Author Topic: Earnings in July 2012 (Read 13550 times)

steheap · « **on:** July 31, 2012, 21:09 »

I'm a bit early as usual, but the chances of new sales at 10pm are not high. Overall, my month has been OK - not the best, but not bad. Total earnings were $1585 compared to $1750 last month, but the absence of Enhanced License downloads on Shutterstock hit me a bit. I did get one - on the 31 July, which made the month a bit better. iStock was good for me - a BME at $340 with two extended licenses ($278 last month). Dreamstime was pretty good at $108. DepositPhotos seems to grow month by month - up to $57 now. Here are my top line charts. More details, as usual, on my blog.

Steve

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2012, 00:02 »

Poor month overall for me, only SS shone and it couldn't make up for the others.

Lagereek · « **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2012, 02:03 »

Yes not bad but not very good either.

Mellimage · « **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2012, 03:30 »

slightly better than last month, but mainly due to SS outshining all others. For me the worst developments have been FT and DT since April. FT, which used to bring in 2/3rd of my income now brings in a 3rd of what SS brings in. Overall, I'd say my total earnings dropped by a 3rd since the beginning of the year.

djpadavona · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2012, 04:37 »

Earnings were up 48% over July 2011. DL's were only up 10% at SS, but I had significant growth at IS and modest growth at DT. July is always a slow month for me, but I'm pleased with this year's results.

Anyka · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2012, 04:38 »

Best July Ever for me, 12% better than last year July. Excellent results for SS, Alamy and 123rf, slight increases for FT and DP, and bad results for IS, DST (again!), GLO and Canstock. Rodeo sold zero, but they never sell anything in July, so that's normal.

aeonf · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2012, 04:38 »

A very bad month for us. Worst month in over a year!
2 EL's
1,640$ with 310 downloads
I do hope this month is an anomaly.

stockmarketer · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2012, 04:42 »

For me, July total earnings were down about 4% from June.

But July 2012 was up about 40% from July 2011.

ShadySue · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2012, 05:11 »

BMY for $$, BJE for $$.
A very odd month, with 5 weekend days with 0 dls, some weekdays with precious little more, some random very good for me weekdays and 4 ELs. Things were unspeakable from the 24th - 30th, then suddenly yesterday was good. I hope it wasn't people using up their credits. (I really am glass-half-empty!)

Compared to July 2011: dls -11%; $$ +13%. Port increase c19%,
Compared to June 2012: dls +18%; $$ +33% (despite an EL, June was an extremely poor month, including an insulting $1.19 Getty/Vetta sale).

Hopefully, June was just a low 'blip', rather than July being a high 'blip'.

Alamy - 0

Wim · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2012, 05:53 »

Very good, I'm up everywhere (1 year and 6 months in stock)

SS BME in dl's, EL's and earnings (+25%)
IS BME (+50%)
DT 2nd BME (barely) but with port growth (100 a month) it's lagging behind
FT BME up 30%
123RF BME dl's and earnings

Those are the ones that matter to me and will focus on in the future, others, unless they show significant progress will have to go.
Not bad for a noob/dilettante

Take care all.

Tabimura · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2012, 05:54 »

Average month, nothing out of the regular order. With the exception of not uploading anything for about 3 weeks. That's the beauty of being a stock photographer, yes? You can take holiday whenever you like without making a significant dent in earnings.

Perry · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2012, 06:33 »

You don't want to hear this, but I got a BME on my "big 5" (IS, SS, DT, FT, 123RF)... and it's JULY!!!

This has never happened to me, never, ever never! (I've been around since 2004)

BME at SS and 123RF. Good month at IS and DT. FT poor as usual.

sgoodwin4813 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2012, 06:58 »

No BMEs, but BMYs for $$$ at BS and iS (best there in 18 months). Way up over July 2011 (+68%), roughly in accordance with portfolio growth (+64%). ELs at iS and SS, and even a small sale at Alamy with a very small port. Most sites holding steady, except for CS, which was way down, and Veer, which was 0. Have made more so far this year than all of last year so no complaints.

corepics · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2012, 08:30 »

Compared to June 2012 (Revenue - DLs)

Overall: -3% -1%

SS: 0% -5%
IS: -1% +10%
DT: -18% -2%
FT: -15% -7%
123RF: +24% +29%

In prosa: Shutterstock is holding up fine, RPD slightly higher than June '12. Istock: Despite an increase in downloads, a slight decline in revenues. It seems DT recent changes to their subscription system turned out beautifully for them. The declining sales have somewhat stabilised, and we're down a whopping 18% compared to June, due to a massive increase of higher level subscription sales. 123RF exceeds expectations, and limits the downfall in July compared to June.

The smaller sites went off to a poor start, but sales improved towards the end of the month. Overall, a slight decline compared to June 2012, but much less than expected.

