Author Topic: Percentage of your subscription sales at DT in January (Read 10924 times)

rene · « **on:** January 30, 2008, 06:08 »

My regular sales decrease and I have more and more subscriptions sales at DT. What about yours ?

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2008, 06:10 »

Rene, is it % in numbers or % in $ you are talking about ?
L

rene · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2008, 06:43 »

Quote from: ldambies on January 30, 2008, 06:10

Rene, is it % in numbers or % in $ you are talking about ?
L

% in numbers of downloads

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2008, 08:18 »

I have 27 % this months of sub sales and interestingly it was 0 % last month....

epixx · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2008, 08:35 »

Mine are so few that it's hardly noticeable

I'm just a few dollars short of BME there btw. Good performance

vphoto · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2008, 09:26 »

i voted. My sub sales are 11% total (in numbers) this month.

Pixart · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2008, 09:39 »

I hit the wrong vote. I hit over 30 and it should be over 20. Don't know how to fix that.

26%. Including a .21 sale - is that a sub?

I don't know why you'd post this before the end of the month though. Still 2 business days to go. Subs are likely low on the first half of the month too - buyers wouldn't have renewed till back from the holidays..

Edited: duh, I voted LESS than 30. That was correct.

fotografer · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2008, 10:02 »

I must be dumb but where do you find this information without clicking through every single image that sold this month to see how many times it sold.

rene · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2008, 11:51 »

Quote from: fotografer on January 30, 2008, 10:02

I must be dumb but where do you find this information without clicking through every single image that sold this month to see how many times it sold.

You don't have to. On "My earnings" page in the column "last download" you can see sale's date and the price. Every earning egal or less then $0.30 is subscription sale.

fotografer · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2008, 13:02 »

Yes but you can only see the last sale on the image you need to click on each image to see any other sales that they have had this month

Quote from: rene on January 30, 2008, 11:51

Quote from: fotografer on January 30, 2008, 10:02
I must be dumb but where do you find this information without clicking through every single image that sold this month to see how many times it sold.
You don't have to. On "My earnings" page in the column "last download" you can see sale's date and the price. Every earning egal or less then $0.30 is subscription sale.

DanP68 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2008, 23:57 »

This is true. You don't see each individual sale, just the last sale per picture which has been dl'd.

You can make a pretty reasonable estimate from this data however. Of the last 22 image sales listed during January, only 2 have been sub. So 11% is my vote.

Perhaps an equally good way to look at this is to simply divide earnings by sales to see how much one earns per sale at DT. I'm running at $0.77 per sale this month, which is well above the average I earn at other companies. Even places like Fotolia which do not offer subs still fall well short of this mark.

hatman12 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2008, 01:17 »

How are you doing with your DT monthly target Dan?

DanP68 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 31, 2008, 02:25 »

26 sales in January with 1 day to go. That is a BME, and about 10 sales per month above my previous average. So I'd say I am on track to get to 50 monthly dl's before the end of July. Gotta keep uploading though...

fotografer · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2008, 02:43 »

Anybody else think that DanP68 is a double for Bruce Willis. Everytime I see the avatar I think it's him, or are you using a Bruce Willis photo.

DanP68 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:11 »

LOL. The receding hairline is definitely similar, though I rarely wear sunglasses.

strikerx98 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:27 »

Dan your photo makes me think, "Bruce Willis does The Terminator".

By th way, can someone tell me how to figure all these formulas for comparisons, now that I finally have sales to report! Yeah! Also, what is BME???

Thanks, Silly car buying all day long, Connie... OMG! I just realised I could have been all over that dealership taking shots of people looking at cars, buying cars, signing their loan docks.... everything! Just need my camera and model releases. DARN!

Connie
www.ticopuppy.com

DanP68 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2008, 04:27 »

No really folks, it is a picture of Bruce Willis. He is one of the default avatars on this site.

Connie,

BME refers to "Best Month Ever." You will occasionally see BDE for "Best Day Ever" too. The comparisons in this thread were basically to see how much in earnings each sale was generating at Dreamstime. In other words, in my case, $20.10 / 26 sales = $0.77 per sale.

