Pond5 for me.  They have had a problem with review times lately though that has taken far too long to fix, so I'm not as confident about them as I once was.

I like the look of it but its a shame if we can't make any money from it.

Most of mine are under a minute without keywording but I can take a lot longer with isolations and anything I think might sell a lot.

How will Adobe and Shutterstock react?

I doubt it will make much difference to them.  They were competing with Veer and they are down in the low earners in the poll here.

I bet our microstock images end up on istock or thinkstock.  I removed all my best images from istock but it seems pointless as they will probably end up getting them from some other site.  Think I will wait and see what happens.

I dont know how everybody else, but now when I see new sale on Envato Im not happy like before 2016. Im angry! Im angry becouse I know how much money Im loosing with every sale. All of this is of course becouse their move to US and introducing US Tax to ours (already low) royalties.

Here is Royalty structure for Non Exclusives (sale to US):
HD video priced $8. Envato gets: $5,12 You get: $0.96
4K video priced $25. Envato gets: $16, You get: $3

Im still watching and  waiting for their solution of this situation. If not, time will come to break this humiliation.

How has that time not come already?  Tolerating a site that is so much worse than others is damaging for all of us.  They've had over a year to go back to being an agency but they haven't done it because they are still getting supplied by contributors.  So they will probably keep making things worse for us and easier for them.  The only way out of this mess is if enough of us deactivate our portfolios, I did it a year ago.

I used to think they were great but it seems strange that they lost control of the review queue at a time of year when most sites have faster reviews and they deactivated lots of SFX portfolios and made it impossible for some people like me to verify them.  So they have a slightly tarnished reputation with me at the moment.  They could fix these two things easily but have shown no inclination to do so as yet.  Hence the disappearance of my last site referral link in my signature, I used to have 3, now they're all gone.

This thread needs sorting out.  The original subject wasn't great but much more interesting to microstockers than the hijacked subject.  I suggest anyone more interested in politics and philosophy should use more relevant forums.

This is one of the reasons why I still don't like Fotolia.  Adobe have a lot of work to do before that changes.

A lot of my portfolio is still pending cut outs.  Maybe I should do them myself?

I'm from Central Canada.  I swear I was the only weird kid on the prairies that was obsessed with David Bowie.   Yes, I've gone to halloween parties as Ziggy Startdust.  The man was so freakin eccentric.  And oh my goodness, the talent!  I was addicted to the way he layered his vocals and his androgynous costumes.  And his songs!  Figuring out the lyrics - Spiders from Mars?  Uncle Tom?  The worlds he created - weather they were figuratively in space or the Berlin era with Brian Eno.  Kids these days are so cheated of this kind of genius.  All the songs are about "Making her headboard rock" or similar gratification - where have the mystery and the longing and the chase gone?   Where is the beginning, middle and end of a great ballad?

I saw a post on facebook yesterday that said
We paid for music  (insert photo of Bowie and some other ugly mug I didn't entirely recognize , but you didn't have to be beautiful in the 70's, you had to have the raw talent)
So you don't have to  (insert photos of Bieber, Kanye and Minaj

We drifted apart about the "Let's Dance" era.  I missed so much.  Just last week I rediscovered Bowie on Spotify and had his tunes looping through my edits, and this week he is everywhere.  Last night I had a shoot in a community centre and even the Zumba class in the gym next door cooled down to Bowie. 

So long space man.

I disagree about new music, there's great music out there if you look for it and keep an open mind.  Every era has a lot of dross and music is more fragmented now but there's still great musicians in the current era.  David Bowie was inspired by new music throughout his career.  People from older generations would of made similar comments about David Bowie in the 70's that you made about current music.  Complaining about new music is just a sign of getting old.  I love lots of music from the 60's and 70's but I also like Tame Impala, Muse, Jake Bugg, La Roux, Mean Lady and many more that are making music now.

There's 29 days this February, an extra day to complain about low sales.

Looks like such a mess, I have no idea why any contributor would want to use them now, as they have made a monumental mistake and done nothing to fix it.  Deactivating portfolios does make a difference with smaller sites.  Buyers will look elsewhere when they can't find what they want and they probably wont go back when they see what other sites have to offer.

I don't like seeing sites fail but when they make life difficult for so many of their contributors, they don't have my sympathy.  It would of been so easy to go back to being what everyone thinks they are, an agency.