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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: luissantos84 on February 02, 2012, 11:04

Title: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: luissantos84 on February 02, 2012, 11:04
http://zoom.it/rp5A#full (http://zoom.it/rp5A#full)

407k downloads from CATS :D
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: KB on February 02, 2012, 17:40
Wow, it's true, cats really are the next big marketing thing.  ;)

That's a lot of sales.
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: qwerty on February 03, 2012, 01:35
quick anybody got any cat photos get them on there now. 407k downloads.

Average 4 downloads for each image. i.e approx rpi = $1.32 per year

Looks like the royal wedding was a good thing to get onto.Average 20 dl per image.
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: mtilghma on February 03, 2012, 15:06
wow, almost 20 million images, and 200 million dls?  that means the average is 10 dls per image.  That is higher than I would have imagined, especially with 20 million images
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on February 03, 2012, 16:09
That is really interesting.  Like the visual comparison of terminology changes.  And that "Menu" vector is all over the place. 
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: gostwyck on February 03, 2012, 16:21
That is really interesting.  Like the visual comparison of terminology changes.  And that "Menu" vector is all over the place. 

Hmmm. I was quite surprised that the most downloaded image in Canada ... is of an African elephant. Really? I had no idea that elephants were so big in Canada, if you'll pardon the pun.
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: heywoody on February 03, 2012, 19:20
wow, almost 20 million images, and 200 million dls?  that means the average is 10 dls per image.  That is higher than I would have imagined, especially with 20 million images


If individual images are downloaded thousands of times on FT

http://blog.fotolia.com/en/2012/01/26/fotoliastop-sellers-of-2011/ (http://blog.fotolia.com/en/2012/01/26/fotoliastop-sellers-of-2011/)

probably 4 - 5 times that on SS.  Those kind of numbers spread across a relatively small number of high performers will really skew the average - much like the way average life expectancy is supposed to be much higer than it was 50 years ago - mainly due to improved infant mortality where there were lots of deaths at 0 years.
Title: Re: 200 million downloads at Shutterstock!
Post by: mtilghma on February 03, 2012, 20:07
yea yea, I get how the math works, but I was taking that into account.  I know there are some insanely high performers, but there are also buckets and buckets of low performers.  I know the median won't be anywhere near 10, but I'm still surprised the average is.