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Agency Based Discussion => General - Top Sites => Topic started by: fintastique on September 30, 2007, 16:35

Title: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: fintastique on September 30, 2007, 16:35

Updated only real change was StockXpert climbed to 3rd place

SS (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60395)  46.7%
DT (http://www.dreamstime.com/resp129469)  15.6%


StockXpert   8.5% BME  ;D
FT  (http://en.fotolia.com/partner/38701)     8.4%
123 (http://www.123rf.com/src_fintastique)   6.7% BME  ;D
BS (http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=doyu49fkgQ)     6.3%
IS  (http://www.istockphoto.com/fintastique)      5.9%

FP (http://www.featurepics.com/Authors/Images.aspx?id=390)      1.4%
CanStockPhoto    0.3%
SPM    0.1%

A couple of Sales at Alamy made it the BME ever overall.

SS every month this year have provided between 40-50% of my income so nothing new there.

BME at 123 was helped by an extended license sale

 

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: leaf on September 30, 2007, 16:37

wow, shutterstock sure took a piece of the pie.
my stats will come tommorow.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: ikostudio on September 30, 2007, 16:52

Ho Yes! Another record month to me to... :)

SS   26,96%  BME  ;D
SX   25,16%  BME  ;D

IS    13,71%

FT    13,32%   BME  ;D
DT      9,89%  BME  ;D  

123rf  8,18%  

BS      1,35%  BME   ;D
CS      0,90%
LO      0,54% 

Every month it’s a competition with SS and SX but SS always win.

I really like SX but I am afraid of the subscription option to the buyers, well he have to wait and see what’s happen.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: dbvirago on September 30, 2007, 17:36

Sept. Another BME by 18%, mostly thanks to 123 and LO.

1   123  23%  + 175%  BME by a lot. Nice surprise. ELs
2   SS    19%   - 21%   Another disappointing month
3   LO   14%   + 120% BME easy. Another nice one. More ELs
4   IS    13%   + 10%   BME. A steady performer
5   BS     9%   - 18%    Down, but still not bad for BS
6  DT      9%    +9%     Up, but disappointing for a former steady 2nd place
7  FT       5%    - 18%   The most erratic site. All over the place this year
8  SX      4%     +/-       Dead even. Never varies much, so as my total grows the % shrinks
9  CS      2%     -14%   Always an also ran. Used only for keyword help
10 FP      2%    +20%  BME. Wish they would do better.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: sbonk on September 30, 2007, 19:10

IS - 27%
SS - 21%
XP - 19%
FT - 12%
DT - 9%
BS - 6%
123 - 5%
other - 1%

First time for me that SS has dropped out of the lead.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Mellimage on September 30, 2007, 21:46

Overall September was BME, helped by two ELs (one at FT, one at SS), income went up by 20% overall.

Here is the breakdown:
SS: 41.1% (BME)
FT: 30.0% (BME)
IS: 26.2%
DT: 2.7% (just joined)
LO: 0.0%

August performance at IS had spoiled me, so this months performance was a bit of a let down, just my 3rd best month overall (given that I am still fairly new).
FT was my best month only income wise, number of sales are still way below what they were in my BME (March). Still it gave some hope after a not so good summer there.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: maco0708 on September 30, 2007, 22:53

Overall BME:

IS: 50% (BME)
SS: 31% (BME)
FT: 8%
BS: 6%
DT: 5%  (down 60% from August, I have no idea what happened)

Overall I am quite happy, especially since I broke the $500 at SS and got the raise (finally).

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: ozbandit on September 30, 2007, 23:07

(http://www.meder.net/images/Sep07stat.gif)

September 07 was an interesting month for me. ShutterStock had it's first time ever drop in growth of -10% and it was only for the high growth of my iStock sales that I scrapped in with a +19% BME (which has also been my lowest BME since I commenced with microstock back in May 07). Fotolia continued its slippery fall while 123RF, DT and SXE all had moderately decent sales months and growth.

To be honest I was expecting September to be better as according to what I read this was the month that most people usually experience the biggest growth in sales. For me this thus far remains August where I had a BME of +44%.

