Nothing's up at DT, it's just you.

Same phenomena for me: a lot of downloads yesterday and nothing today...

Had my first $0.35 download today.

it's not just a slow down but a total stop........

anyone else having this?

Not just you.... I just wrote about this yesterday or day before in another thread.....  I haven't had a sale at DT  in 11 or 12 days now.....    VERY unusual for me.  Maybe it's me...  except for SS and IS (which are humming along just fine)... I've been slow EVERYWHERE else...  who knows....   guess my stuffs gettin' old...  LOL  =tom

Another new one for me, an additional subscription sale for $4.  Any ideas what that is?

I have 250 images on DT, and sell 1 per week. Low.

I have abot 40 pics on DT, 1 or 2 dl each week, just been there from september...

Hmm.  The frequency of subs sales has increased in the past week for me.  Anyone else?

If so, I wonder it it's a reflection of the increase in levels (therefore in prices) making subs packages more attractive to buyers.

Regards,
Adelaide

Hmm.  The frequency of subs sales has increased in the past week for me.  Anyone else?

If so, I wonder it it's a reflection of the increase in levels (therefore in prices) making subs packages more attractive to buyers.

Regards,
Adelaide

hmm can't say i have had too many sub sales recently.  A few but nothing out of the ordinary.  I have noticed an increase in earnings the last week though - perhaps ebb and flow, or perhaps due to the increase in level pricing.

I think that just to correct myself, today I had many non-subs sales.  It's worth noticing that all were level 1 images (but then I don't have that many level 2 and up).

Regards,
Adelaide

it seems to me that a larger amount of level 1 images are selling, but i think that is a good thing, as I noticed a larger amount of my images are selling in general.  perhaps people are shopping around a little more and buyer 'older' images that haven't sold so much before.

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'.

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.

A few months ago the rotation appeared to be 'two weeks on, two weeks off' but it now seems to be about 'two and a half weeks off, one and a half weeks on'.

Anyone NOT noticed this happening in their portfolio?

Because I plot my stats weekly I can see the rotation happening; I can almost predict when I am going to have good and bad weeks (I am in the 'bad rotation' at the moment).

I am in two minds about this rotation business; one part of me says it's a good and fair approach, the other part thinks it is denying customers access to good images when those images are rotated away.

On balance it gives most contributors a fair opportunity to sell, if they have the right images etc, and so long as my sales are on a broad upwards trend I try to be positive during those periods when it's obvious that my stuff has been put to the back of the queue.

Of course I have only been contributing to DT for nine months and I suppose it's possible that my files are still considered 'new'.  If the rotation is between 'new and old' it's possible that old hands won't see this rotation at all.  Would be interesting to hear comments from anyone who's been at DT for a couple of years or more.

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...

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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...