Author Topic: Earnings in July 2012 (Read 15489 times)

nicku · « **Reply #25 on:** August 02, 2012, 00:38 »

July was better than i expect...

SS - BME , again NO COMMENT
FT - BME, NO COMMENT
DT - above average , good month
123RF - under average ( again)

Overall earnings : BME

The pie slices:

SS - 60%
FT - 20%
DT - 12%
The rest - 8%

August is the holidays month.. i personally expect a average month or a slight under average month $:-\$

oboy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 02, 2012, 15:52 »

Down 2% to last month, but 28% increase compared to last year July.
My best for were: Shutterstock, DepositPhotos, Zazzle, Photospin
List of all the agencies I work with: http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html

Full statistic at http://microstockinfos.blogspot.com/2012/08/stock-photography-sales-statistic-july.html

(This statistic include referral earning at the different agencies)

raclro · « **Reply #27 on:** August 02, 2012, 22:41 »

Down in $$ about 40% compared to 2011. Better than June however.

pancaketom · « **Reply #28 on:** August 03, 2012, 00:36 »

Pretty good month for me a bit to my surprise when I added things up - only June 2012 had a higher total. Alamy was the star with strong performances by SS and Veer. DT looks like it is falling off a cliff with both low numbers of sales and low RPI.

Lagereek · « **Reply #29 on:** August 03, 2012, 00:39 »

Quote from: lisafx on August 01, 2012, 11:59

Absolutely dreadful month. Worst since December 2008, and would have to go back considerably further to find a mid year month that bad. Down 7% on a very poor June and down 17% on last July.

Worst losses are posted at Istock and Fotolia, with DT also losing ground. Only one of the big 4 showing improvement was SS, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses elsewhere.

**ETA: Fotolia did pick up quite a bit the last part of the month. Not sure what they did but hope it continues**

The smaller sites like PD, DP, and Veer helped boost totals somewhat or losses would have been even worse.

I've seen summer slumps before, but not this bad. My hubby believes everything is in limbo and the movers & shakers are holding on to their money until after the election in November. Not sure I can wait that long to start earning a living again

My July was OK, thats all. My scenario is this: contributors like us and similar are right now pretty disfavoured in every search, in every agency, more or less, right? and its not a coincidance, its a purpose! they are simply letting new faces through, at our expense ofcourse. From an agency point of view I can see the logic in that, theyre afraid to lose new contributors, lack of sales, etc. So they rather take a temporarily nosedive, not pushing our images in favour of new images supplied by new contributors, trying to build a new platform. This is why ppl, like us should concentrate much more on the RM business, since its much more appreciated there.

rubyroo · « **Reply #30 on:** August 03, 2012, 04:41 »

Second BME, with SS holding steady and well ahead of the rest of the field. Istock in second place and then quite a drop to DT in third and 123rf not far behind in fourth place.

wordplanet · « **Reply #31 on:** August 03, 2012, 13:38 »

Sorry but also relieved to hear I'm not the only one who has seen DT sales drop off a cliff.

SS looked to be tanking a bit too but then in July it picked up considerably. I haven't uploaded there in ages, so I was relieved to see it bounce back to normal/high levels.

iStock was building steadily for me since the spring but seems to be flattening out, though with <100 images there it's hard to call anything a trend.

I found some of my as-yet unreported images from Alamy online and in publications recently so hoping that means I'll get a big bump in sales come September, given late reporting there. I've been concentrating a lot of my efforts on RM the last couple of months and sales were showing up steadily until I hit a slump in July (NUs only - awful), so nice to know sales are still actually building and I just have to wait for them to show up. Zooms are up too.

The rest aren't even worth the effort and I'm thinking of closing my accounts after my next payouts.

Though no individual records, BME for total payouts. Probably the most important stat

Microbius · « **Reply #32 on:** August 04, 2012, 04:16 »

About $1000 down from BME but at least $3000 up on any previous July so can't complain.

ShadySue · « **Reply #33 on:** August 04, 2012, 04:31 »

Quote from: wordplanet on August 03, 2012, 13:38

I found some of my as-yet unreported images from Alamy online and in publications recently so hoping that means I'll get a big bump in sales come September, given late reporting there.

Or maybe next year for the sub-$10 gross photos sold under the newspaper scheme - some of them, esp the lowest paying (but maybe highest buying?), get a six month paying schedule (it used to be three months, to fit in with UK tax reporting for newspapers, but that seems to have changed this year).
So, hard to know when to chase these found in-uses up. And hard to know which are genuine sales.

Mantis · « **Reply #34 on:** August 04, 2012, 08:47 »

Quote from: Pixart on August 01, 2012, 12:04

Hold onto your hats folks.... I finally reached payout at Featurepics

Haha, sweet. May I ask how long that took?

Pixart · « **Reply #35 on:** August 04, 2012, 10:58 »

LOL, I think around 4 years and the same photos are still on their front page as when I signed up.

RCerruti · « **Reply #36 on:** August 05, 2012, 20:57 »

Average month here, 25% down compared to my BME (nov. '11) with SS getting the lion's share as usual, DT random as usual (low this month) and IS that seems to have somehow reached the bottom of its decline concerning my sales.
Please tell me Steve, your statistics do include referral earnings?

Roberto

steheap · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2012, 13:14 »

Quote

Average month here, 25% down compared to my BME (nov. '11) with SS getting the lion's share as usual, DT random as usual (low this month) and IS that seems to have somehow reached the bottom of its decline concerning my sales.
Please tell me Steve, your statistics do include referral earnings?

