Author Topic: Are your best sellers the same on most sites? (Read 6504 times)

chromaco · « **on:** April 07, 2012, 23:51 »

Today I did a little comparison of best sellers on my top 5 sites. Guess what... almost all of the sites have different best sellers. (I'm talking top 20-50 images) Sure, there are some images that rise to the top on all of the sites but for the most part each site is different. This leads me to think that different sites have different types of buyers and maybe they aren't cannibalizing each other as much as we believe. What are your thoughts?

Carl · « **Reply #1 on:** April 08, 2012, 00:59 »

Interesting observation. My top seller on SS isn't the best seller on any other site, and it appears that each site has a different top seller for me. Recently, there's one particular model I work width whose photos are selling on all of the sites in the last few days. I think we might make ourselves crazy trying to figure out what the sites and the buyers are doing and trying to identify trends. By the time we identify trends, they've already run their course and another has begun. Your mileage, of course, may vary.

wut · « **Reply #2 on:** April 08, 2012, 04:17 »

I have one at SS that really stands out. It's nearing 1000 DLs, but never sold more than a few times on any other site. But usually the same images sell at the top four, there isn't much of a difference % wise. But some images are of course better for some type of agencies, for instance PP sells files that don't sell at IS, because they're outdated or just not good and original (a business shot that never really sold anywhere, got me a nice sum of money there). It sometimes seems like the better the agency (by that I mean the quality of their collection), the better image you need in order to sell it. TS sure looks like a junkyard and as I said, sells junk (more often).

MikLav · « **Reply #3 on:** April 08, 2012, 04:24 »

mine aren't the same across different sites though there is some overlap in top-10

ruxpriencdiam · « **Reply #4 on:** April 08, 2012, 09:20 »

rinderart · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2012, 10:07 »

Nowhere near the same.

kuriouskat · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2012, 11:39 »

My best sellers at Shutterstock have sold nearly 1000 times each and are selling pretty well at all other sites I submitted them to. GLStock rejected them all for various reasons - go figure!

tab62 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 08, 2012, 12:58 »

What does well on some of the U.S sites have none on the European sites and vise versa. Different favors for sure...

Wim · « **Reply #8 on:** April 08, 2012, 13:34 »

No since IS rejects all my composites

But besides IS, yes they are.

gemmy12 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2012, 13:54 »

Few are same but most of them are different in different sites.

heywoody · « **Reply #10 on:** April 08, 2012, 16:16 »

Quote from: Wim on April 08, 2012, 13:34

No since IS rejects all my composites

But besides IS, yes they are.

Best sellers are the same except IS (either rejected or probably would have been if submitted). Otherwise different sites seem to sell different stuff.

fritz · « **Reply #11 on:** April 08, 2012, 19:26 »

rubyroo · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2012, 01:40 »

Certainly on the top two sites. Identical. The same images are either best or close to best on all sites except FT. My best seller there confuses the heck out of me

lagereek · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2012, 04:54 »

This just confirms my theory, like in the old film-days within the stockagencies. People will visit different sites for differant needs.

fotografer · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2012, 12:04 »

My best selling 5 images in the big 4 have 13 different images out of a potential 20. Only one of the images was in the top 5 at more than 2 sites. I was surprised that they were all so different.

Metsafile · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2012, 00:19 »

It seems that buyer demographics must vary quite a bit for the best sellers to differ so much.

louoates · « **Reply #16 on:** April 10, 2012, 20:37 »

My top seller is my best seller on IS, SS, DT.

pancaketom · « **Reply #17 on:** April 11, 2012, 17:05 »

I think the big differences between the sites show both how serendipity can lead to a best seller and how different the searches and buyers on the different sites can be.

wut · « **Reply #18 on:** April 12, 2012, 17:38 »

I just noticed, while messing around my dashboard, that my bestsellers at FT mostly are different. 3/10 are the same, others not and mostly there are images that are not successful elsewhere much less bestseller. Must be partly because it's the only European agency out of the top 4. Different buyers, for instance there's only 1 smile in all of them. None of them are fake or posed (well a couple are, but don't appear to be). So I guess their buyers go for candid, real stuff. I'd prefer to shoot images like that, perhaps I should become exclusive...

mtilghma · « **Reply #19 on:** April 13, 2012, 17:58 »

My top 5 is almost identical at every site

Mantis · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2012, 19:31 »

Quote from: mtilghma on April 13, 2012, 17:58

My top 5 is almost identical at every site

Same here. And what's really fun is that when an image is sold on one site, "all of a sudden" it sells on 2-3 other sites the same day or the day after.

fotorob · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2012, 11:13 »

My images are different, but mainly form similar shots, so the difference for each site might be small differences in search algorithms that pushes other images to the front thus more buyers see them first.

CD123 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 16, 2012, 14:11 »

Not the same. That is why I stopped getting upset about sites rejecting best sellers from other sites, as it is no guarantee it would have sold on these sites as well.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #23 on:** April 16, 2012, 15:50 »

Quote from: mtilghma on April 13, 2012, 17:58

My top 5 is almost identical at every site

Same here. I can add that what doesn't sell and has never sold is also the same! Bad is bad, everywhere.

CD123 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 16, 2012, 16:00 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on April 16, 2012, 15:50

Quote from: mtilghma on April 13, 2012, 17:58
My top 5 is almost identical at every site

Same here. I can add that what doesn't sell and has never sold is also the same! Bad is bad, everywhere.

We should perhaps differentiate here again between photos, vectors and other "art" images. Where most of my stuff falls in the latter 2, the type of client base might perhaps have a larger impact on what sells on certain sites? With "art" images it might be more personal taste than a straight forward good or bad decision.

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Author Topic: Are your best sellers the same on most sites? (Read 6504 times)

chromaco

Carl

wut

MikLav

ruxpriencdiam

rinderart

kuriouskat

tab62

Wim

gemmy12

heywoody

fritz

rubyroo

lagereek

fotografer

Metsafile

louoates

pancaketom

wut

mtilghma

Mantis

fotorob

CD123

RacePhoto

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