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Overall the summer slump seems to be ending second best month overall this year. A few EL sales two at BigStock ?? a pity I only get $7

SS 49.4% BME even sold two footage clips
DT 13.4% still in the summer slump here

BS 8.2% BME 50% more than June
FT 8.1%
StockXpert 7.7%
iS 5.9%
123 4.7%

SPM 1.2%
FP 1.0%
CanStockPhoto 0.5%

Some rather strange results I had sold nothing at SPM for almost three months then suddenly a flurry of sales at the end of the month.

I just checked 4 x more total earnings than August 2006.

My 2007 earnings breakdown

yeah it seems to be picking up. 

I have been keeping graphs now for 3 years and according to them we should see it go slowly up until christmas... hopefully it holds true for this year as well.

I will post my numbers tommorow morning

stockxpert has been doing really well though... and fotolia is slowly getting back in the saddle, and a few good sales at lucky oliver.  I think they are taking their time getting customers (shutterstock, dreamstime, fotolia... all managed to find a steady customer base fairly quickly) but they ARE better than canstock, crestock, and scanstockphoto so that is saying something.

altough I am not good with numbers (so I have no graphs)I could say august have been great,and best moth of summer.sales seems to be picking up everywhere(more or less) and I expect this trend goes on until x mas

Nicely detailed report OZ.

SS IS DT FT StockXpert BigStock

YTD 44% 33% 11% 7% 4% 1%

Aug 37% 35% 12% 8% 6% 2%

Jul 40% 33% 10% 8% 8% -

Jun 36% 34% 14% 9% 7% -

May 45% 33% 10% 7% 5% -

Apr 48% 33% 12% 7% - -

Mar 51% 31% 13% 5% - -

Feb 64% 22% 8% 6% - -

Jan 63% 29% 5% 3% - -

BDEs at IS (3x), FT, StockXpert, BigStock.
BMEs at IS, FT, BigStock.

Both IS and DT began to show signs of life in the last half of August, which made this month my best yet, but not by much. I'm looking forward to my income growth returning in the coming weeks.

My earnings for August are 9% up from July but far from a MBE. My breakdown is as follows:

SS: 29.4 %
IS: 23.8 %
DT: 10.5 %
FT: 9.2 % (1 EL)
123: 8.8 % (1 EL)
SX: 8.1 %
BS: 4.4 % (1 EL)
LO: 1.3
Rest: 4.5 %

The biggest surprise of the month was 123 that done very well in relative terms, even outperforming SX.  Another notable feature is that though SS and IS performed consistently well for me some of the smaller sites has gained on them. 

Dreamstime	Istock	Others	Shutterstock	Bigstock	123 RF	Fotolia	StockXpert
19%	9%	8%	28%	8%	3%	11%	13%

Things stayed pretty much the same for all the sites.  Lucky oliver however is doing a little better. (which is in the others group)

I really need to get more images on Istock though   I cringe at the thought.

Every month has been a BME this year so far  .

I was suprised August was as good as it was since I had heard that it could be very slow.

Aug
SS          38%
IS           32%
StockXpert        13%
DT           8%
FT            6%
Others     3%

SS, IS and StockXpert were as strong as always. DT was just OK, but I was very disapointed with FT and BS, both significantly decreased on previous months.

10% less earnings than last month. So second best month

Shutterstock: down ~20%
Fotolia: down ~ 10% (ALthough it catched up in the last days of August)
Dreamstime: down ~ 15%
Istock: up ~ 40%
Stockxpert: up ~ 50% (Because of two ELS, together worth 75$, otherwise it would have been down 10%)
Panthermedia: down ~ 90%

The Rest: LO; 123Rf, BS just make up 2-3% of my total earnings, their numbers wouldn't tell anything.

Nice seeing how everyone is doing on different sites. I won't even bother giving mine since I haven't uploaded anything new in awhile and don't plan on doing so anytime soon.

SS = 37.11%  (BME)
IS = 28.88%
DT = 18.26%
FL = 7.22%
StockXpert = 8.54%

And I've just joined Lucky Oliver, although not uploaded my first pics yet, had a bit of a busy month..

Also attached is my 'progress' graph.  From back in May 05 when I first uploaded to IS, although I joined and was approved in '04, I didn't upload anything till May 05...

You can see the 'Disambiguation' glitch in June 06 with IS, but it's starting to look better.  I've also noticed more activity in terms of views on some images on IS since I hit silver there, Dunno if that is real or just a co-incidence..

SS continues to grow in pace with my slow portfolio growth, as does DT and StockXpert (Sorta, think of a linear interpolation of those lines)  Interesting that FL has basically flat lined with the same growth in portfolio, although a slightly different mix of images due to variation in rejection/acceptance.

The next few months will be interesting for me in terms of stats....

I've in the past said that microstock is definitely a 'hobby' for me, and I'm a bit slack at uploading/shooting stock.  That was mainly because I had a very regular freelancing job..  That has just become an irregular freelancing job, due to some changes at the paper.  I've decided to invest the same time in micro as I was in the paper, and I've set some target portfolio sizes on all the sites, and I will be trying to see if I can match my freelance income with microstock by the end of the year. 

Not sure if I'll do it as there isn't the same motivation to do microstock (Deadlines and screaming editors will get most people going), but I'm going to give it a shot.

Cheers, Me.

Good luck chellyar, I wish you success! 

Excluding July with several ELs, August was my best month yet.  But then you examine August and there were 23 business days with the way the weekends fell.  In September, if you exclude the weekend and labour days, there's only 19 business days so I hope the month end numbers aren't too disappointing.    When I get my real work done I'll be able to upload some more this month, so hopefully that will keep my numbers up.

SS  33.8%
IS  27.4%
DT  20.7%
BS  8.3%
FT  7.9%
StockXpert  3.5%  just joined