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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: stock shooter on January 29, 2015, 10:11

Title: FT used to be great but the last year sales took a serious plunge
Post by: stock shooter on January 29, 2015, 10:11

All the micro stock sites have been on a decline for me for the last couple years but Fotolia and dreamstime have just tanked this year. I'm just wondering if there is a secret to keeping sales with Fotolia that I'm missing?

Title: Re: FT used to be great but the last year sales took a serious plunge
Post by: Snow on January 29, 2015, 10:41

Yup they are all cooking up something.

FT was presenting me with one BME after the other then in september it dropped like a rock and now to 1/5 of my normal earnings.
No secret, these agencies do whatever they want with our exposure.
FT requires constant attention if you know what I mean.

Oh yeah, good times in microstock ;)

Title: Re: FT used to be great but the last year sales took a serious plunge
Post by: Mantis on January 29, 2015, 14:31

FOTOLIA began tanking for me in early 2014. Account closed in june. Dreamstime is horribly bad going from $150-$200 a month to $50-$75 a month over night. This is to say that my trend was consistent until about august of 2014' then in sept i had a $50 month. Never recovered after that, so they indeed did something to their system that affected me.

Title: Re: FT used to be great but the last year sales took a serious plunge
Post by: PixelBytes on January 29, 2015, 15:07

FT sales doubled for me in 2014.  That was after 2 years steady losses.  Whatever the search change was in 2014, I got the good end of it for a change.