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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: steheap on April 30, 2012, 21:18
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A great month –April doesn’t normally outsell other months of the year,but this month I romped home with total sales of just over $1450 –a personal best. The month was helped by three sales on Alamy,for a total of $214,three video downloads on Pond5 for $75 and another great month on Shutterstock of $513. iStock recovered from a poor March to end with $271 compared to $235,and the other sites were OK if not at their best. That makes three sites with a best month ever earning total for April –Shutterstock,iStock and Alamy.
(http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Earnings-history.png)
(http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Earnings-per-site-Apr12.png)
(http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Files-per-site-Apr12.png)
More graphs on my blog as usual.
Steve
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Hi steve, is your earnings in alamy is the sales or the commissions? sometimes it gets exciting to see alamy sales but what the real earnings is only like 60% of it..
A great month –April doesn’t normally outsell other months of the year,but this month I romped home with total sales of just over $1450 –a personal best. The month was helped by three sales on Alamy,for a total of $214,three video downloads on Pond5 for $75 and another great month on Shutterstock of $513. iStock recovered from a poor March to end with $271 compared to $235,and the other sites were OK if not at their best. That makes three sites with a best month ever earning total for April –Shutterstock,iStock and Alamy.
([url]http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Earnings-history.png[/url])
([url]http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Earnings-per-site-Apr12.png[/url])
([url]http://www.backyardsilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Files-per-site-Apr12.png[/url])
More graphs on my blog as usual.
Steve
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Slightly better than March...
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Down 7% from March. Which, not coincidentally, is nearly my average decline from March to April over the past seven years (6%). On the other hand, April 2012 is up 54% from April 2011. I kinda like that.
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Not a great month overall for me - down about 20% from March.
IS:
Compared to March 12
-25%
Compared to April 11
+22%
Video:
SS: BME for video (though these stats are still pretty meaningless since I added about 55 of the 77 clips I have there at the end of March).
Pond 5: Worst month this year (but also based on really low numbers)
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SS down by 20% for me... hoping for good may
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Well since March blew my previous BME out of the water, and April is traditionally slower for me, I was expecting a big slump.
But pleasantly surprised! April became my second best month ever, down about 20% from March but a lot better than any other month this year.
Winners this month: SS, 123RF, Alamy.
Hope this positive trend continues.
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About 10% below average, down across the board. Possibly six weeks without uploading (all of March and the first fortnight of April) was an issue.
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-20% for me :(
but I haven't uploaded as much as in March
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4th BME in a row ;D
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4th BME in a row ;D
congrats! ;)
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-32% from last month with only 410 sales as an IS exclusive with over 4K photos.
:(
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4th BME in a row ;D
congrats! ;)
Tnx. I'll enjoy it while it lasts, because I know when my port will get into 4 digits and especially higher ones, I'll first see a slowdown, then my earnings will hit plateau and then start falling. It happened or is happening to most of the big timers, it's the law of nature...I mean business, this business.
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-32% from last month with only 410 sales as an IS exclusive with over 4K photos.
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Yup, read my previous post, it's inevitable. The sooner you'll accept it, the easier it will be for you. I'm already accepting it, in advance I mean, I won't be disappointed when it starts to happen to me. The only good thing is, I still have over 3k photos to go (but than again I'm still earning peanuts, compared to big timers)...
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^^^ I have no plan of "accepting" it.
You can if you wish.
I won't let one bad month spoil my plans.
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Hmmm... I've been surprised twice this morning.
I didn't think March was a BME, but I just added in the actual TS figures (rather than the previous estimate) and it turned out to be a BME after all.
As for April... it was lower than I'd thought. About 20% down from March overall.
Top four were:
1. Shutterstock (as ever On par with last month)
2. iStock (down about 40% on March. Argh.)
3. 123RF (up from March. Steady performer)
4. DT (on par with last month)
FT continues to perform poorly for me, so I've come to expect little there, but was shocked to see it down a further 50% from March. FT took 7th place for me this month.
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IS Exclusive
18% down on March but still almost double April 2011
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It has been BME on all months since I started as a contributor 1.5 years ago. I have just around 250+ images in SS, so I think I can enjoy this trend for a few more months. My april has just been marginally better than march. Hope may will be much better!
