Author Topic: July 2011 Earnings (Read 12556 times)

stockmarketer · « **on:** August 01, 2011, 10:16 »

Surprised we're halfway through August 1 and no one has started a thread on this yet. So I guess I'll start off.

Anticipated a terrible month, so looking at it that way, I was pleased.

Total earnings:
July was down about 5% from June
July 2011 was up about 90% from July 2010

RPI:
July was down about 10% from June
July 2011 was up about 15% from July 2010

(I should point out, I've been at this for roughly three years)

As for my top earning sites, no big shake-ups here... pretty much the same order for the past several months:

1. SS
2. FT
3. ISP
4. DT

5. CanStockPhoto
6. BigStock
7. 123RF
8. DP

9. GL
10. SF
11. VEER
12. CRE

Slovenian · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:30 »

2nd best month on SS (almost 15% up from June), average on IS (10% up from June), FT and DT BME (doesn't mean anything since I started to UL again in June and we're talking peanuts here), 123RF's first complete month better than FT and DT (around 75% higher earnings than at either one), so those 2 really are pathetic agencies.

So to sum it up, SS is doing great, 123RF surprisingly well, IS still can't make (much) more than SS makes (with PP royalties included). DT and FT are just a waste of time and I already stopped uploading there again.

disorderly · « **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:38 »

July was up 19% over June, but down 18.5% from July, 2010. Year over year was flat (down .4%). Most of the upside was at Shutterstock, which moved up to 43% of the total for the month. Dreamstime and Fotolia were both up a lot over June, 40% and 58% respectively. iStock was down 35%, some of which is the June PP earnings that are still trickling in. The big surprise was Envato/PhotoDune, which invited me to join in June. Last month they accounted for 3.8% of my revenue, putting them behind Deposit (4.9%), BigStock (4.6%) and StockFresh (4.5%), but ahead of StockXpert (2.1%), Veer (2%), CanStock (1.4%) and a few other no-hopers.

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:45 »

My portfolio is quite small. I seldom participate in the earnings thread ... BUT... had an interesting July. Dreamstime was the top earner for the first time ever. Way to go DT. I would post a BME note in your forum but I've been banned.

leaf · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:50 »

well, it depends where in the world you are

I just woke up on August 1 a few seconds ago.

Here is my graph

don't forget about the polls.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:56 »

BME getting very close to the 1k $

- SS 55% (3251 pics)
- IS 12% (925 pics)
- 123RF 10% (3835 pics)
- FT 7% (3033 pics)
- DT 5% (2089 pics)

around 10% from other agencies (which remain quite low)

Daevid · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:58 »

-Barely made a payout at iStock for the first time in years.
-First zero download day at Shutterstock since April 2008
-First month ever to do worse than the same month of the previous year.

Everything's looking dandy!

PixelsAway · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:13 »

total earnings in July almost the same as in June, but slightly down in comparison with May (BME)

IS 37% (slightly up)
SS 28% (slightly up)
DT 11% (way down)
FT 5% (way down)
others 17% (slightly up)

IS used to be close to 50% in my earnings a year ago

reached the diamond canister in IS in July

lisafx · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:13 »

Very, very bad month. Overall I am down 7% on last month, and down 5% on last year.

Thanks to P+ at Istock, my earnings there were within 50 cents of last year, although downloads fell a staggering 37%. My income drop was due entirely to the 39% drop at Fotolia. Even though SS and DT showed gains, they weren't enough to compensate for the drop at FT.

Here's the breakdown, followed by the % drop or gain from last year.

   ISP   37% (=)
   SS   21% (+14%)
   DT   15% (+14%)
   Fot   13% (-39%)
   Others 12%

ShadySue · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:26 »

(iStock exclusive). Good month. 2nd best of year for both $$ and dls. $$$ c16% down from June, which was a big spike since the previous months, but c33% up from last July.
My stats seem to be a mirror image of everyone else's this year, having had a dire beginning to the year, and for the first time, my $$$ YTD is 'just' higher than in 2010.
Nightmare July stats thread in the iStock forum. Ha, Warren, I was just thinking, if Lobo hadn't banned me, there would be a positive post from someone other than a newbie on that thread.

Hope those who had poor months are 'just' in the Summer Slump.
3 Alamy sales, but some posters over on their forum are reporting good months. (Newbies remember $$ quoted there are generally gross, not what the contributor got.)

steheap · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:26 »

I had my best month ever with a final breaking of the elusive $1000 barrier for the month. I was really helped by a large sale on Alamy, and a sale of the rights on Dreamstime, but each of the sites showed promise. Shutterstock was the second best month, iStock picked up over recent months, iSignStock came from nowhere to net $30 for the month - all in all, not bad at all.

