Quote from: lisafx on July 18, 2013, 12:00

As if there isn't enough to worry about on Istock, so far this morning I have had 40 images from the same series sell in a row, all at large or XL size.   

I should be happy for the windfall, but last time this happened it turned out to be fraud. 

Anyone else notice similar?

A few days ago :  4 EL's of 7$ for images on the same subject.  I didn't think of fraud, I was just annoyed because the EL's were only 7 dollars a piece.  But you're right, 40 is really weird.

Quote from: cobalt on June 27, 2013, 07:16

Only if the files are in the higher priced collections. But for files that get moved to main, you would be stuck with a 7% difference with no option to make up for it by sending the files elsewhere.

For S and above the difference will be more than the % makes it appear, I agree.

But those rates still wouldn�t look attractive to me.

Are exclusive files going into "main"? I tried to find some and I couldn't, everything on the search I looked at seemed to be inde at the lowest price point.

Quote from: WarrenPrice on June 03, 2013, 17:26

Did You Know?
Next time you share a link you could earn $20 USD, 20 Credits or 20% Commission. Learn More

I stumbled across this while browsing the iStock site.  The "Learn More" led me to info about the referral program.
Can someone please explain more about the "share a link" part of the above?

I guess if you share a link and someone uses it to buy credits you get the earnings.
The current referral scheme has a pretty bad rap.

Quote from: cmannphoto on May 30, 2013, 07:04

Have you read the comments at the bottom?

This is illegal. Read istockphoto TOS. You cannot resell the images you have bought as you don't have this right. Not to mention that you buy an image once and sell it later to several people. If you haven't been sued until now, you can bet you will be now.

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/licenses

"License restrictions
Here is what you cannot do with either a Standard or Extended license:
Sub-license, give away, share or otherwise transfer stand-alone images/files"


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    hoaiphong (100% | $10.3K)   Date:4 hours ago

I am understand, however now we resolve all problems and you can run it without any problem about license. As I note before, istockphoto contact me and now all are ok.

And you believe everything you read on the internet? Hrmm.

I can assure you we have a team of people working to get them removed from ISPs as soon as they change up. This latest endeavor isn't something we aren't aware of either.

So they just changed his username?  Bizarre.

Quote from: cmannphoto on May 15, 2013, 10:24

This is the reason the best match is so screwed up, IS ingested over 18,000 images in the past week from this Getty Contributor.

I just clicked on the first two keywords for the first file mentioned and sorted the results by photos and best match.  That file is not in the first 200 results in fact in each of the two searches only one Agency file showed up in the first 200 results. 
I just did another search and no Agency files show up in the first 200.  How is it messing up the Best Match?

I think this will be a good thing for high performing indies.  I nominated my images for P+ based on sales criteria and uniqueness.  If these continue to be the criteria then I don't expect too many of them will be dropped down.  Access to higher priced collections, plus the prospect of getting files on Getty means that indies are likely to see an income rise. 

I also don't see this as a negative for high performing exclusives.  If the quality of their files merits it, they will continue to have better access to the higher priced collections, and will benefit from the higher percentages and visibility they get over indie files. 

The people this will most likely hurt are the exclusives who have been coasting by, producing mainly mediocre work.  Those are the ones that Istock doesn't really care if they drop the crown.  Those are also the ones with the least option to go indie, as a lot of their back catalogue of work would not be accepted on other sites by today's higher standards.  Those folks will have to up their game or they are pretty much screwed.

Yeah, I deactivated all images except for one and I'm seeing my commissions rise almost everytime I refresh the page.

I checked thinkstock and there is only that one image there, all the rest have gone, so how come all of a sudden I'm getting downloads from the pp on just one single image - weird.

BTW that image has never had any sales on IS.

I had luckily already cashed out before I deactivated and only had around 3$ in my account, now it's up to almost 9$ just for that one image