Author Topic: Is FT still "on fire" for you and how does the new content sell? (Read 15140 times)

VB inc · « **Reply #25 on:** February 25, 2016, 23:57 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on February 25, 2016, 21:55

Very well put. Deposit photos is also one of those oft hated sites that seems to have improved itself. As you said hope the same for all, it is much needed

Sorry for off topic remark on deposit photos but a brief look at their team picture (in their About Us page) which is based in new york city which is the melting pot of the world with all different ethnic groups, that company is the whitest company i have ever seen in nyc. lol. Maybe they are all russian? Eastern european?

Pauws99 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 26, 2016, 02:02 »

Getting a bit better for me but never really was "on fire" solid no2 but closing in on SS which has become more inconsistent for me

dpimborough · « **Reply #27 on:** February 27, 2016, 04:12 »

On fire? Only if you class going from $12 to $30 a month as on fire

FT is just as crappy as all the other low tier earners

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #28 on:** February 27, 2016, 04:15 »

Quote from: VB inc on February 25, 2016, 23:57

Quote from: izzikiorage on February 25, 2016, 21:55
Very well put. Deposit photos is also one of those oft hated sites that seems to have improved itself. As you said hope the same for all, it is much needed

Sorry for off topic remark on deposit photos but a brief look at their team picture (in their About Us page) which is based in new york city which is the melting pot of the world with all different ethnic groups, that company is the whitest company i have ever seen in nyc. lol. Maybe they are all russian? Eastern european?

I thought they were russian with a po box in NY or florida?

Stockmaan · « **Reply #29 on:** February 27, 2016, 11:08 »

Bad weeks on FT! Very bad.

Lana · « **Reply #30 on:** February 27, 2016, 11:19 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on February 27, 2016, 04:15

Quote from: VB inc on February 25, 2016, 23:57
Quote from: izzikiorage on February 25, 2016, 21:55
Very well put. Deposit photos is also one of those oft hated sites that seems to have improved itself. As you said hope the same for all, it is much needed

Sorry for off topic remark on deposit photos but a brief look at their team picture (in their About Us page) which is based in new york city which is the melting pot of the world with all different ethnic groups, that company is the whitest company i have ever seen in nyc. lol. Maybe they are all russian? Eastern european?
I thought they were russian with a po box in NY or florida?

Rather a Russian enterpreneur from Ukraine

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #31 on:** February 27, 2016, 11:56 »

Do they have a real office in NYC now? Their old address was one of those offices in Florida that would take your mail for you so it looked like you had a US based address if I remember rightly (there were like 200 hundred companies all apparently in the same office I think). Has anyone gone by their NYC office to see if there's actually anyone there?

Rick_jo · « **Reply #32 on:** February 29, 2016, 08:18 »

Off topic to the ft post but in reply to the deposit topic I have found that they are one of the only companies that reply within a day or two to an email and helped me out a bunch when I uploaded content mid last year. They even keyword ed a massive bunch of videos for me before i got around to applying a csv. No other site has ever done that.

HalfFull · « **Reply #33 on:** March 01, 2016, 09:47 »

Yeah, January BME, Feb.... another BME.They are consistently good, especially compared to SS who are only consistent with their inconsistency!

Rage · « **Reply #34 on:** March 02, 2016, 01:40 »

Don't jinx them

What we need now is for them to start editorial

freestar2016 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 02, 2016, 02:24 »

Hmmm.... reading all this lets me think to submit also to Fotolia.

mcuda · « **Reply #36 on:** March 07, 2016, 16:53 »

Starting out a bit slow this month, but last month was a very strong month for Fotolia.

Hongover · « **Reply #37 on:** March 22, 2016, 17:46 »

I noticed some abnormalities in the last few days.

Maybe it's an anomaly and things will go back to normal tomorrow, but FT sales have dropped about 40% for the last 2 days compare to the first 2 days of previous weeks. SS on the other hand has been fairly normal.

I was going to blame Easter and people taking some days off, but it doesn't seem like it. Has anyone noticed big drops in the last couple days?

sgoodwin4813 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 22, 2016, 17:54 »

I had a BME on FT last month but this month it is back to normal - strong but not spectacular (and quite a bit behind SS).

Lana · « **Reply #39 on:** March 22, 2016, 18:07 »

My March was good but I also noticed a sudden dive in sales this week, although it already seems quite common for FT - some sort of search rotation. It also seems to me that sales (maybe just those happening through Adobe) are sometimes reported in bulk..

Pauws99 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 22, 2016, 19:00 »

Sales go up sales go down its called "luck" or "statistical variation" I think maybe you folks should take a longer view than just looking at a couple of days stats

hansenn · « **Reply #41 on:** April 01, 2016, 06:42 »

March was BME for me, despite a slow last week.

Hongover · « **Reply #42 on:** April 01, 2016, 10:48 »

Things are back to normal after few days of slow sales. It became a new BME by a little bit after a late push.

wordplanet · « **Reply #43 on:** April 01, 2016, 12:15 »

Fotolia beat SS for me for the first time but this was the worst month I've had on SS since about a year after I started there. I have three times as many photos on SS as I do on Fotolia. This was my best month to date on Fotolia but I wouldn't say it was "on fire" but humming along nicely despite having a tiny portfolio. I'm encouraged to upload more.

stockmn · « **Reply #44 on:** April 01, 2016, 13:00 »

Photo sales seem to be picking up a bit. Video not so much. I didn't have any video sales this month with over 1,000 videos. I had two sales last month which was better than nothing but not great by any means. Overall for me, Fotolia doesn't compare to SS in terms of sales as of right now.

Tyson Anderson · « **Reply #45 on:** April 01, 2016, 13:17 »

March was a BME for me and my small Port spread across the bigger Micros. FT came in second to SS. After reading all the hype a couple months ago about FT picking up due to Adobe buying it, I started adding videos to the 100 or so photos I had with them. Sold a couple Vids this month. They were 4k clips. 1 sold as HD for $28 and 1 sold as 720p for $19. Not quite "on fire", but it is progress.

Lana · « **Reply #46 on:** April 01, 2016, 16:02 »

FT inconsistency makes me frustrated, this month too, even though I'm used to their irregular sales tempo. At some point of the month it is ahead of my SS sales and then suddenly everything almost stops and turns into prolonged drought, just weird pattern, maybe it's only my port

sharpshot · « **Reply #47 on:** April 02, 2016, 04:43 »

I had a bad month with SS but still made 7x my FT earnings. Not seen any change with FT since adobe took over.

dpimborough · « **Reply #48 on:** April 02, 2016, 05:20 »

On fire? No

BigBubba · « **Reply #49 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:40 »

On fire? Yes

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