KiwiRob · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2008, 11:27 »

I now get quite a few subscription sales at DT and less credit but at 123 I am now getting more credit sales than subscription sales.

fotografer · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2008, 12:33 »

Quote from: DanP68 on January 31, 2008, 04:27

No really folks, it is a picture of Bruce Willis. He is one of the default avatars on this site.

Ok I feel a bit foolish now and a bit dissapointed.

sam100 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2008, 12:47 »

Too much... on 11 downloads, 9 subscription, all maximum size.
The subscriptions devalue our picture.
Despite having almost 1500 pictures more in my port, i earned more past year same period.

Patrick.

fotografer · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2008, 14:04 »

I'd be interested to know what everybody's average earning per download are on DT? Mine is 1.25$ as I have quite a lot of higher level images. This more than makes up for the subs as my average doesn't reach 1$ on any of the other sites I upload to. Also every sub download I get brings that image nearer to a higher level so subs really don't bother me at all at DT.

vphoto · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2008, 14:13 »

Quote from: fotografer on February 02, 2008, 14:04

I'd be interested to know what everybody's average earning per download are on DT? Mine is 1.25$ as I have quite a lot of higher level images. This more than makes up for the subs as my average doesn't reach 1$ on any of the other sites I upload to. Also every sub download I get brings that image nearer to a higher level so subs really don't bother me at all at DT.

mine average is $.94 per dld

DanP68 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2008, 19:06 »

77 cents

lumina · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2008, 19:59 »

1,44 $ (vector images)

madelaide · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2008, 21:58 »

It's averaging 70c/dld for me in the past months. In January however, it was a bit higher because of an EL.

Regards,
Adelaide

ChasingMoments · « **Reply #25 on:** February 02, 2008, 23:14 »

25 %...

which suggests that a lot of the demand in the stock industry field comes from an occasional, per-credit buyer. I also think that these per-credit buyers won't change and become sub-buyers as it is a different kind of image consumer.

faber · « **Reply #26 on:** February 03, 2008, 01:32 »

35% sub dl (20 of 58)
meager $ 0,12 RPI (monthly return per image in portfolio)
7,7% of microstock earnings in January (=position #5)

not impressing at all....

fotografer · « **Reply #27 on:** February 03, 2008, 01:58 »

Thanks for the feedback. It's as I thought that even with subs the earnings per download aren't much different to most of the sites that don't do subs.

mwp1969 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 03, 2008, 18:27 »

$.82 / image average at DT
based on my first 8 sales there ... 2 of those were sold for $ .30 each (sub sale)

Respectively here is how the distribution looked as I was keeping track:

$.30 (2 dls)
$.50 (3 dls)
$1.00 (1 dls)
$1.50 (1 dls)
$2.00 (1 dls)

Also I got $5.00 that I'm not sure what it was for ... possibly the referral bounus or the editorial image thing ...

Mark

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #29 on:** February 04, 2008, 07:37 »

Subs are at 37% and increasing quickly. Oddly, January was the first month I started getting subs. Overall, my downloads are up but earnings are up and down. I'm not seeing a pattern of growth there.

hatman12 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 04, 2008, 14:18 »

I too have noticed an increase in subs sales, particularly in January. The overall percentage is still small, but the trend appears to be climbing gently upwards.

I don't like subs at DT. I accept that they add to sales and can push an image into a new level, but overall I suspect that they detract from normal credit sales.

BTW I have also noticed a slight increase in subs at StockXpert.

dbvirago · « **Reply #31 on:** February 25, 2008, 15:45 »

I haven't had enough sub sales in the past to pay much attention. That along with plenty of $1 and $2 sales have kept the average up there. For the last week, however, all sales have been subs or .50, with about 60% subs.

Anyone else seeing a jump in sub sales at DT?

vphoto · « **Reply #32 on:** February 25, 2008, 15:51 »

I the last two weeks I am seeing a jump in sub sales. Shutterstock announced an increase in commissions due in May. Will be interesting to see the reaction of DT.