Super stuff, you and @steveheap are my must reads at the start of every month. A more pragmatic realistic look vs the more pushy "buy my course" kinds on YouTube and facebook

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

I was away for the past few weeks, and I was able to summarize Sep 22 only today.

It was a good month:

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.   

Dear colleagues - here's a link to my monthly brutally honest report for the month that was Oct.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/01/october-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Alex

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

november revenues. third best month this year

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)

A good month, best of this year, and second best November, with interesting BMEs on iStock and P5 (non-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.

Quote from: Findura on December 01, 2022, 09:14
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)

I am not sure if RPD mean something My RPD with Alamu is $ 29 but I sold only 2 images in November, will be good if I sold fifty images with same RPD or 50% smaller

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.

I earned not much. It is the first time that I could not withdraw money from SS.
https://www.anadolustok.com/konu-kas%C4%B1m-2022-sat%C4%B1%C5%9Flar%C4%B1

BME for earnings in November by a significant lead.

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

Happy New Year, everybody!

2022 was a good year for me, and December was the best December, so far.
All the best in 2023!

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.

Quote from: wds on January 01, 2023, 18:36
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. 

Quote from: cascoly on January 01, 2023, 19:59

Quote from: wds on January 01, 2023, 18:36
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?

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 02, 2023, 20:27

Quote from: cascoly on January 01, 2023, 19:59

Quote from: wds on January 01, 2023, 18:36
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!

January is the worst month of the year for me - going back to my first January in 2020.

So begs the question, how did January 2023 go for my combined portfolio earnings given I spent all 2022 uploading over 800 videos and (no more than) about 100 images for each site?

Well, I can only hope that January 2023 will (again) be my slowest month for this year...





 

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.

My January 2023 at SS was significantly better than January 2022.
Image revenue has been very poor, on par with 2021, but video revenue has been ok, on par with September 2022.

At AS, my January revenues were about one-eighth of SS revenues.

Pond5 is too bad, I don't even need to talk about it.

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

I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.