After 9 months of trying I have at last been accepted on SS and am so happy.

Congrats..... SS is the best agency for doing business with....

also curious?

Maybe wants to go exclusive on IS 

...but you'll "rig" the commissions to earn more...?

+1   

Calculating only the important agencies... my General RPD is $0.70  .  The highest RPD i have on DT

I'm using Yuri's release....

I've heard a story about oil spots on sensor during first 1000 clicks....

From what i read the oil spots on sensor was an issue at the first D600 models that were released. Nikon fixed that problem.

when you calculate the commissions on SS why everybody take in account the subscription sales?? the subs. are fixed. take in account only OD, EL, S&O.. the commissions there is between 20-30%. In case of EL's  the real commission can be even 50%.

Quote from: nicku on December 31, 2012, 08:39

I believe the loyal buyers from IS are starting to realize that out there are similar agencies offering same  image quality at more reasonable prices.

As a supplier, do you think the prices and returns at some other places are 'reasonable'?

Yes, and on ALL other places the commission is not 15% and the upload limit 28 images/week 

As an Indy, I can entirely understand why an IS exclusive would want buyers to move from another site to IS. I hope that IS exclusives can understand why I would want buyers to move from a site that pays me 16% of a sale to a site that pays a higher percent - and yes, it is usually a higher total $ value too, even if the price the buyer pays might be a lot less.

For November IS made me 47 cents per download (ok, I'll round that 47.8 up to 48 even though it isn't clear that IS would do that) (that does also include PP, but seeing how I have no choice but be in the PP it makes sense to include it). IS is fast becoming one of the worst paying subs sites for me. That is why I want the buyers to migrate elsewhere. I think I could handle the competition from IS exclusives files if I also got the IS and PP buyers to go along with that competition.

At one time I was thinking about going exclusive, but their regular debilitating best match changes and broken promises put a squash to that. That was before all the site problems and importing of other collections really got going. I am mighty glad I am not an exclusive now trying to decide when to drop the crown and take a big hit or to try to hang on and keep scrabbling for a piece of the ever reducing pie.

I think IS is a bit of a thorn in the side of Getty, and the more other content they can put there (and pay non - exclusive royalty rates) as well as moving IS content upstream and downstream (and pay not exclusive royalty rates and no RC) the better as far as they are concerned. Their "new" communication is much like their "new" trust - not worth much.

+1

As a Indy , and not a contributor on IS ( for hundreds of reasons ) the plunge of he agency is a big +. I believe the loyal buyers from IS are starting to realize that out there are similar agencies offering same  image quality at more reasonable prices.

If you don't show us the work we can't comment. It could be that the work is a cartoon animal, for example, and the watermarked image a photo of that animial that has no resemblance to the illustration, used just for general anatomical reference.
Without actual links, how are we supposed to know?

+1

ha ha hhaaa..,, How do you guys spent The End of The World

Sorry if this question should be in the newbie section, but why do people buy images from Alamy. I mean the prices are a lot higher than in microstock, right? What extra do they get out of buying from Alamy?

Rights managed .... exclusive rights to use the image for specific purposes....

I'm once again called a TROLL in this forum by the crowd of do-gooders shocked to realize iStock and the whole microstock industry entered a downward spiral that will soon leave you guys grilling burgers at McDonalds.

It's 3 or 4 yrs i'm pointing out that this would have been the obvious conclusion and that the only way out was to stick to RM but you guys were always so positive and full of hope like children with rosy glasses, sure to have found the new gold mine and that it would have last forever.

Now you're all pants down crying out about falling sales and all you can tell me is i'm a known troll and agent provocateur, banning me and telling me to F off.



Hahaha, you're just all patethic and you deserve to be scammed by Getty and their other cronies.
You reap what you sow and i'm the one having the last laugh.


Farewell.

F off.... ( your expected words/response).Micro will not disappear... and when the world economics will improve companies will be way more cautious with their marketing money. Way less designers are using now macro or RM compared with 6-8 years ago. the flow of fresh images  is normal/increasing... only the source has changed.

P.S. my sales are up up up  every month..... so..... i quote your expected words/response once again.

regards,

Nik