Author Topic: How is January doing for you? (Read 16730 times)

madelaide · « **on:** January 13, 2008, 18:07 »

January is very different for me than latest months.

DT is leading my earnings, with daily sales. IS comes in second with a performance similar to last months. StockXpert sadly dropped to a third place and well behind, with very few sales. BigStock is close to it, and proportionally having a good month. FT is low, as it's been lately, and FP actually got the 5th place from it.

I am particularly surprised with DT x StockXpert.

Regards,
Adelaide

vonkara · « **Reply #1 on:** January 13, 2008, 18:31 »

It sell good so far whit my small portfolio. SS and IS always first and second StockXpert in third and all others are going to hell whit no download at this time.

I did better than November and December at SS and IS and we are just the half of the month

vphoto · « **Reply #2 on:** January 13, 2008, 19:15 »

I set the goal of $100 this month, but thanks SS this goal has already been meet. These are the earnings from each site (with my 4 months with microstocks)

SS $73.25 IS $14.69 DT $9.5 FT 10.56 13RF 2.88 BS $5

on StockXpert they still evaluate my images (350 of them, it has been a week already)

vhpoto

epixx · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2008, 20:22 »

Up until and including 13 January, I'm 57% above the same period last year for all agencies combined. SS is up 8% compared to last year after a slow start.

While SS represented 49% of my sales at this time last year, they only have a 33% share in 2008. Food for thought, not least with regards to our subscription debate.

faber · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2008, 00:44 »

Maybe it´s a bit early. Overall rather slow start. But one surprise: based on $$/day istock shot up, so far twice as much as in December (which was bad) and even 12% higher as in November (was BME), resulting in 49% of overall revenue in January.

So far I like the price change at istock.

Clivia · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2008, 03:05 »

Comparing January this year with January last year, I have three times as many pictures in my portfolio on average.
I have so far made six times as much money as this time last year. Fotolia especially is romping away with the sales, with SS not far behind.
IS seems to have stagnated. My portfolio is much smaller there as they reject everything out of hand, but what I have got seems to be selling much slower than usual. Last year they were my top earner, this year they are not even in the top 5.

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2008, 05:47 »

Significantly under december so far mainly due to SS and DT, SS went down quite a lot like -50 %.
On a positive note, I will have a BME at IS,LO and StockXpert
Really strange month with a different pattern so far, will see how the second half come
L

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2008, 11:30 »

IS up a little ... SS up only due to EL's, DT, BigStock running flat, the rest LO,StockXpert, 123, ScanStck, NLS, Alamy, FT, FP, down or zip. (in fairness, still small folio at 4 of them, poor sales more due to me, I can't expect to sell what isn't there)

=tom

gbcimages · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2008, 16:36 »

a.k.a. how many images do you have on all the sites if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks

madelaide · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2008, 18:36 »

What is surprising me is specifically DT and StockXpert performances.

In DT, I have already made more than in December, and it's already the best of the past 6 months - easily it will be the best of them - which is quite a nice surprise after months of slow motion.

In StockXpert however, if the current tendency persists along the rest of the month, it will be my worst month in the past 6, after four months being my best earner.

Regards,
Adelaide

vonkara · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2008, 19:09 »

All time record for me at IS today and barely at StockXpert too

No sales record at DT again

zorki · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2008, 19:12 »

Everything is down for me... I had about 100 less images this time last year and sales were almost double a year ago. Especially at SS where sales are way down, but I think it's their search engine favoring new stuff. I've five referrals at IS in the past month! DT is about the same as last year again on a portfolio that is about 1/3 smaller.

rossco · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2008, 20:42 »

Having a good month on SS, On target for my best month ever. Have been trying to shoot more stock orientated images which seems to be helping (few isolations). Next month hoping to get the 30c Raise, will be just over a year since i joined.

Hoping other sites pickup though.

