I joined in May, standard 15 upload attempts a month.

Kinda early, but not looking too good so far.  Yesterday had an EL that helped, but generally I am way down off early October sales. 

Added my allotment of new work every week and my sales are down 20% for the first week compared to last months weekly average. Wait and see and make sure to enjoy your weekend. 

Best,
AVAVA

Looking better than October for me but there have only been 5 working days so far this month, so far too early to tell.

I'm on track for being down about 50%. The new best match is not my friend.

I know too early  to talk but my photo sales have been extremely slow this month comparing to my average.

Ya its been very slow for me too

First november week was pretty good for me, one of the best weeks ever. But not only on iStock. I guess I am one of the few non-exclusives who did not got hit that hard by the best match.

S.O.S.

S.O.S.

Quote from: Freezingpictures on November 09, 2008, 15:20
First november week was pretty good for me, one of the best weeks ever. But not only on iStock. I guess I am one of the few non-exclusives who did not got hit that hard by the best match.

For me too

It looks 20% down for me, but given we had two weekends and only five working days (although sales happen in weekends also), it may recover.

Regards,
Adelaide

It's turning out to be a very dreadful month.  Whatever changes they've made to the best match has effectively turned the faucet off.

Looking like the 5th WME in a row. Focusing more time on sites that make money.

Looking like a very, very poor month developing - the worst of my 6 months on istock if this keeps up

It's a disaster for me, Istock used to be either #1 or #2, however this month, even bigstock, stockxpert, fotolia, shutterstock, 123rf all are head of Istock, does that ever happen to you?

Looks 50% down to me. It was going very well till third week of October when best match changed again. Since then sales are awfully slow.

Way better here.

80% down for me

Miserable so far. $17 from SS. Last month, only got into double digit sales on 4 days.

At this rate, I'll be crying at the end of the month.

All in all, pretty good with the exeption of IS, which is well down since Im a non-excl. Ive kind of given up on them now, just letting my shots hang-in there for the time being that is.

Quote from: beisea on November 09, 2008, 19:54
It's a disaster for me, Istock used to be either #1 or #2, however this month, even bigstock, stockxpert, fotolia, shutterstock, 123rf all are head of Istock, does that ever happen to you?

Well, yes. Almost every month. BS and IS usually compete which of them will be the worst earner of the month. SS, DT, FT, SX and even 123 are always far better than IS.

Very, very bad... this is the situation when one third of the month is already gone by.


SS is also performing very poorly, the only one keeping things rolling are DT and FT

I'm seriously considering quitting stock photography, It's just not worth it anymore.

Even exclusive members are complaining  about the best match on IS's forum and they say it was only the old exclusive members benefiting from the change.

Quote from: stokfoto on November 10, 2008, 10:50
Even exclusive members are complaining  about the best match on IS's forum and they say it was only the old exclusive members benefiting from the change.

Yes, I'd say it's benefiting a small percentage of the top contributors. How they're defining "top" I don't know.

I'm guessing there's a group of 10% of their contributors that make up 90% of their revenue and they're trying to make sure that 10% stays happy. While I'm not happy that I don't appear to be in this group (yet), I understand it from a business standpoint.