Author Topic: Is FT still "on fire" for you and how does the new content sell? (Read 17066 times)

Lana · « **on:** February 09, 2016, 12:20 »

Many here praised the FT sales in January, is it still going good for you?

For me (a small port of travel photos) that "on fire" thing stopped somewhere in late December.
September to December was a good time, with ups and downs sometimes, but overall I felt that nice tendency of sales going up, good ratio of credit sales too. But for almost 2 months now I keep getting half of downloads per week compared to what I had before.
I also noticed that the new content stopped selling too, older files sell instead (just like it happened with SS in August or so)

How is it for you?

sharpshot · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2016, 12:27 »

My fire went out a long time ago, hope it rekindles soon.

Dumc · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2016, 12:34 »

While January was one of my best months, February is complete oposite. As if sales dried up over night. It looks like it's going to be one of my worst months. Also almost no credit sales, which I had almost on daily basis before. I don't know, what's going on there.

Dodie · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2016, 14:09 »

Not on fire but still creating almost three times as much heat as SS, which is not at all a difficult task because my earnings on SS are miserable lately with more files online. I had a peak in December on FT, than January was lower, which is normal for me. February looks promising till now, also no 0 days on weekends.

Hildegarde · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2016, 16:06 »

Fotolia has been outdoing Shutterstock for me.

For me it is better too in another important area. I am often selling the kinds of images I love to make. Artist first over stock photographer. so happy about that. I get kind of bored with the SS look. FT has not caught up to my best selling agency but if the trend gets better, might dump SS and just stick to 2 agencies down the road so I have more time to photograph.

Elenathewise · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2016, 16:19 »

Quote from: sharpshot on February 09, 2016, 12:27

My fire went out a long time ago, hope it rekindles soon.

Similar picture here.

Harvepino · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2016, 06:20 »

5000k images. This month looks certainly worse than Jan.

New content seems to be selling much better. I haven't observed this in the past, but recently, almost all my sales are new content.

Phadrea · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2016, 04:16 »

How has it come to getting 0.27 for an XL download ?

eyewave · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2016, 05:35 »

Quote from: sharpshot on February 09, 2016, 12:27

My fire went out a long time ago, hope it rekindles soon.

That graph looks familiar

Chichikov · « **Reply #9 on:** February 12, 2016, 05:58 »

Quote from: Herg on February 12, 2016, 04:16

How has it come to getting 0.27 for an XL download ?

Same here…
It seems that more the image size is big, more the commission is low

Actually I am selling almost only old images

sgoodwin4813 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 12, 2016, 09:43 »

Not exactly on fire but doing significantly better than previous years and fighting for second place with Canva. I haven't submitted anything in over a year so it is not due to new files.

Anthony · « **Reply #11 on:** February 12, 2016, 14:25 »

I have a small port at FT but sales are still moving upward through February.

Rinderart · « **Reply #12 on:** February 12, 2016, 15:40 »

All Good here and BTW, a large upswing at DP is showing.

wordplanet · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2016, 15:51 »

I have a very small port on FT after re-joining late last year. Making payout much faster than in the past with fewer files. Hoping to get my entire SS port up there eventually though they have rejected a bunch of my light blurs and similar backgrounds which are strong sellers for me elsewhere, and of course they don't take editorial images.

Overall, it has been worth the effort.

mojaric · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2016, 06:25 »

very slow this month...more than slow i would say strange download pattern, one day 10 the day after 0 (in the middle of the week)....

Rage · « **Reply #15 on:** February 14, 2016, 00:34 »

Quote from: Rinderart on February 12, 2016, 15:40

All Good here and BTW, a large upswing at DP is showing.

Depositphotos? I thought they were on the boycott list

Lana · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2016, 10:16 »

Quote from: mojaric on February 13, 2016, 06:25

very slow this month...more than slow i would say strange download pattern, one day 10 the day after 0 (in the middle of the week)....

