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Smiling Jack

« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2009, 22:08 »

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Thanks Leaf - for a very good and informative survey
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lisafx

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« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2009, 10:39 »

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Really interesting information! Thanks for taking the time to compile it Tyler


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madelaide

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« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2009, 16:03 »

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Can we use YouTube for commercial purposes?


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leaf

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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2009, 09:35 »

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Here are two more little graphs. One displaying the top performing site according to RPI, and one of the number of photographers in each income bracket.


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gunnar3000

« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2009, 16:33 »

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interesting statistics... thank you leaf!!!!
I like those numbers


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Fred

« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2009, 01:21 »

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Thanks Tyler, This is great stuff.

If you divide the average gross annual earnings ($10076.68) by average number of images online (1156.4) you get an average of earnings of $8.71 per image per year. I have no idea if this is a valid analysis but I find it interesting.

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leaf

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« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2009, 02:19 »

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Yeah, that is probably not too far off, but the people with really great portfolios are getting much higher $/pic/year than that, and the people with 10 crappy pictures are getting 0 $/pic/year

The problem with averages in microstock is that the playing field is so spread out, it doesn't really work. People hear of the $1,000,000 istock is giving to it's contributors every week then think, yeah well it is going to 100,000 photographers - that is only $10 each.. HA what a rip off. What they don't realize is that a small % of the photographers are taking the majority of the $1,000,000 giving them a decent paycheck.


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Fred

« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2009, 04:18 »

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Yeah, I figure it is the old 80/20 power curve with 80% of the earnings going to 20% of the contributors.

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Microstock Poll Results

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: 2012-05-26

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