MicrostockGroup

Go to edit profile and un-check the tick box in section 6.

Personally I favor opting in, this month has been fantastic, I believe that the extra sub downloads on the images have helped my images stay at the top of the most popular search default, and brought in more credit sales.

steve-oh

exactly...what do I wrong?

/the stupid swede..

thanks Steve! 

fotografer  *LOL*

sometimes we are.... 

Steve-Oh,

Just wanted to say "Thanks!" to StockXpert for making their subscription sales optional.  My sales have not suffered at all since I opted out, but on Dreamstime yesterday I had all subscription sales.  Bummer.

I posted in the other thread too, but I tried to opt out today and couldn't.

Same trend as Lisa noted - subscription sales up and not enough L and XL credit sales to keep the $$ per download up.

At this time I'm glad to having opted-out. While I probably missed many subs sales

Yes, I've just opted out too.

I must say that I supported Steve and StockXpert when they launched subscriptions, and I believed the story that they were/are looking for a different type of customer.  However the proof of the pudding is that XL sales have mostly disappeared and have been replaced with subscriptions; as Lisafx says: sales are going up and income is going down.

I'll monitor what happens over the coming month.

BTW I do have a problem with the 'most popular' search at StockXpert which has such a massive emphasis on 'new' that it probably exceeds SS in this respect.  I dunno what others have seen, but in my portfolio a 'most popular' search places new images with zero downloads in front of established pictures with lots of downloads.  Whenever I look at it I think 'how on earth can a picture with zero downloads be more popular than an image with 40 sales'.  According to Steve the 'newness' factor reduces over a couple of months.

All in all this looks like a straight attempt to copy Shutterstock.

Shame.  StockXpert were make such good progress for me until recently.

Same thing here. A sudden drop this month, StockXpert is less than 3% of sales for March so far.

I had assumed it was because we haven't uploaded recently. I won't opt in though.

SS seems to be down for many people, seems likely it's the increased competition from StockXpert and DT.

I'm feeling more and more that exclusive on IS is the way to go. I just hope they don't start subs

Linda

Subs sales are still in a tolerable portion for me (<20%), but I've also noticed for the first time this month that no credit sale was L or above.  Last month L/XL/XXL sales were more than subs sales, so I wasn't so upset.  Let's see how the month develop. 

I decided to give StockXpert a credit by opting-in from the start, as they at least gave us that option, what is a sign of consideration towards contributors.  And subs were not being a big issue to me.  This recent trend however is very deceptive.

Regards,
Adelaide