This week has been very volatile. Two very good days, one "normal" day and two very bad days. Waiting for Monday to see whan happens.

And, to ArtPuppy: Using the price slider you can avoid Vetta or whatever content out of your budget.

It is the exclusive promotion in reverse.

As others have pointed out, with Getty now pushing their subscription plan, they have a strong financial incentive to promote non-exclusive content, since they pay out significantly less per DL.

Don't expect things to get any better.

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Since iS shut down exclusive artist "promotion" of images from S to S+, for the most part GI sales will drive to zero in the future unless the artist consistently produces a significant number of Vetta images.

Well, my April sales were poor, but May seems to be starting out storming.  5 sales on a Sunday!  Haven't had that many sales on a weekend day for years.

My April were poor, but May is even worse - less then half of April.
Sales just disappeared. Where are all the buyers? 

Quote from: Gannet77 on May 04, 2014, 11:20

Well, my April sales were poor, but May seems to be starting out storming.  5 sales on a Sunday!  Haven't had that many sales on a weekend day for years.

My April were poor, but May is even worse - less then half of April.
Sales just disappeared. Where are all the buyers? 

Well, the month for me didn't carry on quite as storming as it started, but stayed pretty good overall - certainly much better than April, which was abysmal.  GI sales have been best for the year too.  Still a long way short of BME, but not bad.

My sales are going down the drain. May will be the worst month ever as exclusive, and income-wise I'm back to where I was after about one year in microstock (as independent). Depressing.

And the new subscription program is a joke, as I expected... I made six dollars in April.

Almost non-existent now. No sub sales. Days go by with out a regular dl. I cash out 2x a month now instead of weekly. If not for GI sales it would be monthly or not at all. Worse thing is that I haven't had a file added to S+ or Vetta since the big change over a year ago.  So GI sales can  only decline over time.  They didn't even move anything to main either although I sent the Pieman a link to the lightbox. I am getting paranoid that it is personal now. Just have to find a better place to park the world's greatest collection of deep water oil exploration, drilling and production images not taken from the air.

I'm dropping like a rock.