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Istockphoto price rises
http://www.istockphoto.com/pricing2007.php
Effective 4th jan 07 🙁
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6 Replies
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probably a result of getty images buying them out a few months back…
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quote Robert Lambie:probably a result of getty images buying them out a few months back…I was thinking the same thing Rob. Its beginning to lose that community feel now too.
Thing I don’t understand, Getty paid $50 million for the company and photo stock. Thing is, my pics on there will always be my pics. So, in effect, Istock don’t actually own any stock. 😕
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i agree but…
possibley like any company buying out, the buyer will loose "some" customers, but win majority.
buying out their main competitor of low priced goods means less competition and now can maybe set a better pricing structure for the ones who saty… but then again, this is the web, so that can only last for so long? 😕 -
Yeah, Getty images are nice. . . but um…alot of $. One of the main reasons I ended up buying my own professional equipment is to avoid paying $449.99 USD for a 300 dpi – 11"x17". We did some work for one of our clients (a ski resort) They sent me a cd of images used from Getty of skiers, snowboarders etc. Over $5000 of images on the cd and pictures from someone elses ski slopes lol. This year I went up there for a week, they put me up in one of their lodges, snowboarded for free all week, and I took real shots of their customers @ their resort. It just so happens they had a competition that week so we got some really great shots.
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I ain’t diggin the new prices. My royalties will go up, but I bet my sales will go down. I have quite a few 1 credit images that are my big sellers on there. They are fairly simple graphics but I’m not so sure people that have been paying 1 buck will pay 5 bucks now. That worries me a little.
Stevo
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I’m the same George. I went out and spent $3000 on new Nikon gear etc, and I’ve done all my own shots for the last year or so, as well as buying the odd one from commuty type sites like dreamstime and Istockphoto. I don’t buy from Istockpro because they are just too dear, when the community sites often offer something similar.
Certainly paid my $3000 back in photos I’ve taken for clients and also its always been a hobby anyway, so changing to digital from film was a plus too.
Trouble is I’ve got some lovely Olympus OM1 & OM10 and Pentax SLR cameras gathering dust now. Not worth anything to sell, and digital is so easy to use straight away.
Stevo, I’ve only got about a dozen files with Istockphoto. They are more interested in Northern Hemisphere landscapes (my preference) than southern hemisphere. I have joined up with an australian RF stock photo site, only small but they pay me 60% per photo value sold rather than $3. I don’t sell as many, but I’ve made more money in the few I have sold, than all the ones I’ve sold on Istockphoto. The dearest photo they sell is about $200.
I still buy heaps from Istockphoto though but I don’t buy from getty or any of the others because I don’t see too much value in them. I’ll direct my clients to those sites if they wish, but they nearly always settle for stuff I suggest from community sites, or my own of course.
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