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It doesn't look like they are offering anything, but it does show that exclusives are leaving iStock doesn't it?
... I'm not sure how many serious exclusive contributors would be interested though.
Quote from: traveler1116 on November 16, 2011, 15:19It doesn't look like they are offering anything, but it does show that exclusives are leaving iStock doesn't it?Yes, they are offering exclusives a way to minimize financial loss during transition to non-exclusivity and surely this was something many exclusives weren't aware of..
Quote from: cidepix on November 16, 2011, 15:25Quote from: traveler1116 on November 16, 2011, 15:19It doesn't look like they are offering anything, but it does show that exclusives are leaving iStock doesn't it?Yes, they are offering exclusives a way to minimize financial loss during transition to non-exclusivity and surely this was something many exclusives weren't aware of..They have had this forever, as far as I know. When I was on SS most images would only sell a lot when first uploaded so waiting 30 days with images not selling would have reduced your income by a ton. Maybe they have changed their search since most popular (or Best Match or whatever it's called) was determined by sales/time online.
This is really interesting. If I could find a similar service at FT and DT I might well finally take the dreaded jump into independence.It'll still take me months and months to upload thousands of images though.
High ranking istock exclusives all have a lot files in the very successful Vetta collection. Unless someone else comes up with an offer to pay more for these files and promote them as heavily as istock does, I doubt any istock superstars will go independent.At the microstock expo SS said, they had no plans to introduce a high end collection.
Please, stop encouraging them, Gostwyck. It's better to leave them clinging to iS.
If you have IPTC data embedded, uploading 1000 images on SS, DT and FT wouldn't take a day!
Quote from: cobalt on November 16, 2011, 17:06High ranking istock exclusives all have a lot files in the very successful Vetta collection. Unless someone else comes up with an offer to pay more for these files and promote them as heavily as istock does, I doubt any istock superstars will go independent.At the microstock expo SS said, they had no plans to introduce a high end collection. I don't know the answer but say someone had the same successful images on five sites, instead of the one site as Vetta, would they make more money from five standard downloads than each Vetta collection sale?Say SS, DT, FT, 123RF and IS for example?What do you think?
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on November 16, 2011, 17:21Please, stop encouraging them, Gostwyck. It's better to leave them clinging to iS.I don't necessarily see it that way. The market (the pie) should remain about the same size as Istock's buyers will simply move elsewhere. If Istock were to lose a lot of custom then it would certainly send a very severe warning to any other agency that attempted to be so greedy in the future. For independent contributors the losses and the gains from exclusives giving up their crowns would probably balance out with the added bonus of no single agency having such a massively dominant position in the market.
Quote from: cidepix on November 16, 2011, 17:20If you have IPTC data embedded, uploading 1000 images on SS, DT and FT wouldn't take a day! Rubbish!
Quote from: RacePhoto on November 16, 2011, 17:31Quote from: cobalt on November 16, 2011, 17:06High ranking istock exclusives all have a lot files in the very successful Vetta collection. Unless someone else comes up with an offer to pay more for these files and promote them as heavily as istock does, I doubt any istock superstars will go independent.At the microstock expo SS said, they had no plans to introduce a high end collection. I don't know the answer but say someone had the same successful images on five sites, instead of the one site as Vetta, would they make more money from five standard downloads than each Vetta collection sale?Say SS, DT, FT, 123RF and IS for example?What do you think?I doubt it. Vetta files are artistic images that only sell in low volume. It is not typical stock. Many files that are now Vetta were on istock for years and didnt sell, many even had zero sales although they were much cheaper than now. By promoting Vetta and combining them all in one collection, istock made it easy for customers looking for these files to find them. And this encouraged the artists to produce more of them and invest in expensive shootings for non generic files.istock/getty have a lot of big customers with deep pockets. They pay for the time saved by having all these files preselected by the istock editors.