Increase in BigStock downloads lately?

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« Reply #50 on: February 01, 2010, 09:15 »

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sales are slowly increasing for me; not bad, but it's due mainly - I guess - to a larger portfolio; I'm still unable to see a clear positive shutterstock effect unfortunately


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BaldricksTrousers

« Reply #51 on: February 03, 2010, 04:42 »

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I can't do a nice chart like that but I have thousands of files there and I can see clearly that the site peaked in late 2008 and appears to be in its death throes now. My cash earnings are right back to where they were at the beginning of 2006, when I had been there for three or four months and had only a few hundred photos available.

Quote from: FD-amateur on February 01, 2010, 04:39

OK, it makes no sense to do any statistics on small numbers and over a short period of time because of the sample error being much larger than any effect. You also have to weigh sales against portfolio size.

I'm uploading on BigStock since August 2005 and I made an analysis from begin 2006 till now. Since my full port is on BigStock (almost no rejections) and the current # is somewhat over 1200, I figure that a sales analysis over time can smooth out part of the sample error and indicate trends (if any).

I plotted earnings per month (blue line) against estimated portfolio size (pink line), and I did a moving average smoothing on the earnings (yellow line). This is the result:

Notwithstanding the large fluctuations that are inherent to small number of sales on BigStock in general, one can see two trends. The first one till March 2008 (included) that roughly follows port size, and a breakdown after that.

There is a deep dip in Q4 of 2008, most probably reflecting the outbreak of the credit crunch, but the trend already reversed near the end of Q1/2008.

After a weak rebound in Q1/2009 (just continuing the downward trend), the trend goes down and down till now, despite portfolio increase. It's an educated guess that around that time T&D entered into the red zone and started looking for a buyer before the potential (and the price) of BigStock went too low.

The fact that SS owns the site for a few months doesn't seem to have any effect on the BigStock sales till now. Thanks for your attention.


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stormchaser

« Reply #52 on: February 03, 2010, 04:52 »

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Even though I had not uploaded to BigStock since July or Aug, I had a stellar December - record month for there. But January sucked, and haven't looked at Feb yet. Port there is about 700 I think.


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dehooks

« Reply #53 on: February 06, 2010, 10:26 »

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I've seen a definite increase in sales over the past week. Probably the best week in three months. I hope it continues!


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chasmcn

« Reply #54 on: February 06, 2010, 11:07 »

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december was a good month for me on BigStock mainly down to one image which earned me over $35 from that image which was rejected by its owner site SS ,but jan been disappointing lets see what feb brings .


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« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2010, 17:53 »

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Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on February 03, 2010, 04:42

I can't do a nice chart like that

I didn't know too before this, but I just discovered some essentials of Excel. On your earnings page at the bottom is a 2-column list of month/year and earnings during that month. Just copy it on the system clipboard from the browser and paste it in the Excel spreadsheet. It will put itself in 2 columns. Then add a chart and define the graph type; for the x-axis define the data source to be the column with the month/dates, for the y-axis do the same, selecting that column in your spreadsheet. For the statistics (like regression line or smoothing) just define the "function" type in the menu.


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madelaide

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« Reply #56 on: February 24, 2010, 16:38 »

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Not to start a new thread, since April last year I only have 0.50 and 1.00 earnings. Gone are the 2.00s and 3.00s that enticed us months before that. Have you been suffering that too?


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Allsa

« Reply #57 on: February 24, 2010, 17:48 »

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Up until very recently, BS seemed to be slowly dying for me, my earnings during the last four months were all down from previous years. Things were looking pretty bleak and I thought BS was dying before my eyes. But this past week downloads have picked up significantly, and I'm thinking maybe there's hope for BS after all.


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a.k.a.-tom

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« Reply #58 on: February 24, 2010, 20:15 »

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LOL LOL.... I hadnt uploaded to BigStock in sometime. Last week I sent in a half dozen.... shots that have been selling on IS.
Guess after all these years I have suddenly gotten stupid. I had 3 shot down because they were "Snapshots"
Wow.... snapshots. Maybe I should sell my 5D Mk II and buy a little P&S.

