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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: leaf on April 30, 2008, 16:07
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I will post my earnings and %'s tommorow when things are tallied.
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note for those who have voted allready... i changed the voting amounts, so you will have to 'remove vote' then vote again... sorry.
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April 08 was a great month :
IS 43% (BME)
SS 19,%
FT 14,%
StockXpert 11% (BME)
DT 07% (BME)
123 03% (BME)
BS 03% (BME)
edit:a last minute EL changed the numbers slightly.so these are the updated figures
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I think the voting categories are still a bit whacked - too many categories above $5k, not enough in the $1-5k range.
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1st Down Month: breaking my former streak of 5 BME's in a row ...
123rf 42%
DT 33%
BigStock 10%
FT 8%
Note: No Midstock Sales at ZM, FP or MP this month
Mark
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My very first month ;D
SS - 96%
123 - 2%
FT - 1%
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ISTOCK 3% SALES DOWN 35%
SS 51% SALES DOWN 50%
DT 33% SALES DOWN 50%
BIG STOCK 10% SALES UP 100%
CanStockPhoto 3% SALES UP 10%
Sales down I believe due to not submitting much.
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Sales up and down are compared with same month 2007.
SS 37% - up 57%
IS 18% - up 3%
DT 13% - up 16%
StockXpert 8% - up 207%
FT 7% - up 27%
BS 4% - up 37%
IV 3% - no sales last year
123 2% - up 9%
FP 2% - up 946%
SV 2% - no sales last year
SSP 1% - no sales last year
CanStockPhoto 1% - down 16%
IC 1% - no sales last year
Total sales were up 47% compared to April 2007.
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Not a bad month, best I've had so far this year anyway but still -29% off October 2007. SS picked up a lot and an EL on Fotolia made their figures better, onto May 08 we go....
(http://www.meder.net/images/ms-growth-apr2008.gif)
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I was absolutely thrilled with April 2008. Another personal BME, shattering the $300 mark for the first time at $342.
3 EL Sales were key, with 1 each at Fotolia, Shutterstock, and iStock. Without those EL's, it still would have been a BME but not quite to the $300 mark.
Shutterstock continued to lead my portfolio by a huge margin, beating iStock for the 4th consecutive month and 5th in the last 6th. Most pleasing is sales are not dropping off after the initial push. The forthcoming raise will increase the lead. Still lots of love for iStock, which produced a BME for the first time in a long time for me. Dreamstime was a little disappointing in April, but still solid. BigStockPhoto had a strong month too.
Among the laggards, 123RF continues to produce an abnormally low earnings per sale. They need to raise prices (again). Stockxpert is still floundering for me, now down to a mere 2% of total earnings.
Smaller sites on a "probationary period," MostPhotos and Crestock did not contribute to earnings save for a 25 cent sale at Crestock.
The Breakdown:
Shutterstock 38% (bme)
iStockPhoto 25% (bme)
Dreamstime 14%
Fotolia 11% (bme)
BigStockPhoto 7%
123RF 3%
Stockxpert 2%
Crestock 0.1%
MostPhotos 0%
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major 'ebbs and flows' april was all over the place.
overall if it had been a 31 day month, I would have scraped in a BME for micro sales
IS 45% BME
SS 17% Down (only 70% of last month)
DT 15%
123 6% BME
FT 5.5% BME
StockXpert 3.5% Down (only 70% of last month)
BigStock 2.5% Down (only 65% of last month)
FP 1.3% BME (150% of last month)
ZYM! 1.1% BME (pretty good for less than 10% of portfolio approved in beta site)
SCAN 1% BME
CRE .7%
MOST .6% BME
SNAP .5% BME
CAN .4% Down
Most, scan and snap have 55-60% of portfolio.
Phil
aargh, always the way someone comes in with a 30c sub sale at 3 seconds to midnight on a site just after you have finished the tallies...
