Author Topic: How are your Fotolia sales in October? (Read 9884 times)

Lana · « **on:** October 18, 2016, 14:37 »

Is it on par with September and earlier months? I'm used to ups and downs with FT but this October is too quiet, December style. Anyone having the same?

Pauws99 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:01 »

I had a worrying gap of several days of no sales but turning into a pretty good month now.

alno · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:05 »

Almost the same as September earnings already. Quite a new account there though, started in late May.

increasingdifficulty · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:08 »

Incredibly dead since the beginning of October but some footage sales have started to come in since the 15th.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:21 »

One site that is showing consistent growth, thankfully.

Lana · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:30 »

Quote from: Pauws99 on October 18, 2016, 15:01

I had a worrying gap of several days of no sales but turning into a pretty good month now.

Good to hear someone is having no sales gaps too

But I had a few of those since the beginning of the month, looks very unusual (and dead at times) considering the steady growth the months before

gyllens · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2016, 15:31 »

Agree! consistent growth month after month. They also show knowledge in search with commercially viable files right up front.

Minsc · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2016, 16:26 »

It's doing well. Sales are just slightly behind September's BME pace, but overall a very good month so far.

beketoff · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2016, 16:27 »

Reached my September level by now already, so if the things keep going on, I will have probably BME with FT in October. Must say though that for the last 4-5 days sales on FT just stopped after crazy avalanche of downloads first week or two of October.

What I'm shocked about is SS, I'm 35% down compared to September and unless I get a fat big EL sale (very very unlikely), it will be my worst month ever this year. Sales there just stopped and never exceed 1-2 downloads a day (shocker). Let's hope things will turn around soon.

Dumc · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2016, 02:35 »

My October sales are good. Anyway, my sales at Fotolia suddenly dropped for about 30-40% in mid June, and June, July, August were some of my worst months in a year. After I synced my account with Adobe, my sales increased again, I don't know, if this is just coincidence or it has something to do with it. Now, I know that summersmonths are slow, but that sudden drop was just to big....

As for SS, lokks like I'm going to have BME with $ thanks to 2 EL's and 2 SODs and probably also with number of sales.

motionguy · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2016, 03:27 »

No high numbers but constantly growing this year.

Bauman · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2016, 03:49 »

Good sales, after 18 days FT has 17,70% of my total earnings in october.

Last year had 10,85% and this year, after 9 months and 18 days, has 11,78% (+0,93%).

Shutterstock has the worst performance 2015->2016. Down 3,59%.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2016, 04:27 »

I'm easily amused and watching my sales Fotolia have just moved ahead by a few c this month. Last month SS saved the day with a juicy SoD. Beats watching F1.

Lana · « **Reply #13 on:** October 19, 2016, 08:05 »

Quote from: Dumc on October 19, 2016, 02:35

My October sales are good. Anyway, my sales at Fotolia suddenly dropped for about 30-40% in mid June, and June, July, August were some of my worst months in a year. After I synced my account with Adobe, my sales increased again, I don't know, if this is just coincidence or it has something to do with it. Now, I know that summersmonths are slow, but that sudden drop was just to big....

As for SS, lokks like I'm going to have BME with $ thanks to 2 EL's and 2 SODs and probably also with number of sales.

Then I'll sinc with Adobe just in case

PixelBytes · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2016, 15:26 »

FT sales have been excellent for me all year. This month slightly down on September, but still good enough.

Dumc · « **Reply #15 on:** October 20, 2016, 15:47 »

What would be 7.84€ sale?

EDIT: 8.25€ sale minus 0.42€ taxes.

jamiehooper · « **Reply #16 on:** October 24, 2016, 13:40 »

Fotolia has been great for me this year; in fact ahead of SS a bit every month. But October looks to be a disaster for me, with sales half of what I've been getting since the beginning of the year.
I did sync with Adobe; but I don't necessarily think there's a connection at this point.

