I've seen a great improvement in terms of sale and price of each sale I get as a contributor on FT and this is far better than what I get on SS. The sales on SS are also dead slow these days. I guess this is happening since the Adobe took over the company. The poll results on right can surprise us in coming days..

There are always individual cases but in general when i look on the right ss is far ahead of fotolia. If ever something will happen, what i doubt, maybe in coming years. Ss is leader for many many years and until now nobody came even close. There is shutterstock and the rest fighting for second spot.

  for me FT earnings are only around 10% of SS.

FL would have to more than double to overtake SS for me.

Could be individually, but for me FT is still far behind. I do enjoy their nice commissions and higher RPD but I don't believe it will last too long (too good to be true )

First, they have to get past the Bigstock juggernaut. 

Two observations.

You have 600-ish images on SS and 1,000-ish on FT. It would be a more useful comparison if you had the same numbers on both.

You should check your spellings on images with words - It's laundry not laundery, sugar not suger (it has the word alert in there too which is why I assume it's supposed to be English) entrepreneur not entreprenour

FT ahead of SS in terms of sales has been my experience for the past 8 months. Right now (1/3 into the month of July) my sales in FT are almost twice my sales on SS. I have about the same number of images in both, around 400, all photos.

FT is about 20-25% of my SS earning, but it is going up.

There was a time SS was the undisputed leader for me.  No other site even came close.  Today, those times have come and gone.  For my situation, FT has been erratic.  Some months they exceed SS (in dollars because that's the ultimate bottom line for most of us).  Other times they fall quite a bit short.  Using the first 11 days of July as an example, and SS as my benchmark, FT is presently running about 1/3 of SS earnings.  Last month, they were about 10% higher.  Note I do have a smaller portfolio on FT as I've only been with them about a year.  As SS sales have been steadily coming down, other sites have been rising, in my case most notably Canva.  Since July 1, they are now better than 300% of SS sales and they typically outsell SS on a month-to-month basis.  And in this case I only have a portfolio roughly 25% the size of the one I have on SS.  Also beating SS this month has been 123RF.  However, this is an outlier, most likely due to a PEL sale and I expect total earnings to fall below SS by month's end.

As I said, this is only my experience and is likely unique to me.  The images I send to Canva are mostly tailored to their client base.  I usually send the same images to SS and other sites, but since no one else takes PNG images, these must all be submitted as isolated JPEG's.   Bottom line, if and until SS shakes off the typical lethargy that seems to come from going public, other sites with innovative ideas and approaches will continue to grow and nip at their heels until they inevitably overtake the leader.  Then it becomes a question of whether SS can rise like a Phoenix once again, or go the way of other sites before it into mediocrity and stagnation.

Also beating SS this month has been 123RF.  However, this is an outlier, most likely due to a PEL sale and I expect total earnings to fall below SS by month's end.

Yes, 123RF is the other major player on the rise.  Not too long ago I said they had crossed into Top Tier.  They will be the #3 agency before long. 

FT has been inching closer and closer to matching my earnings on SS. This month, it may actually surpass it. FT revenue is currently about 15% higher than SS for the month of July, but we're only a third into the month. I have a similar size portfolio on both websites.

I won't say that FT is going to be like that for everyone, because everyone has a different portfolio. For me, things are looking pretty even at the moment. Once I hit Emerald tier, I have no doubt it'll surpass SS.

Not too sure hitting emerald will result in any increase at all. I remember Lisa wrote something about once you get to that level the sort order will not be in your favour. I know as a Gold I was earning almost double of what I'm getting now and I am not the only one.

fotolia less than 10% of SS that sais everything


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Yeah, it says that you don't have the right kind of photos for FT customers.