Author Topic: January 2009 earnings breakdown (Read 7802 times)

fintastique · « **on:** January 30, 2009, 10:44 »

Updated Sunday morning another depressing month at the big sites

, overall total lowest monthly dollar income since Feb 2008 (excluding December 2008) at least it was higher than Jan 2008

SS 43.1%
DT 15.8%
FT 13.4%

IS 7.9% *

123 6.1%
StockXpert 6.0%
BS 5.8%

CanStockPhoto 1.2% #
FP 0.6%

* a pleasant surprize actually selling here again they were #7 in December 2008
# mainly affilated sales

Well at least the US$ = almost 70p (UK) instead of 50p 6 months ago

Well the 31st turned out to be quite a busy Saturday except at IS

ichiro17 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2009, 11:23 »

Hey Steve,

Thanks for posting, but I'm just wondering why you only post the breakdown but never contribute to any other conversations?

As for me, I don't post breakdowns because they are virtually meaningless. Good luck in 2009.

Fotosearch_Support · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2009, 12:23 »

Hi Stephen and our first hello to Microstock Group.

Thanks for the feedback on your earnings, and on those of Can Stock Photo, which includes earnings at Fotosearch.

Two quick points:
1) We are still in the testing phase of the rollout of Can Stock Photo images on Fotosearch. We are still in the process of determining the best way to display CanStockPhoto images, and only a fraction of our users on only a portion of our 20+ country-specific sites are seeing these images.

2) Stephen, we seem to have only a fraction of your images--perhaps 20% of what you have on other sites. We would encourage you to upload the balance of your portfolio to CanStockPhoto, which will automatically load them onto Fotosearch.

If we have 5x the number of images, and everything is proportional, you may see 5x the sales, which would put us into your middle tier, before we've even completed our rollout of CanStockPhoto images on Fotosearch. Also, I presume the images we are missing are your newer work, and I would guess that many people think their newest work is their best work.

I'd encourage you to upload the rest of your portfolio, and see what we can produce. Thanks.

travelstock · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2009, 17:23 »

I may be a bit behind on the time zones, but last time I checked, there was one day left of January

I can however indicate that as with other recent months, my % from CanStockPhoto was 0% after pulling all my images due to frustration at both review policies and poor sales. Is the new relationship with fotosearch any reason to open a new account?

madelaide · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2009, 17:25 »

Quote from: holgs on January 30, 2009, 17:23

I may be a bit behind on the time zones, but last time I checked, there was one day left of January

Fintastique doesn't accept the risk of not opening the earnings breakdown thread.

Regards,
Adelaide

melastmohican · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2009, 17:46 »

My Top 5 stays the same. SS is first as always and FT is fifth. StockXpert got very bad result last month so this time it returned to normal level.
123RF got BME in December now is back to normal levels too. DT continues slow ascending trend. This month will be BME for them.

   Jan   Jan/Dec
SS   61.39%   92.49%
DT   16.46%   262.79%
StockXpert   8.26%   187.50%
123RF   7.31%   30.67%
FT   3.91%   65.34%
IS   1.60%   72.58%
CS   0.76%   125.00%
BS   0.31%   100.00%
   Total   87.94%

http://melastmohican.net/wordpress/2009/01/30/january-2009-earnings-breakdown/

Phil · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2009, 20:44 »

overall worst month I've had for micro since late 2007

site %sales compared to average $
is 38% - down 25%
dt 16% - down 20% but rising in % to others
ft 14% - almost normal, definetly grabbed the 3rd spot now
ss 10% - down 50%

StockXpert 6% - down 30% on last few months
BigStock 4.2% - normal
123rf 3.7% - down 35% - very quiet
CanStockPhoto 3.5% - tripled previous BME, looks promising

cre 1.6% - down 30% (but not talking a lot of money, so less valid)
fp 1.4% - normal
scan 1.1% - normal

few dollars made on alb & snap (no longer submitting to) and on zymm, nothing on most.

