This are for me the best 4 performing stock agencies for September 2009:

   1. Shutterstock
   2. Veer Marketplace
   3. Fotolia
   4. Dreamstime

September was a very good month with an increase of 5% compared to August. This is adding up to three month of increase in a row. It was the best month ever for Big Stock Photo, Featurepics, and Veer Marketplace. Veer Marketplace surprised this month with a sale of an Extended License.

You can find a extended list of stock photography agencies that I work with at H. Lehnerer Photography.

My September as follows (with 2008);

IS     36.9 (36.3)
SS    22.9 (27.5)
DT    11.0 (11.8 )
FT    19.6 (16.6)
StockXpert   6.3  (6.1)
BigStock   2.6  (1.7)
R.Fi   0.7  (0)

BME overall. After a quiet summer FT have continued their inexorable rise and are now starting to challenge SS for second place in my earnings. It looks from my graph that FT are grabbing market share from SS & DT although IS looks relatively unaffected. BigStock did surprisingly well although from a very low base.

Best month ever here.

(my big five from best to worst)
IS BME
FT BME
SS BME
DT pretty weak
SX pretty weak

September 2009 RPI on the big five: 1.09
September 2008 RPI on the big five: 1.08

The RPI increase was a bit surprising...

My top 4 made 85.7% of my sales.  

IS 26.1%
DT 21%
FT 19.33% (BME)
SS 19.31% (A-WME - last december was $4 less.)

One of my wost months on  SS yet.  First time FT outsold them, even if it is by just a few cents.

In a nutshell: WMY (worst month of the year) by revenue, down over 20% from my average this year. RPD was tied for WMY, which means that DLs were not too bad (down from my yearly average, but up from last month).

Details (by revenue):
SS 28% (highest % ever), 1st time above IS except 1st month on SS, and only a bit behind my BME
IS 28% (2nd lowest % ever), WMY, down almost 30% from Aug, worst month since Nov �08
DT 14%, second-worst month of the year, lowest RPD since Oct �08
FT 13%, a decent month
StockXpert 8%, WMY, second-lowest RPD ever, worst month since Dec �08
123 4%
3DS 4%, BME (but it is my first month )
BigStock 3%, WMY, worst month since Apr �08
VMP 0% (but had my first sale)

Notes:
StockXpert�s PPDs and subs were down about 50% over the previous month, but JIU�s subs were almost doubled. A very poor month there, but without JIU and photos.com sales, it would have been MUCH worse.

I find SS�s performance encouraging, and IS�s disappointing. Especially since I added almost 50 images to my IS portfolio during Sep, but only 5 to my SS portfolio.

Overall I got exactly same result as in previous month but breakdown is completely different. SS gained back from terrible results and it is not almost at normal level.
Other did worse than last time. Most visible looser is DT while 123RF got only slightly worse. FT continues to build up rising trend but it is still very slow.
Big surprise was a sale on MSP. StockXpert and IS keep the same level.

   
      Sep      Sep/Aug
SS      55.12%   121.74%
123RF   11.23%   67.58%
StockXpert      7.72%   78.09%
MSP      6.94%   
FT      6.51%   131.69%
DT      5.91%   37.38%
IS      2.80%   98.25%
FP      1.67%   
CanStockPhoto      1.69%   234.62%
BS      0.28%   12.50%
CS      0.14%   8.33%
      Total   100.01%

September was my BME, just barely.  It was 4% higher than April, my previous BME.   Istock is over 40% of my earnings for the first time in a long time.

Breakdown:
ISP    42%
SS    15%
DT    11%
Fot    18%
BigStock     3%
StXp     6%
123RF  2%
Crest      1%
CanStockPhoto      1%
Almy      3%

BME on IS, other than that pretty average.

September 2009 was a new BME with the following ranking: 1.IS 2.SS 3.FT
SS had a BME, the first since June 2008:)

More details on my blog: http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/10/september-2009-earnings.html

Looking forward to October....

 Hi All,

 There does seem to be a drop in Dreamstime over the past couple of months compared to their competition, I notice a lot of other people posted the same results. I wonder what is going on over there, customer service is a bit different as well. They seem a bit stressed. We'll see what happens this month. All other sites are all going up every month 6th BME at Istock in a row and acceptance rate is going up every upload as well at Istock. Fotolia is strong, SS still sells way more than anyone else for me by a land slide.

Best,
Jonathan

I can also vouch for a Dreamstime stagnation of sorts. Veer is really surprising for me, its doing far better than Big Stock with less than half my portfolio uploaded there. I just wish they'd activate contributor portfolios.

just added another post to my blog with earnings splits:

My microstock pie

Same here!

"BME on IS. All other sites did pretty well except DT with extremely poor results."



DT sales down 45% from April 2009!!