I said it before, they have so many issues outstanding and they keep adding on top. I wish their efforts were spent fixing what they had and not adding more.

So far my sales directly from IS have picked up, previously the majority of my sales came from the PP and Getty mirror...I'm exclusive video, but not photos. Most of my content is in main and sig...since they are only mirroring sig+ I guess my Getty income will flatline. My PP income should be same...except they haven't put anything on the PP site in a couple months...at least not from me.

Companies do pay yearly fees for microstock subscriptions...so paying a flat yearly fee for software isn't implausible. The biggest headache is justification...every company I ever worked for required justification and it almost always comes down to the value that is provided versus costs. And they always want at least a couple of alternatives. This is a good time for alternative software to build and market...they won't dominate, but Adobe has allowed room for competition to come in a take a piece of the pie...previously there was very little room.

Pretty average sales for me so far. Not enough time to really say good, bad, or same.

My company will not pay a monthly fee for software...point blank. Nothing I can do about it...they don't budget that way and all software gets purchased by contracted projects...they don't have th cash flo to pay monthly if they have to commit to a certain length. I know my previous company was the same way...Adobe has not considered this. Looks like we will be using CS6 for a long time and will probably. Revert to alternatives after. Similar to the subscription service Autodesk has pushed, it is hard to justify such a thing to upper management. It was hard enough to justify upgrades in general, let alone reoccurring fees. Also losing th ability to be able to open your own work because you no longer have the subscription is a big deal...right now I can not upgrade and be able to open all my work....however if I won't with CC an decided it wasn't working out, I can no longer open any of my source files?

A bit upset. My exclusive content has all been put into signature level...which is fine except they won't mirror to Getty anymore...apparently only Sig+ and Vetta get mirrored now. Outside of that little kick in the nuts, I don't have a problem with where my content was placed.

I'm not sure what is going on over there, but as of early May my sales have stopped completely. Very disappointing.

Keep in mind I am coming in as someone a bit newer and with a smaller portfolio. I have had a steady growth pattern over the past year or so, seems the recent halt coincides with the unlimited uploads. That mixed with the best match, all my files new and old seem to be buried deep in search...previously I was pretty happy with results. With the mass uploading I see a few issues that aren't being addressed...the first being poor irrelevant keywording seems to be rampant again, contributors aren't self editing and just uploading everything, they opened up unlimited uploads BEFORE they worked out the best match issues.

Sales have stopped over the past few weeks for me at IS. I'm thinking the floodgates have opened with the unlimited uploads and now those of us with smaller portfolios are buried in the sea of additions. Anyone else noticing this?

Have nev had a single referral. I am signed up and have shared links and there have been plenty of clicks...yet not a single referral. I doubt the system works.

Ah, I didn't notice an email, but that is good then

I agree, although they possibly could of just not published them (sounds easier than it may be...this is iStock after all), it was not their mistake nor their responsibility. Besides there is no need to 'dig' for crap if you want to trash iStock...especially on these forums