MicrostockGroup

I know, I'm ahead, but this won't change much in a day...



Exclusive 15.13%
Black Diamond 45 (and more coming, nice work!) .12%
60% base Contributors
Under 100 DLs = 44%

Source http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/ of course. Nice work!

New Members in 2011 = 273 (this number tends to increase as they are added to the database, but for now that's it.)
New Members in 2010 = 2061

Is there any data on how these same stats looked a year or two ago? I'd think the change from year to year would be even more interesting to see.

too bad it doesn´t work.. :/

^Better than nothing!

So in a little over 3 years, the total # of contributors increased 154%. Base level contributors made up the bulk of that (of course), increasing by 205%. Bronze increased by 115%, Silver by 83%, Gold by 86%, Diamond by 122%, and Black Diamond by 350%.

I wonder how sales increased by comparison; too bad we can't get that kind of info.

Thanks, Race.

That's strange.  It works fine for me.  You can go http://www.archive.org and enter http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/ in the search field.  You'll find "snapshots" of iStockcharts dating all the way back to October 18, 2008.

Well...for whatever reason nothing is coming up now.     Data was there a minute ago! 

delete please

Down 15% ... probably the first fall in iStock's history. While the number of contributors continues to rise and new collections are hiving off some of the cash.

That explains quite a lot, really.

The 15% is obviously averaged over the entire year. I'd guess that the slide has actually been gradually accelerating. They were probably 'only' down say 5-10% at the beginning of the year but the last couple of months may have been 20% or more.

I think the slide originally began immediately after the RC announcement which is why they had to revise the RC targets downwards only 3-4 months after they had implemented them. I'd imagine that sales had always been increasing until Sep 2010.

It certainly expains the drastic measure of the new best match in a desperate attempt to prop up the sales of their exclusives. I wonder how much time it will buy them?

^^^
+1

Well my revenue is probably down about 20% compared to 2010. If Istock sales really are down 15% over the year and that decline continues at the same rate then by the end of 2012 they could be 40% down compared to the peak of 2010. That would be very serious.

Just how long do you reckon Istockphoto could keep growing 'income' whilst shedding sales at such an alarming rate?

at the start of the year 2011 :

my data _

blackdiamond : 37
diamond : 774
gold : 1090
silver : 3180
bronze : 8064
base : 23079

total contributor : 36764 (less than the real effective number about 85000 now)
esclusive contributor : 5872
total files : 7479201

I know but the price has increased a lot since 2008, a sale in 2008 doesn't equal a sale today at all.  In the last year my RPD has increased by at least 30% and I have almost no Vetta and no Agency.