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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: elvinstar on December 01, 2009, 00:53
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Which sites are the big winners this month?
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Haven't worked my figures out yet but Bigstock was only at about 40% earnings compared to last month. It's only responisble for a couple of % of my earnings so it is not a disaster just dissapointing.
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and don't forget to vote :)
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Overall a pretty decent month. Not BME but not very far away either. I have been quite lazy uploader last month so this was a very acceptable result.
These are my big5, from best earner to the worst:
IS a good solid month. Best earner by a marigin, the next one (SS) earns me only half of what IS earns.
SS a strong month, very close to being BME (missed only by a few dollars)
FT a good month. A Long way from BME, but I didn't have any ELs this month
DT better than october, still pretty weak and about -25% from may BME despite my new uploads.
SX weak. But seems to be quite stable.
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November was on track for a BME until the first half of the month, but the second half was noticeably slower and I ended up finally with a second BME. Only one BME to report at CanStockPhoto with Istock finishing first, ahead from SS (despite 15 OD sales) and FT. Sales were dissappointing at StockXpert and DT (with RPD decreasing for the third consecutive month)....
Read more on my blog at http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/ (http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/)
Best regards
L
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IS - 44%
SS - 26%
DT - 11%
more details and real numbers (including expenses) for November in Pixels Away (http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-%E2%80%93-november-2009/) blog
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here's my breakdown
(http://www.microstockgroup.com/holdingbin/novearningsbreakdown.jpg)
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Which sites are the big winners this month?
our ratios are surprisingly similar.
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I was on track for a BME or maybe 2nd BME until Thanksgiving weekend. In the end it was my 4th best month, down only 3% from October. Year to year, things are still on a significant upswing at almost 44% over November, 2008.
The big surprise was 123RF, which moved up to #3 with more than double October's sales.
| SS | 26.7% | unch |
| iS | 20.9% | +4.6% |
| 123 | 14.4% | +130.2% | BME |
| DT | 10.6% | -11.8% |
| Ftl | 10.4% | -29.0% |
| BigStock | 7.0% | -17.5% |
| SX | 6.3% | -45.7% |
| Cres | 1.7% | -15.2% |
| Veer | 1.1% | +80.0% | BME |
| CanStockPhoto | .8% | +40.4% |
| FP | .0% | -100.0% |
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A BME for me overall ;D
In order of earnings:
SS = BME
DT = BME
IS = BME
FT = 2nd Best month
123rf = Not BME but came in ahead of BigStock which is a step up for them ...
BigStock = Sales 1/2 of Sept. & Oct. (no SS effect yet ... )
Special Notes:
My BME at SS was prior to landing an EL ...
Sale at MP at its midstock pricing levels which is more than ELs on several sites.
-Mark
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For me all the micros were down in November except Fotolia, which saw significant growth. My sales overall were down 6% from October.
ISP 38% -4%
SS 14% -1%
DT 11%
Fot 22% +5%
BigStock 3%
StXp 7% -1%
123 2%
Crest 1%
CanStockPhoto 1% -1%
Almy 2% +1%
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BME on all sites (some only by 1%) except on BigStock. Bigstock is going down every month.
Shutterstock only had a BME because of the OD's - so let's hope they keep the OD's on that site.
Fotolia beat Istock again this month, but narrowly.
My order : SH - FT - ISP - DT - StXP - BIGS - 123rf.
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This is my stock photography sales statistic for November 2009. You can find a complete list of stock photography agencies that I work with here (http://stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html) (now sorted by earning).
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u97/hlehnerer/SalesStat/200911px550.jpg)
This are for me the best 4 performing stock agencies for November 2009:
* Shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=169666)
* StockXpert (http://www.stockxpert.com/)
* Fotolia (http://us.fotolia.com/partner/200552086)
* Dreamstime (http://www.dreamstime.com/res514425-dreams-time)
November was a excellent month with an increase of 33% compared to October. It was the best month ever for Shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=169666), YAY Micro (http://yaymicro.com/register.action?referredBy=hlehnerer), and Clipdealer (http://www.clipdealer.de/).
