weird sales behavior on May 15th 2013

I noticed something weird on May 15th.

Almost every video I sold before May 15th was an old video that I had in my inventory for quite a few months.

Almost every video I sold after May 15th was a new video that I rendered and uploaded just before May 15th, or was an older video that had more than one sale.

I find it very odd that this occurred.

It doesn't make any sense.

just want to confirm that to this day it seems to still hold, that before May 15th I had many sales from videos I uploaded last year, but after May 15th I have almost exclusively sold videos that were uploaded this year or videos that had previously had at least 1 sale.

before may 15th, I had large numbers of sales of videos with clips ids like 12752476, daily. after may 15th, these sales came to an abrupt halt, with the exception of clips that already had at least 1 sale.

it makes me feel as though all the work I did was for nothing, why bother uploading videos if they aren't sellable after a specific date?

Tiberio, I think the question you are really asking (for me) is about the internal search engine. Does it push forward clips submitted after date in the past? My question is, why would the engine be programed to do this?

From my understanding, Pond5 wants to make the buyers search relevant. They want to show them the clips they are more likely to buy. Not relevant, fewer sales. This is done with a combination of scanning the title, descriptive text, (perhaps file name) keywords and then applying past buyers sales / and views to the mix. The more sales on the given keywords, the greater relevance to the buyers search. There may be other factors we cannot see, such as the ratio of sales to submitted files for a particular artist. Under that factor, the prior sales the more the artist has is weighted in his favor in the search results. (This has been hinted at by powers on high before - increase your page ranking by culling your duds.)

I can't see any reason why file age would be in the mix. But your results and breakdown, Tiberio, are interesting.

here is what I discovered...

- pond5 may have changed their search results so that full HD comes up higher in search results than lower resolutions. I do not know when this change occurred, but it happened recently. 25% of my sales were coming from SD videos for quite a while.

- around may 15th or shortly afterwards, pond5 had a huge loss of traffic rank according to alexa