Reading the rates exclusives are getting is really shocking.  Not just the above numbers, but the stated minimum of .19, and even the slightly higher.  These are all lower than you would get as an indie ANYWHERE!  Why would anyone stay exclusive now?  You can make up for any nominal losses at istock instantly by uploading to just a couple sites, like SS and Adobe.  Even Tickstock with his optimistic posts cant possibly make exclusivity look good now. 

As for the OP, do NOT allow yourself to get sucked into istock.   As bad as they are now, history has shown they consistently roll out worse and worse deals for contributors every year, so as pathetic as their current royalties are,  by the end of the year they will announce another cut.  Now there are three things you can count on in life.  Death, taxes, and Getty will f**k their contributors worse each year.

Quote from: tickstock on March 25, 2017, 13:17

Quote from: PixelBytes on March 25, 2017, 13:11

Reading the rates exclusives are getting is really shocking.  Not just the above numbers, but the stated minimum of .19, and even the slightly higher.  These are all lower than you would get as an indie ANYWHERE!  Why would anyone stay exclusive now?  You can make up for any nominal losses at istock instantly by uploading to just a couple sites, like SS and Adobe.  Even Tickstock with his optimistic posts cant possibly make exclusivity look good now. 

As for the OP, do NOT allow yourself to get sucked into istock.   As bad as they are now, history has shown they consistently roll out worse and worse deals for contributors every year, so as pathetic as their current royalties are,  by the end of the year they will announce another cut.  Now there are three things you can count on in life.  Death, taxes, and Getty will f**k their contributors worse each year.

Those are minimums (for the lowest royalty rate).  Where else do you get $15+ for a sub sale?  Sure a few low sales are no good but if the first couple months of the year are any indication of the new normal, I'm very excited.  I'm only being optimistic because the payouts have been very good.

I'm excited, too. I am down 35% from Jan.  Really very exciting As an indy I expected to get hosed by Getty and I have.  When you say you're doing well, against what benchmark are you using to make that claim? I think that is a very important part to anyone's claim that they are 'UP'. Up over last month? Up over last year? Up over 24 months?

The question isn't where is the ceiling, but where is the floor,  and at Getty the floor is 0, with a whole lot of <.10.  That is an insult to anyone selling a product that has value and is useful.  But it is a downright disgrace to do this to exclusives who have gone all in with your company, and provide you a collection other sites don't have.  I can't imagine why  anybody would stay exclusive at Getty /iStockphoto when the benefits of exclusivity are virtually nil over independence,  and going indie offers the chance to double or more your stock income.  They can even leave their stuff on istock earning those pennies until they have a steady and much better income stream elsewhere,  or even forever if they want.

Quote from: Freedom on March 25, 2017, 14:39

Pardon me for my ignorance, where do you people see those 19 cents or 9 cents?

From my ESP, I could only see the total, and not the individual sales.

Thanks for enlightening me!

Download the ESP report it comes as a text or a PDF

I made $35 out of 1900 images WOO YAY GO FOR IT GETTY 

Quote from: StockShooter on March 26, 2017, 22:18

Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.

I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.

i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.

So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.

Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want

Quote from: drd on March 27, 2017, 03:15

Quote from: Tay on March 26, 2017, 23:58

Quote from: StockShooter on March 26, 2017, 22:18

Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.

I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.

i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.

So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.

Hi I'm also exclusive 40% contributor with large portfolio and few days ago I sent request to drop exclusivity. Keywording it's not a problem. In DeepMeta you can export csv file and then with exiftool replace all your IPTC data. So you can do it if you want

Can you elaborate on this please? ExifTool is not easy to use and cannot find export csv in DeepMeta.
Good luck as Indie!

Just select files what you want to export to csv, right mouse click, copy and then paste in Notepad or other program. That's all

Exiftool is quite hard to explain. This link helps me a lot:
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=3468.0

You have to figure it out by yourself. It took me about one hour to solve how this program works.

Simply looking at the financial side of getty this company has no way to escape its bankruptcy. Looking at the upcoming interest rate hikes and the overheated economy getty will be one of the first one to file bankruptcy.

I have been with getty for 9 years have 10000+ unique files with getty/istock and am an exclusive 40% contributor. I agree on most posts here and the only reason I am still exclusive is because I have to keyword all my files with meta tags, which I am preparing until end of the year. My Income has dropped over 90% within the last 4 years even though I have doubled my portfolio and I would consider my content one of the best on istock. They have quite obviously capped all the top contributors, so no matter on how much unique content you upload you will still at least earn 20-30% less every year.

i feel sorry for all the people working for getty, who still believe the crap the Managers are telling them. They all know (even Lobo) that they have really *removed coarse language* up and have killed one of the sustainable stock places in the internet. But that is how capitalism goes. The owners of getty will continue to milk the cow dry until it dies. We have passed the point of no return in 2012/13.

So to answer your question in quick. Don't waste your time with this company. By 2020 they are not around any more.

Quote from: EmberMike on March 24, 2017, 21:03

Companies like Getty will still say that they can't afford to pay more, but it's B.S.

Not necessarily. Remember that they have piled up gigantic debts in the vulture capitalist merry-go-round of buying the company, borrowing in the market to repay the people who bought it all charged against (our) future earnings, then selling it on to somebody else who repeats the process. They've piled up so much debt to line the pockets of the "investors" that the rating agencies were starting to downgrade them the last I heard of it.