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Since May DT has gone south. HUGE drops in Nov and this month. I think they are losing customers or changed the search and I m on the sh!t end of the stick.
I was going to add to this post on the DT board; but thought it might be better here.Quote from: Mantis on December 09, 2014, 19:58Since May DT has gone south. HUGE drops in Nov and this month. I think they are losing customers or changed the search and I m on the sh!t end of the stick.I don't believe you can judge reality with just a few months totals - especially when we all clearly have different experiences - , but DT has been seriously sinking for me over the past half year. Still, I was stunned when I added up totals as of today (Dec. 19) only since the beginning of the month. The context for you all is that I have only about 300 images uploaded, and only to the "Big 4". SS has accepted the fewest images; DT the most. Also, I've only been doing this for a couple of years; but at this point I am getting a payout from one or more every month. (my min. for all sites is set for over $100).So, with that in mind, here are my percentage of sales (in income) for the past 19 days:BS: 10%DT: 0.9% FT: 44%SS: 45%Maybe this means something....maybe nothing. Just thought I'd toss it out.
IMO there is no big 4 - for me there is a BIG ONE - shutterstock followed by the middle sized 4 - Fotolia, 123, Istock Dreamstime - Dreamstime is trending sharply down for me but has often sprung back in the past. Contary to many reports I stock is trending up. Just sayin!
Quote from: Pauws99 on December 20, 2014, 05:55IMO there is no big 4 - for me there is a BIG ONE - shutterstock followed by the middle sized 4 - Fotolia, 123, Istock Dreamstime - Dreamstime is trending sharply down for me but has often sprung back in the past. Contary to many reports I stock is trending up. Just sayin!That sums up my thoughts as well.
DT has never been in top 4 for me. 90% of sales there are just $0.35 subscriptions for me.
Quote from: Mantis on December 20, 2014, 09:20Quote from: Pauws99 on December 20, 2014, 05:55IMO there is no big 4 - for me there is a BIG ONE - shutterstock followed by the middle sized 4 - Fotolia, 123, Istock Dreamstime - Dreamstime is trending sharply down for me but has often sprung back in the past. Contary to many reports I stock is trending up. Just sayin!That sums up my thoughts as well.actually i would say there is only a BIG ONE and the rest are dribbling around position 70 to 100 based on the percentage of earnings. i joined about 30 of the 2nd to 30th on the right of this page in early 2K and joined every new one for about the next 10 years. but after i joined shutterstockand started to earn monthly payout, i decided to drop the rest of them. i still have ports with all of them except last time i checked, none of them have earn as much since inception as shutterstock has earned for me in a week. does that answer your questions?
No. I get more from Shutterstock in a day than I get from Dreamstime in a month, if not more. I get more from 123RF, Bigstock and Fotolia. They need to change the payout threshold. A low tier site like DT shouldn't have a $100 minimum payout.
after the 2014 survey data is collected we will see where DT ranks- I bet they are no longer in the Big 4