-Rossco

mwp1969 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2008, 13:16 »

My small portfolio is starting to catch on after 3 1/2 months of uploading. Here are my results so far:

DT = 4 dl's off of 24 image portfolio
FT = 1 dl's off of 24 image portfolio
123rf = 1 dl's off of 75 image portfolio
BigStock = 1 dl's off of 44 image portfolio
FP = 0 dl's off of 27 image portfolio

Albumo = 0 dl's off of 40 image portfolio (Stopped uploading and will drop)
CS (Stopped uploading and will drop)

My first download ever came on Thanksgiving day ... all the rest have been in Dec / Jan.

I know get to say: This will be my "BME."

Mark

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2008, 17:19 »

Quote from: gbcimages on January 14, 2008, 16:36

a.k.a. how many images do you have on all the sites if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks

Only 800 images out there online.

=tom

gbcimages · « **Reply #15 on:** January 15, 2008, 18:06 »

Thanks Tom,

I too have small amounts of images on the various sites BTP 120, FT 64, DT 34, FP 250,FOTOMIND 260, SV 230. I don't upload to IS or SS. I've had some DL'S .

Gary

mwp1969 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 15, 2008, 22:03 »

GBC,

What are BTP, and Fotomind sites ?

Mark

ludesal · « **Reply #17 on:** January 15, 2008, 22:55 »

my january is much better than i thought it would be

IS keeps doing very well... but SS is worse every month since september. StockXpert the same as the last 4 months and DT as well.
i made some valentine's files and one of them is on the most popular illustrations of the last week on IS... i don't know if this is the reason i'm doing so well there, but i'm really really happy!

marcopolo · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2008, 01:51 »

Not sure yet. I have been frustrated so far that my new uploads do not seem to be increasing my overall sales at Shutterstock much at all like I expected and hoped, IS was doing great until a couple of days ago and today would have been horrible if not for an extended license sale. Hope they didn't change the search engine there again last weekend. StockXpert a little slow but hoping it will pick up, DT seems to be picking up the last few days, the rest about the same I guess, I will know more at the end of the month but I am crossing my fingers and hoping my 50 new uploads this month, and the 100 or so I will have ready by next month(all vector illustrations) will raise my sales everywhere enough to make it worth the effort. Looking forward to getting my D300 on order and then I won't have to upsize so much for Alamy

mjp · « **Reply #19 on:** January 16, 2008, 02:32 »

Few % better than in december (which was horrible month), but nothing positive on it. Started uploading more images and the SS is getting better and better. Also noticed that last 100 images I have uploaded to Istock has no sales at all (thats bad).

br, MJP

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #20 on:** January 16, 2008, 05:34 »

SS still down for me and I noticed that new uploads do not systematically sell like before

dbvirago · « **Reply #21 on:** January 16, 2008, 05:59 »

123, BS, DT, and IS up, making for a good month.

FT, SX, and SS way down.

CS dead, and FP and LO erratic as usual.

epixx · « **Reply #22 on:** January 16, 2008, 06:17 »

This is becoming interesting. half of January has passed. SS is now 14% ahead of last year, while total profit is 79% ahead. Per 15 January 2007, SS represented 48% of my profits. The same date 2008, that has been reduced to 31%.

My portfolio has increased around 50% during 2007, so SS is clearly under-performing, while the bulk of the others are doing better than could be expected.

One of the most important contributing factors is the price hike at IS. Apparently, sales have not gone down there in spite of that. To me, that clearly shows that prices have been too low, and that there's much more to earn for photographers and agencies alike.

Yesterday, I also had my first 10$ sale a SV, generating a healthy 3$. They obviously have a long way to go, but now I hardly price any new uploads there at less than 10$. I encourage everybody else to do the same.

zorki · « **Reply #23 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:35 »

Quote from: mjp on January 16, 2008, 02:32

Few % better than in december (which was horrible month), but nothing positive on it. Started uploading more images and the SS is getting better and better. Also noticed that last 100 images I have uploaded to Istock has no sales at all (thats bad).

br, MJP

I've noticed that too... my recent uploads over the past couple of months are seeing very little downloads while my older stuff keeps selling. I'm sure when they changed the search engine last summer it made it harder to find new uploads or something like that...

gbcimages · « **Reply #24 on:** January 16, 2008, 09:31 »

Mark,
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mwp1969

a.k.a.-tom

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mjp

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