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Agency Based Discussion => General - Top Sites => Topic started by: fintastique on January 31, 2008, 14:37
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These are the final figures for January
SS (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60395) 43.1%
DT (http://www.dreamstime.com/resp129469) 15.8% BME
FT (http://en.fotolia.com/partner/38701) 9.6%
BS (http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=doyu49fkgQ) 9.4% BME
StockXpert 7.4%
123 (http://www.123rf.com/src_fintastique) 6.3% BME
iS 6.1%
FP (http://www.featurepics.com/Authors/Images.aspx?id=390) 1.8% BME
CanStockPhoto 0.1%
2nd best month so far for micro earnings
October 2007 still the best it was a very good month at SS.
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SS 37%
up 10% from December
down 18% from BME in June
IS 17%
up 12% from December
down 54% from BME in March
DT 14% BME 1 EL
up 30% from December
up 9% from BME in June
FT 11%
down 4% from December
down 15% from BME in September
StockXpert 8%
down 30% from December
down 34% from BME in April
BigStock 5%
up 42% from December
down 22% from BME in March
LO 4% 1 EL
up 100% from December
down 29% from BME in July
123RF 4%
down 20% from December
down 36% from BME in November
These percentages could change with 123RF making a dramatic increase, because I have three EL sales that mysteriously went missing.
I'm also with FP and CanStockPhoto, but the earnings are so minuscule that I don't track them. Only sites that gross $50+ (the average monthly payout) at least every other month are tracked.
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Hi
IS 47% BME
SS 20% (last than 65% of my BME)
DT 11% (average)
123 6% BME
FT 4% (picked up this week)
BigStock 4% BME
StockXpert 3% (picked up this week)
CRE 1% (down)
ALB 1% (paid uploads)
FP .7% (BME by $2)
CAN .7% (down)
LO .2% (down)
Istock was up heaps, reached 59% 2 weeks ago, but the others have picked up since.
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IS 51% (BME, Up over triple from Dec)
SS 33% (BME, Up almost double due to EL)
FT 7% (BME, Up by 25%)
DT 4% (Down by over half)
StockXpert 2% (BME, Up almost double)
BigStock 1% (Down by half)
123RF 1% (Up by 50%)
SV 2% (Up by Double)
LO <1% (Dying)
AB 0% (Dead)
FP 0% (Dead)
Jan 08 is BME by almost double driven mostly by Istock. Istock is absolutely rocking. SS is doing very well. FT is growing slowly. StockXpert is finally waking up. The rest I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth my time uploading to anymore.
EDIT: A couple of late corrections after more sales
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IS 51% (BME, Up almost double)
SS 33% (BME, Up almost double due to EL)
FT 6% (BME, Up by 10%)
DT 4% (Down by over half)
StockXpert 2% (BME, Up almost double)
BigStock 1% (Down by half)
123RF 1% (Up by 50%)
SV 2% (Up by Double)
LO <1% (Dying)
AB 0% (Dead)
FP 0% (Dead)
Istock is absolutely rocking. SS is doing very well. FT is growing slowly. StockXpert is finally waking up. The rest I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth my time uploading to anymore.
I am thinking the same that except SS, IS, FT, StockXpert , 123rf and DT uploading to other sites is a waist of time for me.
SS 60%
the rest: IS, FT, StockXpert , 123rf and DT.
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IS 34% (BME)
FT 25% (BME)
SS 19% (average)
StockXpert 09% (slower)
DT 07% (average)
BS 04% (BME)
123 02% (average)
IS Rules ;D
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Jan=BME (+ 10% compared to previous BME=Nov 07)
300+ images
iStock 45,9% (BME)
shutterstock 15,5%
digitalstock.de 12,5%(BME, German site)
panthermedia 7,9% (BME)
dreamstime 7,7%
stockxpert 7,1%
other (bs,ft,123rf) 3,2%
As said by Nazdravie: "istock is absolutely rocking"!!!
Very disappointing results and declines at dreamstime, stockxpert, shutterstock.
Surprising good resuls at digitalstock and panthermedia despite low number of uploads (so far <90 images).
Results are something to think about regarding future upload strategies...(see also thread "are things going well in microstock")
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Here are my figures:
SS: 32% (down from 48% Jan 07)
IS: 18%
DT: 18%
FT: 12% (BME)
StockXpert: 5%
BS: 4%
Scanstock: 3% (BME)
123: 2%
CreS: 2%
FP: 1%
LO: 1% (BME)
SV: 1% (BME)
Totally, I'm up 69% from last year, SS went up 15%, the total of the others went up 116%.
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IS 30,5%
SS 20,75%
Panthermedia 12,3% (Sales notifications I got in January, are actually sales of December)
DT 7,96%
Ft 7,75%
Alamy 7,29%
StockXpert 6,86% (really bad month for StockXpert, even slower than in December..) :(
Energyonline 4,25%
123RF 1,47%
BS 0,44%
LO 0,38%
SP 0,06% :)
BME ever but unusual poor month for StockXpert and Fotolia. Looking forward to Feburary.
