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October was a great month for me - a personal best, and almost $160 over the previous month to end with just over $1200 off an average of about 1800 images. As usual, more details on my web site, but Shutterstock was great with $450, iStock maintained solid performance with another month of $200. Veer is a great site some months and I managed two of their unlimited reproduction licenses to come in with around $135. My big disappointment was Zoonar. I really thought that it had started moving, but I only sold one image for $3.50 this last month.




Steve

There's a new sheriff in town and its name is Clipartof. Maybe, it's a fluke, but I feel all the sacrifices I've made this year trying to clean up "my house" are starting to pay off. I'm still not where I want to be (or even where I was), but I'm feeling more confident about the future.

Hopefully, it's a sign that you don't need to wait for a union or a miracle. Just start taking control of YOUR images and where and how you distribute them. I hope this continues and others can do the same thing.

Great month!

SS.  brillant.

FT.  way up.+ 30%

DT. up 15%

IS. worthless. ( compared to what it used to be)

Alamy.  great.

BS.  up 30%

Shutterstock up, the other micros flat or down. A sudden burst of activity on Alamy will make it a BME, though. Fotolia back to 2007 levels.

Just want to say thanks to Steheap and Luissantos84 for providing details on their income from Stock. This is secret to most, even me, so respect to you lads.
Keep it up!

More downloads, less money
comparing 10.2011 to 10.2010 ()
ss 31% (21%)
ft 28% (21%)
dt 18% (18%)
is 10% (32%)
others 13% (8%)

RPD 0,81 € (0,94 €)

Clipartof - 30%
Shutterstock - 26%
Dreamstime - 10%
Can Stock Photo - 7%
myStockVectors - 7%
Graphic Leftovers -6%
123RF - 5%
Veer - 2%
BigStock - 2%
Yay - 1%
Cutcaster - 0%
Stockfresh - 0%
Drawshop - 0%

The first month without iStock ended up a lot better than I thought.

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Thank you for contacting us, however we are no longer accepting new contributors.

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Mrs. Jamie Voetsch
Clipart Of LLC

Unless it's just no one except the invited people at this point. Hope that saves someone the trouble of trying to get information where the ClipartOf site has none.

It was a pretty disappointing October for me. Overall I was up 7% on last month and 6% on last year.  3 out of 4 top sites all posted losses.  Fortunately the day was spectacularly saved by a big BME at Shutterstock!  Funny thing is when I added up my % losses from IS, SS, and DT, over the past year, they totaled the exact % SS was up (51%).

Istock continues to sink into the void.  Sales more pathetic each month, and sank to levels not seen since April of 2006!!  

FT actually rebounded a bit, showing a 10% gain over last month, but is still well down on last year.

Below is the market share of each of the sites for me, along with the % gain or loss from October 2010.

ISP   30%  (-23%)
SS   28%  (+51%)
DT   13%  (-9%)
Fot   15%  (-19%)
BigStock   4%  

Almost identical to Sept 2011, except the extra day put me over the edge for a new BME.

Up 120% vs Oct 2011.

My Big 4 are all posting solid gains every month... in this order here's how they placed in October...

1: SS thanks to a mad rush of ELs (still looking for an explanation for the sudden rush of these.  Any ideas?)
2. FT
3. DT and IS almost identical to the dollar


And the rest?  I almost don't care, since all together the second and third tier players accounted for less than 15% of my earnings.  123RF earnings are growing nicely.  The CanStockPhoto big "Distribution Regular" $19.80 sales are nowhere to be seen these days, so it's down.  Everyone else seems to be treading water.

Interesting... Looks like overall you had a higher net gain than I did.  I'm jealous! You are fortunate to have not lost more than 1% at IS.  That's about the best I've heard for an established port.

I am becoming a bit suspicious that there may be some truth to the idea that they are juggling the search to prevent people reaching their RC goals.  I am about 7k off of keeping my 19% with approx. 6 weeks of decent sales left in the year (no point in expecting much action the last two weeks of the year).  Normally I could hit that mark in that time period easily, but with sales so bad I may not make it.   

Were they lowered?  I had thought they just didn't raise them.  I hope you're right and they will be lowered this year, but I'm not holding my breath.  The less they have to pay us the more sustainable their business is