Author Topic: How's Your Month Shaping Up? (Read 23350 times)

cybernesco · « **Reply #25 on:** November 10, 2008, 06:10 »

For me, last week SS, Fotolia, SX and DT burried IS in revenue. Amazingly last week I did not need IS to make it my best week ever. How will IS wil ever get any more exclusives? Denis

lagereek · « **Reply #26 on:** November 10, 2008, 06:21 »

Here is a weird observation! got to use figures to demo.

I get approx. 4000 bucks from Micro per month ( not RM or RF). Now IS used to represent around 30% of that, before last two best match changes.
SS, FT and StockXpert have shot in the air so much that they more then well cover for my losses at IS. IS now only stands for approx, 10% of totals.
This is only a guess but it could be that buyers are so put off having to wade through page after page of irrelevant material, they simply start going elsewhere.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #27 on:** November 10, 2008, 07:13 »

Lagereek, I don't know if wading through stuff is the cause but I definately see signs that the best match along with some other factors are causing the drop.

I had some images that were showing up in the first couple of pages for a pretty saturated subject. After the best match change they got pushed into nowhere and sales tanked.

But, I also had some images that were selling well and their position from the best match change didn;t change much. They moved back maybe a page or two. So if they're still pretty much in the same spot why did they suddenly stop selling around the same time as the best match change? Seasonal buying shift? Drop in buyers downloading?

Caz · « **Reply #28 on:** November 10, 2008, 07:36 »

Great for me so far. On course to at least equal October figures, which was my BME. Fingers crossed that posting this doesn't have the downloads grinding to a halt

Gimmerton · « **Reply #29 on:** November 10, 2008, 08:15 »

msv · « **Reply #30 on:** November 10, 2008, 11:05 »

Terrible.
So far I felt lucky to not have been hit too much in october by the new best match, now see by yourself:

This is not good at all.

lagereek · « **Reply #31 on:** November 10, 2008, 12:32 »

Best for non-exclusives is to just let the shots hang-in there, better they earn something then nothing. As far as uploading? well Im certainly not uploading any speciality stuff involving MRs etc. That stuff nowdays goes to the ones that can show results.
Lets be honest, us non-exclusives, weve had a good run anyway, everything comes to an end, might as well face it.

madelaide · « **Reply #32 on:** November 10, 2008, 14:51 »

My month is slow now is IS, but also in DT. StockXpert and FT look normal.

Regards,
Adelaide

lagereek · « **Reply #33 on:** November 10, 2008, 15:26 »

In all fairness madelaide youve only got a portfolio of 200 odd shots and youre a non-exclusive, so really what do you expect.
Wait until youve got around 1000 shots and STILL find it slow.

best Chris

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #34 on:** November 10, 2008, 15:43 »

Quote from: lagereek on November 10, 2008, 06:21

This is only a guess but it could be that buyers are so put off having to wade through page after page of irrelevant material, they simply start going elsewhere.

Given iS's attempt at disambiguation (god I hate that word) you'd think they would have more relevant hits. Or do you mean that buyers have to look at exclusive content only?

madelaide · « **Reply #35 on:** November 10, 2008, 15:56 »

Quote from: lagereek on November 10, 2008, 15:26

In all fairness madelaide youve only got a portfolio of 200 odd shots and youre a non-exclusive, so really what do you expect.
Wait until youve got around 1000 shots and STILL find it slow.

It seems others have small portfolios too, and most here aren't exclusive, so I guess I can share tendencies as well, and they may or may not be relevant.

Regards,
Adelaide

lagereek · « **Reply #36 on:** November 10, 2008, 15:58 »

No, no, no, buyers dont give a crap if exclusive or not as long as they find their image. They dont care about IS little exclusive-game! which is to stop contributors from belonging to multiple sites. Thats all.
If I was coming into work at 8 in the morning there I probably hit the Scotch before noon.

