Is it me or its really a slow november start?

Quote from: Artist on November 07, 2017, 09:50
Is it me or its really a slow november start?

SS and Fotolia off to a flyer for me....everywhere else dead

slow...i hate november.

Very slow for me too everywhere 

Very slow every where but SS is appalling

Ditto Sammy - pretty much dead everywhere.  Unless things pick up it's on track to be the worst month since 2012.

Quote from: Sammy the Cat on November 07, 2017, 11:47
Very slow every where but SS is appalling

On Saturday I had my first zero day in 10 years on SS. Regular downloads have been declining significantly in the past 1-2 years but I have been saved mostly by SOD and video.  But overall volume of downloads has tanked and I finally got a skunk.

Too early to say since month's first week started with a weekend in the middle. So far looks like all the rest, and wait until the really slow months come after the holiday season. Dip in 2013 but higher every year since then. This year will probably be lower than 2016 because of a big SOD last Nov. Throws the numbers off for what's the usual. Dec is higher than Nov every year except 2012. Just wait for January?

Statistically, from the last 10 years November is my second best month. But this year is appalling. I've already had three weekdays worse than last Sunday!

And the worst part is that I've uploaded several hundred great quality images in the past weeks. Instead of seeing an improvement I'm sinking.

And the joke is, I even got an image rejected for "similar" when it was a great variation in color and with effect filters added when compared to the original. No other similar images in that batch. But some people get away with hundreds of millimetric variations (literally) of the same composition.

Just plodding on now at 50% of my regular months before the dip. Main problem is lack of big SODs and the number of ODDs.

5 subs today. Yay.

Off to a HUGE start. go figure. October was the absolute worst.

Quote from: rinderart on November 08, 2017, 15:56
Off to a HUGE start. go figure. October was the absolute worst.

Same here! October sucked, november is great already.

These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.

Quote from: Dodie on November 10, 2017, 09:04
These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.

Sorry, what system are you talking about?

My today can be counted as worst download day. super slow.

October was fantastic but November is really poor so far.

Everything is absolutely normal right now, DLs come, they go, one day slow the next I get 15 ODs.

So far november has been absolutely horrible in terms of number of downloads, really scary.
But so far saved by a few huge sales, so after all in dollar terms decent.
But what . is going on with SS? Never been so slow

Image have been disappearing from portfolios and searches broken, so not surprising that sales have been low the last few days. 

Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 10, 2017, 17:54
Everything is absolutely normal right now, DLs come, they go, one day slow the next I get 15 ODs.

It might be normal for you, you are lucky. My sales are down to nothing starting from the middle of this week but I see a huge shift towards other two agencies. I wonder what is the buyers experience these days?

Quote from: Brightontl on November 10, 2017, 11:44

Quote from: Dodie on November 10, 2017, 09:04
These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.

Sorry, what system are you talking about?

The new submission page and all the bugs it is causing.

Quote from: Dodie on November 11, 2017, 08:15

Quote from: Brightontl on November 10, 2017, 11:44

Quote from: Dodie on November 10, 2017, 09:04
These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.

Sorry, what system are you talking about?

The new submission page and all the bugs it is causing.

I don't know anything about it, as I have moved to London, so been out of the loop for more than a week.
Can anybody explain me in detail?
Thanks

Quote from: Brightontl on November 11, 2017, 08:47

Quote from: Dodie on November 11, 2017, 08:15

Quote from: Brightontl on November 10, 2017, 11:44

Quote from: Dodie on November 10, 2017, 09:04
These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.

Sorry, what system are you talking about?

The new submission page and all the bugs it is causing.

I don't know anything about it, as I have moved to London, so been out of the loop for more than a week.
Can anybody explain me in detail?
Thanks

There is plenty of detail here: https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/92209-coming-soon-our-new-content-editor/
Pull up a chair and take some popcorn too.

Is anyone else getting late sales?
For a few days now I've been getting little sales in the day then 12pm comes and I go to bed. When I wake in the morning quite a few sales have been added to the previous days  account. It's like they can't figure out what sold until a certain time and then add it to the previous day or something? Never had that before and with the site restructure I'm assuming that it's all related?

Quote from: Cider Apple on November 11, 2017, 12:03
Is anyone else getting late sales?
For a few days now I've been getting little sales in the day then 12pm comes and I go to bed. When I wake in the morning quite a few sales have been added to the previous days  account. It's like they can't figure out what sold until a certain time and then add it to the previous day or something? Never had that before and with the site restructure I'm assuming that it's all related?

If you are in EU or further to est from the US than it is true. I noticed that when US is asleap, I have downloads but as soon as SS team starts working and the moderators show up on forums, nothing happens. That timefarme is late afternoon till late night for me, after that I get some downloads again.
It could be a coincident though.