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Just for fun,  check out your position on http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/.  Have you moved up or down?  

Looking at the IS charts recently, I noticed that there are people moving UP in the charts but complaining of declining sales overall.  

What does this mean?  Well, if you are moving up, but your sales are bad, then the overall sales of the collection are most likely being redistributed among other contributors or collections, or else falling universally.  

At least that's my interpretation.  But I'm no statistician.  Will be interested in hearing other people's theories on the data as the poll progresses. 

I moved up in the charts but sales are way down.  Non-exclusive.

Same here,  moving up but sales not what they used to be.

My sales haven't changed much over the last few months but I have gone up a bit.

I'm moving up but my pictures are "CrapStock" just seems that sales dribble in and it must be the people above me are even worse off?

I don't shoot models, I shoot the overdone, over supplied, stuff and things. I can't explain why anyone buys anything of mine, but as long as they do, I'll take the spare change.

Believe it or not, I'm in the top 50% of all sellers for total sales. That's pretty sad.

Something seems to have changed again with the way istockcharts allocate positions. For a while, it was alphabetical order within your fuzzy total, i.e. if your name was Aardvark and you had 9901 dls, you'd come well above Zumba who had 9999.
Now that has changed totally. I just rolled over 10,000 on Thursday, which means I must be around 'real' position 1994.  But I'm actually showing at 1858. I can't see how it's worked out, but it's not 'actual' downloads and it's not alphabtical within fuzzy totals. It also seems not to be dl/ul ratio or dl per time on site, both of which would be useful differentiators within the fuzzy total.
Ironically for a long time when there was an 'absolute' total, I was position 1860.
I have counted my 'real' position as being c1994, so have voted for lower position/lower dls.

I moved up, but sales are down.  I'm in the top 5% or so, but lately IS has been rejecting almost everything I send.  I now submit a small fraction of what I produce, guessing as to which shots have the best shot at approval, but even doing this, only about 20% of my "best" stuff is passing the test... these are shots quite similar to ones that have been approved in the past and are selling quite well, relatively speaking.  Very frustrating.

Once IS blurred the sales totals the day to day changes on the charts became a lot less interesting. I wonder what percentage of contributors are on those charts.

I don't look that often, but if I remember right from the last time I looked then I'm moving up. After my last week or so that's surprising.

I am at 27702, so far from Sean or Lisa it is like I am not even on the same site.  I am a long long way from the top; heck, I can't even see the middle.

I don't like excuses; can't be number one making excuses.  Then again, pretty hard to be number one if you start the race four years behind the starting gun.  Guess I will just need to work harder; that will cutting deep into my margarita time.  In Russia, that was no problem because there were no margaritas; but now that I am back in USA, that becomes a real problem.

Thanks Lisa; wildlife photography feeds my soul.  I do a bit of product and food photography, hopefully it will help feed my stomach.

Middle by which search? Just click on a heading and see.

Or click on a page and see.

Maybe I'm not making that easy.

It starts on Download Total as default. There are 739 pages, so lets be easy and say the middle is 370. In the box that says page # of [   ] type in 370. There's the middle.

Or search on your name and see where you are in user numbers, "Jump to position#"

What's the middle? If you are asking what I'm guessing, that would be Downloads total? (correct me if I'm wrong)

Page 370 shows... 100 downloads as the middle. Now since the fizzy numbers (as someone else appropriately called it) the next level is 200 downloads.

100 DLs goes from 16526 to 20252 - or 3,726 people between 100 and 200 downloads. It goes by hundreds from 100 up to 1000 (and tens below that)

Member 8584 has 1000 DLs or another 11,668 people between 100 and 1000 dls.Once again the IS info and charts go by 100 DLs per identifiable change after 100.

8,584 people have over 1000 DLs. You can easily call that $1000 total earnings. Roughly 20,000 people have had 100 DLs and cashed out of the 36902 total members. You can take that as half have cashed, or half have never cashed.

Amen!  Had to be said. 

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