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« on: June 30, 2013, 14:22 »
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7. Think what is other way to bring customers to fair deal for you and our community...
Symbiostock! - 100% royalty 
I really don't know how to make this solution easy and profitable...
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« on: June 30, 2013, 13:55 »
There are solutions:
0. Stop upload to iStockphoto...
1. Leave current portfolio on iStock (without bestsellers) which is still your effort and time, you will get some money...
2. Advertise on every possible way that iStock from now will have only your OLD pictures...
3. Advertise your portfolios from every friendly agency, especially with your new content, point is on NEW content....
4. Explain to buyers with few words reason for stopping upload to iStock wherever you can...
5. Explain differences to buyers what are their benefits (prices, quality, +/- iShits collections differences, etc.) on other friendly agencies...
6. Do that every day, BE PROVOVATIVE, arouse suspicion, BRING ATTENTION...
7. Think what is other way to bring customers to fair deal for you and our community...
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« on: June 30, 2013, 08:30 »
Please, change name from "thinkstock" to "tiestock" or even "tapewormstock"...
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« on: June 29, 2013, 17:34 »
Yes, you're right! But it's change nothing, non exclusives still work for peanuts... Plan is clear as it was before those changes!
What royalty rate will non exclusives earn from files in Signature+ that are mirrored to Getty?
Non-exclusives will receive 15% commission in the event we mirror Non-exclusive photo content on Getty.
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« on: June 29, 2013, 17:19 »
Apparently not considering that we now can't have any file moved to Getty unless there are accepted as Vetta
FWIW:
"What will get mirrored to Getty under the new collections scheme?
The Vetta and Signature Plus collections will be mirrored on Getty."
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354345&messageid=6899067
Signature plus is in game ha? So it begins! As I told you...
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« on: June 29, 2013, 04:02 »
You are probably one of exclusive contributors don't you? Trying to find your truth....
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« on: June 29, 2013, 03:54 »
You can shoot me for this but I think this is a good move! They are looking out for their exclusives first and giving the customer what they need! I hope buyers come running back to iStock, heck it stills pays more then SS most of the time! This is a customer centric change so lets see what happens! You can always become exclusive if buyers come running back!
I honestly can't see how on Earth this is beneficial to exclusives. They have seen huge drops in downloads, and more recently earnings. How is giving away indie content for practically nothing going to reverse that trend??
Maybe they want to force exclusives to migrate their portfolios to Getty images...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 17:22 »
They make their decision on movements in statistics, sometimes illogical at first sight... But they are struggling for sure to keep buyers, not us!
Many new rubbish in collection will make customers nervous and then they will offer big, serious and unique "Getty collection" to them based on their behavior...
Typical for eBay for example! Many people stay with eBay even there are a lot better auction sites...
For sure, they have a plan...
Sorry, but we indies (and many others) are not in that blueprint...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 17:04 »
So, we need another topic, "War against iStock", not "How to support friendly agencies"!
Reading your posts today, I am just shaking my head. Back in February hundreds of us got together and staged a protest by deleting all or part of our portfolios and stopping uploading. Where the F were you then? Going on like business as usual?
Now you want everyone to follow you into some "war" with Istock? We already had the "war" and you and a lot of other people who are irate today evidently didn't participate. If everyone had, maybe they wouldn't be pulling yet more sh*-t.
Please, could you remember my last survey which was actual here month or two ago, then you might not have reacted so harshly... That post was sarcasm related with my last survey "Let support fair trade agency"... Also my opinion then and now is the same, deleting portfolio or removing a part of portfolio is not good enough, in fact they want to provoke that kind of reaction... I had tried to explain that here several times but without results... Getty has strong will to repel you and me from iStock and that is whole truth... Less good images on iStock, mean easier routing of buyers to Getty images, especially for corporate buyers... So I still think that deleting portfolio is not good enough, for any kind battle with them, certainly it is not a "war"! It is a retreat They want to redirect serious buyers to Getty, and other such as bloggers to Thinkstock, and then to switch off whole iStock...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 11:04 »
But they can have 100$ to participate in project... People in active team will work for salary not to be volunteer....
Every successful agency mainly start from one man, I don't see reason why people who are already involved in microstock might not know how to built up another one...
Search past threads on the subject and you will see.
Ok. Please Tyler could you shut down this forum... This forum has no purpose... This forum became a place for weeping and crying after bad agency moves...Meaningless work! 
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« on: June 28, 2013, 10:56 »
But they can have 100$ to participate in project... People in active team will work for salary not to be volunteer....
Every successful agency mainly start from one man, I don't see reason why people who are already involved in microstock might not know how to built up another one...
Also my question is:
Is there some agency (low earner) whose owner is willing to sold complete web and infrastructure to MSG contributors? Then we can make several IPO rounds to collect money for put that agency in "top tier"...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 10:35 »
Maybe I am boring but we need our stock agency! Microstockgroup agency! So, how many of us are active here!? We can make first round of IPO with first 100$ for contributors who want to participate and be shareholder.... Of course, we have to find country for agency registration, to find employees from this forum and start, easily, slowly... When MSG agency will be "alive and kicking", contributors will be payed on usual way and on the end of year, with profit after taxes... When every contributor start to feel this agency as his own, then you will see marketing explosion.... www.msgstockphoto.com can be domain... One idea! On that site you don't have to be exclusive contributor, but unique demand can be that you have to be "timeshare exclusive contributor" or you have to upload new content for example 1 year only on "msgstock agency"... After that period you can upload anywhere...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 09:11 »
FT and IS will force me to abandon my full time Microstock...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 09:06 »
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« on: June 28, 2013, 06:12 »
EVERY OTHER AGENCY IS A FRIENDLY AGENCY!
