I haven't uploaded anything since December, preparing for exclusivity. Sales are still strong at dreamstime even after deleting a small portion of my port. Average royalty per download has been above $2.00 since dec.

out of the last 20 sales I had 11 .27 -.35 SUBS

My sales at DT is dying!!!

I joined DT at 2005, with regularly uploading photos and big Portfolio, my sales increase every month and very stable.
I mean it, very stable! Sales at DT is same as SS and FL.
But from April 2009 to March 2010, my sales dropped more than 50%, at sametime, my sales at SS IS and FL are keeping growing.
Now my sales at DT is way behind SS IS and FL !!

Very disappointed !!!

Quote from: cdwheatley on March 26, 2010, 16:08

I haven't uploaded anything since December, preparing for exclusivity. Sales are still strong at dreamstime even after deleting a small portion of my port. Average royalty per download has been above $2.00 since dec.

Wow, this is surprising.  I have never had a RPD over $2 there, even before the royalty cut. 

I hadn't uploaded there in several months too and sales were slowly dropping. This month I started uploading again and sales have picked up.  I assumed there might be a connection.  Maybe not?

Kone, you and I have the same number of years uploading, same acceptance rate, and roughly the same number of images in portfolio.     Weird that we are experiencing such different results.  Must be down to subject matter or dumb luck...

Have you noticed that there are more and more $0.35 and even $0.27 lately? I used to have a few subs but lately there are more subs than regular sales and don't remember last time I had an ES.

Kone

Have you noticed that there are more and more $0.35 and even $0.27 lately?

Paul, as mentioned in my previous post there may be other factors that contributed to your decline in revenue. Lower resolution could be an explanation or dillution via similars, change of the search engine or many others. While we monitor accounts in various ways, it's impossible to keep earnings growing at BME levels in every month for everyone. It's our goal, but various factors may contribute in ups and downs.

I suggest to check your quarterly earnings and see how revenue and downloads fluctuate. That graph is way more relevant for everyone's experience and should clear your worry about sudden shifts.

PS: a green curve above the blue curve represents a mature portfolio with a good RPD. The bigger the gap, the better the quality factors of that portfolio. Blue curve above green curve usually means new portfolio (or growing very fast), high number of similars or lower quality factors compared to your competition. I'm referring to long term trends, so check the quarterly page instead of the monthly one.

Quote from: thaimacky on March 27, 2010, 02:08

uploading since june 2008
port size at dt at present: 635 pics
march 2010 already bme and still 4 days to go 

Excellent

My stats show me:

DT Best month ever (May 2009): $293 with 1190 images -> RPI $0.25

Last month (february 2010): $193 with 1600 images -> RPI $0.12

The first time I hit $193 (March 2008, $201) with 746 images -> RPI $0.27

Change from July 2007 to february 2010 (jul 07 is the first month when I started keeping statistics over the amount of images I have):
Revenue $140 (Jul 2007) -> $193 (Feb 2010) Equals to +38%
Images 561 (Jul 2007) -> 1600 (Feb 2010) Equals to +186%

These numbers are very harsh. And it looks definitely like DT is dying. I hope they fix it soon, they were my favorite agency before they changed their royalty rates. (Now I don't have a favorite, I hate them all!)