Roberto

I guess this last sentence is aimed at me. I do include referral earnings, but normally they are so small as to be negligible. On Shutterstock I did have a good month in May when it was $8, but for some reason that photographer/illustrator must have stopped selling and I'm now back at $1! Dreamstime is normally about $2, DP is $1.29. on SignElements (was iSighStock...) I have about 30 referred contributors and have got to a grand total of $26. You get the drift - nothing to write home about!

There are two things I don't include - Zazzle, because it is sort of outside the mainstream, and my book income - I don't want everyone to know how successful an author I have become. I think you can read that last sentence in two ways!

Steve

RCerruti · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2012, 14:01 »

Yes Steve, it was directed to you. Thank you for your answer. They are really negligible. I asked because I have very different situations, especially on DP where my referrals are a large share of my income!

steheap · « **Reply #39 on:** August 06, 2012, 20:04 »

Interesting - how did you manage to get high referral fees on DP? I have 16 referred members and lifetime earnings from referrals of maybe $40

Steve

Lagereek · « **Reply #40 on:** August 07, 2012, 00:39 »

Quote from: lisafx on August 01, 2012, 11:59

Absolutely dreadful month. Worst since December 2008, and would have to go back considerably further to find a mid year month that bad. Down 7% on a very poor June and down 17% on last July.

Worst losses are posted at Istock and Fotolia, with DT also losing ground. Only one of the big 4 showing improvement was SS, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses elsewhere.

**ETA: Fotolia did pick up quite a bit the last part of the month. Not sure what they did but hope it continues**

The smaller sites like PD, DP, and Veer helped boost totals somewhat or losses would have been even worse.

I've seen summer slumps before, but not this bad. My hubby believes everything is in limbo and the movers & shakers are holding on to their money until after the election in November. Not sure I can wait that long to start earning a living again...

Well not that bad but I tell you, if it wasnt for RM sales it would have been lousy.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 07, 2012, 17:00 »

- Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1342$, Apr 1396$, May 1452$, June 1206$, July 1271$
- from July 2011 +35%
- 39 months of stock
- last club in SS (since July 8th)
- almost no new uploads in July in all agencies

TOP 8 - 80.3% (82.4%)
SS 41.2% (34.5%) (1 EL, 5 SOD (1 - 16.8, 4 - 18$))
IS 11.6% (14.2%) (5 months with no new uploads)
FT 7.6% (9.8%) (2 EL) (from 120$ to 97$)
Z 5.7% (7.5%)
ISIGN 4.5% (4.8%)
123RF 3.8% (5.5%) (Jan 70$, Feb 114$, March 108$, April 59$, May 90$, June 68$, July 48$)
XX 3.1% (3.3%)
DT 2.8% (2.9%) (4.7%) (May 69$ (BME), June 35$, July 35$)

MIDDLE - 16% (11.4%)
YAY 2.7% (0.9%)
XY 2.3% (2.5%)
DP 1.8% (2.5%)
PD 1.7% (2.7%)
ZOO 1.7% (0.2%)
XZ 1.6% (3.4%)
V 1.6% (1.2%)
MP 1.4% (0.2%)
CanStockPhoto 1.3% (0.7%)

LOW - 3.7% (6.2%)
(13 agencies all below 1% each)

mtkang · « **Reply #42 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:08 »

i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 07, 2012, 17:00

- Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1342$, Apr 1396$, May 1452$, June 1206$, July 1271$
- from July 2011 +35%
- 39 months of stock
- last club in SS (since July 8th)
- almost no new uploads in July in all agencies

TOP 8 - 80.3% (82.4%)
SS 41.2% (34.5%) (1 EL, 5 SOD (1 - 16.8, 4 - 18$))
IS 11.6% (14.2%) (5 months with no new uploads)
FT 7.6% (9.8%) (2 EL) (from 120$ to 97$)
Z 5.7% (7.5%)
ISIGN 4.5% (4.8%)
123RF 3.8% (5.5%) (Jan 70$, Feb 114$, March 108$, April 59$, May 90$, June 68$, July 48$)
XX 3.1% (3.3%)
DT 2.8% (2.9%) (4.7%) (May 69$ (BME), June 35$, July 35$)

MIDDLE - 16% (11.4%)
YAY 2.7% (0.9%)
XY 2.3% (2.5%)
DP 1.8% (2.5%)
PD 1.7% (2.7%)
ZOO 1.7% (0.2%)
XZ 1.6% (3.4%)
V 1.6% (1.2%)
MP 1.4% (0.2%)
CanStockPhoto 1.3% (0.7%)

LOW - 3.7% (6.2%)
(13 agencies all below 1% each)

luissantos84 · « **Reply #43 on:** August 08, 2012, 08:05 »

Quote from: mtkang on August 08, 2012, 03:08

i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

June 120$, July 97$

Z is Zazzle, other are secret

archibald1221 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 21, 2012, 09:56 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 08, 2012, 08:05

Quote from: mtkang on August 08, 2012, 03:08
i didn't know FT fotolia got EL like $120 and $97?
and what is XX XY XZ and Z?

June 120$, July 97$

Z is Zazzle, other are secret

I see You have some secrets here

interesting

i understand why are You hiding one of Your top 8 agencies. But what is the point of hiding those that earn You only 2,3 or 1,6 percent of Your earnings?

They are small earners anyway

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