We are back with our series of interviews, this week with Willie B. Thomas. Hopefully you have had the chance to meet him personally, a great guy! In any case he shares with us his experience and why he sees teamwork as the way to go forward in today's stock market

Willie B. Thomas
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Luis

Hi Luis,
I would imagine that such deals are kept secret under NDAs, so not much is going to be discussed openly. But I can ask next time ;-)

Cheers,
Luis

One thing that I find striking is when you check his port on iStock he is selling very little new work and has slowed his uploads to a trickle.
His work is excellent and bang on trend, it should be in much higher demand.

I guess he's suffering like most of us, with new files disappearing in the Best Match and the Curse of the Download.
There certainly wouldn't seem to be much point in spending money on shoots for iS at the moment.
It would be interesting to know his strategy for dealing with this: it's been going on for far too long now, and full-timers must be getting very nervous, unless his existing files are still selling very well.
<speculation> I guess one strategy could be to shoot, but 'hold' the files until to see if the situaton over there changes, but the longer it goes on (15 months and counting) the more worrying, as lifestyle goes out of date.
<speculation> Or he could be submitting directly to Getty.
Or ... ... ...

I'd like to see some more info on the graph for the specific images shown - I don't know the scales, but what happened on the 5th bar in the graph? 0 sales for one month? What was different there?

I'd like to see some more info on the graph for the specific images shown - I don't know the scales, but what happened on the 5th bar in the graph? 0 sales for one month? What was different there?

ebb & flow

Acceptance of images nominated for Vetta are about the same. I think the image for this interview is one of them.