I find it ironic that Getty Images is trying to sell to the very "midstock" market they have pissed off by the hundreds over the years.
The Seattle Times writes:
But it has been trailing in the burgeoning “midstock” market, meaning less expensive stock photography that’s often used on the web, where challengers such as Shutterstock and Fotolia have taken increasing market share, analysts said.
Give the business to the Getty competitors Shutterstock and Fotolia, I say! Shutterstock and Fotolia never tried to sue their potential customers!
Well, as far as I am concerned, the Seattle Times has done the ELI Community a favor and just given free advertisement to Shutterstock and Fotolia.
Essentially, don't buy from any Getty Images affiliate. Let Getty Images burn all their cash, go bankrupt, and go down in flames I say. And all those in the Copyright Compliance department can be thrown to the streets for being stupid enough to work for Getty Images.
I commend the prior ex-Copyright Compliance employees for leaving when they did. Chloe S. (the person I dealt with in 2008) was smart enough to leave years ago and not deal with the Getty Images shit.
They need to do themselves a favor and get out of that shit-hole business before they tarnish their professional reputation and career further. Interestingly, I have not heard any rumblings from Scott Wilsdon in a long time. I wonder if he is still prostituting himself to Getty Images shitty and hated reputation. If he has left Getty, then he obviously got smart very quickly.
Anyone who tries to stay with Getty Images is likely to have their professional reputations tarnished because of all the hate they have generated in the last 10 years.
I am so looking forward to future news releases! The ELI Readership can rejoice in watching Getty Images financially flame out and watch employee heads roll.
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