For me the month was pretty par.  I'll wait until tomorrow to tally up my final totals but there wasn't any catastrophes but now happy surprises either.  Shutterstock is still crazy in the lead for me, earning 3x what either Fotolia or iStock earn for me.

As always, remember to vote in the poll
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pollsvote/

I'll get the arrows working again soon (hopefully this month) as well as a history graph, if everything works out.

For me the month was pretty par.  I'll wait until tomorrow to tally up my final totals but there wasn't any catastrophes but now happy surprises either.  Shutterstock is still crazy in the lead for me, earning 3x what either Fotolia or iStock earn for me.

As always, remember to vote in the poll
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pollsvote/

I'll get the arrows working again soon (hopefully this month) as well as a history graph, if everything works out.

Hey I didn't even miss the arrows. The view of the sites the way it is now, compared to each other on earnings, not ranges, is one more step ahead and well done.

May was fine and interesting. The old boring SS/IS = 50/50 for me, has just gone to SS more and more each month and now it's more like 80%/20% IS just keeps losing share. No big discovery, They continue, month after month to reject my best sellers on SS. I guess my interests are not their interests. To each their own. Possibly if accepted the same photos that sell on SS would just languish on IS anyway and they know their market best.

Quote from: traveler1116 on May 31, 2012, 11:42

Are exclusives getting counted yet?

Yeah good idea, add a separate poll selection for IS Exclusives, so we see how they are actually doing just fine. With the numbers mixed in, it's probably lowering the real values. For example if I take the survey (which I stopped doing) and my sales stink (which they do because of a weak collection) then I'm dropping the average. If the average for Exclusives was in it's own place, the Indy contributors values on IS would also show a more realistic picture of what people really make there.

I think the change would show a nice number for the exclusives and highlight the value for some people to be exclusive. It could also drop the numbers for Indys and show a true picture of which sites earn the most for independents?

I was under the impression that exclusive votes were just discounted in the new polling system, are they being counted Leaf?

SS, ahead as usual. On the whole a pretty average month.

Hello Leaf, hope all is well mate, not too much stress?

Great month here, BME and BDE at SS, up on DT and I thought I would never say this but FT is becoming one of my fav micro agencies, sales are picking up rapidly and reviews are fast and consistent.
It's also one of the few sites where I get payed in euros. So join now! call..., anyway
IS slow as usual, probably because of the search engine f.ckups, woops I mean optimization and their exclusives bumping. They are also the only agency that reject every single composite I upload which are some of my best selling images, so bad strategy there and hence the lower income.

So May UP, Way UP, hopefully I won't suffer from the summer slump, as you youngsters call it

Take care amigos

interesting month for me....

SS - down by 25% (compared with the previous month)
FT - UP UP UP  + 40%
DT - UP by 20%
123RF - UP UP  around 30%
IS -  still not interested

The pie slices:

SS - 60% ( by faaaar my best earner)
FT - 20%
DT - 12%
123RF - 8%


DT, FT and 123 have managed to compesate almost all my losses on SS ... so May was a good month.

Quote from: RacePhoto on May 31, 2012, 11:56

Quote from: traveler1116 on May 31, 2012, 11:42

Are exclusives getting counted yet?

Yeah good idea, add a separate poll selection for IS Exclusives, so we see how they are actually doing just fine. With the numbers mixed in, it's probably lowering the real values. For example if I take the survey (which I stopped doing) and my sales stink (which they do because of a weak collection) then I'm dropping the average. If the average for Exclusives was in it's own place, the Indy contributors values on IS would also show a more realistic picture of what people really make there.

I think the change would show a nice number for the exclusives and highlight the value for some people to be exclusive. It could also drop the numbers for Indys and show a true picture of which sites earn the most for independents?

I was under the impression that exclusive votes were just discounted in the new polling system, are they being counted Leaf?

Exclusive votes are sifted into a separate ranking and aren't shown now.  I'll also figure a way to show the results of the exclusives as well.

shutterstock 43% BME
fotolia 16%
istock 10%
canstock 9%
dreamstime 7%
123rf 5%
stockfresh 5% BME
bigstock 3%
graphicleftovers 1%
deposit 1%

RPD WMsince2008, cause of BME at ss

"Top Tier":

Global: -16% compared to last month. 65% more than May 2011, with the follow order:

ShutterStock ( exception on sales breakdown... )
Fotolia
123RF
Istock ( hoping an miracle on PP revenue )
Dreamstime

The best of May: Level up on two agencies ( easy to guess ) and that means a bit more revenue on next month.. or not 

The worst: Pathermedia confirmed as dead. Cutcaster "stills" dead. -16% is too bad.   

SS has overtaken FT as my best earner ever since I moved into a new earnings rank. FT was ok, DT was shockingly low - about half of what I had made in the last three months, which was also just half of what I had made in January (which was my BME). Also what was weird was that most of my earnings this month came in the last week of the month . Until then I had hardly made the 5$ mark.

- 5th BME in a row (Jan 1073$, Feb 1090$, Mar 1341$, Apr 1405$, May 1446$)
- from May 2011 +171%
- 37 months of stock
- 470$ left to the 10k $ milestone at SS (will be making 3 years there)

SS 42.9% (37%) (2 EL, 2 SOD (16.8$ and 70$)) (BME in $$$ and downloads)
IS 11.9% (14%)
FT 7.1% (7%)
123RF 6.2% (4%) (back to normal after an unusual bad month)
Z 5.1% (7%)
DT 4.7% (5%) (1 EL) (BME in $$$, higher RPD but less sales (from all time 0.87$ to 1.2$))
ISIGN 4.3% (5%)
82.2% (79%)

XX 3.4%, XY 3%, XZ 2.5%, DP 2.2%, V 1.3%, PD 1.2%
13.6% (15%)

OTHER 4.2% (6%)
(14 agencies all below 1% each, StockFresh with a great month, 8 sales for 12$ and 6 different days)

0 sales:
- 3DStudio
- Alamy
- ImageGate
- iRockstock
- PhotoKore
- SuperHug
- YAY

A rise of $400 in 5 months, keep up the pace Louis! and thanks again for being amongst the very few who actually post their numbers
I don't think you uploaded much in the last few months am I right?
I would get rid of the low/non sellers except for Alamy, you don't need them anymore.

SS - pretty average, a bit up (and very much up compared to last May)
IS - way up!
FT - average (way up compared to last May)
DP - up
123RF - average
DT - poor, as usual
Alamy - not great. Many downloads, but little money. Are they going microstock?
Photodune - down

Surprisingly good month which ended 12% up on May 2011 and was my fifth highest earning month to date.

Compared to May 2011, SS, BigStock & DT were up, IS was flat and FT down.