MicrostockGroup

note for those who have voted allready... i changed the voting amounts, so you will have to 'remove vote' then vote again... sorry.

I think the voting categories are still a bit whacked - too many categories above $5k, not enough in the $1-5k range.

My very first month 

SS -   96%
123 - 2%
FT - 1%

Sales up and down are compared with same month 2007.

SS 37% - up 57%
IS 18% - up 3%
DT 13% - up 16%
StockXpert 8% - up 207%
FT 7% - up 27%
BS 4% - up 37%
IV 3% - no sales last year
123 2% - up 9%
FP 2% - up 946%
SV 2% - no sales last year
SSP 1% - no sales last year
CanStockPhoto 1% - down 16%
IC 1% - no sales last year

Total sales were up 47% compared to April 2007.

I was absolutely thrilled with April 2008.  Another personal BME, shattering the $300 mark for the first time at $342.

3 EL Sales were key, with 1 each at Fotolia, Shutterstock, and iStock.  Without those EL's, it still would have been a BME but not quite to the $300 mark.

Shutterstock continued to lead my portfolio by a huge margin, beating iStock for the 4th consecutive month and 5th in the last 6th.  Most pleasing is sales are not dropping off after the initial push.  The forthcoming raise will increase the lead.  Still lots of love for iStock, which produced a BME for the first time in a long time for me.  Dreamstime was a little disappointing in April, but still solid.  BigStockPhoto had a strong month too.

Among the laggards, 123RF continues to produce an abnormally low earnings per sale.  They need to raise prices (again).  Stockxpert is still floundering for me, now down to a mere 2% of total earnings.

Smaller sites on a "probationary period," MostPhotos and Crestock did not contribute to earnings save for a 25 cent sale at Crestock.

The Breakdown:

Shutterstock  38%  (bme)
iStockPhoto  25%  (bme)
Dreamstime  14%
Fotolia  11%  (bme)
BigStockPhoto  7%
123RF  3%
Stockxpert  2%
Crestock  0.1%
MostPhotos  0%

Overall revenue down 3,5% compared to Mar-2008 (was BME).

istock              45,5 %   even
shutterstock     15,7 %  even
dreamstime       11,7 %  up 
stockxpert          7,4 %  up
digitalstock         6,7 % down (german site)
shotshop            5,6 % even (german site)
panthermedia      2,5 %  way down
fotolia                2,1 %  up

the rest for 123rf,bigstock,snapvillage

Overall BME even though my downloads were down a fraction on last month. I'm still edging up towards the $1K mark and getting well within striking distance. Hoping may cracks it for me

SS: 45%  BME (by a bee's willy)
IS: 39%   BME - +17%
DT: 9%    BME - +17%
FT: 4.5% Still not so lucky in the lucky dip search
BS: 2.5% 2 promising weeks followed by 2 weeks of next to nothing

Also 3 sales from Digitalstock.de from hardly any files online, although not included in the breakdown.

Still nothing from Snapvilliage, Cresock and I canned Canstock so nothing coming there.

yeah you a probably right.  Next month's graph will be better.

Worst Month this year so far. FT dropped significantly. SS and DT were slower, only at IS it was a really good month.
Here is the breakdown:

FT: 25.5%
IS: 35.8% (2nd best month ever)
SS: 27.1%
DT: 11.6%
LO: 0.0%

Far off the 300$ mark - so congrats to DanP for making it.

Hi,


big drop on SS with 18 %
also another drop on bs, all other sites showed clear increase.

Patrick H.

5 months of data from my microstock photography and I see the first drop in my earnings despite of the portfolio growth.

monthly earnings report:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080501052404/index.html

IS - 38%
SS - 33 %
FT - 14%
...

After many months (nearly a year, I think) in second or 3rd place, IS reclaimed the #1 spot this month for me.
  IS-    25%
  FT-    22
  SS-    21
  DT-    10
  BigStock-    9
  StockXpert-    8
  123-    5

A good solid month, up over last month and April 2007 (13%)