Overall dissapointing month , but sales at Yay, Zym and Panthermedia  consolidated the big 6 sales.
123rf was my worst month of the year, IS is sinking as well
FT doing pretty good with StockXpert
More details on my blog:
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/

L

Not my BME, and also not BMOTY - October was 49 cents better in total. Still, overall I am happy with the performance. Again, I had a really good month at FT.

FT: 58,7% (BME)
IS: 18.3% (not WMOTY, but not good either, especially compared to last year)
SS: 13.6%
DT: 9.3% (BME, seems extending my portfolio there is finally paying off)

Compared to last November: +155% 

Site                - % income      - %change/october  - %change/year avg.
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Shutterstock        - 30%           - 19%              - 25%
Dreamstime          - 21%           - 5%               - 3%
StockXpert          - 11%           - 36%              - 43%
Fotolia             - 10%           - 13%              - 30%
Crestock            - 9%            - 5%               - 27%
Istockphoto         - 9%            - 70%              - 48%
Bigstockphoto       - 7%            - 71%              - 6%
123RF               - 3%            - 10%              - 41%
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Overall             - 100%          - 7%               - 23%


Comments:

First off, I uploaded very little in 2008, only about 85 files. So that is a big cause for the large drops.

70% rise in income at Istock over last month doesn't say much when October was my worst month ever, even below my first month uploading. The 48% decrease compared to my typical month there says more about how IS is doing.

This was my worst month of the year, not by much though. Things are already looking good for December with an EL already from SS, and strong sales on other sites including Istock. Did they change the best match again or something? The past 10 days have been A LOT better than the 40 before them.

My November and 2008 numbers, with 2007 for comparison:

Site	2007	2008	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
IS	26%	24%	22%	37%	26%	26%	23%	18%	26%	18%	21%	21%	20%
DT	16%	20%	30%	16%	18%	22%	14%	26%	23%	17%	16%	17%	20%
StockXpert	20%	21%	19%	12%	22%	21%	24%	13%	21%	22%	30%	25%	22%
FT	13%	13%	8%	11%	16%	13%	13%	15%	10%	16%	13%	16%	13%
BigStock	8%	6%	8%	5%	5%	3%	7%	9%	6%	6%	10%	6%	7%
123	4%	6%	5%	8%	3%	4%	8%	11%	5%	5%	5%	4%	2%
FP	3%	5%	2%	3%	4%	10%	3%	7%	7%	8%	2%	4%	2%
CanStockPhoto	2%	<1%	1%	1%	1%	<1%	<1%	1%	1%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%
Scan	1%	1%	0%	<1%	1%	<1%	1%	<1%	0%	4%	0%	2%	0%
CS	<1%	<1%	0%	0%	0%	~0%	1%	0%	1%	2%	1%	<1%	1%
Zymm	<1%	2%	3%	5%	2%	0%	3%	0%	0%	0%	0%	3%	5%
rest	3%	<2%	3%	1%	<1%	~0%	1%	0%	0%	1%	<1%	<1%	8%

Overall 14% below October, with the biggest lost in FT, followed by IS and StockXpert.  Stable at DT. Actually biggest loss was in 123RF, but as sales are so low for me there, the impact is very small.  FP slowed down too.

StockXpert, IS, DT and FT have been respectively my 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th earners for 4 months in a row.

CanStockPhoto and CS still with very low earnings, basically subs.  Nothing at Scanstock this month.  One sale in Zymm, one in Albumo, one in ImageVortex.  Fotomedia and SV dead for months, and still nothing at MP.  I asked MicrostockPhoto to remove my portfolio, but they haven't done anything - that's the first agency I give up.

Regards,
Adelaide

would anyone find some sort of a built in function for that monthly %'s thing usefull?  Where perhaps in your profile you could enter your %'s and then post the numbers easily with a code or some other thing...

or is it just as easy like it is now?

Quote from: leaf on December 02, 2008, 05:13

would anyone find some sort of a built in function for that monthly %'s thing usefull?  Where perhaps in your profile you could enter your %'s and then post the numbers easily with a code or some other thing...

Although I don't place much value in the monthly percentage thing, I'd like to see it replace and/or be integrated into the 'Microstock Poll Results' on the right hand side of the site. I think it could more informative to see the various sites laid out according to income percentage rather than a score out of ten that's derived from an unnecessarily complicated survey. Adding buttons to quickly/easily input data and view a graph (income % vs time) would be nice, too.

If you do it percentage wise the results would be completly spoiled by istockexclusives which always only would have the option of 100%. Or did i misunderstand you?

If you do it percentage wise the results would be completly spoiled by istockexclusives which always only would have the option of 100%. Or did i misunderstand you?

Yes, that is true. But there will also be independents who report 75% FT and 25% DT which looks like "WOW! FT is doing really well!" ... but they leave out the part where their total income on FT was $7.50 and their total on DT was $2.50. The same goes for some of the ranters in the stats thread whose "income dropped 50% on IS this month!!!!!!" (from $2 to $1). There is no way that any format is going to be a completely accurate representation because there are so many different size portfolios. I'm also convinced that some people rate sites they don't even participate in, simply out of spite.

That being said, it doesn't really matter to me if I'm excluded from your numbers game. I don't base my decisions on those anyway, for the reasons mentioned above.  

About 250 images on average on line (very small portfolio). Roughy 0.80 RPI.

DT 44.5%
SS 40.7%
IS 9.3%

everything else is just noise (<3%).