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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: vphoto on September 06, 2008, 18:03
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not a single download today I had weekend days where I had 3 dls, but not 0.
Strange
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me too. I only had one dl yet.....
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I had 8 today, but the first week of September was pretty slow compared to just a few weeks ago.
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Since I started selling my photos in microstock I have learnt to HATE weekends! I had only four sales yesterday! And today I have had only one sale so far! Not that the sales on weekdays are so perfect but the weekends are really horrible.
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Yesterday I had dls on DT, IS, FT and for the first time ever 0 dls on SS.
Luckily for me money not an issue for me anymore :)
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It is interesting to hear everybody moaning about summer slowdown! In fact July and August were much better for me than September has been so far.
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Since I started selling my photos in microstock I have learnt to HATE weekends!
Funny! Same thing for me, weekend are so boring on the net. And yes, I have no life during weekends :)
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8,6,7,1,2,3,3
This is my sales count since the start of September. the last two numbers are from this week-end.
Oh, and it helps to post on "Show me..." threads: for the second time now I had a sale of a photo, which never sold before, minutes after posting it on such a thread!
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SS is back for me. 9 today.
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Not for me :'( - only 3 so far...
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I have more downloads today (sunday) than on friday! 35 vs 30.
Yesterday (saturday) - 20 dls.
Thats pretty low, considering my average of 80-100 dls per good day.
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The weekend is already over in Japan at my time ;D @everybody: Have a good week with many sales!
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holy cow... weekend is over :)
in germeny its 13.30 PM and I already sold three times more pictures today than during the whole weekend :o ::)
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For me bad monday, just one sale till now!
Usually I have 5-10 till now!
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whoa! Monday is worst than saturday for me. What is it, some holiday perhaps? Bad monday, on all sites!
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I have had a bad Monday so far too. Only three sales.
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I'm beginning to expect Zero days at weekends.
The odd weekend you might escape with 1 or 2 downloads.
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I'm beginning to expect Zero days at weekends.
The odd weekend you might escape with 1 or 2 downloads.
Same here. I only upload to SS once a week with around 10 photos late on Friday or early Sat. morning.
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Catastrophic day is this Monday!!!
Last Monday I had 600 % more sales than today...
Is some holiday or what!?
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Still not much!!! I am not able to reach even 20 downloads today! I say what is going on there?
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Blame Tajikistan. It's their Independence Day. ;D
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0907876.html (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0907876.html)
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It's not just microphotography that's slow. Under my assumed name, I sell new cars, and we haven't had a customer all day.
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Well, again it only makes sense to come to reasonable conclusion that there is third party responsible for this rash of poor performance in our portfolios.
Since i feel the least affected by this monstrous demon, I feel obligated to seek out and destroy what ever this evil do'er, money thieving entity is.
I will let you all know when i have destroyed it
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Well, again it only makes sense to come to reasonable conclusion that there is third party responsible for this rash of poor performance in our portfolios.
Since i feel the least affected by this monstrous demon, I feel obligated to seek out and destroy what ever this evil do'er, money thieving entity is.
I will let you all know when i have destroyed it
again making fools most of us, and making point at the same time. I am not offended at all I started this thread at a weakened when the demon runs unrestrained.
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:'( it's getting sad
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Only 1 DL today, only!!!
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what is going on with SS? lower and lower sales each week.
are there too many photographers, and too little buyers?
I think all other sites took some of subs buyers from SS, when they introduced their subs plan.
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what is going on with SS? lower and lower sales each week.
are there too many photographers, and too little buyers?
I think all other sites took some of subs buyers from SS, when they introduced their subs plan.
Same here. It is true that I'm not adding as much material as I used to but I don't see any bump in sales when new images get accepted. September looks to be about 40% down on my BME (June 2008).
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I upload about 50 new images every week, and see no boost in sales. That worries me.
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what is going on with SS? lower and lower sales each week.
are there too many photographers, and too little buyers?
I think you are right on this. The 1 million images added each half year have for result this
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SS started out very strong for me this month, but the past week has been dismal.
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Financial crisis these days is on top!
Will be better!
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Will be better!
When? :-X
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Yeah, but microstock is also very cheap. Will see...
When? When people will stop living over their incomes is a simple answer. I said simple :)
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Will be better!
When? :-X
Today we have big victim on stock exchange market in USA, this is the bottom,these days...
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I got Saturday like that but even I am not superstitious I blamed it for 13th :-)
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Today we have big victim on stock exchange market in USA, this is the bottom,these days...
Will we start getting more downloads on SS when there is a new administration leading the USA?
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"Today we have big victim on stock exchange market in USA, this is the bottom,these days..."
The bottom ? You are optimistic methinks. It is still a long way to go, then we hit the bottom - and then we start digging.
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This is the first time SS has lost their place as my best earner since I started with them. :'(
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This month SS is #5 for me...yes, #5, after DT, StockXpert, iS, 123RF, and barely ahead of Fotolia and BigStock. No kidding. Something must have happened - otherwise I can't explain literally hitting a wall. Downloads have been steadily creeping down for the last couple of months - but September looks like WME...
