Did iStock give us less royalty?

I found a big boost over 5K in the 2012 RC totals on 31 Dec. I record RCs and Royalties everyday, my RCs should not have gone up so much, unless there is many missing downloads/royalties figure on my record. That leads me to suspect that the system probably didn’t give the proper royalties to us.

Did anyone else got a boost in 2012 RC totals? 

Did your downloads/royalties match the boosted RCs? 

Is it really a missed calculation on downloads/royalties for our account? Is this missing record leads us feel the sales dropped during Sep and Dec?

Could iStock figure this out?

Here is my guess based on others reporting similar boosts on Facebook: It probably would have been too complicated/risky to re-program the whole RC system for the royalty rate rollover, so someone came up with a pragmatic solution: Add a bunch of RCs to the table manually, so those people affected are reaching their RC targets.


Personally, I didn't see a boost but I had reached my prior royalty level a few weeks before the end of the year. But my girl-friend also had about 30% of her RCs added shortly before the end of the year.


 

I reckon that's a good guess MichaelJay. I had reached the higher target and royalty level moved up immediately in December 2012. It has stayed at the higher rate into 2013. Also no change to RCs.

My guess is that MJ's guess is correct.

But we already have an open thread on this topic, so probably best that everything is kept in one place.

HQ: Royalty Rates Rollover - Effective December 31st