Author Topic: September 2008 Earnings Breakdown and Poll (Read 18106 times)

leaf · « **on:** September 29, 2008, 02:34 »

2 days to go - hopefully people have seen an increase since august.

Fran · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2008, 02:45 »

I had my second payout this month (from DT) so I can finally contribute to these polls.
As a newbie, I have about 200 images online across various agencies, I made >100$ this month in total. My RPI is slightly more than 0.5. About six months into this.

SS 55.3% (RPI 0.35)
DT 26.1% (RPI 0.15)
IS 6.3% (RPI 0.07)

Hope this data can help people starting out like me to get a better idea of what they can expect.

borg · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:56 »

A have explosion of DL.s on IS, but SS very very low. Today till now not a single Download!!!

Something strange!

travelstock · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2008, 07:07 »

Only about half a day to go, and the results are pretty positive. BME overall by about 15% over last month.
Here's the breakdown:
SS: 43% BME with significant on demand sales
IS: 36% BME
DT: 12% BME with biggest % growth
FT: 6% BME
BS: 2% - just refuses to grow.

Peter · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2008, 07:56 »

MikLav · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:03 »

I see increase in SS and in StockXpert, and in DT.

September was BME at Crestock with 13 sales (in the past 1.5 years I only saw 2-6 sales per month). It is still very low but at least I see progress and motivation to upload the rest of my portfolio.

iStockphoto 12%
ShutterStock 28%
StockXpert 23%
Fotolia 9%
Dreamstime 13%
BigStockPhoto 4%
123royaltyfree 5%
Other 7%

yingyang0 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:10 »

100% IS and BME for earnings.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:42 »

Quote from: yingyang0 on September 30, 2008, 09:10

100% IS and BME for earnings.

Aye.

fintastique · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2008, 09:55 »

Sorry to see I didn't get to start this post this month.

SS 43.7% BME #

DT 16.6% BME
FT 12.1% BM08

IS 7.6% BM08
BS 6.3%
123 6.3%
StockXpert 5.6%

FP 1.8%

overall BME for microstock

SS breakdown
# 82% 25-A-DAY
9% on-demand
6% footage
2% referrals

Good referral income at DT as one of my referrals was the featured photograper last week

Bateleur · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2008, 14:43 »

I assume that by referring to 'microstock' you are discounting earnings from Alamy and similar.

Valaaami · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2008, 16:22 »

Nice raise everywhere especially at FTL and StockXpert and bad drop on IS. Earnings percentage of IS is falling back drastically months by months. I am glad I droped the idea of exclusivity earlier this year - I was very very close to make that decision but now I am light years away from doing it.

charlesknox · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2008, 16:57 »

StockXpert i have a 300 percent increase very good month over all im on a steady incline

stokfoto · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2008, 17:08 »

FT 28%( a reasonably good month due to a few EL's despite the change in best match)
IS 28% (significant drop must have been due to change in best match)
SS 16% (less downloads about the same income due to reaching upper tier and on demand sales)
StockXpert 12% (loads of subs but about the same income)
DT 08%
123 04%(average)
BS 04%(average)

overall:not as good as I expected and not any better than august,I'd better shoot and upload more:)

CofkoCof · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2008, 17:19 »

SS 31,11%
IS 23,74% BME
StockXpert 14,45%
123rf 10,49% BME
DT 9,70%
FT 8,63%
BigStock 1,88%

- I'm not adding enough new images to keep SS steady, down about 50% on BME which was June. Hopefully I'll have more time in the following months to make the sales grow again. Also didn't have any EL sales (2 in August) so thats also a factor.
- IS really started going, at current pace it should overcome SS the next month
- 123rf really performed well this month, it got infront of DT and FT for the first time for me
- I like the steady DT sales (even though they are not the top earners)

Overall I'm down about 3% on August (might be even lower since the day is not over yet) due to SS (BME if I remove SS from the comparisons).

astrocady · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2008, 20:17 »

Here are the stats for my small but growing portfolio...

