New Prices on iStock in January

ajn · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 07:43 PM

See here:

http://istockphoto.com/pricing2007.php

Thre's a new size (XSmall) that sells for 1 credit. The price for buyers goes from 1$ per credit to 1.20$. So, if I don't get it wrong, we'll have:

XS (400x300) - 0.24$ (new)
S (800x600) - 0.48$ (was 0.20$)
M (2 MPixels) - 0.96$ (was 0.60$)
L (5 Mpixels) - 1.44$ (was 1$)

Cheers,

Antonio

Karimala · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 09:07 PM

It's about darn time they had some good news! LOL I read rumors that it might be coming on Yahoogroups. This should offset some of the problems with the upload limts.

Here's a link to the thread (the other link said the page doesn't exist).

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_mes...threadid=43646

thesupe87 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 09:41 PM

Cool - thanks for the info

ca2hill · #4 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 09:51 PM

Increasing payout rate is never a problem... I wonder if other sites will follow?

Karimala · #5 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ca2hill

Increasing payout rate is never a problem... I wonder if other sites will follow?

Hard to say. I have a feeling that IS is trying to catch up with StockXPert's pricing and royalties, because they were just purchased by one of Getty's biggest competitors.

Batman2000 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006, 02:35 AM

Bigger payments with less sales equals an attempt to restore previous earnings, which have dropped a lot since the changes. It is good news, but I'm not thrilled.

FlemishDreams · #7 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Karimala

[I have a feeling that IS is trying to catch up with StockXPert's pricing and royalties, because they were just purchased by one of Getty's biggest competitors.

What company? Thanks.

Fotosmurf · #8 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006, 02:06 PM

I also read though that although IS is changing the price for the credit we will now get the % over the real amount paid for the credit. Which means - if I understand this correctly - that if a credit is purchased for less then the given price during - for instance - a bonus or discount action we will get less then that... I don't know; I didn't fully understand the message but it sounded to me that we would get less money instead of more... But I hope I am wrong..

Karimala · #9 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by FlemishDreams

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karimala

[I have a feeling that IS is trying to catch up with StockXPert's pricing and royalties, because they were just purchased by one of Getty's biggest competitors.

What company? Thanks.

Jupiter Images.

Karimala · #10 (**permalink**) 12-05-2006, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Fotosmurf

I also read though that although IS is changing the price for the credit we will now get the % over the real amount paid for the credit. Which means - if I understand this correctly - that if a credit is purchased for less then the given price during - for instance - a bonus or discount action we will get less then that... I don't know; I didn't fully understand the message but it sounded to me that we would get less money instead of more... But I hope I am wrong..

It's true that in some cases we will earn less money. Those will be cases where a buyer purchases the largest subscription ($600 package). However, on the smallest subscriptions, we will actually earn more and on medium packages, it will remain about the same. Credits will range from $.96 to $1.20 depending on the size of the package, with all packages starting at $300 and under will cost $1 or more per credit.

Plus, they increased the prices for small, medium and large images.

Old:

S = 1 credit (approx. 800x600)
M = 3 credits (approx. 2 MP)
L = 5 credits (approx. 5MP)

New:

XS = 1 credit (approx. 300x400)
S = 2 credits (approx. 800x600)
M = 4 credits (2 MP)
L = 6 credits (5 MP)

It will be interesting to see just how many sales come from the largest subscriptions. If it's a majority, we'll probably see a revolt...LOL