Is very good ofcourse and same as the E+, is supposed to generate more revenue for agency/contributor. We had some good days here, buyers were curious as to what P+, was, added a few bucks and bought.
However, the novelty will as always deflate and then we are left with what?  

At this moment, no best match change, not even a tweak has been done in favour of boosting P+.  In many big searches we still see useless Vetta/agency files, non-commercial and with zero dls, just "hanging-in" there, taking up valuable slots simply because some contributor has nominated something that doesnt sell???
Well,  charity, is something we cant afford not even to exclusives.

So, all in all, what was in fact the philosophy behind this P+  ?  when you build something, you also have to support it, it will stand for a while and then suddenly come crashing down. Building P+, was great but where is the support?  Im earning slightly more,  so what? not important since the amount of DLs are pretty much the same.
If the philosopy was just a flash in the pan, just a quick boost of cash?  its worthless! both for agency as for contributor,  or can we assume that buyers are so incredibly stupid and naive that they will still wade through all the rubbish, for hours on end, until they come to a file with a P+  and then BINGO!  they will buy!.

I think not. I give the P+,  another week,  if no support of a best match change has been done in its favour,  we are back to square one. Nothing.

Im earning slightly more,  so what? not important

So it isn't the money that's going to make you happy?

[double post. Sorry]

The P+,  novelty will last for a couple of weeks. Buyers probably dont even know what . it is?  with so many collections going. Dont matter, without a best match tweak,  it means nothing,  exept that our files are locked for six months ofcourse. Smart move.

Quote from: lagereek on May 15, 2011, 01:11

Im earning slightly more,  so what? not important

So it isn't the money that's going to make you happy?

Why should it? All he wants is enough to buy a new lens cap anyway.

Anything that pushes stock prices upwards is a good thing. Buyers get images far too cheaply.

With or without search boost, I'm not too pessimistic this time: P+ may be the first good thing IS did in months... time will tell

If P+ doesn't meet with price resistance from buyers, at least it means we get more money for the same # of sales. 

I didn't go into it expecting a best match boost because I had read about the failure to give E+ the promised boost.   Although a boost would be nice to have

Hi!

No neither did I,  but I must admit I thought they were going to take the opportunity to boost both E+ and P+,  seamed logic.

I still think Photo+ is a good idea.

It makes perfect sense for an agency to raise prices on popular images - however they decide to go about doing so.  Dreamstime has their image levels which is basically the same thing as Photo+, except with more levels. 

As most people get 90% of income from 10% of their port, we should be able to get higher prices on most of our sales.  I'm not going to complain about that, best match boost or not.

That makes sense to me, too, but I thought a contributor could opt in ANY 10% of their port that they like. I would have a tough time deciding which images to opt in...if you put the top 10% of your port in, the price hike might stop sales cold. Glad I don't have to make the decision! 

Anything that pushes stock prices upwards is a good thing. Buyers get images far too cheaply.

+1

Quote from: leaf on May 15, 2011, 12:15

It makes perfect sense for an agency to raise prices on popular images

I don't quite understand the logic of that. Why would a buyer want to pay more for an image that so many others are using?

Buyers (like most people) are like Lemmings.

Quote from: caspixel on May 15, 2011, 15:57

Quote from: leaf on May 15, 2011, 12:15

It makes perfect sense for an agency to raise prices on popular images

I don't quite understand the logic of that. Why would a buyer want to pay more for an image that so many others are using?

I agree.  and isn't that one of the key things at Dreamstime with the image levels?  price goes up the more downloads it gets.  fine by me as long as it keeps selling!

Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge you the chance to make more money on those images if they continue to sell at the higher price point. I just don't understand the logic. I usually try to buy images that don't have a lot of downloads and even then there are no guarantees. In fact, a client of mine was threatened with legal action by a competitor because I inadvertently downloaded an image that they were also using. And that image actually didn't even have that many downloads on Dreamstime - though it was also available at other sites. It was quite embarrassing. Of course, there was no legal action, because that person didn't have a leg to stand on, but I did feel bad that my client had to be put through the stress of receiving a nasty-gram.

Quote from: leaf on May 15, 2011, 12:15

It makes perfect sense for an agency to raise prices on popular images

I don't quite understand the logic of that. Why would a buyer want to pay more for an image that so many others are using?

Weird huh? I always search under 'newest'. I know that eventually the images I buy will oneday be bought many times, but at least I can be fresh for a while and when it most counts.