For the last 4 to 6 months since the last best match shuffle, tuesdays was my best selling days with downloads 15-30% more than the other days. Prior to that, weds was consistently my bestsellers with the same amount of download ratio. With the new best match/exclusive+ shuffle and the summer slowdown and seeing the * thinkstock banners all over the place, tuesdays are starting to suck too now =(... Just needed to vent since i know a thread like this on istock will be locked.

This whole week has been pretty sucky .  Memorial day, summer, etc.

This whole week has been pretty sucky .  Memorial day, summer, etc.

Summer?

What will be then on 15th of july, if  this is already summer?  

This whole week has been pretty sucky .  Memorial day, summer, etc.

Don't forget the Pentecost long weekend in Europe. Weather seems have been very good so many professionals took off an extra day (Tuesday). It's the first "summer" short holiday of the year. Easter is, in general, still too cold.

Quote from: sjlocke on May 26, 2010, 07:17

This whole week has been pretty sucky .  Memorial day, summer, etc.

God I am relieved to see this.  I thought it was just me.  Whole month has been subpar for me, with this week being especially grim

Across the board or just on IS?

Kinda soft everywhere, but definitely slowest on Istock. 

Sales on IS the whole month have been like a trip back in time to 2007 or so (when I had about half the portfolio size).

This is exactly how iStock has been for me this month, I had to look back to 2007 before I saw comparable numbers. I'm relieved it's not just me; but I wonder what it means for the MicroStock industry as a whole?

In fact it's been bad since they changed the best match.

When was that?

Quote from: lisafx on May 26, 2010, 12:25

When was that?

When malcam's sales went down?

That's right   and when a 5 year old christmas pic became my highest ranked pic even though its hardly sold anything in three years.

.... it's a very bad month for me in istock as well. Other sites aren't exactely BME's, but on par; i wonder if this has anything to do with the cursed TS?

All of my top 4 earning sites (IS, SS, FT and DT) show an almost identical decline since the peak of March. The downward lines on my spreadsheet graph are all parallel. Whatever is happening is industry-wide as far as I'm concerned. Heigh-ho.

Quote from: malcam on May 26, 2010, 12:21

In fact it's been bad since they changed the best match.

When was that?

The accurate answer is that no one knows, but there were (now locked) threads started about this at the end of April here and here.

There was some discussion about whether this had to do with the intro of E+, but no clear bump for those files. And the search results appear to have settled back into better ranking of keyword relevance.

Cant really see a best match change as such but images seems to get reshuffled in a funny way ( on the same page it seems). doesnt make sense? but yes, its been a kind of mild week.