Author Topic: How's Your Month Shaping Up? (Read 23347 times)

PeterChigmaroff · « **on:** November 08, 2008, 17:34 »

I joined in May, standard 15 upload attempts a month.

lisafx · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2008, 18:32 »

Kinda early, but not looking too good so far. Yesterday had an EL that helped, but generally I am way down off early October sales.

AVAVA · « **Reply #2 on:** November 08, 2008, 18:40 »

Added my allotment of new work every week and my sales are down 20% for the first week compared to last months weekly average. Wait and see and make sure to enjoy your weekend.

Best,
AVAVA

sharpshot · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2008, 02:56 »

Looking better than October for me but there have only been 5 working days so far this month, so far too early to tell.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2008, 08:33 »

I'm on track for being down about 50%. The new best match is not my friend.

stokfoto · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2008, 08:51 »

I know too early to talk but my photo sales have been extremely slow this month comparing to my average.

charlesknox · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2008, 09:53 »

Ya its been very slow for me too

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2008, 10:20 »

First november week was pretty good for me, one of the best weeks ever. But not only on iStock. I guess I am one of the few non-exclusives who did not got hit that hard by the best match.

lobby · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2008, 11:09 »

S.O.S.

S.O.S.

RH · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2008, 11:37 »

Quote from: Freezingpictures on November 09, 2008, 10:20

First november week was pretty good for me, one of the best weeks ever. But not only on iStock. I guess I am one of the few non-exclusives who did not got hit that hard by the best match.

For me too

madelaide · « **Reply #10 on:** November 09, 2008, 13:25 »

It looks 20% down for me, but given we had two weekends and only five working days (although sales happen in weekends also), it may recover.

Regards,
Adelaide

jsolie · « **Reply #11 on:** November 09, 2008, 13:36 »

It's turning out to be a very dreadful month. Whatever changes they've made to the best match has effectively turned the faucet off.

dbvirago · « **Reply #12 on:** November 09, 2008, 14:20 »

Looking like the 5th WME in a row. Focusing more time on sites that make money.

tomsailor · « **Reply #13 on:** November 09, 2008, 14:30 »

Looking like a very, very poor month developing - the worst of my 6 months on istock if this keeps up

beisea · « **Reply #14 on:** November 09, 2008, 14:54 »

It's a disaster for me, Istock used to be either #1 or #2, however this month, even bigstock, stockxpert, fotolia, shutterstock, 123rf all are head of Istock, does that ever happen to you?

CofkoCof · « **Reply #15 on:** November 09, 2008, 15:08 »

Looks 50% down to me. It was going very well till third week of October when best match changed again. Since then sales are awfully slow.

loop · « **Reply #16 on:** November 09, 2008, 17:24 »

Way better here.

lobby · « **Reply #17 on:** November 09, 2008, 19:59 »

80% down for me

litifeta · « **Reply #18 on:** November 09, 2008, 22:02 »

Miserable so far. $17 from SS. Last month, only got into double digit sales on 4 days.

helix7 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 09, 2008, 23:58 »

At this rate, I'll be crying at the end of the month.

lagereek · « **Reply #20 on:** November 10, 2008, 03:22 »

All in all, pretty good with the exeption of IS, which is well down since Im a non-excl. Ive kind of given up on them now, just letting my shots hang-in there for the time being that is.

peep · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2008, 05:22 »

Quote from: beisea on November 09, 2008, 14:54

It's a disaster for me, Istock used to be either #1 or #2, however this month, even bigstock, stockxpert, fotolia, shutterstock, 123rf all are head of Istock, does that ever happen to you?

Well, yes. Almost every month. BS and IS usually compete which of them will be the worst earner of the month. SS, DT, FT, SX and even 123 are always far better than IS.

Perry · « **Reply #22 on:** November 10, 2008, 05:45 »

Very, very bad... this is the situation when one third of the month is already gone by.

SS is also performing very poorly, the only one keeping things rolling are DT and FT

I'm seriously considering quitting stock photography, It's just not worth it anymore.

stokfoto · « **Reply #23 on:** November 10, 2008, 05:50 »

Even exclusive members are complaining about the best match on IS's forum and they say it was only the old exclusive members benefiting from the change.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #24 on:** November 10, 2008, 05:59 »

Quote from: stokfoto on November 10, 2008, 05:50

Even exclusive members are complaining about the best match on IS's forum and they say it was only the old exclusive members benefiting from the change.

Yes, I'd say it's benefiting a small percentage of the top contributors. How they're defining "top" I don't know.

I'm guessing there's a group of 10% of their contributors that make up 90% of their revenue and they're trying to make sure that 10% stays happy. While I'm not happy that I don't appear to be in this group (yet), I understand it from a business standpoint.

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Author Topic: How's Your Month Shaping Up? (Read 23347 times)

PeterChigmaroff

lisafx

AVAVA

sharpshot

PaulieWalnuts

stokfoto

charlesknox

Freezingpictures

lobby

RH

madelaide

jsolie

dbvirago

tomsailor

beisea

CofkoCof

loop

lobby

litifeta

helix7

lagereek

peep

Perry

stokfoto

PaulieWalnuts

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