How were your earnings for Sept. 2014?
... mine are coming soon

Still waiting for the last hours, but looks like a solid month so far...

Dreamstime down 50%

Shutterstock down on downloads by 30% but up to normal (avg) on revenue thanks to a few SOD's and video sales.  Some may say it's all about the revenue but I disagree, at least in part. A declining frequency of downloads means more and more reliance on big SOD's and EL's. Those do not happen very often, so as frequency declines we can expect to see more and more wild swings in revenue.

Istock up a little. I had two EL's this month that took me to over $200 (before PP, of course). The thing I noticed here was a lot more $1 to $1.30 commissions but for XXXL sizes. This is frustrating.

Pond 5: Interestingly, my still images have sold fairly well there this month, maybe 5-7 downloads, but with good commissions ($5 each). Several video downloads, too.

Alamy while not micro yet, WAYYY down. $73 gross with one of those sales a distributor sales.  For real feedback for this community I went back and looked at my sales spreadsheet for alamy. Here are my real NET numbers (averages) and the drastic decline.  2009 - avg monthly net: $350; 2010 - avg monthly net: $240; 2011 - avg monthly net: $180; 2012 - avg monthly net: $120; 2013: avg monthly net: $80; 2014 - avg monthly net: $45

123: Significantly up from ~$100 avg to $160

Best month ever!

Just kidding. Still waiting for the month to end and be put out of its misery here.

Folks, as it is not yet October in some places of the world, this thread is completely premature and was opened unauthorized. It will therefore be closed at this point.

Please wait until we(!) open the official "How was your September?"-thread. All other attempts to discuss this topic will be shut down immediately...

Sorry, guys and gals, I always wanted to do a Lobo 

As for September, it was meh. Thankfully someone switched ODs back on at SS, and, surprisingly IS was really strong this month, new credits or not. Apart from that, everybody is still on summer vacation or already hibernating. SS still doesn't feel "normal" - today, a weekday at the end of the month and still only three sales - that's not right, European sales are completely gone in the last few months for me...

I have not had time to do the charts yet but generally I see a good uptrend from August.  August was terrible.  This is not near my best Sept. but any growth over August is pleasing. 

Sean, without revealing too much, at how many percent of your exclusive days are you now? If you cannot share, I understand. Thanks anyways.

And congrats on the BME.

Thank you Sean. It is somewhat depressing to read that you are at 25%, but I am hoping you get back to previous earnings soon, someway.

I had my first very decent month in about 15 months.  Gosh, I'm almost motivated to shoot some stock again!

The problem is, 63% of earnings were from SS.  The SS income was curiously almost evenly split 4 ways between Subs, OD, EL and SOD.   Haven't had this many total downloads since 2011. 

All of the sites were up a bit excluding DT.  Cummon DT!!! What is the problem?  It looks like they will be down 15-20% from 2013 if I don't have 3 spectacular months.

A strange month.  Up 16% on August, dead even with September 2013.  SS, DT, DP up significantly on August.  123RF continues to slide, as did BigStock and PD.  In order, SS was 47% of my total, 123RF was 17%, DT was 9%, DP was 7%, PD was 6%, iS was 5%, BigStock and CanStockPhoto were 2% each.  Canva was 1%; not bad for my 2nd month there.  I'll be curious to see how it does, now that I have a good number of my images online there.

Not a WMY but close - way behind compared to 2013 and 2012 but at least beat Sept. 2011.  Surprisingly had BMYs at DT and DP.  Had a WMY at CS, and most of the others were at 2011 levels.  SS DL volume down about 20% from earlier this year but money hanging in there due to more than usual ELs and SODs.  SS about 60% of the total.  Like some others, I made more on Canva than GL, even though I only made a small test upload to Canva and only have 11 images online - need to increase that.  iS very weak - the new changes don't seem to have helped my bottom line.

BEST MONTH EVER on Shutterstock!!!   YAY!!!!!

I had a BME on Shutterstock, thanks to some extended licenses. istock was up a little with seasonal sales and one large extended license for nearly 60 dollars, then came pond5,then fotolia,stocksy,dreamstime and a few others.

I really like the new SS app, hope they expand the concept. It is really helpful to read that a file has been lightboxed many times, even if it hasn�t sold yet.

I am very impressed that pond5 has moved up to number three and that photo sales are picking up, even if most of the income is still from video. And they sell editorial files well, even had an editorial video sale on dreamstime this month. So I think I will try to do a bit more things locally.

I am at around 30-40% of what I would probably be making if I was exclusive. Extended licenses and video sales and stocksy are the most interesting.

Sub sales are extremely low on all agencies. There is clearly a total oversupply of files, unless you can produce huge numbers every week, I don�t see how I can ever recover my income with subs.

So the agencies that have the most extended licenses or "special" deal sales that bring in 20 dollars or more, are what will get me back into doing stock full time again.