They did pay early, on the 21st December. Presumably you've earned enough for a payout and have thus contacted support, what do they say?

I always earn more than enough for a payout.  I wanted to know if they had paid out.  Now that you've confirmed it, I will get in touch with support.   Thanks for the reply.

Diddly squat.  They're coming off my roster for 2018.  Not worth the effort to keep them in my spreadsheet.

Just did my July analysis, comparing monthly totals vs prior months and last year. 

Holy cow.  In July, DT is off 50% for me vs July 2016.  Most other agencies are down around 10% for me vs year ago.  Up until July, DT was following the industry trend of being off around 10% vs year ago, then July hits and BAM, down 50%.  Very odd.

So why is DT collapsing while all the others are simply lagging?  This is really concerning to me as they've been my solid #3 for quite some time.

Agree.  Something is definitely up at DT.  Been reading complaints about them for a couple of years, but my sales stayed strong there.  All of a sudden the past couple months - POOF!  Sales are gone.  I don't know if I had been getting a good search placement and now it changed, or if the whole site is down the tubes...?

FINALLY GOT PAID!!!  Late today.  Thank for those sharing their situations.  Its really too bad this business isnt working for the independent photographers who built it.  The original ideas came from the one man shops, then the factories mass produced them to the point where they oversaturated the market.  All with the help and encouragement of the big agencies.

Tyler, sorry to hear you are going to have to look for other work soon.  Me too.  I don't make enough to pay all my bills anymore,  but still rely on micro earnings for two weeks a month and other earnings for the alternate two.  Thanks to SS being slow I have to push some credit cards to next week and keep fingers crossed they get paid in time.  Need some Rx's filled and they have to wait too.

This sucks!  5 years ago I was doing great!  Times they are a changin'.

To the others who haven't gotten paid yet, I hope you do real soon.  If not, feel free to post here about it.  May not get you paid, but at least you can get some moral support.

Anyway, thanks for all the great replies and contributions to the discussion.   

Thanks for the ones that took the poll so far.  Looks lik only a couple of us still waiting.  Wonder what's up? 

Rinder, I would respond to your post, but I don't really understand it or how it relates to the question.  I do know for sure I'm not the only one who relies on microstock and SS in particular to pay bills. Thanks for taking the poll if you did.

Thanks.  Looks like I need to send an email to them.

"What can we do to improve your Getty Images/iStock experience?"

How about not sending me an iStock statement with a negative $320 balance four years after you cut me?  Yeah, that would be great.

OMG!  F#*k them!  What ba11s!

Yep!  I had counted them out and left them for dead and then I recieve one of the largest payouts in 12 years time! into a 5-figure amount. Guess I start uploading again there.
Could it be that they somehow are staggering back and its weakening SS who according to lots of fairly big contributors in their own forum is just terrible. I dont know but something is cooking.

Five figures? Meaning $10,000.00 or more???!!!!  For May.  From Getty/Istock.  Seriously???

Not a surprise for me and not all that pleasant.  Half what I made this time last year and about 1/8 what I averaged on IS per month in the good old days. 

If I'd run an agency, I'd rather pay more to well established image factories with good quality photos than newcomers whose images might not be so great. Paying more to image factories also makes sure, there is a constant flow of new good images.

True.  But OTOH all the image factory pics look pretty much the same,with that over lit, over saturated look and the fake models with dead eyes.  There are customers that want more unique and realistic images and they should be able to find those too.

How much longer do we have to wait?  I don't understand that if the previous owners were bad at marketing, they seemed to be selling more for most of us?  I wish you well but have very low expectations now, hope you prove me wrong.

My questions exactly.  If you could give an estimate of when you expect the site revamp to be finished and the serious marketing push to start, it would be reassuring.

And as bad as you say the prior management was at marketing, I still had regular sales with them. 

The owner responded recently in another thread - they're re-doing the site and intend to get back in the air soon.

Yeah, I read that.  Seemed hopeful, but more time has passed and still NO sales at all.  ZERO.   Even Stockfresh and Crestock manage a few sales a month.  In over 8 years and with over 6k portfolio, this site is the only one where I ever went a whole month with no sales, much less 5 months and counting!!!

If they can't manage to start producing monthly sales by the end of the year I'm gonna pull my stuff and not look back.