I'll have to work up the enthusiasm to create my graphs this month after a really depressing 28 days. I know this is a short month, and it had a US federal holiday, but I dropped from $2200 in January to $1580 in February. Pretty much all sites were down for me - Shutterstock from $828 to $697 due to an almost complete lack in the Single sales during the month. iStock was as low as I've seen it in a while - makes you wonder if they have reduced the search priority for those contributors who deleted images at the beginning of the month! IS down from $323 to $225. Big $165 refund on Alamy made my month...

More to come after I finish this bottle of wine..

Steve

Slow month for me... worst than January 2013,

SS---------- average    ( saved from disaster in the last days by S&O sales). First month in the last year without any EL's 
FT----------- Average ( again saved from disaster by some last minute EL'S) 
DT-----------Average ( as usual) 
123RF------Good month , good revenue , BME regarding sales 
DP-----------Average
CANstock--- Good month 

Hope March will be a better month.

When comparing months, shouldn't we "normalise" the month's length, e.g. to a standard 30.42 days per month?

February is about 10% shorter than a 31 days' month, which is a lot.

SS BME
iS should be good, although suspect yes, there may be some backlash against deactivations?
everyone one else below average

iS only.
Compared to Feb 12: dls -48%,  $$ +7%,  port +9%
Compared to Jan 13: dls -14%,  $$ +38%, port -4.5%
Downward sales trend deeply scary; $$ improvement due to 2 EL including a very good one yesterday. Otherwise $$ would also have been pretty poor.
 However, last Feb's includes GI, which they didn't manage to report this month.
Lowest number of downloads since I became exclusive in late July 2007 (sic), i.e. that was my previous lowest dls, when my port was well under 1/3 of what it is now.

Alamy chugging along with some lowish value sales.

(Deactivation backlash for me seems to be a longer inspection time. I've had a file pending (not trying to reactivate an old one) since 17th; CR says it isn't stuck but 'inspections take longer during busy times'. Stats have been pretty steady all month and I haven't seen any other mention of long inspection times.)

and don't forget (I nearly did!) 75c from FAA!

SS was a BME, up 22% over January and 41% over February, 2012; 46% of my total.

123RF was 2nd, up 25% over January and 11% over February, 2012; 25% of my total.

iStock was 3rd, down 7% from January and 2% from a year ago; 8% of my total.

They're followed by Deposit at 5%, Canstock at 4%, PhotoDune at 4%, Dreamstime at 3% and the rest of the small fry.

Overall, February was up 12% over January and up 24% over February, 2012.  Not bad at all, especially for a short month.

One SOD short of a BME.  But still an exceptional month with loads of ODD's, 2 EL's and a small SOD.

$200+ on a port of <150 for the month is not too bad and 70% up on January.

A small but short-lived stirring in the polar regions at FT which took my weekly ranking from 10,000+ to 3,000 but it seems that winter has returned once more. Hopeless.

From my blog...

It was a decent month. I needed a couple more days to make it a good month, but that�s February. Here�s the agency breakdown.

Clipartof was my top agency again with 29% of my passive earnings. My own site, MyStockVectors, barely edged out Shutterstock with 15%. Shutterstock was 15% as well. It really only came down to a few dollars difference. Toon Vectors jumped up to 4th place with 12%. Dreamstime was next with 10%. Can Stock was 6% and GL was 3%. Everybody else was 1% or under.

As George Peppard (Hannibal from The A-Team) would say,�I love it when a plan comes together�. It�s nice to see the three agencies I�ve been concentrating on lately (Clipartof, Toon Vectors & MyStockVectors) becoming my top agencies. Hopefully, the trend continues. I also started uploading more to Drawshop, but I haven�t seen much growth yet.

On a side note, it was a very strange month. The changes at Google (specifically Google Images) halved traffic to my site, but sales were still strong. I�m not really sure what to make of it, but I�m glad it didn�t destroy everything I�d built so far. It�s kind of scary that Google has that much power. I guess that�s the internet though.

February needs to be longer.   

SS 47%
IS 4% (From Jan Partner Sales)
DT 17%
FT 11%
BS  6%
DS  6%
CS  2%
V  4%

SS is climbing, climbing - but very worrisome that they make up so much of the total!

Feb 2013 included 14 days of independence -  royalties are down 49% compared to Feb 2012, downloads up 12%

Shutterstock was interesting this month, I noticed the balance of subscription sales to on demand downloads is inching closer to a 60-40 mix.  Previously ODD had only made up about 25% and then were holding steady around 1/3 for a while.  Last two months is up.  Istock customers moving over maybe?

Not too bad. I was 3% up over Feb 2012.

SS up a bit, IS same, DT & FT down a bit, BS down a lot (what's going on there?).

BME +23%

SS 36,4%
iS 25,2%
FT 12,4%
DT 11,1%
Veer 5.5%
CanS 3,9%
BS 3,4%
123RF 2,0%