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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: Freedom on January 16, 2010, 17:37
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Since the second week of January, my sales really plummeted at IS. Last week was the worst.
Just wonder if it is due to the price change, or best match change.
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The opposite has happened for me. 2 ELs plus better than average sales and a lot of first time downloads. Heading for a BME on IS. :)
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better than average sales and a lot of first time downloads.
Same here!!! ;D
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About the same for me.
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Glad to hear you are doing well and it's not a best match thing.
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A good start to the year with istock and some of the other sites.
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I'm with you in regards to sales drop. December ended up at 35% of my usual sales and now January is shaping up to be even worse. I don't understand the logic behind this drop as my sales are booming at SS. Perhaps I don't have the right files fore large January sales at Istock. Any thematic trends? Winter? easter? Spring?
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my time with IS is so recent, i don't have historical anything ;D
but comparatively speaking extrapolating with the other of the Big 6
+3 for the similar period, my sales with IS is giving me better returns than any .
and more money per dl .
as i said i still have too little with IS to make an impression but so far it's optimistic.
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Actually real healthy I am pleased to report ....
lots of older Files I have forgotten about getting DLs
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Sales are not doing bad for me, but I noticed sales in images that had stopped selling a while ago. One had sold reasonably well in the past, then no sales for over one year, and now sold again. Not a seasonal image, what might explain a long gap.
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Better than normal for me. Should end up being my best month out of the past 8 months.
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Best to only say here if sales are bad because the exclusives are getting restless about the fact that buyers may be going for the cheaper non-exclusive option and we don't want them to put us further back in the search to compensate ;)
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Sales are dreadful :)
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Sales are up. Might end with a BME.
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Best to only say here if sales are bad because the exclusives are getting restless about the fact that buyers may be going for the cheaper non-exclusive option and we don't want them to put us further back in the search to compensate ;)
worst month ever
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Things appear to have taken a turn . . . ;)
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This is shaping up to be my worst month since Dec. 2008. Way down from last month.
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This is probably going to be my worse January for nearly 12 months.
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HaHa, same here.
This is probably going to be my worse January for nearly 12 months.
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Answers seem to be all over the map.
Count me in the "things look great" column. Jan will be my BME. The agencies that matter (SS, IS, DT, FT, StockXpert) all posting significant gains over Dec, while the underperformers (123, BigStock, CanStockPhoto) seem stuck in a rut.
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Out of the big 4, Istock is the only one that is down. The other 3 are doing well. I'll easily have a BME at Dreamstime. SS and FT are also doing well. BigStock has really been disappointing lately. I guess it has something to do with the sale to SS. StockXpert has turned into a non-factor. It used to be a reliable earner every month.
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My sales at IS the first part of January were definitely down. Unlike last year when January rebounded quickly from low holiday sales.
The last week or so sales finally seem to be returning to what was my average through most of last year. The month end totals will still be down quite a bit from what I have become used to.
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My sales at IS the first part of January were definitely down. Unlike last year when January rebounded quickly from low holiday sales.
The last week or so sales finally seem to be returning to what was my average through most of last year. The month end totals will still be down quite a bit from what I have become used to.
Hi Lisa!
Not sure but there could be a search-change going on. Ive never had a more irratic day in four years at IS, my portfolio keeps changing all the time, shots are being replaced by my other ones. Yesterday my industry-shots took up a whole first page, today that page is empty. The search-change seem to have an effect on certain categories only.
As a result my DLs, are ofcourse down by 70% from a normal days quota.
Weird!! the least I say.
best. Christian
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My sales at IS the first part of January were definitely down. Unlike last year when January rebounded quickly from low holiday sales.
The last week or so sales finally seem to be returning to what was my average through most of last year. The month end totals will still be down quite a bit from what I have become used to.
The best match has been yoyoing over the past couple of weeks (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=166661)
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My sales for January are significantly down and on track to by even lower than December’s. (Not mentioning October and November)
Also I’m getting unusual number of tech rejections in latest weeks. Most of them I have hard time to decrypt
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Thanks Christian and Mocker. I didn't realize the best match had been so volatile lately.
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I've noticed it being very changeable. I sold over 3 times more photos on Thursday than I did on Friday. Friday usually drops a bit but never so drastically.
Thanks Christian and Mocker. I didn't realize the best match had been so volatile lately.
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Thanks Christian and Mocker. I didn't realize the best match had been so volatile lately.
Yeah, Im afraid its the usual story. Hadnt it been for these changes I would have been excl. ages ago.
best.
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Thanks Christian and Mocker. I didn't realize the best match had been so volatile lately.
Yeah, Im afraid its the usual story. Hadnt it been for these changes I would have been excl. ages ago.
best.
Same here. This screwing around with the search engines is the reason I don't go exclusive anywhere. It can lead to a drastic drop in income. I don't want to be stuck with one agency when that happens. I was seriously considering going exclusive at IS in 2008, but a best match change late that year caused my sales to plummet. I was fortunate that the other agencies were performing well at the time, although IS did rebound in early 2009.
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wow, sales are just bopping here after a virtual stop over the new year's. got my first extra large sale, so can i attribute it all to the lower non-exclusive prices? so far, BME.