Whiz · « **Reply #37 on:** November 10, 2008, 18:00 »

Quote from: madelaide on November 10, 2008, 15:56

Quote from: lagereek on November 10, 2008, 15:26
In all fairness madelaide youve only got a portfolio of 200 odd shots and youre a non-exclusive, so really what do you expect.
Wait until youve got around 1000 shots and STILL find it slow.

It seems others have small portfolios too, and most here aren't exclusive, so I guess I can share tendencies as well, and they may or may not be relevant.

Regards,
Adelaide

It's slow for me too, but then again, I haven't reached a thousand yet. Though when I do, the number will probably have to be around two thousand to keep up with the competition.

melastmohican · « **Reply #38 on:** November 10, 2008, 18:26 »

Besides SS everything is pretty miserable...

cybernesco · « **Reply #39 on:** November 10, 2008, 19:28 »

This graph indicate my trends of SS, IS, DT, SX and FT in the last 39 months. As we can see IS is presently taking a nose dive while others are about to overtake it. For clarity I did not put in Bigstock, 123rf and others, but they are picking up steam as well. Denis

jeancliclac · « **Reply #40 on:** November 11, 2008, 15:01 »

If I multiply the number of files sold so far after 11 days by 3 to get an idea of my month result, I will end with about 150 sales, this is the worse result since august 2005 (3 months after having joined IS).
In March 2007 I was up to 750 Dl/month. It has declined since a a regular pace, despite downloading as before.
What can I say more.....there must be a life after IS as well.....
jean

sharpshot · « **Reply #41 on:** November 11, 2008, 17:19 »

Quote from: sharpshot 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.

It was far too early. My sales have ground to a halt again. Hope this best match changes soon.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #42 on:** November 11, 2008, 17:41 »

For me, same data different graphs

including the other big agencies

takestock · « **Reply #43 on:** November 12, 2008, 08:05 »

Going pretty well at SS - others steady except BigStock.

j2k · « **Reply #44 on:** November 12, 2008, 15:41 »

Steady growth till October and a nose dive since then.
October was at about 50% of September and so far November looks worse. Might not even make a $100.

Tim Markley · « **Reply #45 on:** November 12, 2008, 16:26 »

Istock is tough for me lately. Others are ok, lets hope for a turnaround.

madelaide · « **Reply #46 on:** November 12, 2008, 17:20 »

Did they change best match again? Because suddenly I got in one day 20% of the whole month so far.

Regards,
Adelaide

Stu99 · « **Reply #47 on:** November 12, 2008, 17:32 »

Istock has gone down every month for me since March despite steady uploading. They were consistently my 2nd best earner, but now they are my 5th which is quite a drop, basically I am earning half what I used to a year ago. I don't understand why they are being so down on non-exclusives regarding the best match and rejections, surely decreased earnings is putting new people off becoming exclusive, are the existing exclusives generating enough new imagery for them to allow them to be complacent toward new exclusive applications?

loop · « **Reply #48 on:** November 12, 2008, 20:04 »

Quote from: Stu99 on November 12, 2008, 17:32

Istock has gone down every month for me since March despite steady uploading. They were consistently my 2nd best earner, but now they are my 5th which is quite a drop, basically I am earning half what I used to a year ago. I don't understand why they are being so down on non-exclusives regarding the best match and rejections, surely decreased earnings is putting new people off becoming exclusive, are the existing exclusives generating enough new imagery for them to allow them to be complacent toward new exclusive applications?

Yes, exclusives, specially diamonds use to be very active uploading. For many, istock is a important part of her monthli income.

phildate · « **Reply #49 on:** November 12, 2008, 20:59 »

IS has completely tanked this month. Compared to my #1 site (Fotolia), IS is at about 30% of their earnings. It might even drop to 5th place this month.

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Author Topic: How's Your Month Shaping Up? (Read 23350 times)

cybernesco

lagereek

PaulieWalnuts

Caz

Gimmerton

msv

lagereek

madelaide

lagereek

PeterChigmaroff

madelaide

lagereek

Whiz

melastmohican

cybernesco

jeancliclac

sharpshot

Kngkyle

takestock

j2k

Tim Markley

madelaide

Stu99

loop

phildate

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