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« on: April 01, 2009, 05:11 »
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SS 38.1%
DT 18.5% 2BME
FT 16.1% BME
BS 7.5%
IS 7.1%
123 5.7%
StockXpert 4.2%
CanStockPhoto 1.9%

Not bad overall disappointed with StockXpert


CofkoCof

« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 05:57 »
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IS 33,86 BME, had a very bad month lasth month but it greatly recovered this month (77% up on previous month)
SS 17,60  down 20% on last month
123RF 12,48 16% up, just short of a BME
StockXpert 11,94 up 7%
DT11,88 up 10%
FT 8,95 up 25%
BigStock 3,30 up 300%
Overall 20% up on previous month.

Observations:
- IS was #1 agency for the second time for me (the first time was 2 months ago)
- SS is just going down, I'm not feeding the beast. DL wise I was to 1/4 of DL of my BME, money wise a bit less since my royalties increased
- 123rf is doing really well for me, don't think it was ever at 3rd spot yet though
- don't know why I'm not doing that great at fotolia, they just don't seem to like my images

michealo

« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2009, 06:04 »
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IS 100%

BME $ & DLs

« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2009, 06:15 »
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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2009, 06:23 »
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SS          27%  BME
FT          27%  BME
IS           24%  BME
DT         13%  BME
StockXpert         4%
BS           3%  BME
123         2%  BME without ELs

An absolutely amazing month giving me 1000$ more earnings than my previous BME  ;D ;D ;D

« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2009, 06:43 »
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Congratulations fotografer! ;D
I also had my BME with a 41% increase in sales from the previous month.
1st time all agencies did well.

IS  30%  2nd BME
SS   22%  BME
DT   19%  2nd BME
StockXpert   9%  2nd BME
FT   7%
BigStock  7%  BME
123  4%  BME

« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2009, 06:52 »
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Here is some data from a newbie.  I started contributing to microstock sites in mid-January.  March was the first full month in which I had images on SS and IS.  My portfolios range in size from 52 on IS to 149 on StockXpert. Not suprisingly March was my BME on all sites.

SS     56.78%
DT     11.49%
IS        9.69%
FT       8.42%
StockXpert     4.98%
BigStock     4.86%
123RF  3.79%
« Last Edit: April 01, 2009, 07:35 by packerguy »

« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2009, 07:03 »
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What an amazing month! I was not expecting to see any BME's, but I had several! I earned $300 more from "big five" this month than I did my previous BME (This is with a portfolio of about 1200 images)

IS 35% BME
FT 22% BME
SS 19%
DT 18% BME
SX 6%


+some from Crestock, Bigstockphoto, 123rf, Scanstockphoto and such

Very dissapointed with SX, but still it was a bit better than last month.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2009, 07:09 by Perry »

« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2009, 07:33 »
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I'm really glad to see so many of us doing so well this month.    ;D ;D

« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2009, 08:24 »
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And it is really amazing that people are doing well despite the bad economy. Maybe this is a sign that things are getting better! :D

« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2009, 08:48 »
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Istock: 44%
SS: 19%
SX: 17%
FP: 11%
DS: 7%
123rf: 1%
Cre: 0.3%

I'm seeing a dramatic shift over the last few months.  December and January, Shutterstock was the leader, with December being BME and accounting for 47%.  January was down a little, still the leader but only 33%.  Earnings slowly eroded, but bounced back in March a little to beat Feb, but still below december & january.

Istock during that time had significant jumps. 126% earnings growth from November to December, 73% growth over previous BME (Oct).  January was another BME, although only 29% growth over previous.  However February signaled a big boost again, moving it to the best earning for the month, and 82% earnings growth from January.   March was modest growth, 37%, but given the percentage of earnings that IS is for the last couple months, a significant amount  (that 37% growth was 12% of total monthly earnings).

istock had a 4 month head start over SS, and SS passed istocks total earnings within 3 months from starting there, and was significantly leading (total earnings as of Feb 1st were almost twice Istocks.  In two months, istock took the lead back.  The conspiracy side of me thinks it's because we're coming imminently close to exclusivity eligibility ;)
« Last Edit: April 01, 2009, 09:00 by Spectre »

« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2009, 08:50 »
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And it is really amazing that people are doing well despite the bad economy. Maybe this is a sign that things are getting better! :D

I suspect that given the economic issues of late, the subscription model is fading from favor and going into an on demand model.  As advertising budgets are getting slashed, they are cutting out the large per month fees when they can, and opting instead for an as needed single download model.  I've seen a significant 'shift' in earnings from shutterstock to istock, and the theory seems to fit that.

« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2009, 08:54 »
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My guess is that last few monts many advertising/web etc projects were put to a halt.
But in march everybody realised that the end of the world didn't come after all and started buying images again.

« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2009, 09:29 »
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IS 28 %
SS 25%
FT 22%
DT 15% BME
StockXpert 7.8%

« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2009, 09:45 »
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SS
38%
+44%
BME
iS
18%
+18%
Ftl
11%
-6%
DT
11%
+19%
SX
7%
-18%
BigStock
6%
+101%
BME
123
3%
-19%
Cres
2%
+60%
BME
Can
.4%
-60%

Overall, an increase of 19% over February, which was my previous BME.  I'm uploading to the top seven on my list, having given up on Crestock (close enough to 100% rejections as to not matter) and CanStock (deleting anything that hasn't sold in the past two years).

j2k

« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2009, 09:54 »
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shutterstock: 30.1% BME (+101% from February thanks to 3 ELs)
istock: 27.6%
fotolia: 17.5% BME
dreamstime: 9.9% BME
stockxpert: 6.5%
123rf: 3.8% BME
bigstock: 2.8%

Overall a superb month +45% over February and my BME by 30%, Fotolia did exceptionally well this month except for the last week where the sales dried up. Whatever it was I suspect it will be a while before I reach that level there again.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2009, 09:59 by j2k »

« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2009, 09:59 »
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All figures compared to March 2008:

SS 40%, 31% up, BME
IS 21%, 72% up, BME
DT 18%, 21% up, BME
FT 10%, 23% up
BS 4%, 7% down
StockXpert 3%, 42% down
123 2%, 24% down
FP 2%, no sales last year
Scanstock 1%, 50% up

Total: 25% up from March 2008, 12% up from February 2009

Very nice month, and close to total BME. A strong shift towards the bigger agencies, the top four representing 89% of the revenue. Interestingly, more than half of the $$ on SS was PPD and EL. A very positive development in my eyes.


« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2009, 10:32 »
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I had my big jump in February, March was a little slower. T
otal earnings went up, but not as much as I would expect.

SS (50%) - the same performance as in February, IS and DT down,
but all my smaller players (StockXpert, FT, BigStock, 123RF) up and with BME.

My detailed March earnings report.

lisafx

« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2009, 10:50 »
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March was a good month for me.  Only place I saw a sales decline was 123RF.  Everywhere else was up slightly on Feb.  Royalties broke down as follows:

ISP  43%
SS    15%
FOT  15%
DT    12%
StockXpert     7%
BigStock     5%
123     2%
Crestock & Canstock 1% each

« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2009, 11:16 »
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My Top 5 stays the same. SS is first as always and FT is fifth. SS was a huge disappointment this month. It was second worst month ever. On the other side DT was huge surprise, it almost beat SS. 123RF and StockXpert are getting stronger, both had best months so far. Overall earning from all sites up 68%.

   Mar       Mar/Feb
SS   34.38%   83.78%
DT   26.71%   702.63%   BME
123RF   16.10%   328.83%   BME
StockXpert   15.32%   238.96%   BME
FT   2.37%   180.63%
IS   1.70%   396.12%
YM   1.62%   
SV   1.25%   500.00%
CanStockPhoto   0.25%   200.00%
FP   0.29%   
Total      168.63%


« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2009, 11:59 »
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Im very happy with my results so far, im a newbie, just started between mid december and mid january in the top agencies, this month i request my second payout form MY top 3 sites, but havent reach the limit in the others althougt DT and IS are olmost there.
BTW just out of curiosity, do you request payment only the end of each month or whenever you reach a certain limit?

FT:    33,7%
SS:    27,4%
StockXpert:  19%
DT:    9,7%
IS:     8,9%
..
123rf: 1%
BS:     0,3% Just started here a few days ago

cheers

« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2009, 12:33 »
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IS 20%
FT 18%
123 17%
SS 13%
DT 12%
StockXpert 8%
CS 7%
BigStock 5%

Overall up 53% over last month mostly due to ELs.
« Last Edit: April 01, 2009, 12:35 by Kngkyle »

KB

« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2009, 15:55 »
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I had a very small drop in downloads (1%) and earnings (2%) in March over Feb, continuing a downward move since a huge surge I experienced in January.

The one clear trend was an ever increasing number of sub sales as a percentage of total sales across all sites (except BigStock, which doesn't have sub sales, and SS, which has got to be one of lifes great ironies). (And I don't pay attention to IS's sub sales, since they are relatively reasonable anyway.)

IS 33% (32% Feb)
SS 23% (24% Feb)
FT 12% (10% Feb) BME
DT 12% (16% Feb)
StockXpert 9% (11% Feb)
BigStock 6% (4% Feb) BME
123 4% (3% Feb)

« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2009, 21:38 »
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FT   30% BME
IS   18%
SS   17%
P5   14%
DT   9% - lousy lately
StockXpert   4% - even worse
123   4%
Print Bus. Cards   2%
BigStock   1.5%
SV   0.5%



« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2009, 03:18 »
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March was a good month for me.  Only place I saw a sales decline was 123RF.  Everywhere else was up slightly on Feb.  Royalties broke down as follows:

ISP  43%
SS    15%
FOT  15%
DT    12%
StockXpert     7%
BigStock     5%
123     2%
Crestock & Canstock 1% each

Interesting... almost exactly the same for me:

ISP 43%
SS 18%
FOT 15%
DT 12%
StockXpert 8%
BigStock 2%
123 2%


StockXpert is very disappointing while ISP is very strong: I suspect that Getty is now pushing IS one way or another and let StockXpert die slowly.


 

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