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Top 2000 Image-Buyer’s Searches vs Keyword Popularity

By bobbigmac | Published: February 12, 2013
I’ve been playing around with some of my data the last few days (having a bit of an overhaul to get picWorkflow running faster) and before I archive off some of my data-tables I thought this one might be of interest to you 🙂 The list shows the top 2000(ish) short-form searches (no more than […]
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Upload Speeds for 47 Microstock Agencies

By bobbigmac | Published: April 26, 2012
I’ve been putting together a dataset to estimate wait times in the picWorkflow upload queues, and pulled out some data about the rates of agency’s FTP server receiving speeds. As expected, the agencies who accept footage have much faster connections than those who don’t, though a shameful showing from the networks of some of the […]
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Google Insights on picNiche Rating Graph

By bobbigmac | Published: December 22, 2009
There’s been a fair amount of discussion recently about how accurate the Google Insights data is as an indicator of the market for stock photography subjects. All picNiche result graphs now include data loaded from the google insights API, showing demand over time based on ‘Google Image Search’ searches and results for that keyword phrase. […]
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Stock Photography over Time

By bobbigmac | Published: October 29, 2009
I’ve added a very cool new feature to the picNiche rating system today. I’ve been waiting to add this one for months but didn’t have quite enough raw data to make it worthwhile until now. It’s a little more complex than usual so I figured it would be useful to highlight the key points, and […]
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