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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: fintastique on June 30, 2008, 14:47
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Figures have been updated as June is over
The summer slump seems to have begun at some sites but not others so a fairly average month overall.
SS (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60395) 47.2%
DT (http://www.dreamstime.com/resp129469) 17.7% *
FT (http://en.fotolia.com/partner/38701) 8.4% #
StockXpert 7.2%
123 (http://www.123rf.com/src_fintastique) 6.5%
IS 6.2%
BS (http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=doyu49fkgQ) 5.9% #
FP 0.6% #
* BME at DT by 22c
# worst month of 2008
For any of you with a video camera I have recently made a webpage comparing the three principle sites selling footage
Micro Stock Footage guide (http://www.fintastique.com/footage.htm)
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FYI istock allows ftp uploads for video for non-exclusives... unless i slipped through that is!!? I have an ftp video account in any case and i am not exclusive.
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Anyone want to add a total earnings poll to this?
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The numbers on the right hand side of the screen; is there a ryme or reason to those or are they purely subjective. If so, what is a starting point to vote?
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Only istock, but not too summer slumpy yet. Downloads stayed fairly flat, with only a 2% increase. Royalties were up 27% from May.
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Column on left was May
SHUTTERSTOCK 96.6 138.38
DREAMSTIME 68.6 60.87
ISTOCKPHOTO 14.5 4.39
BIGSTOCK 10 6.5
CANSTOCK 2 2
123RF 3.5 3.37
FOTOLIA 14.5 3.5
SNAP VILLAGE 3 3.3
YAYMICRO 0 0
ALAMY 0 0
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Interesting month. All ups and downs are compared to June 2007:
SS 43% - up 43%
IS 14% - down 2%
DT 12% - up 3%
FT 10% - up 84%
BS 6% - up 87%
123 5% - up 142% BME
StockXpert 5% - up 52%
Scans 2% - up 67%
FP 1% - up 337%
SV 1%
Total: up 35%
The big winner is SS, which hasn't done this good since last year. 123RF is also doing nicely, and that seems to be a lasting trend. DT is losing sales month after month. Nothing but negatives since they introduced subs. My summer sales at IS have always been low. Nothing new there.
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Numbers compared to May-2008 (was BME).
Revenue down -20% :(
Percentage:
istock 46,2%
shutterstock 17,7%
dreamstime 10,0%
stockxpert 7,4%
shotshop (german) 5,8%
fotolia 4,8%
digitalstock (german) 4,1%
123rf 2,6%
bigstock 1,3%
Not a singe sale at panthermedia, first time this happened since Sep-2007. Worst revenue since Oct-2007 at the other two German sites. :(
Highest relative percentage ever for istock (although revenue there is down 13%).
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IS: 40% - up 32% on May - BME
SS: 38% - up 18%
DT: 13% - up 30% BME
FT: 6% - up 42% BME
BS: 2% - up 45%
Overall it was a month of 2 halves - the first half was below budget, but received a significant spike in the last 2 weeks both from increased downloads and a few extended license sales. Overall still not quite up to the 1K per month mark, but getting very close :)
July is the lucky month hopefully!
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I missed my goal of $400 due to a very lazy month. I added only 15-20 images, so I have only myself to blame.
However I am thrilled with June 2008. Despite the onset of the summer slowdown, a struggling economy, and a lack of new images on my part, I came within $3 of a BME from April. And in many ways, I consider this to be my best month in microstock as I was only aided by 1 EL. April produced 3 or 4 EL's.
Total: $340
Shutterstock 41.6% (BME for downloads)
iStockphoto 18.4%
Dreamstime 14.4% (BME)
Fotolia 9.5%
123RF 5.8% (BME)
Bigstockphoto 5.4%
Stockxpert 5.0% (BME)
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Actually SS earnings this month were fairly close to a BME.
Just have been having a closer look at SS in terms of number of downloads Feb was my best month this year in terms of number of DLs there so i divided all the others by Feb's total.
Jan 0.84
Feb 1.00
March 0.94
April 0.86
May 0.76
June 0.71
Looking forward to the autumn with increased DL numbers combined with the 38c per DL.
