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Quote from: targoszstock on December 10, 2012, 14:49

What you guys are saying is, regardless of the purchase currency, if you registered an account in UK than for your checkout 1credit = 0.75GBP?

register where you have more to gain, I would go for pound if I knew this more than 3 years ago

Missing is not always missing.
Sometimes pictures are visible in parts of the world on certain searches, sometimes not.
I can understand it can be a challenge to update so many servers and try to make the updates appear in real time.
There are simply too many data.
Image agencies are operating in a borderzone of what is possible.

Ok, one possible scenario consists of two sides of the coin(just playing around with probabilities) :
1. There is a huge low quality demanding market (in terms of resolution and technic) which MS stimulated at first: Bloggers, private websites, etc.. Possibly this market will focus more and more on even cheaper offered crowd sourced material which incorporates phenomena like instagram or phone photography. This market segment never hd been soooo quality sensitive like e.g. the prepress and print segment when it comes to image quality. On the other hand this trend might get pushed from the content creators too. Many People will not see the point anymore to buy a 36 MP / 2 Kg DSLR and walk around with that but will rather just switch completely to other mobile devices, low end system cameras or whatever.
So: imagine a site like Flickr working as a Agency. People upload their content directly from their device. Quality is not that a huge issue anymore, so inspection process is easy. Content is available almost immediately. Clients download the images for 5 or 10 cents a unit or have incredible cheap sub-plans. Most content is from mobile devices and includes not only creative material but editorial too.

The natural rebound effect to 1. is:

2. Because most of the low end / private clients / consumer market is covered by sites like above and most photos / creatives do use lower end devices instead of high end heavy and expensive cameras there are less and less people who shoot in this area. Buyers who are looking to buy these images are mostly professionals who seek out for either exclusive material or printable or high quality stuff. Prices here establish at a higher level and although the market is nowhere near where it was in the old, traditional stock days it may make some people remember those days. This high end market is not a mass market anymore since devices for creation are not considered as "sexy" anymore by the mass nor there is such a huge demand anymore for 50MP files since most of the media moved to the net. Exclusivity may be a important matter in this field. Photographers here may make a good living anyhow since competition might not be as harsh anymore.

....well, just playing around with concepts and strange predictions :-)

Quote from: Elenathewise on October 13, 2012, 11:48

My sales on Fotolia are 60% down compared to last year (emerald). We even emailed them asking what's happening and if there is something we should be aware of.... no reply! But I think the suggestion expressed here that images of the contributors with lower commissions are getting priority in searches rings true - decreasing payouts would be a way of increasing profit.

Surely adopting that policy would actually reduce profit as images from lower-ranked contributors sell for fewer credits? It would increase the percentage profit (on lower sales) but they'd be making less profit in total.