Author Topic: iStock non-exclusive subs growth? (Read 4702 times)

hatman12 · « **on:** August 27, 2015, 01:17 »

Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

MichaelJayFoto · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2015, 02:15 »

Quote from: hatman12 on August 27, 2015, 01:17

Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

Given that the growth was most likely to happen during the first 12 months since introduction last spring plus the enormous growth of the collection in the same period plus the summer break plus the small number of images I uploaded in the last year, I would say I am seeing what I was expecting to see: Subscriptions were growing constantly until about March/April, and are now somewhat flat with a small decline.

Currently my credit sales are at about 10% of the download volume, subscription and partner program about equally sharing the other 90% of downloads. Royalties are about one third coming through each of those three categories.

mojaric · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2015, 02:20 »

My case is similar

Big growth in March->April (doubled subs)....then constant small growth to july (20%)

Noedelhap · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2015, 04:18 »

Quote from: hatman12 on August 27, 2015, 01:17

Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

No. If anything it's a decline.

Tay · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2015, 05:27 »

Quote from: Noedelhap on August 27, 2015, 04:18

Quote from: hatman12 on August 27, 2015, 01:17
Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

No. If anything it's a decline.

PP and Istock Subs are two different things. Hartman ask about subs

I'm exclusive and my subs are flat from about couple months..

Noedelhap · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2015, 05:35 »

Quote from: Tay on August 27, 2015, 05:27

Quote from: Noedelhap on August 27, 2015, 04:18
Quote from: hatman12 on August 27, 2015, 01:17
Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

No. If anything it's a decline.

PP and Istock Subs are two different things. Hartman ask about subs

I'm exclusive and my subs are flat from about couple months..

Oh, he meant the credit and image subs? Basically non-existent here.

Jogga0 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2015, 07:31 »

Subs haven't slowed much over summer, autumn sales will be the real test

madman · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2015, 07:36 »

exactly NO, what could we expect? declining trend continiues day by day all the way...

PixelBytes · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2015, 11:59 »

Quote from: MichaelJayFoto on August 27, 2015, 02:15

Quote from: hatman12 on August 27, 2015, 01:17
Are non-exclusives seeing any solid growth in subs sales at istock?

Given that the growth was most likely to happen during the first 12 months since introduction last spring plus the enormous growth of the collection in the same period plus the summer break plus the small number of images I uploaded in the last year, I would say I am seeing what I was expecting to see: Subscriptions were growing constantly until about March/April, and are now somewhat flat with a small decline.

Currently my credit sales are at about 10% of the download volume, subscription and partner program about equally sharing the other 90% of downloads. Royalties are about one third coming through each of those three categories.

Yes, exactly right. Subs grew for the first few months, as credit sales dropped. Now credit sales keep dropping, but subs have been level, give or take a dozen or so $ for the whole of 2015. Thinkstock sales are dropping a lot tho.

lima · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2015, 20:12 »

i think Getty will close thinkstock to give all sub sales to istock

weymouth · « **Reply #10 on:** August 28, 2015, 07:32 »

Been there for seven years and it's not even worth uploading anymore.

madman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 28, 2015, 11:01 »

Quote from: weymouth on August 28, 2015, 07:32

Been there for seven years and it's not even worth uploading anymore.

If we look from a different angle, so far, already it has many images uploaded to istock, almost 60 million, maybe they think they do not need more, but no, this is a ridiculous idea of course, but why not?

or, maybe they think they have so many images that enough to ignore contributor's complaints.