Quote from: jjneff on February 26, 2015, 09:58

Sales are stable for me with an increase in RPD for video. I like the changes iStock is making and hope for the best. My image sales are up and so is my sub sales on iStock

Really? Your comments on sales at iStock during the last quarter of 2014 were not so positive:

September Sales 
"Down a lot from last year but up from August. Time will tell with these changes"
October Sales 
"This is a bad trend! For me average nothing amazing nothing awful. For the amount of content I have produced this year I am not happy with sales."
November Sales 
"Very bad month on the video side! photo was average and the month as a whole was well below 2013 which was a horrible year for me."
December sales
"A normally low Dec. asu usual, I need Getty sales to draw my final conclusion now. iStock alone was a low average."

And January 2015 Sales
"Nothing to really say on the video side, very average and low. Most troubling is 7 days with zero sales. Here is hoping Getty is better but not holding my breath."

I just can't understand you...

  

They were playing their moves and acting like a fly with diarrhea in the game where main opponent was mostly just observing.

I really feel their biggest problem is that they are running out of moves and they cannot allow them self to turn in the single one possible direction
which could benefit all because its a long term one.

They are heating that boat with the boards from the deck, yap its a big big boat...but they need a big fire to keep it warm.     

Investors like the notion of revenues that are consistent over time and locking in customers to that company's product - that's why Wall St. has been happy with Adobe's CC changes. Getty/iStock subscriptions can be dumped any time the current term runs out with no costs of switching or any hassle to the customer.

Not only no hassle to the customer, but an actual benefit if the content elsewhere is different enough, or comes in package that is more attractive or easier to access.

Just took a quick look at my sales history. Still exclusive at the moment. January total combined sales were half of the peak back in mid 2013. Regular sales revenue is 1/3 of peak. Getty E+ sales revenue is 1/3 of peak. Subscription sales are way up from 2013 but only enough to bump the overall loss from 1/3 to 1/2 of peak.

It has been a shell game really. Sales downloads have been falling for the past few years masked by price increases. My regular sales used to be strong. When regular sales started dropping, E+ made up for the loss and my sales revenue stayed the same. When downloads started dropping, regular price increases made up for the loss and my sales revenue stayed the same. When they could no longer raise prices and downloads continued to drop, my sales revenue dropped.

I said a while ago that if this trend continued it would only be a matter of time before they ran out of options to prop up prices to offset falling downloads. We reached that point with this new subs deal and it hasn't worked well for me.

Just so you know my sales for Feb. are down! very disappointed with my earnings for Feb.

Judging from the above quotes this seems to be a consistent pattern.  Don't feel bad.  It is happening with mostly everyone on IS. 

My Feb Regular sales were up considerably from January, and down considerably from Feb. 2014. I feel like a frog in a pot of water on a stove top.

Ribbit

Oh, this was the BME for me on IS: 1 picture sold only, but for 40 USD. Last month was zero. I have a very small portfolio on IS, because I can't loose time uploading and doing all  they want for a percentage near the slavery.