For me it was rather a week or 2 of downloads then days of just nothing like if they use a turn off switch on my port:)

Red Dove · « **Reply #17 on:** February 14, 2016, 11:18 »

January was a BME which is pretty good going in my 6th year with FT (2,300 pics) Took a couple of ELs to make it though - rarer than Melo Melo pearls

PixelBytes · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2016, 17:14 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on February 14, 2016, 00:34

Quote from: Rinderart on February 12, 2016, 15:40
All Good here and BTW, a large upswing at DP is showing.
Depositphotos? I thought they were on the boycott list

Is there some actual boycott list? And does everyone who posts here have to follow it?. News to me.

Hongover · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2016, 20:10 »

It's been a good month on FT. I never imagined I'd be in this position when I first started uploading about 8 months ago. Really gives me incentive to see how much further I can climb.

Rage · « **Reply #20 on:** February 15, 2016, 01:33 »

Quote from: PixelBytes on February 14, 2016, 17:14

Quote from: izzikiorage on February 14, 2016, 00:34
Quote from: Rinderart on February 12, 2016, 15:40
All Good here and BTW, a large upswing at DP is showing.
Depositphotos? I thought they were on the boycott list

Is there some actual boycott list? And does everyone who posts here have to follow it?. News to me.

The first rule of the boycott list is

In all honestly though it seems that deposit was one of the agencies that got a ton of hate from the group

amabu · « **Reply #21 on:** February 15, 2016, 02:44 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on February 15, 2016, 01:33

Quote from: PixelBytes on February 14, 2016, 17:14
Quote from: izzikiorage on February 14, 2016, 00:34
Quote from: Rinderart on February 12, 2016, 15:40
All Good here and BTW, a large upswing at DP is showing.
Depositphotos? I thought they were on the boycott list

Is there some actual boycott list? And does everyone who posts here have to follow it?. News to me.
The first rule of the boycott list is

In all honestly though it seems that deposit was one of the agencies that got a ton of hate from the group

FT got a lot of hate as well...

Almost every agency got a lot of hate from the group at some stage.

This has become avery negative group. Always makes me wonder why people bother with microstock at all if they hate it that much...

_______________________________

FT is doing well by the way. I am not seeing a huge rise but clearly an upward trend.

StockPhotosArt.com · « **Reply #22 on:** February 15, 2016, 03:15 »

Quote from: amabu on February 15, 2016, 02:44

This has become avery negative group. Always makes me wonder why people bother with microstock at all if they hate it that much...

Who hates Microstock? I thinK the problem is with what the agencies have been doing to us, contributors.

Do you hate chocolate in itself, just because they use child slave labor in many of the cocoa plantations?

As for FL, despite having a 70% drop in income from 2010 to 2014, in 2015 (due to the last months of the years) it grew about 25%. And this year I've doubled what I earned in January of 2015 and already passed about 25% of what February of last year gave me.

So, until now I see a clear recovery form FL. Still an Everest away of 2010 but doing better. In 2016 it's my second best agency, but there's a long year still ahead and it's possible that it ends up being 4th or 5th.

Rinderart · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2016, 20:53 »

For some of you newer folks.... Fotolia has been around a long time and, Has had issues and hard times also a Large drop in sales just like all the other sites which started in 2012. Has it come back to the good days? No where near [For me] But since adobe took Over things have improved a lot and in proportion of the past.

It may take a while to get back to the better days. Or the better days are gone for all sites and some of you Missed the boat as it left the dock a long time ago. Us old timers really felt the ground move awhile back. We all had very strong days. Lots of EL's and SOD's also then BAM. The door shut, The switch was pulled. The entire industry went south. I see Fotolia as a Player again for the first time in 4 1/2 years. I hope it continues and they become #1. Same as I hope for P5,123,DP I feel a recovery coming. we certainly Need it. My Money is on Fotolia and I said it a year ago. And for me....DepositPhotos is making a play also. Of course I play the horses , always have, my Dad was a bookie when I was a kid. LOL so. What do I know?

Rage · « **Reply #24 on:** February 25, 2016, 21:55 »

Very well put. Deposit photos is also one of those oft hated sites that seems to have improved itself. As you said hope the same for all, it is much needed

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Author Topic: Is FT still "on fire" for you and how does the new content sell? (Read 17066 times)

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