I wrote a polite message in their forum about istock having the lowest royalty scheme in the industry and Lobo deleted it sending me also an email where he threats to ban me from the forum if i dare try again .. what ?

I'm surprised they didn't raised the bar a bit more, as my theory is that soon the non exclusives will
only get 10% cut.

Mine all have N/A under the free column in the unsold tab.  So far I haven't been able to find how to get rid of them.  If they're not selling I don't really want them left on the site.  And searching their forums didn't help at all.

Really frustrated.

Aeonf is here but no gloating. And why would I ? lower targets are in my best interest just like anybody elses, I don't own IS stock you know...
Sorry to hear you will proly be dropping to 25%, don't you think its worth putting in some more effort in order to keep your 30% ?
I would also consider dropping exclusivity if I where you...

For us we got to the 30% mark about 3 weeks ago, we might get to the 35% mark in December, but its a very close call.

I am willing to bet they will lower the targets again at the end of this year, just like they did last year.

It took them six months to decide to keep them the same??

Quote from: velocicarpo on June 03, 2011, 15:10

Yes, and it is the lack of community and intelligence of the community which brings us into this situation.

Oh yes!  Too right!  

It is surely the fault of us arrogant and unintelligent contributors that we are being shafted.  It is our lack of community spirit.  It is NOT corporate greed, poor economy, dilution, or any of the other excuses endlessly floated in these forums.  

Certainly we contributors deserve what we have gotten and have basically asked for it.  

Thanks so much for sorting that out so we can all see the error of our ways.  

So, what would warmpicture.com say if I said this: Look, I have a site that gives away a number of images I've shot myself with a few others - it has 50,000 visitors monthly, and they look at half a million pages monthly. I can show your images on every page they see, and show the images that match the search the visitor has typed in perfectly. I'll do this for free, and all you have to do is give me 10% of of the sale if my visitor buys from you. You do nothing.

Does that sounds like a good deal to you? (I'm not making a judgement, but I'm curious to know your answer, given that you may have investigated ways to promote your site.)

Quote from: rimglow on May 19, 2011, 21:00

Here's an update on PNG files for iStock. This will double my portfolio and bring in higher revenue per image.

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=329282&page=1

As long as you are not using up more than half your upload slots. If you are using them all, it will halve the diversity of your portfolio and switch some of your sales from jpg to PNG, cutting your jpg earnings by more than half (missing uploads plus diverted sales) significantly damaging your income.