Phil

mantonino · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2009, 00:18 »

I just finished posting all of my results (link in my sig). January was my best month $-wise since July except for one crazy day of ELs in November screwing up the totals. So I'm pretty happy - back on track, adding new images, seeing my earnings increase. We'll see how that goes.

Foto Search dude - you only have 25% of my gallery as well but I made like $1.50 on CanStockPhoto this month. If I upload the other 3/4 and only make $5 a month was the time worth the $60 I'd make this year? I dunno. 1500 images is a lot of work for $60. Do you expect sales to *dramatically* change this year on CanStockPhoto or will it be a couple before we see anything tangible? Because $5 isn't really what I'm after.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2009, 00:35 »

Site % of earnings compared to dec compared to jan08
IS 26% +166% +14%
DT 21% -29% -7%
SS 18% -54% -70%
FT 14% +46% 0%
StockXpert 6% -40% -70%
CS 6% N/A N/A
BigStock 6% -19% -32%
123RF 3% -58% N/A
-----
Combined 100% -17% -37%

How depressing. First time SS has not been 1st since I started in Q1 2007, and it's not a result of the other sites picking up, its a result of SS just falling off a cliff and the other sites staying stagnant. I have about doubled my portfolio since Q4-2007/Q1-2008, yet I'm making half as much. Ever since subs came out StockXpert is circling the drain with Crestock and Bigstockphoto. I am opting out this month to see if there will be any change.

epixx · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2009, 02:53 »

Here are my figures, compared to January 2008:

SS 28%, down 7%
FT 26%, up 118% BME
DT 18%, up 7%
IS 17%, down 2%
123 4%, up 78%
StockXpert 3%, down 44%
BS 3%, down 34%
Scanstock 1%, down 62%
Yay, 1%, no sales last year

Up since January 2008: 6%
Up since December 2008: 74%

FT is doing amazingly well, and has been doing so for a while. 123 is doing surprisingly well too, although the numbers are still small. The biggest disappointment is StockXpert. For me, they are going down every month now.

borg · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2009, 03:41 »

BLUE=all the time, RED=last month
All: +37,17 %
RPI:+21,45%

BME after October
But for me StockXpert was very good this month,big jump... DT has fallen down...

CofkoCof · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2009, 04:12 »

Site | % | compared to dec 08
IS | 33,13% | up 40% for a BME
SS | 19,10% | down 30%
StockXpert | 12,10% | up 30%
DT | 9,54% | down 40%
123rf | 9,07% |same
BigStock | 8,63% | up 20% for a BME
FT | 8,42% | up 24%

Observations:
- frist time ever SS isn't the agency with the highest earnings! IS rebounded nicely and took the lead by quite a margain. Hopefully best match 2.0 will continue this trend
- didn't upload anything new for at least two months on most sites and SS earnings are the ones that really dropped. Currenty at about 40% of BME
- BigStock is starting to sell my images. Last two months were pretty good and for the second month in a row isn't last for me
- had a great month on DT in december 08 (BME by a margain), this month sales were pretty slow. Looks like searh changed
- FT is just not working for me lately, though this month sales went up compared to the last month

Peter · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:25 »

RH · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2009, 05:30 »

SS 32% down
IS 28% down
DT 22% up
StockXpert 11% down
123 3%
FT 3% down
BigStock 1% down

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2009, 07:38 »

Not a bad month, clearly up from last month. SS still first followed by FT and IS. BME at DT only
More stats on my blog: http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/

Hope to have a BME in February !!

L

oboy · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2009, 10:25 »

Here's my stats for January 2009:

Schutterstock = 30%
Fotolia = 22%
Dreamstime = 17%
StockXpert = 13%
123RF = 6%
Big Stock Photo = 3%
Most Photos = 3%
Can Stock Photo = 2%
Photocase = 2%
iStockPhoto = 1%
SnapVillage = 2%

My sale were up 63% compared to the previous month. But this is bringing me only back up to where I was in November, because I had a large drop in December. January started out very slow, but made up in the last two weeks. If the last two weeks are a preview of what is to come in February, then February will be a excellent month.