My full results are on my blog - http://www.backyardsilver.com/2011/08/earnings-from-selling-photos-for-stock-in-july-2011/ detailing earnings from selling photos in July 2011, but here are the main graphs:

Steve

Anyka · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:37 »

July was better than expected. Despite the Istock decline (which is about 30% YTD), Shutterstock and 123rf are doing very well, and DST and Fotolia are also showing some growth, which gives a bottomline growth of 6% in dollars. In euros - sigh - it's a different story : going down just a bit, but I can hardly blame Istock for the financial crisis in the world (or can I ?

).

Slovenian · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2011, 13:12 »

Quote from: disorderly on August 01, 2011, 10:38

iStock was down 35%, some of which is the June PP earnings that are still trickling in.

But these are May PP earnings. I wonder how many ppl is doing the calculation the way you do, in my view it's not correct. If you keep on doing that you'll be adding not 1 month old PP royalties, but 3+ to the previous month's earnings, the way things are going over there

luissantos84 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2011, 13:15 »

Quote from: Slovenian on August 01, 2011, 13:12

Quote from: disorderly on August 01, 2011, 10:38
iStock was down 35%, some of which is the June PP earnings that are still trickling in.

But these are May PP earnings. I wonder how many ppl is doing the calculation the way you do, in my view it's not correct. If you keep on doing that you'll be adding not 1 month old PP royalties, but 3+ to the previous month's earnings, the way things are going over there

no no sales that are entering now are June

jm · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2011, 13:34 »

It's hard to believe but July is +20% compared to June - thanks to SS that makes more that 50% of my earnings - I think that end of nondiscoverable new images issue on SS has helped a lot.

Shutterstock 52% (+45% compared to June)
Fotolia 10% (-30%)
Zazzle 10% (-30%)
123rf 9% (+15%)
Dreamstime 6% (+25%)
Veer 5% (+900%) (Multi-user license made a difference and June was terrible)
CanStockPhoto 2.5% (+45%)
Deposit 2% (+50%)
.
.
.
BigStock 0.1% (no comment)

contrastaddict · « **Reply #15 on:** August 01, 2011, 13:55 »

down, down, down

qwerty · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2011, 15:29 »

I don't know what happened this month, 45% down on last month

It was like my entire portfolio was made of 4th of july pictures.

DT was worst hit

Freedom · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2011, 15:31 »

Not a good month for me, an iS exclusive.

lagereek · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2011, 15:34 »

Not BME, but certainly best match-this year! close to 7K, thats counting micro and a few RFs ( not RMs).

In micro, SS leads by far, bloody exellent! followed by DT, followed by FT. Veers, is doing great as well. IS ?, well its something Ive kind of left on the shelf and when my locked P+ files are unlocked, Im getting out of there, dont need the hassle anymore.

My observation is this: if I can have 2 months in a row like this, well, then I simply dont need agency hassles anymore.

PS/ Lisa! sorry to hear about this month, better luck next month! cheer up!

luissantos84 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2011, 15:47 »

Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 15:34

close to 7K

quoting you again eheh where are the 500$ daily earnings??

lagereek · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2011, 16:15 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 01, 2011, 15:47

Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 15:34
close to 7K

quoting you again eheh where are the 500$ daily earnings??

You know luis, you seem to be a bit of a kid, mentally that is. How old are you?? teenage? 500 bucks a day makes 15K per month, yes? thats counting, micro, RF and RM, when I said close to 7K, I was only refering to micro and 2 RFs, NOT any RMs,

My RM business is a totally different thing and I cant count that simply because its my own RM outlet, with 2 employees as well. Been like that before you were born. Our RM agency has had a turnover past half a million dollars per annum, also before you were born but ofcourse, you wouldnt understand what Im talking about here, would you.

Do me a favour please. Dont quote me anymore, better still dont use the word quote as far as anybody is concerned, its childish.

CD123 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 01, 2011, 16:39 »

My first "summer month" experience. Expected worse and actually had a record month, but mainly due to European site sales. US sites did not drop as much as I expected (bit less in quantity and revenue per sale) and a few "dead ducks" actually showed some life (like YAYMicro), which did help. Thus, quite happy

luissantos84 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 01, 2011, 16:42 »

Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 16:15

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 01, 2011, 15:47
Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 15:34
close to 7K

quoting you again eheh where are the 500$ daily earnings??

You know luis, you seem to be a bit of a kid, mentally that is. How old are you?? teenage? 500 bucks a day makes 15K per month, yes? thats counting, micro, RF and RM, when I said close to 7K, I was only refering to micro and 2 RFs, NOT any RMs,

My RM business is a totally different thing and I cant count that simply because its my own RM outlet, with 2 employees as well. Been like that before you were born. Our RM agency has had a turnover past half a million dollars per annum, also before you were born but ofcourse, you wouldnt understand what Im talking about here, would you.

Do me a favour please. Dont quote me anymore, better still dont use the word quote as far as anybody is concerned, its childish.