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Overall revenue down 3,5% compared to Mar-2008 (was BME). :-[
istock 45,5 % even
shutterstock 15,7 % even
dreamstime 11,7 % up :-X
stockxpert 7,4 % up
digitalstock 6,7 % down (german site)
shotshop 5,6 % even (german site)
panthermedia 2,5 % way down >:(
fotolia 2,1 % up
the rest for 123rf,bigstock,snapvillage
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Agency / Earnings
Shutterstock / $280.16 BME
IstockPhoto / $3.75
Dreamstime / $30.11
Fotolia / $5.93
Bigstockphoto / $15 BME
123RF / $5.88 BME
StockXpert / $5.30 BME
FotoMind / $1.20
FeaturePics / $0
Month total: $349.57 BME
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Overall BME even though my downloads were down a fraction on last month. I'm still edging up towards the $1K mark and getting well within striking distance. Hoping may cracks it for me :)
SS: 45% BME (by a bee's willy)
IS: 39% BME - +17%
DT: 9% BME - +17%
FT: 4.5% Still not so lucky in the lucky dip search
BS: 2.5% 2 promising weeks followed by 2 weeks of next to nothing
Also 3 sales from Digitalstock.de from hardly any files online, although not included in the breakdown.
Still nothing from Snapvilliage, Cresock and I canned Canstock so nothing coming there.
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SS 75%
DT 8.6%
123RF 3.9%
FT 3.2%
IS 3.1%
BS 1.1%
SX 5.1%
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I think the voting categories are still a bit whacked - too many categories above $5k, not enough in the $1-5k range.
yeah you a probably right. Next month's graph will be better.
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I hope SS give us the raise soon. Would have been a BME but SS is down.
ss 38%
is 22%
StockXpert 11%
ft 9%
dt 7%
bs 7%
123rf 4%
cr 1%
others 1%
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Worst Month this year so far. FT dropped significantly. SS and DT were slower, only at IS it was a really good month.
Here is the breakdown:
FT: 25.5%
IS: 35.8% (2nd best month ever)
SS: 27.1%
DT: 11.6%
LO: 0.0%
Far off the 300$ mark - so congrats to DanP for making it.
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SS 70%
DT 11%
FT 6,7%
StockXpert 7,6%
IS 0,36%
123 2,11%
BS 1,35%
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Hi,
(http://users.telenet.be/pat44/grafieken/april.jpg)
big drop on SS with 18 %
also another drop on bs, all other sites showed clear increase.
Patrick H.
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First month with sales!
Cant wait to get approved at SS ;-)
FT/ 3,6= 76%
IS/ 1,1= 24%
DT/ 0
123/ 0
Big/ 0
Fp/ 0
Ds.de/0
SSP/0
MP/0
Yay/ na
Grand total 4,7 !
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5 months of data from my microstock photography and I see the first drop in my earnings despite of the portfolio growth.
monthly earnings report:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080501052404/index.html
IS - 38%
SS - 33 %
FT - 14%
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I'm only at istock so it's 100 per cent of my earnings! Best month for dollars since July 2007 (which was abnormally high as I had an image of the week). Downloads, best for this year. Big increase in dollars per download, mainly as the ten credit vector sales are starting to kick in, and you don't need to get too many of those at silver exclusive pay rates to increase earnings very pleasantly.
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After many months (nearly a year, I think) in second or 3rd place, IS reclaimed the #1 spot this month for me.
IS- 25%
FT- 22
SS- 21
DT- 10
BigStock- 9
StockXpert- 8
123- 5
A good solid month, up over last month and April 2007 (13%)
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Fotolia 13%
Dreams 14%
Istock 24%
Shutterstock 32%
Stockxpert 12%
Bigstock 3%
123rf 2%
crestock 0%
BME at all sites except FT where it was 2nd BME because of a month when I made over 200$ commision in ELs.
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Site - Percentage - Change from last month
SS: 23% - Way Down
DT: 18% - Down
StockXpert: 17% - Up
IS: 15% - No Change
FT: 13% - No Change
BigStock: 7% - No Change
Other: 7% - Up
Others include Snapvillage, Featurepics, and Crestock.
Overall down 4.9% over last month.
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Roughly (and rounded):
SS: 35% v
IS: 53% ^
FT: 9% ^
DT: 4% ^
SX: 2% ^
123: 1% ^
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ok here are mine:
Fotolia: 30% BME
Shutterstock: 20% Down
Istock: 13% BME
Stockxpert: 11% BME
Dreamstime: 11% BME
Bigstock: 4% Down
123rf: 3%
Other micros 2%
Mid/macro portfolios: 7%
Average royalties per download:
Fotolia: 3,88 USD
Dreamstime: 1,08 USD - 1,66 USD ( with a $2000 sale for Exclusive rights)
Stockxpert: 1,04 USD (opted in subs)
Istock: 1,00 USD
Bigstockphoto: 0,87 USD
Shutterstock: 0,33 USD
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I have roughly the same amount of images at all sites
Istock 48% (BME)
Shutterstock 27%
Fotolia 9% (BME)
Dreamstime 7% (BME)
Stockxpert 5%
Bigstock 2%
123 2% (BME)
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Mine are:
Istock 37% BME (for $)
Fotolia 19% BME
SS 17% BME
DT 11% BME
StockXpert 8%
BigStock 5%
123RF 3%
Canstock & Crestock both tied at 0%, although Canstock showed improvement and Crestock was down.
