Pulling phone support is really bad.  Says volumes about the value placed on contributors there.  

Anyone read the section about Zazzle and Cafe Press?  Are they only images on Getty itself that are available to these print-on-demand customers, or is Istock content available too?  

Seeing how integrated Getty and Istock have become, I don't always know what they mean when they say "Getty content".  

it sounds to me like it is just Getty Images stuff available in Zazzle and Cafepress.  But if it is IS, I'd sure like to know when that happened.   I think many contributors would prefer to have their stuff sold in their personal Zazzle or Cafepress store rather than filtered through iStock just so they (IS) can get a cut of the profit.  I know I have some stuff on CafePress and I'm not too keen on iStock selling my stuff through those channels.

Well in that case I'd put something like "Cape Town Shoot, Feb 3-5" 

I am no expert, but my descriptions are usually brief and I have never had a rejection because of the shoot description being inadequate.

Jo Ann.. just checked yours and lots of missing thumbnails!  Mine too!

If I was that incompetent at my job I would be standing on the street corner next to the guy holding the sign "I fix computer for food"  --- wait.. maybe I should send that guy to Calgary to work for iStock/Thinkstock -- they must have food up there that they can pay him with.

If I didn't buy a 5D2 last summer this alone "This correction is based on Canon-created lens profiles, up to 29 of which can be downloaded and saved onto the camera. These profiles allow correction not only of lateral CA but also of the harder-to-fix axial CA" would almost make it worth the upgrade. I only use a couple of fast primes and CA is killing me, especially when I have to remove 3 differently coloured aberrations from the high contrast edges

you might be better off investing in better glass (better lenses) than a new camera body.  Good glass can do wonders in eliminating CA. 

oh wow.. that's awesome!  thanks for fixing it!

The polls won't take my info. (I input my data and submit and the page goes right back to where I started.) So I wasn't able to participate. I'm wondering if this is happening to a lot of other people. Perhaps this is why the low earners don't have any data this month.

me too - the poll won't take my info.  I'm unable to vote and I had a great month at SS and DT as well, increased by at least one category.  I also increased at FT, but not sure that going from category 1 to is worth much .  So my January results are not reflected in the poll.

is this still an invitation only program?

Little green/red arrows are missing for the low earning sites!? Bug?

probably not enough votes on those yet.  I think it needs a certain number.

In the meantime, the polls are not working for me.  now it won't let me vote.  Tried with different browsers and different computers but each time I select my options, it just returns to the same voting screen.  Altho it does say I can't vote again until March (which it has said for a few weeks now) but this time I get the voting buttons, it just doesn't accept my votes. 

Update:  Leaf, not sure if you did anything or not but I just checked this from my home computer and the poll is okay except that it still tells me I can't vote again until March (maybe it will be okay tomorrow on Feb 1 - I'll check again in the morning).

if you didn't do anything maybe it was some strange cache/IP issue at my office computer.  I'll also check that tomorrow just in case. 

okay, maybe I'm missing something, I went to the polls page, and the last time I voted was sometime early January for my December numbers.  So I went there to see what I had voted last month since tomorrow is Feb 1 and I wanted to see what I had put last month.   

I see the page shows that I (supposedly) voted in a bunch of categories where I do not even have a portfolio (i.e. BigStock, CreStock, 123Rf, etc).   I know I didn't vote in these, I only have accounts at a small handful of agencies.   Plus.. the page says I can't vote again until March.  Strange. Is anyone else seeing weird results like this? here's a screenshot of what I see:

Quote from: jsnover on January 30, 2012, 11:53

I don't know how many exclusives complete the poll - I've never completed it. First because I was exclusive and I didn't see any point. Afterwards because the income brackets are not very useful - your number one and two agencies can be hundreds of dollars a month apart and still appear in the same bracket as if they were equal.

And for an exclusive with a decent portfolio and earnings, they're just going to click on 10 ($1,000) each month and it won't tell you anything about whether iStock is up or down anyway.

I like the idea of a poll, but as is, there's more of a bias towards the low end ($50 a month or less) and honestly if a site is under $50 a month, which a lot of the low earners are, what difference does it make whether it's $5 or $10 - it's all flavors of virtually zero?

Makes sense, maybe Leaf will reconsider and add a vote for IS exclusives only, because their vote doesn't change anything else for all of the rest of the agencies? It would be a good way to look at the whole picture for IS Indys vs Exclusive.

Maybe a real number for what IND make on IS without the top earners averaged in?

but then what do you do with all the other agencies that have exclusives?  I'm just assuming that IS has the most, but I think I may be biased on that since I was one there for so long.  I dont know what impact that has for other agencies, it could skew the poll the other way if you only had an exclusive-only poll for IS

Like everyone else my IS earnings are a fraction of what they used to be. What I can't understand is - why are they still #2 in the Microstock Poll Results? So far for Jan; I've earned more at Canstock than I have at IS! In fact, the only site that did worse than IS was BS. It's hard to believe they were once my #1 earner.  Someone has to be doing well at IS for them to rank at #2.

i think they remain near the top in the poll here because there are still a lot of IS exclusives here and that is their sole income so it remains higher for them than the rest of us.  just a guess.. I think the next few months will be telling in seeing how IS continues to rank in the MSG monthly poll.

Can't they get anything right?  I'm back down to 15% with 0 Credits.

when the flip did this happen?!  argh!