What a charmer this guy is - here's his reply

https://twitter.com/AdamGuerbuez/status/470338905309708288

"Paying $10 for 10 hi-res stock photos to use freely in sites/promotions is great, even if they go out of biz all I lose is $10" Sort of the polar opposite of community spirit...

Sad to say, but from his point of view can we say that it is wrong?

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Hooray for DeepDreamer and IvonneW!

I have to say, the stats are not spectacular atm.
The latest number is on top of the list (Moscow time):

Date and time            Images on DPC   Change
26-05-2014 08:09:00   21,678,942   -2,647
26-05-2014 06:08:54   21,681,589   -307
26-05-2014 05:09:00   21,681,896   -609
26-05-2014 02:08:59   21,682,505   94
26-05-2014 01:08:54   21,682,411   66
26-05-2014 00:08:55   21,682,345   101
25-05-2014 23:09:02   21,682,244   435
25-05-2014 21:08:56   21,681,809   -4
25-05-2014 20:08:58   21,681,813   139
25-05-2014 18:09:00   21,681,674   772
25-05-2014 16:08:58   21,680,902   962
25-05-2014 15:08:53   21,679,940   251
25-05-2014 13:08:59   21,679,689   1,150
25-05-2014 10:09:00   21,678,539   813
25-05-2014 08:08:58   21,677,726   3,362
25-05-2014 05:09:00   21,674,364   1,689
25-05-2014 03:08:59   21,672,675   5,802
25-05-2014 00:09:00   21,666,873   951
24-05-2014 22:08:59   21,665,922   546
24-05-2014 19:09:00   21,665,376   627
24-05-2014 18:08:55   21,664,749   228
24-05-2014 17:08:56   21,664,521   394
24-05-2014 16:08:58   21,664,127   -19,132
24-05-2014 14:08:55   21,683,259   -201

By categories for the same period of time:
   

Category	24 May	26 May	Change
Nature	1,529,893	1,530,445	552
Arch	1,535,743	1,536,763	1,020
People	5,421,534	5,400,652	-20,882
Flora & Fauna	2,232,518	2,234,253	1,735
Objects	3,443,598	3,448,255	4,657
Transport	349,304	349,583	279
Food	3,217,757	3,216,057	-1,700
Sport	417,693	417,909	216
Backgrounds	1,427,923	1,429,596	1,673
Abstract	957,226	963,590	6,364
Other	1,150,070	1,151,839	1,769

 

Dook, I wish I knew. Only Fotolia knows that.

I have a question to FT contributors with a good sized portfolio who have OPTed OUT (>1000 images). Have you seen any trends in your FT sales post the OPT OUT taking effect ? One of the things that I was hoping was to see FT-only contributors getting more non-subscription sales. My thinking is that customers who may have moved to DPC may buy most of their images on the so-called DPC subscription but may pick up on credit sale the images that they want but dont see in DPC. A trend that may signal customers looking at DPC as a high volume dollar bin and looking elsewhere for low volume special buys.

Better late than never . I just opted-out of DPC (2000+images)

Good decision.
Don't forget to inform every contributor you can reach.

I have a question to FT contributors with a good sized portfolio who have OPTed OUT (>1000 images). Have you seen any trends in your FT sales post the OPT OUT taking effect ? One of the things that I was hoping was to see FT-only contributors getting more non-subscription sales. My thinking is that customers who may have moved to DPC may buy most of their images on the so-called DPC subscription but may pick up on credit sale the images that they want but dont see in DPC. A trend that may signal customers looking at DPC as a high volume dollar bin and looking elsewhere for low volume special buys.

No, I don't see any positive or negative trend.  I opted out with 7000 images mid May.  Fotolia is not doing well for me, but the downward trend started more than 12 months ago, so has nothing to do with DPC.
May is a disaster, but May is always a disaster compared to March and April, so I don't see a link with DPC here either.

Also :  from the point of view of a customer, DPC is a different site from Fotolia.  So why would a customer always go to Fotolia if they cannot find an image on DPC?  You can bet Fotolia is not suggesting "if you cannot find what you need, Fotolia still has 7.000.000 more images at higher prices" 

Quote from: pixsol on May 26, 2014, 03:15

I have a question to FT contributors with a good sized portfolio who have OPTed OUT (>1000 images). Have you seen any trends in your FT sales post the OPT OUT taking effect ? One of the things that I was hoping was to see FT-only contributors getting more non-subscription sales. My thinking is that customers who may have moved to DPC may buy most of their images on the so-called DPC subscription but may pick up on credit sale the images that they want but dont see in DPC. A trend that may signal customers looking at DPC as a high volume dollar bin and looking elsewhere for low volume special buys.

No, I don't see any positive or negative trend.  I opted out with 7000 images mid May.  Fotolia is not doing well for me, but the downward trend started more than 12 months ago, so has nothing to do with DPC.
May is a disaster, but May is always a disaster compared to March and April, so I don't see a link with DPC here either.

Also :  from the point of view of a customer, DPC is a different site from Fotolia.  So why would a customer always go to Fotolia if they cannot find an image on DPC?  You can bet Fotolia is not suggesting "if you cannot find what you need, Fotolia still has 7.000.000 more images at higher prices" 

Nor do I . I see no difference in the terrible sales at FT for over a year. 7/8 payouts per month was the norm for a long time, then  Boom about a year ago. Not even worth time uploading to anymore. I stay only because of the time it took to upload.