MicrostockGroup

Updated Sunday morning another depressing month at the big sites  , overall total lowest monthly dollar income since Feb 2008 (excluding December 2008) at least it was higher than Jan 2008 

SS 43.1%
DT 15.8%
FT 13.4%

IS 7.9% *

123 6.1%
StockXpert 6.0%
BS   5.8%

CanStockPhoto 1.2% #
FP   0.6%

* a pleasant surprize actually selling here again they were #7 in December 2008
# mainly affilated sales

Well at least the US$ = almost 70p (UK) instead of 50p 6 months ago

Well the 31st turned out to be quite a busy Saturday except at IS

Hi Stephen and our first hello to Microstock Group.

Thanks for the feedback on your earnings, and on those of Can Stock Photo, which includes earnings at Fotosearch.

Two quick points:
1) We are still in the testing phase of the rollout of Can Stock Photo images on Fotosearch.  We are still in the process of determining the best way to display CanStockPhoto images, and only a fraction of our users on only a portion of our 20+ country-specific sites are seeing these images.

2) Stephen, we seem to have only a fraction of your images--perhaps 20% of what you have on other sites.  We would encourage you to upload the balance of your portfolio to CanStockPhoto, which will automatically load them onto Fotosearch.

If we have 5x the number of images, and everything is proportional, you may see 5x the sales, which would put us into your middle tier, before we've even completed our rollout of CanStockPhoto images on Fotosearch.  Also, I presume the images we are missing are your newer work, and I would guess that many people think their newest work is their best work.

I'd encourage you to upload the rest of your portfolio, and see what we can produce.  Thanks.

Fintastique doesn't accept the risk of not opening the earnings breakdown thread. 

Regards,
Adelaide

overall worst month I've had for micro since late 2007

site %sales compared to average $
is 38% - down 25%
dt 16% - down 20% but rising in % to others
ft 14% - almost normal, definetly grabbed the 3rd spot now
ss 10% - down 50%
StockXpert 6% - down 30% on last few months
BigStock 4.2% - normal
123rf 3.7% - down 35% - very quiet
CanStockPhoto 3.5% - tripled previous BME, looks promising
cre 1.6% - down 30% (but not talking a lot of money, so less valid)
fp 1.4% - normal
scan 1.1% - normal

few dollars made on alb & snap (no longer submitting to) and on zymm, nothing on most.

Phil

Site     % of earnings      compared to dec     compared to jan08
IS           26%               +166%                 +14%
DT           21%               -29%                  -7%
SS           18%               -54%                  -70%
FT           14%               +46%                  0%
StockXpert          6%                -40%                  -70%
CS           6%                N/A                   N/A
BigStock          6%                -19%                  -32%
123RF        3%                -58%                  N/A
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Combined     100%              -17%                  -37%


How depressing. First time SS has not been 1st since I started in Q1 2007, and it's not a result of the other sites picking up, its a result of SS just falling off a cliff and the other sites staying stagnant. I have about doubled my portfolio since Q4-2007/Q1-2008, yet I'm making half as much. Ever since subs came out StockXpert is circling the drain with Crestock and Bigstockphoto. I am opting out this month to see if there will be any change.

BLUE=all the time, RED=last month
All: +37,17 %
RPI:+21,45%

BME after October
But for me StockXpert was very good this month,big jump... DT has fallen down...

Not a bad month, clearly  up from last month. SS still first followed by FT and IS. BME at DT only
More stats on my blog: http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/

Hope to have a BME in February !!

L

SS 28%
FT 19%
DT 18%
IS 17%
BS 8%
StockXpert 8%
123 3%

I'm very surprized at how much the gap has narrowed between my top 4.  

Also surprized that FT has been inching forward so consistently since fall '08.

SS       57.8%
IS       15.1%
DT        9.4%
FT        5.9%
BigStock      4.8%
StockXpert      3.9%
123RF  3.1%

a more detailed January earnings report in Pixels Away blog

January was quite a surprise, with the final week's daily sales significantly higher than the first 3 weeks daily average.  The end result was 28% above the predicted expectation calculated on 1/21.  The month was expected to be down from December, as there was very little uploading in January (figured much like november where sales dropped from the october BME).

Monthly earnings breakdown

	December |	January
IS	24.63%	26.84%
SS	46.56%	33.80%
Dreamstime	13.78%	12.73%
StockXpert	13.73%	22.44%
123rd	0.89%	4.00%
crestock	0.41%	0.17%

As you can see with the uploads below, december was expected to be big; and was BME across the board.

Portfolio Growth

	November |	December |	January
IS	0%	31.33%	0%
SS	3.75%	22.41%	9.86%
DT	4.91%	27.34%	0%
SX	0%	74.47%	6.70%
123	0%	30.30%	0%

January was a surprise though with near to no uploading, yet BME's everywhere except shutterstock.  Below shows dec growth vs. november and bme (since november was a rough month, down 28.20% from bme Oct)

Earnings Growth

	Dec vs. Nov |	Dec vs. BME |	Jan vs. Dec
Overall	140.51%	72.68%	18.65%
IS	126.29%	72.94%	29.31%
SS	170.02%	39.22%	-13.85%
DT	136.45%	52.66%	9.60%
SX	107.50%	(same)	93.98%

Stockexpert definitely stands out, november was the first full month there, accounting for 15.9% of overall earnings.  earnings in December were double (along with everyone else), but then almost double again in January, taking #3 spot by storm, and nipping close to the heals of istock for the #2 spot.

Disclaimer  Istock started January '08.  Shutterstock, Dreamstime, 123rf, crestock July '08, stockxpert Oct '08.  So new to the game and building portfolios.
Average portfolio size on top 4 earners: November: 105 images.  December: 144 images.  January: 151.

mine.
the "big 3" continue to dominant.