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.

better than average sales and a lot of first time downloads.

Same here!!!

Glad to hear you are doing well and it's not a best match thing.

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?

Actually real healthy I am pleased to report ....

lots of older Files I have forgotten about getting DLs

Better than normal for me. Should end up being my best month out of the past 8 months.

Sales are dreadful

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

This is shaping up to be my worst month since Dec. 2008.  Way down from last month. 

HaHa, same here.

This is probably going to be my worse January for nearly 12 months.

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. 

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

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 

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. 

Quote from: lisafx on January 22, 2010, 18:39

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.