Karimala · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2012, 10:16 »

Business as usual. Nothing exciting to report, except I had a best-sale-ever at Zazzle when someone purchased 104 post cards at 50% royalties.

The only site that's notable is Fotolia. Down 78% over July 2011 (no ELs), down 74% from my best month of the year (no ELs), down 46% from my worst month of the year (which had an EL). Worst month since February 2007.

Whatever Fotolia did to its search back in March regarding long-time contributors, it's obviously having a very serious negative impact on my income. Fotolia has gone from being a consistent #3 or #4 and worth continuing to upload to (despite its unsavory history), to being dead last and the least significant of all the sites within a span of just a few months. Gone are the days of weekly payouts. The past two months, my monthly earnings didn't even reach payout level.

click_click · « **Reply #15 on:** August 01, 2012, 10:36 »

Worst month of the year

Daevid · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2012, 11:38 »

Best July ever thanks to some ELs in the last few days. Third best month of the year so far.

lisafx · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2012, 11:59 »

Absolutely dreadful month. Worst since December 2008, and would have to go back considerably further to find a mid year month that bad. Down 7% on a very poor June and down 17% on last July.

Worst losses are posted at Istock and Fotolia, with DT also losing ground. Only one of the big 4 showing improvement was SS, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses elsewhere.

**ETA: Fotolia did pick up quite a bit the last part of the month. Not sure what they did but hope it continues**

The smaller sites like PD, DP, and Veer helped boost totals somewhat or losses would have been even worse.

I've seen summer slumps before, but not this bad. My hubby believes everything is in limbo and the movers & shakers are holding on to their money until after the election in November. Not sure I can wait that long to start earning a living again...

Pixart · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2012, 12:04 »

Hold onto your hats folks.... I finally reached payout at Featurepics

Not a terrible month considering it was July.

SS holding steady.
DT bounced back a tiny bit after a disastrous June (but not back to old normal).
BS is evaporating. Have to go back to my first couple months in 2007 to report worse earnings.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2012, 13:25 »

Not bad - not great, but decent for the middle of summer (November is typically my best month each year). Once the IS partner income comes in it'll probably be flat with June. But it's up 25% from last July (somewhat unfair comparison as that was turbulent following exit from exclusivity).

SS was the same as last month ($1 less), IS similar ($15 less) and DT had a good month - they were 13% of my total, having dropped to 7% earlier in the year with the various search engine problems. 123rf is lower the last two months, possibly because I haven't uploaded there since they announced their plans to cut our commissions.

redo · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2012, 14:21 »

BME at yaymicro and first payout

traveler1116 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 01, 2012, 14:38 »

No ELs for the first time in 23 months, had one today though.

grp_photo · « **Reply #22 on:** August 01, 2012, 15:25 »

Wow Dreamstime is down for me must be the worst month since 2004 or so. I hardly upload to them anymore but this drop surprises me nonetheless.

cascoly · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2012, 16:06 »

BME at SS [by > 10%] and 4th BME overall [the other 3 were all in last 8 months], despite SS's drastic changes in reviews, esp editorial. many of my sales are older editorials that would not be accepted now

my monthly sales averges by month only vary by about 10%, but the last 3 mo period is up 40% over previous year

DT continues downward trend while FT, BS and 123 all showed modest uptrends

THP Creative · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2012, 22:40 »

For the 'slow' months I must say I'm very happy with July.

SS missed being a BME by only $5, thanks to 2 EL's on the last day. BME at Fotolia, 123rf, Depositphotos and YAY.

Dreamstime was down, but not hugely. It does feel like its getting slower though. IS held steady, Veer ok, BigStock terrible as usual.

Sales continue to grow each month, so if this trend continues I am really looking forward to the busy period just ahead.

nicku · « **Reply #25 on:** August 02, 2012, 00:38 »

July was better than i expect...

SS - BME , again NO COMMENT
FT - BME, NO COMMENT
DT - above average , good month
123RF - under average ( again)

Overall earnings : BME

The pie slices:

SS - 60%
FT - 20%
DT - 12%
The rest - 8%

August is the holidays month.. i personally expect a average month or a slight under average month $:-\$

oboy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 02, 2012, 15:52 »

Down 2% to last month, but 28% increase compared to last year July.
My best for were: Shutterstock, DepositPhotos, Zazzle, Photospin
List of all the agencies I work with: http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html

Full statistic at http://microstockinfos.blogspot.com/2012/08/stock-photography-sales-statistic-july.html

(This statistic include referral earning at the different agencies)

raclro · « **Reply #27 on:** August 02, 2012, 22:41 »

Down in $$ about 40% compared to 2011. Better than June however.

pancaketom · « **Reply #28 on:** August 03, 2012, 00:36 »

Pretty good month for me a bit to my surprise when I added things up - only June 2012 had a higher total. Alamy was the star with strong performances by SS and Veer. DT looks like it is falling off a cliff with both low numbers of sales and low RPI.