SS = 45% (up 116% over August)
IS = 31.8% (up 64% over August)
DT = 9.7% (down 46% from August)
FT = 6.7% (0 sales in August)
StockXpert = 5.9% (down 33% from August)
123 = .08% (down 50% from August)

Overall sales were up 45.7% with RPI increasing from $.46 to $.52

Pixart · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2008, 20:55 »

First time ever that DT takes the lead!
DT 25% BME
SS 24.6%
IS 15.9%
FT 13.8% 2nd BME
BS 7.9%
StockXpert 5.1%
Zym 4.9%
123rf 2.6%
Featurpics, BME I made 30 cents!

vphoto · « **Reply #16 on:** September 30, 2008, 21:07 »

1. SS
2. DT BME
3. IS
4. FT
5. 125rf

Read_My_Rights · « **Reply #17 on:** September 30, 2008, 21:29 »

Quote from: sjlocke on September 30, 2008, 09:42

Quote from: yingyang0 on September 30, 2008, 09:10
100% IS and BME for earnings.

Aye.

Aye aye.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2008, 22:21 »

Quote from: Read_My_Rights on September 30, 2008, 21:29

Quote from: sjlocke on September 30, 2008, 09:42
Quote from: yingyang0 on September 30, 2008, 09:10
100% IS and BME for earnings.

Aye.

Aye aye.

Aye aye aye.

Go White Sox!

faber · « **Reply #19 on:** September 30, 2008, 23:32 »

Earnings are up 25% compared to August (which was worst month of the year).

istock 39.5 %
shutterstock 14.7 %
shotshop (German) 10.8 % (BME)
stockxpert 8.1 %
dreamstime 6.7 %
fotolia 6.4 %
snapvillage 6.3 % (BME)
digitalstock (German) 3.8 %
123rf 1.4 %
bigstock 1.3 %

Lee Torrens · « **Reply #20 on:** October 01, 2008, 00:25 »

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on September 30, 2008, 22:21

Quote from: Read_My_Rights on September 30, 2008, 21:29
Quote from: sjlocke on September 30, 2008, 09:42
Quote from: yingyang0 on September 30, 2008, 09:10
100% IS and BME for earnings.

Aye.

Aye aye.

Aye aye aye.

Go White Sox!

Those of us with low earnings at iStock this month need not ponder the cause any longer!

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #21 on:** October 01, 2008, 00:56 »

Earnings are up from August which was BME

iS 37% BME
SS 28% BME
FT 21% BME
DT 10% 2nd BME
StockXpert 10% 2nd BME
PM 5%

ingesche · « **Reply #22 on:** October 01, 2008, 01:03 »

Shutterstock: 45.80%
Dreamstime: 14.98% - BME
Fotolia: 14.57% - BME
Stockxpert: 10.81% - BME
Istockphoto: 7.17%
Crestock: 4.21% - (first month)
Bigstockphoto: 2.11%
Canstockphoto: 0.35%
123RF: 0%
Featurepics: 0%
Cutcaster: 0% - (first month)

This is only my fourth full month in microstock and my portfolios are still pretty small. I have sold a few files on 123RF and Featurepics, but no sales this month. I only started uploading to Cutcaster about a week ago, so I am not surprised that I have not had any sales there yet. I earned about $2.00 less on Shutterstock than last month, but I uploaded fewer files.

Overall, September was BME for me.

Lee Torrens · « **Reply #23 on:** October 01, 2008, 01:18 »

Record earnings at StockXpert and 123rf. StockXpert appear to be kickin' butt for many people this month. Two months ago I started "Faving" my images on 123rf and it's making a big difference!

Total earnings was BME again.

leaf · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2008, 01:21 »

sorry, vonkara reminded me that the polls link is not on the top anymore. To take part in the earnings polls and other polls (the one displayed on the right) here is the link

http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?action=pollsvote

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Author Topic: September 2008 Earnings Breakdown and Poll (Read 18106 times)

leaf

Fran

borg

travelstock

Peter

MikLav

yingyang0

Sean Locke Photography

fintastique

Bateleur

Valaaami

charlesknox

stokfoto

CofkoCof

astrocady

Pixart

vphoto

Read_My_Rights

PaulieWalnuts

faber

Lee Torrens

Freezingpictures

ingesche

Lee Torrens

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