Author Topic: Checking downloads on IS Partner Program (Read 3916 times)

Yay Images Billionaire · « **on:** March 29, 2015, 12:13 »

I've only just discovered where the stats are for IS's partner program. Now I can make sense of earnings that weren't reflected in my dls. My question is how does one keep tabs of downloads there? In the regular IS dl stats, I can just go to last DL and sort by the latest ones, but the partner program stat list doesn't have an option to sort by Last DL. Is there any way to do this?

Stock Wife · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2015, 20:34 »

Search the istock forums for the Chrome plug-in. It still doesn't allow you to sort by last DL but it gives you the option to hover over/click the last download option and see a list. So you can see the dates when the image was downloaded. If it was in the most recent month, you know it's new. It's a pain, but do-able.

Yay Images Billionaire · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2015, 22:27 »

Quote from: Stock Wife on March 30, 2015, 20:34

Search the istock forums for the Chrome plug-in. It still doesn't allow you to sort by last DL but it gives you the option to hover over/click the last download option and see a list. So you can see the dates when the image was downloaded. If it was in the most recent month, you know it's new. It's a pain, but do-able.

I'll check that out, thanks.

fujiko · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:48 »

Anyone noticed that if you add all downloads listed on an image it sometimes doesn't add up to the Total Royalties that appears on the image downloads page?
The amounts differ usually by a multiple of 0.28 and the amount in 'Total Royalties' is higher than the sum like some partner downloads are missing from the list.

StockPhotosArt.com · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2015, 06:54 »

Am I reading this wrong, or there is a way to know specifically which images are being sold on the partners of IS?

Can someone explain me how to do this because I feel I'm flying blind with IS for quite some time now? Thanks.

Yay Images Billionaire · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2015, 23:00 »

Quote from: fujiko on March 31, 2015, 04:48

Anyone noticed that if you add all downloads listed on an image it sometimes doesn't add up to the Total Royalties that appears on the image downloads page?
The amounts differ usually by a multiple of 0.28 and the amount in 'Total Royalties' is higher than the sum like some partner downloads are missing from the list.

It seems that the partner downloads are not included in the number of downloads on the main downloads page.

Yay Images Billionaire · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2015, 23:02 »

Quote from: StockPhotosArt on March 31, 2015, 06:54

Am I reading this wrong, or there is a way to know specifically which images are being sold on the partners of IS?

Can someone explain me how to do this because I feel I'm flying blind with IS for quite some time now? Thanks.

You are right. I've been with IS for about 2 years and I only figured this out a few days ago. Go to your My Downloads page. That only shows you your dls for IS. For partner sales look at the list on the bottom left of the page and you'll see a link for Partner Program, which will show you sales for partners.

StockPhotosArt.com · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2015, 02:34 »

@ imagesbykenny

Thank you. Honestly, never seen that...

But considering that going to the IS site is always an unpleasant task I basically get in, do what I have to do, and get out!

Yet, yesterday I summed all my subscription, partner program and IS sales I had in a somewhat large batch of images I uploaded last year, then compared with SS and saw that SS earned me 5X more than IS on those images!!!

I believe that other minor agencies earned me more than IS too. So it's not much worth to upload images to IS, especially taking into consideration the amount of work they require and the 0.22/0.28 sales.