Lagereek · « **Reply #29 on:** August 03, 2012, 00:39 »

Quote from: lisafx on August 01, 2012, 11:59

Absolutely dreadful month. Worst since December 2008, and would have to go back considerably further to find a mid year month that bad. Down 7% on a very poor June and down 17% on last July.

Worst losses are posted at Istock and Fotolia, with DT also losing ground. Only one of the big 4 showing improvement was SS, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses elsewhere.

**ETA: Fotolia did pick up quite a bit the last part of the month. Not sure what they did but hope it continues**

The smaller sites like PD, DP, and Veer helped boost totals somewhat or losses would have been even worse.

I've seen summer slumps before, but not this bad. My hubby believes everything is in limbo and the movers & shakers are holding on to their money until after the election in November. Not sure I can wait that long to start earning a living again

My July was OK, thats all. My scenario is this: contributors like us and similar are right now pretty disfavoured in every search, in every agency, more or less, right? and its not a coincidance, its a purpose! they are simply letting new faces through, at our expense ofcourse. From an agency point of view I can see the logic in that, theyre afraid to lose new contributors, lack of sales, etc. So they rather take a temporarily nosedive, not pushing our images in favour of new images supplied by new contributors, trying to build a new platform. This is why ppl, like us should concentrate much more on the RM business, since its much more appreciated there.

rubyroo · « **Reply #30 on:** August 03, 2012, 04:41 »

Second BME, with SS holding steady and well ahead of the rest of the field. Istock in second place and then quite a drop to DT in third and 123rf not far behind in fourth place.

wordplanet · « **Reply #31 on:** August 03, 2012, 13:38 »

Sorry but also relieved to hear I'm not the only one who has seen DT sales drop off a cliff.

SS looked to be tanking a bit too but then in July it picked up considerably. I haven't uploaded there in ages, so I was relieved to see it bounce back to normal/high levels.

iStock was building steadily for me since the spring but seems to be flattening out, though with <100 images there it's hard to call anything a trend.

I found some of my as-yet unreported images from Alamy online and in publications recently so hoping that means I'll get a big bump in sales come September, given late reporting there. I've been concentrating a lot of my efforts on RM the last couple of months and sales were showing up steadily until I hit a slump in July (NUs only - awful), so nice to know sales are still actually building and I just have to wait for them to show up. Zooms are up too.

The rest aren't even worth the effort and I'm thinking of closing my accounts after my next payouts.

Though no individual records, BME for total payouts. Probably the most important stat

Microbius · « **Reply #32 on:** August 04, 2012, 04:16 »

About $1000 down from BME but at least $3000 up on any previous July so can't complain.

ShadySue · « **Reply #33 on:** August 04, 2012, 04:31 »

Quote from: wordplanet on August 03, 2012, 13:38

I found some of my as-yet unreported images from Alamy online and in publications recently so hoping that means I'll get a big bump in sales come September, given late reporting there.

Or maybe next year for the sub-$10 gross photos sold under the newspaper scheme - some of them, esp the lowest paying (but maybe highest buying?), get a six month paying schedule (it used to be three months, to fit in with UK tax reporting for newspapers, but that seems to have changed this year).
So, hard to know when to chase these found in-uses up. And hard to know which are genuine sales.

Mantis · « **Reply #34 on:** August 04, 2012, 08:47 »

Quote from: Pixart on August 01, 2012, 12:04

Hold onto your hats folks.... I finally reached payout at Featurepics

Haha, sweet. May I ask how long that took?

Pixart · « **Reply #35 on:** August 04, 2012, 10:58 »

LOL, I think around 4 years and the same photos are still on their front page as when I signed up.

RCerruti · « **Reply #36 on:** August 05, 2012, 20:57 »

Average month here, 25% down compared to my BME (nov. '11) with SS getting the lion's share as usual, DT random as usual (low this month) and IS that seems to have somehow reached the bottom of its decline concerning my sales.
Please tell me Steve, your statistics do include referral earnings?

Roberto

steheap · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2012, 13:14 »

Quote

Average month here, 25% down compared to my BME (nov. '11) with SS getting the lion's share as usual, DT random as usual (low this month) and IS that seems to have somehow reached the bottom of its decline concerning my sales.
Please tell me Steve, your statistics do include referral earnings?

Roberto

I guess this last sentence is aimed at me. I do include referral earnings, but normally they are so small as to be negligible. On Shutterstock I did have a good month in May when it was $8, but for some reason that photographer/illustrator must have stopped selling and I'm now back at $1! Dreamstime is normally about $2, DP is $1.29. on SignElements (was iSighStock...) I have about 30 referred contributors and have got to a grand total of $26. You get the drift - nothing to write home about!

