Anyone esle is experiencing very low sales today?
   My december was bad, despite lots of uploads, and january is looking even worse. Today my sales are really sad.

Same here, so far only 13 % compare with January 2013

Quote from: tavi on January 16, 2014, 12:51
   Anyone esle is experiencing very low sales today?
   

Yes. A lot under normality...

up she goes compared to 2013

I only check volume because that is in my hands.

I'm wondering if they did something to the search when they changed the presentation page about a week ago. January was looking quite normal until then.

I am at 128% or 28% up from last year. With another 15 days similar to the last 10 I will easily double my Jan 2013 earnings.

Unfortunately I cant post any screenshots, but I had around 600 files in January 2013 and 1150 files this January (not counting the 150 images added over the last 3 weeks).  Which means my earnings grow equally to the amount of images added.

   Man you are lucky. My new files don't have many sales. Most of them have none...
   I'm in stock from march 2012, and dlds number/ files in port hasn't been so bad like december 2013 from oct 2012, when I had 20% images. And january looks to be worst...

Way below last year at this time.

I have a few sales but a bit low compared to december 2013

Total volume looking to be normal for me, though heavier on the subs than usual, so earnings are on the low end of normal, and I doubt they'll top Jan 2013, which was my 2d BME and my BMY. 

With half the month and almost the entire year ahead, however, it's a bit early for prognostication (IMHO) 

Quote from: tavi on January 16, 2014, 12:51
   Anyone esle is experiencing very low sales today?
   My december was bad, despite lots of uploads, and january is looking even worse. Today my sales are really sad.

very slow sales here to....

Good start in 2014

It seems Shutterstock.com has shifted into high gear this month in regard to driving Revenue per download higher.

They are doing this at the expense of long time contributors who's assets got them where they are today.

Ironically, we all become long term contributors and those who work the hardest will have the most to lose.

Add me to the long list of long term contributors who are experiencing a unprecedented drop this month.  Down 60% on January 2013. 

I guess Jon does not have enough money, he needs to take the food off our children's tables

I am having a contrarian month compare to most here. So far at least 50% more sales and much higher OD and ED sales, with a mixture of new and old files.

Sales of new images now make up 20% of my sales revenue for the last 6 months (vs 5% which seemed to be the case most of last year), though with my small portfolio not sure that a 5% uptick is statistically significant. I get about 60 sales a month (I have <200 files*). My volume of sales is pretty steady generally 55-70 a month and has been like that for the past year, but the mix of ELs, SODs, etc change which accounts for the revenue fluctuations. Sales of new images generally trending up since mid October - though still some weeks with no new image sales.

Sales volume has actually picked up for me this week, as have OD sales, but no ELs or SODs, so my revenue per download is lower than normal, but I'm hopeful that will change.

*I actually have 199 files there now - 2 backgrounds I uploaded yesterday were already approved. And they are under review at DT too - fast review times this week.

My Easter eggs are starting to sale on both SS and Fotolia Sales normal

Best week ever and more than halfway to a BME.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on January 16, 2014, 14:49
I'm wondering if they did something to the search when they changed the presentation page about a week ago. January was looking quite normal until then.

I think you may be right.  Normal for January until yesterday, but miserable yesterday and today.

I hope gbalex is wrong and Shutterstock aren't following in Fotolia's footsteps and shafting their long-term successful contributors. 

Don't worry about shafting the old timers - I am new and getting shafted as well 

Oh, my, don't give any less than whoop-de-doop posts about SS or you'll be voted down for telling the truth.
Yes, probably those reporting better sales are also telling the truth, but why vote down the others?

Just righted the ship thus no negatives on last few posts!  I know I won't be posting about sales anymore- Always get the same posts such as,  "I am losing money' than the next post is 'Having the BEST Month Ever!" 

Okay, than I am having my worst and best month ever....

Curious what you all think is a long term contributor? I've been sending images to Shutterstock for almost four years. That seems pretty long to me.

Quote from: robhainer on January 18, 2014, 02:41
Curious what you all think is a long term contributor? I've been sending images to Shutterstock for almost four years. That seems pretty long to me.

More than nine years here (contributor number 262)

Quote from: lisafx on January 17, 2014, 23:58

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on January 16, 2014, 14:49
I'm wondering if they did something to the search when they changed the presentation page about a week ago. January was looking quite normal until then.

I think you may be right.  Normal for January until yesterday, but miserable yesterday and today.

I hope gbalex is wrong and Shutterstock aren't following in Fotolia's footsteps and shafting their long-term successful contributors.

My January earnings are currently projected to be similar to last year (according to Yuri's calculator) however the second half of January is always much better than the first.

I don't see any change in the pattern of sales either. Roughly half of my daily sales are from images uploaded in the last 2-3 years (probably about 15% of my portfolio) and the other half from images uploaded in the 6 years before. I've been fairly lazy in uploading new images in the last 2-3 years however I have tried to concentrate on quality rather than volume.

I don't think SS goes in for sweeping changes to the default sort-order, just subtle tweaks. In over 9 years I've certainly never noticed their effect __ totally different to my experience at IS where sales have literally dropped 30-40% overnight as all your best-sellers are condemned to the bottom of the sort-order.

Quote from: gostwyck on January 18, 2014, 10:18... however the second half of January is always much better than the first.

Woow, I hope you're right!
It's over half of Jan. and it's already my best month ever (x2). So, you say, second will be even better? Love it!