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Bad july.. How was yours?

Started by CrFx, July 31, 2018, 15:39

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CrFx

Down everywhere compared to previous month.

Sean Locke Photography

SS, worst since starting in 2013.
Adobe, holding steady.
Canva, meh.
GL, lol.

Pauws99

After terrible first couple of weeks turning out OK for a July. SS quite poor but adobe making up for it to some extent and even Dreamtimes--dreading returned sales. RF123 looking like its gone off the cliff. If IS turns out OK will better than  last July. In today's climate not getting worse is a reasonable result I reckon ;-).

angelawaye


jonbull

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 31, 2018, 15:43
SS, worst since starting in 2013.
Adobe, holding steady.
Canva, meh.
GL, lol.

stocksy?


Wrighty

Really poo. Last July was one of the best. This year... the worst.

jonbull

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 31, 2018, 16:43
Quote from: jonbull on July 31, 2018, 16:32
Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 31, 2018, 15:43
SS, worst since starting in 2013.
Adobe, holding steady.
Canva, meh.
GL, lol.

stocksy?

Not so good.

ok...thanks.i think despite the great quality even stocky is facing had times. i love check their feed and what surprises me is to see that top notch producer slowed down a lo their contributions in the last year.

Artist

Quote from: Wrighty on July 31, 2018, 16:55
Really poo. Last July was one of the best. This year... the worst.

SS 30% down
AS slightly below than june
123RF very down
Dreamstime - avg
DP- almost dead

jonbull

i know this would be better posted in the infamous thread shutter stock controlling royalty scheme but i post here...

checking now....i have the exact dollar so far from subscription compared to last year...the exact. on demand is plus 2 %...luckily what makes a good fiference are sod plus 150% and video, despite only 75 video i managed to earn more than 100 dollar selling 5 videos. i thin i should focus more on this. anyway the exact amount of subs...ouch...but people seems to not believe in any control.

jonbull

as stated above i saw a return of dreamstime...well near 60$ dollar not enough for payout and compared to 2 years ago pretty poor nut considering i earned like 2 dollar in may.....is strange pattern..dreamstime not doing worst compared to fotolia for me is unbelievable...despite a lot of uploading i cannot sell good in as. esp seems growing a lot.

HughStoneIan

SS - worst month since Sep 2007.

DT - OK at beginning of month, but totally flat by mid-month, so below average.

Others - lower than average.

dpimborough

SS within $2 of last month
Adobe within $0.50 of last month

The others don't bear mentioning as they provided $5 to $10 a piece.

fiftyfootelvis

Pretty solid July for me.
After steadily declining sales all through 2017, sales have been up for me at Shutterstock since January.
Not quite what they were in 2016, but getting closer.

DallasP

I'm pretty sure the entire US sleeps off their hangover from the 4th clear until August. Don't worry fam, it'll be a terrible August too and we can have a new thread.

Brasilnut

Solid month, uploaded some 800 images and 100 clips. Not expecting much in these quiet weeks but if it stays like this in Sept/Oct/Nov, I'll be worried.

MxR

Worst July in micro since 2013
Average low month in macro and exclusive sites.

About shutter, only 110 dls more than July 2017 uploading 1000 files this year.

eyewave

SS down 10%
Adobe +-0
123 down 50%
istock down 25 %
Dreamstime down 40%

All compared to previous month, compared to July2017 it looks even worse
Life is random.

Jogga0

Surprisingly I'm 20% up on July 2017 and 25% up on June 2018 revenues.
No improvement for SS, but good month at AS, AL and P5.
123RF, DT, CS slowly dying. Have deleted 500px ( because now Getty ) and GL accounts.

Chichikov

#19
It was...
Why dwelling on the past?

PZF

Truly terrible.
SS down by a fair amount.
Canva, Canstock, Dreamstime all hugely down.
Others dead.
Only one site rescued the situation a bit. Unless, of course, something amazing has been happening at IS...... ::)

cristianstorto

SS - Best 2018 month
IS - It looks like a very good month
AS - Very low compared to June

Chichikov

Quote from: cristianstorto on August 01, 2018, 11:30
SS - Best 2018 month
IS - It looks like a very good month
AS - Very low compared to June

How can you say it?

Pauws99

Quote from: Chichikov on August 01, 2018, 11:53
Quote from: cristianstorto on August 01, 2018, 11:30
SS - Best 2018 month
IS - It looks like a very good month
AS - Very low compared to June

How can you say it?
You can track downloads to date and draw an assumption from there.

jjneff

Decent month on the video side, nothing amazing but solid with no huge drops.