Do you have to buy in your local currency?  I buy 3D content always in $ using the $ paypal balance from photo sales - completely painless.

I don't think it's upload limits, more likely the quality = technical quality (at least until recently) mind set.  The other sites have a little more judgement in terms of "what actually adds to the range of subject matter we can offer".

Is that how free file of the week works?  I just assumed someone just picked something out of a permanently free section. Personally, wouldn't do it as licences aren't too far away from free anyway and if someone doesn't want to shell out, let him steal.

The questions aren't great as most submitting to top 4 don't have a choice about subs so the choice is agree to this or don't submit.  Beyond that, the sub rates in 123 from next year will probably result in my port being pulled.

Someone used a stock photo to make a point.  The ships are not obviously Russian excepts to an expert and it's not like all the "businessman" images depict actual businessmen so I'm not seeing a big deal here.  The point though is that (perhaps wrongly) I get the sense it's the fact they are Russian as opposed to say British or French as if servicemen had fought and died at war with them.  The US has not been at war with Russia and AFIK not even with the old Soviet Union.

Interesting, so (b).

I phrased it imprecisely though and should have said different standard not lower as I don�t believe minor technical flaws necessarily mean an image is bad but, then again, I�m not an IS reviewer.

And man does he do encores (and encores and encores) 

In contrast, saw Dylan a few years ago and he didn't say a word, did the prescribed set and left..

Of course uncommon tends not to be also in demand or everyone would be doing it and then it wouldn't be uncommon anymore  .  Still, uncommon stuff sells just as well at p+ as at standard.

I wouldn't rule out that theory but am struggling to see how FT would benefit.  It might be an impact of the sorting of keywords by relevance on submission - some might, some might not and some may do it better than others but impossible to compare because they are just displayed in alphabetic order.

I like the media type icons, but it does make me feel grossly outnumbered here.

Although I did get my first photo accepted at a bunch of sites recently, so maybe if I keep it up I'll feel comfortable adding that photo icon eventually. Someday. Maybe.

You feel outnumbered??     I can't honestly use the illustrator icon as it implies some ability to draw and I don't use a camera (for stock) and the sites aren't even consistent when it comes to 3D - maybe time to move ahead and introduce another silo?

Quote from: markrhiggins on September 07, 2012, 09:34

easy to say that SS way outsells IS. The thing is however IS limits uploads so most people end up having a lot more images in SS. With the changes to royalties IS only gets worse. IS used to be a great place to sell as an independent. Now it is just for a very exclusive crowd. I would not take images down but not keen on uploading. Still not sure how they sell an image for 8 cents commission to me. Alamy gave me more revenue over the last 30 days than the micros.

Exactly.... I am accepted as a Contributor on IS, BUT at a upload limit of 18 pics/week it will take almost 3 years to upload my existing 2000+ port on the site, and that without producing any new content ( don't mention the commissions levels). I know is not the best business plan but i still keep my decision regarding IS until something changes; and they can start with the upload limit.

Nik

You could upload the guts of 1000 images in a year, acceptance is unlikely to be 100% but still should earn more than the whole 2000 on lower ranked sites. 

Are you currently an exclusive with IS and wondering what it's like to play the field or someone starting off?  If the latter, IS is a tough place to start and, if the former, lot's of threads on the subject.

Why bother unless you have thousands of very good sellers and they just take them because you're you? 

Of the two images I checked (now 2 days ago) the low number of views did not suggest that they had been in 'newest images' but it is possible that they were there a week ago. One image that I spotted (the 'unbusinesslike' model) is now gone from P#1 of 'business' but replaced by another shot of the same model by the same contributor and described as 'beautiful business woman'. The other shot of 'thinking young woman' is still on P#1 of 'business' and on P#1 of 'model' with 6 views and 3 downloads. Had that shot been in 'recent uploads' then I would have expected to have seen more views but I can't say for certain that the shots were not in 'recent uploads' at some time in the past week.

Best sellers of the day seem hand picked also.  I recently had 9 sales of the same image in a day (obviously an error but that's another story) and it didn't appear but a number of images with 1 or 2 lifetime sales did.