Author Topic: How is January doing for you? (Read 16709 times)

Smithore · « **Reply #25 on:** January 16, 2008, 09:43 »

except Istock with new commissions, doing better and better...others sites are like december.
SS is down for me, passed from 45dl's a day to 15 !!!
123Rf still medium, BigStock is always catastrophic (8$), LO is dead (like always), some downloads at crestock at 0.25c...I think stopping uploading to this stingy site.
Mostphoto: after 2 sell in November, nothing more.
Fotolia is like always: good sales but low earnings
DT is like Fotolia: not bad, but need uploading more stuff
Stockxpert is the same as fotolia and dreamstime.
Since my starting in July, my best month is still November with 550$

rene · « **Reply #26 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:20 »

IS rocks, SS is 20% up. DT, BigStock, StockXpert, FT are down. 123, FP, SV, Albumo, LO are almost dead.

mwp1969 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 16, 2008, 17:53 »

GBC,

Oh thanks for the info about Fotomind ... and by the way ... I belive BigStock is the most commonly used for BigstockPhoto (that's what threw me off on that one)

Mark

gbcimages · « **Reply #28 on:** January 16, 2008, 18:51 »

yes your right I ment BigStock NOT BTP

thanks

ff · « **Reply #29 on:** January 17, 2008, 02:42 »

On the same number of images as December, January is trailing in terms of downloads and earnings.

FT is doing progressively worse (Dec & Jan) than November
SS is at the same levels as Dec
BigStock, 123 & DT are doing much better, although their contribution to total earnings is marginal.

Lina

madelaide · « **Reply #30 on:** January 17, 2008, 15:46 »

DT is really rocking for me this month, and today I even had a 25 credit sale (my first EL there).

Regards,
Adelaide

epixx · « **Reply #31 on:** January 17, 2008, 23:08 »

Quote from: madelaide on January 17, 2008, 15:46

DT is really rocking for me this month, and today I even had a 25 credit sale (my first EL there).

Regards,
Adelaide

I had a 25 credit sale yesterday where under license, it said "5" instead of "EL". Do you know what "5" means?

Jorgen

vphoto · « **Reply #32 on:** January 18, 2008, 00:20 »

for me FT is doing surprisingly well this month: 4 sales yesterday, 5 today.

madelaide · « **Reply #33 on:** January 18, 2008, 16:29 »

Quote from: epixx on January 17, 2008, 23:08

I had a 25 credit sale yesterday where under license, it said "5" instead of "EL". Do you know what "5" means?

The same I had, it seems it's an unlimited seats license - at least this was the only one I found with 25 credits. I opened a thread in DT's suggestion forum:
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_9026

I hope they can make reports more clear.

Regards,
Adelaide

mwp1969 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 18, 2008, 16:49 »

Jan Sales:

3 = DT
2 = 123.rf
1 = FT

so far

Pixart · « **Reply #35 on:** January 18, 2008, 16:52 »

Boy, sure started off slowly, but started rocking around the 9th for me. To make it a memorable month, I've had 4 ELs this week. For me, it's a good month if I get one extended license - but 4 makes me very happy!

vonkara · « **Reply #36 on:** January 21, 2008, 18:22 »

It's a great month everywhere except Dreamstime and Fotolia. I know that I have to boost my acceptance at Dreamstime, but Fotolia is still a mystery at this time.

Since I edited my keywords whit the more relevent up there's barely no sales. Shutterstock seem to be ok and Istock do very good since the price change. Stockxpert have a little drop but nothing too drastic.

Freedom · « **Reply #37 on:** January 21, 2008, 22:42 »

IS leads by 50% though not spectacular.
DT is a distant second, flat but ok.
123rf is improving every month though the earnings are low due to too many subscription DLs.
FT trails behind and the reviews are very unpredictable. It remains the only site which prohibits external links and any numbers. What is it afraid of?
LO is still kinda alive and let's wait and see.

