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Summary:
Another good month with a BME. The biggest performer for me in July were 123RF moving from 0% to 5% and StockExpert, going to 4% after only two weeks of having my images and my folio accepted, and in terms of percentage of income (took me 3 months to get accepted by StockXpert).
Fotolia had a very slow start but did pick up in the last week of the month a bit, saving it some grace, while still not as good as July, in fact the only of my sites not to have a BME but not really surprising as most of images still don't come up via their search, despite playing with keyword orders (first 7) etc.
Dreamstime came in rock solid at 7%, same as previous month with ShutterStock dropping in terms of overall income from 71% to 66%. I'm rather happy with this as I didn't feel comfortable having such a high percentage of income with any one agency.
Overall a very solid month, with an overall performance that exceeded my expectations, given what I've heard about August and the US/Europe summer holidays. I've had my first EL on ShutterStock and best day there with 51 d/l while also having best days at iStock, Dreamstime, 123rf and StockExpert. Finally I've been shooting quite a lot and looking forward to September now.
Final Verdict:
Total BME: 44%
Total EL: 1 (ShutterStock)
New Images: 294
(Albumo, BigStock, Crestock, Canstock, Future Pics, Lucky Oliver, SnapVillage not tracked by percentage of sales)
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BDEs at IS (3x), FT, StockXpert, BigStock.
BMEs at IS, FT, BigStock.
Both IS and DT began to show signs of life in the last half of August, which made this month my best yet, but not by much. I'm looking forward to my income growth returning in the coming weeks.