Overall April was BME
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My first BME since last April, I increased my portfolio by 4% this month and $ increased by 74% :o. my first ever el at DT helped, and Istock was great , and has started well on May already too.
IS 32% bme
DT 30% bme
SS 14%
BS 9% bme
FT 5%
SX 5%
123rf 4% bme
crest 1%
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SS 25.91% (74% of previous month)
IS 25.06% (163% of previous month) BME
StockXpert 19.75% (144% of previous month) BME
DT 6.92% (42% of previous month)
FT 13.93% (269% of previous month) BME (had an EL sale--woo hoo!)
123 5.58% (114% of previous month) BME
CS 1.22% (prev month: 0) BME
BigStock 1.62% (prev month: 0) BME
other sites were firmly at 0%: canstock, most, feature, snap, stockriot.
I'm not counting yaymicro because they're not open yet.
Overall, April's the BME.
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Roughly (and rounded):
Hehe you made 104% of your earnings! ;D
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down a 20% after 3 month run of bme
SS 36%
IS 11%
DT 20%
FT 12% bme
BS 11%
123 9%
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Overall another BME for the past 8 months I've been at this.
I deleted my images from AB. I've stopped uploading to StockXpert, BigStock, SV, and FP. Not worth my time regardless of what little time it takes. 123RF seems to really be picking up consistently. IS is by far the most impressive with earnings and growth.
IS 66% (BME, 1EL)
SS 11% (down a bit, overall flat)
FT 11% (BME from 2 ELs)
123RF 5% (good growth, passed DT, catching up with FT)
DT 5% (up a bit)
StockXpert 1% (down a bit)
BigStock <1% (down a bit every month)
SV, LO, AB, FP = 0%
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Well since I am still pretty new I wasn't going to share this month (too small of sample to be relevant) .. but after figuring it out I have to .. I don't have the most lucrative results but I bet I win for the funniest .. and/or most bizarre ..
60.41% 123
21.85% - SS
6.31% - FT
4.57% - BS
2.91% - FP
1.83% - DT
1.66% - Scanstock
0% - LO, SV, MP, & IS ; )
I got this ridiculous percentage breakdown from:
A. I started some months ago just playing and uploading my landscapes to BigStock, 123, & LO to get my feet wet .. then around Feb. I started adding in the top four (one every few weeks FT .. DT .. SS .. and IS - just a couple weeks back) .. slowly trying to learn to take more stocky shots as well .. and trying to be conscious of approval % before moving on up to the next agency .. (so the result is as the site is better my portfolio is smaller .. )
B. So as seems typical for newbies even thought this was my first month at SS. they were by far out doing my larger (but not really stocky) portfolios on the other sites ..
C. and then a few days back some generous soul went crazy on my 123 portfolio .. and spent a couple hundred non sub. credits on a pair of my images .. (still knocking on wood that this isn't a computer glitch .. but it has been six days now .. knock knock knock) ..
D. Hey and I just got into Stockxpert today (on try #2) ... a bit of nice news .
take care .. and thanks for all your helpful posts ..
John
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IS - 45.02%
SS - 29.48%
StockXpert - 12.45%
DT - 6.51%
123RF - 1.5%
CS - 1.24%
FT - 1%
BigStock - 1%
SV - 1%
Other - 1%
BME at all sites, and overall BME total of more than double previous BME.
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Canstock & Crestock both tied at 0%, although Canstock showed improvement and Crestock was down.
So much for our big plan of getting rich together at Crestock. :D
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April was 30% worse than Mart. ???
as usual:
FT 40%
SS 30%
DT 15%
StockXpert 5%
IS, 123RF 10%
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My numbers for April, overall a BME very close to the $ 300 (micro+mid). The big surprise was FT kicking the ass of SS this month.....