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My third BME. It was a good month for me with FT and BigStock.
SS 38.48%
is 21.23%
FT 11.40% BME
StockXpert 8.08%
BigStock 7.03% BME
DT 6.30%
123 2.57%
Crest 1.83%
Most 1.77%
LO 1.31%
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Overall a BME, even though it didn't look like that at the beginning of the month. Overall my earnings increased by 36% compared to December 07. Today marks my 1st anniversary of being in microstock - so I do not have any comparative data to years before. But the increase is right about where Yuri predicted it to be. ;)
SS 35,0% (BME helped by one EL)
FT 29,0% (BME)
IS 27,1% (a little disappointing, number of downloads was a 3rd less than in December, income was better though)
DT 8,4% (BME - but I am still building my portfolio over there)
LO 0,5% (after 4 months of not selling anything - I just had another sale - but I wonder if it is worth uploading - the return for uploading at DT is much better).
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IS 36% (BME)
SS 31%
FT 9%
DT 9% (Down by half)
StockXpert 6%
BigStock 5%
123RF 3%
Unluckies 1% (LO, crestock, FP...)
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BME on all 3 sites:
FT 60%
SS 36%
DT 4%
My prediction for next month:
FT 45%
SS 45%
DT 10%
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hey all
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE :) (http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?action=pollsvote)
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I have not voted yet, but will, I tried this time to vote more than on just earnings, but this will not work somehow with Internet Explorer. So I will wait until I have time to do it on the other computer with another browser. Maybe you can fix this?
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ahh, thanks for letting me know. i will see if i can get that fixed.
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FT 27% (unbelievable BME)
SS 20% (Up)
IS 15% (Up)
DT 12% (Up)
StockXpert 11% (Down, almost half what I got in november)
BigStock 6% (BME)
123rf 4% (Up)
Scanstock 1% (up)
Crestock 1% (down)
LuckOliver 0% (down)
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My first month reporting :)
Dollar Wise:
DT = 46.86% (6sales) BME
123rf = 38.55% (4sales) BME
FT = 14.59% (2sales) BME
BigStock = 0.00% Down from 1 sale last month
FP = 0.00% Pricing set to $6.00 w/ resize
CS = 0.00% Stopped Uploading
Alb = 0.00% Stopped Uploading
Mark
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SS - 38% (up)
IS - 14% (up)
DT - 14% BME (up)
StockXpert - 12% (down)
FT - 9% (up)
CS - 7% BME (way up, like 300%)
BigStock - 5% BME (up)
Not Included due to poor sales:
LuckyOliver, Featurepics, Canstockphoto, & Snapvillage.
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I hit my goal of $200 in January! :) It was a fantastic comeback after the slow holiday start.
Total $200.86
Shutterstock 45% BME
iStockPhoto 21%
Dreamstime 11% BME
Fotolia 10% BME
BigStock 7%
StockXpert 4%
123RF 2%
LuckyOliver 0.1%
FeaturePics 0%
Shutterstock earnings were driven by a massive upload campaign on my part. I added 65 images to my portfolio in January. It is not likely I will add nearly as many in February, so I expect earnings to take a substantial hit.
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Congrats DanP68 for the $200 :) I was $ 4 away ....
Here are my stats
BME (+ 8 %) + 20 % with midstock
SS % (-22%) >:(
FT % (+32%) ;D
IS % (+128%) ;D BME
DT % (-19%) >:(
123RF % (+83%) ;D BME
StockXpert % (+46) ;D BME
and more stats on my blog here
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/
L
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So close, Ldambies, so close! February is the month you break through.
Honestly if you would have asked me a few days ago, I would have said I would finish around $196-$197. It took a lot of sales the last 2 days to get past $200.
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Yes the last days were pretty good, hope I will have more midstock sales new month to break this $200 :)
Time for you to work on the $ 300 then:)
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Here are mine:
SS : 85,26%
Dreamstime : 5%
Fotolia : 2,57%
Stock expert : 5,60%
123rf : 1,57%
I only wish SS wasn't that important for me, i'm now working to put more of my portfolio on the other sites (1000 to go for dreamstime, with 700 or so allready uploaded in january, so i hope that will have some effect for february and Fotolia.. pfft .. lagging behind some 1700 images.. i really need more hours in a day :-) )
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mine:
IS: 31.8% (BME)
SS: 31%
FT: 12.25%
DT: 11.4%
123RF: 5.23%
Stockexp: 4.45%
BigStock: 2.93%
Crestock: 0.48%
LO: 0.45%
SS down by 40% since 2 months
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Yes the last days were pretty good, hope I will have more midstock sales new month to break this $200 :)
Time for you to work on the $ 300 then:)
Can I join the race to 300$ ? ;)
I made the 200$ goal as ldambies expected.
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Simply my best month...
Close whit december who was not so bad as I was expecting first.
