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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: fintastique on February 28, 2009, 17:26
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SS (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60395) 40.0%
DT (http://www.dreamstime.com/resp129469) 18.1%
FT (http://en.fotolia.com/partner/38701) 12.6%
StockXpert 7.8%
IS 7.1%
BS (http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=doyu49fkgQ) 5.5%
123 (http://www.123rf.com/src_fintastique) 5.2%
FP 2.4%
CanStockPhoto 1.3%
Actually the total was just 5 dollars less than Feb 2008 plateau
Started uploading vids to Pond5 (http://www.pond5.com/index.php?ref=fintastique") so hopefully they will appear in the list in March.
Updated my Microstock footage guide (http://www.fintastique.com/footage.htm) and my Microstock photo guide (http://www.fintastique.com/guide.htm)
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Up by 11% compared to January 2009. For the first time Istock is my lowest earner, one of the worst months ever there. FT remains my best earner.
FT: 60.7%
SS: 15.5%
DT: 13.3% (BME)
IS: 10.6%
With IS performing so badly I am considering joining a fifth agency. My first choice was StockXpert (got approved there already), but with Getty taking over I am wondering if it is worth it. Other considerations are BS and 123rf. Any thoughts?
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Up by 11% compared to January 2009. For the first time Istock is my lowest earner, one of the worst months ever there. FT remains my best earner.
FT: 60.7%
SS: 15.5%
DT: 13.3% (BME)
IS: 10.6%
With IS performing so badly I am considering joining a fifth agency. My first choice was StockXpert (got approved there already), but with Getty taking over I am wondering if it is worth it. Other considerations are BS and 123rf. Any thoughts?
I consider BS to be a gigantic waste of time. 123 is not a big earner for me, but that's mitigated by the extremely easy upload process, and it's still way better than BS. StockXpert used to be a fairly good earner, but there are so many subscription downloads now, that income has dropped dramatically. I'm putting my efforts into my top three earners, that being SS, DT, and FT, in that order.
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The gap between my top four and my bottom 3 is sure getting wider.
I had only a few more sales this Feb than last, but higher earnings; was actually my 2nd BME, after Jan 08 which was skewed due to more than ordinary EL's.
SS 33%
DT 21%
IS 19%
FT 14.5%
123 4.5%
BS 4% (worse than average)
StockXpert 3.5% (way worse than average with 79.9% of individual sales from subs)
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Great surprise. StockXpert is on 2nd place this month for me
IS 40%
StockXpert 29% ;D
SS 16%
DT 7%
123 5%
FT 3%
BigStock 0% >:(
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My Top 5 stays the same. SS is first as always and FT is fifth. StockXpert recovered to normal level and grabbed second place. 123RF and DT are below expectations.
Feb Feb/Jan
SS 69.20% 96.90%
StockXpert 10.81% 111.59%
123RF 8.26% 95.53%
DT 6.41% 32.17%
FT 2.21% 47.09%
CS 1.05% 120.00%
IS 0.72% 39.31%
BS 0.70% 200.00%
Total 85.15%
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/dmvdon.png)
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FOTOLIA 30%
IS 28%
SS 23%
DT 12%
StockXpert 3%
123RF 2%
BS 2%
All in all BME by over 500$ so I am very happy ;D
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SS 27,14 up 20%
IS 23,28 down 45%
StockXpert 13,56 down 3%
DT 13,27 up 10%
123rf 13,11 up 20%
FT 8,63 down 15%
BigStock 1,01 down 95%
Overall down 15% on January which isn't that bad since February only had 28 days and there were many weekend days.
Obervations:
- had a great BME last month on IS so it's even more disappointing to see my earnings drop to last Junes levels, when I had about a third of the images online. Really don't know what to think of IS, it's all over the place. Still on second place though.
- BigStock just started going well and this month it was a disaster. I think some of my images might have been on the front page since I got a lot of downloads on just a small number of images the last two months.
- SS earnings increased after a few months of falling
- FT is going in the wrong direction for me
- really need to upload some new stuff
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Overall up 50% on Jan
IS 39%
SS 26%
DT 20%
FT 4%
123 4%
StockXpert 4%
BS 3%
I never understand why other people are able to quote such high % for Fotolia, obviously the buyers there like some type of photo I don't take, or Fotolia's higher rejections of the photos is the reason.
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This is my graph jan07 to feb09
(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt107/5w45ybfb/chart.gif)
February turned better than I had feared. I'm approximately on last years levels in earnings, but my portfolio is about 30 to 40% bigger.
