What program do you guys make your graphs with?  I've got Excel but don't think they have the capability to make nice graphs just flat ones.  Then again I haven't really messed with that function too much either.

What program do you guys make your graphs with?  I've got Excel but don't think they have the capability to make nice graphs just flat ones.  Then again I haven't really messed with that function too much either.

yeah, mine were excel 2007

Well this and other threads are a little bit more encouraging than last month. Heres hoping that summer is finally over!

Overall $$ was slightly ahead of July, and about double Aug '10, but seeing as that was changeover month, the stat is still pretty meaningless. About 10% off my BME without factoring in PP and Getty earnings. I increased my portfolio by over 400 images this month so its not a great result, but maybe the effort will be rewarded in coming months.

My stats are showed a really bad patch between the afternoon of the 17th to the 23rd - its almost like there was a 6 day weekend.

Quote from: holgs on September 02, 2011, 16:07

Overall $$ was slightly ahead of July, and about double Aug '10, but seeing as that was changeover month, the stat is still pretty meaningless. About 10% off my BME without factoring in PP and Getty earnings. I increased my portfolio by over 400 images this month so its not a great result, but maybe the effort will be rewarded in coming months.

That's the point. My August was worse than June and July but not much. However, it is worrisome that the new images have not boosted the overall income.

Lately I've noticed that it takes a little bit longer for images to become properly indexed and start getting sales. The search does however heavily favour older files which is a problem.

Quote from: holgs on September 02, 2011, 16:07

I increased my portfolio by over 400 images this month

How do you manage that if you don't mind my asking? I can't manage that in a year (but I don't shoot much anyway). How many times a week do you shoot, what are your subjects and do you do a lot of similars?

Try looking at his port?

Here are my stats. As you can see 60% of my microstock earnings come from iStock.

Like Lisa, I was seriously considering exclusivity a year and half back. I would have done it, hadnt it been for the heavy Getty involvment, its an edgy company, dont ever know where youve got them.

Getty, with its present direction can ofcourse grow very, very strong. They are also dedicating massive revenue towards AD-campaigns, etc. Its really a matter of how long the other agencies can hold out and survive and if they cant?  well thats another horror scenario, especially for us independants.

Getty, with its present direction can ofcourse grow very, very strong. They are also dedicating massive revenue towards AD-campaigns, etc. Its really a matter of how long the other agencies can hold out and survive and if they cant?  well thats another horror scenario, especially for us independants.

I don't think Getty, 'with it's present direction', is doing particularly well at all. It's traditional RM market has been shrinking rapidly for years, thanks to microstock. The news/sports division is apparently healthy (according to Klein) but that's a world away from what we do. With newspapers and magazines becoming less popular all over the world I find it difficult to see how they are going to grow that revenue stream. With Istock they held the dominant position in microstock but it is starting to look as if they may have over-cooked that particular goose. They also appear to have had little success in challenging SS in the subscription market despite having been marketing TS heavily for about a year. Where's the good news?

Getty's current policy of moving content 'upstream and downstream' between their various outlets strikes me as muddled thinking. They no longer really understand the market that they are selling into and are simply trying to 'cover all bases' and hope for the best. They don't really understand the intrinsic value of what they are selling, evidenced by the multiple of price-points that similar or even the same images are available for. It could hardly be in greater contrast to Shutterstock who do seem to know exactly what they are doing (the KISS principle) and accordingly are reaping the rewards.

H&F bought Getty for $2.4B with the aim of selling on at a profit in 3-5 years. Getty's shareholders at the time were very happy to take the money and run after having seen revenues plunge for several years. Looks to me that they probably made the right choice.

I thought that Getty historically had been a resounding success story? At least up until the advent of microstock anyway. That success was largely built by achieving such dominance of the market (through acquisitions of competitors, etc) that they were able to set the 'market price' of images and also effectively control the supply of new images.

The emergence of digital photography and microstock has acted like a wrecking ball on the foundations of Getty's business. They can no longer control either the market price or the supply of new images. Rather than accepting the 'new world' and adapting to it they seem to be trying to drag Istock with them into their old way of doing things (and that includes the way they have treated their contributors). I can't see that working for them.

Obviously there will always be a place for RM and higher-priced images but the prices will have to reflect the genuine excellence, cost of production or uniqueness of the images.

Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2011, 10:15

Rather than accepting the 'new world' and adapting to it they seem to be trying to drag Istock with them into their old way of doing things (and that includes the way they have treated their contributors). I can't see that working for them.

I tend to agree.  Everything Getty has done with Istock in the past couple of years all points to trying to cram the square peg of microstock into the round hole of traditional stock.  It doesn't appear to be working for them. 

On the up side, it represents a terrific opportunity for the other, better run sites. 

Yep!  but only for the well organized sites and they are not many,  unfortunately.

Quote from: lagereek on September 05, 2011, 12:53

Quote from: lisafx on September 05, 2011, 12:50

Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2011, 10:15

Rather than accepting the 'new world' and adapting to it they seem to be trying to drag Istock with them into their old way of doing things (and that includes the way they have treated their contributors). I can't see that working for them.

I tend to agree.  Everything Getty has done with Istock in the past couple of years all points to trying to cram the square peg of microstock into the round hole of traditional stock.  It doesn't appear to be working for them. 

On the up side, it represents a terrific opportunity for the other, better run sites. 

Yep!  but only for the well organized sites and they are not many,  unfortunately.

I can't think of any besides SS. Can anybody else? A site that is not just well organized and run, but also has enough traffic. I really wish there would be an agency so good that I'd seriously think about exclusivity. Not having to go through all that hassle with multiple sites. At least one of them is screwing things up at any given time. Wether it's the cuts, bugs, crazy rejections, loss of traffic or something else...

Exactly!  and thats the problem,  sooner or later they get something into their heads about re-arranging the best match or something else and with proven devastaing effects.

What program do you guys make your graphs with?  I've got Excel but don't think they have the capability to make nice graphs just flat ones.  Then again I haven't really messed with that function too much either.

Open Office - FREE

http://www.ehow.com/how_8332932_make-graph-openoffice-calc.html

Someone here probably sold the image they are using to illustrate the tips?