iStockphoto came out with some new advertising today, and unfortunately, most of it is misleading, and confusing to buyers. Let’s take a quick look at some marketing claims.
iStockphoto came out with some new advertising today, and unfortunately, most of it is misleading, and confusing to buyers. Let’s take a quick look at some marketing claims.
Amidst the other changes announced and unveiled last week, iStockphoto also introduced some pricing changes to the new “Main” collection. However, buyers who are drawn in by this news may find it costs them more than expected.
iStockphoto has recently been dealing with several issues that have impacted both the buyer and contributor side of things. I guess I can consider myself lucky that I don’t have to deal with these things, since they terminated my agreement back in April for no particularly good reason. However, these issues are causing contributors and buyers consternation, so today we take a look at the recent collection changes, and “exclusive, not exclusive”.
So, you may have noticed as part of last week’s iStockphoto.com big announcements, there was included a per credit price increase of $1 for a package of 10 credits, and a smaller amount as amount purchased increases. There was also the introduction of the new Value collection, with lower credits per image prices (to be introduced early 2009 with 200,000 images) and the Premiere Collection with offering the bestest of the bestest at a higher cost. Additionally, the Standard collection […]
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