Oh well... cant please all the people all the time. Grin

Try try again Cool

=tom


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madelaide

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« Reply #59 on: February 24, 2010, 20:53 »

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My question was not about dld numbers, but about the higher value sales.


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donding

« Reply #60 on: February 24, 2010, 21:54 »

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All mine have been .50 or 1.00. The last time I made a 2.00 or 3.00 sale was back in November of last year. It's been rather slow there lately


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disorderly

« Reply #61 on: February 24, 2010, 22:08 »

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I had a $2 download on Feb 19th. The one before that was on the 1st. I had seven in January, plus two $3 downloads.


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a.k.a.-tom

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« Reply #62 on: February 24, 2010, 23:14 »

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No increase.... actually a decrease in numbers.... what I do have .50 & 1.00


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fotografer

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« Reply #63 on: February 25, 2010, 02:45 »

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Although dls are generally down there for me, I have held steady on earnings because of an increase in 2$ and 3$ commissions.


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stokfoto

« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2010, 04:24 »

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Quite the opposite for me as my sales decreased by 50% for the several months.I suspect the reason for that could be that their search seems to favour my older files which are not as good as my latest ones,it's so frustrating Angry

,I am not sure if I'll keep uploading.


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ibogdan

« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2010, 07:17 »

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I had two 2$ sales in January and a 3$ sale in February, the rest are .50$ and 1$. Portfolio around 1250 images.


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etienjones

« Reply #66 on: February 25, 2010, 07:28 »

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Just a small portfolio of 385 images. This month 2 x $.50, 1 x $1.00 and 1 x $3.00, this is not unusual with my port at this site.


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BaldricksTrousers

« Reply #67 on: February 25, 2010, 10:16 »

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Quote from: madelaide on February 24, 2010, 20:53

My question was not about dld numbers, but about the higher value sales.

I've had five $2 sales in my last 50, the rest were pretty evenly split between 50c and $1. That seems to be the same as in the past. $3 sales are are almost as rare as hen's teeth.


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WarrenPrice

« Reply #68 on: February 25, 2010, 13:04 »

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I've had five downloads this month ... one was for $3. The others were 50 cents and one dollar.
It's slow but I will stop complaining ... for now. Tongue


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lisafx

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« Reply #69 on: February 25, 2010, 13:08 »

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I have never gotten a lot of the $2 and $3 sales, but I am getting about the same as always. Two out of my last 50 sales.


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fotografer

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« Reply #70 on: February 25, 2010, 14:22 »

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12 of my last 50 have been $2 and $3 sales which is a much higher ratio than I am used to getting.

Quote from: lisafx on February 25, 2010, 13:08

I have never gotten a lot of the $2 and $3 sales, but I am getting about the same as always. Two out of my last 50 sales.


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azurelaroux

« Reply #71 on: March 01, 2010, 15:39 »

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Looking over my Feb. numbers BigStock and FT doubled in downloads. BigStock also doubled the previous month for royalties. With this they managed to knock DT down to 5th place.


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lisafx

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« Reply #72 on: March 10, 2010, 16:02 »

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When this thread was started I hadn't seen any increase in sales at BigStock.

But the past week or so since the site redesign my daily sales totals have been roughly double what they were. Have they been doing a big advertising push or something, or did I just finally get a break in the search results?


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madelaide

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« Reply #73 on: March 10, 2010, 16:11 »

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You must be getting my sales, because this month I only had one sale there. Grin


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dehooks

« Reply #74 on: March 10, 2010, 16:12 »

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Quote from: lisafx on March 10, 2010, 16:02

I had seen a definite increase a couple of weeks before the site redesign, but since then my sales have increased even more. I don't know what's going on, but I hope it continues.


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