Revenue plummeting at StockXpert

gostwyck

« on: February 06, 2009, 07:32 »

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Anyone else experiencing that total sales revenue from StockXpert has been heading sharply south from about the time that our images were added to the collections at Jupiter and Photos.com?

My own sales revenue had been growing nicely up to Aug 2008 but have slipped badly since. The way this month has started suggests that revenue will have almost halved in the last 6 months.

I'm actually selling nearly twice as many licenses per month but almost all of them now are 30c sub sales, mostly at Jupiter and Photos.com.


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Freezingpictures

« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 07:34 »

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My sales are lately also quite dissappointing at StockXpert...


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anton9

« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 07:42 »

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lately ive only been getting sub $0.30 sales and nothing else


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fotografer

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 07:48 »

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Same here since the last couple of weeks. Sad

Quote from: anton9 on February 06, 2009, 07:42

lately ive only been getting sub $0.30 sales and nothing else


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sharpshot

« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 08:25 »

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Mine has held up well. I get lots of subs but ppd still earns more.


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MikLav

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 08:36 »

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for me it's getting up and down for more than a year, but in average is more or less flat, despite growing portfolio.


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j2k

« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2009, 08:36 »

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I'm getting mostly subs these days as well Embarrassed


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sharply_done

« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2009, 11:21 »

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Everything at StockXpert is up, up, up for me since the introduction of subs/JIU/photos.com: Revenue +100%, DLs +300%, RPI +250%, DL/Image +250%. I wish all my charts displayed such positive trends.


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lisafx

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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2009, 12:39 »

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I've experienced exactly the same thing as Gostwyck. My sales have jumped but $ are sharply declining.

I will say that it improved somewhat last month due to my opting out of subs. I am selling less on StockXpert than with the subs opted in, but at least the sales are full priced credit ones. And I am still selling on photos.com and JUI because it takes 90 days to remove them.


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charlesknox

« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2009, 13:08 »

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They are doing really well for me they are ranked 3rd-4th every month for me


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takestock

« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2009, 13:11 »

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StockXpert continues to do very well for me with regular sales.
Now firmly in my Top 3.


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madelaide

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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2009, 15:30 »

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StockXpert sales decreased a lot for me since November and it isn't my top-seller anymore. I'm opted-out, so I don't know if this has any impact. When I opted-out in May, before the Photos.com/JIU deal, I saw no loss in performance, in fact had very good months there in June and July.

Regards,
Adelaide


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sharply_done

« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2009, 15:43 »

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Quote from: madelaide on February 06, 2009, 15:30

I think opting-out at StockXpert has a negative, but not immediate, effect on sales. Given that it takes up to 90 days for images to be removed from JUI/photos.com, this might explain your predicament.


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Kngkyle

« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2009, 15:49 »

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Huge decline for me. Only getting sub sales. Crestock might even be ahead of them this month.


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takestock

« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2009, 15:59 »

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Quote from: j2k on February 06, 2009, 08:36

I'm getting mostly subs these days as well Embarrassed

I'm opted in but had a StockXpert PPD for $2.50 today


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Gregor909

« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2009, 16:00 »

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Yes, decline for me as well, and now I know why;

Today I received an email from StockXpert; "XpertTips" . Which I assume is send to all the buyers as well.
And what are they advertising in that same mail? Photos.com subscriptions!!! Angry

So all the StockXpert buyers can skip right over to Photos.com and we are back where we began at SS earning only a miserable 30 cents!
So this is what happens when the big companies take us over! Angry


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madelaide

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« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2009, 16:29 »

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Quote from: sharply_done on February 06, 2009, 15:43

I opted out much before the new deal, so I was never in it. What I meant is that maybe now that Photos.com/JUI was in place, having opted out makes a difference. Or maybe it has to be with credit prices being so high that some frequent buyers prefer to change to subs due the cost/benefit advantage. Still, I get some nice credit sales in DT, just not as plenty as before.