CCK · « **Reply #38 on:** January 21, 2008, 23:06 »

Very very quiet.Taking my whole portfolio everywhere, I made a total about $0.40 per image in 21 days of January. In the last 21 days of November it was more than $2.00 per image on SS only.

mwp1969 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 21, 2008, 23:18 »

8 January Sales on my small portfolio as follows:

5 = DT (24 images approved)
1 = FT (28 images apprvoed)
2 = 123rf (89 images approved)
0 = BigStock (48 images)
0 = FP (33 images)
0 = Albumo (39 images and removing one a day as there is almost zero view traffice there)
0 = Crestock (4 images and stopped uploading)

Good luck to everyone with the rest of January as this is my BME up from 2 sales last month. Looks like its starting to ramp up for me

Mark

takestock · « **Reply #40 on:** January 22, 2008, 04:02 »

DT performing very well again - heading for my best month

BigStock also coming in very well.

A good January all in all!

epixx · « **Reply #41 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:43 »

Going well, with 63% over last year so far. DT is the biggest surprise, close to overtaking SS as number one.

CCK · « **Reply #42 on:** January 23, 2008, 05:38 »

It is difficult to compare agencies because the number of images in your portfolio are usually not the same. I made some calculations with my figures for Januarie 1 - 22. Even this isn't accurate, because I uploaded photos during the month, with some agencies more than others. I only used the 4 agencies doing best for me, because it makes up at least 95% of my sales. This is the result:

Shutterstock: 32.71% of my portfolio, 44.12% of my income, $3.74 per image per year, acceptance rate 91%.

iStockphoto: 11.9% of my portfolio, 25.82% of my income, $6.02 per image per year, acceptance rate 87%.

Dreamstime: 32.71% of my portfolio, 13.24% of my income, $1.43 per image per year, acceptance rate 82%.

Fotolia: 22.68% of my portfolio, 13.24% of my income, $1.61 per image per year, acceptance rate 91%.

DanP68 · « **Reply #43 on:** January 23, 2008, 06:30 »

I'm running around $127 in earnings as of this morning. Not on pace to hit my goal of $200 unless we get some EL sales, but it has been going along very nicely since the holiday lull (first 8-10 days of January). I may actually set an all-time DL mark at Shutterstock for one month.

Shutterstock has run out to a surprisingly huge lead, generating about 43% of total earnings
iStock is down big from previous months, but still decent at 20%
Fotolia has been a nice surprise this month, up to 13%
Dreamstime around 11%
BigStockPhoto around 9%
StockXpert and 123RF make up the rest. Nothing yet from FeaturePics.

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #44 on:** January 23, 2008, 07:26 »

dan it looks that we are very close i am $ 106 so far SS takes 49 %, IS 13% DT 7% FT 18%
I am working on the $ 200 target as u but will need an EL to get that this month....

zorki · « **Reply #45 on:** January 23, 2008, 09:41 »

At IS things finally got going around the 7th. Sales have been trickling in. Total downloads are way off compared to a year ago (January 2007 was my BME with a portfolio half the size it is now). I've had two referrals this month, so that's help. Haven't had and EL in six months. I'm half tempted to go exclusive to see if I can boost sales there...

DT is my 2nd best, but by far and I can't upload enough to feed the SS beast to keep sales up over there...

michealo · « **Reply #46 on:** January 23, 2008, 09:49 »

Statistically too small a portfolio to tell. But IS seems to be doing well after a slow beginning of January

vphoto · « **Reply #47 on:** January 23, 2008, 09:51 »

I had a goal of $100, but thanks to joining SS has made $207 so far. without SS the count is $73.

DanP68 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 23, 2008, 10:53 »

We'll get there ldambies!

Mellimage · « **Reply #49 on:** January 23, 2008, 11:04 »

I have the same goal as Dan and ldambies - breaking the 200$.
I am about 40$ away.
Shutterstock is in the lead due to an EL, Fotolia is doing surprisingly well - I had 8 DLs there yesterday (it's been a while). Istock is a bit slower than the last months so far and my DT port is rather small. Let's see if the 200$ barrier can be made.

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