I Just Love That Green Line Of Arrows On The Right Side Of The Forum

[maigi]

Just sayin'.
Don't you love it?

[BaldricksTrousers]

Yup. Hope the message is a true one.

[maigi]

For me that stats says that - the rumors of microstock's death have been greatly exaggerated. We are doing good. Agencies are doing good.
Or how to interpret microstock poll results? More people have started microstock business? Is it Earnings Rating per user or just total? How to interpret it?

[LesHoward]

I'm not exactly sure what those little arrows mean. Are they based on one person's experience (that's my understanding) or is it a cross section of contributors?

[Microbius]

I'm not exactly sure what those little arrows mean. Are they based on one person's experience (that's my understanding) or is it a cross section of contributors?

They are based on the results of a survey of forum users that is conducted every month

[microstockphoto.co.uk]

For me that stats says that - the rumors of microstock's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Completely agree. Some of us tended to exchange problems at some (big) sites with microstock's death.
Now that we have seen that buyers just moved from sites in trouble to other sites, we can confidently say microstock is not dead.

We are doing good. Agencies are doing good.

Partially agree. We are doing good, but could be better. I mean, my earnings are still growing, but less than proportionally to the number of new pictures uploaded. There are too many reasons to discuss here, the main being increased competition.

[sharpshot]

Its seasonal.  November has always been strong for me.  I expect to see a lot of red arrows after December.  People seem to get over excited during the good selling spring and autumn and then its back to doom and gloom in the winter and summer.

[Microbius]

Its seasonal.  November has always been strong for me.  I expect to see a lot of red arrows after December.  People seem to get over excited during the good selling spring and autumn and then its back to doom and gloom in the winter and summer.

My most useful graph is the one showing how the current month has done in comparison to the same month in previous years.
There's so much seasonal variation it's very hard to get any meaningful info by comparing different calendar months with each other.

[borg]

My November was worse cca 15% than October... So these green arrows mean to me nothin'...

[Pixart]

Look at where Photodune is.  Is that because of the bundle that some participated in or are they really doing that well?  I guess I wasn't paying attention, has Bigstock been that far behind for long?

[disorderly]

Look at where Photodune is.  Is that because of the bundle that some participated in or are they really doing that well?  I guess I wasn't paying attention, has Bigstock been that far behind for long?

They're really doing that well.  The bundle paid off in October, so if people are reporting accurately, November's numbers should just be regular sales.  Those regular sales put PhotoDune at #5 in November, behind Shutterstock, 123RF, CanStock, and iStock but double Dreamstime and Fotolia.  For me, BigStock was barely behind those last two last month.

[YadaYadaYada]

Look at where Photodune is.  Is that because of the bundle that some participated in or are they really doing that well?  I guess I wasn't paying attention, has Bigstock been that far behind for long?

They're really doing that well.  The bundle paid off in October, so if people are reporting accurately, November's numbers should just be regular sales.  Those regular sales put PhotoDune at #5 in November, behind Shutterstock, 123RF, CanStock, and iStock but double Dreamstime and Fotolia.  For me, BigStock was barely behind those last two last month.

Good for DP & PD. Big has been the same for a long time. The question I'd wonder is whats the difference between 3 and 3.6 in money. in dollars not polls numbers. If only $5 its not a big difference from DP to BS is it.

[markrhiggins]

I was thinking where  would IS rate without exclusive's sales? It would appear that a greater percentage of their sales are by exclusives with everthing else pushed down in best match. If you had to compile a list of earnings by agencies for independents how would it change. My view is that istock is prob second tier (maybe lower) without exclusive sales..

[RacePhoto]

Look at where Photodune is.  Is that because of the bundle that some participated in or are they really doing that well?  I guess I wasn't paying attention, has Bigstock been that far behind for long?

They're really doing that well.  The bundle paid off in October, so if people are reporting accurately, November's numbers should just be regular sales.  Those regular sales put PhotoDune at #5 in November, behind Shutterstock, 123RF, CanStock, and iStock but double Dreamstime and Fotolia.  For me, BigStock was barely behind those last two last month.

Good for DP & PD. Big has been the same for a long time. The question I'd wonder is whats the difference between 3 and 3.6 in money. in dollars not polls numbers. If only $5 its not a big difference from DP to BS is it.

3 is $10 average 3.6 is about $16 average. 4 = $20 a month. Yes, the difference between the sites that are all 3 or 4 is $10 a month.

The numbers are kind of odd (no big complaint but real dollar numbers would make things look a bit different)

Look at this, $0 [1]    $5 [2]    $10 [3]    $20 [4]    $50 [5]    $100 [6]    $200 [7]

Nothing is a 1? $5 is 2, and the rest are easy to see.

All the middle three sites are 3.6 for example = $16 a month.  DT @ 4.6 is $38 a month, (double but it's only one number?) IS @ 5.7 = $85 a month, but it's only one number higher? And SS at 6.8 is $180 a month. One number more than IS but it's $100 a month more!

SS is double the number of the Mid sites, but honestly it's 10 times higher.

So what I'm getting at, is while the numbers look close, there's a big difference.

Leaf can do whatever he wants, but giving a site 1 for zero sales, raises the averages, artificially.

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Site	Earnings Rating
Top Tier - Big 4
Shutterstock	100
iStock	66.7
Fotolia	34.9
Dreamstime	26.7
Middle Tier
DepositPhotos	21.6
123RF	16.3
Canstockphoto	11.2
Bigstockphoto	9.5
Veer	8.7
Low Earners
PantherMedia	6.7
PhotoDune	5.8
isignstock	4.1
Zoonar	3.5
GLStockImages	2.7
Stockfresh	2.2
YayMicro	1.8
FeaturePics	1.4
MostPhotos	1.3
ScanStockPhoto	1.1
Crestock	0.8
Cutcaster	0.6
AllYouCanStock	0.1
ClipartOf
Pond5
RevoStock
Clipcanvas
DrawShop
ClipDealer
PhotoSpin
VectorStock
GraphicRiver
Pixmac
PhotoCase
The3dStudio
photaki
SuperHug
PhotoKore
iRockStock
Vivozoom
StockPhotoMedia
Regimages
ImageVortex
Imagegate
ViscoImages
More Poll Results Updated: 2012-05-25