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forum => International forum for English speakers => General discussion => : domencolja January 08, 2008, 07:52:20 PM

: Increased traffic or sales?
: domencolja January 08, 2008, 07:52:20 PM

Is it only me or are the best (in my opinion) competitors of iStock, that is Dreamstime and Stockxpert (could be others too), pumping up their traffic and sales these first days of January? My stats have increased lately considerably. Is this new traffic being redirected off of iStock because of the price increases?

Or is it, again, only me detecting this "trend"? How's your sales going in 2008 on these sites?

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: DNF-Style January 08, 2008, 09:26:18 PM

For us, it is just you ;-)
We see a slight increase in sales at IS
Also an increase on ShutterStock but for the rest it seems same o same o.

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: domencolja January 08, 2008, 09:47:37 PM

What a bum, I thought that "my worst nightmare"'s competition was getting badass;)

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: domencolja January 09, 2008, 10:54:38 PM

No shit, Stockxpert surpassed my daily sales (till now) of Shutterstock. Unbelievable. Love the 2.5$ bumps.

p.s.: Something certainly is happening over there.

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: Syates January 15, 2008, 03:40:11 PM

Shutterstock is dead slow for me and IStock is speeding up, the rest is more or less the same. SY

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: domencolja January 15, 2008, 10:49:31 PM

Boh, must be some sort of phenomenon, 'cause I already earned 80 Dollars in January on SX.

p.s.: Luck and randomness, I guess. For me iStock is superslow, so is Fotolia, not to mention BSP, 123RF and LO.

: Re: Increased traffic or sales?
: fred January 17, 2008, 12:38:51 AM

Love to try SX but don't think I would have much chance of qualifying.  Do mostly scenics and I hear they do not go well there.  fred