Absolute rubbish. Look at the shenanigans at Fotolia (I still think they're worse than iStock with all their hidden little tricks). Even SS is doing funny things with Bigstock. DT has such a confusing earnings structure that I'm never quite sure what they're doing. 123 just cut our commissions. So did Alamy.
I think Fotolia are almost as bad as istock but they seem to of followed there lead. Its the same with the other sites that have seen what most contributors are willing to tolerate and have decided there's no point paying a decent commission percentage, when a lower one still gets a good supply of images. I wouldn't put alamy in the same class as some of the others though. 50% commissions still seems fair compared to the 17% I get with istock that will probably be even worse next year. It would be a huge financial loss for non-exclusives to take action against all the sites that have cut commissions but I think dealing with the one that pays the lowest commission percentage and has done the dreadful Google deal would send a message that we can only be pushed so far. If nothings done on a large scale to make the sites see we mean business, there's no point in all these endless threads about the latest changes that are going to hit our earnings.
So, we need another topic, "War against iStock", not "How to support friendly agencies"!
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« on: June 28, 2013, 05:57 »
EVERY OTHER AGENCY IS A FRIENDLY AGENCY!
Absolute rubbish. Look at the shenanigans at Fotolia (I still think they're worse than iStock with all their hidden little tricks). Even SS is doing funny things with Bigstock. DT has such a confusing earnings structure that I'm never quite sure what they're doing. 123 just cut our commissions. So did Alamy.
I just wanted to say that all other agencies seem far more friendly than IS in this moment, in relative sense... Of course, the biggest piece of "microstock agency alliance" is quite unfair for us... But we don't need to be in business with them, that is our free will... They are greedy, but we are more greedier than they are, if we can tolerate all this and continue to upload on their sites...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 03:06 »
Sharpshot prophecy: *** It hasn't stopped most of them so far. They're too frightened to lose a few $$ in the short term, not considering that tolerating all these detrimental changes is going to lose all of us lots of $$ in the long term. Istock know that and now the other big sites do too. So I expect the long period we've had of getting our commissions slashed isn't over yet.
*** I will remove my best sellers and I will announce that on social networks! Every day for every bestseller! Of course, with a link where is still possible to buy it! PLEASE DO THE SAME, NOW EVERY OTHER AGENCY IS A FRIENDLY AGENCY! ALSO ANNOUNCE THAT ON EVERY WAY OVER THE INTERNET! WE ARE IN SOME KIND OF A WAR! 
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« on: June 28, 2013, 02:53 »
GETTY WANTS TO SWITCH OFF ISTOCK AND THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING AROUND HERE FROM THE FIRST MOMENT! PLAN IS TO EXPEL INDIES AND REDIRECT BUYERS TO GETTY TOGETHER WITH EXCLUSIVES! IT IS EXPENSIVE TO HAVE TWO INFRASTRUCTURE AND TWO CREWS FOR SAME MARKET! So there is no future there for anyone, abandon ship, redirect customer, abandon ship, redirect customers...!!! This is not a drill, this is not a drill...
https://twitter.com/sinisabotas
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« on: June 28, 2013, 00:55 »
Maximum price on my pics is 5 credits... After their cut of 84%, What do I get? Maximum of 0,8$... I am stopping uploading now to iStock, if everything will stay as it look like... EVERY ACTION HAS REACTION! So here is mine "Urbi Et Orbi": https://twitter.com/sinisabotasMy effort will be to redirect buyers to other sites in every moment from now...
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« on: June 27, 2013, 17:26 »
This looks very unprofessional ...
Prices may fall or rise but not so much in a single day ...
This seems as a fact that they never knew how to determine the price for this type of product ...
Probably I will stop to upload on iStock soon, and I will try on every way to redirect customers to better sites for us and them...
I won't delete portfolio, because it is still my effort, so some money will be still good from old pics....
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« on: June 27, 2013, 17:14 »
I don't remember what was price for L image for example? How big is cut in percentages?
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« on: June 18, 2013, 01:10 »
borg check all tabs, you need to have one called something like VARIOUS perhaps, inside you need to have an entry called OBJECT NAME
I found it! Thank you Louis! OBJECT NAME is in SOURCE tab... Weird place and name for "TITLE"... But is ok!
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« on: June 17, 2013, 11:34 »
After right click on thumbnail there is "Edit IPTC-IIM/XMP" , after opening there are these categories (please see attachment).
I've tried various options and always I haven't "Title"...
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« on: June 17, 2013, 07:34 »
How to add title with Xnview? I found for description and keywords, but still no title after uploading... On Canstock description becomes title also, I hate it! I think that there is no such good IPTC/EXIF data editor as Prostockmaster... What is your opinion...?
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« on: June 10, 2013, 16:47 »
It is certainly a worrisome trend.
For those items which I set at 15%, I will change my rate to 14.99%.
No I will not! I'll change from 39% to 44%... Will be enough....
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