Way way down. Especially disappointing because I'm less than a month away from going exclusive.

Quote from: Kngkyle on June 17, 2010, 08:40

About a month until I can disable my last image at DT. Can't wait to finally be free from that horrid agency.

Is it for to be Exclusive with IS?
Can work with only disabling portfolio at DT? They don't let you delete account?

Yes it is. And no they will not cut you a break at all. I had to wait 6 months because of a mere 7 images. I even tried to buy the rights to my own images for $250 each so they would be removed. They rejected the purchase and restarted the 6 month timer.

If exclusivity to IS doesn't work out I certainly won't be submitting to DT again. Their abhorrent treatment of long time contributors is inexcusable. They are supposed to be an agency representing us, not keeping us hostage. It was such a stark contrast to all the other agencies, some of which even offered to payout my remaining earnings even though it was below their minimum amount.

Ironic because they used to be my favorite agency. I even bought some images from them. Never again. 

I was the same way for the first 6-12 months. Now I make 4-5x as much on IS with 1/5th the images.

I really can't understand the whole point of exclusivity in microstock: the basic idea of royalty free is that the same pictures will sell over and over - who cares if a picture is exclusive to a site?

I don't see what's hard to understand. Having a large collection of exclusive images is what sets Istock apart from all the other microstock sites. It is their main selling point. 'You can't get what we have at other sites.' Surely you can understand why some photographers would want to be exclusive? Less time uploading, higher commission, better search placement, more opportunities, etc. What's so difficult to understand?

I used to get a ton of junk email through one of my hotmail accounts, now I rarely get any. Microsoft must have finally got their act together with spam blocking.

The HP Slate that has been talked about as an iPad competitor (no idea why its taking them so long to bring it to market, they were developing it before apple started with iPad). Just today the specs for it were leaked, although still unconfirmed I believe.



Seems to be a bit more useful with flash, usb, sdcard usage, full OS, front and rear camera, and HDMI out (1080p). Unfortunatley apple beat them to the punch. I've read that its supposed to come out this fall.

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Maybe check out the Dell Studio XPS 16. It has the i7 processor, up to 8gb of ram, and a 1gb graphics card for under $2000. Not sure on the viewing angle.

Quote from: Kngkyle on March 26, 2010, 15:41

They don't just get away with it because they have more sales. Their prices are much higher as well. 20% of $25 is better than 50% of $7.

I'll take Istock's 20% with high sales volume and higher prices over Dreamstime's 50% with less sales and lower prices.

but for us indies, it's 20% of $10 vs. 50% of $7. i'll take the latter's pricing but the former's sales volume.

Err no. Independent prices go up to 25 credits for XXXLarge on IS compared to 7 credits for maximum on DT.

Quote from: sjlocke on March 21, 2010, 07:31

Just because someone -wants- cheap content because their business model or hobby doesn't have enough cash, doesn't mean you have to guve them the same content for cheap that dies sell for acceptable pricing.  An entitlement attitude does not need to be satisfied.  Unless you can offer special licensing, like $250 a month, 250 images, usage period one month for non-advertising purposes.

Not about hobby sites or poor business models. About publishing pages and blog posts which have a shorter shelf life and therefore generate less potential ad revenue than more static web pages or magazines.

That is a new market. Different enough from the web which has previously been served by stock and microstock to potentially justify different price models. It's a different web as print dies. Different opportunities. And you would be potentially competing with CC and or free.

Obviously you can either decide to try to serve that different market of not. Other markets exist along side it.

You could argue for restrictions but restrictions tend to put off customers. They tend to want the potential for flexibility even if they don't use it. But I think the new sub buyers are mostly going to be a different set from the people who carefully choose a few images at a time.

Hello? Blog sized images cost $1 at pretty much every micro site. How much cheaper does it need to be???

11 sales through StockXpert even though I deleted my portfolio in January.

Good news for some of you. Doesn't really effect me though.

The canister level changes that we talked about back in December were originally scheduled to happen on February 24. We're going to push this date back. Right now there are just too many other projects taking up the team's time to get this one done on deadline. It is still coming down the pipe though and will be happening eventually.

So for the present and the immediate future it will be business as usual.

We still don't have a new date set for the changes. We will give you at least 30 days notice of the new date when we do though. Thanks everyone.

According to this press release by Getty, the image packs will cost from $59 for 5 to $999 for 250. That means for the higher end pack, buyers will be paying $4 for maximum sized images while contributors get 80 cents.

So not only will the subscription plans eat away at current Istock customers, the LOWER pay per download prices will to.

Nowhere really. I used to have a site but was too much of a pain to keep it updated. Only got 1 good referral from it. $300+ from him so far on SS.