January 2008 earnings breakdown

[fintastique]

These are the final figures for January

SS 43.1%
DT 15.8% BME

FT    9.6%
BS  9.4% BME
StockXpert 7.4%
123 6.3% BME
iS    6.1%

FP   1.8% BME
CanStockPhoto 0.1%

2nd best month so far for micro earnings

October 2007 still the best it was a very good month at SS.

[Karimala]

SS 37%
up 10% from December
down 18% from BME in June

IS 17%
up 12% from December
down 54% from BME in March

DT 14% BME 1 EL
up 30% from December
up 9% from BME in June

FT 11%
down 4% from December
down 15% from BME in September

StockXpert 8%
down 30% from December
down 34% from BME in April

BigStock 5%
up 42% from December
down 22% from BME in March

LO 4% 1 EL
up 100% from December
down 29% from BME in July

123RF 4%
down 20% from December
down 36% from BME in November

These percentages could change with 123RF making a dramatic increase, because I have three EL sales that mysteriously went missing. 

I'm also with FP and CanStockPhoto, but the earnings are so minuscule that I don't track them.  Only sites that gross $50+ (the average monthly payout) at least every other month are tracked.

[Phil]

Hi

IS 47% BME
SS 20% (last than 65% of my BME)
DT 11% (average)
123 6% BME
FT 4% (picked up this week)
BigStock 4% BME
StockXpert 3% (picked up this week)
CRE 1% (down)
ALB 1% (paid uploads)
FP .7% (BME by $2)
CAN .7% (down)
LO .2% (down)

Istock was up heaps, reached 59% 2 weeks ago, but the others have picked up since.

[PaulieWalnuts]

IS   51% (BME, Up over triple from Dec)
SS   33% (BME, Up almost double due to EL)
FT   7% (BME, Up by 25%)
DT   4% (Down by over half)
StockXpert   2% (BME, Up almost double)
BigStock   1% (Down by half)
123RF   1% (Up by 50%)
SV   2% (Up by Double)
LO   <1% (Dying)
AB   0% (Dead)
FP   0% (Dead)

Jan 08 is BME by almost double driven mostly by Istock. Istock is absolutely rocking. SS is doing very well. FT is growing slowly. StockXpert is finally waking up. The rest I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth my time uploading to anymore.

EDIT: A couple of late corrections after more sales

[vphoto]

IS   51% (BME, Up almost double)
SS   33% (BME, Up almost double due to EL)
FT   6% (BME, Up by 10%)
DT   4% (Down by over half)
StockXpert   2% (BME, Up almost double)
BigStock   1% (Down by half)
123RF   1% (Up by 50%)
SV   2% (Up by Double)
LO   <1% (Dying)
AB   0% (Dead)
FP   0% (Dead)

Istock is absolutely rocking. SS is doing very well. FT is growing slowly. StockXpert is finally waking up. The rest I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth my time uploading to anymore.

I am thinking the same that except SS, IS, FT, StockXpert , 123rf and DT uploading to other sites is a waist of time for me.

SS 60%
the rest: IS, FT, StockXpert , 123rf and DT.

[stokfoto]

IS    34%   (BME)
FT    25%   (BME)
SS    19%  (average)
StockXpert  09%  (slower)
DT    07%  (average)
BS    04%  (BME)
123  02%  (average)

IS Rules

[faber]

Jan=BME (+ 10% compared to previous BME=Nov 07)
300+ images

iStock                     45,9% (BME)
shutterstock            15,5%
digitalstock.de          12,5%(BME, German site)
panthermedia            7,9% (BME)
dreamstime               7,7%
stockxpert                7,1%
other (bs,ft,123rf)      3,2%


As said by Nazdravie: "istock is absolutely rocking"!!!

Very disappointing results and declines at dreamstime, stockxpert, shutterstock.

Surprising good resuls at digitalstock and panthermedia despite low number of uploads (so far <90 images).

Results are something to think about regarding future upload strategies...(see also thread "are things going well in microstock")

[epixx]

Here are my figures:

SS: 32% (down from 48% Jan 07)
IS: 18%
DT: 18%
FT: 12% (BME)
StockXpert: 5%
BS: 4%
Scanstock: 3% (BME)
123: 2%
CreS: 2%
FP: 1%
LO: 1% (BME)
SV: 1% (BME)

Totally, I'm up 69% from last year, SS went up 15%, the total of the others went up 116%.

[Freezingpictures]

IS 30,5%
SS 20,75%
Panthermedia 12,3% (Sales notifications I got in January, are actually sales of December)
DT 7,96%
Ft 7,75%
Alamy 7,29%
StockXpert 6,86% (really bad month for StockXpert, even slower than in December..)
Energyonline 4,25%
123RF 1,47%
BS 0,44%
LO 0,38%
SP 0,06%

BME ever but unusual poor month for StockXpert and Fotolia. Looking forward to Feburary.

