MicrostockGroup

Nov 08 $1.44
Dec 08 $1.31
Jan 09 $1.51
Feb 09 $1.14
Mar 09 $1.06
Apr 09 $1.50
May 09 $1.30
Jun 09 $1.35
Jul 09 $1.51
Aug 09 $1.22
Sep 09 $1.42
Oct 09 $2.14


Average $1.40

Nov 08  $1.24
Dec 08  $0.91
Jan 09   $1.28
Feb 09   $1.05
Mar 09   $1.39
Apr 09  $1.67 (EL)
May 09  $1.23
Jun 09   $1.18
Jul 09    $0.94
Aug 09  $1.39 (EL)
Sep 09  $1.12
Oct 09   $1.03
Nov 09   $0.83
Average $1.20 (> avg)

It sounds like what you are referring to is RPI - Return per Image

Your total sales (in $$) divided by your total images

total $$ / total images = RPI

or maybe you are talking about is DPI (downloads per image)

Total number of downloads / total number of images = DPI

but this stat isn't talked about very often and isn't what we are discussing here.


What this thread is discussing is RPD - Return per Download, to figure out how much we are getting per downloaded file, or in other words, how much we get for each sale.  This is calculated like this

Total $$ earned / total # of sales = RPD

  I hope this helps

Thanks Leaf,

 Yea that helps a lot. My numbers were off as I was dividing my downloads by how many images I have in my collection. So I should divide my income over the time period discussed by the number of downloads I have had during that time period to get the right answer, is that correct ?

Cheers,
Jonathan

Very cool Leaf,

I didn't know about that at Dreamstime, that's a nice feature I'll start using it.

Best,
J