Author Topic: Sales Are Down Every Where (Read 10470 times)

jjneff · « **on:** January 22, 2013, 14:08 »

I was wondering if the drop in IS was just best match related and it is NOT. I was speaking to someone at Pond5 and he stated they are getting e-mails as to why they are only making $80.00 when they usually make a $1000.00. Same goes for some other agencies being down. Now this is all on the video side so I can guess photo is down as well. There are several reasons for all of this and I knew this point in time would come. So its not just iStock giving away pictures as they have not given any of my videos away at this point!

ShadySue · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:11 »

Quote from: jjneff on January 22, 2013, 14:08

I was speaking to someone at Pond5 and he stated they are getting e-mails as to why they are only making $80.00 when they usually make a $1000.00.

Did they offer a suggestion as to why? That is an enormous drop.
Are they being severely undercut somewhere else?

Snufkin · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:12 »

January has been a very bad month for me everywhere so far: microstock, video, POD.
Especially POD is a big disappointment this month. I was thinking of buying 5DMk3 but I think I will postpone it.

ClaridgeJ · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:14 »

I personally know two owners of large stock-sites, they in their turn know some more and its unanimous, sales are down everywhere.
The micro climate could, let us say be a bit healthier.

disorderly · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:15 »

I have no basis for an opinion about video sales, but your assumption that photo sales have dried up as well does not match my experience. Yes, my revenues from iStock have dropped, as have Fotolia, but other agencies have more than made up the difference. Whatever you're seeing is not universal.

MisterElements · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:21 »

My sales from FT, IS and 123rf are up! SS, DT, Can and Big are steady or normal. I only have 1 sluggish site this month DP otherwise it's a good solid month.

jjneff · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:25 »

No suggestions except he said the economy is not great at the moment. Again some people may have some up sales on the photo side but overall it is down everywhere, I feel pretty positive I can make that statement.

jjneff · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:27 »

I do this full-time and track a lot of data on the video side so I hope it picks up soon!

CD123 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:34 »

I personally knows a guy who knows two owners of large stock-sites, they in their turn know some more and its unanimous, sales are down everywhere.

hotwalkn · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:38 »

Does this help?

http://www.footage.net/NewsWire.aspx

ClaridgeJ · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:38 »

Quote from: CD123 on January 22, 2013, 14:34

I personally knows a guy who knows two owners of large stock-sites, they in their turn know some more and its unanimous, sales are down everywhere.

Bingo!

Poncke · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:41 »

I personally know two guys who know four more owners of even larger stock-sites, they in their turn know the most guys and its unanimous, sales are even downer everywhere times two.

JPSDK · « **Reply #12 on:** January 22, 2013, 14:44 »

Yeah! and I know the woodoo wizzard that makes it all happen.

Claridge, can you not stop all that annoying mytomaniach bragging and behave normally or go away.

jjneff · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2013, 15:07 »

This will only make me focus more and plow ahead :-)

ClaridgeJ · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2013, 15:10 »

Quote from: JPSDK on January 22, 2013, 14:44

Yeah! and I know the woodoo wizzard that makes it all happen.

Claridge, can you not stop all that annoying mytomaniach bragging and behave normally or go away.

If you call that bragging, giving some info from the ppl that really know, not guess working like most here, well sorry but then youre a fool and not really interested in facts just mouthing for the sake of it.
Grow up! whatever your name is.

Besides. What would or could I possibly gain? by bragging to people like YOU and some others here? absoloute Nada.

morning.light · « **Reply #15 on:** January 22, 2013, 15:15 »

I'm not sure if my opinion counts as I'm a beginner and have a tiny portofolio, but for some reason my sales on Fotolia went to 0. I used to sell a few pictures a week when I had like 30 pictures online, but now even though I uploaded more than 100 pictures, I haven't sold anything in almost 2 months there.

On Shutterstock I had daily sales in December. Then it died on 23 December and had 0 sales until yesterday.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 22, 2013, 16:10 »

come on Christian, now that I was investing my time in RM you say its down, will we have next week unhealthy microstock? you are making it hard for us

fotografer · « **Reply #17 on:** January 22, 2013, 16:35 »

Bad month all round for me so far.

Microstock Posts · « **Reply #18 on:** January 22, 2013, 16:39 »

I personally know two newbies on large stock-sites, they in their turn know some more and its unanimous, BME for all of them.

Tabimura · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2013, 16:41 »

Quote from: fotografer on January 22, 2013, 16:35

Bad month all round for me so far.

Same here.

w7lwi · « **Reply #20 on:** January 22, 2013, 17:06 »

You don't suppose that as there are so many images out there for free, and growing by the hour, that it's beginning to have some impact on sales at all agencies?

JPSDK · « **Reply #21 on:** January 22, 2013, 17:08 »

yes, that might be a problem. Maybe we should try to direct Karma towards the more decent of the upcoming agencies.

ruzgar344 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 22, 2013, 17:15 »

There is one thing I don't understand. I am new at istock and just sold my 1st file. Maybe my question is not related with the topic but I wanted to ask. The file cost was 25$ (XXL size) but they just gave me 0,66$ . Normally they were talking about 16% but what does this 0,66 $ goes for?
Thanks in advance,
Alp

gillian vann · « **Reply #23 on:** January 22, 2013, 17:38 »

could be time for the other agencies to step in and join the fight against the Getty/Google deal. I'm not sure how or what they can do, but it's going to hurt them too. Once buyers hear about the Google scheme they'll all head over there to take their freebies. Even designers, who don't use Google drive, will still go and take files and stockpile them for later use.

tab62 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 22, 2013, 17:43 »

"There is one thing I don't understand. I am new at istock and just sold my 1st file. Maybe my question is not related with the topic but I wanted to ask. The file cost was 25$ (XXL size) but they just gave me 0,66$ . Normally they were talking about 16% but what does this 0,66 $ goes for?
Thanks in advance,
Alp"

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