I've consulted the runes and I believe that payment will be received in three hours and twenty minutes.

wow that's specific!

ok, waiting.................................

I think the "danger" is that the higher-royalty on demand downloads get replaced with these new packs. At the 30% tier I get $2.85 for an OD (2/$29, 5/$49, 25/$229).

Why would you buy 2 images for $29 (or 5 for $49) when you could buy 10 for $49? The only thing you (currently) get extra for paying $29 for 2 is one year to use your downloads vs. one month).

I would get paid $1.47 for a download  under the trial scheme, a 48% cut in my royalty. That's if they pay by the month. It's worse if they buy an annual subscription, but that's a less obvious substitute for the OD packs.

It's a mistake to think that subscriptions are the royalties with which to compare for the one month packs. For an annual subscription, it's possible that the current 350 a month deal customers will switch to 50, and 60 cents a download vs. 38 cents would be a nice increase. Whether that makes up for how we get scr*#ed with the team subscriptions, I'm not sure

As the Premier Select segregation has all but removed SOD sales (of decent size) for me, zapping the OD income would be yet another cut.

Given the earnings call is coming up and given the attention last quarter to the slowdown in their paid download growth, SS will want to say they're doing something about lower downloads. I'm guessing this is it.

I posted a comment in the SS forum thread on this topic

You were right, my on demand sales fall more than 50% than usual
people will choose $29/month for 10 images instead of $29/year for 2 images
I'm so frustrating, hope SS will cancel their new pricing plan

Quote from: akaza on February 05, 2017, 22:29

help, i cant upload in deepmeta v3
"Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (forbidden)"
does anyone have the same experience..?

Me.

But I attribute it to the fact that I tried to use my iStock email and password since I didn't receive the new credentials. Login seems to work, but then I am not actually enabled to use ESP.

Did you receive their email?

didn't receive their email too until now but login was successful with "forgot your username password" method
unfortunately the royalties, portofolio isn't show there
hope they can fix this issue soon

non exclusive here and still waiting the email...........

my total earnings is error, always showing $0.00 since yesterday
anybody having the same issue..?

low sales, almost like weekend

very low sales

November was so gooddd
but December and January must be low sales because of holiday

payment has arrived
thank you SSTK

Oct still good, hope this month will be better

85% images portofolio gone here
I miss old SS

the map is on (again)

same here
hopefully they will fix the map download info too