After a slight uptick in the last fortnight of September, I've had 13dls in 11 days. I'm pretty sure only my very first fortnight on iS had fewer dls, and that was the last two weeks in December 2006.
I surely hope it's true that we're going to keep the 'adjustment', which for me is more than I've earned this month so far.

I had a dreadful start to the month too. Average one DL a day up until last Monday. It's picked up a bit for me since then. Although a couple of days in the middle of the week was back to ones and twos. It's looking way down on Oct 2013. Of course the RPD is down too.
DL numbers have become low enough to hit 0 or 1 on a bad weekday. Just on credit sales I'm well under half of the "old expected"  so far this month. Subs don't look as if they're going to take up the slack.
All eggs in one basket. . .

I have seen a few more downloads this week but nothing groundbreaking. What I am seeing though, the images that used to net me .28 for a sub are now netting me $1.00 or more per sale. Is this about the new pricing on IS? I am not sure but I am okay with the higher royalties.

Odd that you see it that way. When they opened TS that's when my regular IS downloads hit the skids, dropped off, went down and died. For me if they closed TS it would be an improvement in income.

I wonder why we are so different? How did your IS sales look before TS opened? Like returns and value of a DL? But now getting a flat 28 cents at TS instead of $1.60 average RPD is better? That's for myself, I don't know how your numbers changed.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on October 11, 2014, 17:17

Quote from: ShadySue on October 11, 2014, 16:50

After a slight uptick in the last fortnight of September, I've had 13dls in 11 days. I'm pretty sure only my very first fortnight on iS had fewer dls, and that was the last fornight in December.
I surely hope it's true that we're going to keep the 'adjustment', which for me is more than I've earned this month so far.

Yes, it's awful. This month the PP will become my main source of income from the iStock stable, while iS may well sink below DT (which is also doing badly) in my earnings.

I am at 50/50. I've said this before but if they kill off Thinkstock that will drop Istock into a middle or lower tier on the polls. Effectively cuts my commissions in half.

3 downloads in 15 days with 1100 pics...defitively bad....in july i had 30 downloads

No sales since 11/10. Completly dead for me.

I think we are not seeing most of the sales in our daily stats.  So many sales shifted to PP or subs that I really don't have any idea how things are going until the PP and subs get reported. 

My daily stats are terrible tho, for sure. 

After over a month now, I'm not seeing any real change...disappointing

I am seeing a change -- fewer $s.

I thought there was a pickup in DLs, but that appears now to have been an aberration. The last few weeks have been very Summer-like (2014 Summer-like, not previous years) in the number of DLs, with the RPD down about 25%.

iStock in its death throes -- slow and painful.

What happens when the bean counters and MBA twits take over from real entrepreneurs.

The money are better with the new system, but the sales happen way too infrequently. Another pain are the slow stats update times.

The money are better with the new system, but the sales happen way too infrequently. Another pain are the slow stats update times.

You've sold 40+ files in 7 years at IS, I would have thought that sales always happen infrequently? I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I do like to get an idea of peoples sales when they comment about them.

Quote from: zstoimenov on October 28, 2014, 18:06

The money are better with the new system, but the sales happen way too infrequently. Another pain are the slow stats update times.

You've sold 40+ files in 7 years at IS, I would have thought that sales always happen infrequently? I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I do like to get an idea of peoples sales when they comment about them.

True. I am not hiding it, that's why I have linked it. Same portfolio sales frequently on Fotolia, for example.

Well blow me down with a feather another raft of sales just turned up for September a bunch Getty sales and subs 

And there was I thinking September was all over