Author Topic: How is your March? (Read 23474 times)

fotoroad · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2017, 15:50 »

Quote from: Artist on March 15, 2017, 23:20

My march is doing very well and its still in the mid.

Great pickup from shutterstock. Getting good single and others on daily basis now.
Fotolia/Adobe is still same for me, no high and no low.
iStock, don't know what they are cookin
123rf very bad month in here
All other agencies, very bad

But I am overall happy with shutterstock and fotolia

SS - slow less than 50%down compare last year
FT - some sale
123RF - some sale
IS - No idea,
DT- some sale
Alamy-some sale

This mean bad month so far but I am optimistic

Pauws99 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2017, 01:51 »

After a very strong start tailing off badly....need a good few days to get back on track...not horrible but not great

gnesher · « **Reply #27 on:** March 30, 2017, 04:45 »

After 4-5 month of steady growth (I'm a total beginner, gone from 1-2$ a month to 16$ last month) this was the first month I've seen a significant drop (shutter stock went down from 60ish downloads to <30).

I've kinda made up the sales through other sites (sold a few prints in society6 etc.) but was not a good month for me :/

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #28 on:** March 30, 2017, 04:50 »

Started well and seems to have been dropping steadily. Won't be my worst month in the last year or so, but will be a close second or third.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 30, 2017, 04:55 »

For the first few days at the beginning of the month had high hopes now tailing off to be pretty average according to my 12 month rolling average.

Dzianis · « **Reply #30 on:** March 30, 2017, 04:58 »

one of the best months so far, almost BME

Lana · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2017, 05:01 »

Up and down, not too bad at SS and FT after all.
I just realised I have 0 downloads with DT this month

Not a big deal, but unsual. I hoped for the second half of March with 123rf, but nothing happened - I'll get about 20% of what February earned.

increasingdifficulty · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2017, 05:09 »

BME for me (regarding footage):

Shutterstock way above average
VB above average
Pond5 and Fotolia slow, below average...
Don't even look at DT anymore...

One more day to go.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2017, 05:39 »

Quote from: Lana on March 30, 2017, 05:01

Up and down, not too bad at SS and FT after all.
I just realised I have 0 downloads with DT this month Not a big deal, but unsual. I hoped for the second half of March with 123rf, but nothing happened - I'll get about 20% of what February earned.

This illustrates how different people's experiences are and how we can't judge overall performance from our sales. For me both rf and dt are having good months....though DT is from a very low base.

Video-StockOrg · « **Reply #34 on:** March 30, 2017, 06:17 »

we have a really bellow average March here...

SS way bellow average (we blame the unusual low sales after uploading hundred of photos)
Pond above average
Fotolia bellow average
Dissolve bellow average

but yet it is another day till the end of month to surprise us.

Brightontl · « **Reply #35 on:** March 30, 2017, 06:46 »

BME by a good margin.
I do video only, but this month I started to upload a few still image extracted from footage and timelapses.
I did not bother with still images so far, but they seem to sell much better than I expected, although too soon to tell

sgoodwin4813 · « **Reply #36 on:** March 30, 2017, 07:40 »

Much to my surprise, a BME on SS by a wide margin due to more high-value SODs than usual and lots of ODs, plus even a couple of ELs. FT about half what it had been - many base-level subs and even some sales for 25 cents - no idea what those are for, I didn't think they went that low. Canva way off what it was a few months ago and getting less every month, unfortunately. Other agencies moribund. However, with SS doing so well it is a second BME overall. I am assuming this is a statistical blip and will be back to depressing next month but in the meantime will celebrate March.

AnS · « **Reply #37 on:** March 30, 2017, 07:56 »

For me (vector illustrations only):
Shutterstock is average (it seemed to shape up to be a better month, but it did not happen in the end)
Fotolia above average
iStock, well, no idea yet

Thomas from France · « **Reply #38 on:** March 30, 2017, 14:58 »

SS back on track after several average months.
FT average month
123rf good (as 123rf can be)
DT dead again
iS ...who is iS ?

Minsc · « **Reply #39 on:** March 30, 2017, 16:23 »

Quote from: Minsc on March 16, 2017, 19:51

SS - On pace for BME.
FT - On pace for BME.
123RF - On pace for BME.
IS - No idea, haven't logged on in a while.
DT - On pace for 0 sales.

