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i have a portfolio of 3700 images and consistent revenue for the last 3 years. In December my sales dropped to a low that I haven't seen in 4 years..down by 30%. I chalked it up to holiday season but now 11 days into January I see no improvement, in fact, I'm its sunk even further. My daily sales are about 50% down from my average daily sales for the last several years. Has something changed in the algorithm or am i just having bad luck?
They used to be very consistent every month but now I get good months and really bad months. January 2106 was grim and this January is just as bad. Hopefully they will still have good months. Luckily for me, they are no longer my best selling site and I am nowhere near as reliant on my income from them as I was last this time last year.
it's the future of micro stock. nobody apart some very big agency could produce something to live on with it. photography i a chepa commodity, buyer can find free photo everywhere , and everybody with a camera seems to contributing to a micro stock . if you have talent and portfolio go for macro and high quality. diversify doing many things or become a instagram hero. other way better find another job and stop complaining of poor sales.
I got my BDE yesterday or say it was the best of all time. Maybe they are still experimenting with the algorithm.I also see that they have changed the preview style in download page.
The new image page design has killed my sales. At first I was happy to see that there were twice as many "similar images" and "same artist" selections at the bottom of the page, but then I realized that they're now showing images from my port that their algorithm considers "most popular"...with a lag of several weeks. So no matter which of my images you're looking at, you see my Christmas images at the bottom of the page, which were popular a month ago and nobody wants or needs in January. Also, "similar images," until last year, used to show some similars within my own port, but now purposely excludes them, showing only images from other artists. Last year they introduced their awful similars algorithm that goes by pixels rather than keywords, which suppressed my sales...and this new change has suppressed them even further.
The most ridicilous thing is, that under "Same artist" instead of showing similar files/subject it shows the most popular files for that user.