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Don't know if it is just me, but I don't have the regular amount of DLs since IS announced the subscriptions. Have the designers stopped downloading until the sub sales start?

All good for me

I have had a regular to good week.

IS is always slow for me, so I am not noticing any change 

OTOH, as Waldo4 pointed out SS has been tanking big time.
Not just for me either as there is a thread about it on the SS forums as well.

Maybe subs buyers who have subscriptions that have run out are waiting for the IS launch rather than re-upping at SS?

Me too.  No complaints here

Ok, ok, it was just me then. 

Probably I don't have good images for this season. What have you been selling?

Usually IS is my top performer, but this month, DT is doing better.

It also may have a lot to do with the size of your portfolio. Usually when someone says they've gone from "multiple downloads" to one or none, they have a very small batch of images to which they are referring.

A very small portfolio, unless it is tightly packed with very good sellers, is going to feel every slight shift more acutely than others who have spread out their earnings over many more images.

I am not sure if my portfolio should be defined as "very small" but it managed to get daily and often multiple DLs in the past few months, except in the last few days after the annoucement of sub sales. Of course, it could be just me.

How small is considered very small?

That is very true. My portfolio cannot compare with what you have in yours because I am not even a year old with IS.

However, that does not invalidate my comparison of my DLs of this month with those in the previous months.

Slightly better than average for me. I am hoping for a big uptick after subs start.

Had a bit of a dip the past couple of days but today was way higher than normal which offset the dip. So, no I haven't noticed an overall slowdown and I even have a small portfolio.

The last two weeks have been better than over a year for me...

But small portfolios will always be more subject to sudden swings. It's just applied statistics (I have a small portfolio...I've had changes in best match or the positions of the moon, or whatever cut my download rate to a third of what it was overnight...and sadly it stayed there!)

And any portfolio that can have no sales for five days is by definition small  and you can tell nothing about the way that the site is operating as a whole from such a tiny sample. What is small? My portfolio is small (only 300 images). There are 3 million images at istock. There are very few portfolios that are large enough or sell enough to have a valid statistical sample. Sean (sjlocke) would I guess be one of those - although even then with the massive growth in istock it would be a close run thing.

To make that point is not invalidating your experience. It's just pointing out that there is very little reason to think that your experience is a good pointer to what is happening to the site as a whole.