When I go to the Royalties tab, then the Export tab and download the "iStock Historical Royalties" file all the past earnings stated there for each month are wrong when compared to this info http://www.istockphoto.com/user_stats.php?Offset=0&DownloadsGraphFileType and what I actually got paid. Anyone else have slightly different numbers there? And I don�t mean just December, but all the months.

Yes, mine are different, not by a large $ amount, but by a huge %age.

I have very little confidence in their ability to report things properly and zero confidence of them to do it in a timely manner. I don't have much confidence of them to get it correct either.

Quote from: Zalee on February 17, 2017, 17:04

Have any of you rejects received payout yet? I understand they will pay us what they owe us. It's not much for me but I still want it.

I assume they will wait till they get round to removing our unworthy efforts mine were still hanging around spoiling the look of their brilliant collection.

and getting sales - don't forget these unworthy images still sell every once in a while - they might as well wait for all the sales to happen before they send us the final $...

"This wasn't going to be a pitch but now that I am here at the end of my rant, I'll open it up to you. We're not perfect. We get things wrong. We make mistakes and sometimes even make decisions that don't seem to make sense. "

Yes, they don't seem to make much sense - unless you are trying to just piss people off.

That said - the agency that does get search right and treats contributors decently will probably do well. I never messed around with your old search, but this isn't a very good sign for treating contributors decently.

Ultimately we all have to decide if the effort is worth the return - for me I think it still is, but I am a lot less sure of that than I was when I started.

I haven't had enough time to see where everything is. The location data is interesting, but presumably just based on the IP so not necessarily accurate.

I will miss the 2 years of weekly income even if that showed how much my income is down. The sales from new images was a bit unclear exactly what it showed, but that data is gone now.

If I had more video sales I would appreciate the separation of some of that reporting.

In general the page looks more crowded to me but there is less data actually available (they show more stuff on the page now, but most of that is visible elsewhere). I wish more of the columns were sortable in the sales reports.

I expect I'll get used to it eventually, although it does seem like a step backwards in a number of ways - less info available now and more clicks to get at what I really want to see (what images sold on any given day).

I tried sending some in a long time ago - rejected.

I guess I was just ahead of my time.

Quote from: pancaketom on February 07, 2017, 11:06

I also can't figure out how to remove images from sets I don't remember how you used to do it, but I remember you could.

Mark an image in a set, then a trash can icon appears. Click on that.

I have done that, it even pops up a dialogue box about deleting it, but then it is still there. I suppose I'll try in some other browsers eventually when I feel up for dealing with the captchas.

As far as I could tell there was no notice on the site, just the e-mail. Maybe they are booting everyone to change the TOS a ton?

I was going to change all my image prices to $100 or more, but it wasn't immediately obvious how to do that.

Yup, me too, although I didn't do as well, I think I was in the top few hundred.  I'm glad I didn't spend any time trying to figure out their new system.

mine just switched over.

In general I think the new look is ok, although it will take some getting used to (and I don't think the old one needed to change - they could have just made the old columns sortable as they once were for a while as I recall).

I would like to see a sort by date and also a total sales column. It was hard to tell without a subs only column before though how much of the total was subs and how much were the other sales.

They also should show the images with 0 sales at the end of the sort.

edited....

I take it back - the way they report sales for a single day is just lame and stupid requiring extra clicks etc... Why did they change that?

In my experience new images have never taken off on DT like they have on SS or other sites. They also used to have some sort of rotation of portfolios so you would get periods of decent sales with periods of very low sales in between. I think they said this was to make it fair. More likely to keep people from giving up entirely.

It does seem that old stuff is mostly what sells, but almost completely subs. The rare credit sales are what makes or breaks a month as far as total income goes though. As those become even less common I suppose it is the ratio of $2 subs to .35 subs.

Like every site the jam is getting spread thinner and thinner and the sites are taking more and more of it to start with.

It was the best month of the year (worst too). It was just slightly worse than the average for last year.

On the plus side for the future I started uploading again in the last 3rd of the month so we shall see if that makes a difference or at least slows the slide.

well, they successfully removed the info from istock, so I suppose that is one thing they did.

I followed the link to ESP, and eventually determined that my username is my e-mail address and the istock password got me in.

Then I saw a lot of errors and no information at all. I don't know if it is because I have no sales since whenever they started their data or if it is just messed up. As it stands right now it is pretty useless, so at least they haven't changed that feature. I suppose I should be thankful that IS/Getty has become such a small part of my income that I am not concerned about them anymore.

They used to be ok. If you are with the "Bridge to Bigstock" they still might be. Otherwise they are SS's site to play with screwing contributors. Mostly subs - for less than you would get at SS.