Author Topic: Have you moved on Istockcharts? (Read 17013 times)

Xalanx · « **Reply #25 on:** April 26, 2011, 18:27 »

Quote from: lisafx on April 26, 2011, 17:44

Quote from: visceralimage on April 26, 2011, 17:38
Race;

You have to much free time on your hands; you need a day job or another dayjob $:-\$

Amen! Had to be said.

Take a heart

Amen twice! And another heart.

visceralimage · « **Reply #26 on:** April 26, 2011, 18:49 »

This is not good, today I am at 27,808 (sales)-dropped from 27,702 but number of files puts me at 11,878. Look out folks at the top, heading your way (top for number of files); Look out folks at the bottom, I am heading your way in sales, it seems. When sorted by member since (ascending), I am number 21, woo hoo.

ShadySue · « **Reply #27 on:** April 26, 2011, 19:06 »

VI -
Don't you have anything better to do that worry about istockcharts?

Obsessing about charts makes you go blind.

dhanford · « **Reply #28 on:** April 26, 2011, 19:11 »

Quote from: sjlocke on April 23, 2011, 12:56

Assuming you're sorting by downloads?

Same old place...

LOL!

RacePhoto · « **Reply #29 on:** April 26, 2011, 20:20 »

Hey, I resemble those remarks.

I won't promise anything but the season starts on Saturday, and runs until Oct. The March and April weekends were kind of a warm-up. No Internet at the campground. But if I go to McDonalds I can check in on the netbook.

ABout how often do I look at the charts? When someone posts a message or maybe every few months, if I'm bored. Not that often, honest.

Quote from: Xalanx on April 26, 2011, 18:27

Quote from: lisafx on April 26, 2011, 17:44
Quote from: visceralimage on April 26, 2011, 17:38
Race;

You have to much free time on your hands; you need a day job or another dayjob $:-\$

Amen! Had to be said.

Take a heart

Amen twice! And another heart.

visceralimage · « **Reply #30 on:** April 26, 2011, 20:27 »

Quote from: ShadySue on April 26, 2011, 19:06

VI -
Don't you have anything better to do that worry about istockcharts?
Obsessing about charts makes you go blind.

Actually, my one vice is MSG; when I take a break I check-in here. iStockCharts is just the topic of this thread; this community is so much into stats that one must do one's homework before posting else one is found to be a fraud, poser or lurker.

Freedom · « **Reply #31 on:** April 26, 2011, 20:49 »

Never looked at it before. Interesting. The second one must be Lise, right after Yuri.

How often does it update the data?

ShadySue · « **Reply #32 on:** April 27, 2011, 03:55 »

Quote from: visceralimage on April 26, 2011, 20:27

Actually, my one vice is MSG; when I take a break I check-in here. iStockCharts is just the topic of this thread; this community is so much into stats that one must do one's homework before posting else one is found to be a fraud, poser or lurker.

That probably applies only to the anonymous.

aeonf · « **Reply #33 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:46 »

Quote from: Freedom on April 26, 2011, 20:49

Never looked at it before. Interesting. The second one must be Lise, right after Yuri.

How often does it update the data?

Every 24 hours.
And #2 is indeed lisa (not "our" lisafx).

rubyroo · « **Reply #34 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:51 »

That's "Lise", not "Lisa".

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2011, 10:28 »

Man, I am never going to get to a million...

lisafx · « **Reply #36 on:** April 27, 2011, 11:18 »

Quote from: rubyroo on April 27, 2011, 07:51

That's "Lise", not "Lisa".

Thanks for clarifying that.

Yeah, I am nowhere NEAR Lise, Sean, Yuri, and the rest of the Gods on Mt. Olympus...

And with this months sales in freefall at Istock, I doubt I ever will be

Freedom · « **Reply #37 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:19 »

Thanks. It has not updated my data in the past three days. It doesn't matter though.

Quote from: aeonf on April 27, 2011, 07:46

Quote from: Freedom on April 26, 2011, 20:49
Never looked at it before. Interesting. The second one must be Lise, right after Yuri.

How often does it update the data?

Every 24 hours.
And #2 is indeed lisa (not "our" lisafx).

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #38 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:32 »

sorry but how do you check if you're going up or down? unless of course you took notice of previous position

Freedom · « **Reply #39 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:42 »

Just checked again, it moved, down a bit. But it didn't update in 24 hours.

rubyroo · « **Reply #40 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:54 »

Quote from: lisafx on April 27, 2011, 11:18

Quote from: rubyroo on April 27, 2011, 07:51
That's "Lise", not "Lisa".

Thanks for clarifying that.

Yeah, I am nowhere NEAR Lise, Sean, Yuri, and the rest of the Gods on Mt. Olympus...

