What you see here is my flickr stats. Love the attention and views per image are wonderful on the business side. I'm suspect of huge increases on any given day if I didn't do anything in particular to drive traffic to my flickr sets.On the left of this chart is the spike from the 2010 Mustang Launch and the LA Auto Show in the latter half of November. Entirely expected as I blogged it on metblogs and linked to my flickr for the images themselves. Added bonus is that those looking at the cars took the time to look at my flickr sets sorted to my various artistic explorations. Its all good.
The spike on the right side of the chart is maddening. Why? ITs all images of the 2010 Camaro. GM should be pleased that this car is generating some attention, lord knows they need some excitement in their showrooms.
What is bad is all those hits also involved the theft of my images. Yes, I found out people are swiping my copyrighted images and using for wallpapers and who knows what else without permission (or being paid for them). With the exception of a couple images, most never were more than journalistic recording of the car so I really never intended them for sale. What irks me is the just linking to and swiping them with out asking. So...the Camaro set is now down to "friends and family" view as the saleable ones are among those being swiped. Trust me on this should I see any show up in some poster showroom there will be hell to pay.
Thieves. Eventually they will get theirs.
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