don't know whats going on there but its not good for me.
Dreamstime sales have been decreasing for me since 2012 but it just fell off a cliff big time.

All sales subscription and not a lot of them.

Earnings 1/10 of that of shutterstock which is consistent with the poll results.

looks like its isolated carrots only from now on.

RPI is a measure but not the whole story.

You could have a very high RPI but the costs to produce it are huge
Low RPI but lots of images plus low production costs may end up with more money.

If I deleted all my low - non sellers my RPI would be higher but I wouldn't have any more money in my pocket.

At the end of the day its profit vs time that counts. this is a combination of

RPI, Number of images, expenses, time spent producing, image saleable lifetime

 

I'd agree start to August is terrible, worst in 8 years I've been on Istock including the first year when I had 100 images.

Northern Hemisphere Summer + More Images + Less Customers = Less Sales.

Bad Management + Poor Website Performance = Less Sales

DPC

The recuring income and a motivation to keep taking photos.

any comments regarding video cards ?

I don't want to run 3d games but video from my 5dMkII stalls my present 5 year old computer.

Any comments on Dell Inspiron Vs XPS series desktops.

every one of mine so far is 28 cents.

3 millions photographers ??  In beta ? I'm confused

DT seem to have a rotation system for the best match. I get a sequence of not many downloads, most subs, then I get a few credit sales.

Feb was terrible, lowest earnings since the first month I started there in 2007. It was basically 90% subs in Feb for me. 

Looking at the earning poll at the right is seems that the numbers are way down everywhere

If Istock listed I don't think I'd be buying any

Subscriptions are a benefit to the seller if the website is easy to use,search works well and downloading is quick and easy. Customers end up downloading extra images just because they have to fill their plate at the buffet to feel like they got their money's worth.

Shutterstock is unique (and successful) as they managed to build alot of credit / on demand sales etc. My RPD at Shutterstock last month was over $1 .

Dreamstime with their level structure for credit sales should be making me the highest RPD but last months was $0.41 basically it was 90% subcriptions sales there last month. Disappointed with the trend there, I believe that their subscription pricing has migrated the buyers there mostly onto subscriptions. Unfortunately the pricing war on subscriptions has cut into credit sales. 

I believe that IStocks pricing for their subscription offer will just transform any serious buyer into a subscription customer. (The few that are left). I have no confidence in that their actions will increase the amount of money I make. Either at Istock or in the industry as a whole. (another subscription offer to compete with)

With migration to subs and no RC's then I doubt if many contributors will be able to make much above 16-17% tiers. or equivalent for exclusives.

If the returns for contributors continue to fall they risk falling (some would say continue to fall) into the death spiral where a lot of contributors couldn't be bothered uploading there as the returns won't be worth it.

With lowest % returns, some of the lowest pricing for non-exclusives and below average subscription rates it would appear it would be in my interest as a non-exclusive for the customers to go elsewhere and istock fall to 10th on the earning list.