There are two things I don't include - Zazzle, because it is sort of outside the mainstream, and my book income - I don't want everyone to know how successful an author I have become. I think you can read that last sentence in two ways!

Steve

RCerruti · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2012, 14:01 »

Yes Steve, it was directed to you. Thank you for your answer. They are really negligible. I asked because I have very different situations, especially on DP where my referrals are a large share of my income!

steheap · « **Reply #39 on:** August 06, 2012, 20:04 »

Interesting - how did you manage to get high referral fees on DP? I have 16 referred members and lifetime earnings from referrals of maybe $40

Steve

Lagereek · « **Reply #40 on:** August 07, 2012, 00:39 »

Quote from: lisafx on August 01, 2012, 11:59

Absolutely dreadful month. Worst since December 2008, and would have to go back considerably further to find a mid year month that bad. Down 7% on a very poor June and down 17% on last July.

Worst losses are posted at Istock and Fotolia, with DT also losing ground. Only one of the big 4 showing improvement was SS, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses elsewhere.

**ETA: Fotolia did pick up quite a bit the last part of the month. Not sure what they did but hope it continues**

The smaller sites like PD, DP, and Veer helped boost totals somewhat or losses would have been even worse.

I've seen summer slumps before, but not this bad. My hubby believes everything is in limbo and the movers & shakers are holding on to their money until after the election in November. Not sure I can wait that long to start earning a living again...

Well not that bad but I tell you, if it wasnt for RM sales it would have been lousy.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 07, 2012, 17:00 »

- Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1342$, Apr 1396$, May 1452$, June 1206$, July 1271$
- from July 2011 +35%
- 39 months of stock
- last club in SS (since July 8th)
- almost no new uploads in July in all agencies

TOP 8 - 80.3% (82.4%)
SS 41.2% (34.5%) (1 EL, 5 SOD (1 - 16.8, 4 - 18$))
IS 11.6% (14.2%) (5 months with no new uploads)
FT 7.6% (9.8%) (2 EL) (from 120$ to 97$)
Z 5.7% (7.5%)
ISIGN 4.5% (4.8%)
123RF 3.8% (5.5%) (Jan 70$, Feb 114$, March 108$, April 59$, May 90$, June 68$, July 48$)
XX 3.1% (3.3%)
DT 2.8% (2.9%) (4.7%) (May 69$ (BME), June 35$, July 35$)

MIDDLE - 16% (11.4%)
YAY 2.7% (0.9%)
XY 2.3% (2.5%)
DP 1.8% (2.5%)
PD 1.7% (2.7%)
ZOO 1.7% (0.2%)
XZ 1.6% (3.4%)
V 1.6% (1.2%)
MP 1.4% (0.2%)
CanStockPhoto 1.3% (0.7%)

LOW - 3.7% (6.2%)
(13 agencies all below 1% each)

mtkang · « **Reply #42 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:08 »

i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 07, 2012, 17:00

- Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1342$, Apr 1396$, May 1452$, June 1206$, July 1271$
- from July 2011 +35%
- 39 months of stock
- last club in SS (since July 8th)
- almost no new uploads in July in all agencies

TOP 8 - 80.3% (82.4%)
SS 41.2% (34.5%) (1 EL, 5 SOD (1 - 16.8, 4 - 18$))
IS 11.6% (14.2%) (5 months with no new uploads)
FT 7.6% (9.8%) (2 EL) (from 120$ to 97$)
Z 5.7% (7.5%)
ISIGN 4.5% (4.8%)
123RF 3.8% (5.5%) (Jan 70$, Feb 114$, March 108$, April 59$, May 90$, June 68$, July 48$)
XX 3.1% (3.3%)
DT 2.8% (2.9%) (4.7%) (May 69$ (BME), June 35$, July 35$)

MIDDLE - 16% (11.4%)
YAY 2.7% (0.9%)
XY 2.3% (2.5%)
DP 1.8% (2.5%)
PD 1.7% (2.7%)
ZOO 1.7% (0.2%)
XZ 1.6% (3.4%)
V 1.6% (1.2%)
MP 1.4% (0.2%)
CanStockPhoto 1.3% (0.7%)

LOW - 3.7% (6.2%)
(13 agencies all below 1% each)

luissantos84 · « **Reply #43 on:** August 08, 2012, 08:05 »

Quote from: mtkang on August 08, 2012, 03:08

i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

June 120$, July 97$

Z is Zazzle, other are secret

archibald1221 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 21, 2012, 09:56 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 08, 2012, 08:05

Quote from: mtkang on August 08, 2012, 03:08
i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

June 120$, July 97$

Z is Zazzle, other are secret

I see You have some secrets here

interesting

i understand why are You hiding one of Your top 8 agencies. But what is the point of hiding those that earn You only 2,3 or 1,6 percent of Your earnings?

They are small earners anyway

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