And with this months sales in freefall at Istock, I doubt I ever will be

You're welcome Lisa. I hope things take a turn upwards again for you soon (whether via iStock or through a collective upswing elsewhere). Never say never...

lisafx · « **Reply #41 on:** April 27, 2011, 14:10 »

Quote from: microstockphoto.co.uk on April 27, 2011, 12:32

sorry but how do you check if you're going up or down? unless of course you took notice of previous position

You have to know where you were to know how far you've come...

Sounds kind of philosophical. Like "Wherever you go, there you are"

RacePhoto · « **Reply #42 on:** April 28, 2011, 01:53 »

Quote from: microstockphoto.co.uk on April 27, 2011, 12:32

sorry but how do you check if you're going up or down? unless of course you took notice of previous position

"A long journey begins with one step."

I know I'm going up because I have more downloads now than I did before and moved up past the middle, upper 50%, of total downloads. After that, I see your point.

Now I'll have to look and see if I ever made a note of position # last year?

jonlarter · « **Reply #43 on:** April 29, 2011, 07:58 »

I did make a nice jump up the charts yesterday ... only because I'd hit the next DL marker tho ... but still made me feel like I was getting somewhere for a while

lisafx · « **Reply #44 on:** April 29, 2011, 12:07 »

Quote from: jonlarter on April 29, 2011, 07:58

I did make a nice jump up the charts yesterday ... only because I'd hit the next DL marker tho ... but still made me feel like I was getting somewhere for a while

Wow, Jon. Your artwork is great! I expect you will keep moving up those charts very quickly

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #45 on:** April 29, 2011, 12:12 »

Quote from: lisafx on April 29, 2011, 12:07

Quote from: jonlarter on April 29, 2011, 07:58
I did make a nice jump up the charts yesterday ... only because I'd hit the next DL marker tho ... but still made me feel like I was getting somewhere for a while

Wow, Jon. Your artwork is great! I expect you will keep moving up those charts very quickly

Yeah, and Jon's a good example that you don't need a huge portfolio to make good sales.

visceralimage · « **Reply #46 on:** April 29, 2011, 12:16 »

Leaf, time to lock this thread; every couple days I check my position again (reminded by this thread) and find that I have dropped even more. Today, 27,834, down from 27808 earlier in the week.

Someone needs to give me a few mercy purchases just so I can maintain position on the chart.

pancaketom · « **Reply #47 on:** April 29, 2011, 12:27 »

Because of the steps in how IS reports sales (by 100's or whatever), everyone in the middle basically moves down until they pass one of the reported levels at which point they jump up. Then they move down until they pass the next level. No real point in looking at it very regularly. I appear to be listed alphabetically amongst those with my level of DL and no recent uploads.

aeonf · « **Reply #48 on:** April 29, 2011, 14:57 »

Quote from: visceralimage on April 29, 2011, 12:16

Leaf, time to lock this thread; every couple days I check my position again (reminded by this thread) and find that I have dropped even more. Today, 27,834, down from 27808 earlier in the week.

Someone needs to give me a few mercy purchases just so I can maintain position on the chart.

Someone (AKA - you!) needs to start fatening up his portfolio in order to get some more downloads!
You have some great photos, why not at least fill the very few slots you have a week???
Another tip: you can upload isolated versions of the animals as well.

visceralimage · « **Reply #49 on:** April 29, 2011, 16:08 »

Quote from: aeonf on April 29, 2011, 14:57

Quote from: visceralimage on April 29, 2011, 12:16
Leaf, time to lock this thread; every couple days I check my position again (reminded by this thread) and find that I have dropped even more. Today, 27,834, down from 27808 earlier in the week.

Someone needs to give me a few mercy purchases just so I can maintain position on the chart.

Someone (AKA - you!) needs to start fatening up his portfolio in order to get some more downloads!
You have some great photos, why not at least fill the very few slots you have a week???
Another tip: you can upload isolated versions of the animals as well.

Well, since I have only been non-exclusive from Dreamstime since mid-Feb.; I have been using every available slot every week; I have managed to get 111 shots online in the past two months and I have over a thousand waiting to be loaded as they allow. Thanks for the compliment; I truly am trying to get them online to IS, at 18 a week, it is taking some time.

One other thing that pisses me off about IS is the way they calculate the week; you are allowed to upload a certain number of images per week but the week starts at the end of your previous upload. Therefore, if you are subject to an outage, such as happened last weekend; or your happen to be on a dogsled heading in from the tundra; you loose a few days time. At least on DT and Veer, the clock resets based on a calendar, not your last upload

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Author Topic: Have you moved on Istockcharts? (Read 17013 times)

Xalanx

visceralimage

ShadySue

dhanford

RacePhoto

visceralimage

Freedom

ShadySue

aeonf

rubyroo

Sean Locke Photography

lisafx

Freedom

microstockphoto.co.uk

Freedom

rubyroo

lisafx

RacePhoto

jonlarter

lisafx

PaulieWalnuts

visceralimage

pancaketom

aeonf

visceralimage

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