Compared to 2015,
port size: +13%
downloads: -0.56%(almost same)
earnings: -2.35%

How was your 2016?

Portfolio size: +115%
downloads: +290%
earnings: +350%

2016 was just my 2nd year though and it's in a growth stage compared to many established portfolios.

Portfolio +13%
Downloads -15%
Earnings -3.3%

So at least my earnings per download were up.

Quote from: Minsc on January 01, 2017, 07:10
Portfolio size: +115%
downloads: +290%
earnings: +350%

2016 was just my 2nd year though and it's in a growth stage compared to many established portfolios.

Impressive... best of luck for 2017!

Quote from: lightphoto on January 01, 2017, 07:36
Portfolio +13%
Downloads -15%
Earnings -3.3%

So at least my earnings per download were up.

Oh, what type of images you sell? Mine are mainly travel.

sales up 50%
portfolio size up by about 700%

Portfolio increased by about 100%
Sales increased by just over 1000%

I did only sign up to SS in August 2015 though, so it;s not much of a comparison... I'll be very surprised if it's a 1000% increase from 2016 to 2017!

50% increase in port
100% increase in earnings

Port size: +11%
Earnings: -17%

iStock only

Port size: +11%
Downloads: -21%
Earnings: -13%


Overall Total (includes RM and video on other sites)

Earnings: -8%


Not great but I haven't been trying very hard.

SS ONLY
Portfolio +25%
Earnings -18%

OVERALL
Earnings - 9%

Been doing this nearly ten years now.  I hit the wall about four years ago and earnings have been sliding since.  For the past week I've been trying to set a new year's resolution on how to approach microstock differently to turn things around... new subject matter, more efficient workflow for greater output... but I don't think I am going to find a magic bullet.  There's no way around the fact that after a portfolio is mature,  significant YOY growth is nearly impossible (my 25% increase was a huge undertaking last year, and I still slid backward in earnings!)  I don't know if I have it in me for 2017.

On Shutterstock:

Portfolio size: +4%
Downloads: -18%
Earnings: -8%

However, my total earnings all agencies combined (compared to 2015): +17%

SS Port size: +26%
SS Earnings: +24%

Total Earnings: +40%

SS SALES
up 48%
Third year contributing. Port size approx. 2,200 images/clips

OVERALL SALES
up 18%
Five years contributing with 6 agencies. Approx. 14,000 clips/images

Port up 18%

Sale revenue up 0.01%
Sales numbers almost exactly the same

manipulation is everything in SS

However Fotolia Adobe is up by 300% on revenue
and Alamy up 100%

17% increase in portfolio size.

24% drop in revenue.

25% drop in downloads.

Most of the drop occurred in the second half of the year.

I've been a contributor for 9 years and have a portfolio of approx 6000 photos/vectors/illustrations/footage.

Overall, I have seen a drop of 15% over 2015, and Shutterstock accounts for almost all of it. I currently submit to 8 sites, and have seen growth on 5 against losses on 3, which are Shutterstock, Bigstock and Depositphoto.

I have to look back to 2012 numbers to find a worse December than 2016.  I don't have my final yearly numbers finished, but they are certainly down from 2015.  Port size up about 15%

port up 3% (I wasn't very motivated and I had other things on my plate)

revenue down 33%

downloads down 15%

This is for SS (and I'm in the .38 group and have been for some time) October through December in particular just kept getting worse and worse.

Overall revenue was down 20%

I spent a lot more time doing things and taking photos in 2016, I wonder if it is worth processing and uploading them to micro or if I need to try to find another outlet for them.

Quote from: leaf on January 01, 2017, 17:56
I have to look back to 2012 numbers to find a worse December than 2016. 

I have to go back to 2010.

SS 2016 vs 2015:

portfolio +25%
revenue  -7%
downloads -10%

SS 2016 vs 2015:

Port: +13%
DLs:  -21%
$$$: - 4%

Revenue holding up OK despite decreasing DLs due to clip sales and high-value SODs - have been getting just enough almost every month to keep things OK.  Surprisingly, this was my best Dec ever on SS, but it was lucky due to the above; otherwise would have been a disaster as the fewest DLs since May of 2011.

Over all agencies revenue was up more than 17% - not sure of the total since statistics on iS and 123 have disappeared so can't do the Dec numbers for those agencies.  The increase was due to FT - more than doubled from any previous year - and Canva, which was doing great until a big decline the past three months.  All other agencies were less than last year, some by more than 50%.

Not expecting much for 2017.  Hope to upload a lot the next three months since new ULs have done OK at SS lately, after that will wait to see what happens.

Quote from: leaf on January 01, 2017, 17:56
I have to look back to 2012 numbers to find a worse December than 2016. ...

In my case, it was December 2011 that was worse, and that was while I was in "recovery" from having left iStock exclusivity in the summer of 2011!

I made a chart of Shutterstock November (always my best month of the year) and December (typically in the top 3 months) performance from 2011 through 2016. While things may look different for those in offset or the Premier plus/select/where all the high value SODs have gone, these trends do not look promising.

I didn't upload much for much of 2015, but I uploaded a lot of work in 2016 (at nothing like the pace of collection growth, certainly) and it's been selling reliably. In other words these numbers could have been a whole lot worse without new images shoring things up a bit.

On a slightly unrelated note (connection is decline of agencies which once did reasonably well), Dreamstime put in another sad performance - I started uploading at Adobe Stock in mid-December and made more money and had more downloads there than at Dreamstime, with only a small portion of my portfolio uploaded. Clearly I'm very happy to see that Fotolia/Adobe Stock is selling well, but It's a sad state of affairs.

Edited to add: I'm at 38 cents/30%, doing this since 2004 (but with a hiatus 2008-11 as an iStock exclusive)

It would be interesting to also add if you are a .38 center. I think that would reflect some valuable information too.

SS is going down the crap hole for me... I'm in the .38 club. Doing this since 2007.

I'm in the .38 club too.

.38 club for several years