Author Topic: January 2012 earnings (Read 29615 times)

wut · « **on:** February 01, 2012, 05:11 »

BMY at all sites!!!

travelstock · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2012, 05:12 »

Quote from: wut on February 01, 2012, 05:11

BMY at all sites!!!

Yep same here!

aeonf · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2012, 05:20 »

IS isn't dead yet !

BME as an IS exclusive at 35%
Over 2,300$ which is 22% more then last month and 180% more the Jan/2011
Almost 500 downloads.
Over 3,500 photos.
Last month PP sales are grew as well (more then double)

lagereek · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2012, 05:26 »

yes a good January all around! especially pleased that, RM sales have really trebbled compared to Jan.2011.

borg · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2012, 05:51 »

-20% of previous month...

Perry · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2012, 05:56 »

IS - Continues its downward spiral

SS - Best month ever! Earns me twice the money I make at IS (it used to be the other way around for years!)

DT - Steady as usual

Veer - seems to be my number 4 these days

FT - Lower and lower... how low can you get? Last time I had such low sales at FT was august 2008. If this continues, FT will soon fall behind 123rf and Bigstockphoto.

Up: Alamy, Photocase, Bigstockphoto, Mostphotos
Down: Canstockphoto, Zoonar, Photodune

Overall: Not a very good start for this year. Slightly above January 2011, but with 20% more images.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2012, 06:09 »

Quote from: aeonf on February 01, 2012, 05:20

IS isn't dead yet !

BME as an IS exclusive at 35%
Over 2,300$ which is 22% more then last month and 180% more the Jan/2011
Almost 500 downloads.
Over 3,500 photos.
Last month PP sales are grew as well (more then double)

Has your RPI always been around 65 cents or has it changed as you add more images?

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2012, 06:24 »

most sites slightly down from december, nevertheless second bme thanks to shutterstock and veer; may easily turn into bme when IS pp and StockXpert earnings will come

aeonf · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:22 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on February 01, 2012, 06:09

Quote from: aeonf on February 01, 2012, 05:20
IS isn't dead yet !

BME as an IS exclusive at 35%
Over 2,300$ which is 22% more then last month and 180% more the Jan/2011
Almost 500 downloads.
Over 3,500 photos.
Last month PP sales are grew as well (more then double)

Has your RPI always been around 65 cents or has it changed as you add more images?

Well 65c is quite a lot since 3 EL's kind of skewed it and add to the fact that the 35% is a new thing for us.
My "normal" RPI is around 50c-55c

Noodles · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:24 »

IS Exclusive

Great month - more than double 2011 January

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:30 »

Quote from: aeonf on February 01, 2012, 07:22

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on February 01, 2012, 06:09
Quote from: aeonf on February 01, 2012, 05:20
IS isn't dead yet !

BME as an IS exclusive at 35%
Over 2,300$ which is 22% more then last month and 180% more the Jan/2011
Almost 500 downloads.
Over 3,500 photos.
Last month PP sales are grew as well (more then double)

Has your RPI always been around 65 cents or has it changed as you add more images?

Well 65c is quite a lot since 3 EL's kind of skewed it and add to the fact that the 35% is a new thing for us.
My "normal" RPI is around 50c-55c

Was just curious about RPI over time. Was it still 50c when you had 1,000 or 2,000 images? Go up/down?

Mellimage · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:30 »

BME at DT, great RPD: 2.16 $
average but good month at SS
for the first time in ages (or ever since I started in microstock) FT comes in third with earnings (they used to bring 2/3 of my microstock income, now they bring less than 1/3 - with the largest portfolio available)
123rf - low earner still

aeonf · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:40 »

PaulieWalnuts: it was around 40c-45c but I was at 25% back then
My RPI is very steady over all. I haven't noticed a correlation with images added.

Phadrea · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2012, 08:21 »

Rubbish. Bad all round.

helix7 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2012, 09:47 »

Killed it at SS, BME by over $300.

All new low at istock, which now represents just 6% of my total monthly microstock earnings.

Rest of the sites were pretty normal. GR was way up. BME there. And some action on a few of the new sites I've been trying. iClipart is looking pretty good.

stockmarketer · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2012, 09:55 »

BME overall.

SS going great as ELs continue to pile up in good numbers.

IS down a bit from my peak there last fall, but showing signs of a rebound.

FT holding steady over the past few months.

DT down a bit... I blame the idiotic "too many similars" rejections which has caused me to rarely upload there

And the rest, which combined account for less than 10% of my earnings... 123RF a BME, BigStock steady, CanStockPhoto down a bit, etc.

Since RPI is being discussed, mine held steady at about $.12/day. RPI has actually increased over the years as I've built my port. (Now let the debate begin about how this is a meaningless number.)

Phadrea · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2012, 10:55 »

IS still earning more than SS despite going independent.

travelstock · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2012, 11:03 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on February 01, 2012, 07:30

Was just curious about RPI over time. Was it still 50c when you had 1,000 or 2,000 images? Go up/down?

From my stats, the only possible trend I can see is that there is a drop in RPI if you don't upload for an extended period - but it drops and then stays steady. In the time I've been exclusive now, the RPI has moved in a range of about 25% from the lowest to the highest value, but there doesn't seem to be any general trend even though I've gone from ax. 1100 to 3000 images in that time.

steheap · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2012, 11:03 »

Not my best month, but still pretty reasonable with total earnings of around $1150. I've continued to upload images to the main sites, and over the months that has had an effect, and also spreading myself across more agencies results in more steady performance as each site goes through its ups and downs. Shutterstock was the best as usual, but iStock is really growing for me. I keep adding my 20 images a week, and refresh my Photo+ collection as necessary, but both the main agency and the partner earnings were a BME. Here are the usual graphs, more details on my blog.

Steve

velocicarpo · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2012, 11:19 »

Overall a slightly down month. 9% less thatn last January. 12% above December. Could be better :-)

Best earning sites:
1. Shutterstock
2. Fotolia
3. istock
4. Veer
5. Depositphotos
6. Dreamstime
7. Canstock
8. All the rest :-)

fritz · « **Reply #20 on:** February 01, 2012, 11:36 »

IS almost as good as SS.
The rest are

gostwyck · « **Reply #21 on:** February 01, 2012, 11:42 »

Total earnings almost exactly the same as Jan 2011. IS did suprisingly well being only about 10% down in $'s although 46% down in sales. Earnings at SS were up 27% and similar at BigStock but disappointing results at DT and FT, both of whom have slipped backwards.

SS and BigStock together are now contributing 48% of my earnings. Fingers crossed that they can maintain the growth.

rubyroo · « **Reply #22 on:** February 01, 2012, 12:30 »

400% increase on last January (but last January was rubbish).

Only $15 up on December, but at least it's up!

1. Shutterstock.
2. iStock
3. 123RF
4. Dreamstime
5. Fotolia

cthoman · « **Reply #23 on:** February 01, 2012, 12:49 »

It was a solid month. I'm still coming back from the IS breakup.

1. Shutterstock
2. Clipartof
3. Mystockvectors
4. Dreamstime
5. Can Stock
6. 123RF
7. GL
8. Drawshop
9. Bigstock

...and the rest.

daveh900 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 01, 2012, 13:27 »

Had my BDE, BWE, and BME at SS.

Also my best month so far at 123RF.

The rest were just meh.

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