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« on: November 10, 2010, 13:04 »
A real life example: I need images of a speeding moped to illustrate mopeds exceeding the 45 km/h speeding limit in Norway for mopeds for use in newspaper articles on the subject:
Search term "speeding moped".
Istock by downloads: http://is.gd/gUjyC
Istock by Best Match: http://is.gd/gUjGE
98 matches, 1-3 relevant for the newspaper articles, one really nice photograph (though not relevant).
Dreamstime: 1 image: http://is.gd/gUk4Z switching "moped" with "scooter" (which is less relevant), 16 results (mostly of water scooters): http://is.gd/gUkcl
Fotolia: 1 image: http://is.gd/gUkne and a couple more with water scooters when switching "moped" with "scooter".
Istock wins hands on.
"Speeding" in the Istock C.V converts to speed. Try searching speed and moped on the other sites and the results are similar.
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« on: September 16, 2010, 15:38 »
It's easy to pick bad examples but even than it is still a matter of taste.
Taste. Yep.
It is actually very "stockish" but certainly only usable for the German-speaking market. The Germans, Swiss and Austrians are rich - let them pay big bucks ;-).
It's not about taste or whether it is stockish. the fact is that the picture would never be normally accepted into the collection. If any of us uploaded it. it would be rejected.
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« on: September 16, 2010, 11:14 »
^ um, okay........those images are crap dude. don't even try to see a silver lining, there isn't one
The stock industry has gone through dozens of artistic phases over the years,
There was the everything silhouetted phase, the everything lit with soft box phase, the light painting phase, the motion phase, the everyone tilted phase, the Agfa 1000 with soft filter phase, the cross processing phase, on and on. Now we are in everything done to a super high ultra boring technical phase and everyone thinks it's the last one. The one phase that will endure. But it won't. It will pass, thankfully, and we can move on to being creative again.
You're just talking nonsense. This is just about getty dumping their crap on Istock. Nothing to do with new phases, creativity or anything else.
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« on: September 11, 2010, 11:40 »
It would probably be a mistake if istock went totally midstock. Vetta's doing quite well but it has the best best match placemen and still many images don't sell. Without the rest of the collection there wouldn't be many buyers around to even see it. they would do o.k in the short run but afterward who knows. Most buyers come to istock for the large range of the collection that includes all the mundane stuff.
Having said all that I expect another round of large price increases in January after they have increased the Vetta prices on the 27Th of September.
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« on: September 10, 2010, 04:05 »
It's very hard for a diamond exclusive to leave. Basically you lose about two thirds your income at istock. if you were making $6000 you'll shouldenly be making $2000. Then you have to quickly upload your port to numerous over sites where you will have to start from the bottom with poor image placement.
Having said that I am seriously thinking about it out of principle, even though I would definitely lose money.
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« on: August 25, 2010, 11:22 »
The question is how important or effective are these lightboxes in generating sales? I have images of mine included in the "Compelling Critters" lightbox and I don't see any increase in sales of those images or my portfolio as a whole. In fact this month is dismal for me of IS.
I agree I should think most buyers don't use these lightboxes unless they're really pressed for time.
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« on: August 21, 2010, 11:13 »
The only possible concievable way of showing new images alongside old bona-fide sellers is to make two separate searches.
Buyers just need to sort by age, the problem is that they don't seem to.
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« on: August 15, 2010, 09:14 »
Ouch __ that's bad considering that Vetta are supposedly limited to just 1% of the collection. Not giving buyers the ability to 'opt out' of Vetta on searches, which is frequently being demanded in the forums, is looking like a bad idea and a frustrating experience for customers.
Buyers can opt out Vetta files using the advanced search but it's not well publicised. Also a lot of buyers never use advanced search.
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« on: August 15, 2010, 08:08 »
Yesterday i bumped into someone who works for a big production house that buys a lot of stock.
He said they have always used istock, but recently moved over to Shutterstock as istock got way too expensive. He was also complaining about so many images that cost easily $50/image. (Vetta).
Because we're so involved in stock we know what Vetta is about, but apparently not all buyers are aware and the fact that Vetta's are pushed to the front of the best match so agressively doesnt seem to be helping istock...
That's my feeling. I think Vetta is a good idea, however vetta images are increasingly filling up the front of the searches. Take a search for young women. Out of the first hundred pics about 76 are Vetta. Over 50 of those have sold less than two times and about 35 have never sold. Some of these have been on-line for nearly a year. The fact that so few people are attracted enough to buy these images even when placed at the front of the search suggests that istock is losing touch with its customer base. I don't think that trying to force buyers to look at and buy these expensive offerings, many of which are of no interest to them, is the way to attract new buyers. It may even be putting old buyers off. Of course non people searches don't have nearly so many Vetta files but people searches are some of the most popular.
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« on: August 11, 2010, 14:36 »
I think the buyers like it. Today is the best Tuesday I've had in a while...
Same here.
For me it was just like any normal recent tuesday.
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« on: May 26, 2010, 13:14 »
When was that?
When malcam's sales went down?
That's right  and when a 5 year old christmas pic became my highest ranked pic even though its hardly sold anything in three years.
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« on: May 26, 2010, 12:21 »
This weeks been awful but so has the whole month. In fact it's been bad since they changed the best match.
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« on: March 23, 2010, 09:08 »
You most remember that last week her images were way cheaper, her first 250 downloads were at bargain prices. I bought a licence of her image of the week E.S for a credit now it would be 20 credits. Massive difference.
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« on: March 23, 2010, 08:57 »
This is probably to put of people from getiing one month subscription and maxing out the downloads for future use. This would result in a loss for the subscription site. It's one of the weaknesses of the that business model. I wish every customer would do it. It would finish them off.
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« on: November 17, 2008, 15:29 »
thanks for the info, couldn't work out what was wrong.
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