Author Topic: June Stats Anyone? (Read 8832 times)

lisafx · « **on:** July 01, 2010, 16:01 »

Did I miss it or is there no June Stats thread yet? Are we all so depressed we don't even want to discuss it? If so, sorry...

The plus or minus % are from June 09.

ISP    39% -12% from last year
SS    17% -4%
DT    13% -23%
Fot    21% +11%
BigStock    4% +28%
123RF 2% -9%
CanStockPhoto    2% +21%
Alm    4% n/a

Overall my royalties are down 2% from last month and down a really frightening 11% from last June.

Below the top 4 sites the gains and losses appear more extreme, but the amounts are so small they aren't very statistically significant, IMO.

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2010, 16:10 »

The month was really bad especially at iStockphoto. I earned about half of what I did earn in December at IS. It is the first month ever where I earned less than the same month of the year before. Shutterstock is way down too. Only on Fotolia I had a reasonable good month.

qwerty · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2010, 16:19 »

I actually had a good month. Shutterstock and Istock went well, dreamstime and fotolia were down.

I was most disappointed with dreamstime though, they appeared to fall off the end of the world for me. -54% on last month.

Overall income was up 20% from June 2009, though my portfolio is about 20% larger than last June.

cthoman · « **Reply #3 on:** July 01, 2010, 16:21 »

This month was #2, but not the kind of #2 you're thinking of. It was my second to best month ever. IS and SS were down, but I did pretty well with the rest.

cathyslife · « **Reply #4 on:** July 01, 2010, 16:25 »

Here are my stats, comparing June 2010 with June 2009:

IS +1.67%
SS –10.79%
DT +3.22%
BigStock + 5.9%

Pixart · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2010, 16:50 »

Average month everywhere but FT - which was surprizingly good. I had a very good month there, my best yet by a long shot. I have done nothing to improve my position, no new uploads, no promo. Have they made search changes? I would like to think that they have brought in more buyers, but my ranking has jumped quite a bit too so maybe I am just on the good side of the change.

SS is waaay down - I have the freebie photo this week and haven't seen such a big bump this time - although the free photo keeps selling, 4 times today including 2 od's. Don't these buyers look at the front page?

epantha · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2010, 17:05 »

BME overall with more ELs than normal for me.

Up 39% from last June.

IS - 34%
SS - 31% (BME)
DT - 11%
Veer - 9%
FT - 7% (BME)
BS - 3%
123RF- 3%
CanStockPhoto - 3% (BME)

Since the company I worked for shut down over 4 months ago, I've had a lot more time to devote to photography and graphics. The quality of my work has improved and I hope I can continue to work at home. Have a couple of freelance graphic design gigs to help me out, and this creates a nice balance.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 01, 2010, 19:13 »

again a BME, I can say that only IS under perform, I guess for my usual earnings..

travelstock · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2010, 02:28 »

Overall 2nd BME for me, and probably the last full month before I go exclusive at IS. I see that they've just canceled the 100% royalty day in August... typical...

That said it was a BME at SS, DT had its best month since Nov 2009, IS was ok for this year - up from June 09, but not even close to a BME.

Biggest growth seems to be coming from Thinkstock, which isn't exactly good news.

Xalanx · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2010, 03:51 »

compared to June 2009:

IS - + 244% (but I wasn't uploading anything one year ago)
SS - + 149%
DT - + 11% (DT is on the right way to become the biggest fail among all agencies)
FT - +84.67% (BME)
123RF - +134%

The others are less important. However, special note for DepositPhotos who delivers sales almost daily lately, and Zoonar who delivers their monthly earnings - I even had a nice $17-something from Polylooks. Veer got me some $80 since... I don't know when. Canstock sells every once in a while, plus the nice Fotosearch sales. Bigstock is kinda silent. Also, special note for the lowest payment for an EL in the whole industry - 12 bucks, at Dreamstime. It's really pathetic. I get $31 from FT, 28 from SS, 40-something from 123RF, 27 from IS, etc.

gostwyck · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2010, 03:58 »

Not good for me either although the month did finish better than it started so it wasn't as bad as the first projections indicated. My %'s as follows (with 2009);

IS 35.5% (39.6)
SS 24.7% (27.4)
FT 23.5% (14.1)
DT 12.6% (11.4)
BigStock 2.8% (1.8 )

Overall I was up 5% compared to May but, far more worryingly, down 7% on June 2009.

Of all the agencies only FT is still showing growth. IS has been largely static for 18 months now and SS/DT are basically where they were 2 years ago or worse. If I took FT's contribution out of the equation then the results would have been truly horrific.

RT · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2010, 04:14 »

Compared to last year:

iS - Down
SS - Up
FT - UP
DT- Down (loads)

Macro agencies - Up (Lots)

Overall it wasn't a bad month for June which I always expect to be a slump month, iS was disappointing but I put that down to them fiddling around with the site.