(http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u97/hlehnerer/SalesStat/200911Timeline550.jpg)
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I had a BME overall and also a BME on SS.
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Pretty even with my Oct; a few more DLs, but a little less revenue (due to an increase in subs and not a single EL).
IS 41% (+1%) 2nd month in a row that IS is in the 40s
SS 24% (-1%) +23% increase in DLs over Nov, but ODDs went from an already low 22% to a dismal 16%
DT 12% (+2%)
FT 10% (-2%) Lowest RPD *EVER* at $0.57. Nov +11% in DLs over Oct, but +1% in income.
StockXpert 5% (-3%) WMY by far, revs dropped 37% from Oct! RPD down below my recent SS average (though a few cents above this month's low rate).
123 5% (+3%) 3rd best month of the year, with 2x as many DLs as Oct.
BigStock 2% (-2%) Worst month since May 2008 (when my port was only a few hundred in size).
VMP 1% (+1%) BME! :-) Not many sales, but enough to finally register.
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Hi All,
I haven't broken it down yet but I did have my first non BME at Istock in the past 5 months, but just barely short. Seems like most everything is about normal to last month. I will do a better analysis and get back to you. oh yea, SS was normal.
Best,
Jonathan
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Jezz, I love those pie charts that all of you make.
No reason for me to make pies and graphs. SS is still 1st and IS is second, all the rest added together are less than either one of those, not worth uploading. Can I do an honorable mention to Panther for no views in three months? 123 no sales in a month. Pulling the plug on the losers Dec. 31st.
I come to represent the rest of the microstockers, or the other 90%. ;)
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BMEs: IS, SS, 123RF
Up: Fotolia
Down: Dreamstime, Bigstock
IS and SS were about 80% of earnings
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BME: Shutterstock (helped by some more ELs too), Fotolia (on a constant strong rise lately)
WME: Dreamstime
the rest on average. Of course, special mention for Istockphoto where I'm selling almost everyday, with so little portfolio.
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is it just my impression, or is Dreamstime taking a big nose dive lately for most of the contributors? I hear / read a lot of complains.
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Ok I'm a computer idiot. I've just managed to make a nice pie chart in Excel but how do I get it to show here? I tried to just copy it and paste it here but that didn't work.
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Not as good as some of the other months this year but nearly double of November last year.
In general Dt and Fotolia have rocketed for me this year with IS staying stable and SS losing ground all the time.
is it just my impression, or is Dreamstime taking a big nose dive lately for most of the contributors? I hear / read a lot of complains.
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is it just my impression, or is Dreamstime taking a big nose dive lately for most of the contributors? I hear / read a lot of complains.
DT Minus 29 % compared to october, other sites performed well, my end results in november being 8 % higher than october.
Patrick H.
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SS - BME
BigStock - BME (1st EL there)
All the rest did OK.
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Ok I'm a computer idiot. I've just managed to make a nice pie chart in Excel but how do I get it to show here? I tried to just copy it and paste it here but that didn't work.
You need to click on "Additional Options..." below and to the left of the text box when you post.
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This is my earnings for november, in %! :D I didn't get any sales at YayMicro and Pond5.
Regards,
Dan
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is it just my impression, or is Dreamstime taking a big nose dive lately for most of the contributors? I hear / read a lot of complains.
Same here, every site doing well, only Dreamstime down. they did some changing on April or May this year. then my sales taking a big nose dive.
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Yeah DT is really not that great especially compared to IS and FT. SS is stable but I did not really upload for 3+ month.
Surprisingly the lack of uploading did not have a big effect on earnings for FT and IS.
IS pretty much like last month BME
FT BME by far, it even overtook IS for the first time.
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BME for me
I dont put Canstok, Veer and Panther jet in graph but I will next year in new template.
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I'm curious too about the graphs (and general record keeping). Are most people using Excel?
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I only use Excel for graphs. I wrote a piece of code on my server that I use to keep track of stuff.