GUILTY - read your post too quick, sorry
GUILTY - born in 84, sorry

lagereek · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2011, 16:44 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on August 01, 2011, 16:42

Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 16:15
Quote from: luissantos84 on August 01, 2011, 15:47
Quote from: lagereek on August 01, 2011, 15:34
close to 7K

quoting you again eheh where are the 500$ daily earnings??

You know luis, you seem to be a bit of a kid, mentally that is. How old are you?? teenage? 500 bucks a day makes 15K per month, yes? thats counting, micro, RF and RM, when I said close to 7K, I was only refering to micro and 2 RFs, NOT any RMs,

My RM business is a totally different thing and I cant count that simply because its my own RM outlet, with 2 employees as well. Been like that before you were born. Our RM agency has had a turnover past half a million dollars per annum, also before you were born but ofcourse, you wouldnt understand what Im talking about here, would you.

Do me a favour please. Dont quote me anymore, better still dont use the word quote as far as anybody is concerned, its childish.

GUILTY - read your post too quick, sorry
GUILTY - born in 84, sorry

Oh well, never mind, we are still friends, hey.

rubyroo · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2011, 17:05 »

Born in 84? Surely that makes you young and therefore INNOCENT

My July:

An astounding month! A BME for me. Last July was abysmal, so I've been very surprised by this one.

Shutterstock came out top (by a long way) with 45%

iStock trailed a long way behind with 9.14% and was beaten by 123RF, and DT

Worst performer of the big guns was Fotolia at 3.51% of the total.

Sorry to hear it hasn't been so good for others. Wishing you a great August.

pancaketom · « **Reply #25 on:** August 01, 2011, 17:14 »

BME for me thanks mainly to a BME at SS. IS was saved by ELs, and DT was pretty weak. SS pretty much carried the show.

raclro · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2011, 17:16 »

surprisingly good for summer, down a bit from last year, but most months are for me in 2011.

travelstock · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2011, 18:03 »

Compared to June 11:
$$$ +17%
DLS +14%
# Files: +5%

Compared to July 10 is sort of irrelevant because it was a month where I was exclusive for only half, but:
DLS on IS:
+ 66%
$$ (compared to overall Jul figure inc. other agencies) +79%
# Files: + 78%

klsbear · « **Reply #28 on:** August 01, 2011, 20:05 »

Too new at this to have valid comparisons to the previous year but up from June and overall a decent month.

SS - 39%
ISP - 28%
DT - 12%
123rf - 12%
FT - 4%
CanStockPhoto - 2%
with a handful of smaller sites adding 1% each.

Highlights include a big jump in sales at 123rf that's continuing into August, first sale at Stockfresh and a nice increase in sales at iSP at the end of the month.

Atwim · « **Reply #29 on:** August 02, 2011, 02:52 »

Broke my 8 month streak of consecutive BMEs but still a pretty decent month. July has always been my weakest month of the year and this year shows the same performance compared to june as last year´s. It is still third best month ever.

Compared to june 2011: DLs -17% $$ -19%

Compared to june 2011 DLS +99% $$ + 135%

Lets see what August brings.

aeonf · « **Reply #30 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:21 »

A bad month for us.
IS exclusives at 30%
Down 17% from last month, made 1,300$ with 390 downloads
Up 590% since July last year.

gostwyck · « **Reply #31 on:** August 02, 2011, 04:13 »

Earnings for July were identical, literally to the $, to July 2010. However the contributions from the various agencies has altered radically. Here's my July numbers (with 2010);

SS 41% (27)
IS 26% (35)
FT 17% (25)
DT 12% (9)
BS 3% (4)

I'm staggered to find that PPD sales at SS alone (not including EL's) are now nearly half of my total earnings at IS. If they were counted as a separate agency they would now be my #3 earner and just ahead of DT.

The gains and losses at the various agencies, compared to July 2010 were as follows;

SS +52%
IS -25%
FT -32%
DT +33%
BS +30%

The remarkable change in the market share is not a blip either but, according to my figures, a gradual shift over the last couple of years that now appears to be accelerating. Without the boost from P+ at IS the change would have been even more extreme.

Microstock Posts · « **Reply #32 on:** August 02, 2011, 04:18 »

Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 01, 2011, 10:45

My portfolio is quite small. I seldom participate in the earnings thread ... BUT... had an interesting July. Dreamstime was the top earner for the first time ever. Way to go DT. I would post a BME note in your forum but I've been banned.

I've never heard of anyone being banned from DT's forum. I'm starting to think very highly of you now.

Suljo · « **Reply #33 on:** August 02, 2011, 09:30 »

Very average month except few big sales at Alamy

anonymous · « **Reply #34 on:** August 02, 2011, 10:14 »

really bad month...everything down except FT...go figure

Megastock · « **Reply #35 on:** August 02, 2011, 13:29 »

+50% over last July on DT. Up 35% if you take into account the number of images online...

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