I never noticed this pattern. For me, fridays are just like the other working days of the week

I never noticed this pattern. For me, fridays are just like the other working days of the week

I have, it's very obvious at SS as well, since there's more buyers from outside of US than at IS. And it's easier to compare as well since I usually get something like 8 times the number of DLs compared to IS. DT is strong today, but for me there's no pattern over there and the sales are very low as well

Because people start boozing already on friday lunchtime, so when they get back to work they dont give a toss about business and when finishing they go to the nearest wine-bar and get even more zozzled.

all answers above are right, but lagereek's in particular may also explain why saturdays are usually worse than sundays: friday night hangover effect on next morning

all answers above are right, but lagereek's in particular may also explain why saturdays are usually worse than sundays: friday night hangover effect on next morning

I agree, there's probably lots of factors which usually make Friday the weakest weekday for sales - projects are wrapping up, people are leaving early for the weekend, the Friday afternoon skive etc.

But I think the fact that iStock runs on Calgary time is the strongest factor, since Calgary is in one of the world's latest (as it were) timezone.  Sales on what counts as 'Sunday' sales usually look much better than Saturday because by the end of Calgary's Sunday, much of the world has been up and working for many hours.  In fact by midnight on Calgary's Sunday, cities like Auckland and Sydney have pretty much finished Monday's work day (by then it's 6pm in Auckland and 4pm in Sydney if my calculations worked out).  Japan, Korea and China aren't far behind that.

So back in the days when iStock had an annual 100% royalties day  , they were careful to make sure it fell on a Friday to cash in on the fact that they were only paying for weekend sales in much of the world.

Why do Fridays seem to be a very bad or no sales day compared to the rest of the week.

Have a guess. Let's see if you can work it out all by yourself. Then you could start a new thread titled "Why is December slow?" and then work that one out for yourself too.

I do not follow patterns, but I had a good day today at IS.

Fridays are bad because for east of the world it's almost saturday..

And sunday is better than saturday because east of the world enters monday

I do not follow patterns, but I had a good day today at IS.

+1, after a lousy week

Quote from: Herg on August 26, 2011, 10:13

Why do Fridays seem to be a very bad or no sales day compared to the rest of the week.

Have a guess. Let's see if you can work it out all by yourself. Then you could start a new thread titled "Why is December slow?" and then work that one out for yourself too.

 Mr Gough, you are as facetious as ever. Your comments are irellevant to me.

This post got blocked by you know who but I will ask it here. Why do Fridays seem to be a very bad or no sales day compared to the rest of the week. Does the US stop work on this day an have an extended weekend ?

Blame the US but from what I've seen the UK is six hours ahead of the US their day ends by 10am US time and they seem to close up at noon for the weekend. Before the US gets up for breakfast the UK has closed up for the weekend. That's something that would hurt sales. End of the week stinks, Monday is start work, you only have 3 good days a week.

becouse people in Australia and Japan are already in saturday, and someone don't work....This can be seen in the last hours of the day on Friday

+1

Had my best day of the week at IS again last Friday. Curious, isn't it?