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cwwmbm · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 1219

So it's just for my own pleasure? OK, I can live with it :D

tvphoto · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 613 Location: Oregon

I think the top 50 list helps people with ideas, and know what's really popular. (i.e. if we keep seeing business professionals on top 50 list, then upload business professional shots!)

I was surprised to see one of my photos pop onto the top 50 of all time this week!
http://shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=55633

117 total downloads so far. This week it's right behind that pesky clock! ;) 18 dl's in the last 7 days.[/img]

cwwmbm · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 1219

tvphoto · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 613 Location: Oregon

PS: The top 50 weekly list helped encourage me to uplaod the rest of my Japanese Garden photos. Now I'm selling 6 of these shots consistently instead of 2 or 3. (The customer is probably happier as well since they have more 'matching' shots to populate their sites with) And I get 3 to 6 D/L's instead of only 1!

I'm realizing how important it is for some designers to have a "matching set" of photos. I think that sites and letterhead and reports look much better when there are 6 to 20 matching photos across the site / document...

Just a learning that I had that I thought I should pass along.

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3302

peter s · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 30

It bugs me when I upload an image, have it downloaded 4 times in one day, expect it to easily make the top 50, but after the first day up in never gets uploaded again. :D

gvictoria · Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 257 Location: toronto

I have a certain image that's made the top 50 a few times and it still gets downloaded daily quite a bit. A little while back i know it definately would have probably been in the top 10 with it's current numbers, but not anymore. You can definately see the growth of Shutterstock in that way by the amount of downloads needed to make the top 50. Even though it's not in the top 50 it's still a great thing:)

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beka · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Canada

where could I see the top 50???

Programatorul · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 107 Location: Iasi, Romania

here: http://submit.shutterstock.com/top50ever.mhtml. Select 50 ever or 50 this week.
U can also acces it from the Tool and resources tab at submit.shutterstock.com homepage. Just click Most Popular Images .

andresr · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:00 am

pjmorley · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 3302

Oh yeah. Number 49 in the top 50 ever :-)

That's with 120 downloads.

andresr · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:54 am

uhm there is not much difference in the top 50 between #50 and #29. I have the laptop on 29 with 130 downloads ....

cwwmbm · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 1219

Mr. PJ, well done! Congratulations to you!
My seems to fail to come in top50 of the week for it wasn't doesnloaded yesterday at all, so it still has 9 DL's and week is over...

tvphoto · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 613 Location: Oregon

That pesky clock keeps getting in my way! ;)

cwwmbm · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 1219

Some experiments showed that 13 is not enough to be in top50 of the week. Keep experimenting :D