Best of luck if you make that choice Brett, long been a fan of your work. I made the jump only last month so pretty new and can't comment on any financial success, but I've found the love again for stock work, actually enjoying logging in to see whats happened download wise - rather than the negative feeling of what have they broken now. Got to the point my confidence in their interest in their contributors was rock bottom and some of their business decisions were just plain depressing.

One month independent now, only on 1 other site so far but already more downloads in that month than I've ever had to date per month on iStock. Royalty level as a starter is certainly down and therefore cash is down for now but as I said happy levels back up.

Gotta try something, grass may not prove to be greener for long but so far, so good. Right now thinking 2 sites is good for now, may expand but sort of going slowly as I start my life as an independent. Will keep uploading to istock tho and continue to be a member as I have had good experiences there and cling to the hope the site will once more be the place i used to love.

I did make a nice jump up the charts yesterday ... only because I'd hit the next DL marker tho ... but still made me feel like I was getting somewhere for a while