iStock Promo Codes

If you are searching for great quality stock images to make your flyer or website homepage conspicuous from your competitors, just go through with istockphoto.com. It is the best stock image provider for your requirements. The site offers you an incredible stock of royalty free images, videos, illustrations and music clips at extremely flexible prices. It is one of the most affluent, productive and profitable user created content site across the globe where you can explore an inclusive range of royalty free stock photos, media and design elements.

It is a Calgary, Alberta and Canada based company founded by Bruce Livingstone. Istock was started in year 2000 as a micropayment photography site offering millions of images, clip art, audio and video tracks and illustrations. Initially, they came as a site for free stock photography website but later on in year 2001, the site started selling their stock images at affordable prices. On Feb 9, 2006 the company was acquired by Getty Images and from then it started working as a wholly owned subsidiary of Getty images. The site was proved to be a great resource for small advertising agencies and graphic designers because of their affordable prices and subscription plans, variety of images and flexibility.

When seeking a file to use, istock allows you to confine your search results and as such you can find a perfect and appropriate image you are looking for. You can further make your search narrow down on the basis of various search categories that includes keywords, price range, file size, image color and type. Narrowing your search down allows you to select your images even more by rating, size, title, downloads or contributor.

It is also a best platform for photographers and designers where they can contribute their work throughout the world by sharing their stacks with istockphoto. Contributors are supposed to apply first before they are going to share their images on the website. Then, these images are going through with screening to check out the image quality and aptness and after that they are approved to be downloaded on the website. Contributors can also be awarded with a good commission between 15% and 40% depending upon the sale.  The affiliate programs run by the site are really appealing. You can grab the opportunity of earning good commissions from their website. Commission levels for existing customers are 10% and for new customers it is 20%. The payments are accepted only through the credit cards. Customers can pick from Master card, Visa, American Express and JCB Cards as their payment mode.

Purchasing on iStock

Credits enables you to download the file on your need. Through the purchase of credits, you can buy images, vectors and illustrations on istockphoto. If you want to download a file with your subscription but unable to download, you can simply download it by using credits.

Credits are sold in stipulated packs that make your purchase easier, simpler and cost effective.  And your credits will never expire on istock. The cost of credit depends upon the volume of credits that you have purchased.  If you are buying larger credit packs then you have to pay a very less amount on your per credit purchase. It also allows you to return your unused credit packs and you can get a full refund within 14 days of your purchase. But if you have used any of the credits from your credit pack, no refund will be offered to you.

By Image subscriptions you can enjoy the lowest prices on images, illustrations and vectors by paying a very flat rate. It allows you to access a fixed limit of download per month by which you can relish upon the substantial istock contents, you need per month. Video and audio clips are not supported by any of the subscriptions. You can avail refunds for image subscriptions within 14 days of your purchase. The condition is only that you have not downloaded more than 5 images and haven’t uses any of the downloaded images.

Every file in istock will fit in one of the two categories of collection: Essentials collection and Signature collection. The essentials collection offers you the everyday content you need while the signature collection includes a huge range of handpicked images that you can get only from the istock. The best part is that there will be only one price for each type of file with varying sizes. The credit cost for essentials images, vectors, illustration and audio clip is 1 credit and the video clips are priced at 6 credits.  On the other hand, the credit cost for signature collections including photo, vectors, audio clips and illustrations is 3 credits for any size image and for video clips the signature collections are priced at 18 credits.

The pricing structure of istock was very complex and complicated in the past but now various changes have been made in its pricing. Old credits will be converted on the basis of 5:1conversion rate to new credits and then credits will be divided by 5 that gives a new balance to you and the balance obtained, if not a whole number, it will be rounded up in your favor. This conversion helps all the customers in getting same or better original value for their existing credits.

Istock promo codes and discount coupons

Istock offers you an enormous collection of stock images at affordable prices along with some implausible coupons that helps you in enjoying more savings at checkout. These codes not even help you in saving cost but also help in getting more images for the money available with you to invest in your projects. If you are going to purchase a credit package from istock but don’t want to pay full price for it, just look upon the discounts and coupon codes for the site by which you can avail great savings on your purchase. They usually offer 5% and 10% discount on credit packages that makes you save a very good amount if you are purchasing in bulk.  The site also offers 15% off on all credit packages. With this coupon you can avail 15% off on your yearly istock subscriptions and also get free credits.

Some of the new promo codes available with istock are $60Off60+Credits, Save12%Off12+Credits, New Customers Get14%Off6+Credits.  If you have created a new account then you can avail 20% off on your first purchase by using these promo codes.

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