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Geez, I haven't even posted my september earnings!   

Regards,
Adelaide

For all of you in the UK

1st July $1 = 50p
1st August  $1 = 51p
1st September $1 = 55p
1st October $1 = 56p
28th October $1 = 64p
1st November $1=62p

Obviously PP or MB won't give you that rate

but $1000 of earnings would give you a measely £500 back in July now it would be around the £640 

In Euroland

1st July $1 = 63c
1st August  $1 = 64c
1st September $1 = 68c
1st October $1 = 71c
28th October $1 = 80c
1st November $1 = 79c

again $1000 of earnings would give you a mere 630€ back in July now it would be around the 800€ 

Yeah I was wondering what time zone he is in. Where I live there are still more than three business days left in the month. 

huh... didnt know euro dropped so drastically!

It seems a like a nice unexpected raise, but weak euro isn't good for our economy. All the items that have their price specified in USD are getting more expensive (oil, gold, all the imported goods from USA).

SS 30,67 up from previous month, but far from BME
IS 23,85 BME
FT 13,04 BME
123rf 10,13 BME
DT 9,99 BME
StockXpert 9,94 down from last month
BigStock 2,38 up from last month, just short of BME

Together: about 13% up compared to September, but still down on BME because sales at SS dropped a lot for me (if I take SS out of equasion it's a BME).

Observations:
- really starting to like 123rf, almost every month a BME with very steady sales, fast reviews and no weird rejections
- not submitting vectors to IS atm, they would just get burried. Had less sales than in September, especially in the second part of the month when the new best match took place. Vectors are really suffering for me. Luckily I had quite a few XXL sales on photos which contributed a lot to a BME
- great month on fotolia, a big increase on previous month and previous BME
- StockXpert is fluctuating a lot, last month I've had great sales, this month it was the only site down from last month

DT was hanging onto the lead for the second month in a row when SS sold an EL in the end.    That's 2 months in a row that DT has rocked.  IS just keeps getting worse.  It used to be #1 or #2.  Last month it dropped to 3, this month 4.

SS  32.8%
DT  29.1%  BME
FT  14%
IS  11.4%  WME
StockXpert 4.4%
BS  4.2%
123 2.3%
ZYM 1.6%

Surprize, surprize.  No action at FP and I almost forget I've got an account at MP.

Overall another BME for me, I finally cracked the 300$ barrier overall and +19% from last month.

FT: 52.3% (BME, actually 300% plus from my earnings October 2007 and + 23% from September 2008)
SS: 21.0% not a bad month, due to an EL my #2
IS: 17.8% (WM 2008) download numbers were better than September, but the royalties were really low.
DT: 9% (2nd best month this year, still building my port there)

BME 123rf, ss, dt, sv, and StockXpert.  Worse month in the last year on IS, 50%+ drop in sales.

Here is my month in percentages:

ShutterStock: 48.80 %
IStockPhoto: 13.11 % - BME
BigStockPhoto: 11.67 % - BME
StockXpert: 11.05 %
Dreamstime: 6.67%
FeaturePics: 3.81 % - BME
Fotolia: 2.01 %
Crestock: 1.94 %
123RF: 1.34 %
CanStockPhoto: 0%
Cutcaster: 0%

Dreamstime and Fotolia have not been this bad since the first two months after I joined them!  All in all, I earned about 10 dollars more in September than I did this month, and it is my second best month ever (I only started in May this year).

30.39%   Shutterstock         3rd best month ever
18.42%   IstockPhoto           worst mont this year
13.95%   StockExpert          BME         
13.60%   Dreamstime          3rd best month ever
13.00%   Fotolia                  2nd best month ever
6.70%   BigStockPhoto       BME         
1.89%   123RoyaltyFree         
1.51%   Crestock               BME         
0.56%   FeaturePics


IS used to account for over 33% of my total earning. Jan 08 was my IS BME with 500 photos. Now Oct, it is my IS worst month of 08 with over 760 photos. IS has been declining non-stop while all others have been increasing.  Denis