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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: LostOne on March 12, 2010, 17:26

Title: Best sellers
Post by: LostOne on March 12, 2010, 17:26

One of my images was purchased quite a few times today so I went to check if it qualified for the best sellers section under the today tab. Didn't find it so I went and checked a few images there. Many of those only had 1, 2, 3, 4 downloads. I always though that the number of downloads count, but it looks like it isn't so. Anyone knows the formula?

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: melastmohican on March 12, 2010, 18:13

Maybe these images are best sellers today :-)

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: LostOne on March 12, 2010, 18:21

Quote from: melastmohican on March 12, 2010, 18:13

Maybe these images are best sellers today :-)

Under what criteria? It surely ain't downloads, since my picture would be there if that was the case.

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: Pheby on March 13, 2010, 01:56

I think that out of the pool of images with about one to four downloads that qualify for the lower ranks of "best-sellers" on a specific day, the images that appear in that category are chosen at random. Also, you have to take into account that the best-sellers are counted seperately for each national site. So if one of your images sold four times on one day - say once in the US, three times in Turkey, and once in Italy - you might find it in the "best-seller" section on Fotolia Turkey but probably not on Fotolia US.

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: madelaide on March 13, 2010, 13:59

Maybe dld/views?

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: LostOne on March 14, 2010, 15:59

Quote from: Pheby on March 13, 2010, 01:56

I think that out of the pool of images with about one to four downloads that qualify for the lower ranks of "best-sellers" on a specific day, the images that appear in that category are chosen at random. Also, you have to take into account that the best-sellers are counted seperately for each national site. So if one of your images sold four times on one day - say once in the US, three times in Turkey, and once in Italy - you might find it in the "best-seller" section on Fotolia Turkey but probably not on Fotolia US.

Ahh, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

Quote from: madelaide on March 13, 2010, 13:59

Maybe dld/views?

Probably something like that also. I think that if an image gets a download immediately after it is accepted it can get into that list.

Title: Re: Best sellers
Post by: OM on March 14, 2010, 18:23

Best seller of the day is not worth considering as useful information. Many of the day's 'best sellers' are new(ish) uploads with frequently one view and one download. I've also had 3 or 4 downloads of one file in a day and it has never appeared in best seller of the day whilst files that have only ever sold once or twice in their life up until then do appear.

Another totally useless 'tool' is 'most searched keywords by buyers'..........CHRISTMAS is the biggest 365 days per year.