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How was your september?  After a ton of uploading I had a BME which is always rewarding after doing lots of work, and not necessarily a given

Here is my graph



Nothing too surprising this month.  Dreamstime seem to be still shrinking for me while iStock Fotolia and Shutterstock are increasing in %

here's a link to the poll
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pollsvote/

My September was up at SS, DT and FT, slightly down at IS.

I'll post my results as soon as I can - but just wanted to say, right now, as I look at the chart on the right, 123RF have reached the top tier, and FT have dropped to the middle.

Not sure if it will stay that way, but I'm so happy to see 123RF up there.  They deserve it.

For the first time in YEARS - Fotolia was not my best earner, but Shutterstock was it. RPD on Fotolia was also only slightly higher than on SS. DT was ok, so was 123rf.
Istock - well, I disabled my portfolio there, so I maybe made 5$ there.

going to see how my earnings develop the next months with only supplying to 4 agencies.

BME at IS,DT,123RF and 2nd best month ever at SS (no ELs) and FT (no uploads since last cuts, just waiting for the next payout to delete the port there). Overall I'm very happy with my September earnings, just a bit worried because of the lack of ELs at SS lately.

My BME by a long shot.

Up about 25% over August, my previous BME.  (The recent mad rush of ELs at SS have certainly helped, though it still would have been a BME without them.)

Up about 120% over Sept 2010.

Now into my fourth year in ms, and no wall in sight (knocking the closest wood I can find).

Make sure your doing the 'fave' thing (as someone else mentioned).

My September was a best month ever as well, although only about $30 more than the previous high. Ended the month with $1050 off around 1800 files on 20 sites or so. Shutterstock was easily the best seller, with iStock coming in second. Partner sales on iStock have really taken off in August ($56) and I hope September will repeat that. Zoonar has also come from nowhere to have $68 sales in August and $46 in September. I've written about that on my blog recently. Full results and discussion, as usual, on my bloghttp://www.backyardsilver.com/2011/10/sales-of-stock-photos-in-september-2011/, but here are the highlight graphs:



Steve

My order
1. SS ( first time for months that it has beaten DT)
2. DT
3. IS
4. fot
5. BS
6. 123rf

BME for me. SS led the pack with a good month, then a BME at DT, Veer (ELs), IS (decent sales, but since I went from 939 to 49 images at the end of the month probably the last decent returns I'll see there), Canstock was a BME  and 123RF did well too.

Other than the developments at IS, it was a good month. My RPD at DT was nearly double last month, although it was very bimodal with 1-3 credit and sub sales mixed with double digit credit sales. They seemed to go in waves.

3rd BME in a row, first over 1k $ (will be around 1075$) after 29 months! (previous month was 999$)

started in March 2009, more "serious" after January 2010

this month top 5 %

SS 40% (3391 pics)
IS 16% (998)
123RF 9% (3966)
FT 8% (3199)
DT 7% (2139)

20% across other agencies, more relevant PhotoDune (3%), DepositPhotos (3%) and Zazzle (3%)

it was just like yours around 60$, I had an increase too, used to be around 40$

I don't know if this will last all month, but I noticed FT was bumped out of the Big 4 by 123RF.

Edit: Oops. I noticed that this was mentioned a few times already. That whole pesky reading thing gets me every time.