DeepMeta - New Upload Stats section

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DeepMeta - New Upload Stats section

View statistics grouped by upload date

When analyzing your sales, it can be useful to get a better insight in how productive certain periods of uploading have been. Do your very early uploads still sell? If not, when did they stop selling? How long does it take for uploads to start selling?

This is where the new Upload Stats page comes in. It shows you the usual Royalty / Downloads / Return-per-download statistics, grouped by the month or year the assets were uploaded.

Overview

From the main menu: select Upload Stats to open the page:

Upload Stats - Header

The Info button at the right provides a convenient link to this Blog post, for reference.

The Upload Stats page has 3 sections:

Uploads Chart by upload date

This chart shows a timeline of the number of accepted files you uploaded per month/year, segmented by type. The STR is overlayed on top.

STR: Sell Through Ratio, or the percentage of uploads that were sold at least once.

Upload Stats - Uploads Chart

Selector:

  • Months / Years: Group sales by 'Upload Month' or 'Upload Year'.

Hover your mouse pointer (desktop) or tap (mobile) on any area of the chart to see a detail panel with values per asset type:

Upload Stats - Hover

Sales Chart by upload date

This chart shows the number of sales generated by uploads you did in a particular month/year:

Upload Stats - Sales Chart

Selectors:

  • $, RPD / DL: Choose between display of 'Royalty' bars + 'RPD' line (Royalty Per Download) or 'Number of Downloads' bars
  • Months / Years: Group sales by 'Upload Month' or 'Upload Year'.

Sales Table by upload date

This is a table of sales, with rows for upload periods and columns for the sales:

Upload Stats - Table

On desktop: hover the mouse pointer over the table headers to see their meaning:

Upload Stats - Hover

You can select the date grouping for both axes of the table:

Upload Stats - Select UPL Period

Upload period: Used for the table rows

Upload Stats - Select Sale Period

Sales period: Used for the table columns

Some advice

Though you're free to select any combination of these 2 group selectors, please note that the table can get very large for Month grouping if you have many years of uploads. The Month grouping is mostly intended for contributors who only have a few months or years of uploading behind them. The default grouping of Year usually gives the best overview.

Let's have a look at the first upload year of the example below, 2005:

Upload Stats - Table First Year
  • The contributor uploaded 230 assets in 2005, of which only 93 sold at least once up to now. This results in a Sell Through Ratio (STR) of 40%
  • Royalty Statements go back to 2017 only, so this is the first year of reported sales. In this year the assets made most royalty of all reported sales years: $354.22. Sales went downhill from there, but still, even in 2024 they made $111.94. This is for assets uploaded 19 years ago: clearly a pretty good investment.
  • A green background means the value is larger than the preceding period, orange means it's lower
Upload Stats - Select Values

The view can be switched from its default $ (Royalties), to DL (Downloads) or RPD (Royalty Per Download):

Upload Stats - Select View

A novel feature offered by DeepMeta is to switch the view from seeing the values ($, DL, RPD) to seeing image thumbnails for the most sold Asset in that period

When selecting the 'thumbnail' view, we get following table:

Upload Stats - Thumbnail view

It provides a quick overview of which image contributed the most to the $/DL/RPD of given period, uploaded in that year or month. The choice of the thumbnail respects the current $/DL/RPD selector state. This means you'll get different thumbnails depending on this selector.

Upload Stats - Select Type

Finally, as with most of DeepMeta's statistics, you can choose which Asset types are taken into account, using the Type selector

Don't be afraid to experiment with the settings. In below example we've selected to view stats for Video & Illustrations only, we selected DL values, and the Thumbnail view:

Upload Stats - Videro

We hovered the mouse over the 2019 thumbnail to view its statistics.

The stats show that the contributor's videos & illustrations, uploaded in 2010, started selling from 2017 and had their last sale in 2022.

Uploads and Portfolio

Note that this section uses data from your Portfolio and Statements sections. This means that only accepted uploads are counted. Rejected uploads do not count.

If you feel that numbers are off, check to see if your portfolio numbers are as expected. If not, it could be that your portfolio is not syncing correctly. In that case: contact us.