... and so the slow, unverifiable list of our sales ... from over a month ago ... finally becomes published ... when then they can just about free the load on their servers to do so. Pathetic.

IMO agencies should invest more time in making better stats pages. Some of them are...awful, slow and not very helpful at all.

Funny how it seems every agency has their own way of doing this. BS holds money until it clears, SS pay once a month on the 15th, but reports daily (there are periods where DLs are held for updates, to spread server demands) you will note that DLs come in, in groups, not a steady stream. IS waits over a month and then seems to run a batch, catching up?

So IS actually can report faster, but just doesn't. By the time this Oct data comes through some will be 37 days and the last will be maybe seven days? And that's assuming we don't get some Subs reported in a couple of weeks, like last time. 

I have mixed feelings. It's like, instead of daily reports on the PP I get the Getty and IS site DLs. Then once a month I get a string of smaller gifts, over a few days... and then things go back to daily again. Keeps it interesting? Up to the 10th now.

Point is, IS could do weekly reports, instead of saving this all for one strung out batch?

Real time reporting is at the bottom of their To Do List - but I'll happily give IS credit for punching out the PP sales early in the month again.....Crapness - mine have stalled.

The PP sales are very confusing for me. Is there a way to tell which images have been sold during the last month?

Please see if this could help you. http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=352385&page=1

it`s not over yet. up to 10th november not?

Just got credit for a Oct 31 sub. I think that might be all done for now?

Could be.
I notice that my average dl commission from iS has dropped from 56c per dl in each of July, August and September to 46c per dl last month. My total number of dowloads in October was just shy of the September total. Not good.

My average earnings/DL on iS is now 30% lower than on SS. They're heading in opposite directions.

It's bit better hope this trend will continue!

That blue bar for November looks pretty awful .... and so does the one on my chart.

I don't have enough to tell for sure but I have a sales hole between the 10 and 15th of October. Anyone else with no sales on those days?

I don't have enough to tell for sure but I have a sales hole between the 10 and 15th of October. Anyone else with no sales on those days?

I have sales for all days, and looks pretty typical for PP.  Subs are WAY up tho.  They've gone up each month as OD sales have dropped.  I think we are done with October except for the 360 sales, which won't likely show until the end of this month.

Given the tiny number of images I have left on iStock, it's hard to draw any general conclusions, but after the October subs and PP numbers were all in, I found it interesting that the total download number for September was just about the same (1 more) as October, but October's $$ was half September's

Subs steadily increasing, credit sales slowly disappearing, PP (Thinkstock) sales deflating.

The numbers are definitely not stacking up for a return to exclusivity any time soon.

I saw a big bump in sales over at SS and Fotolia when they introduced their new XXXL credit packs.

If someone said it was all over, they were lying. I just got some purple bar reports today. But that probably closes it for me.

Quote from: Buffalo Bill on November 11, 2014, 20:51

Just checked my stats- more sales just added in for November- so everyone check- I got a nice bump (Nov 10th) thus on track for a BME 

Just have to wait until the last day of each month before we get all the components.