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I'm not saying this as fact - just pointing out an observation/trend that is becoming more prevalent.

I've noticed that the downloads don't follow an "ebb and flow" and now go by a weekly trend whereby downloads are torrid for one week (aka best week ever) and then die off 60% the next week, only to go back to best week ever status the week after that.

I have a feeling that the best match is juggling the searches for some topics weekly which is changing the results and screwing with the downloads making them less consistent and its been doing this for quite a while.

i won't hit the next target level, they should divert all the downloads to me

if thats true, its a stupid strategy and bad long-term business management.  however, I'm not sure that they can program the site to do that without breaking it completely

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I've noticed this in my sales as well.

Ichiro17: your theory does make sense to me.

I've noticed the volume surges but I've been tracking the best match an it doesn't seem to have changed much or at all for me in the past month.

For "Evil" Isock it would make financial sense for the best match to favor, and continue changing to favor, contributors with low RC levels. It would make the most profits.

For "Good" Istock changing the best match regularly could also give a chance to buried files where they could get some fresh exposure and be given an opportunity to take off. Or if the files sucks it would sink back down to loserville. Could be a good way to do a rolling optimization of the collection.

Good or Evil? Who knows...

I too have noticed some very strange, almost discriminatory results with Best Match. I did a video only search for "technology" - I was zero of the 100 results. Why? I have over 400 "technology" videos in my portfolio. Left out because I'm at 40%? Because I was one of the first video contributors? Because iStock wants to level the playing field?

I don't know. I have no clue.