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Hi All,

 Everyone is holding strong with the exception of Istock which has now returned it's worst month in a row dropping further every month. They are the only site I am adding new images to and their sales are becoming my worst. All other agencies holding strong with no new uploads in years and I just past the mark of all my Microstock production costs at Shutterstock on its own this month. After three years my costs have been recouped by the one agency alone. Hats off to Shutterstock still top earner with no drop this year. I will be adding some TAC work this year I just have to find time to produce it. I still want to know what the returns are like there, some people I know are very happy with what they are seeing.

Best,
Jonathan

Agreeing, everyone holding strong exept IS. weird?  was chatting to some mates of mine within the Getty-RM. We were all comparing like 10 years ago and now, etc and how this has all progressed, etc.
One made the remark: " before it was a good thing to let clients know you were with Getty, in those days it was a kind of hallmark of quality. Nowdays! being a member of this Getty/IS, thing, is more of an embarrasment. One really dont mention it to clients anymore"

I thought, jeez, is that what its come to? unbelievable really.

BTW, do you ever consider removing your RMs, putting them elsewhere?  cause I know a few that are going to do just that.

..... they have both been accepted as TAC providers.

and I'm sure the rest will follow in due course, it seems that iS and Getty are merging more and more imagery into both marketplaces - interesting times ahead!

whoaw, zazzle sells ? what are your best sellers there?

Not to pick on the source but here's an example of why charts and stats are missing some important details.

Lets say that this person makes $14 on Zazzle and $9 from Deposit photos, and they have 1000 photos on SS and 150 photos on IS. Well of course it's going to look kind of like small agencies are really producing for this artist.

The first question is, how many photos to produce these sales numbers? How many sales, and is June the same as May? Because one $14 sale and Zazzle shoots to the top, next month it will be 0% and off the bottom. One month isn't a worthwhile chart.

With myself, if SS gets one EL this month it will suddenly jump up and pass IS for the year. For now, IS is beating SS, but unfortunately that's based on IS sales in January and Feb., while SS beats them nearly every month since then.

Since Oboy keeps such good records, maybe he can do a six month chart, which is probably a better indicator of a period of time and many months, not just one month. It would be a better indicator, but if he only has 60 pictures on IS and 600 on SS, there's also that small problem of RPD!

And yes, while I personally look at bottom line and don't worry about a bunch of statistics that are not of any value. (because statistics don't pay bills, dollars and downloads do)  Long term sales charts and large volume surveys, do have some indication of the trends. One persons collection, based on different numbers of files are just some pretty pictures.

Who's on top on the MSG survey? Who's second. That should tell you something about Zazzle and Deposit Photos!

 Sad is a word that springs to mind for me regarding Istock   

Do you remember the Mantra over there "The Cream floats to the top" well it's all gone sour  (excuse pun) now it seems simply a case of the expensive/exclusive is forced to the front!

Regardless of what is uploaded it is getting rather embarrassing over there for me with my once healthy income making it my top earner being reduced to a trickle of downloads it really has eventually come down to that!

Thank heavens for Shutterstock it reaches new highs each month for me with phenomenal results from 'On demands'  and EL's last month so not all is gloom and doom