The StockXpert subscription plan . The photos.com extended licence "Deal". Jupiter image subscription plan. StockXpert sold to IS owner (Getty)
What remain from what StockXpert was ?

I get between 90% - 95% / 0.30$ insulting subscriptions sales. I tried once to opt out. But 60% of my subs sales are from photos.com and Jupiter. I never saw an extended sales from photos.com being 50$.

The buyers almost never buy the higher image size. They take the L size and then probably upsize the image themselves to avoid having to brought the bigger size at higher price.

StockXpert have been sold. Then what it will become if the StockXpert incomes are almost more often from it's old owner Jupiter and affiliate ?

What you people think about the actual StockXpert and it's future ?

I'm sorry but the questions don't quite make sense to me. The last one in particular seem to contradict itself.

Maybe it would be better to phrase it "How do you feel about the future of StockXpert?"
with the options of;

a) Extremely Positive
b) Slightly Positive
c) Neutral/waiting
d) Slightly Negative
e) Extremely Negative

You could ask a second question too querying whether the contributor is continuing to upload, suspended new uploads or intends to remove portfolio.

After the sale, I thought that StockXpert would be the microstock site and Istock would move to more of a mid-stock, or elite agency.  Now, my hunch is that StockXpert is just a recruiting centre and remains only to provide content to their subscription models. 

if that is so, that's bad news for me, i just closed my IS account today.
looks like i better start looking elsewhere to upload my port. and keep Dreamstime happy from hereon, perharps start UL-ing my next 100 images to Dreamstime first.
 

Gostwyk... I edited the poll to be less conceptual and a bit more efficient. But it remain almost the same 1- love StockXpert 2- Neutral 3- Don't like anymore. Thanks for noticing

I have only been there since September and have only 217 images but they have quickly become my best site.  I have about 60% to 40% subs to ppd in dls this month but earnings are better than 4 to 1 in favor of ppds.

I hope they keep going the way they are I certainly have no complaints.

c h e e r s
fred 

If the jupiter deal was designed to get some of the other assets than StockXpert may be in trouble.

The blunt truth is we don't know what Getty intends to do with StockXpert. But in general, corporate logic is that when a larger fish catches a smaller fish in the same pond, it's not for the well-being of the smaller fish. Look what happened to all the small innovative companies that Microsoft bought.
 
It's totally different when a corporation buys outside the pond. In that case they want to diversify and they will do all possible things (injecting capital etc.) to let the small fish thrive.

Getty didn't buy Jupiter to get a foot in Microstock, since they have iStock already. Perhaps they want to turn it into a bottomline subscription site competing with Shutterstock. Who knows? But one thing we can assume safely is that StockXpert as we knew it is gone. And that is so.

The subscription sales were starting to get so numerous that I opted out of subs a few weeks ago.....I still have sub sales going out, but I think it takes a month or so to have the images pulled from jupiter and photos.com.

The interesting thing is.....when the deal started with Photos.com there were several people that posted about some larger sales from photos.com....not subs but regular sales and they netted around $3 each.  I got one....Since that date...I haven't heard anybody getting anymore regular sales from photos.com...................maybe a bait and switch???

I like SPX................but ............sales are really dropping........and turning off the subs will make them drop more.....but I am just soooooooooooo tired of giving my photos away for .30     I'm just not going to do it anymore....not unless I get huge volumes or a fair amount of regular sales to make up for it.   That's why I closed my Crestock account.............   $.25 sales were all I got.....and not really that many of them....

The ppds are up this month

For me too.

I like SPX................but ............sales are really dropping........and turning off the subs will make them drop more.....but I am just soooooooooooo tired of giving my photos away for .30     I'm just not going to do it anymore....not unless I get huge volumes or a fair amount of regular sales to make up for it.   

Tell me about it! I've already stopped uploading there until the situation is clearer.

I'm off on holiday/travelling during March and after that I'll make a decision whether to opt out of subs or just exit StockXpert completely.

I'm just very uncomfortable regarding the all the signals we've been getting ever since young Paddy's cack-handed intervention on behalf of JIU and Photos.com. I simply get the impression she really couldn't give two sh1ts about all the contributors as long as she gets her next promotion, etc.

Quote from: epixx on February 17, 2009, 20:00

Last year, they were number 4 for me, after SS, IS, DT and FT. So far this year, they are number 7, overtaken by BS and 123.

I think they are killing the brand name. Stupid move, but that's not unique   

Now, CS has passed them as well, so they are number 8 for me so far in February. Who would have thunk   

Same is happening for me. Only 18 sales, all of them subscription. Crestock has made me 4x as much as StockXpert so far in February.