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Depressing.

It was bad month, a very bad one.

This are for me the best 4 performing stock agencies for August 2009:

1. Shutterstock
2. Fotolia
3. Dreamstime
4. 123RF

August was an excellent month with an 8% increase to Juli and a view surprises. It was the Best Month Ever for DT, 123RF, FotoMind, and PantherMedia. The two new agencies Veer Marketplace and The 3D Studio in my collection performed surprisingly very well.

My June, July, and August are all within just a few dollars of being exactly the same.   August would have been worst of the three except for the extra EL's as a result of settling with that customer. 

ISP   38%
SS   19%
DT   11%
Fot   17%
BigStock   4%
StXp   6%
123   3%
Crest   0%
CanStockPhoto   1%
Almy   5%
Veer   0%

Down a bit from June & July but still OK considering the season and up 18% overall from August 2008. At SS only 18% of my sales are from the US which suggests that the majority are from Europe and therefore maybe hit harder by the August holiday season.

Stat's as follows (2008);

ISP  39%   (34)
SS   26%   (28)
DT   11%   (13)
Fot   16%   (14)
BigStock   2%    (3)
StXp   6%   (

Here is my August Stats...Great month for me!!!  

http://melissaking.ca/wordpress/stock-photography/microstock-stats-for-august/

Weird month for me.

The # of DLs continued their downward trend since they peaked in April, dropping a little over 10% from July.

However, due to an unusual # of ELs and larger sized downloads, my $ earned actually increased by 20% over July (which was my worst month of the year, $-wise).

Subs, subs, subs: Exclusive of ELs, FT (FL) dropped to an all-time low of only $0.54 RPD.  For the first time since subs were introduced at StockXpert, StockXpert's RPD ($0.62) was higher than FT's. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

On SS, I had my worst month ever in # of DLs, including my first month there when my portfolio was probably about 5% its current size. That's what happens if you don't feed the beast, I guess. OTOH, excluding ELs, it was down only slightly $-wise from last month, due to the increase in PPDs.

Sales at StockXpert dropped drastically, but thankfully mostly due to lower sub sales. Even though total DLs dropped by almost 1/3 over July, RPD (exclusive of ELs) was the highest its been since subs were introduced, and so total $ earned was higher than July.

On a personal note, my total sales passed the 10,000 mark this month. Some here have that many sales in a single month, but I'm happy to have achieved that minor milestone.  SS & IS account for 2/3 of that total. Almost makes me wonder why I bother with the others. (Well, for one obvious reason, they make up only about 1/2 of sales based on revenues.)

The order by revenue earned remains the same as it almost always is for me:

IS 30%
SS 22%
DT 17%
StockXpert 13%
FT 10%
123 5%
BigStock 3%

August was better than July by about 10% and I've had a really good month at Istock. Still, FT remains my best earner by a wide margin. DT on the other hand des not really perform for me.

FT: 57%
IS:  23%
SS: 12%
DT: 9%