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30% less money than last month (march)

Why do you do so badly at IS compared to the rest?  I'm amazed to see even 123rf beating it.

Darn too slow this month to be first.

SS 34.9% *
DT 19.2%
FT 14.3%
IS  10.3% BME #
StockXpert 6.4%
123  5.0%
BS    5.0%
FP     2.7%
CanStockPhoto   2.2%

* Worst month since 2007 they used to make up 45% of my earnings
# pleasantly surprised as I stopped uploading a year ago

Overall slightly less than March 09 but slightly more than April 08

IS 31,44 20% down on last month, which was BME
DT 18,18 BMTY, close to a BME
SS 15,74 still going down, I'm not feeding the beast
FT 13,06 BMTY
123rf 11,59 10% down on last month
StockXpert 8,49 40% down on last month
BigStock 1,50 60% down on last month
Overall 15% down since last month.

Observations:
- looks like IS took the role of my best earner. They've been #1 for 3 out of 4 months this year. best match looks promising, more images are getting downloads, even some old ones that never got any downloads before
- SS is really going down, need to find some time to upload new stuff. I expect they would bounce back a bit if I did it
- had a pretty good month at DT, they are very consistently growing for me. BME in regards to $/dl.
- don't know what happened at StockXpert, worst month since last April when I started uploading

After almost a year, new BME
3 BME at DT,StockXpert and CanStockPhoto
More details on my blog : http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/05/april-2009-earnings.html

Looking forward to May !

L

Overall my BME.  Breakdown as follows:

Istock     39%
Fot         18% (second BME after Nov 08)
SS          16%
DT          13% (BME)
StockXpert         6%
BigStock         4%
Canstock  3%  (BME
123         2%
Crest       1%

Glad I hung in there with Canstock.  Fotosearch sales definitely put them on the map in April.

April 09 is my best month ever. I had an increase of 24% in revenue compared to March 09. It also was my best month ever for Shutterstock, StockXpert, Fotolia, and Can Stock Photo



My breakdown for April 09:

StockXpert = 30%
Shutterstock = 25%
Fotolia = 17%
Can Stock Photo = 13%
123RF = 3%
Big Stock Photo = 3%
Dreamstime = 3%
Photocase = 3%
Featurepics = 1%
Vivozoom = 1%
Snap Village < 1%
Crestock < 1%
iStock Photo < 1%

My April was 33% lower than March. These are my percents for both months. Click on the image to see larger version.

Many changes in Top 5. SS still is the strongest earner.  Previous month was very bad there but now is back to normal. Second place goes to DT. It's second very strong month in row. Third place, second time in row, goes to 123RF. StockXpert is dropping to 4th place. Surprise on 5th place, CanStockPhoto after just one extended sales. It shows how week other players are.

A really unusual month for me. I generally average about one EL a month, somewhere. But for some reason in April, I had a total of 4. 2 at BigStock (what they call "special" licenses), and 2 at DT. So my numbers are a bit skewed. For example, without the ELs at DT, it wouldn't have been a BME (close, but no cigar). OTOH, BigStock just blew itself out of the water in April. Even without the 2 special licenses, it was a BME by a HUGE margin (about a 33% increase over the previous BME). I hope this is a permanent change at BigStock.  But maybe I had a featured image there or something.

ISP 27% (smallest % in over a year)
DT  20% (BME - 1st time in #2; w/o the ELs, they'd be in their usual #3 spot)
SS  18% (lowest % EVER)
BigStock 12% (hugely BME)
StockXpert 12% (BME)
FT   8%
123  3% (typical)
SV   1%

That's the first time in almost a year I've had enough sales in one month at SV for it to earn > 0%! :-)

Without the ELs, April was pretty close to last month's performance.

almost 40% down from a very exceptional March.
Not contributing to any of the sites does not help either. I also remember last year's April was my worst month... .

So here is the breakdown:
FT: 63%
IS: 19%
SS: 10%
DT: 9%

IS and DT picked up for me in the last week of April - maybe there new search engines helped here. Will have to see how it works in May.

and here is mine:

IS    51%
SS   17%
BigStock  12%
DT   12%
StockXpert   7%
123   1%
FT     0%

Very interesting month. All figures compared to April 2008:

DT 24%, up 116% BME
SS 21%, down 35%
IS 20%, up 34% BME
FT 9%, up 58%
FP 7%, up 338% BME
BS 6%, up 68%
CS 5%, up 584% BME
123 2%, up 15%
StockXpert 2%, down 70%
Scan 1%, up 14%

Total, up 17% from April 2008, up 6% from March 2009, BME

SS continues to sink, StockXpert even more so. BME for the third consecutive month at DT and second at IS. FP and CS both surprised with much better than average results this month. Shows that a little patience pays off, doesn't it? Very happy with the results, particularly considering the fact that Easter came in in the middle of all this.