How was your August? I reached my BME today at IS, SS is currently 18% down from July with a day to go (unless I get an EL it's going to be approximately 14% down when the month ends), BME at DT, FT is 20% down compared to July, 123RF could be leveled in the next 24h, it's currently 5% down. SS earnings are mainly down due to absurd 80%+ rejections (stuff got accepted everywhere at 90% approval rate, mostly at 100%) and OD earnings that were split in half compared to not only July, but also months from Apr-Jun.

Congrats!  My August still has another day left in it, so I will hold off posting stats until  Thursday

Still have 1 day left.
Patience!

My impression is that August is better than July.
But I will wait until tomorrow before doing statistics.

August 2010 was not so good. Don't know about this one yet as it hasn't finished.

Quote from: lisafx on August 30, 2011, 23:11
Congrats!  My August still has another day left in it, so I will hold off posting stats until  Thursday

I couldn't wait, it's not gonna change much in my case, only SS could noticeably improve with an EL and a few extra ODs. I rarely get ELs at other sites...

I'm still pretty new to this game, so every month is my new BME. August has been very good to me, now I'm looking forward to September.

The month isn't completely over, but unless someone has a lot of clawbacks it will be another BME for me (July, March, and May were also BME), thanks mainly to ELs and SS I think. DT sold more files than any month before, but a vast number were subs and small level 0 sales, so the RPD was pretty low. IS was pretty weak, especially in the middle of the month (it came in behind SS, DT, and Veer).

I guess for all the doom and gloom at IS things are still going fairly well for me this year (mainly thanks to SS). I will likely miss IS's shrinking but still significant contribution after next month though.

Overall BME, almost every site had a BME.  Even ISP did well. 

Up 16% from July.  Up 104% from Aug 2010. 

Feeling really good about ms these days, despite the negative developments all around.  I made some recent workflow improvements that are letting me create and upload more.  Monthly output in Aug was my highest yet.

Only negative I can come up with is DT.  DT is the only site that's been on a downward trend for me over the last several months.  Sick of the "too many similar images" rejections, so I've cut my uploads by about two thirds.  And I'm sick of the unpredictable patterns of subscription vs credit sales.  One day I'll have a ton of credit sales and the next day they'll be completely gone.  We're talking a difference of $65 to $15 from one day to the next.  Still can't figure that out.

Exellent month!  BME at SS,  good at IS,FT and DT. In the middle tier Im glad to see that Veers and DP, are doing fine. To round the month off the Getty-RM, sent me a payout of 9K,  they must have sold a copyright or something.

all in all I guess I shouldnt complain too much.

Good month!
Ranked this month sales  and Small description on how sites performing after three month as an independent.

istock - better than last month similar to may
Shutterstock - BME performing better than expected.
123rf - BME performing far better than expected. last month and this month 3rd position.
Alamy - BME performing same as 123rf. last month 5th and this month 4th position.
Dreamstime - BME performing little less than expected.
My site - BME WOW i was not expecting it will jump to my 6th place in 2nd month. i hope it will go on this trend.
Big stock - BME performing as expected.
Fotolia - little down from BME but generally far less than expected.

Veer and Yaymicro performing as expected. Also started to send zoonar after deleting my portfolio from canstock.

Finally some good news, congrats to all!

All around totals for August were my BME by a long shot.  I hope September continues into an upward trend.  Could use some good after a bad June and July.

My top 4  SS, Alamy, Canstock and Dreamstime.  Out of those the first 3 are BME.

I go a little more in depth on my blog.  Though I don't do statistical data (that stuff makes my head hurt) still might get something out of it.

My micro production has been down due to my kids going to online school (that and my obsession with Stargate Atlantis on Netflix).  I'm working on a way to find a balance between the school stuff, house stuff and stock stuff.  I'm hoping my workflow for stock will increase from August in September.  Just need to find the time to do it all.

If I rank them by Earnings solely the ranking would be:
FT (roughly 30% of my income, If adjusted for currency value differences between Euro and $ it is higher)
SS
DT
IS
123rf

FT and SS being quite close

If I rank them by RPD it is:
DT (RPD is 40% higher than at IS)
IS
123rf
FT (If adjusted for currency value differences between Euro and $ then FT ranks 2nd)
SS

Have not calculated RPI's as of yet.

A BME for me overall too.  

Top five:

1.  Shutterstock (A fantastic BME at SS with 52% of total earnings here).  
2.  Dreamstime (BME at DT).  
3.  iStock (up from last month).
4.  123RF (down from last month)
5.  Fotolia (down from last month)

Fotolia was a complete and utter disaster making only 28% of last Augusts earnings. I used to be able to pay my house and car payments easily with my fotolia earnings now it only makes double what I make on Bigstock.
Other sites ok with SS and DT particularly good this month.

Great month.
BME - total earnings, Fotolia, 123rf and DT.
Worst month ever - PantherMedia.
Rest about average.

Good month for me:
Compared to Aug '10: $$$ c75% up. dls c40% up
Compared to July '11: $$$ c13% up. dls c18% up
2nd BMY, after June.
I'd be happy, if it weren't for the RC bombshell from last year and the doom of the 'future iterations' bombshells to come.
Only one reported sale at Alamy, so disappointing there.

I was up 11% compared to Aug 2010. Quite a surprise as I haven't uploaded for several months.

SS, IS and BigStock were up, FT and DT were down.

Best month of the year

and considering projected earnings from Thinkstock/Photos.com and StockExpert it could even turn into BME

I never thought this could happen in August and in current microstock situation which is at best disappointing

Unusually high number of ODs and even ELs on Shutterstock

Istock (slightly) up for the first time in year

Almost all sites up or stable, except FT going down for the first time in months - partly due to their further reduction in commissions, partly to less sales

Quite a bad month for us at IS.

Exclusives at IS at 30%
Down 5% from last month and 23% from 2 months ago.
Up 180% from 08/10

Down from last August a little bit (4%ish), but only because IS has tanked more than the growth in my other sites can make up for.

BME at 123RF.

BME.

Earnings by Site best to worst.

IS - BME by a lot.
SS - BME barely.
Veer - Good solid month.
123rf - BME. Nice upward trend here.
DT - Solid, but lots of subs.
FT - Steady.
Canstock - Good solid month.
Deposit - BME, upward trend.
BigStock - OK

No a BME for me, but pretty close. As usual, I have more graphs on my bloghttp://www.backyardsilver.com/2011/09/earnings-from-stock-in-august-2011/, but the overall results were total earnings of $892, compared to $1022 last month, but this was all from steady earnings on each of the sites. Last month I had a sale of rights image on Dreamstime for about $100 and a sale on Alamy for $120 or so. Nothing like that this month - each site pulled its weight! iStock really motored along thanks to the Photo+ program. I estimate that perhaps 80% of the earnings of $175 were from Photo+ sales.

Here is the graph of earnings, and also the one of number of files per site:



Steve

BMW