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I had a pretty good month at IS, best month in about 12. With referral earnings it was a BME for me. DT and SS limped along in 2nd place pretty much doing the same as the previous few months despite adding many new images over the past couple of months. When I get to 2500 downloads at IS, I'm going to seriously take a look at exclusivity...
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Jan=BME (+ 10% compared to previous BME=Nov 07)
300+ images
iStock 45,9% (BME)
shutterstock 15,5%
digitalstock.de 12,5%(BME, German site)
panthermedia 7,9% (BME)
dreamstime 7,7%
stockxpert 7,1%
other (bs,ft,123rf) 3,2%
As said by Nazdravie: "istock is absolutely rocking"!!!
Very disappointing results and declines at dreamstime, stockxpert, shutterstock.
Surprising good resuls at digitalstock and panthermedia despite low number of uploads (so far <90 images).
Results are something to think about regarding future upload strategies...(see also thread "are things going well in microstock")
I will add my numbers regarding site efficiency here, because I realized that they are important for me regarding future upload strategy.
RPI (monthly return per image in portfolio)
panthermedia 1,3
digitalstock 1,05
IS 0,99
SS 0,35
StockXpert 0,17
DT 0,12
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I have posted my numbers from the second month in microstock:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080201005222/index.html
My portfolio is still too small to make any statistically significant conclusions, but it may be of some interest for somebody just starting or thinking about it.
Encouraging results from iStock, disappointing from everywhere else ...
Marek
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Ok DanP68 and Mellimage let's go this month for the $300 race
Anyone is welcome to join ;D
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IS 36%
SS 26%
DT 17%
FT 8%
StockXpert 7%
BS 5%
The interesting thing is the big gap in January between IS and SS. They were pretty much level last year with 30% each, and finished the year only a few dollars apart. A fluke of the best match? Will it continue? Who knows ;D
And why do some people do so well on FT, while it really drags for others? Any ideas?
Linda
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some do well on FT if they arrange keywords properly, and if their portfolio matches FT needs more closely. I can't think of other reasons.
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Also a very good month for me. BME on all sites except BS. Breakdown is:
SS - 42%
IS - 41%
DT - 10%
FL - 5%
BS - 1.8%
Canstock - 0%
Snapvilliage - 0%
Anyone up for a race to $1k per month?? This month has me at 65% of the way to that goal...
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Also a very good month for me. BME on all sites except BS. Breakdown is:
SS - 42%
IS - 41%
DT - 10%
FL - 5%
BS - 1.8%
Canstock - 0%
Snapvilliage - 0%
Anyone up for a race to $1k per month?? This month has me at 65% of the way to that goal...
Just for the fun of it: I join for the $1k race: 70% of it in January.
BTW: great travel images!
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Here are my stats for January:
IS - 56%
SS - 17%
DT - 15%
FT - 12%
I reached a major milestone this month. It was the first month that I broke the $1,000 per month mark! I'm so excited!! ;D
I have to admit, seeing how much of my earnings come from istock and the fact that I'll be at gold in a few weeks, I'm seriously considering going exclusive. Granted, I'm tied down for the next few months at DT >:( which will give me plenty of time to think it over more but it could be in my future.
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My January 2008 numbers, with 2007 for comparison:
| Site | 2007 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| IS | 26% | 22% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| DT | 16% | 30% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| StockXpert | 20% | 19% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| FT | 13% | 8% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| BigStock | 8% | 8% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 123 | 4% | 5% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| FP | 3% | 2% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| CanStockPhoto | 2% | 1% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| LO | 2% | 3% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Scan | 1% | 0% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| CS | <1% | 0% | | | | | | | | | | | |
| rest | 4% | 3% | | | | | | | | | | | |
Overall earnings were 36% above December and 5% below November, and my 4th best month in the past 12 months.
DT had an excellent performance - my BME there. Even without the EL I had (my first there), it would have been my 2nd BME. IS was a bit better than in Dec, StockXpert a bit worse (with subs sales picking up a bit).
FT recovered a bit after a very poor December, but BigStock was ahead of it for very little (almost 50%), now my 5th earner. 2nd BME in 123RF, though still a low performer for me. Good month in LO, but stil very low. Low sales in CanStockPhoto, no sales in CS and Scanstock (the latter was a sad surprise). I stopped recording IV here because of no sales in months.
Not shown above, I had one sale in StockPhotoMedia and one in Paxxion.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Adelaide,
If you don't mind me asking, are you still trying to get into shutterstock since I didn't see it in your stats?
If so what application are you on? I will be soon submitting my fourth application. This will be the first time that I downsize my images to 4mp as suggested ...
Mark
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Mark,
I never tried SS because it's subs only.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Yes the last days were pretty good, hope I will have more midstock sales new month to break this $200 :)
Time for you to work on the $ 300 then:)
Can I join the race to 300$ ? ;)
I made the 200$ goal as ldambies expected.
Ok Ldambies and Mellimage! You're on! 8)
I'll take a guess that I will get there in either May or June. But we'll see. I didn't see $200 coming in January.