Comments on: Getting Emotional About Microstock – Some Thoughts on Supply & Demand

By: rpathak

rpathak — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:15:43 +0000

Hi there - thanks a ton for that nugget of information. You're absolutely right about the skew and it could have a big impact in low sample size pockets. I'm guessing the analysis is directionally correct - making sure it was statistically valid will take some more doing.

Thanks for taking the time to write in.

Rahul

By: T Grundy

T Grundy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:45:23 +0000

beware looking at download numbers at DT when they are over 100, as contest images automatically get 100 downloads added to their listing so they go to level 5. This could really skew your data, especially for a keyword that isn’t downloaded much but did figure in a contest at one time.

Interesting analysis though, and certainly a good idea with a model that can do it to run through a list of emotions.

–=Tom

By: LookStat: Welche Fotos verkaufen sich am besten? « Alltag eines Fotoproduzenten

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:40:43 +0000

[...] hilfreiche Statistiken erstellen, wie der LookStat-Gründer Rahul Pathak in seinem Blog beweist. Hier vergleicht er, von welchen Emotionen am meisten Motive bei den Bildagenturen vorhanden sind. Es [...]

By: rahul

rahul — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:08:15 +0000

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the good wishes. You’re doing great work and I’m happy to acknowledge that. I’m really interested in the overlap between a contributors strengths and the market’s needs and I’d love to chat sometime about what you’re learning and what you’ve got planned for the site.

We’re grinding through our queue as quickly as we can and I look forward to getting your feedback once you get in there and start poking around.

Cheers,

Rahul

By: Bob Davies

Bob Davies — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:59:11 +0000

Heya Rahul

Thanks for the mention, I’m loving the positive feedback I keep hearing about picNiche Glad you find it useful

I’m also very happy to see you’re finding a correlation between the manual approach and my results (this is pretty much what I was doing before I built a public version of the tool I did run some tests with the Dreamstime (and the rest of the big 6) data in alpha which showed similar results, but dreamstime declined my request to include them in online stats

Very much looking forward to checking out your lookstat tool, it looks pretty awesome on Lee’s site Can’t wait for your queue to get processed (I had similar server issues with queries sent to fotolia api a while back Stick at it mate, it’s worth the effort

Thanks muchly, not just for your tool, but for your efforts too, I’m right here with you

Rob
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By: rahul

rahul — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:42 +0000

Thanks for the kudos, Matt. It was a pretty interesting exercise and it does seem as though shooting offbeat variants at low incremental cost makes sense.

By: Matt Antonino

Matt Antonino — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:55 +0000

Now that's what I'm talking about! Great post and great analysis! I love it. So there are opportunities to take the same model, same situation, turn the emotions and get more submittable accepted images with sales that will do fairly well and continue your tail's growth with less competition. Love it!