Betty LaRue Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 If I make no more sales this month, it will match January's 4. Two weeks to go, so I'm holding onto hope. I'm not a barn burner. Typically I get 4-6 a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 You bet it's slow. Both views and zooms are way down. My CTR for the month is 0.19. I've never seen anything that low. One sale where I would normally have about 7 by now. Wow, you really have taken a hit. Very odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Average so far I think, and January was average too, in terms of sales; views and zooms are down compared with the end of last year Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arletta Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Slow month? No,... it's not slow... It's pure ZERO! Views are 2x better than normal though... I wish I could pay my bills with views only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 1 'personal use' sale of a parking meter for $12 gross. Perhaps they thought they were buying the meter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Stone Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Half way through the month and 2 sales - I average around 5 per month - so about what I'd expect. CTR is holding up but views and zooms are down 50% on last year so I anticipate a fall in sales over the next few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 What are these things called 'sales' and 'zooms' of which you speak? In my world we know nothing of these things. We know only of the things called 'views' and they are small in number, like as naught to what was known in times long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 What are these things called 'sales' and 'zooms' of which you speak? In my world we know nothing of these things. We know only of the things called 'views' and they are small in number, like as naught to what was known in times long ago. This is a sad tale Joseph! Thought I saw your name in the images found thread not too long ago. (Hope I'm right) Maybe a case of 6000 the new 3000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 What are these things called 'sales' and 'zooms' of which you speak? In my world we know nothing of these things. We know only of the things called 'views' and they are small in number, like as naught to what was known in times long ago. This is a sad tale Joseph! Thought I saw your name in the images found thread not too long ago. (Hope I'm right) Maybe a case of 6000 the new 3000? Alas, I have made no appearances in the 'images found' topics since you pointed out one of mine in the Daily Mail in October 2015. I occasionally report images I see belonging to others, this being a more likely reason for to my name to appear in that hallowed topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 They always seem to hold mine 'til the end of the month, though I have had one so far notified for Feb. To keep me chipper I have found a couple of web-uses that should turn up at some point. Cleared funds are also dragging. Zooms have been pretty good and include a couple of 100 percenters on Alamy, so keeping my fingers crossed there. My CTR is gradually improving and slowly heading towards the Alamy par. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Yep, slow here too - Just one sale for $5 so far... Still, have had a run of average to good months so I suppose I was due a rubbish one I'm not giving up hope yet though, another two weeks to go! PMA etc etc... Zooms are next to nil this month though, views slightly down but not significantly. I'm not sure whether to be concerned or not as my zooms rarely seem to turn into sales anyway, and most of my sales seemingly come from nowhere. But even so, I don't like to see the CTR slowly go down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Wow. Nearly 700 views yesterday, an increase of near enough 10 times my usual daily views since the big bang search change. Half of them were somebody looking at my home town of Bolton, but even so, many more odd bods too. BUT not one zoom from the whole bally lot, so my CTR such as it was, has taken a nose-dive. Just a statistical blip for me or did anyone else have this kind of unprecedented experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Got another one today so now up to 2! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I've just surpassed last month's total with half the amount of images sold this month ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Wow. Nearly 700 views yesterday, an increase of near enough 10 times my usual daily views since the big bang search change. Half of them were somebody looking at my home town of Bolton, but even so, many more odd bods too. BUT not one zoom from the whole bally lot, so my CTR such as it was, has taken a nose-dive. Just a statistical blip for me or did anyone else have this kind of unprecedented experience? Same here. Seeing it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? I know it was a 10 year license. Unfortunately I haven't been able to access the 'summary of images sold' going that far back - it always times out. Edit - ah, managed to get through. 'Unlimited transmission' unfortunately. But I notice I had two other identical sales on the same day - if you watch Pointless, please keep a lookout for Nelson's Column and a Prague signpost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? I know it was a 10 year license. Unfortunately I haven't been able to access the 'summary of images sold' going that far back - it always times out. Edit - ah, managed to get through. 'Unlimited transmission' unfortunately. But I notice I had two other identical sales on the same day - if you watch Pointless, please keep a lookout for Nelson's Column and a Prague signpost! What was the one used on Pointless yesterday? I had my first TV sale last year, if anybody sees a pic of the Glasgow School of Art on TV can you let me know! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? I know it was a 10 year license. Unfortunately I haven't been able to access the 'summary of images sold' going that far back - it always times out. Edit - ah, managed to get through. 'Unlimited transmission' unfortunately. But I notice I had two other identical sales on the same day - if you watch Pointless, please keep a lookout for Nelson's Column and a Prague signpost! What was the one used on Pointless yesterday? I had my first TV sale last year, if anybody sees a pic of the Glasgow School of Art on TV can you let me know! John. It was Natalie Bennett, in the 'Foreign Politicians' round The sale went through on 18 August 2015 and the show was first transmitted in Jan 2016 it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? I know it was a 10 year license. Unfortunately I haven't been able to access the 'summary of images sold' going that far back - it always times out. Edit - ah, managed to get through. 'Unlimited transmission' unfortunately. But I notice I had two other identical sales on the same day - if you watch Pointless, please keep a lookout for Nelson's Column and a Prague signpost! What was the one used on Pointless yesterday? I had my first TV sale last year, if anybody sees a pic of the Glasgow School of Art on TV can you let me know! John. It was Natalie Bennett, in the 'Foreign Politicians' round The sale went through on 18 August 2015 and the show was first transmitted in Jan 2016 it seems. Yes, I remember seeing that pic. Cheers, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. I'm fairly sure yesterday's episode was a repeat from 2015. The question is, did the original licence cover repeats or do you get another sale? I know it was a 10 year license. Unfortunately I haven't been able to access the 'summary of images sold' going that far back - it always times out. Edit - ah, managed to get through. 'Unlimited transmission' unfortunately. But I notice I had two other identical sales on the same day - if you watch Pointless, please keep a lookout for Nelson's Column and a Prague signpost! What was the one used on Pointless yesterday? I had my first TV sale last year, if anybody sees a pic of the Glasgow School of Art on TV can you let me know! John. There was one in University Challenge a couple of weeks back. They use Alamy regularly. Unfortunately we cannot watch past episodes of anything BBC on the continent. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Three decent sales from the same buyer popped up today, so the month seems to be picking up speed at last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian58 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Maybe here! but my God! its shot right up elewhere at some places!.... its very strange one can never tell. I have 4000 images at one place and the sales are reasonably good. I have 1200 at another and its just sky-rocketing. There just isnt any logic in stock-photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Last week good. This week dead. That's just how it goes. I did see one of mine on BBC Pointless yesterday though. Discovered I got paid for it in 2015 - they seem to record that show a long time ahead. That Pointless was a repeat. Watched the Chase instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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