Hi

I have a 1.7k port and increasing with Wirestock that gets a few sales a month - had 0 sales in the past 3 weeks or so - totally dried up.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing a big drop in sales.

Thanks
C

Hi meow,

We're in August...

than September, October, November, Dec, Jan... 

Thanks all - yeah about 3 years into stock - so I do try and lower my expectations for sales in August. But just odd that sales just stopped not slowed. I don't expect much from photo sales TBH.

Thanks again

Hard to say really - my WS port is bigger than my personal port which still does get sales.

Do you think the sales numbers are lower via Wirestock, than than would have been if you used your own personal accounts at each agency?

no, since any sales from WS are from images i wouldnt have had time to edit for months yet

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I have a small number of SS rejects that are uploaded and I clicked SS on WS. They have sales.  ...

same here - categories that SS won't accept from me are accepted (and sell)when sent thru WS!

Quote from: Jens G on August 17, 2021, 08:46

Do you think the sales numbers are lower via Wirestock, than than would have been if you used your own personal accounts at each agency?

Thanks to those of you who answered my question.

The reason for my question is that I'm considering deleting my files on SS, and upload them via WS instead. After a necessary wait of course.

But if the general feeling was that sales are worse via WS, I wouldn't do it.

For now, I think I will upload new files to WS, and by the end of the year see how they have done.

If you move your photos from SS to SS via WS you should have in mind:
As older your images, as more often they could be rejected now cause of the AI review process on SS.
With other words: Newer Images which passed via AI will be pass again. Rejected ones - as mentioned from others above - might get accepted now, because more accepted images via WS.
I luckily moved the most before the AI review and got most of them accepted again. My last batch - well they were indeed the worst ones in case of motifs not in kind of quality - most got accepted and some got sales directly and funny: also instant pay to SS (3.83$ each).

Quote from: kall3bu on August 22, 2021, 03:07

Quote from: Jens G on August 22, 2021, 00:49

Quote from: Jens G on August 17, 2021, 08:46

Do you think the sales numbers are lower via Wirestock, than than would have been if you used your own personal accounts at each agency?

Thanks to those of you who answered my question.

The reason for my question is that I'm considering deleting my files on SS, and upload them via WS instead. After a necessary wait of course.

But if the general feeling was that sales are worse via WS, I wouldn't do it.

For now, I think I will upload new files to WS, and by the end of the year see how they have done.

If you move your photos from SS to SS via WS you should have in mind:
As older your images, as more often they could be rejected now cause of the AI review process on SS.
With other words: Newer Images which passed via AI will be pass again. Rejected ones - as mentioned from others above - might get accepted now, because more accepted images via WS.
I luckily moved the most before the AI review and got most of them accepted again. My last batch - well they were indeed the worst ones in case of motifs not in kind of quality - most got accepted and some got sales directly and funny: also instant pay to SS (3.83$ each).

Thank you for the advice. I will keep that in mind 

Yes, all kinds of reasoning but photos that are already accepted, I wouldn't delete. You don't know what will be rejected. I know that many of my older, lets say 2008 to 2012 images, I wouldn't even upload to SS now, and not to WS either. 

But aside from the usual guesses and games and trying to trick the rank, I still get more downloads from SS and I did all that work. I see no reason to remove and try again. I'd keep the SS account and if you are going to start adding to WS, just stop uploading to SS. Like you say, see what happens.

I'd say, images that sell shouldn't be any different, based on how you get them to SS. If someone can actually show that WS has better placement and higher rank, then yes. I don't see that right now, but heck, this is Microstock, things are always changing.

Biggest advantage I can see, is through WS you will have a higher rank = pay percentage without that crappy January reset every year. And that percentage is more than enough to cover the WS 15% fee. Still, what I have is already done, so it stays. That and many of mine are Editorial, with case numbers. People who don't do that, have different reasoning and options.

WS rejects when they think part of the image should be vertical, even if it's wrong (eg a flagpole that's really at an angle), they also reject for 'distracting elements' (in a market scene?!?), or any image that has a range of light values they consider over/under exposed  - so these i'll caption & submit

I had some of those earlier, a slanted horizon. AI probably, but we can all watch for flaws like that in the reviews.

Hi

I have a 1.7k port and increasing with Wirestock that gets a few sales a month - had 0 sales in the past 3 weeks or so - totally dried up.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing a big drop in sales.

Thanks
C

Just thinking back to your original question. Wirestock sells nothing, they only manage and send images to the agencies. So in effect, if sales are down, the problem isn't Wirestock, it's the agencies?

Not that any of that will make you feel better or make more money, but Wirestock doesn't get downloads, they just distribute things.