According to the current poll results, iStock exclusives are now earning only a little more than 50% over what independents are at SS alone.

Hahaha. It dropped after I remembered to input my Feb figures!

Quote from: KB on March 04, 2015, 17:28

According to the current poll results, iStock exclusives are now earning only a little more than 50% over what independents are at SS alone.

Hahaha. It dropped after I remembered to input my Feb figures!

Must mean not too many people are reporting here, I wonder if the minimum number of replies is required for the exclusive numbers?  I don't think I've filled out the poll in nearly a year, when the options get updated to allow more realistic reporting maybe I'll start again.

It is just not getting better in the moment. February is 20% down compared to January and 34% compared to February 2014.

Best four: DepositPhotos, Shutterstock, Zazzle, 123RF
List of agencies I work with: http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html
Blog Post: http://microstockinfos.blogspot.com/2015/03/stock-photography-sales-statistic.html







(statistic includes referral income)

Quote from: Cesar on March 03, 2015, 05:21

I think most active  big contributors  surpass BME at least 10-15%, everybody is quiet. 

I'm more interested in profit than turnover. Elsewhere I read someone saying if you make the effort to do more carefully planned shoots with multiple models, mua, hairdressers, special expensive 'obtain permission' sets etc you'd get sales. Later, when pushed, he admitted he was nowhere near breaking even and indeed might never do so.
I see no point in that. Unless I'm missing something, it's better to make $0 on a $0 cost shoot¹ than $950 on a $1000 shoot.  (OK forget the actual figures, as shoot expenses would be a tax expense, so that figure would work out as a positive, but the principle stands.) Assuming that you aren't shooting for another commercial purpose and the micro shots are a side benefit, or can use the images as a portfolio to generate commercial commissions.

¹ And better still not to waste the time.

+10
these days...choosing between 7 / 30 hours week on shooting and photoshop for micro
and  flipping burgers ...
option 2 still bring home more money all the time

Seem to be a bug with image subscriptions for me,when i add all individual sales in image subscriptions section( tools contributor)this do not match the amount added in monthly statistic or my daily balance $94 is missing.This seem to be getting worse for February images subscriptions(almost $200) even if the monthly payout is not over yet not adding money properly,so far�is this a bug.Anyone else have the same bug�.

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on March 08, 2015, 18:28

+10
these days...choosing between 7 / 30 hours week on shooting and photoshop for micro
and  flipping burgers ...
option 2 still bring home more money all the time

Now I understand why so many ex microstock photographers work in burgers shops�

So they can save enough money to afford to start doing microstock again?