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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: leaf on April 30, 2006, 06:10
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well i thought i would start this thread off even though it is a day early. I don't think much is going to happen in the next 12 hours.
I will wait until tommorow to post my %'s though.
otherwise april was a down a bit to what is was 'expected', however, it is to be expected (if that makes sense) with 5 weekends, only 30 days, and easter.
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Here is mine. I submitted the same 230 images to all sites, but of course each one accepted a different percentage. Featurepics did really well for me last month but this months sales are quite poor. I assume it is because a lot more people are submitting but the sales are not growing.
3% 123 Royalty Free
19% BigStockPhoto
16% Dreamstime
6% Featurepics
3% Fotolia
28% iStockPhoto
0% StockPhotoMedia
25% StockXpert
0% ScanStockPhoto
Mark
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are you not submitting to shutterstock yet?
stockxpert sure looks good there.
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I submitted my 10 images to shutterstock right off and I wasn't very careful with my selection. Only 6 passed and they require that 7 to pass to be accepted. So I'm waiting for my 3 months to pass before I can submit again. It should be sometime next month.
Mark
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boy that sucks.
I hope you pass next time. that three month thing is rathr brutal
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Dreamstime-17%
Istock-13%
Other-1%
Shutterstock-42%
Bigstock-6%
123 RF-5%
Fotolia-7%
StockXpert-8%
here you have my %'s for april. shutterstockis the big winner, then dreamstime then istock, then the rest fight for the crumbs.
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Istock: 7.82%
Shutterstock: 36.88%
Dreamstime: 26,71%
Fotolia: 18.49%
Featurepics: 6.84%
Stockxpert: 1.95%
Bigstock: 1.3%
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wow, fotolia did really well for you.
Did you sell many extended licesnes? I sold one for 10.00, but i mostly have them priced at $50.00. perhaps a little high.
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I think I've asked this before... What's the % figure you're quoting? Sales / # of images? I'll post mine when I get that straight in my head. :-).
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% of $ made in april
if i made $100 total in april
$60 on site A
$40 on site B
A: 60%
B: 40%
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I am not going to put percentages - (or should I say I am not going to work them out :) ) This was my first full month for some sites.
However, in terms of (future) income
1st Fotolia (income)
2nd Shutterstock (sales/income - close behind FT but with about 4 times as many sales to reach the same figure)
3rd Dreamstime (sales/ income)
4th Featurepics ( income)
5th Istockphoto (sales/ income)
6th 123rf (sales/ income)
7th Bigstock (sales/income - a whole 2 sales !! and a whole load of duff reasons for rejections this month - looked like they just wanted to get though the queue)
joint last - Canstock and Big White Box - no sales
I am just looking forward to the time when I can reach enough sales to get a payout 8)
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wow, fotolia did really well for you.
Did you sell many extended licesnes? I sold one for 10.00, but i mostly have them priced at $50.00. perhaps a little high.
Hi Leaf,
I think I had two extended licenses this month, my prices are mostly 10-20 Dollar for Extended licenses. Totally I had 4 Extended licences downloaded. Yes Fotolia did very well for me.., but you have to consider, that my earnings are not very good from SS, IS,DT in comparison to yours. I have only 116 Images on SS. So the Extended Licenses are boosting the Fotolia earnings. I never had one at SS.
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I think that it is too early for me to report earnings at this time (since I have only been at this for a little over a month).
But I find it extremely interesting that the earnings vary so drastically for each site between all of you.
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yeah, i find it interesting as well, that it varries. It has perhaps somewhat to do with how many images we have accepted at the different places. However, I think this is also valuable statisfic because if you produce an image, you will want the places that take the images... or i suppose make better images. However creating images that all the sites think are worth while is almost impossible.
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Istock - 56%
Shutter stock - 29%
DT - 15%
2 sales on 123rf, I've removed all my stuff from there... Thinking I might join another site this month... fotolia maybe.
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19% shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60535)
25% dreamtime (http://www.dreamstime.com/res125558)
11% fotolia (http://www.fotolia.co.uk/partner/39857)
10% istockphoto (http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php?refnum=Jakich)
6% bigstockphoto (http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=ip416bLuq1)
8% 123RF (http://www.123rf.com/src_cjphoto)
11% StockXpert (http://www.stockxpert.com/?ref=CJPHoto)
1% Canstock (http://www.canstockphoto.com?r=16626)
9% Featurepics
shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60535) was a disappointment but I didn't upload much to them this month. fotolia (http://www.fotolia.co.uk/partner/39857)is picking up as is istockphoto (http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php?refnum=Jakich). 123RF (http://www.123rf.com/src_cjphoto) and StockXpert (http://www.stockxpert.com/?ref=CJPHoto) and new this month and seem to be good additions due to lack of effort needed to upload. I am ready to give up on Canstock (http://www.canstockphoto.com?r=16626) but then got a DL (my only one to date) on the last day of the month.
dreamtime (http://www.dreamstime.com/res125558) is definately my best though and once all the old credits get used up, it should get even better. Wonder what this month has in store. My plan is to get a lot more shots uploaded ,especially to shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60535) as I am still only halfway to my first payout.
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Yeah that said about dreamstime is true. We should see a significant increase in earnings once those darn old credits get used up. Yesterday i think i had 50% of each.. old and new.