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« on: August 27, 2015, 10:49 »
These arw credit prices, not subs.
look at right side options, I checked wit a blue circle, these are subscription prices.
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« on: August 27, 2015, 10:44 »
Please look istock subscription sales, in a basic math setup, buyers give $2,5 per image to istock for monthly 100 image download, but we get $0,27 per image, it almost equal 10% commision!......
so istock get 90%, we get 10% from one subscription sales,
look what a big difference and what a big GREED!!!
You are saying iStock has a subscription plan that is 100 images for $250? I don't see that anywhere. They have a 750 image plan for $166 or a 250 image plan for $200.
by clicking download button appearing any image's description page and a page appear that showing price options, here is a snapshot... http://i.hizliresim.com/lyq1RB.jpgwhere did you see "750 image plan for $166 or a 250 image plan for $200" any link? 
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« on: August 27, 2015, 09:05 »
Please look istock subscription sales, in a basic math setup, buyers give $2,5 per image to istock for monthly 100 image download, but we get $0,27 per image, it almost equal 10% commision!......
so istock get 90%, we get 10% from one subscription sales,
look what a big difference and what a big GREED!!!
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« on: August 27, 2015, 07:36 »
exactly NO, what could we expect? declining trend continiues day by day all the way...
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« on: August 26, 2015, 16:26 »
interesting, maybe some error, maybe you must contact to support.
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« on: August 26, 2015, 15:30 »
In a glorious irony, I got 15% more subs in July than June, but actually earned less for them.
Way to go, iStock. 
(That's only my experience. I know others got rising $$ from subs sales.)
Whatever, I hate 'cheap subs', and can't get my head round uploading files to get 75c, followed by a demotion for not selling as a credit sale and earning 34c.
Don't be so sure you earned less for them, maybe they are pocketing heaps from the subs program even if very little makes it to your pockets.
I think you misunderstood.
I am perfectly sure that I earned less $$ for the subs I sold in July, even though I sold 15% more subs. So I earned less for them, i.e. the subs I sold.
maybe subs prices lowered.
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« on: August 26, 2015, 15:06 »
As a basical maths setup, a buyers get 100 images from $250 in a month, then buyers give $2,5 per image to istock, so istock earn $2,5 per image selling via subscription, but we get $0,27 per image, it almost equal 10% commision, istock get 90%, we get 10%, look what a big difference and what a big GREED!!!
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« on: August 26, 2015, 05:26 »
everyone has the same issue.
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« on: August 25, 2015, 14:17 »
It's definitely still declining, I just checked my stats and they're down around 35% $ compared to 2014.
Shame really, it could mark the end of decent credit sales across the board.
me was the same, too, thats fantastic failure, really fantastic, I believe that moments will be recorded in history, this declining trend will newer end to forever. 
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« on: August 25, 2015, 13:56 »
this is a good news for uploading so sometimes it was very boring to choose sub-categories.
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« on: August 25, 2015, 12:35 »
What could be the reason for their insistence on such a failure? Apparently, they do not want to earn money anymore so they don't want to earn their contributors, too. So then, what's the purpose?  Strange things happening into istock and getty, folks, deep matters keep going on so that we dont understand.
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« on: August 24, 2015, 06:11 »
is there anyone know who was the old CEO?
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« on: August 23, 2015, 07:23 »
formerly, there had been some exclusive pics on my fotolia portfolio but my earnings decreased instead increase so I did all the non-exclusive.
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« on: August 22, 2015, 11:58 »
now that I am not a contributor there.
congrats to you! I can now only just stop uloading new images ato istock but still I'm uploading to other sites.
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« on: August 22, 2015, 09:00 »
Hold onto your chin straps. F6 is only about a week away now.
so sorry but what is the meaning of F6
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« on: August 21, 2015, 05:27 »
I think this is because lots of contributors shoot the same object in countless different positions and angles. And then you have 5 different subjects, each having 50 different photo variations and there you have 250 images that look almost identical. Add thousands of contributors that are doing the same and here you go, hundreds of thousand of photos each week.
thats so true but sadly all selling sites still accept this kinda images because of their only think is to rise their own stock images amount, sadly including istock too anymore, what a blind sight, I wonder what will happen much much later, when the number of junk pictures so much increase in a unpredictable manner, customers will need to make hours of search.
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« on: August 20, 2015, 11:06 »
But where is the new CEO?
I wonder who is the CEO in the last two years?
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« on: August 20, 2015, 09:58 »
any idea of approximate cost to set up a stock selling site?
it's nice to think about make a new selling site but it should not be so easy to execute while there are so many sales site already.
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« on: August 20, 2015, 09:46 »
Getty is running out of money
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-25/carlyle-s-getty-images-said-to-run-tight-on-cash-as-profit-drops
so you can expect even more elaborate schemes to reduce our royalties and present them to us as great new opportunities.
link says "Profit from that business fell 17 percent in the fourth quarter" still they lost less than me  What else could it be? they ruined istok so themselves ruined too and we have seen how to be destroyed within 2 years day by day. congratulation getty, congratulations, you have achieved something very difficult to make...
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« on: August 20, 2015, 05:55 »
What's going on I dont understand, are they combined with fotolia in time or will fotolia closed completely in time?
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« on: August 20, 2015, 05:23 »
It's all derived from Fotolia, right?
it seems so, I ve just found some of my images on that site which has already published on fotolia, there must be partnership or something like...
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« on: August 19, 2015, 15:22 »
why don't we invest in OUR stock site?
did you mean that, we must create a new site shaped by the contributors?
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« on: August 19, 2015, 05:10 »
While your explanation is accurate, it isn't the full picture. It explains the overall low commissions but not why it needs to be 15% for non-exclusives. We can't forget that the iStock exclusivity system rewards people signing up their imagery for exclusive distribution by paying out higher commissions. As a matter of fact, 35 or 40% of royalties is more than what you earn at most other places (though even someone at 40% does not really get 40% any more given the lower rates for GI sales and the unknown percentages for the subscription sales).
but there is a Redeemed Credit Targets (RC) directly proportional with contributor's annual sales, and RC targets are resetting every year, I dont believe I can get 35 or 40% commision sales after all badly developments because my sales dropped to almost zero, how it will raise RC's while almost no sales?
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« on: August 19, 2015, 04:52 »
I am waiting more bad news after all this neutral happenings, e.g. maybe istock completely will remove the exclusivity like SS or will merge the istock with getty, I can not think of something positive after all bad developments, history repeats itself...
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« on: August 19, 2015, 03:55 »
I was thinking about it but how do we do that?
Convince five people to stop uploading their images to whatever agency sells best for them. If you can manage to do that, I'm sure you can manage the rest.
I am ready to participate in something like this, let's open a topic about this formation and announce to everyone. I am ready for this... Negative posts are deleting immediately written their own forum, most stock contributors do not know this forum, so I learned much later too, need to promote that there is such a discussion forum.
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