SS just fell off a cliff for me the last three months.  May, June and now July are all down 50% or more from last year.  My earnings in all three months are lower than for the same months in any year since 2007.  It's mostly the lack of ODs and high-value SODs that are making the difference.  Those sales have dropped dramatically during those three months.  Makes me wonder what's going on...

That's identical to what I'm seeing.  The drop of for me was the night of May 17th (yes it was that sudden and obvious).  Since then my total numbers are down a bit but it's the near complete lack of ELand high value SODs hugely reducing the income.  Even ods are lower.  Nearly all my sales from the last 2.5 months are subscription.
I went from two record months in a row to two of the worst in years literally overnight.

Other sites are fairly stable and unchanged from average.  123 and IS slightly up.

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IS now seem to accept absolutely anything provided every tiny bacteria in the shot is model released.  I'm actually not sure now how to get something rejected.

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Back to 24hrs or so now.

Even if people still didn't do anything due to some football game, the match is over in 2 hours or so and in europe where the sport is more popular it's already after the working day finish.
There's no correlation anywhere in stats.

I'm still amused how people seem to think a football match or small event is directly attributable to a days lack of sales.  Really, it's one game, it lasts 90-120 minutes.  Due to the times most of the world its outside working hours and generally, employers don't give people time off to watch sport on TV anyway!
Same for tennis.
Even if someone did sneak off to watch a game they'd do the work before/after the event - work still has to be done.

The vast majority of people worldwide aren't interested enough to stop working and/or can't stop working for a small, short lived sporting match.

As for July 4th (worship the french day, or should be!).  US sales making up 20% or so of profiles for lots of people so you'd expect a drop similar to that on that day (or whatever your share is if its higher) but that's it.  Obviously longer lasting public holidays such as christmas will have a much bigger effect as large chunks of the world all celebrate those which explains the usual dead 2 weeks around xmas time.

Look at the poll results for here, you can see a year behind and funnily enough, all agencies show exactly the same pattern and curve on the graph for these months.  In short,it drops in June, is worse in July into August then recovers into September.  It's a predictable trend in this period and nothing to do with a one off sporting event and so on.  People are on holiday, the schools are on holiday and generally there ARE fewer people doing work as its when most people tend to have annual leave in the northern hemisphere at least.

Independence Day in the U.S...nobody's working.

I don't know who these lot of people are that only have 20% US sales.  Maybe niche artists.  Mostly everyone I know and that posts seems to get 40 to 50% or more sales from US.  If you are not getting that market you are missing out on some good money.  Just not today.

Depends a lot on subject matter but also seems to depend somewhat on the geographical location of the submitter.  You can trigger different search results by checking from different places.  It's quite possible the algorithm has some sort of geographic weighting build into it.  Most people i know get between 20 and 25% US sales.  They *all* are in Europe.  The (admittedly fewer) people i do know that get significantly higher are registered and IN the Americas region.  And these are generic subjects not specific to certain areas and so on.

It's a theory that's easily testable if a few people from different registered locations want though.  Just needs people to run the same search on a cookie cleared browser at the same time and compare screen shots of popular and relevant.   Ideally contributor AND buyers to see if there is location bias on one or other side.

Edit doesn't appear to work so i'll try here.

w3 schools is all platforms, the above stats are desktop only so more useful for plugins.  If you include mobile then Chrome will be well on top due to 80%+ of handsets being android

Chrome.

The lack of a menu bar is to do with the standardisation used on Android - it's accessed via the = icon on the right.  Other non-google apps such as Thunderbird are following suit.

Browser wise, they stats are out there:-

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/windows-8-x-internet-explorer-both-flatline-in-june/

For desktops it's:

58% IE (various versions < shudder> )
19% Chrome
15% Firefox
5% Safari
1% Opera

With the ~24hr reviewing ive had quite a lot of batches lately and my reviews at least have been fair for quite a while now.  The stuff still isn't selling obviously but its getting accepted.

Quote from: Goofy on June 27, 2014, 08:51

Love the replies- 'Worse month ever!'- 'Best month ever'   Like watching a tennis match and the ball keeps going over the net (Good Month- Bad Month) 

And the folks responsible for pulling the switch must be amazed that most of us do not see the reality of the situation.

Which might lend some credence to the portfolio rotation speculation going round.

It's still dire money wise relative to normal but as people have noticed above the main difference im seeing is the reduction in EL, high value SOD and ODDs.

Nearly all my stuff is subscription and the few SODs i do have are small value (lots of *0.36 and $13 being the max).  Not a single EL this month.

Numbers wise it doesn't look too bad but the lack of anything above subscription is making it an absolutely horrendous month for earnings.

Still broken here.  Uploaded 5 images.  After submitting, 3 had thumbs, 2 didn't.

A while later the 2 without vanished completely from all queues.  This morning the surviving 3 have also lost their thumbnails.