However having said that I am glad that iStock took up the slack and helped me get over mark.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Peter on September 30, 2007, 23:37

All I can say this was record month for me. I only have images on Fotolia so far. I earned 400% more than in august. And since I am only here since May 2007, I can say I earned more in september than in may, june, july and august all thogether! I hope october will be such as good, if not better! :)

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Fortunefame on October 01, 2007, 00:32

      % growth   $ / DL   % total rev
Dreamstime   46,6%   $1,09   14,1%
Shutterstock   146%   $0,31   39,8%
Istock      109,3%   $0,73   14,2%
123RF      41,6%   $0,53   12,8%
Fotolia      25,9%   $0,85   15,8%
BigStockPhoto   -47,1%   $0,82   3,3%

Total      65,4%   $0,48   100,0%

BME everrrrrrrrr

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: fotografer on October 01, 2007, 01:20

Haven't done % yet but istock is way down. 
It's usually level with SS but have made 50% more on SS this month than IS. 
Everyone but IStock is up on last month.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: bjorn on October 01, 2007, 02:00

% earnings per agent


Istock           38.78%
Dreamstime    23.64%
Fotolia            6.07%
StockXpert    27.58%
BigStock        3.94%  (only 10% of portfolio uploaded)

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Freezingpictures on October 01, 2007, 02:07

1st   iStockphoto:   31,66% Growth +33,3% BME For the first time No1
2nd  Shutterstock:  26,98% Growth -12%     No1 place lost to IS
3rd   Stockxpert:     11,78% Growth -21%  Good month, last month was so good, because two Els = 75$
4th  Dreamstime:    10,7%  Growth +33,3% Good growth this month, but totaly only 4th place despite biggest portfolio BME
5th  Panthermedia:  9,28% Growth +720% Last month was really low, this month second best ever
6th  Fotolia:             7,85% Growth +26%  BME  
7th 123RF:              0,82%  Growth +11%
8th Bigstockphoto:  0,77% Growth +150% Still cannot understand why this is such a low earner for me however second best month ever
9th Crestock: 0,08% Started to contribute this month 3 sales so far with only 11 images online! BME
10th LuckyOliver:    0,03%  Growth -90% Just one image sold.. I am sorry about LO, its one of the agencies I wish will succeed

Total Growth 17% to last month and 3% to prior BME so this is my BME

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Perrush on October 01, 2007, 04:27

1) SS / 38% / +10% / BME
2) IS / 30% / +35% / BME
3) DT / 12% / +17% / BME
4) StockXpert / 10% / 1 month
5) FT / 6% / -20% (but last month I had 6 EL at FT)
6) BigStock / 2% / +0%

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: DigitumDei on October 01, 2007, 05:18

First time I'm posting these stats. I don't have a huge portfolio (all around 70 images).

As usual IS was over half of my income, and for the first time since I started last year, DT had no sales.

IS    64% (65 images)
SS   18% (70 images)
StockXpert    19% (79 images)
DT      0% (77 images)

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: sharply_done on October 01, 2007, 05:28

SS IS DT FT StockXpert BigStock

YTD 43% 33% 11% 8% 4% 1%

Sep 35% 37% 9% 12% 5% 2%

Aug 37% 35% 12% 8% 6% 2%

Jul 40% 33% 10% 8% 8% -

Jun 36% 34% 14% 9% 7% -

May 45% 33% 10% 7% 5% -

Apr 48% 33% 12% 7% - -

Mar 51% 31% 13% 5% - -

Feb 64% 22% 8% 6% - -

Jan 63% 29% 5% 3% - -

(http://www.strathdee.net/temp/sales-sep07.jpg)

BME for IS, FT & BigStock. Sales on IS exceeded SS for the first time - I hope this trend continues. This was my best month so far, but one that fell short of expectations.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: lathspell on October 01, 2007, 08:55

As a little test I forced myself to not upload anything in September (ok, I gave up at the end around Sept 27 ... :)). As projected SS royalties dropped significantly (~75% of August), DT kept quite stable, IS lost ~12% both in DLs and $.

StockXpert was the absolute loser of the month - WME there, 60% of DLs and 30%(!) of royalties compared to August which is actually less than what I got in April, my very first (and even incomplete) month there.

