MicrostockGroup

OK, looks like it was just me. Thanks for the input.

For me there are only 3 sites worth contributing to:  Shutterstock, iStock, and Dreamstime.  Those 3 make up over 85% of my total earnings.  The other 6 sites are worth less than 15%, and are time wasters.

I'll probably be down to just 3 or 4 sites soon.  I'm not closing my accounts anywhere, but I see no point in contributing to the lesser sites.  It's twice the work for 15% of the revenue - senseless.

I'm very happy with my Top 3, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, and iStock.  All 3 of them treat me well, and I've never had to fight them over a gross injustice.  They also keep the sales coming.  iStock and Dreamstime have been really good for me for recurring sales.  Shutterstock just keeps chugging along.  Even though recurring sales aren't as strong there, I still get plenty of downloads from images uploaded 12-18 months ago.

I'm tempted to continue uploading to StockXpert because they have at times shown the ability to generate healthy returns in the last 6 months.  But with the 30c subscriptions sales, and declining volume overall, I am losing patience there too.  BigStock, 123, FP, and SV have largely been wastes of time and effort.

No thank you.  Too many attempts by FT to undermine contributors in the last year with ridiculous policies.  I left them 2 months ago and am satisfied with my decision.

By the way, the same predictions being made about FT were being made about StockXpert 1 year ago.

My big 4 are Istock (around 60% of my total sales revenue), then SS, StockXpert and DT; although SS is declining as I don't have alot of images in my port anymore to submit there.  I've managed one payout from BigStock, but sales there are slooooow.