Lana · « **Reply #17 on:** October 25, 2016, 06:13 »

Quote from: jamiehooper on October 24, 2016, 13:40

Fotolia has been great for me this year; in fact ahead of SS a bit every month. But October looks to be a disaster for me, with sales half of what I've been getting since the beginning of the year.
I did sync with Adobe; but I don't necessarily think there's a connection at this point.

With a few more days to go my October could be about 30% of the previous month

exxclusive · « **Reply #18 on:** October 25, 2016, 11:06 »

Quote from: Lana on October 25, 2016, 06:13

Quote from: jamiehooper on October 24, 2016, 13:40
Fotolia has been great for me this year; in fact ahead of SS a bit every month. But October looks to be a disaster for me, with sales half of what I've been getting since the beginning of the year.
I did sync with Adobe; but I don't necessarily think there's a connection at this point.

With a few more days to go my October could be about 30% of the previous month

Lana, could it because most of your images are focused on landscape and travel but in the forth quarter (October-December) mostly Holiday related images sell? (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Shopping, Santa, New Year, Gifts, etc). How are your October sales on SS?

dino · « **Reply #19 on:** October 25, 2016, 11:28 »

Pretty good (bit slow in last few days).. but in general 10% away from my BME which was september

JPSDK · « **Reply #20 on:** October 25, 2016, 12:28 »

Rising.
As ss goes down fot goes up.

beketoff · « **Reply #21 on:** October 25, 2016, 12:56 »

Quote from: exxclusive on October 25, 2016, 11:06

Quote from: Lana on October 25, 2016, 06:13
Quote from: jamiehooper on October 24, 2016, 13:40
Fotolia has been great for me this year; in fact ahead of SS a bit every month. But October looks to be a disaster for me, with sales half of what I've been getting since the beginning of the year.
I did sync with Adobe; but I don't necessarily think there's a connection at this point.

With a few more days to go my October could be about 30% of the previous month

Lana, could it because most of your images are focused on landscape and travel but in the forth quarter (October-December) mostly Holiday related images sell? (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Shopping, Santa, New Year, Gifts, etc). How are your October sales on SS?

It's interesting as my port is similar (i.e. includes mostly holiday related images from travel destinations), but still Fotolia is projected to be +45% month-over-month. At the same time SS is going in reverse, around -40% in October compared to September. In fact, it's going to be my first month where FT outpaces SS, in almost 2 years of experience.

I guess it's really impossible to figure it out, unless you know all the ingredients, including both company's internal ones and external factors.

Lana · « **Reply #22 on:** October 25, 2016, 13:28 »

Quote from: exxclusive on October 25, 2016, 11:06

Quote from: Lana on October 25, 2016, 06:13
Quote from: jamiehooper on October 24, 2016, 13:40
Fotolia has been great for me this year; in fact ahead of SS a bit every month. But October looks to be a disaster for me, with sales half of what I've been getting since the beginning of the year.
I did sync with Adobe; but I don't necessarily think there's a connection at this point.

With a few more days to go my October could be about 30% of the previous month

Lana, could it because most of your images are focused on landscape and travel but in the forth quarter (October-December) mostly Holiday related images sell? (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Shopping, Santa, New Year, Gifts, etc). How are your October sales on SS?

Maybe it could, didn't occur to me

my SS sales are good in October, already surpassed September numbers (which were on a low side). But on SS most of my customers come from Central America, so maybe they are interested in my topics all year round, while Fotolia buyers are split between Europe and US (that's my guess), so yeah could be a seasonal thing for me $:-\$

Stockmaan · « **Reply #23 on:** October 27, 2016, 11:22 »

Today sales are very very slow, others? And image review time is longer than usual.

YadaYadaYada · « **Reply #24 on:** October 27, 2016, 16:27 »

FT up maybe BME and SS is close to BME also. I have been uploading new and old to AdobeStock which could explain gains. All the rest suck eggs especially IS.

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