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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2007, 18:15 »
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Outstanding numbers. It was only a couple of months ago that they passed 2 million members, so 400,000 additional customers in two months! In that same period the number of contributors hasn't changed (hardly) so the customer/photographer ratio is growing. That's excellent.
53% of sales from the US shows the success of their overseas expansion.
Outstanding.
This shows what happens as a result of INVESTMENT and MARKETING.
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2007, 21:04 »
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This shows what happens as a result of INVESTMENT and MARKETING.
You mean like Lucky Oliver? (Ha ha, couldn't resist! ![Cheesy :D](https://www.microstockgroup.com/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) ) Anyway....yeah, I agree totally.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2007, 21:59 »
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Number of Images online: 2,253,903 Number of Contributors: 37,000 Did Simple math. Average number of files in a portfolio: 60.9 images. Considering there is a large number of people with 1000+ portfolios I think that with my 250 files I am still in top third of contributors. That makes me feel important ![Grin ;D](https://www.microstockgroup.com/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2007, 22:25 »
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There are only 160 diamonds.
And only 2,300 golds. Of those, only 260 are exclusive.
These members probably account for at least 80% of all sales. Perhaps 90%.
There is a serious shortage of quality, volume stock photographers.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2007, 02:33 »
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Outstanding numbers. It was only a couple of months ago that they passed 2 million members, so 400,000 additional customers in two months! In that same period the number of contributors hasn't changed (hardly) so the customer/photographer ratio is growing. That's excellent.
53% of sales from the US shows the success of their overseas expansion.
Outstanding.
This shows what happens as a result of INVESTMENT and MARKETING.
But how do we know that those 400,000 are downloaders? It just says registered members. A lot of them might be contributors who haven't passes the initial QC or haven't even uploaded anything yet. How many of those new "registered members" go on to download images?
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2007, 09:28 »
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And only 2,300 golds. Of those, only 260 are exclusive.
How do you know this? Are there any other fun stats you know? I would love if iStock would start raking of photographers like fotolia used to do (but since v2 it has been stuck on the same number)
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2007, 13:38 »
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And only 2,300 golds. Of those, only 260 are exclusive.
How do you know this? Are there any other fun stats you know?
I simply keep my eyes and ears open when I read their forums. Yeah - 40% of their content is presently exclusive. This suggests that the exclusive artists generate much much higher volume production than non-exclusives.
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2007, 08:22 »
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I'm ashamed to admit that although IS was the first agenecy to accept me, in the two years I have been there I have only gotten 47 images accepted (somewhat less than 50%). Every couple of months I try and concentrate on them but get distracted by other agencies where my portfolio is larger and so is my return. For the last four days at IS I have been sitting 37 cents short of a payout with no dls. This is not a cry for help, just venting, I know it's my own fault. Rosta
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