Looks like things lived up to my expectations.

SS - BME
FT - BME
123RF - BME
IS - Still haven't checked
DT - Had a couple sales.

Microstockphoto · « **Reply #40 on:** March 31, 2017, 00:19 »

shutterstock very poor. lack of video el and sod, 50% down from the new normal,

derek · « **Reply #41 on:** March 31, 2017, 00:45 »

These sort of threads are completely meaningless since a BME to somebody with 500 files might be the WME for somebody with 5000 files and often is. My March was steady with DT finally coming alive showing some really good sales. SS and Ft just steady.
SS have become an enigma. I cant work it out but I keep comparing to the Istock shambles of showing fatigue and sort of happy go lucky with what they've got. Any ambitions seems to be gone.

I shouldnt really say this but if a place like SS closed down they would probably do the entire stock-market the world of good turning it into a healthier environment and a sort of new start. haha!

On the more conventional side the RM/Rf agencies showing very good results with a couple of sales close to $.900 each.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 31, 2017, 01:17 »

Quote from: derek on March 31, 2017, 00:45

These sort of threads are completely meaningless since a BME to somebody with 500 files might be the WME for somebody with 5000 files and often is. My March was steady with DT finally coming alive showing some really good sales. SS and Ft just steady.
SS have become an enigma. I cant work it out but I keep comparing to the Istock shambles of showing fatigue and sort of happy go lucky with what they've got. Any ambitions seems to be gone.

I shouldnt really say this but if a place like SS closed down they would probably do the entire stock-market the world of good turning it into a healthier environment and a sort of new start. haha!

On the more conventional side the RM/Rf agencies showing very good results with a couple of sales close to $.900 each.

No more meaningless than posts about bad days and second hand reports of friends performance on occasional days.

dpimborough · « **Reply #43 on:** March 31, 2017, 03:49 »

Quote from: Artist on March 17, 2017, 04:22

Quote from: Sammy the Cat on March 17, 2017, 04:01
These kinds of threads are useless without figures

A best month or doing very well could be $10,000 $1,000 or $5 depending on the contributor's perspective

Very well here is, I am making my living and having saving too.

Yes strong in the way of stock you are my young padewan

dpimborough · « **Reply #44 on:** March 31, 2017, 03:51 »

Quote from: derek on March 31, 2017, 00:45

....On the more conventional side the RM/Rf agencies showing very good results with a couple of sales close to $.900 each.

Same here RM sales of $300

derek · « **Reply #45 on:** March 31, 2017, 04:06 »

^yes lets hope it keeps up! the way micro is going we're going to need it!

Brasilnut · « **Reply #46 on:** March 31, 2017, 04:44 »

Shutter: BME
Istock: who cares?
Alamy: Very poor, only 1 small RF despite 100s of views and a few zooms a day
Robert Harding: Nothing yet
Arcangel: Nothing yet...

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #47 on:** March 31, 2017, 04:53 »

Nothing wrong with a sales thread, but always best to not put too much stock in the responses when it comes to overall sales, trends, end of the world planning etc.

Take me for example... VideoHive is the only place I have an exclusive account and a non-exclusive account. On my exclusive account, it's the worst month in seven months. On my non-exclusive account, it's the best month I've had in six months. As they say in the land of the free and the home of the brave... go figure.

Sebastian Radu · « **Reply #48 on:** March 31, 2017, 05:19 »

BME, due to a big sale on Alamy (125$ net). But I uploaded a lot of files in the last months so based on that sales were very weak..

Zero Talent · « **Reply #49 on:** March 31, 2017, 12:59 »

-no BME, but very good 4 digits month for SS
-surprisingly good month for Alamy
-very good month for 123RF
-normal month for FT.
-under average for DT, close but the first time in almost two years without at least one monthly payment

Edit: Best month for 123! Nice way to finish it with $45 EL!
Edit: BME for all agencies combined.

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Author Topic: How is your March? (Read 23474 times)

fotoroad

Pauws99

gnesher

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Pauws99

Dzianis

Lana

increasingdifficulty

Pauws99

Video-StockOrg

Brightontl

sgoodwin4813

AnS

Thomas from France

Minsc

Microstockphoto

derek

Pauws99

dpimborough

dpimborough

derek

Brasilnut

SpaceStockFootage

Sebastian Radu

Zero Talent

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