Author Topic: April Sales (Read 7600 times)

No Free Lunch · « **on:** April 14, 2015, 09:45 »

I hope it is just me but my sales (mid month already) are very poor. I will have to find a soup kitchen and homeless shelter if things don't pick up soon

Steveball · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2015, 10:22 »

Same here, less than half normal sales everywhere.

No Free Lunch · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2015, 10:27 »

The only good thing about this bad situation is that I meet other photographers at the soup kitchen and homeless shelters $:-\$

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2015, 10:30 »

Take a stack of model releases and a property release along...

Quote from: No Free Lunch on April 14, 2015, 09:45

I hope it is just me but my sales (mid month already) are very poor. I will have to find a soup kitchen and homeless shelter if things don't pick up soon

Stockmaan · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2015, 10:39 »

Fotolia total disaster here! Even dreamstime is better now. Fotolia fall from 100$ per week to only 10$ per week???!!! Thats crazy adobe stock!

SS, IS are OK!

Stock Wife · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2015, 11:23 »

April looks a tad slower for me than March but MUCH better than February. In fact, halfway through April I have already passed Feb sales.

Fotolia is slightly down from an unexpectedly high month in March but is slated to be 2-3 times better than February. SS is better than both March & Feb due to a nice SOD. 123 has had a small boost after a bad March. And everything else (BigStock, PhotoDune, DT, IS, CS) are slow as molasses as usual.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2015, 11:24 »

Slow for me too - hoping its easter hangover and not a sign of reducing marketing budgets

Ariene · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2015, 11:38 »

Quote from: No Free Lunch on April 14, 2015, 09:45

I hope it is just me but my sales (mid month already) are very poor. I will have to find a soup kitchen and homeless shelter if things don't pick up soon

My thoughts lately. I don't even want to say in details... $:-\$

fotografer · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:37 »

Fotolia has been terrible but seems to have come back to life again today.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #9 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:42 »

is fotolia and adobe affecting ss??? i look at leaf's poll results and seems like is and fotola
are moving up . what do you think??? is it time to increase uploads there???
and yes, ss seems to be faltering with nary a SOD, ... to rescue it. usually by this time of the month i would have reach payout point at worst.

Nikovsk · « **Reply #10 on:** April 14, 2015, 13:07 »

SS is ok, FT down, IS who knows until PP and the rest... who cares?

PixelBytes · « **Reply #11 on:** April 14, 2015, 13:56 »

For me FT is doing good and SS is just barely lurching along. If the second half of the month is like the first SS on track for worst month in years,

No Free Lunch · « **Reply #12 on:** April 14, 2015, 21:29 »

I've heard of hitting or reaching the 'Wall' but this is more like the 'Wall' falling on top me... $:-\$

kjorgen · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2015, 22:54 »

For me it's Istock that is waaaay off. All the other agencies seems to be on track.
Istock is actually 80% below my normal half-month sales.

Semmick Photo · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2015, 03:08 »

Its pants everywhere

KnowYourOnions · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2015, 03:26 »

Quote from: Semmick Photo on April 15, 2015, 03:08

Its pants everywhere

http://www.pond5.com/community?forum=715&thread=42781229&lp=1

Semmick Photo · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2015, 03:30 »

What does that thread have to do with it? 2 people see a drop 2 people have normal sales.

dpimborough · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2015, 03:40 »

Quote from: Semmick Photo on April 15, 2015, 03:08

Its pants everywhere

Took the words right out of my mouth it's a pants month all round

File Sold · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2015, 07:33 »

April seems to be a little worse than March. Easter holidays probably cut the sales. I'm only doing vectors that are not for specific holiday scene.

BelieveInStock · « **Reply #19 on:** April 15, 2015, 08:21 »

What about today, April 15. Sales seem to be down across the board. Taxation season ? Holiday or what ?

Julied83 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2015, 08:40 »

Today is low ! I usually have more sales in the morning ! Is it a holiday ?

