Author Topic: Real earnings/photo? (Read 4849 times)

bjorn · « **on:** December 30, 2006, 07:13 »

Just wondering, what do you really get paid per photo?
If you take what you (totally) earned this year (per agent) and devide it by the photo's sold there, what does it give you (so include ext. license, etc...)

my list...
Istock $0.46
Dreamstime $0.70
Fotolia $0.73
StockXpert $0.94

GeoPappas · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2006, 10:05 »

Without extended licenses:

iStock: $0.449
SS: $0.251 (this is slightly higher because of the $0.05 CD backups)
DT: $0.781
StockXpert: $0.949
FT: $0.503
LO: $0.871
BigStock: $0.567

With extended licenses:

iStock: $0.470
SS: $0.264
FT: $0.567

madelaide · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2006, 11:05 »

Is there an easy way to know how many of your images sold in each site?

Regards,
Adelaide

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2006, 17:54 »

I wrote a database in excel and just track them daily. It covers every site and every pic that's uploaded. I assumed that's what everyone did. Takes us about 10-15 minutes. They all seem to be different in how they themselves keep track of the sales. Wish there was an easy way and if someone knows it... Please... educate me. I'm all about 'easier'.

chellyar · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2006, 18:03 »

istock: 0.447
DT: 0.67
SS: 0.2503
FL: Where on earth do I find decent stats on their site? :-)

sbonk · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2006, 19:29 »

Hello everyone. I have been reading this forum for a while but this is my first post. I keep stats of #sales and total revenue by month. I just check these stats on the last day of each month and record in a spreadsheet. Dividing the total yearly $ by the # sales at each site I submit to gives me:

iStock: .41
DT: .70
SS: .25
BigStock: .77
FOT: .57
CS: .58
SX: .73
123: .36
LO: .79
FP: .70 (but only a few sales here and I have each photo set at $1)

The only extended sale I had was at BigStock and is included in the above.

yingyang0 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2006, 20:22 »

For the 6 months I'v been in microstock my $/download is:
iStock: $0.67 (with ELs)
SS: $0.252

(Even though its only 6 months it shouldn't effect the average royalty per download.)

IRCrockett · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2006, 00:30 »

I only do them monthly so this is up to last month.

FP:	$5.76
SX:	$1.03
DT:	$0.59
LO:	$0.57
BS:	$0.53
FT:	$0.50
IS:	$0.49
123:	$0.45
CS:	$0.45
SS:	$0.32

perkmeup · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2006, 02:37 »

This is only my fourth full month in micro stock......but here are my numbers to date......

Total number of images on the site....as of today.....divided by the total number of sales on the site..

...with around 600 images on each site.....the lowest is IS with only 227 images (painfully slow getting images on here) and the highest is SS and FT with 720

ShutterStock $2.16
IStockPhoto $2.15
StockXpert $0.39
DreamsTime $0.34
Fotolia $0.30
BigStock $0.17
123RF $0.12
LuckyOliver $0.01
FeaturePics $0.01

I'm very suprised that SS is not the best seller for almost everybody.....it doesn't make sense. From all I have read and from my personal experience...SS and IS are by far the best payouts per photo. If I had the same number of photos on IS as I have on SS....I'd be making some good money with them....but they are soooooo slow to get photos onto...pain in the a#@.......but they do sell a lot of photos...so I'll keep uploading to them.

IRCrockett · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2006, 04:31 »

Quote from: perkmeup on December 31, 2006, 02:37

...
Total number of images on the site....as of today.....divided by the total number of sales on the site.....
I'm very suprised that SS is not the best seller for almost everybody.....it doesn't make sense. ...

That isn't what people are comparing. You're showing earnings per image and everyone else is posting average earnings per sale, Total Income/# of Sales. Shutterstock has my lowest earnings per sale but the highest earnings per image as you would expect.

perkmeup · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2006, 06:30 »

Your right.....that's why it wasn't making sense. It's a little difficult to pull that data out from some of the sites, and the spreadsheet I keep doesn't record that information.

thanks for your correction.

Tom

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