The trends I can see here are:
* Fotolia is growing strongly
* StockXpert is dying
* iStockphoto is unsteady
* Dreamstime is growing at same pace as my portfolio
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SS 47.8%
IS 24.2%
DT 10.1%
FT 6.1%
StockXpert 5.6%
BigStock 4.2%
123rf 3.1%
BME in SS, IS, DT, FT, StockXpert
I posted a detailed earnings report in my Pixels Away blog (http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-february-2009/).
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The opposite is true for me, I don't understand why people do so badly at fotolia compared to other sites.
I never understand why other people are able to quote such high % for Fotolia, obviously the buyers there like some type of photo I don't take, or Fotolia's higher rejections of the photos is the reason.
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here we go. Sales compared to February 2008.
SS 29%, down 13%
DT 19%, up 69%, BME
IS 16%, down 21%
FT 11%, down 16%
BS 8%, up 203%, BME
CS 4%, up 429%, BME
StockXpert 4%, down 72%
123 4%, up 100%
CRE 2%, no sales last year
SCAN 1%, down 37%
YAY 1%, no sales last year
FP 1%, down 29%
Total, down 3% since February 2008, up 7% since January 2009
Very dramatic changes this month. Most go down, but those that go up do so in a dramatic way.
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Jan to Feb-2009
Shutterstock (POI 47%) up 42%
iStock (POI 13%) up 31%
Fotolia (POI 17%) up 266% (growth due to adding files to unsold section)
Dreamstime (POI 10%) up 58%
123 RF (POI 6%) down 35%
Stock Expert (POI 6%) down 2%
SnapVillage (POI 0%) down 22%
BigStock (POI 1%) up 14%
Monthly % Growth up 41%
BME down 44%
Summary:
Overall not a bad month. Sales are up 41% over January, mainly due to new material being added. Income at StockExpert and 123RF taking a hit, seemingly due to subscription sales. Nice to see growth at iStock as that site has been on a decline for me for past six months. Looking forward to seeing the end of March figures now, good luck everyone!
POI = Percentage of Income
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Feb % of monthly revenue (% change from last month's $ revenue)
IS 32% (-30% from Jan's BME)
SS 24% (+16%; BME)
DT 16% (+8%; BME)
StockXpert 11% (+27%; BME)
FT 10% (+18%; BME)
BigStock 4% (-28%)
123 3% (-59%)
SV 0% (-100%)
Comments:
January was my BME in microstock, so I wasn't expecting much in February. But if not for iStock's relatively poor showing, Feb would have surpassed it. So, I'm happy enough.
I still have a relatively small portfolio (250 - 500). My portfolio size increased about 10% at all agencies except FT (where I have stopped UL'ing) and DT (where I have paused UL'ing, for now).
My last comment has to do with StockXpert. Sub sales have increased there from around 60% when they began to 76% last month. However, since I am with SS, I don't see that I have a right to complain. Sure, the $/DL is smaller for a sub. But as long as my bottom line RPD* at StockXpert is > SS, how can I complain? Last month, I earned $0.39 RPD at SS and $0.62 RPD at StockXpert.
*RPD = Rev / DL
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My last comment has to do with StockXpert. Sub sales have increased there from around 60% when they began to 76% last month. However, since I am with SS, I don't see that I have a right to complain. Sure, the $/DL is smaller for a sub. But as long as my bottom line RPD* at StockXpert is > SS, how can I complain? Last month, I earned $0.39 RPD at SS and $0.62 RPD at StockXpert.
*RPD = Rev / DL
But, at least for me, RPD at SS is going up, from $0.30-0.35 a year ago, to around $0.50 now, while StockXpert is going in the opposite direction. The number of downloads however, is sinking for both, SS at an alarming rate.
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February was my best month yet, beating January by 9% and February, 2008 by 27%. Not bad; I wonder how I'll do in March...
| Shutterstock: | 32%, | up 59% | BME |
| iStockphoto: | 18%, | up 27% |
| Fotolia: | 15%, | up 20% | BME |
| StockXpert: | 12%, | up 2% |
| Dreamstime: | 11%, | down 14% |
| 123RF: | 6%, | up 4% |
| BigStockPhoto: | 4%, | down 21% |
| Crestock: | 2%, | up 7% |
| CanStockPhoto: | 1%, | up 70% |
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Site % of earnings compared to jan compared to feb08
DT 26% +10% +2%
SS 19% -9% -62%
FT 14% -12% -42%
CS 12% +86% N/A - BME
IS 12% -59% -71%
StockXpert 9% 30% -77%
BigStock 4% -38% -59%
123RF 3% -8% N/A
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Combined 100% -12% -51%
Making half what I did in February 2008. Only bright spots are Crestock and Dreamstime.