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I'm really happy that IS is now consistently beating SS in my stats - DT accounts for around 20% and so still a good earner
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I'm down across the board, except at SS. Off by about 3% from last month.
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I just did the math and found a 23.1% increase from last month and a 20.25% increase from previous BME.
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Hi all,
quite a good month with:
# one enhanced license sold at Shutterstock
# iStockphoto and Stockxpert up, Dreamstime down
# monthly overall RPI (total earnings / average portfolio size) is about 0,6
Details, charts and data, here:
http://www.mystockphoto.org/stock-photo-earnings-comparison-november-09/]
[url]http://www.mystockphoto.org/stock-photo-earnings-comparison-november-09/ (http://[url)[/url]
Cheers,
roberto
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Ok I'm a computer idiot. I've just managed to make a nice pie chart in Excel but how do I get it to show here? I tried to just copy it and paste it here but that didn't work.
I took a screen shot then took it into photoshop and cut out the graph. I'm not sure if there is a better way.
is it just my impression, or is Dreamstime taking a big nose dive lately for most of the contributors? I hear / read a lot of complains.
for me, Dreamstime has been about the same all year. Between 8-12% of my total sales each month, with the average being 11.23% of sales.
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Fractionally off a BME at IS as an exclusive
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VBME (since Feb 2007)
Oct 09 --> Nov 09: +35% !!!
2nd BME (Nov 08) --> Nov 09: +20%
If the figures climb that way for the next 2 years, I have to think about a new yacht, or a golf course. Or maybe both ;D:
(http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/tiger-woods-yacht.jpg)
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Ok I'm a computer idiot. I've just managed to make a nice pie chart in Excel but how do I get it to show here? I tried to just copy it and paste it here but that didn't work.
I took a screen shot then took it into photoshop and cut out the graph. I'm not sure if there is a better way.
Copy and paste the graph into Photoshop works well, too.
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PDesign,
If you ever need someone to carry your clubs just pull that bad boy into Seattle harbor and drop me a line : ) Don't have to worry about yelling FORE on that corse. Very cool.
Best,
Jonathan
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Surprisingly good for me too __ a bit below last month's BME but overall 41% higher than Nov 2008. I spent the entire month on holiday in Thailand too so no boost from new uploads.
Percentages as follows (with 2008).
IS 37 (30)
FT 22 (18)
SS 22 (29)
DT 11 (14)
StockXpert 5 (6)
Rodeo 2.2 (n/a)
BigStock 1.5 (3.6)
FT just beat SS into second place for the first time ever.
Rodeo confirmed themselves in 6th place relegating BigStock further into oblivion (and with only about half the number of images uploaded there too). I'm somewhat sceptical that BigStock can be resuscitated by SS or indeed whether it is in our interests for them to do so given the low commissions paid there.
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None of the sites had BME's for me, but overall the earnings were the highest ever, despite not uploading any new content on any of the sites. My last uploads were a small batch in mid-October, so have uploaded only 20 files in 3 months, but despite this, I've had 3 overall BMEs in succession.
IS: 33%
SS: 30%
DT: 12.6%
FT: 8.4%
Alamy: 4%
BS: 3.8%
StockXpert: 2.9%
123: 1.8%
Can: 0.2%
Cres: 0.1%
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Overall BME, up 15% over October.
SS up 24% (29% of total)
IS up 0.005% (24% of total)
FT up 29% (17% of total)
DT up 39% (14% of total)
StockXpert down 6% (10% of total)
BigStock down 21% (3% of total)
123rf up 42% (3% of total)
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Don't have to worry about yelling FORE on that corse
@ Jonathan Ross: you´re absolutely right, but I guess a nice stock of golfballs should be in the bag ;)
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Hey folks, I don't want to spoil the thinks, but besides each site daily visiting number is different that we know can affect the results, but to have a close comparison have you guys the same amount of images on all sites when comparing these graphics?
Maybe the poll posted by leaf would have some range of number of images into the portfolio and separate the results/graphics for each range reached.