Author Topic: very slow april start... (Read 11511 times)

christiano · « **on:** April 05, 2018, 08:48 »

only 2 sales since the beginning of the month ... I'm used to having some download per day ...am I alone?

JaenStock · « **Reply #1 on:** April 05, 2018, 08:51 »

Yes, is slow, like a good weekeend for me. But not worried

photorobot · « **Reply #2 on:** April 05, 2018, 09:51 »

Same here. Subscriptions only.

steheap · « **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2018, 09:54 »

Don't forget the 2nd April was a public holiday in many countries.

I'm not sure if this will make you feel better, but these past few days have been one of the best in terms of large sales for me. Just goes to show how variable this business can be.

Steve

zebra007 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2018, 12:38 »

me too

JetCityImage · « **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2018, 13:05 »

It's way too early to judge yet.

emjaysmith · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2018, 13:59 »

So far Easter Monday was the best day for me. Sales have dropped almost to nothing since.

Rasica · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2018, 16:07 »

Very erratic and weird sales (some rush of old files), not just in this month, but since January...

rinderart · « **Reply #8 on:** April 06, 2018, 00:09 »

Quote from: Rasica on April 05, 2018, 16:07

Very erratic and weird sales (some rush of old files), not just in this month, but since January...

Agree.

HalfFull · « **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2018, 02:01 »

To early to say. Not that bad but, remember that last month was the last month of the financial year. A lot of companies go on a bit of a spending spree before the end to use up remaining budget then stop the following month until new budgets are announced etc.

March was a BME for SS, strong at FT & Alamy.... just waiting on IS who've been doing well this year anyway.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2018, 02:56 »

My dls for the first five days of the month are actually up 50% on March, but it's almost all small stuff.
It looks as if I may have benefitted from some search order change around the 25th of last month.

jonbull · « **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2018, 09:40 »

Quote from: HalfFull on April 06, 2018, 02:01

To early to say. Not that bad but, remember that last month was the last month of the financial year. A lot of companies go on a bit of a spending spree before the end to use up remaining budget then stop the following month until new budgets are announced etc.

March was a BME for SS, strong at FT & Alamy.... just waiting on IS who've been doing well this year anyway.

i agree on is...despite all the talks about is is my most growing agency and all the red despite the 15% is the best of all micro near one dollar per image so far...and i have half image compared to ss.
one thing i like in stock is they sell mostly new content.

christiano · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2018, 10:09 »

Quote from: HalfFull on April 06, 2018, 02:01

To early to say. Not that bad but, remember that last month was the last month of the financial year. A lot of companies go on a bit of a spending spree before the end to use up remaining budget then stop the following month until new budgets are announced etc.

March was a BME for SS, strong at FT & Alamy.... just waiting on IS who've been doing well this year anyway.

good point!

increasingdifficulty · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2018, 10:25 »

Quote from: HalfFull on April 06, 2018, 02:01

To early to say. Not that bad but, remember that last month was the last month of the financial year.

In what country? The UK?

That is very different in different countries, and most do not use April-March.

steheap · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2018, 10:34 »

And don't forget that April is the first month of the year which begins with the letter A

increasingdifficulty · « **Reply #15 on:** April 06, 2018, 10:39 »

Quote from: steheap on April 06, 2018, 10:34

And don't forget that April is the first month of the year which begins with the letter A

It's also the only month that ends with an L, which I find VERY suspicious!

steheap · « **Reply #16 on:** April 06, 2018, 10:45 »

Quote

It's also the only month that ends with an L, which I find VERY suspicious!

And... "L" sound like Hell when you pronounce it. Case closed! We are in for a bad month indeed!

alexandersr · « **Reply #17 on:** April 06, 2018, 14:07 »

Very slow for me too

ngaga35 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 07, 2018, 01:57 »

Quote from: alexandersr on April 06, 2018, 14:07

Very slow for me too

I have over 14000 vectors, photos and videos and I don’t have $100 this month. I work this over 9 years and now I don’t know where it’s heading!!!
I understand that this is not as it was, but this is very very bad, 20% as it was!!!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Artist · « **Reply #19 on:** April 07, 2018, 03:32 »

It was very bad sales yesterday and its weekend now so expecting slow for two more days.

rod-09 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 08, 2018, 03:18 »

Terrible!!!!

jpbarcelos · « **Reply #21 on:** April 09, 2018, 12:09 »

i´m going on my longest period without sales in Shutterstock since I began uploading more frequently.

Curiously bigstock and AS have generated more than shutterstock so far.

Shelma1 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 09, 2018, 12:17 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on April 06, 2018, 02:56

My dls for the first five days of the month are actually up 50% on March, but it's almost all small stuff.
It looks as if I may have benefitted from some search order change around the 25th of last month.

I think they pushed through some algorithm change on March 19th. On the 20th my SODs suddenly dried up completely, and I've had almost none since. ODDs also had a huge drop. My popular stuff also stopped selling. And old, old images are selling here and there...some I completely forgot I ever drew.

Mir · « **Reply #23 on:** April 09, 2018, 14:34 »

Quote from: Shelma1 on April 09, 2018, 12:17

I think they pushed through some algorithm change on March 19th. On the 20th my SODs suddenly dried up completely, and I've had almost none since. ODDs also had a huge drop. My popular stuff also stopped selling. And old, old images are selling here and there...some I completely forgot I ever drew.

Interesting, I looked at my stats and from March 20th until the end of the month I have no SODs too.

obj owl · « **Reply #24 on:** April 09, 2018, 14:58 »

Quote from: Mir on April 09, 2018, 14:34

Quote from: Shelma1 on April 09, 2018, 12:17
I think they pushed through some algorithm change on March 19th. On the 20th my SODs suddenly dried up completely, and I've had almost none since. ODDs also had a huge drop. My popular stuff also stopped selling. And old, old images are selling here and there...some I completely forgot I ever drew.
Interesting, I looked at my stats and from March 20th until the end of the month I have no SODs too.

I wouldn't have thought that larger SODs would be affected by algorithm changes as they are sold through the Enterprise Team.

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Author Topic: very slow april start... (Read 11511 times)

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BaldricksTrousers

jonbull

christiano

increasingdifficulty

steheap

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Artist

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jpbarcelos

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