Author Topic: August 2008 earnings breakdown (Read 11590 times)

fintastique · « **on:** August 31, 2008, 02:20 »

Well hopefully its the end of the Summer slump slightly down on July overall.
I don't expect many sales on a Sunday on the labour day weekend so here goes.

SS 44.7%
DT 17.6% BME

FT 8.6%
StockXpert 8.1% BME #
IS 7.6% BME *

BS 6.7%
123 4.6%

FP 1.7%
CanStockPhoto 0.3%

# disabled subscriptions
* a few video sales helped

Peter · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2008, 04:15 »

March 2008 is still my BME, august was pretty low.

MilliardIdeas · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2008, 04:58 »

what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

stokfoto · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2008, 05:23 »

Quote from: MilliardIdeas on August 31, 2008, 04:58

what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

it stands for Best Month Ever

MilliardIdeas · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2008, 06:00 »

Quote from: stokfoto on August 31, 2008, 05:23

Quote from: MilliardIdeas on August 31, 2008, 04:58
what does BME mean?
Best Month...?
it stands for Best Month Ever

I know it now.thanks.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2008, 08:07 »

Quote from: stokfoto on August 31, 2008, 05:23

Quote from: MilliardIdeas on August 31, 2008, 04:58
what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

it stands for Best Month Ever

By the way, I take credit for that acronym

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=36328&page=1

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2008, 08:25 »

What about WME ? Who got this one ?

leaf · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2008, 16:54 »

poll added

litifeta · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2008, 17:09 »

I put mine on the poll. Worst month ever but it was my fault. Had a computer virus stopped me from submitting for 21 days.

vphoto · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2008, 17:33 »

Quote from: litifeta on August 31, 2008, 17:09

I put mine on the poll. Worst month ever but it was my fault. Had a computer virus stopped me from submitting for 21 days.

terrible virus, almost like a period. my condolences.

lobby · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2008, 17:52 »

very bad for me...

overall in usd -30%

from previous also bad month (than the expected)

MilliardIdeas · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2008, 20:01 »

Quote from: sjlocke on August 31, 2008, 08:07

Quote from: stokfoto on August 31, 2008, 05:23
Quote from: MilliardIdeas on August 31, 2008, 04:58
what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

it stands for Best Month Ever

By the way, I take credit for that acronym
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=36328&page=1

It worth,right?
356255 downloads? amazing!

Talanis · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2008, 22:17 »

BME at SS, StockXpert, IS, FT, 123RF. First sales at Yay and Zymmetrical. BME in sales at DT but a bit short on money compare to June and July. I have been upload more since may and it looks like it is starting to pay off. Some ELs boosted my sales at SS this month so it represents 63% of my income. After that come DT with 12% and StockXpert with 10%. Then IS, 123RF, FT and the others.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2008, 00:29 »

SS 30%
StockXpert 18%
DT 15%
IS 11%
FT 10%
123RF 10% BME
BigStock 3%
CS 3% (Crestock)

Overall earnings down 7.6% over last month.

melastmohican · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2008, 00:47 »

SS   77.40%    (BME)
StockXpert   9.02%   (BME)
123RF   8.91%   (BME)
DT   2.85%
IS   1.31%
CS   0.52%

Overall earnings up 4.08% over last month.

epixx · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2008, 00:59 »

Here are my figures, compared to August 2007

SS 35%, -1%
DT 22%, +38% BME
IS 18%, +20%
FT 8%, +2%
StockXpert 5%, -20%
BS 4%, -15%
123 4%, +22%
SV 2%, no sales in Aug 2007
Scan 2%, +/-0%
Cre 1%, -22%

Total growth: 6% compared to August 2007
Compared to July 2008, I'm down 13%

Very bad month for me this, and only IS and DT are performing well, DT even with a BME. With all the turbulence around StockXpert lately, I will follow the development there very closely. I'm clearly losing there. SS is performing badly as well, but that was expected. They have been losing almost every month this year for me compared to the rest.

DanP68 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2008, 01:10 »

August 2008 was another BME, and for the first time I eclipsed $500.

