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« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2016, 06:40 »
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Yes, a good week!


« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2016, 06:40 »
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Watching carefully to see if the effect of the promotion is over.  Seems to have stopped around midnight ET (Thu/Fri).  But by then, my Friday had already crushed Thursday to become my new BDE on FT before Friday had even started in my time zone. 

When I awoke on Friday, I saw no evidence that the wave had continued while I slept, suggesting the effects of the promotion were almost entirely from the US -- at least for my port.  This means either the promotion was Thurs only, or a huge wave will start again once the US wakes up and gets back to work.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 06:43 by stockmarketer »

Shelma1

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« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2016, 06:44 »
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Lol. But it's early morning here in the U.S. and I got tons of sales overnight, which suggests to me that they're all sales from Europe.  :D

« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2016, 07:06 »
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Hmm... if they're mostly from Europe, wouldn't the wave still be happening right now?  Are you seeing more?

When was the last time you looked last night?  I was refreshing till around 12:30 am, and I noticed the wave of $3.30 sales had stopped around 12:00.  As of around 6:30 am, they had not yet started again. 
« Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 07:13 by stockmarketer »

Shelma1

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« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2016, 07:36 »
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I get email alerts (have to stop those), and I got sales all through the night from midnight onwards, and still coming in. Everyone in the U.S. would have been asleep at the time. And it's only 7:30 AM on the East Coast, so nobody in the U.S. is at work yet.

« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2016, 07:54 »
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I feel like i'm the only one who didn't have any of these sales :(( on the contrary my normal ones almost stopped

« Reply #31 on: December 02, 2016, 07:56 »
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My 3.30 sales were getting from US for sure, because I actually got 3.13 after taxes...

Anyway, another EL sale today, wish this promotion thing would last forever...

« Reply #32 on: December 02, 2016, 08:34 »
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Shortly what they do is persuading customers to change the way of purchesing images from credit system (expensive) into 'standard license' system (cheap) and that means for us less high credits and more $0.25 - $0.40 pennies transactions. The process that has been going for some time... and there was a time when there where 50%/50% split between subscribtion and credits sales on fotolia... Well I see no reason to clap your hands... its just the news that says: 'be prepare for much lower incomes very soon' ...   

Fotolia is my second most favorite stock. And I loved their system of credit purchase, unfortunatelly its future (credits future) does not look good, at least from what I see.

Lets face it: subscription system is a crap ... because selling the image to a multi billion dollar corporation for misearable 30 cents is simply a joke.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 09:02 by monti »

« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2016, 09:47 »
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Shortly what they do is persuading customers to change the way of purchesing images from credit system (expensive) into 'standard license' system (cheap) and that means for us less high credits and more $0.25 - $0.40 pennies transactions. The process that has been going for some time... and there was a time when there where 50%/50% split between subscribtion and credits sales on fotolia... Well I see no reason to clap your hands... its just the news that says: 'be prepare for much lower incomes very soon' ...   

Fotolia is my second most favorite stock. And I loved their system of credit purchase, unfortunatelly its future (credits future) does not look good, at least from what I see.

Lets face it: subscription system is a crap ... because selling the image to a multi billion dollar corporation for misearable 30 cents is simply a joke.

Exactly.

And people here are just concerned with the short term effect, when in fact it could be a trojan horse type of scheme to decrease earnings from credit sales.

They'll applaud to Adobe for 1 or 2 days of great sales (which would happen anyway if there was a good deal and a promotion to buyers - you'd earn even more if the promotion was somehow oriented towards fotolia users to stay on fotolia), and then act surprised in a couple of months when their RPD drops. "How did this happen?"

You made it happen. And you clapped your hands while they were doing it.

Adobe learned something from iStock's mistakes.

Anyway, I hope it's not like that, but I'm having a hard time believing this is a good thing for contributors in the long run.