[sharpshot]

My third BME.  It was a good month for me with FT and BigStock.

SS   38.48%
is   21.23%
FT   11.40%  BME
StockXpert   8.08%
BigStock   7.03%  BME
DT   6.30%
123   2.57%
Crest   1.83%
Most   1.77%
LO   1.31%

[Mellimage]

Overall a BME, even though it didn't look like that at the beginning of the month. Overall my earnings increased by 36% compared to December 07. Today marks my 1st anniversary of being in microstock - so I do not have any comparative data to years before. But the increase is right about where Yuri predicted it to be.

SS 35,0% (BME helped by one EL)
FT 29,0% (BME)
IS 27,1% (a little disappointing, number of downloads was a 3rd less than in December, income was better though)
DT 8,4% (BME - but I am still building my portfolio over there)
LO 0,5% (after 4 months of not selling anything - I just had another sale - but I wonder if it is worth uploading - the return for uploading at DT is much better).

[rene]

IS   36% (BME)
SS   31%
FT   9%
DT   9% (Down by half)
StockXpert   6%
BigStock   5%
123RF   3%
Unluckies 1% (LO, crestock, FP...)

[Peter]

BME on all 3 sites:

FT 60%
SS 36%
DT 4%


My prediction for next month:

FT 45%
SS 45%
DT 10%

[leaf]

hey all

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE

[Freezingpictures]

I have not voted yet, but will, I tried this time to vote more than on just earnings, but this will not work somehow with Internet Explorer. So I will wait until I have time to do it on the other computer with another browser. Maybe you can fix this?

[leaf]

ahh, thanks for letting me know.  i will see if i can get that fixed.

[andresr]

FT 27% (unbelievable BME)
SS 20% (Up)
IS 15% (Up)
DT 12% (Up)
StockXpert 11% (Down, almost half what I got in november)
BigStock 6% (BME)
123rf 4% (Up)
Scanstock 1% (up)
Crestock 1% (down)
LuckOliver 0% (down)

[mwp1969]

My first month reporting

Dollar Wise:

DT     = 46.86%   (6sales) BME
123rf = 38.55%   (4sales) BME
FT      = 14.59%   (2sales) BME
BigStock   =    0.00%   Down from 1 sale last month
FP     =     0.00%  Pricing set to $6.00 w/ resize
CS     =     0.00% Stopped Uploading
Alb     =     0.00% Stopped Uploading

Mark

[Kngkyle]

SS - 38% (up)
IS - 14% (up)
DT - 14% BME (up)
StockXpert - 12% (down)
FT - 9% (up)
CS - 7% BME (way up, like 300%)
BigStock - 5% BME (up)

Not Included due to poor sales:
LuckyOliver, Featurepics, Canstockphoto, & Snapvillage.

[DanP68]

I hit my goal of $200 in January!     It was a fantastic comeback after the slow holiday start.

Total $200.86

Shutterstock 45%  BME
iStockPhoto  21%
Dreamstime 11%   BME
Fotolia 10%   BME
BigStock 7%
StockXpert  4%
123RF  2%
LuckyOliver  0.1%
FeaturePics  0%


Shutterstock earnings were driven by a massive upload campaign on my part.  I added 65 images to my portfolio in January.  It is not likely I will add nearly as many in February, so I expect earnings to take a substantial hit. 

[MicrostockExp]

Congrats DanP68 for the $200 I was $ 4 away ....

Here are my stats

BME (+ 8 %) + 20 % with midstock

SS  %   (-22%)   
FT % (+32%)   
IS % (+128%)      BME
DT % (-19%)   
123RF % (+83%)    BME
StockXpert % (+46)    BME

and more stats on my blog here

http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/


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[DanP68]

So close, Ldambies, so close!  February is the month you break through.

Honestly if you would have asked me a few days ago, I would have said I would finish around $196-$197.  It took a lot of sales the last 2 days to get past $200.

[MicrostockExp]

Yes the last days were pretty good, hope I will have more midstock sales new month to break this $200
Time for you to work on the $ 300 then:)

[Argus]

Here are mine:

SS :  85,26%
Dreamstime : 5%
Fotolia : 2,57%
Stock expert : 5,60%
123rf : 1,57%

I only wish SS wasn't that important for me, i'm now working to put more of my portfolio on the other sites (1000 to go for dreamstime, with 700 or so allready uploaded in january, so i hope that will have some effect for february and Fotolia.. pfft .. lagging behind some 1700 images.. i really need more hours in a day :-) )

[Smithore]

mine:

IS: 31.8% (BME)
SS: 31%
FT: 12.25%
DT: 11.4%
123RF: 5.23%
Stockexp: 4.45%
BigStock: 2.93%
Crestock: 0.48%
LO: 0.45%   

SS down by 40% since 2 months