This is pretty neat. I like what they are doing with their 'Darkroom'.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/darkroom/keyword_trends.mhtml

http://buzz.shutterstock.com/keyword-trends-tool

"Keyword Trends is the first tool of its kind in our industry, and represents a big step forward in sharing information with our contributors. You can use it to help plan when to create content (be it vectors, video, or photos) and make decisions about when to upload seasonal content.

When you visit the tool for the first time, you’ll see five boxes at the top. Enter any search terms into those boxes. Or, click on the suggested keywords in the left-hand column, which are personalized based on your portfolio. The page will draw a line graph showing the relative popularity of those keywords over time."

I saw and used the tool but have no idea how it works for analysis?  Without more information ... numbers, etc ... how does it work?

They are not giving the figures, but just the trends. Just type in the boxes, the keywords of your choice, then hit search and you can see when those keywords are most sought after. The word Sunset is most sought for in January and Sex is most sought after in December, by a long way.

here's a blog post I just wrote about it
http://blog.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-keyword-trends-2/

I also reviewed the new Keyword Trends Tool, in German, which can be found here:
http://www.fotos-verkaufen.de/news/das-neue-keyword-trends-tool-von-shutterstock-im-test.html

I really like that they care about their photographers, this is getting really rare the the microstock industry.

Oh this is VERY useful.  Yet another reason to love Shutterstock.  I don't know if they ever read MSG, but thank you Mr Oringer and the staff at SS

Yes Gaja - I'm missing that sort option on the gallery stats too.  Hope they'll fix it soon.

@ Jsnover - I think that's the kind of info they really want while things are in Beta phase.

On the left of the screen, you should see a green feedback link.  You can use that to report the kind of issues you're experiencing.

I'd be more impressed of they abandoned new toys and concentrated on getting the search/lost images problems sorted!!!!

I can't get the Image Gallery Stats to work.  Getting that working again would be as much or more helpful than the Keyword Trends.

yes a scale would be good, you can "normalise" the values by keeping one of the same keywords in eg money,business etc to give some idea relative changes

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@ Jsnover - I think that's the kind of info they really want while things are in Beta phase.

On the left of the screen, you should see a green feedback link.  You can use that to report the kind of issues you're experiencing.

I'll give them my feedback too - I'm not getting any graph lines.  I tried entering Christmas, Thankgiving, and Pumpkin just to see if maybe it had been the words I was entering but I'm still not seeing graph lines.  Windows XP and IE8

That's an easy one. Get Google Chrome (FREE) or FireFox (free) and dump IE!

Also you might consider IE eradicator, that wipes it off your computer. Kind of like removing a virus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer

Yeah, I have no problems using this on Firefox and and Chrome. IE has been behind the times for years. They were the first, so there is no need for them to be innovative or making sure that everything runs ok, as they still have plenty of users by the mere fact that people have always known them and often people are hesitant to change. Kind of reminds me of istock. I do have all three browsers on my laptop and it's rare that something won't work in all three browsers.

I think the web usages can be much closer to the actual event than the print usages that can be months in advance.

Still, if it includes contributors it could also be skewed by people who just uploaded images checking to see if they have showed up yet (before the event).

I would like to see some sort of relative scale on there. Otherwise you have to put in another term to compare your search to.

Hi,

Does anyone know if the search trends are only from buying costumers, or include all searches, including contributors and thieves?

Because if it includes the last two the results are meaningless. I've made some researches and found that the highest spike in some of seasonal searches are very close to the date itself, which doesn't look like a "normal" behavior for designers since they search images in advance.

I asked this of SS staff and was told it only takes into account searches by logged in buyers -