Well... it's that time.
Site - % of earnings - $ per download - portfolio size (at end of month)
1. Shutterstock | 43% | 0.34c/dl | 318 |
2. StockXpert | 18% | $1.00/dl | 239 | BME
3. Istockphoto | 13% | 0.91c/dl | 26 | BME
4. Dreamstime | 10% | 0.77c/dl | 225 |
5. Fotolia | 8% | 0.58c/dl | 305 |
6. Bigstockphoto | 4% | $1.00/dl | 222 | BME
7. Other | 4% | 0.35c/dl | (includes Crestock, Canstockphoto, Snapvillage, LuckyOliver, and Featurepics)
Overall BME. Earnings up 23% from last month.
Site - % earnings - portfolio size
1. iStockphoto - 32.86% - 281
2. Shutterstock - 20.94% - 289
3. dreamstime - 16.24% - 409 - BME
4. stockXpert - 12.46% - 256 - BME
5. digitalstock - 7.39% - 79 - BME
6. shotshop - 6.34% - 28 - BME
7. other - 3,77% (123rf, fotolia, BigStock)
Overall BME, earnings up 10% compared to October.
Fotolia 59% (3500 images online)
Shutterstock 40% (700 images online)
Dreamstime 1% (400 images online)
Here are my numbers for the month
BME (+15% compared to previous month)
% Earning and % increase compared to last month
1.SS 48 % (+50%)
2.FT 26 % (-16%)
3.IS 9 % (+54%)
4.123RF 7% (+78%)
5.DT 4% (-43%)
6.StockXpert 3% (+15%)
7.CT 2% (+500%)
More numbers on my blog as well as an overview of the month ;)
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/
Fotolia 25,35%
Istock 46,71% (BME)
Shutterstock 24,02%
Lucky Oliver 0,00%
Dreamstime 3,92%
Overall another BME - by about 1 $.
Earnings at IS were great, earnings at SS not so great, but I did not upload anything between October and late November... .
here are approximate results.
SS was my best earner and a BME
IS took the second place with BME
FT is in the third place with a slight drop comparing to last month
StockXpert is in the forth place with some significant drop comparing to last month(I wonder why as everyone else seems to be doing better,never mind:)
DT is in the fifth place as always but a slight increase resulting in a BME
IS up 16%.
BME overall. Total earnings doubled from Nov mostly due to IS & SS. IS has been impressive. SS rocked. BigStock dropped in half. DT was doing nicely with downloads daily and then downloads literally stopped in Nov. SV surprised with some downloads. StockXpert was really disappointing. Albumo is a ghostown.
Given that SS, IS and FT made over 80% of my earnings I'm beginning to think the effort vs return for the rest of these sites is a waste of time.
SS 44.12% (1st month)
IS 30.15% (+50%, BME)
FT 8.39% (BME)
SV 5.54% (BME)
123RF 4.07% (downloads up, $$$ down)
BigStock 3.47%
DT 2.31%
LO 1.39%
StockXpert 0.58%
AB 0.00%
EDIT: Looking back at some of the numbers, what the heck happened with DT? Seems like it has either dropped like a rock or become a low earner for a lot of people.
What happened to DT? Perhaps the subscription effect is beginning to be noticeable now that the purchasers have used all their credits and switching to Sub.
Btw, I have turned off subscription option at SV. Why to be content with $.30, when they pretend to be kind of a midstock site ?
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Quote from: Pixart on December 01, 2007, 20:23
What happened to DT? Perhaps the subscription effect is beginning to be noticeable now that the purchasers have used all their credits and switching to Sub.
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Income down 10+%. My first month with no BMEs.
My 2007 numbers until November:
| Site | 2007 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| IS | 25% | 32% | 35% | 25% | 27% | 29% | 28% | 20% | 29% | 22% | 27% | 22% | % |
| DT | 16% | 13% | 18% | 23% | 15% | 19% | 20% | 14% | 15% | 13% | 14% | 14% | % |
| FT | 14% | 18% | 11% | 10% | 16% | 9% | 16% | 30% | 11% | 14% | 11% | 9% | % |
| StockXpert | 19% | 15% | 14% | 15% | 9% | 25% | 17% | 19% | 20% | 25% | 26% | 29% | % |
| BigStock | 7% | 7% | 2% | 9% | 4% | 7% | 9% | 6% | 10% | 13% | 8% | 9% | % |
| CanStockPhoto | 2% | 4% | 6% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 1% | <1% | 3% | 2% | 1% | <1% | % |
| 123 | 4% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 5% | % |
| FP | 3% | 5% | <1% | 14% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 3% | % |
| LO | 2% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 1.5% | 2% | 1% | 6% | 3% | 0% | 2% | 1% | % |
| IV | 3% | 0% | 7% | 0% | 19% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | % |
| Scan | 1% | 0% | <1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 1% | % |
| CS | <1% | <1% | <1% | <1% | 1% | 2% | <1% | <1% | 2% | <1% | 1% | 2% | % |
Overall earnings are 22% above Oct, making my third best month.
BME at StockXpert (third in a row, with over 30% more than Oct and marginal impact from subs sales - I love StockXpert!). Stable earnings in IS and FT, slight increase in DT and BigStock.
Among my low earners, BME also at 123RF. A bit deceptive in Scanstock, as it had been slowly increasing in the past months. CanStockPhoto went down more with mere 3 subs sales. Two good sales in FP, plus a 3rd I don't compute here as RM. Two sales in SPM - maybe the site is starting to work? Also two sales in Gecko, one in Zymm, none in Albumo nor Snap.
Regards,
Adelaide
Things have been pretty flat or down for me since May of this year. Partly my fault for not uploading anything for six months and then starting to upload again in September. I'm only on three sites:
IS = 42% of downloads
SS = 28% of downloads
DT = 30% of downloads
Dreamstime had a really good month for me, it looked like it would almost catch IS in the last week of the month, probably because it is more geared toward the European market and it wasn't a holiday over there.
It also points out that these three all have some type of "staleness" factor in the search engine. Older images keep getting fewer and fewer downloads which I don't really think is fair since many of the images I take are more timeless and not always on the cutting edge of what is hip... So, keep the uploads going to keep your portfolio "fresh" and don't take a six month hiatus like I did.
I don't normally post my monthly figures as there pretty low compared to a lot of people on here, but just for the record.
IS 27.5%
SS 26.9%
DT 18.4%
FT 14.7% BME
123RF 5%
BS 4.7%
StockXpert 2.8% WME
Lots of BMEs. Best earning month since I started a little over a year ago.
$$$ Earnings:
StockXpert 35%
SS 28%
BigStock 12%
FT 8%
DT 6.5%
LO 5%
IS 3%
123 2%
CRE 0.5%
Impressed with StockXpert
Disappointed with IS
Surprised with LO
IS 61,00%
SS 26,00%
StockXpert 8,00%
DT 4,00%
Ft 1,00%
Quote from: sharply_done on December 01, 2007, 21:32
Income down 10+%. My first month with no BMEs.
Almost same as you, income down 15+%. My first month with no BMEs.