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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Friday's RC target announcement and iStock's strategy behind it
« on: June 09, 2011, 07:36 »The problem is, most realize, or think, that such an alliance really would have no "power". It isn't like a union where stopping work for a few days accomplishes something. The stuff is still there to sell.I agree but there might be some positive things we could do to promote sites that pay a fair commission and have good prices for buyers. I know that might not interest istock exclusives.
I think the best thing we can do is start a huge agency ourselves where we the Contributors are the shareholders and pay good commissions like 70 %
We have enough people among us with all sorts of qualities and expertise to make this work.
Then we the contributors are in control.
If the top 10-20% of contributors who make up the majority of the sales started their own site and removed their files from all other sites then you'd have a gameplan.
"Enough people" probably wouldn't work. Enough of the right people is what it would take to get the ball rolling and shift leverage back to contributors.
The problem is that the top 10-20 % would never remove their files unless the site that they created will make up for it.
That will take a couple of years of marketing but when the agency start to draw more and more customers the high commissions will make it easy to go exclusive..
The other agencies will have to make it more and more attractive to stay with them.
Now they change what ever they want and mostly not in favor of the photographer, nobody can do a thing about it.
