. I had no idea, as I'm not using it currently, and there are no updates to the thread. Nice to know it still works normally, will renew my license.

What happened to this project, are there new updates, change log etc.? Loved using it...

Plain and simple - no.

Well if you like it so much, here you go: http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs/listings

And don't forget to write a review once you get in.

How do I know if my portfolio has been affected by this "cleanse"?

I've had quite a few sales in the last few weeks, they really picked up, and now they're almost non-existent :/

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2. Even on account closing, they don't pay out your balance unless it's over $50, so I'll watch my balance and open a support ticket at that point and they'll close my account for me.

That's amazing!
Given that they claim to be a platform and the invoice is from author to client and the client has paid, that's theft, right?

How can an invoice be paid on the client side but unpaid on the author side? Is this come kind of Schroedinger's invoice?

+1000

Well, time to e-mail Envato. They contribute only 2% to my overall earnings, it's not worth the hassle if they don't change things.