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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: ShadySue on September 07, 2014, 16:54
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Just have my first August sub come in, not that $2.50 for an S+ file is anything to cheer about.
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A minute and a half to load my sad, sad August sales. :'(
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Just have my first August sub come in, not that $2.50 for an S+ file is anything to cheer about.
It sure beats $0.28 though
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A minute and a half to load my sad, sad August sales. :'(
How do you know they're finished?
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No, they're not!
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I would wait until at least the middle of the month or even to to the end before thinking they are done...
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A minute and a half to load my sad, sad August sales. :'(
How do you know they're finished?
I don't. But based on my regular sales and sales from the past few months, it looks like August will be my worst month in 2 years, and September will be even worse.
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A minute and a half to load my sad, sad August sales. :'(
I dream of it only taking a minute and a half to load my sad, sad August sales. It's just taken me at least 15 minutes to get the 'Financials' page to load so that I could cash-out.
This is from a 'distributor' who take 82% of the sale's value.
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A joke.
$10,56 - 37 sub DLs for whole August. Less than I make on an average day through the PP.
I guess they are completely through already because last sub DL is listed for the 31st of Aug.
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Well, I'd rather be opted out, or at least just have my choice of old, non-sellers opted in, as each sub sale is like a kick in the stomach; but for sure the volume isn't making up for the sharp dive in regular sales since they started in April. So far (and as you say, it's probably all but over) I have 25% of the subs I sold in July.
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sorry wrong thread.
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Well, I'd rather be opted out, or at least just have my choice of old, non-sellers opted in, as each sub sale is like a kick in the stomach; but for sure the volume isn't making up for the sharp dive in regular sales since they started in April. So far (and as you say, it's probably all but over) I have 25% of the subs I sold in July.
Yes, I've also have had about one forth of previous months. Very strange: subs had been on the rise month after month from thebeginning.
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KJ did say 3 hours ago, "We will post when it is finished, same as usual."
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362684&messageid=7043253 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362684&messageid=7043253)
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Gave up waiting for my stats to load. Maybe one day I'll know what I made.
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Subs have been about doubling for me every month (no that it's been much in total!) but this month is down to about a quarter of last. Let's hope that they indeed haven't finished yet!
Having said that they're nowhere near making up for the drop in credit sales I've seen.
Credit sales seem to be continuing to slide. September so far is no better than August was.
Stats still take ages to load on a reasonably fast connection.
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Gave up waiting for my stats to load. Maybe one day I'll know what I made.
True, it is a disgrace.
You can also go to My Uploads, then click on Image Subscriptions, and arrange by date order (needs two or three clicks).
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Gave up waiting for my stats to load. Maybe one day I'll know what I made.
True, it is a disgrace.
You can also go to My Uploads, then click on Image Subscriptions, and arrange by date order (needs two or three clicks).
Yes…
At me there is a saying (probably it exists in english too): "Why to do simple when you can do complex?"
This fits well for some microstock sites: iStock, Alamy, 123RF…
But surely iStock is the winner, maybe not only because it is more complex than the other sites, but because even if they are complex the other sites don't fail all the time…
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Gave up waiting for my stats to load. Maybe one day I'll know what I made.
True, it is a disgrace.
You can also go to My Uploads, then click on Image Subscriptions, and arrange by date order (needs two or three clicks).
Thanks for that, looks like less than $10 total, all 28c. Any profit has easily been negated by time spent sitting waiting for the stats page to load.
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15 subs...$15.
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I cannot get in to check.
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Just checked. Green bars for each day of August, but they are so very low, I think it's not done yet. Like others, subs are small fraction of past months.
Last month I kept thinking they were done and updating my records and then more keep coming. I don't think they finished until near the end of the month, so probably this month the same.
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A joke.
$10,56 - 37 sub DLs for whole August. Less than I make on an average day through the PP.
I guess they are completely through already because last sub DL is listed for the 31st of Aug.
Now up to $56 - 187 DLs. Still a joke (in terms of royalty anyway)
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From the Istock site:
Monthly payouts update:
PP editorial is complete.
PP creative is almost complete - an issue affecting a small number of files sold early in August will be addressed later in the month, so some people may get just a couple more sales come through later.
GI Sales, including Getty 360, GI Connect and GI Refunds remain to be processed. Those are slated to run towards end of month also.
We will bring further updates when we have them.
And just a reminder that this is the PP sales thread, which has precisely nothing to do with iStock image subscriptions. Please do try to stay on topic. Thank you.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362804&page=3 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362804&page=3)
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From the Istock site:
Monthly payouts update:
PP editorial is complete.
PP creative is almost complete - an issue affecting a small number of files sold early in August will be addressed later in the month, so some people may get just a couple more sales come through later.
GI Sales, including Getty 360, GI Connect and GI Refunds remain to be processed. Those are slated to run towards end of month also.
We will bring further updates when we have them.
And just a reminder that this is the PP sales thread, which has precisely nothing to do with iStock image subscriptions. Please do try to stay on topic. Thank you.
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362804&page=3[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362804&page=3[/url])
Thanks for the detailed up...
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21 subs...all 0,28$...less than regular!
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PP was really bad -27% downloads compared to July and -37% revenue.
IS sales being in extinction and the few subs do not make up for the loss in the PP.
If there is no Getty 360 it won't be worth the pain to upload there.
Some subscription buyers must be heading to SS. Probably a good thing.
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PP was really bad -27% downloads compared to July and -37% revenue.
IS sales being in extinction and the few subs do not make up for the loss in the PP.
If there is no Getty 360 it won't be worth the pain to upload there.
Some subscription buyers must be heading to SS. Probably a good thing.
Nah take my word for it the whole microstock loveboat is dead in the water :(
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are they still reporting all the subs on one day or are all my subs on one day by coincidence?
At least they aren't still just adding them to the first day the first month you had a sub there.
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are they still reporting all the subs on one day or are all my subs on one day by coincidence?
At least they aren't still just adding them to the first day the first month you had a sub there.
I think they are still adding them to the first day you had a sub there. And yes, they are adding them all on one day. Can't be an accident I have several hundred sub sales on the 2nd and none anywhere else.
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We have an expression in dear old Britain that sums up my pathetic PP earnings for August compared to the bounty of previous months: "After the Lord Mayor's show comes the sh*t cart"