Istock is telling you alot of lies. To begin with istock is hugely profitably. It is the most profitable part of the Getty business by a long way. It has been a huge runaway success - it has made alot of money for Getty. So when Istock bosses tell you the current commission rate is unsustainable this is utter rubbish. A pack of lies. They could afford to raise your commission rates. However greedy bankers don't think like this.

What the bankers that own Getty want to do is make more profit form your hard work to make Getty more appealing for sale - fatten up for sale. So how do they do this? Take money from your pockets - cut royalties. To make it appear that profits are growing. When infact they are stagnating because of market saturation.

This is a PR disaster for istock basically because it is the crowd sourcing photographers that made istock the huge success it is today. And it is the photographers that could bring it down.