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Too many subs at DT. RPD went from .86 (May) to .66
% earnings and change vs May.
SS 39% 17%
IS 13% -7%
DT 11% -31%
FL 10% 29%
StockXpert 10% 16%
BS 7% 23%
123RF 9% -53%
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for the first time SS is on #1 for me
roughly:
SS 40%
FT 35%
DT 15%
IS, 123, StockXpert - 10 %
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I'd also like to see a poll about earnings.
Shutterstock 56,41
Stockxpert 12,32
Fotolia 8,88
Dreamstime 7,15
123 Royalty free 6,50
iStock 6,16
Most Photos 2,34
Big Stock Photo 0,24
BME with 18% more earnings than previous month. Only StockXpert was down by 7%, on all other sites I had a BME.
Other observations:
- finally I'm starting to see better earnings across all sites. SS still makes the majority of my earnings but it's overall percentage is falling, which is good since my earnings are more spread out and less sensitive about changes, performances of just one site.
- getting more and more subs at DT, sales were up by 150% but earnings "only" by 80% because of that
- I'll give BigStock just one more month before I stop uploading. Let's see how it performs.
- First sale with MP, which made more than BigStock in whole month
- overall I'm very, very satisfied with MS earnings after just 6 months (for most sites evev less). Will probably see a slowdown now, since I'll go on vacations. But that's a good chance to make new photos, relax and get some new ideas. Plus I'm gonna try something new in the next couple of months, looking forward to it.
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IS 45%
SS 25%
DT 12%
123RF 8%
BigStock 5%
CS 3% BME
FT 1% WME, less than 50% of previous worst month
StockXpert 1% WME
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SS - - 33%
IS - - 39%
DT - - 3%
FT - - 11%
123 - - 10%
BS - - 5%
Within .5% of BME May 2008
Will be going exclusive with IS
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Only slightly down in total from last month. 10% increase at FT this month. DT is now regulaly at number 2 for me, with IS still at number 1.
IS 39.8%
DT 20%
SS 19%
FT 18.5%
SX 2.7%
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A year in microstock for me this month, here my stats but more details on my blog at http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/
1. SS 45 % BME
2. IS 19 % BME
3. FT 14%
4. StockXpert 8% close to BME
5. DT 8 % BME
6. 123RF 5 %
No extended sales, no midstock sales :'(
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IS + SS = 73%
and a more detailed monthly report in my blog:
http://www.pixelsaway.com/C911796005/E20080701070144/index.html
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BME across the board, 15% increase in sales.
IS 51%
SS 23%
others 26%
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Overall up 5.4% over last month, thanks to a couple EL sales.
- = decrease over last month
= = about the same as last month
+ = increase over last month
SS - 30% =
StockXpert - 16% =
DT - 14% =
IS - 10% -
123RF - 9% +
FT - 9% -
BigStock - 6% +
Other - 6% + (includes Featurepics, Crestock, & Snapvillage)
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micro made up 51% of sales :) both micro and macro had BME :):):)
(only by 4% for micro, but then I didn't upload much)
IS 41%
SS 19%
DT 12%
123RF 7.5% huge BME
StockXpert 5.5% BME (didn't realise :))
FT 5.5% BME (hmm I do better there now that I stop uploading ?? :)
BigStock 4.1% BME
FP 2.5% BME
SNAP 1%
CRE .9%
SCAN .7%
CAN .3%
Nothing on most or zymm
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June surprised me by being slightly up from May and only a bit down from April, which was BME.
With the long 4th of July weekend in the US along with summer vacations I doubt July will perform as well.
IS 39% (up 2%)
SS 18%
FOT 15%
DT 11% (up 1%)
StockXpert 8% (down 1%)
BigStock 5%
123 3%
CREST 1%
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June was my 3rd full month with all of the top agencies except StockXpert (2 months) and SS (1.5 months). From May to June there was a 62% increase in sales.