Giveme5

« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2016, 10:03 »
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Looks like the fire sale is over folks- the ride was fun while it lasted!   :)

« Reply #35 on: December 02, 2016, 11:50 »
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Yup, the promotion is over.  No activity since midnight ET.  And I don't think anything happened in Europe today either, so it looks like we're done.

Here's hoping the fears expressed in the thread don't come true... that a great day of huge sales is disguising the fact that we'll get almost nothing but low sub scales moving forward.

Mat, I trust you and the Adobe team are keeping a close eye on this (your original note said you'd be watching to make sure this is good for contributors).  Please let us know what you've learned and whether this test will be rolled out again and perhaps to other markets.

gyllens

« Reply #36 on: December 02, 2016, 12:09 »
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Extremely good day!!  dozens and dozens of 3.30 sales!  going from strength to strength!

« Reply #37 on: December 02, 2016, 14:01 »
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Starting to fear that spike and monti may be right.  After the big promo wave ended (midnight Thursday but bleeding into Friday) my FT earnings are about half what they were last Friday... and that was the US holiday weekend.

How is everyone else's FT earnings today, only counting earnings after midnight (excluding US sales that came in between 6pm and midnight ET but registered as Friday sales because FT is in European time zone?)

StockPhotosArt.com

« Reply #38 on: December 02, 2016, 14:19 »
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Has anyone who's earnings fell off a cliff a few years ago seen a recovery?  I'm still lucky to get 20% of what I used to get.  SS has been much more stable for me.

Despite my earnings at Fotolia have been slowly raising for the past 3 years, they are a third of what I earned with them in 2010

« Reply #39 on: December 02, 2016, 14:57 »
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My 3.30 sales were getting from US for sure, because I actually got 3.13 after taxes...

Anyway, another EL sale today, wish this promotion thing would last forever...


3.30$ in EU we got 3.30 but now I got 3.13$ and I got 0.94 instead of 0.99. I think is Currency exchange,  this is new. Bad news for Eu Contributors. What do you think?

« Reply #40 on: December 02, 2016, 14:59 »
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Btw after extreme 3.13 sales today sales are very slow here.

« Reply #41 on: December 02, 2016, 15:04 »
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My 3.30 sales were getting from US for sure, because I actually got 3.13 after taxes...

Anyway, another EL sale today, wish this promotion thing would last forever...


3.30$ in EU we got 3.30 but now I got 3.13$ and I got 0.94 instead of 0.99. I think is Currency exchange,  this is new. Bad news for Eu Contributors. What do you think?

It's not new, it's like that forever on all US based agencies. It's called taxes. It has nothing to do with currency exchange. *****

« Reply #42 on: December 02, 2016, 15:34 »
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Well, that was fun.  Rats.

« Reply #43 on: December 02, 2016, 15:39 »
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Now I know where those 3.30 sales are coming from. Thank you!

 :)

« Reply #44 on: December 02, 2016, 16:37 »
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Now I know where those 3.30 sales are coming from. Thank you!
 :)

I doubt it. Mat said: "The royalty you earn for licenses will initially be $0.99 per image, with each image during the promotion representing one converted credit. "


« Reply #46 on: December 02, 2016, 18:42 »
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Ah, well thanks for the info and the fix.

« Reply #47 on: December 03, 2016, 02:51 »
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Explains my poor run......

« Reply #48 on: December 03, 2016, 03:20 »
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Mat you are like a great father to us, some little and some big Contributors who are trying to become the best. Thanks

« Reply #49 on: December 03, 2016, 06:29 »
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I hope Adobe/Fotolia appreciate Mat's work for making contributor-agency relations so positive. I believe it already pays off.
The last time any agency was really concerned about honest positive communication and working towards contributor's best interest was a few years ago, and it was Shutterstock. I guess it come to an end with Scott Braut leaving SS.

Now lets compare the two worlds - Adobe/Fotolia vs Istock. The first is a knight in a shining armor and the latter is a miserable Gollum creature :).


 

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