Here's the link to the poll for those who forget
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?page=microstockmonthlysurvey

For me, Fotolia came up quite a bit and Shutterstock was down a little in terms of % of overall income.  iStock came up a few% as well.  Overall earnings were up on last year Nov, and slightly up on last month (oct)... about in relation to uploads - so in that regards, earings are about the same.

Voted too.

Overall, this November was just at the same level as last November. Just this November, I have Stocksy in the Mix - which means all micros performed worse than last year. Nevertheless, Shutterstock came in best overall this month (39%), Stocksy (29%)came in second, Fotolia came in third 17% DT and 123rf were at the bottom with 9 and 6% respectively. In terms of RPD/RPI Stocksy performed best, 123rf worst.

Enough good month
But I can't say how much till iStock communicates the November PP sales�

Shutterstock > Very good
Fotolia > incredibly good (for Fotolia) BME
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Photodune > good
Dreamstime�� > dreams what??
Bigstock > bad
123RF > bad
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... Basically, I was expecting a longer life for my images. ...

For various reasons (having to do with the rest of my life, not stock or agencies) I have produced very little new stock this year, but I had a BME at Shutterstock and within a dollar of a BME at Dreamstime. Images can have a very long shelf life but it does depend a bit on the type of image.

This time of year, for me, is heavily skewed towards Christmas with a good sprinkling of Caribbean beaches as the weather gets awful in the northern hemisphere. If you don't have much for the seasonal demand, perhaps that's more the issue than a short life for your images.

Wasnt there already a thread open on Nov earnings? Is this the official one?

-35.28%   To previous month
-35.28%   To previous BME
32.61%   To Nov 2012

Istock $85 with 32 files - BME October

123 - BME dls / tied BME $$
CanStockPhoto - 4 ELs - BME in $$ (108$)

Symbiostock 1 sale
FAA - my second earner fell dead in November - 0 sales

PD, DP and FT same as last month, not worth mentioning

Overall. November is a month to forget. Really bad month. Expecting December to be worse if I have to believe last years stats for December.

BUT..... Istock can change all that if it does the same for October

iStock exclusive.

Compared to:

November 2012: $ -7% DL - 20%

Cannot compare to years before 2012 because those records have disappeared.

I expected to worst after October, but I am fairly happy with November.  Overall down 8%, and this was mainly due to NO sales at Alamy, 50% down at Rodeo, 20% down at Dreamstime and 60% at GLO  (all compared to November 2012).

SS did well in downloads and very well in SOD's, but due to a total lack of EL's, I ended up at minus 8%.

Totally unexpected :
Istock - was a super surprise because of the increased October's PP
Fotolia went UP 1% compared to November 2013 (while all other months in 2013 were down more than 15%).

iS: 4th BME 
iStock (only) (weeks 1 and 3 'average for nowadays', weeks 2 and 4 very good!):
compared to Oct 2013: dls +10%; $$  +c60% (2 ELs, one substantial)
compared to Nov 2012: dls -25%, $$ +13%
Compared to BME (Nov 2008): dls -70%; $$ -16%
Only the second month this year which has been higher (and in both cases, substantially higher) than last year, so still projecting to be down c13% year on year.
Still almost nothing from 2013 selling, and very little other than editorial from 2012 and 2011. OTOH, several old files from 2007/8 with 0 and <5 previous sales selling. Despite the $$ hike I'm still really demotivated to specially make fresh material to upload there - yet again, one file which was downloaded within a couple of days has been 'rewarded' by sinking below 1000 on its top keyword (as I ordered it and as currently ordered) in both best match and FM - doomed never to recover.

Getty (via iStock)(October): 6 sales, $41.18 total 
Alamy: 4 sales, $85.18 net 
FAA: 0

Strange month. In the things I thought I'd never say category, CanStockPhoto out earned SS. Only by a couple dollars, but I still had to say it.

Not too bad for this year, but down from last Nov, mostly because Alamy was less. SS had over 1$ RPD (not a whole lot of sales, but a good mix of regular, OD, EL, and SOD sales. (for contrast IS w/o PP rpd was about .55 - but not a valid statistical sample). BS was a BME (but still pretty small - mostly one EL). DT seemed to be even more segregated into periods of subs, regular sales, and no sales. The total was ok though. Veer was pretty weak, but at least it wasn't negative like October.

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Up a modest 3% from October, and November was yet another month of -20% on same month prior year.  This seems to be a consistent trend. 

Once again, downloads were up or about the same on most sites and earnings were what showed a dramatic loss. 

I guess this is the "new normal" for me.  I can't manage to produce images fast enough to compensate for the downward trend on prices and royalties. 

Only site showing real growth for me is 123RF.  Very happy I stayed with them. 

I did the calculations by zeroing out PP earnings for the comparison months.  If PP comes in strong like last month it will improve the picture somewhat. 

As I mentioned in a previous post I find it difficult to believe that the massive increase in PP sales over the last couple of months is all 'new money' into the industry. I wonder if the recent success of the PP will eventually transpire to be at the cost of sales elsewhere?

The fact that buyers are being marshalled towards TS would seem to indicate that. This last batch may have been previous buyers who hadn't bought at iS for a time, so maybe no loss; but we don't know if active buyers have been channelled again too, as they were at the launch of TS.
OTOH, people were also noting an upturn of better-than-plain-sub sales there.