I think something is happening at DT, review times are very slow (and yes I read their explanation but they should remove the stats from their front page if they want us to believe that's the reason!)

I'm investing more time creating stuff for Macro agencies at the moment which means I haven't uploaded the numbers I did last year on micro hence the increase return is less than the growth percentage last year.

ShadySue · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2010, 05:49 »

iStock: marginally over May for dls and $$, not including a May EL.
Compared to June '09: dls down c25%, $$ up c35%, mostly due to Exc+.

Alamy: nada. Think I need an Alamy mentor.

borg · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2010, 07:57 »

BME +19% from previous month...

oboy · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2010, 10:22 »

This is my stock photography sales statistic for June 2010. You can find a complete list of stock photography agencies that I work with here.

These are for me the best 4 performing stock agencies for June 2010:

1. Shutterstock
2. Fotolia
3. ClipArtOf
4. Dreamstime

June was a good month, but with small decrease of 11% compared to May (beginning of summer low?). Maybe it was also do to my effort for my iPhone App "Photo - Infos". This reduced the time I spend on creating and uploading new images to the agencies. June was the best month ever for Zoonar.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2010, 13:40 »

I'm exclusive at IS - June was down very slightly from May in both $$ and DLs but was up from June 2009 - 22% higher in DLs and 88% higher in $$. IOW, I think it was good for June (and there were no extended licenses shoring up the $$ this month)

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2010, 06:51 »

I just update my blog http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/ with my June stats.
It was a BME for pictures but almost no sales on video and audio this month

L

lagereek · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2010, 07:52 »

Im not noticing too much of a slow down, what surprises me is that my RM and RF, is really good but the entire Micro seems to be in a bit of a low. Well, theyve had their 10 years now and with too much of everything, contributors, files, just about everything, Im not surprised one little bit.

madelaide · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2010, 17:17 »

I did not finish updating my spreadsheet, but June was slightly better than May. FT as best earner, followed by DT and IS. A bit far away comes BigStock in 4th place, but in fact Zazzle produced better earnings than BigStock.

Although May was better in DT than June, I have seen some nice credit sales lately. If I could only get rid of subs...

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2010, 17:42 »

Quote from: madelaide on July 03, 2010, 17:17

I did not finish updating my spreadsheet, but June was slightly better than May. FT as best earner, followed by DT and IS. A bit far away comes BigStock in 4th place, but in fact Zazzle produced better earnings than BigStock.

Although May was better in DT than June, I have seen some nice credit sales lately. If I could only get rid of subs...

I find it refreshing and admire your tenacity for never giving up.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 03, 2010, 18:34 »

Quote from: madelaide on July 03, 2010, 17:17

I did not finish updating my spreadsheet, but June was slightly better than May. FT as best earner, followed by DT and IS. A bit far away comes BigStock in 4th place, but in fact Zazzle produced better earnings than BigStock.

Although May was better in DT than June, I have seen some nice credit sales lately. If I could only get rid of subs...

I would change them to regular

designalldone · « **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2010, 04:53 »

Quote from: holgs on July 02, 2010, 02:28

I see that they've just canceled the 100% royalty day in August... typical...

Please can you post a link to this info? I've just looked in the forums and can't see it mentioned anywhere.

If you're right, that really sucks!! - I've been looking forward to the 100% royalty day since becoming exclusive in January.

gostwyck · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2010, 05:14 »

Quote from: designalldone on July 06, 2010, 04:53

Please can you post a link to this info? I've just looked in the forums and can't see it mentioned anywhere.

If you're right, that really sucks!! - I've been looking forward to the 100% royalty day since becoming exclusive in January.

Here you go __ it was squeezed towards the end of the first post;

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=228211&page=1

PowerDroid · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2010, 06:52 »

For me, June 2010 was:

* Flat to May 2010, almost to the dollar
* Up 120% from June 2010
* 3rd BME (after Mar and May 2010)

designalldone · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2010, 07:15 »

Quote from: gostwyck on July 06, 2010, 05:14

Quote from: designalldone on July 06, 2010, 04:53
Please can you post a link to this info? I've just looked in the forums and can't see it mentioned anywhere.

If you're right, that really sucks!! - I've been looking forward to the 100% royalty day since becoming exclusive in January.

Here you go __ it was squeezed towards the end of the first post;

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=228211&page=1

Thanks very much for that. Very disappointing to say the least.... will go and read the entire thread to see what others think.

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Author Topic: June Stats Anyone? (Read 8832 times)

lisafx

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cthoman

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Pixart

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luissantos84

travelstock

Xalanx

gostwyck

RT

ShadySue

borg

oboy

Jo Ann Snover

MicrostockExp

lagereek

madelaide

WarrenPrice

luissantos84

designalldone

gostwyck

PowerDroid

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