Click here for a chart.

Pixart · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2009, 10:31 »

SS 28%
FT 19%
DT 18%
IS 17%
BS 8%
StockXpert 8%
123 3%

I'm very surprized at how much the gap has narrowed between my top 4.

Also surprized that FT has been inching forward so consistently since fall '08.

MikLav · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2009, 11:12 »

January was my BME on microstock (in 3+ years). No jumps in any area, no ELs, just steady performance. I kept uploading all month (though not huge amounts but regularly).

iStockphoto 11%
ShutterStock 31%
StockXpert 16%
Fotolia 10%
Dreamstime 13%
BigStockPhoto 3%
123royaltyfree 5%
Other 12%

PixelsAway · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2009, 11:54 »

SS 57.8%
IS 15.1%
DT 9.4%
FT 5.9%
BigStock 4.8%
StockXpert 3.9%
123RF 3.1%

a more detailed January earnings report in Pixels Away blog

Mellimage · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2009, 16:53 »

January was slower than December (down by about 22%) for me, but overall a good month.

FT: 61.7%
IS: 16.8% (better than december but still slow)
SS: 13.5%
DT: 8.4%

Spectre · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2009, 13:46 »

January was quite a surprise, with the final week's daily sales significantly higher than the first 3 weeks daily average. The end result was 28% above the predicted expectation calculated on 1/21. The month was expected to be down from December, as there was very little uploading in January (figured much like november where sales dropped from the october BME).

Monthly earnings breakdown

	December \|	January
IS	24.63%	26.84%
SS	46.56%	33.80%
Dreamstime	13.78%	12.73%
StockXpert	13.73%	22.44%
123rd	0.89%	4.00%
crestock	0.41%	0.17%

As you can see with the uploads below, december was expected to be big; and was BME across the board.

Portfolio Growth

	November \|	December \|	January
IS	0%	31.33%	0%
SS	3.75%	22.41%	9.86%
DT	4.91%	27.34%	0%
SX	0%	74.47%	6.70%
123	0%	30.30%	0%

January was a surprise though with near to no uploading, yet BME's everywhere except shutterstock. Below shows dec growth vs. november and bme (since november was a rough month, down 28.20% from bme Oct)

Earnings Growth

	Dec vs. Nov \|	Dec vs. BME \|	Jan vs. Dec
Overall	140.51%	72.68%	18.65%
IS	126.29%	72.94%	29.31%
SS	170.02%	39.22%	-13.85%
DT	136.45%	52.66%	9.60%
SX	107.50%	(same)	93.98%

Stockexpert definitely stands out, november was the first full month there, accounting for 15.9% of overall earnings. earnings in December were double (along with everyone else), but then almost double again in January, taking #3 spot by storm, and nipping close to the heals of istock for the #2 spot.

Disclaimer Istock started January '08. Shutterstock, Dreamstime, 123rf, crestock July '08, stockxpert Oct '08. So new to the game and building portfolios.
Average portfolio size on top 4 earners: November: 105 images. December: 144 images. January: 151.

jsolie · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2009, 17:06 »

January was my BME, but not by a whole lot. I was able to increase my portfolio across most agencies for the most part. There's a couple where I'm holding off of new uploads.

I'd have to say that SS, while better than the last several months (and nearly double what December was), has been much lower than earlier in 2008. It'll be interesting to see if that trend continues, or if SS can pull off some marketing magic.

IS 33.40%
DT 14.79%
SS 13.31%
FT 12.34%
StockXpert 8.80%
BigStock 7.50% BME
123 6.58% BME
SV 1.65%
CS 1.25%
CanStockPhoto 0.37%
FP/YAY/CC 0.00%
/MP/SR
100.00%

Overall: BME

flashon · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2009, 17:59 »

mine.
the "big 3" continue to dominant.

thaimacky · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2009, 09:12 »

my january:

ss: 38.9%
StockXpert: 26.7%
ft: 14.1%
dt: 11.1%
is: 5.8%
123rf: 3.4%

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