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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

what does BME mean?
Best Month...?

I know it now.thanks.

What about WME ? Who got this one ?

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.

very bad  for me...

overall in usd -30%

from previous also bad month (than the expected)

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.

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.

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.

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?

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%

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

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.