SS: RPD $0.65
by this pace, my AS revenue will surpass SS for the first time in 12 years

Despite the biggest EOTM dud this year (felt like it anyway), still ended up having my BME overall in October exceeding my previous best month in July 2022 by 24%. Had a BME on Pond 5, a second-best month on Shutter and a second-best month on iStock. Adobe recovered pretty well toward the EOTM.   

Good month for me, with SS leading the pack, closely followed by AS:

november :
SS : best month ever -> picture RPD $2,38 -> video RPD $13,70
AS : less than a quarter downloads from october -> video RPD $20,76
P5 : extremely bad, I may close my P5 accounts soon if this keeps up -> video RPD $7,55 (non-exclusive) / video RPD $9,60 (exclusive)

On SS, November was a poor month (3rd worst this year) for revenue and the worst month of the year for downloads.

On AS, November was the best month of the year for downloads and 3rd best for revenue. AS revenue and downloads January to November are ahead of the full year numbers for 2021.

On SS there is a definite fall off in downloads in the second half of the year. The average for July - November is down 11% compared to the average for January to June. On the plus side, revenue from January to November is ahead of full year revenue for 2021.

I finally got around to adding up my sales including the little earners and late reporters (I'm talking to you Getty - and I noticed Feb and Mar sales there were lower than what I had earlier recorded - <1$, but what's up with that?).

In any case it was an ok month - just a few $ above the new (much lower) normal now that sales and or prices and % I get have fallen pretty much across the board and I am off of SS and essentially off of iS (I did leave a few images there - mostly ones that weren't accepted elsewhere).

It doesn't inspire me to work on new stuff, but I am hoping that the brutal hemorrhaging of income is mostly over - until AI generated content takes over or the bean counters decide that it is best to prop up their quarterly numbers on the backs of the contributors again. In any case there I have only about 30% left to go from the peak (for me in 2012). Too bad inflation has prices for everything but stock photos about 30% higher in the same time frame.

BME for earnings in November by a significant lead.

Even without the $807 commission, I still would have achieved a second best month.     

Yeah I had my best December though have only had for Decembers to date. Overall did pretty well considering the last week was almost dead for sales with only one decent commission on Shutterstock. I'm yet to make my first sale in 2023! 

My only comment is that from where I sit (mostly photo portfolio) SS revenues are declining and AS revenues are increasing.

the more important question is which agency produces the most income?  for me SS consistently earns about twice what AS does. 

Quote from: cascoly on January 01, 2023, 14:59

Quote from: wds on January 01, 2023, 13:36

My only comment is that from where I sit (mostly photo portfolio) SS revenues are declining and AS revenues are increasing.

the more important question is which agency produces the most income?  for me SS consistently earns about twice what AS does.

Used to be that SS was on top, more than the rest added together, but this year, (and last year since the new deal) SS is half and Adobe has more than doubled for me. I don't expect it's the same for everyone and I have no video, plus 90% of the images on SS are not acceptable on AS and visa versa. Apple and Oranges, except for the dollars part.

Nice bonus, I still squander my earnings on new gear, cameras, lenses, special equipment, or limited release scotch. IS paid for a bottle of Orkney Highland Park cask strength release No. 2, and WS bought me a cask strength Glenlivet Enigma.

I got this fine Nikon TME dark field microscope, used, and I've been playing with the objectives for macro. Might be nice to get it working and use the camera mount?
 

love your self-portrait!

I have been focussing on Adobe. My port there is still below 2000 files. But January 22 I made 17 dollars, this January I made 192 dollars.

I haven't really uploaded in years, but been working at it for the last 4 months and finally the port is waking up again.

Weekly payouts are now possible. Next goal: 100 dollars a week on Adobe.

I think the generative ai content really helps to bring fresh eyes to my port. Once there, they probably also take anything else they need. A lot of old bestsellers are beginning to wake up.

The next three months I will focus more on video again. Had a few sales on pond5 and even a video sale on Dreamstime, also on Adobe.

I hope by end of the year I have at least 4k files on Adobe and over 6k on istock.

Also will try to make a much better effort for istock.

Average January for me.
Also one of those few occasions when AS outshined (outshone ?) SS.