It hurts to look at this chart.  So different to SS, I can still get BME's with them but I just get a fraction of my best months with FT.  I'm sure that if FT hadn't crippled my earnings, I would of worked much harder with them but I suppose that doesn't matter to them?

one of my "best sellers"

After the August voting we will see some shifting for sure. Shutter and iStock will hold their slots but it will be fair game for the others. Would be surprised at all if FT goes to the middle position of Middle Tier with DP and 123F taking on DT...

Something very strange happened to Fotolia in the middle of the last week. Sales dropped twice.....

Clearly something is happening BAD.  The data that some of the peeps here like sharpshot are posting are not just depressing but revealing.  My graph is a lot like Sharpshots but so are others here.  I haven't seen anyone post the opposite or at least post anything that shows they aren't growing or dropping....just staying the same.  My gut tells me that they are hurting at FT and what we are seeing (based on a limited sample, of course) is a dying business.  When there are search tweaks there's usually winners and losers, but I am seeiing only the losing end post here.  Maybe that's the only time we post is when our sales drop....that's human nature.  But I just can't help but feel that their sales revenue is falling and they are trying to make up lost sales by fkng with the way they position popular images to be level one so they keep more of the doe.  Someone posted that FT sent them a response email that they were enjoying record sales.  I find that hard to believe, personally.

I'll repeat myself from the other post. My 7 days rank used to be around 200 - 250. Now it is 290 so not a huge drop compared to double drop in revenue.
It must have been some overnight change. 2 weeks ago Fotolia was doing pretty good to me.

Similar trend here...

FT is just funny (peculiar!). Not a place to build a business as it's just too 'undependable'.. goes up and down too much. This month is OK so far but OK is very relative. Won't reach payout this month (normally takes 2 months anyway) but should be at 80% by the end of next week instead of 40-50%. Almost doubled my footprint there in the past  18 months with 400 images now.
The ratio of subs to dl's is getting ever closer to 50% but I'd rather have a 29cent sub than a 25 cent XS dl. Never have EL's at FT despite pricing at 50-70 credits (not doin' 'em cheaper than that!).

Compared with SS where I started 15 months ago and have half the number of images of FT, since October I haven't missed a payout. At SS I do get the occasional EL and got one on the first day of August, so I'll be way above payout this month too at SS.

Really for me, what it comes down to is consistency/reliability of income from increasing effort. SS delivers and FT used to (2-3 years ago) but no longer does. Mind you they seem to accept just about everything I throw at them in contrast to SS where some rejections for bum white balance (in daylight) and trademark violations (on antiques) just seem a bit out of whack. Not a big deal and I've learned to move on very quickly.

I'm a small bronze fish but sales seem more normal the last couple of days - don't know if its the season or something else.

FT on track for worst month since June '07. DT and SS picked up some from earlier slow start, but overall, looking to be worst month since 2011.

Revising estimate to worst month since Sept. of 06, 8 months after I started there , which at that time was a BME

Also experiencing pretty low sales this month/ recent weeks - and the ones coming thru mostly sub or XS at miserably low returns!   Funny how the subs even at xl and xxl sizes yield the same low revenue - that should really be changed across the board 

For me, even Bigstock has blown by FT for earnings.

     Sales  for  AUG  were  down  and  SEPT  is  looking  the  same  (even  with  my  sub  sale  today).  hopig  things  will  pick  up.