Semmick Photo · « **Reply #21 on:** April 15, 2015, 08:47 »

It's not a holiday. It's about April to date. Having a bad morning is quite a useless statistic in this business these days. Sorry for my rudeness.

Semmick Photo · « **Reply #22 on:** April 15, 2015, 08:49 »

Quote from: Stock Wife on April 14, 2015, 11:23

April looks a tad slower for me than March but MUCH better than April. In fact, halfway through April I have already passed Feb sales.

Fotolia is slightly down from an unexpectedly high month in March but is slated to be 2-3 times better than February. SS is better than both March & Feb due to a nice SOD. 123 has had a small boost after a bad March. And everything else (BigStock, PhotoDune, DT, IS, CS) are slow as molasses as usual.

I believe you are quite new to stock. How big is your port?

Stock Wife · « **Reply #23 on:** April 15, 2015, 08:57 »

Quote from: Semmick Photo on April 15, 2015, 08:49

Quote from: Stock Wife on April 14, 2015, 11:23
April looks a tad slower for me than March but MUCH better than April. In fact, halfway through April I have already passed Feb sales.

Fotolia is slightly down from an unexpectedly high month in March but is slated to be 2-3 times better than February. SS is better than both March & Feb due to a nice SOD. 123 has had a small boost after a bad March. And everything else (BigStock, PhotoDune, DT, IS, CS) are slow as molasses as usual.
I believe you are quite new to stock. How big is your port?

Yes, quite new! Just passed a year but the husband had a backlog of photos so the port is respectable. Maybe? Port size is 800 photos/150 videos (though considerably less photos on SS).

But still growing a lot so it's hard to tell based on my port whether growth is due to growing port or changing trends.

Semmick Photo · « **Reply #24 on:** April 15, 2015, 09:01 »

If you have a 800 port and adding photos constantly it's probably increasing sales from expanding your portfolio.

Stock Wife · « **Reply #25 on:** April 15, 2015, 09:05 »

Quote from: Semmick Photo on April 15, 2015, 09:01

If you have a 800 port and adding photos constantly it's probably increasing sales from expanding your portfolio.

This is what I'm assuming. Although some months see decreases or no new sales despite port growth. April is seeing growth commensurate with port growth. That's at least something!

Update: I did check to see my 'profit per image' which should help control for growth. So far PPI is:

SS: already bigger than March & Feb (suggesting better than average sales)
FT: bigger than Feb, 1/3 of March (mixed results, better than Feb, slow compared to March)
123: smaller than Feb but twice March (mixed results but overall good for sales)
DT: bigger than Feb and twice March (better than average sales)
CS: bigger than Feb and approaching March (better than average to average sales)
BS: less than half of Feb, less than 1/2 of March (slow sales)

No point in figuring out IS until PP & subs come in

Photosky · « **Reply #26 on:** April 19, 2015, 01:54 »

For me April is average so far - worser than March but much better than Jan-Feb.
Shutterstock sales (2000+ port) had some decline in Jan-Feb but boomed in March and now seem back to average. Other sellers: average level, more or less.

nicku · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2015, 02:45 »

sales are dying almost across the board for me ( with the exception of DT and DP where the sales are increasing constantly )

SS - very low sales in the last 5 months
FT - disaster ( it used to be my second earner before the adobe deal)
DT - increasing
DP- increasing
123RF - constant
CAN stock - very slow
Alamy- slow

Considering that SS and FT (the most affected sites) combined used to make 70% of the revenue......

droidworker · « **Reply #28 on:** May 08, 2015, 01:51 »

My eranings falling from april, and continue this month (may). Something happens.

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Author Topic: April Sales (Read 7600 times)

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Steveball

No Free Lunch

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Stock Wife

Pauws99

Ariene

fotografer

etudiante_rapide

Nikovsk

PixelBytes

No Free Lunch

kjorgen

Semmick Photo

KnowYourOnions

Semmick Photo

dpimborough

File Sold

BelieveInStock

Julied83

Semmick Photo

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Stock Wife

Semmick Photo

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Photosky

nicku

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