It's also so damned nice to see they are willy pinning the Editor's Choice images

That clears up something that I was wondering about.  One of the images in the 'pink' assignment has over 2000 views and I was wondering why it has so many more than the other images.   The image is on  Pinterest and the views must be coming from there
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However, this person claims to have printed and used ALL images uploaded to Flickr that day.

Actually he doesn't

We have spoken directly to Kessels who said that around 350,000 photos of the total 950,000 appear in the show. Printing out all 950,000 proved prohibitively expensive. "But the volume represents these 950.000 images. I'm sorry if I have disappointed you with this, but hope this mail will clear things up a little bit," he goes on to say on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/6407463775/).

Although that doesn't change anything as I doubt that he just used the ones of people that had given permission.

Laurin is a man of few words

LOL you obviously don't read the SS forums!!

they seem to get the picture that some of us aren't copycat hobbyists who upload only on sundays and celebrating every penny they make.

Really???  As far as I'm concerned they are the site that least gets that!!

all I do now is upload and forget.

That's what I tend to do now.  Not worth worrying about things that are out of our control.   I'm trying to get to the stage where stock income is just a bonus rather than a necessity.

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My weekly rank used to often be in the top 500 and this week it's 5,700.  Whatever they've done with the search, it must of buried my portfolio.

I feel ya!!!

Mine has been under 30 in the good old days but now stands at around 800 !!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! That is bad. I mean from 1000 to 2000 is probably meaningless, but 60 to 800 could be meaningful....and not in a good way.

Yes, a total disaster  May 2010 was one of my BMsE and I earnt 6x more than this May!!!!!

There is one there that I don't have on Istock so they are getting them from other places as well.

Sales are slightly up for me but still far too many xs, s and sub sales.   New images are finally starting to sell.  Almost half of my sales at the moment are coming from images uploaded in the last couple of months.

I've had 6 sales there in 7 months.  4 of them through the DDP partner making the grand total of less than 7 euros.   I have stopped uploading to them, total waste of time.

As well as sales plummeting at fotolia RPD is also plummeting.  123rf came very close to catching up after a couple of good months there. I never in my wildest dreams expected to see that day!!!!
RPDs for last month
123rf - 1.50$
fot - 99c
DT  3.50$

Hi. I haven't had a single download in over 2 weeks. I heard there was something messed up with the search results so other images got in front of the buyers. Is this fixed now? Im having no activity at all over there? How is is for you?

The fact that your images aren't at the front of the search doesn't mean that the search is necessarily messed, just changed.  As long as a selection of new and proved images are getting seen then the search is still good.   What I am finding is that I am making 5 times more some days than others.   Seems very erratic as if they are changing the results every few days (which Serban hinted at in the forums).  I suppose this gives a lot more people a crack at getting some good sales instead of always having exactly the same images at the front of the search.   My earnings are down overall this month because of the not so good days but I still can't say that the search is messed, just different.

Got you beat- while on 1-2-3RF while I was uploading my pics they were approving at the same time! It was so funny! I couldn't figure out why there were no pending after uploading and noticed they were in my approved folder...

That used to happen most of the time at Fotolia a couple of years ago. As I finished one off the previous one would be approved.

But, of course, that depends on you believing that the agency will behave honestly.

If the agency  was dishonest they could tell you they have deleted the images and not delete them.  That's the risk we all take when uploading images to sites.