Quote from: Fairplay on May 24, 2014, 20:02
I think some of the TS buyers moved to IS because there are much more files to choose from.

In april the subscription program in IS was almost inexistent, it was not promoted, just tested

Quote from: topol on May 24, 2014, 14:23

Quote from: Ron on May 23, 2014, 08:40
He probably needs the boost. IS performance might not be what expected. He still needs income from other sites as well to make it worth him while. I still have a feeling we will get a news report someday that he went bankrupt.

I doubt that. The reason why many others have a bad time at IS might be because he is having a good one, because his operation is rather large 'entity'...... and it doesn't seem to be shrinking.

Its not a bug, it is a dirty way to boost Yuri's portfolio in the best match, his pictures are up in best match from a few days ago. A new way of insulting and harming the authentic Istock exclusive contributors

Quote from: Julied83 on May 20, 2014, 20:01
clearing the cache didn't change anything to the default language automatically set itself to french ! 

You should learn french

No sales today, 100% of nothing
what a bad joke

Very difficult to calculate, we still don't know the impact that the new subscription program is going to have in sales. I am not very optimistic, my feeling is that lost credit sales are going to be replaced by 34 cents subscription sales. At least during 2014.

What about the Nokia 41 mpx camera-phone everyone should be using by now?

Quote from: SNP on April 24, 2014, 20:22

Quote from: MichaelJayFoto on April 24, 2014, 07:27

Quote from: SNP on April 23, 2014, 22:05Michael - my apologies. It is actually a quote from Sean's blog. I read his and yours back to back from Sean's earlier post. Following is the section I am in agreement with, and seems it is Sean's, and not your statement. Sorry to have attributed the quote to you.

No problem but thanks for clearing it up. I wasn't really sure. It didn't really sound like something I remembered saying. But you know, over time you can change opinions while learning new stuff...

Quite frankly, the "reputable" part made me wonder most. I have problems attributing this word to any of the microstock places these days. I don't trust any of them to actually be my "agent".

By reputable I mean: established, selling licenses, communicating with contributors, working with contributors openly and honestly, in a supportive manner.

Are you still in stocksy united?

Quote from: wds on April 24, 2014, 15:41
My sales were quite poor last couple of weeks. Oddly though, yesterday was quite a strong day. I think any real assessment of the new subs plan impact will take a long time (6 months plus). All this being said, I don't feel good about long term prospects.

I can not even imagine summer time

Quote from: dingles on April 07, 2014, 17:13
April sales are so far non-existent...maybe the subs? It's a shame they aren't being reported in real-time...so frustrating.

For me too, since friday no sales at all. used to sell 8-12 pics per day. 6=8 pics during weekends. No more sales for me.

No sales at all - Zero - today the slaughter appears to be greater than anticipated, getting ready to go

Quote from: KB on April 01, 2014, 01:37

Quote from: bunhill on April 01, 2014, 00:05

Quote from: KB on March 31, 2014, 23:19
I claim that there'll be little or no incentive for SS buyers to switch to IS

Straight question: If they come in with a competitive package and word gets around then why wouldn't buyers switch ?

What is your definition of 'competitive'?

It would have to be nicely discounted from SS's prices, not simply matching. Otherwise what does IS have to attract buyers? It isn't the lack of technical standards or poor keyword relevance of new files (which are overwhelming the number of older, better keyworded files). Not to mention the added complexity of a two-tiered subscription plan.

My guess is that their lower tiered offering will indeed be 'competitive' with SS's, but the higher tiered offering will not. So a further hit to exclusives, as even if sub sales take off, most exclusive files won't be the ones being downloaded. (Probably true within the lower tier, too, as someone else pointed out: Won't Getty be likely to skew the results to independent files, since their costs will be significantly lower?)

Probably they will redirect credit base buyers to GI (maybe they are already doing it) since sales decreased dramatically during the last couple of months (even though we are in march, the month supposed to be the best of the year together with october, regarding sales)

Quote from: KB on March 31, 2014, 23:19

Quote from: Marta on March 31, 2014, 22:51
Let me ask a question here,
based in Fotolia's change to subscription experience, how, (exclusive member percentage of $$$), will these new IS move affect exclusives? Lets say you make $1000.00 a month from IS and $200 a month from GI?  (based in your own experiences with Fotolia) give me a approximate calculation. Thanks. in other words, how much blood will be lost with this new IS move.

We can speculate, but no one can yet know the correct answer to that.

Getty claims that it's a different class of buyers who buy subscriptions, so we won't be losing sales, we'll be getting extra sales that would've gone to SS or other sub sites.

I claim that there'll be little or no incentive for SS buyers to switch to IS, nor for new buyers to come to IS in place of SS. So most sub buyers will be converted IS credit buyers -- and most likely those will be the buyers who were the biggest buyers of credits.

I don't see an impact on GI sales (not from subs -- the free editorial and personal use images are an entirely different matter). But my own guess is that the theoretical $1000 per month person is likely to see a 50% haircut in sales by the time subs are fully rolled out, if not more. It will be brutal.

thank you for your answer, I know it is an speculation.
What you calculated is more or less what i think it will be. IS will be receiving the same money from the client (if he was spending $1000 in credits, they will spend $1000 in subscription) but the exclusive contributors will be hit deep in their pockets. Maybe a couple of big clients will be brought back, but not lot of them. This is an IS one more move to get more money from contributors.
I think is about time to start thinking and to be ready to leave exclusivity.

Let me ask a question here,
based in Fotolia's change to subscription experience, how, (exclusive member percentage of $$$), will these new IS move affect exclusives? Lets say you make $1000.00 a month from IS and $200 a month from GI?  (based in your own experiences with Fotolia) give me a approximate calculation. Thanks. in other words, how much blood will be lost with this new IS move.