1. FT 37 % up BME
2. SS 29 % down
3. IS 12 % up
4. DT 7 % up
5. 123RF 6 % down
6. StockXpert 5 % up
First sale at Panthermedia this month :)
More stats and graph on my blog :
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/
PS : Congrats Dan on the $ 300 , hope I will join you next month !
Race for $ 500 then ? ;)
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Hah! I will be happy just to make it back to $300 this month. Assuming no EL's, and a bunch of holidays, it could be tough to do again.
I think $500 is realistic target for September, as we come out of the summer doldrums. Should have enough fresh material by then to make it reality. Here's to a big second half of the year for all of us! ;)
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Canstock & Crestock both tied at 0%, although Canstock showed improvement and Crestock was down.
So much for our big plan of getting rich together at Crestock. :D
So that's what happened! You joined up and there went all my sales! ;)
Here's hoping we will both do better there this month!
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Yep, apparently I stole at least 1 sale from you, because I notice 25 cents sitting in my account at the end of the month. ;D
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Wy off topic, but the pie chart above reminded me of this... actually every pie chart these days does...
(http://blog.extensis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/pacman.jpg)
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My total % are here:
IS (BME) 26%
SS 16%
FT 9%
StockXpert 10% (bme)
DT 12% (bme)
Local midstock: 22%
Rest goes to low earners.
Local midstock have almost 3000 images, IS +700 images and the rest about 1250 images.
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This month has been incredible for me, never thought I can earn 485$ in my third full month in stock business. Vectors are the key. Here is my breakdown:
SS 76,03 (second full month)
123RF 5,69
DT 5,28
StockXpert 4,93 (got accepted at the end of April)
FT 4,83
IS 2,93 (first full month)
BigStock 0,31
BME across all sites with a total increase of 447%.
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My April and 2008 numbers, with 2007 for comparison:
| Site | 2007 | 2008 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| IS | 26% | 28% | 22% | 37% | 26% | 26% | | | | | | | | |
| DT | 16% | 21% | 30% | 16% | 18% | 22% | | | | | | | | |
| StockXpert | 20% | 18% | 19% | 12% | 22% | 21% | | | | | | | | |
| FT | 13% | 12% | 8% | 11% | 16% | 13% | | | | | | | | |
| BigStock | 8% | 5% | 8% | 5% | 5% | 3% | | | | | | | | |
| 123 | 4% | 5% | 5% | 8% | 3% | 4% | | | | | | | | |
| FP | 3% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 10% | | | | | | | | |
| CanStockPhoto | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | <1% | | | | | | | | |
| LO | 2% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 0% | | | | | | | | |
| Scan | 1% | <1% | 0% | <1% | 1% | <1% | | | | | | | | |
| CS | <1% | ~0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | ~0% | | | | | | | | |
| Zymm | <1% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 2% | 0% | | | | | | | | |
| rest | 4% | <1% | 3% | 1% | <1% | ~0% | | | | | | | | |
Overall a very bad month, 30% below February, which was my BME.
A small decrease in IS, nearly stable in DT and 123RF, significant reductions in StockXpert, BigStock and FT. Excellent month in FP - 2nd BME, losing only for a month in which I had an EL.
Two sales in CanStockPhoto, one (subs) in CS, one sale in Scan and - surprise! - one in Gimmestock. SPM is back to none for three months. Nothing also in LO, Albumo, SV, Zymm, MP, Gecko.
Regards,
Adelaide
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SS 38%
IS 26%
DT 13%
FT 9%
BS 7%
SX 3%
123 3%
2nd best month overall.
No signs of life Zym, MP, FP.
6 sales at LO, but not enough to get second payout.
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It seems I was the only person with bad results in April. ::)
Regards,
Adelaide
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Ah, but you had a good Feb and mine sucked. We must be on opposite search rotations!
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SS 38%
IS 26%
DT 13%
FT 9%
BS 7%
SX 3%
123 3%
It's eerie how close our percentages match. :)
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iS: 37.8%
SS: 30.2%
123RF: 15% (Best mont ever)
StockXpert: 13.7% (Best month ever)
DT: 3.2% (Worst month ever, 10% of March - I've already doubled my April earnings this month)
FT: 1% (Worst month ever)
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Hehe you made 104% of your earnings! ;D
Awesome! Now I can afford extra toppings on my pizza!
;D
I'll have to try and get my boss to work out my pay that way...