More and more Sites are switching to partner accounts, f.e. when I've started to sell my Databases ~ 1 year ago I had a list in it of ~70 TGPs that required a partner accounts, now 12 months later ~300 TGPs are only accepting posts from partners anymore.
But people make the mistake to see that as a disadvantage, and that's wrong IMHO, it's rather easy these days to get partner accounts, you'd only have to request them, and if you're galleries are good you'll get them. I've spent only 2 days last week with applying for partner accounts, and I've received ~60 new accounts until today, so that wasn't too difficult.
So in my opinion it's now even easier to make money with submitting galleries then it was a few years ago, cause back then I had to compete with every cheating/crappy gallery submitter out there, and now I have the possibillity to request a partner account, and to "network" with TGP owners rather quickly.
Times only have changed, and you'd have to change too or quit
