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Author Topic: is something up at DT? or is it just me?  (Read 10331 times)

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vonkara

« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2007, 17:20 »
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I imagine that the contributor base is growing faster than the customer base.  So, presumably to give everyone a fair chance, it seems that contributors are 'rotated'.  Of course I might be wrong and it might be images that are rotated.  Nonetheless, the rotation still applies.

I have some intersting stats about the buyers/sellers ratio... It was 399 853 users (2 weeks ago) and 23 835 photographers. Now stats from 2 minutes: 425 790 users for 24 837 photographers...


« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2007, 18:33 »
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When I joined DT in February there were only 13,000 photographers.

« Reply #27 on: November 23, 2007, 02:06 »
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I joined 40 days ago, have about 400 images on line, and earned 16$. I have a sale every 4-5 days. :( That is low for me. I was hoping for something better. But I hope things will improve. :)

« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2007, 02:18 »
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DT seems to take a little while to get going but is excellent in earnings/dl when it does.

« Reply #29 on: November 23, 2007, 10:03 »
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In case you haven't noticed, DT appears to have a 'rotation' element in its search engine.  This is why so many people comment that 'DT goes quiet for a couple of weeks, then takes off like a rocket'.

Most of the sites do. IS just changed their Best Match results again.  ::)

« Reply #30 on: December 12, 2007, 10:42 »
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It is called dilution!
More shooters and more images equal to less download per individual.
The last count was over 25,000 photographers.
« Last Edit: December 12, 2007, 10:44 by shutterdrop »

« Reply #31 on: December 12, 2007, 10:49 »
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well i am still pleasently please at how many images I have in the 'recently sold images' that just had their first sale.  To me, this means that people are seeing all images on the site and not just purchasing the same 1000 images over and over again.  Out of the the most recent 20 sold images, 4 of them (some of which were quite old) were images without previous sales.

Things like this don't happen too often on istock

« Reply #32 on: December 12, 2007, 11:09 »
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I joined 40 days ago, have about 400 images on line, and earned 16$. I have a sale every 4-5 days. :( That is low for me. I was hoping for something better. But I hope things will improve. :)

Chode, I remember (I think it was Achilles) saying it takes about 90 days for a photo to gain momentum.  Although, very often I have quick downloads on recent uploads - then they sink for a couple months until they find their place.

I know you are comparing DT to your experience at FT, but I make much much more on DT with same portfolio.  At FT I get less than a third of transactions, and each individual transaction averages to 38 cents less than DT.  (If I could exclude the subscription sales, the difference in those numbers would be much greater.)

« Reply #33 on: December 12, 2007, 13:13 »
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I have the same problem with FT. Very slow sales and a very large percentage of rejects. I am uploading less to FT because the viewers seem eratic and without logic.

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« Reply #34 on: December 12, 2007, 13:51 »
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Maybe my images just aren't a fit for DT. I've had rejections that are questionable (same images are accepted and selling at SS and/or IS) and sales are very poor. I sold more at Snapvillage than DT in November.

With FT I've had almost no rejections and it's slowly picking up momentum. Currently my #3 earner overall.

« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2007, 14:40 »
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At DT last summer I went back and made sure the most important keywords were in title and description which helps in search relevancy (if you can figure out what your most important keywords are!).  I know that acceptance % plays a part in the search there too.

« Reply #36 on: December 12, 2007, 16:03 »
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I had a gradual climb up at DT for the last year, then a steep upward spike in October, nearly doubling my income there, then November took a steep dive, cutting my income in half, and December has nearly ground to a halt.  I've been adding files slowly but very regularly, and my acceptance rate has increased greatly, but sales are way way down.  I wonder if they fiddle with their search engine like IS does?

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« Reply #37 on: December 13, 2007, 18:33 »
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How quickly things change. A couple of posts above I was saying there may not be a fit and today I get an EL which pushed DT back up to the #3 slot.

Seems like every time I post a complaint here within a day or two something good happens. Like magic.

So, maybe I should post a complaint every day...  ;)


 

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