Quote from: lisafx on July 24, 2013, 18:31

To be honest, I can't see why anyone would want to go the artist exclusive route anymore.  We've all seen what stock sites will do if they feel they have contributors over a barrel. 

If SS did indeed wind up with a large number of exclusives and managed to get a monopoly or even close to it, who's so say they won't start pulling the same sh*t? 

it woud make sense if the whole agency was exclusive but they all mixed up exclusives and random shooters so that buyers are just confused and maybe many dont even know the difference.

Quote from: Ron on July 24, 2013, 13:32

If Shutterstock would offer exclusivity they would wipe out a lot of agencies indeed. Jon has the power to do that. If he wanted to.

It might be nice for the rest of us because we'd probably be able to negotiate better rates with the other agencies. I might send out letters the day of the announcement to the other agencies asking if they want to negotiate. 

SS doesn't seem to have any interest in it though.