DT 32% (2 ELs)
IS 28% (1 EL)
SS 23%
FT 6%
BigStock 4%
StockXpert 3%
123RF 3%
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Seems we don't do the earnings poll every month, but once in a while it's fun to see how people are doing. So how was June for you?
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Same $300 - $350 as in the last 4 months
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still 4 figures after 8 months without any uploads .... could be worse 8)
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thanks for starting the the poll helix. I merged the two threads for june earnings.
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revenue slightly up from May, so the summer slump hasn't hit me yet. However, the last two weeks were slower.
FT 40.9% (another really good month there)
IS 37.2% (best month this year in income, no uploads from me since April)
SS 14.9% (slow due to me taking a break with uploads from April to end of June)
DT 7.0% (another agency I haven't uploaded to since April)
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SS 54.67% BME
IS 23.98%
STX 7.17% BME
DT 6.18% BME
FT 5.79%
RF123 3.62%
BigStock 0.22%
CS 0.49%
port size range from just above 300 - at IS, to over 600 at STX and RF123. SS with 530 files in port.
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Earnings about the same as May
SS 33%
IS 23%
FT 15%
DT 11%
123rf 6% BME
SX 6%
BS 5% BME
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My May and 2008 numbers, with 2007 for comparison:
| Site | 2007 | 2008 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| IS | 26% | 26% | 22% | 37% | 26% | 26% | 23% | 18% | | | | | | |
| DT | 16% | 21% | 30% | 16% | 18% | 22% | 14% | 26% | | | | | | |
| StockXpert | 20% | 18% | 19% | 12% | 22% | 21% | 24% | 13% | | | | | | |
| FT | 13% | 12% | 8% | 11% | 16% | 13% | 13% | 15% | | | | | | |
| BigStock | 8% | 6% | 8% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 9% | | | | | | |
| 123 | 4% | 6% | 5% | 8% | 3% | 4% | 8% | 11% | | | | | | |
| FP | 3% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 10% | 3% | 7% | | | | | | |
| CanStockPhoto | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | <1% | <1% | 1% | | | | | | |
| Scan | 1% | <1% | 0% | <1% | 1% | <1% | 1% | <1% | | | | | | |
| CS | <1% | ~0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | ~0% | 1% | 0% | | | | | | |
| Zymm | <1% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 3% | 0% | | | | | | |
| rest | 3% | <2% | 3% | 1% | <1% | ~0% | 1% | 0% | | | | | | |
Overall a bit better than May, but still 20% below February, which was my BME.
Increases in DT and FT only due to ELs. A small decrease in IS, keeping a tendency of less results which started in my BME in February. Significant decrease in StockXpert, making it the worst of the past 12 months. BME in 123RF. Good month in BigStock, almost a BME. Good month also in FP, 2nd best this year.
Three sales in CanStockPhoto, none in CS, one sale in Scan. Nothing also in Albumo, SV, Zymm, MP.
Regards,
Adelaide
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^ You forgot to put the June numbers in?
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Hmm. The May column is actually June. I picked the table from the April earnings thread, not May's (stupid me!). I will correct it in a few minutes. Thanks for pointing me that.
edited: the table is correct now.
Regards,
Adelaide
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Where are all the $10k people?
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probably in Hawaii drinking martinis.
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probably in Hawaii drinking martinis.
Amen, brother, I hear ya there!
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june was better than I expected but slightly lower than may
IS: 34% (significant drop from previous month)
FT: 29% (BME)
SS: 15%
StockXpert: 11%
DT: 07%
BS : 02%
123rf: 02%
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Total month = BME! ;D
First 2 weeks at SS = 54 % BME!
DT = 17 % BME!
FT = 13% BME!
IS = 8 % BME!
ScanStockPhoto = 8 %!
Mostphotos = 0%
Total 57 $
I am pleased if this is a summer month with slower sales than usual. I have now been in stock for 3 month and think its ok, regarding the fact i have no photos of models or people. :)
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BME overall ;D ;D ;D
SS 54% BME ;D
MP 20% BME ;D
BigStock 11% BME ;D
DT 8%
123rf 4% BME ;D
FT 1%
-Mark