Shutterstock Photographer Forum :: View topic - Can't understand,why today 30% less downloads than yesterday

davidarts · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 788 Location: Italy

Hi Guys,

I Can't understand,why today (tuesday) 30% less downloads than yesterday (monday)??
I can't understand this thing. Anyone seems a similar thing??

I have hundreds of downloads so it's a big difference, I can't understand why... so unusual...
I would like it could be a problem of refreshing the sales list.. but I don't think so...

Any ideas?

Thanks

David

nobeastsofierce · Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Posts: 36

Yesterday sales were normal ... for a weekend . Less than half the usual for a weekday . I know that sales always fluctuate up and down but yesterday was the worst non-holiday weekday for a long time

adigrosu · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:40 am

Same here. Very unusual. Actually I didn't see something like that in maybe 2 years, even on holidays..
Yesterday was bad too.

kovacevicmiro · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 129

Not for me, it wasn't bat at all actually.

adigrosu · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:33 am

Is Europe Day a holiday in Europe? I mean in western Europe.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 8:16 am

Just one of those things. Yesterday was great for me, Monday was a bit slower. I bet if you ask 100 people it would be split between who had a good day and who had a slow day. I always think back to my two rules of stock photography when I have a slow day.

Rule #1 - Sales go up and sales go down
Rule #2 - You can't change Rule #1

adigrosu · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 8:22 am

You are right, Dave. It is just strange that David and I, who usually have pretty high downloads, we both experiencing an unusually slow day. Slow enough to state it here :)

aquafish · Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 81

Noticing an unusual drop in sales here to - weekdays roughly 20% down - weekends normal sales. Not many buyers about I think.

yarchyk · Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 71

I'm not the bigest seller in Stock photography, but since I've past the 500$ line here on SS I've noticed a decrease of sales, despite a more intensive uploading period.

adigrosu · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 5:12 am

Friday was unusually slow then, after a rather good weekend, three days in a row (including today) about 50% sales drop. I didn't see something like this since Christmas. It must be related to something... any ideas?

looby · Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 188

yep, can report the same here, very slow 30-40% down yesterday and today

elm98 · Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 7

It was a bank holiday weekend

algol · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 610

And the site has been down from time the last few days which can't have helped.

fyle · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 122

Slow month so far... But March was great and April above average as well. Hope things get better :-)

adigrosu · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 5:57 pm