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Unlike in November, December has seen a great movement in the microstock market.
In this post analizzamo the main novelty in this field:

New fees and changes on iStockphoto

iStockphoto has announced higher prices for all the exclusive content, an intermediate collection (called Plus-Exclusive for now) where the exclusive contributors can sell up to 20% of their portfolio at prices even higher, and changes to the amount of sales required to reach the level of "higher canister". Prices for large collections of principal will be slightly reduced. Full details are available in the forum thread iStockphoto.

As always, the controversy arose and the response is mixed. Many contributors are worried that the exclusive sales volume may decline as prices are much higher than the non-exclusive content. Buyers can not exclude the more expensive content from search results.

Many non-exclusive iStockphoto contributors see the "exclusivity factor" more interesting than before, and this is one of the explicit intent of these changes. Given their selling power and importance that have exclusive files in search results, the option of exclusivity to iStockphoto becomes now more than ever an undeniable appeal.

New tariffs on Dreamstime

Dreamstime has announced new rates, raising prices and thus the fees for contributors. The site has also changed the amount of downloads for each file needed to reach the next level of tariffs, with further increasing effective prices and commissions. The user response has been reasonably positive.

New tariffs on Fotolia

Fotolia , persisting in the strategy of "do not announce bad news", has quietly cut the percentage of commission for all contributors except those at the highest level (of which there is only one). Prices for higher dimensions with extra small increase of 1 or 2 credits, making the net revenue for each sale the highest, despite price cuts of commission for most of the dimensions provided by almost all the contributors.

Fotolia is still paying the highest commissions than other microstock agencies, but the response of contributors to the cuts is constantly negative, despite the rapid growth of power sales agency.

StockXpert acquired 100% by Getty

Getty Images has acquired the remaining 10% of Haap Media, a company owned agency StockXpert. Last year, as part of the acquisition of Jupiterimage, was in possession of 90% of the company. Peter Hamza, creator and former owner of StockXpert, does not hide his sadness towards the end of StockXpert but, nevertheless, is already working on a new project.

Zymmetrical closes

As announced on December 30, Zymmetrical, microstock agency "of equity and solidarity" is no longer operational. All contributors have been paid their final credit. The managing director, Keith Tuomi, showed the plight of the stock industry and the economy in general as causes of business failure.

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