Ed Rooney Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 A few months ago I had 52 zooms. Today I show just 10. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Yes, my zooms have dipped since new year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Yes, I used to knock along between 40 and 50 but to-day its 10 and that is an improvement on the last few weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I got one zoom on Friday and if it had not been for that my rolling number of zooms for the month would have been zero. I can't see any obvious reason why this is happening, and quite widely, for there was a thread last month highlighting the same issue. Views have been on a slight but noticeable decline for me since April 2018 and there was an an expected dip in views over Christmas, but zooms have plummeted in the last eight weeks and been almost nil in the last four weeks. If Alamy are tweaking the search engine it doesn't seem to be showing up in BHZ, though my real life benchmark searches do show some up and down movement. Interestingly, though a slightly different topic, I note the number of images in the collection has gone down overnight by about 800,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Yes, as I said in my 'Zooms collapsed' thread a couple of weeks ago. Gone from a peak of 97 in October to 21 for rolling month last week. CTR gone way below alamy average too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted January 19, 2019 Author Share Posted January 19, 2019 Sorry I missed your earlier post on this, Andrew. So there is something afoot. I just had a zoom turn into a sale, but that doesn't happen often. I do like having zooms to see what people are interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I am still on zero zooms for 2 sales - and at this rate likely to make more of a fuss if a zoom turns up than a sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Mine are running about 60% of normal but remember the past month, over which rolling zooms are counted includes Christmas and the New Year - not only is this including the Bank Holidays themselves, but more importantly a period of at least 2 weeks where there is a severe reduction in image purchasing compared with normal weeks. I would think in another month we will be able to make a more accurate assessment as to whether there is a problem and if so what it is Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Mine are rolling along over the last six months at a rate of 3/month. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radim Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Last month was not very good, only 64, this month I have 88, maybe it's a sign of improvement to future Radim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I have also seen a fall in zooms, but not sure how much of an indication that would be. A reduction in sales would be a better indication. As I recall it, the zooms used for placement of images come from a select number of trusted Alamy customers only, to prevent contributers from going in and zooming their images to improve placement. The majority of my sales are from 'non zoomed' images, but I simply refuse to believe that the purchasers did not zoom in on the image before purchase. They just do not get registered because they are not in the 'trusted pool'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 4 hours ago, Doc said: but remember the past month, over which rolling zooms are counted includes Christmas and the New Year Kumar I think the graph shows the zooms (CTR) calculated over the current month (not a rolling month) . So for January, only New Year's day affects the data. My zooms are up at the moment. But in recent months my CTR has become much more unstable. Something's going on? Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 11 minutes ago, M.Chapman said: My zooms are up at the moment. But in recent months my CTR has become much more unstable. Somethings going on? Ah, the ways of the Alamy algorithm are ineffable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 18 minutes ago, John Morrison said: Ah, the ways of the Alamy algorithm are ineffable... I just hope if they tweak one area (zoom measurement) they protect other areas (effect of CTR on ranking) as I am getting concerned at a CTR of 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Are your views holding up for all of you? If you go to your Pseudonym Summary it goes back 1 year and the current month. So the whole of 2018 is still present until the end of the month. Views per day or per week can vary a lot, it's more stable over a month's time. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Only 11 zooms so far this month. I think it's probably just a seasonal dip. I find that zooms tend to pick up as the year goes on and then taper off into Nov. and Dec. Then again, the world might be scheduled to come to an end in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 58 minutes ago, kay said: Have just compared 1- 18 Jan 2018 to the same period this year - views and zooms and sales almost (spookily) identical sales - identical views - 92 more in 2019 zooms - 1 fewer in 2019 I just did the same comparison for 1-18 January: views -- 54 fewer in 2019 zooms - 7 fewer in 2019 (18 in 2018 vs. 11 in 2019) So things have been a bit slower this Jan. Good month for sales so far, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 1 hour ago, wiskerke said: Are your views holding up for all of you? If you go to your Pseudonym Summary it goes back 1 year and the current month. So the whole of 2018 is still present until the end of the month. Views per day or per week can vary a lot, it's more stable over a month's time. wim Jan 1 to 18 2018 Views 8792 Zooms 46 Jan 1 to 18 2019 Views 7169 Zooms 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I don’t worry too much about zooms or CTR. Dec was my worst month of 2018 for my CTR but it was my best month for sales. My zooms are up some compared to last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I usually get 20-30 zooms a month. 13 for January so far, so about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Hatton Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 2 hours ago, John Mitchell said: Only 11 zooms so far this month. I think it's probably just a seasonal dip. I find that zooms tend to pick up as the year goes on and then taper off into Nov. and Dec. Then again, the world might be scheduled to come to an end in 2019. Any idea where would be the best place to get some shots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njene Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 27 minutes ago, Nick Hatton said: Any idea where would be the best place to get some shots? The world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Nick Hatton said: Any idea where would be the best place to get some shots? From the roof of The White House maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 My zooms started crashing in December and then sank to nothing at the start of January. They have picked up from about a week ago, but the crash two months ago seems to have led to very low sales this month so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) "Wenn die Welt untergeht, so ziehe ich nach Mecklenburg, denn dort geschieht alles 50 Jahre später." In Holland it's very often quoted as If the world ends, I would go to Holland etc. So according to Heine you should go to Mecklenburg, not Holland. There seems to be a similar (mis)quote about things in the UK happening 30 years later. So Mecklenburg still wins. My numbers: 01-Jan-2018 - 18-Jan-2018 Total Views for wim wiskerke : 4,584 Total Zooms for wim wiskerke : 33 Average CTR for wim wiskerke : 0.80 Total CTR for wim wiskerke : 0.72 Average CTR on Alamy for last month : 0.55 (from my own data) Sales (Licenses): 22 01-Jan-2019 - 18-Jan-2019 Total Views for wim wiskerke : 4,074 Total Zooms for wim wiskerke : 43 Average CTR for wim wiskerke : 1.77 Total CTR for wim wiskerke : 1.06 Average CTR on Alamy for last month : 0.55 Sales (Licenses): 17 This month my zooms have been as high as they used to be 2 years ago. But they have been a lot lower over the last couple of days. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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