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Canstockphoto is one of the "Big Six" now StockXpert has finally vanished? Please, it must be a joke.

At the very least it is misleading for newbies.

And shouldn't Bigstock be ahead of Canstock, anyway?

Canstock made a very good recovery last year with regular ELs. For some months, those totally died for me, but my numbers are too low to draw conclusions. BigStock makes certainly much more, and consistently.

Long live Canstock!

For me, CanStockPhoto is actually in the Big 6... moving into number 6 since StockXpert went away.  I'm doing around $1-5 every day at CanStockPhoto, plus approx 3-4 times per month I get one of those Fotosearch commissions of approx $20 or $30. 

Since I started in microstock, CanStockPhoto has generated 2.46% of my revenue, while 123RF has generated 2.35%... bringing up the (far) rear is CRE at 0.75% and VEER at 0.58%.

I think we should have "Big 4". (SS, IS, FT, DT). The rest is far behind.

Wow! I wish I could say the same. I picked up a three or four ELs at the back end of last year and things started to look up, now I'm back to $10 a month again. Even 123 is coming in at four times that. Overall, CanStockPhoto accounts for significantly less than 1% of my earnings.

Still awaiting my first large Fotosearch commission through CanStockPhoto . I've had a couple of smaller sales on 468 images up which I got up there in the last 30-45 days. Hopefully not much longer to wait ...  

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com
 

me too, (well most months both fluctate a lot for me)

same here

Same here...I've always made more at BigStock than Canstock. Canstock is a very low earner for me.

I think the poll results on the right are a cool little feature but I also think people shouldn't put much faith in the results. It's based only on info supplied by a handful of visitors. When it says FT went down it doesn't actually mean FT went down in sales. You can't base real statistics on a couple hundred people votes when the actual company is made up of ... I don't know how many photographers are on FT .. 100K .. 200K .. more?? Plus who is voting? Did 50% of the votes come from people with only a couple hundred shots in their portfolio who never upload anything worth selling?

Like I said it's a neat feature but at the same time I suppose newbies might be confused thinking it is somehow real statistics.

I agree with Perry that it should be a big 4 followed by just everybody else .. or only a few and then the rest need wiped off the face of the earth LOL

The poll to the right is still a small sampling of data. Corporations have been bought and sold before on less data ...

That being said, you must always consider the source of data and then it is usually required that it be synthesized into meaningful intelligence to be truly valuable.

A weighted average (if one were possible) based on the size of one's portfolio for the company for which they are voting ... would greatly improve the rankings and give more relevance to them.

An exaggerated example of this might be that 1000 newbies join and all vote for a particular site since they received their first $2.00 commission that month. While this could result in a majority of votes, it is far from being an accurate sampling across all sites and all portfolios. The same type of scrutiny should be used when considering ANY poll. You must always consider the source. That source should be carefully listed under the assumptions. An example ... If you poll only Republicans and you ask if they are in favor of candidate X or Y (X being Republican) your poll will likely have a strong bias. Now to apply this thought to Leaf's polls ... If you have 200 contributors respond ... and they are all in the top 5-10% of all contributors for that site (lets say by RPI, RPD, Portfolio size, or other key metric) then you might have a fairly accurate sampling. If your sampling was 2000 newbies at DepositPhotos ... one result might be that the results could be so completely skewed that you would have DepositPhotos http://submit.depositphotos.com?ref=1007538 at the top of the big six based on those voting were only paid to upload their first images 


-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com
 

Woops. 

Canstock is better than BigStock,123RF,VR,CC and CS for me!