Same as sharpshot....

After SS and  IS they are my 3rd best performer kicking Dreamstime and Fotolia to the curb by gettting a good few DLs most days,  that is only on a very small Porfolio of less than 200 Images

Nowhere  near the joys of the beginning of year and still way behind Shutterstock in $ this month however seemed to have turned the corner and on the way back up at Istock ...

That said it has been a Brilliant month at all the sites for me 

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How did that event actually effect non-exclusives? Did it somehow lower your income? No. I found it rather childish when all the non-exclusives complained on the IS forum. It was a special perk to being exclusive in order to compensate exclusives for not uploading to other sites. What all the people that were complaining were basically saying is that there should be no/few benefits for exclusives, and that exclusives and non-exclusives should be treated exactly the same. That's ludicrous.
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Yes it is ludicrous! yingyang0 and very much  your own interpretation, I doubt very much that any non Exclusives begrudge the Exclusives "percs" goodness knows they have earned some extra for giving that added Commitment.
 
It is the way it is done!.... the amount of times it is done!!.... and the effect on non-exclusive's Portfolio performance and moral...  Istock need to keep everyone happy to keep up high Standards 

Let the Cream float to the top regardless of the status of the Member says I   

"What evidence is there that istock favors exclusives?"

Your having a laugh right!? 

Hey you and me both eppix used to be the first place I uploaded, but no longer 

That is through choice btw as I never get to my upload limit anyway

Yeah mine is 19.7 at the moment also

Sue