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louoates · #6 (**permalink**) 05-16-2007, 07:58 PM

I rejected exclusivity about 2 years ago and I'm glad for it. So many changes in the market itself and rediculous rejections were the main reasons then and I see by reading the forums that things have gotten even stranger since then. I've seen big ups and down in dls across all the sites so beingo on many (8 for me) sites has evened out the income flow and made any outrageous occurance on any one site more bearable.

One of the big three or four stock sites will likely get even more dominate by leapfrogging the others in terms of user/contributor interface that includes image analysis tools for contributors. If a given site, say, can give meaningful feedback to their thousands of shooters I believe they'll get much more focused submissions. I know my own downloads increased dramatically when I learned about the downloads/per/month feature on iStock. Immediately I saw exactly what areas were the hottest in my portfolio. I went from two or three images in my hottest subject to over 24. And they are all kicking ass. For me that means 5 to 25 dls per month per image.

So I'd hate to be sitting on only one site when any number of sites can surge ahead at any time.