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Slow start to the year? Or signs of a downward trend?

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StockPerformer.com:
"One of the best indicators of contributors’ health is how much they upload. If they are optimistic, they will put the time and money into producing new content. If they are pessimistic they will wind down their production and upload less."

We just wrote a new article with some insights into user uploading behaviour and how it has evolved between last January and this January.

See our data and analysis here:
https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/slow-start-to-the-year-or-signs-of-a-downward-trend/

Brasilnut:
Interesting.

Would be useful to cross-reference the respective contributors' uploading habits with their average Return per Download and see if there's any correlation.

jonbull:
considering that stock performer is more a service for professional and high end producer...it-s clear that new upload dnt- see enough to create the wish to upload...it-s the big problem now...or agency eliminate bestseller and top performer and use only new and maybe another category as chosen by staff or similar, so customer are forced to look through new images or nobody soon will upload....the new upload in most cases come from new contributor or spammers.
agency should beogn clearing database and add a system that give recognition to those that work hard, not those that uploaded then years ago and still earn a lot due to the database biased towards bestseller....if not they will soon lose ons of customer who will directly go to unsplash or other free site.

StockPerformer.com:
That is true, that this sample does not represent the industry as a whole. It only focuses on a set of contributors. The nice thing is that the data compares the same contributors both in January 2020 as in January 2019. So instead of saying everybody is uploading more (there might be new photographers joining the market), this data analysis focuses on the same people and whether they upload more or not. By the way, this sample uploaded about 730,000 files in January 2019 and about 420,000 in January 2020. I believe this change is too large to be a random chance. There must be a business decision behind. 

jonbull:

--- Quote from: Stock Performer on February 25, 2020, 06:54 ---That is true, that this sample does not represent the industry as a whole. It only focuses on a set of contributors. The nice thing is that the data compares the same contributors both in January 2020 as in January 2019. So instead of saying everybody is uploading more (there might be new photographers joining the market), this data analysis focuses on the same people and whether they upload more or not. By the way, this sample uploaded about 730,000 files in January 2019 and about 420,000 in January 2020. I believe this change is too large to be a random chance. There must be a business decision behind.

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it would be nice to see the % of uploading for country...i suspect the bulk of upload in micro comes from less rich country like ukraine serbia thiland indisa...while in most western country the number upload has fall down completely due to the fact that cost of living is so high to due micro stock as profession...while odin country where pid is low and pro capita is less than 8k dollar year is still a great job.

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