Regards,
Adelaide


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Vonkara

« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2009, 18:07 »

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Decline + lot of humiliating 0.30 subs (95% of sales). I don't like StockXpert anymore


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epixx

« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2009, 21:11 »

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My StockXpert sales have declined dramatically since November, and I've been opted out of subs all the time. 123rf is doing better for me now. Who would have thought that a year ago?

I noticed the ad in the mail as well. My guess is that photos.com is getting the marketing money. I wouldn't be surprised if StockXpert is discontinued as a separate brand within a year or two.


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Dreamframer

« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2009, 11:41 »

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I can't really judge because my StockXpert sales were poor before. I joined in march 2008 and I have 200-something images there. I made some 20$ until january 2009. Then, in january I earned more than 15$, which means more than a half of all sales...which can be totally by coincidence because I don't have very big portfolio to see consistence in sales.


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Randomway

« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2009, 15:05 »

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All my sales so far this month are either Photos.com or Jupiter. I don't know the magic formula yet for sales directly from Stockxpert. If anyone has a copy of said formula, don't hesitate.


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massman

« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2009, 15:32 »

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Here is a link http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=3785.0 to the same subject from about a 10 months ago. I thought I would bring my stats up to date, the figures don't make for good reading, unless, of course, you love subscription sales:

Oct '07 subscription DLs = 3% of total DLs
Nov '07 subscription DLs = 17% of total DLs
Dec '07 subscription DLs = 20% of total DLs
Jan '08 subscription DLs = 22% of total DLs
Feb '08 subscription DLs = 46% of total DLs
Mar '08 subscription DLs = 47% of total DLs
Apr '08 subscription DLs = 45% of total DLs
May '08 subscription DLs = 46% of total DLs
June '08 subscription DLs = 37% of total DLs
July '08 subscription DLs = 48% of total DLs
Aug '08 subscription DLs = 54% of total DLs
Sept '08 subscription DLs = 62% of total DLs
Oct '08 subscription DLs = 49% of total DLs
Nov '08 subscription DLs = 58% of total DLs
Dec '08 subscription DLs = 67% of total DLs
Jan '09 subscription DLs = 82% of total DLs
Feb '09 subscription DLs = 87% of total DLs (projected)

It would be interesting to see if this is a general trend across different submitters or if it's just me. My income from StockXpert is now about 30% of what it was a year ago. It's a shame, I had really high hopes that StockXpert was going to be a big player with emphasis on a fair comission structure for it's contributors. Any thoughts?


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gostwyck

« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2009, 16:08 »

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My own figures are not dissimilar to yours Massman.

Of considerable concern to me is that the average royalty achieved per download at StockXpert is now the lowest of any agency that I contribute to __ and a few months ago they were the highest.

These are my figures so far this month;

StockXpert - 73 sales at an average of 52.7c

SS (next lowest) - 369 sales at an average of 60.9c

I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable with the JupiterUnlimited and Photos.com tie-in. I particularly dislike the way StockXpert images are somewhat patronisingly described as the 'Value Collection' on JupiterUnlimited (i.e. they might just about be OK for a project that doesn't matter much).

If you try a few searches of the different collections then, quite frankly, the StockXpert 'cheap rubbish' looks much better than most of their 'Premium Collections' __ but that's not much of a surprise to most of us.

I'm getting very close to opting out of all subs at StockXpert. If StockXpert then subsequently drops below 2% of my total income (quite likely the way things are going) then they won't be getting any new uploads either.


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thesentinel

« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2009, 17:04 »

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But the Poll results on the side bar now show StockXpert in 3rd position Huh


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qwerty

« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2009, 19:31 »

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StockXpert comes in 4th on my earning list, lots of subscriptions >80%. My earning aren't plummeting they just swing up and down each month, no general trend.
Majority of subcriptions are from Jupiter or photos.com. Hopefully these are new and different buyers than those who use to buy pay per image on StockXpert (or any other pay per image site I submit to) How you work that out I don't know, though if you had steady pay per image sales before and now none (absolute # not %) you could draw some conclusions


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