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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Pixart on January 12, 2011, 22:32

Title: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: Pixart on January 12, 2011, 22:32
Maybe I'm being paranoid....   or should I be suspicious about the unusually high number of OD's that I have been getting?  They are exactly half of my January earnings.  Today is the 12th and the OD total is more than November or December's total for OD's.  Has there been any rumour of credit card theft at SS?

Or could it be IS buyers trying out a new site?
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: nruboc on January 12, 2011, 22:41
My On-Demand are way above normal too, but I'm not chalking it up to the IS factor. I think the trend away from IStock will be much slower than something noticed from month to month, but think it is happening.
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: MicrostockExp on January 12, 2011, 22:41
normal activity for me for OD. I do hope security is better at SS than IS haha:)
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: luissantos84 on January 12, 2011, 23:25
normal activity for me for OD. I do hope security is better at SS than IS haha:)

+1
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: hofhoek on January 13, 2011, 02:53
Definitely more than usual. Each day of this month a few... I'm happy
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: thaimacky on January 13, 2011, 05:25
normal activity for me for OD. I do hope security is better at SS than IS haha:)

+1
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: leremy on January 13, 2011, 05:46
YES, OD for the last 2 days is just great.
Hope these buyers are from IS.
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: iclick on January 13, 2011, 07:06
Yup was delighted with the more than usual on demands yeterday, very rewarding  ;D
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: joingated on January 13, 2011, 07:12
Ive found on demands to be increasingly a chunk of shutterstock income. About a third monthly total for me with around 2.5k images. I'm chuffed with that!
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: gostwyck on January 13, 2011, 08:19
OD sales have been growing in significance for me ever since they introduced them but particularly the last 2-3 months. EL's have doubled or trebled recently too. OD+EL sales now make roughly half my income at SS.

I don't really understand why SS doesn't just sell licenses via 'credits' like every other agency rather than their less-flexible 'image packs'. They seem to be very keen to keep distance between themselves and BigStock as they 'cater for different markets' so maybe that's why.
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: vonkara on January 13, 2011, 09:13
I bought a OD package there and you can't download in full sizes. It's small and medium jpeg only, and the amount of images you can purchase is very limited. It's not thefts in my opinion
Title: Re: On-Demand Sales on SS
Post by: corepics on January 13, 2011, 09:27
I bought a OD package there and you can't download in full sizes. It's small and medium jpeg only, and the amount of images you can purchase is very limited. It's not thefts in my opinion


You can buy the full sizes via On Demand, if you buy the right package. See http://www.shutterstock.com/subscribe.mhtml (http://www.shutterstock.com/subscribe.mhtml), and op in for either 5 or 25 Downloads of the "All JPG and Vector sizes" OD subscription. Is it possible you bought the "Small & Med JPEG size only" package?