Are your overall sales down the last two months?

This month so far nothing short of catastrophic. If this month's average carries on like it has the last 11 days, I'd be 75% down from This year's average (excluding August and September, when the sudden downward trend started, and also when their new algorithm or point system started. It is 85% down from last year's monthly average, this month. Something is seriously wrong, after 4 years of consistent growth.

My situation in all this is:
Sales decreased by 35% in 2023 from last year.
New models don't get views, it was great when new models appeared in trending models, sometimes when upload a model after 1h was sale, but now last 100 models don't have any sales. And if i take last uploaded 200 models, there is 6 sales.
Now Trending models like frozen, there same models all time. Who got there with good models must be happy :)

Not sure if it's related to recent sales slow down, but if you have published new models recently, you may notice that there's something odd going on. Usually when you publish new model, it appears somewhere near the top of your own feed and then depending on how it performs, it may stay there for a while, or gradually sink towards the middle of your models pack. This behaviour has changed since couple months, now whenever you publish new model, it is placed right at the very bottom of your page and it stays there no matter what. It is also true that newly published models now attracts dramatically less views that they used few months ago, so i assume that they are also appearing at the bottom of the search results when viewed by customers. Needless to say that it's almost impossible to get any meaningful sales when your models are out of sight of potential buyers.

I've been neglecting publishing of new models for a few years, but recently decided to update my shop. I'm putting significantly more effort in producing new models, i'm making them better than i ever did, but it's very hard to keep motivated when you see how situation in cgtrader is degrading month after month.

I am not a regular modeler here. Last year I posted 12 models and had 1 sale. This year I kept on posting models. I had sales increase this summer. 1 sale in June, 1 sale in July by higher price, 4 sales in August. I thought, that I can have sales increase by posting new models. This month I posted 4 models, however had 0 income for this month. I don't know if my case can provide accurate statistics, but I started to believe that I can get some dollars each month.

As I shared in other thread, my sales have been in a downward trend since about one year ago, being more noticeable in the first months of 2023 and onwards, as others have noted. To the point where I am projecting this year I will be earning about 45% less than 2022. This, after 6 years of constant growth, which is really worrying.

I don't think the changes in the search engine are the problem, at least not in my case, since my models still appear on the first results of the searches.

I think it is the global economic uncertainty, inflation and recession finally catching up to us, people are just less likely to buy silly 3d models when they think they better save that money for the hard times to come. I myself am restraining from buying many non essential things... THE END IS NEAR!!! lol >D

Last month wasn't too bad, but the early summer months weren't great. This month is ok so far but slower than August.

i am worried too..I am struggling since april 2023.I knew something happened after new AI search feature..or its a market slowdown...Or my models is a bite higher price....But i have tried everything..nothing is working right now..its blank....i sell jewelry and some cg stuff...How its possible that both the industry suffer same drop??at the same time???its really a super massive black hole...cant escape this hole in the near future...its a sudden drop after april month...dont knw why???

I'm going through the same thing, before my sales on cgtrader were always higher than turbosquid, but the last few months it's been the opposite, there was only one sale every month in July and August, and no sales so far in September Sale

I've been a purchaser of models on CGTrader for about 5 or 6 years now. I maybe buy 1 every two months depending on the project I'm working on. Always found the purchasing process to work well with no issues. However this week I have been unable to purchase anything as I keep getting a refused error. I'm also having issues with logging in. I'm not looking for a resolution here I just thought this might be relevant to this topic if other purchasers are having the same issues. I have contacted Support but an still awaiting a response.

So my main point is, there is something wrong here at CGTrader with this extreme 50%+ sudden drop for two months straight now, for the first time, in 4.5 years of nice n solid growth, as the other 4 marketplaces I trade on have also dropped, but have kept the same percentage of the 100% pie, CGTrader has not.

Tazman2000 - my point is, it has been at 20% for the last 4.5 years. The last 2 months more than FIFTY percent drop is highly unusual, and something I have not had before - and this alone has caused that drop.

Yes that are quite a ton of possible factors. My sales have been growing steadily month-on-month from 2019 up to December 2022. This year of course the cost of living crisis really started to bite. I would guess that is the biggest factor. I track sales on all marketplaces on a daily/monthly/weekly/yearly basis in a by-now very long Google Sheet. But August and September being hugely down is a first for me in all my time selling. I also track the percentage of all-time sales each marketplace is of the pie. Artstation is 64.88%, and has not really dipped much in relative terms. But CGTrader is now dipping for the first time ever to 19% of the pie, from 20%, mainly due to the last two months specifically. Oh well, just curious about others' experience. Seeing as it is out of my control, I don't fret too much about it, and just carry on making and selling stuff.

Yes. Quite a few members have posted similar complaints, as far back as a few months ago. It’s difficult to say why the sales have ebbed, but many are saying that it is because of a change that CGTrader implemented which coincided with the slower sales. It could be that, but also a number of other factors which are too numerous to mention. CGT has not addressed this, so anything we say would be speculation.

But if you look back to the early history of the forums, there were several complaints about the same thing….way before AI. It could be just a cyclic thing.