From the total results the following companies made:
IS: ~38%
SS: ~11%
DT: ~8%
StockXpert: ~4%

Total number of DLs from these 4 sites: ~600. And the missing 39% royalties came from 15 DLs at two local and not-so-micro-stock sites. :) That's why I will never go exclusive anywhere.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: dbvirago on October 01, 2007, 09:21

A lot of posts where SS is no longer in 1st place and/or had negative growth for the month.  Interesting

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: lathspell on October 01, 2007, 10:06

Quote from: dbvirago on October 01, 2007, 09:21

A lot of posts where SS is no longer in 1st place

For me SS has never been in the 1st place, not even close to it. Though my IS and SS portfolios are about the same size (~300 pictures) SS never made more than 60% of IS's $. And in a typical month SS is bringing ~40% of IS.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: manwolste on October 01, 2007, 10:24

September = BME
Portfolio size IS/SS = 220+/240+

iStock                  41,6 % (BME)
Shutterstock         34,9% (BME, 1 EL)
Dreamstime            9,6%
Stockxpert             9,3% (BME)
BigStock                2,4%
123rf                     2,0%

Shutterstock September revenue was BME after 2 month of decline - but  still not enough to challenge iStock.

LO - not a singe dl, this site is dead for me, no more uploads.

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: ludesal on October 01, 2007, 10:33

Is - 55% - BME
SS - 33,6% - BME
StockXpert - 5,9 %
DT - 5,5 %

BME!!!!  ;D

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: Kngkyle on October 01, 2007, 10:39

Site - Sales % - Portfolio Size

SS - 51% - 232
StockXpert - 15% - 179
DT - 15% - 151
FT - 11% - 217
BigStock - 8% - 139 BME
LO - 0% - 98

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: mattb on October 01, 2007, 13:49

Very strange month for me. BME overall, thanks to a couple of EL's on FT, but almost all the other sites did about the same.

FT   33%
SS   15%
IS   14%
DT   13%
BS   10%
StockXpert   10%
123rf   3%

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: MicrostockExp on October 01, 2007, 14:47

BME (+11%)

SS 51 % (-2.7)
FT 20 % (-12.1) >:(
DT 14 % (+200)  ;D
IS 8% (+18.3)  ;D
123RF 7% (+337)

Few sales on CT and StockXpert
LO,BigStock,CanStockPhoto,FP nada :(

More details on my blog !

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: madelaide on October 01, 2007, 14:51

My 2007 numbers until August:

Site	2007	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep
IS	25%	32%	35%	25%	27%	29%	28%	20%	29%	22%
DT	18%	13%	18%	23%	15%	19%	20%	14%	15%	13%
FT	16%	18%	11%	10%	16%	9%	16%	30%	11%	14%
StockXpert	16%	15%	14%	15%	9%	25%	17%	19%	20%	25%
BigStock	8%	7%	2%	9%	4%	7%	9%	6%	10%	13%
CanStockPhoto	3%	4%	6%	1%	2%	3%	1%	<1%	3%	2%
123	4%	4%	3%	4%	3%	4%	7%	2%	2%	4%
FP	4%	5%	<1%	14%	2%	0%	0%	1%	5%	2%
LO	2%	1%	2%	3%	1.5%	2%	1%	6%	3%	0%
IV	3%	0%	7%	0%	19%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Scan	1%	0%	<1%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	3%	3%
CS	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	1%	2%	<1%	<1%	2%	<1%

Overall earnings are 10% above August, but 11% below July.

BME at StockXpert, 2nd best at BigStock.  IS and DT were more or less stable, FT was better than Aug but still far from BME in July - I miss those EL's!

Stable low earnings in CanStockPhoto, Scan, CS and FP.  First month this year without sales at LO.

Regards,
Adelaide

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: beisea on October 01, 2007, 18:18

For me,  here is the result:

1. SS   39.15%
2. DT   19.94%
3. IS    18.48%
4. BigStock   9.57%
5. StockXpert   7.68%
6. FT

Title: Re: September 2007 Earnings breakdown
Post by: beisea on October 01, 2007, 18:20

Sorry forgot FT, which is 5.17%

so not that exciting,  a year ago, when I have 50% less images, still have similar results, so now uploading is a way just try to stay level:(