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I sell motion graphics only. My April's earnings on most stocks continue to trend downward.
EditableClips and Shutterstock are kind exceptions.
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About 30% less than March. Down at all sites except DP, which has had a BME for the past three months. Hopefully it will end up being the worst month of the year.
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@ Tyler (if you're around)...
Are we going to see a return of the red/green arrows? I do miss seeing an easy visual representation of how the group is doing, as it's interesting to weigh that up against my own stats.
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Interesting so many people are down around 20% from March. I'm down 19% too, so it seems to be the norm (except for Wut - congratulations!). Also down 5% from April 2011, which is discouraging. Once PP sales are added I should be just about even with last year though.
What's really worrying is the way both IS and FT have fallen off the map for me. The downward spiral seems to be continuing and possibly even accelerating at both sites.
Hope that SS and DT will continue to deliver.
If not for good performing newer sites like PhotoDune and Depositphoto things would be even worse.
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Tnx Lisa, I'm going to enjoy it, while it lasts :)
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I had a BME, SS had a BME. Still don't know what those $16 single image sales are for but I like them. Very good month at DT also, but this last search change looks like it will be worse than terrible for me.
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IS exclusive.
By count: -11% from March, -16% from April 2011. Portfolio size increased 5% from March and 38% from April 2011 (busy, busy!).
By $: -10% from March, +17% from April 2011 (due mostly to the XS price increase, I believe -- I get a LOT of XS sales, though now that mine are FOUR TIMES the price of independent files, I bet the number will decrease even more drastically).
The writing on the wall is obscene.
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Overall down 9% from March and 11% up from last April.
(this is in dollars, euros was more favorable this month).
SS, 123rf, Fotolia and Canstock did really well, BME at Canstock and 123rf.
Istock, GLO and DST were very bad. Istock 60% below BME, DST 20% below April 2011.
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(due mostly to the XS price increase, I believe -- I get a LOT of XS sales, though now that mine are FOUR TIMES the price of independent files, I bet the number will decrease even more drastically).
Weren't they just bumped up from 2 to 3 cr? :o I wish they bumped up the price of independent XS DLs to 2 cr and match the P+ prices (why don't they, they should be equal to excl. prices). That would benefit us both. Well unless my sales double because of that, but I really doubt that
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It was a good month for me. Only slightly less than last month. Kind of surprised how low SS was though. They are usually pretty constant.
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It was a good month for me. Only slightly less than last month. Kind of surprised how low SS was though. They are usually pretty constant.
I've concluded it's just me and some images I uploaded within the last six months. Double the earnings of 2011 for another month, on SS. Used to be IS and SS ran 50/50 for me. I don't pay attention to BS or ThinkStock. Now SS is twice IS month after month. No complaints, except that Chipotle fish image, and T-bone on the grill close-up, that both of them refused. Good thing I eat my subjects. (No, NOT like Hannibal Lecter!)
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I was happy with April for a number of reasons. First was that (even without the IS PP sales for April) I beat my April 2011 sales by a little (I was exclusive then). It is the first time my indie income has topped the prior year's exclusive (returned to being indie last June).
April was flat with March (which is good) and will inch ahead a bit when the IS partner program sales come in. IS did really well in March and April - compared to the prior dismal months. DT tanked (25% down on March), SS was essentially the same as March (2% down). Veer and PhotoDune had decent months; CanStock and BigStock are so lame that added together they're less than either Veer or PhotoDune. 123rf was OK - downloads up 7% but income down 18%. Pixmac is a dribble (but I only have 400 or so files there as they don't appear to be worth uploading to).
Now if IS would just fix the partner program connector (I still only have 1K files moved over and if I'm stuck with it, I'd rather have all my files there), things there will be cool until the next best match lurch reduces my sales to Pixmac levels :)
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April is down about 12% for me compared to March 2012. It was better than 2011 though.
SS was good and DT was decent (about half the sales but much better RPD).
The biggest drop was from Veer that had been quite good the last 2 months w/ multiple ELs but nothing this month.
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9% down from the March 2012.
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A month of two halves, the first half being truly awful at iStock. Wk 2 was my second worst month, since my current stats began in Jan '08. Wk 4 was my second best week of the year.
Compared to April '11, $$12% down (totally accounted for by ELs) and dls down 5%.