The Breakdown:

SS 44% (BME)
IS 19%
DT 12%
123 8% (BME)
StockXpert 7% (BME)
FT 5%
BigStock 5%
Other 0.5%

Increase over July 2008 +34.7%
Increase over August 2007 +238%

The highlights included impressive BME's by 123 and StockXpert. FT continues to lag, now tied with BigStock in the basement. SS was driven by a large number of uploads, but there were still a solid number of recurring sales from older images. The new On Demand sales raised our RPD at SS from 33c to 35c.

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #17 on:** September 01, 2008, 01:48 »

Overall BME for me, August was great:

IS 30% BME (after half a year of declining earnings finaly a break through at IS)
SS 26% BME
Ft 18% BME
Dt 10% BME
StockXpert 9%
Panthermedia 3% (very disappointing, end of last year was very good, hopefully it will be again good)

123rf less than 2%
BigStock less than 1%

leaf · « **Reply #18 on:** September 01, 2008, 02:12 »

SS 35%
FT 23%
DT 14%
StockXpert 9%
IS 7%
123RF 5%
BS 4%
OTHERS 3%

I still think it is crazy that fotolia is only 3.9 in the polls on the right. Maybe there has been a few too many spam votes?

CofkoCof · « **Reply #19 on:** September 01, 2008, 02:34 »

SS 46,88%
IS 18,38%
DT 11,18% BME
StockXpert 8,85%
123rf 7,26%
FT 4,59%
BigStock 2,86% BME

Overall 12% down on July.

Observations:
- had my first EL sale (actually 2) at SS which prevented a disaster
- too many sub sales at FT and StockXpert (the number of downloads is pretty much the same as in july but earnings were down by around 40%)
- IS is starting to perform a bit better, also the sales seem to be very stable

@leaf: Fotolia ranking seems right for me, had a very good month in july but since then the sales are gone. Barely managed to get ahead of BigStock.

sharpshot · « **Reply #20 on:** September 01, 2008, 03:34 »

ss      37%
is      21%
dt      11%   BME
BigStock      9% BME
ft      8%
StockXpert      6%
123rf   3.7%
zym      2%
cr      1.50%
sv      0.8%

faber · « **Reply #21 on:** September 01, 2008, 03:45 »

Overall revenue down -20% compared to July, worst month of the year

istock 42,5 %
shutterstock 21,9 %
dreamstime 12,7 %
fotolia 8,3 % (BME)
stockxpert 6,7 %
digitalstock 4,8 %

PixelsAway · « **Reply #22 on:** September 01, 2008, 10:21 »

I just plotted my August numbers (9 months in microstock):

You can see a full earnings report at Pixels Away blog:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080901071039/index.html

Nemo1024 · « **Reply #23 on:** September 01, 2008, 10:46 »

Quote from: sjlocke on August 31, 2008, 08:07

Quote from: stokfoto on August 31, 2008, 05:23
Quote from: MilliardIdeas on August 31, 2008, 04:58
what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

it stands for Best Month Ever

By the way, I take credit for that acronym
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=36328&page=1

Where shall we transfer the royalties for the term use?

lisafx · « **Reply #24 on:** September 01, 2008, 11:20 »

August for me was right level with June and July. Which is to say not bad at all. Surprising that the summer slowdown didn't hit me hard this year.

I really think that microstock is benefiting from buyers who can't afford trad prices and are checking out the micros for the first time.

My breakdown:

Istock 39% (same as last month)
SS 16% (down 3%)
FOT 16% (up 1%)
DT 13% (up 3%)
StockXpert 8% (same)
BigStock 4% (down 1%)
123RF 2% (down 1%)
Crest 1% (same)
CanStockPhoto 1% (up 1%)

I was surprised to see Shutterstock down so significantly for me. Reading everyone else's stats it doesn't seem like they have dropped market share.

I think the price raise at DT made a big difference to my earnings breakdown. I have always done well there and in this case they picked up the 3% that SS lost.

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Author Topic: August 2008 earnings breakdown (Read 11590 times)

fintastique

Peter

MilliardIdeas

stokfoto

MilliardIdeas

Sean Locke Photography

MicrostockExp

leaf

litifeta

vphoto

lobby

MilliardIdeas

Talanis

Kngkyle

melastmohican

epixx

DanP68

Freezingpictures

leaf

CofkoCof

sharpshot

faber

PixelsAway

Nemo1024

lisafx

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