When I joined Fotolia on 1st Feb the stats showed me as number 123,000, so that's how many registered suppliers there are at the moment.

Not neccessarily, clients can share a rank if they have the same amount of sales. It could be many multiples of that number.

I may be wrong but I'm sure I read this somewhere.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on July 01, 2015, 18:46
I saw this and it started me wondering:

Quote from: Cesar on May 29, 2015, 14:22
i have lower sales too, my rank drop from 600 to 850, my explanation was , my images are not popular anymore, my rank fall, so someone must sell more.

Supposing there are 40,000 contributors on FT, anyone under 1000 (the top 1000) is doing pretty good? Right or am I wrong?

Then I started thinking, is this rank that flexible and Cesar will jump up with a few sales more next month. There's a big pool of people with similar numbers, so rank can change 250 on a couple sales?

What does it take, if anyone can estimate, for someone to be a top 1000 on FT per month. How many sales or better question,  how many "Credits".

Not asking for anyone's personal finances, just the question, what's the edge of the top 1000?

Weekly rank can change by some hundreds - in a good week I'm in the 800s (earning about 200 credits/week), this (bad) week I'm at 1500 (below 100 credits/week).

Overall rank is far more interesting, highest I ever had was 267, now down to 342 - not only have I submitted less last year but also opted out of dpc - shortly after that I dropped from 270 to 300.

So, to answer your original question: A weekly rank of 1000 equates to an income of around 600 credits. Considering all posts in this thread, an overall rank of 1000 equates to an income of 150-250 credits

I am member from 2013, but started uploading in dec 2015.

I get 700€ per month and my rank is 38.000. Weekly top was 5.900.

I have video only

Yeah I think they only go by # of sales. Which is completely useless of course if you're also doing video.

260+ photo

Weekly position: 11,200
Overall position:14,050

aprox. 25 -30 pound/month

Quote from: Stephan on June 01, 2016, 23:12
I am member from 2013, but started uploading in dec 2015.

I get 700€ per month and my rank is 38.000. Weekly top was 5.900.

I have video only

I always thought that the rank was to do with earnings not downloads. I earn about the same as you and rank much higher but only photos so it must be based on dl numbers.

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on June 01, 2016, 23:35
Yeah I think they only go by # of sales. Which is completely useless of course if you're also doing video.

That assumes that ranking matters. I find it interesting to know my ranking and to see it fluctuate but I'd rather just see more $$ coming in than be ranked highly.

My wife has uploaded 20 photos to Fotolia four years ago. Since then never again. She lost interest. Since then she has made about 20 euros. She has been 3.5 years constant at 22 000 in ranking;-). Don't ask me why!