The Royalty Rate charts below explains what you earn as a contributor when your files are licensed.
iStock.com
These royalty rates apply to licenses of your files made through credits or subscription on iStock.com, depending on whether you are Exclusive or non-exclusive:
Non-exclusive
Contributors typically sign to iStock as non-exclusive. Your Downloads do not impact your royalty rate if you are a non-exclusive contributor. Find out more about
exclusivity.
Exclusive
For Exclusive contributors, royalty rates for iStock.com are determined by the number of paid downloads (“Downloads”) of a contributor’s content by file type, beginning with the default levels above.
If you reach a higher Download Target you will receive the corresponding higher royalty rate on new licenses in the following month. You can only move up during the year, but the Download total you end the year on determines your starting royalty rate for the next calendar year, so your starting rate can move up or down.
On January 1 of each year, every contributor’s Download total is reset to zero. We may change the Download Target levels annually and will give notice prior to the start of the applicable year.
Downloads are counted across all iStock and Getty Images sales channels (excluding Thinkstock and API). All Downloads of Signature+ files through iStock.com and Gettyimages.com will count as two Downloads rather than one toward the Download Targets.
Gettyimages.com and other platforms
These royalty rates apply to licenses of your files from gettyimages.com and all other sources
except iStock.com and Thinkstock Subs & Image packs,
including but not limited to: Getty Images, Partner Portal, Photo.com – POD, Thinkstock single image sales, etc.
You can view Thinkstock Subscriptions & Image Packs flat rate royalty amounts
here.
How We Calculate Royalties
For files licensed using credits on iStock.com, the contributor’s royalty rate is applied to the net price of credits used to license a file. Credit prices vary depending on when they were purchased (as our prices change over time) and how many were purchased at once (as we discount bulk packages).
For files licensed using a subscription on iStock.com, the contributor’s royalty rate is applied to the price per file.
Subscription licenses have a minimum customer price per file applied, so you will always get your royalty rate on every subscription download at or above these minimums:
The price per file is determined at the end of each subscription month (which is specific to each subscription and may not be the end of the calendar month) by dividing the monthly price for that subscription by the number of downloads against that subscription.
For files licensed through Thinkstock.com a flat rate royalty amount is applied based on
this chart.
For files licensed through all other platforms, the contributor’s royalty rate is applied to the License Fees (as defined in your Artist Supply Agreement).
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