How do you want us to answer this?  For all time?  IS will be in top 3 at year end, but not for this month or last.  Don't know how to answer.

IS, SS & DT.  If I doubled my DT earnings, it would still be less than IS.

voted:IS SS FT

Since September:
SS
DT
FT

Until August it was always:
SS
IS
DT

Actually we have...% of people having in their top 3

SS- 88%
IS- 54%
DT- 45%
FT- 42%
StockXpert- 29%
123RF- 4%

On 24 votes.

Need at least 100 contributors for having a poor representation of reality
1000 would be a professional poll result

for the little portfolio i had at the beginning, it was DST BigStock and StockXpert
but now StockXpert and DST, with BigStock sort of sleeping. but easily yes, StockXpert is picking up for me. so, as i said, i am revving up my images to them, and IS just started too,
so maybe the getty partnership is a good thing for me.

I have only three and this poll seems to indicate that any serious contributor would not be exclusive?  

I am interested, however, in the results.  Maybe going exclusive is not such a good idea.

StockXpert-IS-DT - that's been consistently the order lately, with FT close.  Overall IS is my best earner, but my best days there seem to be over.

Regards,
Adelaide

I don't think your poll will be very accurate, iStock exclusives only have one option which is going to throw the results off.

And before anybody says it - of course they'll vote

I can live with that. But even with these votes IS is behind of SS and very close to DT who's third actually.

Actually there's 39 voters who have voted 102 times. Normally with 3 each it would give 117 times voted. That mean there's 5 people who COULD have voted only once. Maybe that mean 5 people voted only for IS. Knowing that IS should be behind DT by one now.

IS + SS = ~75% of earnings overall (almost a year), SS is just about $4 behind IS, but I started with SS 4 months later
                 SS is doing much better than IS this month ...
DT - 3rd place

The entire story on a graph: http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20081031213700/index.html

This is my breakdown since the start of the year.
'Other' is mostly Crestock with a little Snapvillage and Canstockphoto. 123RF is not included in this because I have not been submitting there the full year.

Quote from: GeoPappas on November 13, 2008, 20:43

Why not just look to the right (at the Microstock Poll Results).  Your poll seems to basically be replicating that poll.

It's a good way to compare though or to make sure that the results of the MSG poll are accurate. At many times I read about how people were voting differently from others and then the MSG polls was not that much accurate. But even with a totally different way to vote, it give quite the same results. I wonder now what would be the results if there was only 1 vote option...

Swami looks into the crystal ball and predicts, 49% IS because of exclusives who can't answer anything else (even if they have a "roomate or spouse" who submits at the other sites  ) and 49% SS because of volume, 2% because there's always that 2% that seems to fall out of range on any survey.  Say there's someone who can't get accepted at SS or IS but has a load of photos on the other five. They would be forced to answer something other than the top two. Always those odd complications.

What I'm really saying is, I'd predict a tie.

I suppose one way around that, if there's another survey is have a box for iStock Exclusive, then IS and all the rest as choices for top three. It would be interesting as a secondary category within the survey.