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For me SS does the half of last year at the same period with double photo number...strange
Istock is dead too...these last days
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New adminstration will make dollar much stronger,then capital will come... Then we will earn more... :P
Everything of this is with purpose...
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what is going on with SS? lower and lower sales each week.
are there too many photographers, and too little buyers?
I think you are right on this. The 1 million images added each half year have for result this
To be quite honest, I think that the competitions (and yes, I have been a part of them) have done as much to oversaturate ss as anything else. It used to be that if you downloaded regularly, even if not very many, that you'd be able "keep current". But now we have a few photogs who are madly uploading hundreds of images per batch just to be at the top of the current challenge, and in order to keep current, you better be able to come up with significant volume!
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I have many rejections on SS these days, they become very rigorous...
I think that my new pictures are twice better than others before, but at now I have twice rejections more...
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I have many rejections on SS these days, they become very rigorous...
I think that my new pictures are twice better than others before, but at now I have twice rejections more...
Hum... no changes in rejections for me since one year, my last batch 100% accepted, 90% average acceptation.
Can you tell us the reasons ? Noise? Colors? Subject? ????,
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I have many rejections on SS these days, they become very rigorous...
I think that my new pictures are twice better than others before, but at now I have twice rejections more...
Hum... no changes in rejections for me since one year, my last batch 100% accepted, 90% average acceptation.
Can you tell us the reasons ? Noise? Colors? Subject? ????,
Limited commercial value,poor lighting...
Till now my batches had app. rate about 90 %...
We will see next...
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I, too, have seen a marked increase in rejection in the past couple of months. Last batch had 9 out of 11 rejected. (most approved on other sites). Most common reasons are composition, uneven lighting and focus not where they thought it should be.
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With so many contributing these days SS can afford to be fussy.
This looks like the future - It's going to push us all to raise our quality standards.
I have many rejections on SS these days, they become very rigorous...
I think that my new pictures are twice better than others before, but at now I have twice rejections more...
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ok....i thgt i was the only one with really bad sales which is gone to the drain in Shutterstock because i have not upload for a long season......
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Today not a single DL. Yesterday just one!
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With so many contributing these days SS can afford to be fussy.
This looks like the future - It's going to push us all to raise our quality standards.
There is a limit how far the quality can be raise with only 25 cents per image...
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Exactly. It is ridiculous if the agencies (mostly iStock) are searching our pictures with a microscope for teeny faults and then they sell them for a few cents in their bloody subscription plans.
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WME
for me at SS
may be it's time to pull out??
In my opinion it's got to do with "On Demand" too
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In my opinion it's got to do with "On Demand" too
How do you think this is affecting overall sales and downloads?
My downloads also have decreased consistently since they implemented the OD feature, not much boost from new uploads either.
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my sales down to and I had only two OD sales. :(
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In my opinion it's got to do with "On Demand" too
How do you think this is affecting overall sales and downloads?
My downloads also have decreased consistently since they implemented the OD feature, not much boost from new uploads either.
in my opinion by introdusing OD they destroy the inovativation of the site.
Once the customers could download 25 images per day, they ( customers) try to do so downloading images that they don't even want them at the moment just to build a portfolio.
As a conclusion of that (in my opinion) there were alot of downloads for photographers witch even with that tiny fee of some cents make us some money overall by the end of the month.
The site get earnings by the non downloaded images then and every one was a bit happy i guess.
By OD there is no hurry to download images more than they (customers) want to use.
That's my opinion
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Very very low these days!!! :( :o :(
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Exactly. It is ridiculous if the agencies (mostly iStock) are searching our pictures with a microscope for teeny faults and then they sell them for a few cents in their bloody subscription plans.
I think you hit it. All the higher up agencies have been tightening the standards. Then what others have said, the volume of new photos and photographers, everywhere, means less exposure and less percentage of the total sales. More competition is changing things, just like subscriptions have lowered the pay per photo.
If it wasn't easy before, it's not getting any easier now. Lower pay per photo, more competition, more photos = lower income.
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My comparative statistic in my sales on SS after cca 3 months :
(http://www.slichke.com/images/viu1222711562z.jpg)
Conclusion is: RPI decreases, yesterday I had ZERO day after more than two months...
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Exactly. It is ridiculous if the agencies (mostly iStock) are searching our pictures with a microscope for teeny faults and then they sell them for a few cents in their bloody subscription plans.
Istock suscription plan isn't bloody at all, it's great, the only one that gives you the same, or just tiny cents less, that it was a regular sale.
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Today still nothing!? Zero game...
Is Wall Street guilty for that!?
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Be careful not to break this F5 key ;D
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Today still nothing, yesterday 1, day before two digits number of DLs...
Very bad last two days...
Similar experience!?
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yep same pretty slow here difficult for me to get 10 dl's per day during weekdays:(
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11/05 - 7
11/06 - 11
11/07 - 6
Used to be double...
This one, uploaded a week ago, is becoming quickly a bestseller. If you can't beat the depression, join it ;-)
(http://69.90.174.252/photos/display_pic_with_logo/50227/50227,1225159004,9.jpg)