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My favourite time counting all those pennies

SS 43.6%

DT 16.3%
iS 11.1 %
FT 9.6%

BigStock 5.9%
StockXpert 5.6%
123 5.4% * using 30c per subscription DL

FP 0.9%
SPM 0.8%
CanStockPhoto 0.7%

Quite surprising performance from DT earning double their usual and this was before the new prices. BigStock also earned double.

Best month across the board with the exceptions of FT + 123, and the last three.

Here are mine:

SS 35%
iS 33 %

DT 12%
FT 10%

StockXpert 5%
BigStock 2%
123 1%
FP 1%
LO 1%

iS is doing very well for me, I have picture that sold over a hundred times in less than 8 weeks.

Here are mine:

I did not count the up and coming they are really neglectible, together with BS.

IS 30% increased 25 cents ~ 0,2 %
SS 30% decreased ~ 18%
DT 18% increased ~ 30%
StockXpert 11,3% increased ~30%
FT 10,7 %  increased ~ 30%

Lets not forget, Febuary had 3 less days than January..

Shutterstock - 62%
Dreamstime - 20%
Fotolia - 10%
Bigstockphoto - 5%
StockXpert - 3%

SS      39,3%
StockXpert    26,2%
DT      13,1%
FL        8,9%
123rf   8,7%
BigStock     3,6%

Between 1000-3000 pix online depending on agency stopped submitting pictures to DT,FL and BigStock several months ago.

I'm pretty new to this, and freely admit that I am in awe of some of the portfolio's I see online, but I'm working on it.

Shutterstock     61%
BS                     17%
FT                      14%
IStock                5%
DT                      2%
123RF                1%

To be fair the top 3 I was with from the beginning of the month, whilst the others I have only started submitting during Feb.

Up till now, SS had always been in 1st place, but this month, it ranked 2nd, IS performed very well.  SX comes 3rd and DT 4th.
The other sites (in order BS FL FP LO CS 123 RF) performed less than 10%

For the first time in 8 months, IS comes ahead of everyone else,

IS                 25%       Down 20% from Jan.
DT                25%       Down 32% from Jan.
SS                20.8%    Down 46% from Jan. one of the worst month, actuall download has been down over 50% from the past average when I upload a lot ( I have not been uploading much recently )
BigStock              8.3%      Down 12% from Jan.
StockXpert              6.9%      Up 37% from Jan

So accross the board I am experiencing a bad month, and SS continues to lose market share, even though I uploaded about 30 recently, with 740 on line, the result is not very encouraging from SS.

I never tried the table, neat!  I hope I can find this next month to copy the table!

Site	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
IS	32%	35%
DT	13%	18%
FT	18%	11%
StockXpert	15%	14%
CanStockPhoto	4%	6%
BigStock	7%	2%
123	4%	3%
FP	5%	<1%
LO	1%	2%
IV	0%	7%

IV maybe should not be here, given it's eventual result (one sale only so far).  IS price structure makes me happy: I got an average of 60c per download.

Regards,
Adelaide

SHUTTERSTOCK~58%

ISTOCK~16%

BIGSTOCK~7%

DREAMSTIME~6%
FOTOLIA~6%

STOCKXPERT~3%
123 RF~3%

FEATUREPICS~1%
CRESTOCK~1%
CANSTOCK~1%

GALASTOCK~ 0%
STOCKPHOTOMEDIA~ 0%
GIMMESTOCK~0%
IMAGE VORTEX~0%
LUCKY OLIVER~0%
MICROSTOCKPHOTO~0%
SCANSTOCK~0%

For  third month in a row I continue to be lop-sided....

SS      82%
BigStock      7%
DT        5%
StockXpert      4%
LO        1%
123      1%
FP         0
USPS     0
FT          Inactive at this time.

SS again far out-sells all the others for me!  Interestingly, I have the largest portfolio on BigStock, DT & LO.  SS only has about 75% of the pix on the other three and StockXpert about 50% of the photos.
        One thing about SS that amazes me. Of all the pix I have there, SS has sold almost 80% of the portfolio.  I guess they know their customers.  I'm very happy with my SS results.
         I'm going to try my hand at IS this weekend, see if they let me in the club.      -tom

Haven't got time to do the maths but I do know that IS is getting very frustrating for me; falling downloads, annoying upload limits and procedure.

Fotolia continues to be my highest earning site, followed by IS (despite it's flaws), then SS and DT. DT sales have slowed quite a bit for me but hoping revenues pick up with the new prices.

Feb was a pretty good month for BigStock and StockXpert. 123rf still languishing behind these but in front of CS.