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Posted by Cednik on August 13, 2012
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ended my exclusivity. dreamstime isnt looking too good anymore
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MinervaStudio: that statement of 2% says nothing as long as we don't know how much % of your pictures/work load are with DT, if it's for example 1% then you are actually doing very well ;) - for me May was good and June was even better if I see it from the growth aspect - with my only small portfolio I might not be significant to compare numbers, but I think I have to bring this up after all this doom and gloom here.
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I wonder if Dt does even have some customers. My numbers ar quite clear: DT represents only about 2% of my earnings.
Everyone is having sales drop here, so it is not contributors' fault.
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Same here by sales have dropped dramatically
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I am seriously thinking about resigning from exclusivity....
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I also have a lot less sales. Higher prices fewer sales. Wonder if this trend will continue. I'm glad I'm not an exclusive. Sales at other sites are still on the rise! There might be a shift from buyers towards other agencies.
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Hi every one, I'm experience the same thing here, since May 2012 the sales drop and June is the worst month ever in sales and revenue hope that will get better.
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My images sales are slightly higher but my monthly revenue is lower and my rpd is a third of my average which is not great. It seems that there are more subscription sales than usual.
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It seems that It is the best month ever for me.
We are not at the end of the month and my record of sales is almost beaten. I hope and wish to everybody that there are more to come.
All the best for every contributor.
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Thanks everyone for participating , In Sha Allah hopefully things will be better soon. I'm sure DT will do its part and lets do our part, shooting, editing, keywording and uploading..... above all promoting the portfolio through social media.
Wish you all the luck for taking part in this blog....
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same here :-((
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same here :-((
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Checking my stats -- my earnings per photo are at an all time high. Volume might be off but I've had a nice string of credit sales over the past few days.
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Checking my stats -- my earnings per photo are at an all time high. Volume might be off but I've had a nice string of credit sales over the past few days.
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Me too.my sales and revenue had dropped down 30% in May.
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I got a very little porfolio...but I welcome the new level of prices. Think that will be a tendency with some agencies. There are buyers for every price in the market. And here the increase is still very acceptable ( by microstock standards).. Some professional microstock contributors have been saying that their income is been dropping (especially taking in account the costs of producing pictures with peoplehired models or eg.) . Could welll be the economic moment,where "everyone" is trying to reduce costs and not investing much. Maybe will be better to give a period of 6 months,for a more precise conclusion (my point of view). Any way I hope people get their normal sales level back( in the case they dropped).
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I hope the DT strategy it will bring good results in the future, because now, is not working
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Maybe the crisis?? I don't know, I only know that my sales fluctuate: some months I have very few sales and others I have good sales
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I have found the very interesting article of Philip Wolmuth ,freelance photographer for 30 years ’’A photographer's view of the market today’’ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16243313).
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I see the same conclusion from different contributors with different PF's: sales go down and (which is even worse) become very irregular. After 2 years of stable grow, last two months show some 'caotico' pattern. But - once again - let's hope for DT strategy. Since we have nothing else to hope for :)
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when so many serious contributors have this problem - then that means there is something not working as it should - is it perhaps really the recession we are some sort of in and yet nor really in???
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Past two months sales down by 50%. I F****** hate this. Revenue is up but with 50% sales, port exposure is suffering.
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In May sales were coming in like a broken slot machine. June comes and WHAM virtually nothing. DT is fooling around with something and it's not fun being on the wrong end of whatever has changed.
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I agree to everyone who says you have to look at it over a longer time frame and not only monthly - I just started over a year ago and in May I had under average sales regarding quantity but from the revenue side it was the second best month for me ever. If I look at the statistics I see an ongoing upwards trend with no sign of any weakness. I try to spread my portfolio in quite a few directions - city, but also much nature and some funny or odd situations.
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Zenonk, that could be the fact, but since I joined here I never had such drastic non sales phase..... That's what is concerning me.
seems most of us are in the same boat.
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For me sales are 50% down...
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April was excellent. May was only 30% of that and no sale in June jet.
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My last sale was two weeks ago :(...I dont have very large portfolio because I'm new here, but in a few last months, I have had 1-2 sales every 3-4 days...not much, but still...now two weeks without any sale :(
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I am exclusive on DT and since Christmas I had a very nice continuity... an average of 1 download/day... Not much, but continuous. And now it suddenly stopped. This is the 9th day in a row without a sale...
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