Your portfolio remains where it always was on Istockphoto.com (which is now the site for buyers). Think of ESP as an upload and account management platform. To see your portfolio click on Account Management (top right) on ESP and scroll down to Portfolio where you will find a link to our port.

Thank you

Seriously why would you even bother 

The problem is that on Fotolia I only sell old stuff, the same on Dreamstime, on Envato I'm no more in, I can't be exclusive on Shutterstock so...maybe I could try to upload them to Istock, hoping for a better future...

When they will realize how silly is they decision, it will be too late.
That said, I am Emerald level on Fotolia, Gold level on Istock, top level on Shutterstock, diamond level on Turbosquid, but not good enough for them...

Quote from: Vinne on September 02, 2014, 12:20

Evething for 1 Dollar?
This sounds familiar...

Doesn't it say one new credit is 5 old credits?

I was joking, but when for almost all the other agencies 1 credit means 1 dollar or so, they will make advertising saying: 1 credit for a full size image. New customers will say: wow, this is very cheap. Than, when they go to buy credits they discover that one credit costs 8/10$. They will be veeeery happy for this and they will go to DPC were 1 credit really is 1$. They share the same Marketing management with Microsoft...

There is another thread where nonexclusives said that the average price a buyer paid for their images was around $5 while the average price paid for an exclusive image was between $20-25.  That would mean 4x the royalty from price increase plus 2x the royalty from your % increase for a total of 8x.  Sales may fall because of the higher prices but they may not because of the better best match placement.  If you do get a good amount of files into Getty that can account for another 50% of your iStock. exclusive income.  For me it's 25-40% but there are others who make more on Getty than iStock.  I would think 8x is likely outcome on the conservative side, for me just for losing the higher prices, Getty, and % I would probably be down around 93% .   If you can find reports on facebook or a few here you'll see that many exclusives that left had their iStock income drop by 90%.

This is the kind of answer I would like to have when I start this thread. Something inside me wants to give it a try. In any case, I will aspect some months to see if the situation settles.
Thank you for your point of view.

You asked a question and one of the most successful commercial photographer/illustrators has gone out of his way, several times now, to give you sound, reasoned advice. Yet, far from thanking him, you persist in telling him that he is wrong?

No, I'm not saying that he is wrong. I have absolute respect for Sean and his work. I'm only saying, by hanving years of experince about, that there is not so many people around that can make exactly the same image i make and sell them at a lower price (and if they make then copying exactly mine, they are thieves and should therefore be treated as such). Ralely had this kind of problem, never care about it and so, I don't think that becoming exclusive I will care about that. I have perfectly understand that Sean is saying that I should not become exclusive from is point of view. But if read my first post, you will see that my question is not that.

If you search "smiling girl" on Istock, you will find 1,25 million results. So the question is, why do you continue to waste you time shooting this kind of subject?
People look for what fits better in they project, someone cares about the price, someone not. Somebody spends 300$ for a signle photo, somebody 3000$. For somebody 30$ is to much. I mean, you only have to care about how is your target.

"High Quality 3d renders" are easily duplicated by people around the world, who sell non-exclusive, so you will be competing against the same content at cheaper prices.

Sorry, Sean, with all the respect, I don't want to sound suberb, but when I say "high quality 3d renders" I'm saying "high quality 3d renders" and in the microstock market less than 1% of the 3d renders can be called "high quality". At list for my standard. So they are not easily duplicated. I am in the top 200 at Fotolia and of that 200, i think that not more than 20 are 3d artists. So for sure, this kind of competition is not a problem for me. My problem, insted, is that everywere as a non-exclusive, quality can't compensate the fact that many images don't have the time to be seen that they goes under tons of others in the search engine. And they are lost forever. So if you upload hundreds pictures every month this may not be a problem, but if you spend hours or days on a single image you start to think that this images should, at least, be seen. If it have hundreds of views and don't sell ok, but I use to have, for many of my images, 1 sell every 4 views, so my priority is that much people possibly views them.

Hi all,
I would like to clarify a doubt. I don't want to ask you if I should or not became an exclusive at Istock. I know that nobdy have the right answer to his question and I also know that, this days, this aswer would probably be no more than yes.
I want to make a practical example and have anwers based on your experience. So I am refearing to people how became exclusive or leaved his exclusivity.
Let say that I am a Gold level, with a portfolio of high quality 3d renders and elaborated pictures, and that I earn, from Istock, 1000$/month. So I am at a 18% royalty level. Going exclusive I will jump up from 18% to 35% royalty. This means that, only by that, my income will swich from 1000$ to 1944$. And so far it is ok.
Now the question: what else more (from higher prices, vetta, getty, more visibility, other things I don't know...) should I aspect to earn?
I don't want pricise amounts, but only rough estimations. I think this is not a difficult question to answer for how have an experience about that.
So, let's go with your experience...and thank you for that.