Worst month of the year so far, which is usual, but not by as large a margin.
Compared to March 2012: $$ down almost 20%; dls down almost 40%.
Scarier still: only 1 XS dl so far today. :(
Totally the opposite on Alamy, where I had 4 reasonable (non newspaper) sales by 11th April, then nada.
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Hi steve, is your earnings in alamy is the sales or the commissions? sometimes it gets exciting to see alamy sales but what the real earnings is only like 60% of it..
Quote from: steheap on Yesterday at 21:18
A great month –April doesn’t normally outsell other months of the year,but this month I romped home with total sales of just over $1450 –a personal best. The month was helped by three sales on Alamy,for a total of $214,three video downloads on Pond5 for $75 and another great month on Shutterstock of $513. iStock recovered from a poor March to end with $271 compared to $235,and the other sites were OK if not at their best. That makes three sites with a best month ever earning total for April –Shutterstock,iStock and Alamy.
The Alamy number was the net amount - I had two images with Alamy commission and one with a distributor thrown in there as well. So the $214 was what ended up in my pocket.
Steve
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On the micro front, April was up but mostly because March was a down month for me, with Shutterstock as my best earner in March but at only 50% of my average for the several months before that and way down elsewhere too. April earnings at Shutterstock were almost identical to March :( at about half what I usually earn despite adding some new images for a change. More discouraging, although I saw an uptick elsewhere, SS was still my top earner among the micros. Across the board agencies sales were way below normal, except at Alamy, the one bright spot.
Not my BME at Alamy but a decent month thanks to full-priced licensing. A single sale at Alamy was enough to net me more than twice what all other sites did combined - a nice change as my sales there were for micro prices rather than macro for the first few months of the year, after a very good late 2011. Wish the polls would include Alamy - I think we're aware that we should include just our commissions there, not the full license amount. IMHO it's interesting to compare how a midstock site that is easily open to most microstockers does compared to the high-volume sites such as shutterstock, dreamstime, etc.
Sales of my stock photos made on my own beat out sales from all agencies combined, so ended up a BME for stock sales thanks to that.
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For me, April 2012 was...
down 9% from March 2012
up 58% from April 2011
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april down 20% from march 2012 but march 2012 was 2nd BME and april was 5th BME over 4 years, so nothing to be concerned about
april 2012 up 10% over apr 2011
SS was 3rd BME in april, after march as BME
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Overal +20% more earnings (4th BME in a row) ;D ;D ;D
The pie slices:
SS - 70% by far, faaar my best earning agency.
DT - 10% ( -15% les than last month) DT is slowly gowing down :-[
FT - 12% Normal month
123RF - 8% (+30% compared with previous month) :)
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For me, April 2012 was...
down 9% from March 2012
up 58% from April 2011
Sounds awesome for someone who's at top level
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Down about 20% from March... consistent with most years.
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Down 27% compared to last month, and only 2% up from April 2011. My four best are: Shutterstock, Zazzle, DepositPhotos, Dreamstime
See full statistic at http://microstockinfos.blogspot.com/2012/05/stock-photography-sales-statistic-april.html (http://microstockinfos.blogspot.com/2012/05/stock-photography-sales-statistic-april.html)
You can find a complete list of stock photography agencies (http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html) that I work with here (http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html).
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u97/hlehnerer/SalesStat/201204px590.jpg)
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u97/hlehnerer/SalesStat/201204Timeline590.jpg)
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u97/hlehnerer/SalesStat/201204total590.jpg)
(This statistic include referral earning at the different agencies)
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- 4th BME in a row (Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1341$, Apr 1405$)
- from April 2011 +218%
- 3 years of stock
- 2 months away from the 10k $ at SS (since June 2009)
SS 37% (34%) (4EL)
IS 14% (16%) (1EL)
FT 7% (8%) (1 EL)
Z 7% (5%) (BME)
ISIGN 5% (6%)
DT 5% (4%) (very close to BME, higher RPD but less sales (from all time 0.84$ to 1.31$))
123RF 4% (8%) (- 46% from last month, very unusual)
72%
XX 3%, XY 3%, ALAMY 2% (BME), DP 2%, PD 1%, CanStockPhoto 1%, V 1%, YAY 1%, FP 1%
15%
OTHER 13%
(14 agencies all below 1% each)