Author Topic: WOW, April PP rolling in already (Read 13796 times)

Mantis · « **on:** May 12, 2012, 05:56 »

Earliest I can recall that Istock's PP royalties are being tabulated.

wut · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2012, 07:28 »

Yeah I was so happy to earn 10$ over night on Friday, when sales otherwise really slow down, but then I checked and there was just one Dl, I knew it was the PP. Nevertheless, I had a BDE already, so it looks good regarding April's PP earnings

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2012, 14:02 »

28 cents here 28 cents there ... it soon adds up to 56 cents.

ED: StockXpert seems to be compensating for the early release of figures by iS.

Mantis · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2012, 17:45 »

Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 12, 2012, 14:02

28 cents here 28 cents there ... it soon adds up to 56 cents.

.28 is sheit, but I do manage to pull in $175 to $250 a month, so my sales add up more than your 56 cents.

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2012, 21:21 »

Quote from: Mantis on May 12, 2012, 17:45

Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 12, 2012, 14:02
28 cents here 28 cents there ... it soon adds up to 56 cents.

.28 is sheit, but I do manage to pull in $175 to $250 a month, so my sales add up more than your 56 cents.

They're pouring in now, Mantis ... here, there, over yonder... Not gonna reach your lofty figures but might make it to triple digits ... separated by a period.

heywoody · « **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2012, 11:48 »

Definitely my best PP month - the single $24 sale looks out of place among $0.28s

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2012, 15:11 »

It looks as if I will be 20% down on the last two months. Perhaps the conscripted images are starting to make a difference to sales.

gostwyck · « **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2012, 15:29 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 13, 2012, 15:11

It looks as if I will be 20% down on the last two months. Perhaps the conscripted images are starting to make a difference to sales.

Bound to happen. My PP sales are likely to exceed my earnings at BigStock for April and I've still only got 1/3 of my port moved over. Must admit I've been surprised how good sales are there. I just wish it was more transparent and timely in the reporting.

wut · « **Reply #8 on:** May 13, 2012, 16:01 »

Quote from: gostwyck on May 13, 2012, 15:29

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 13, 2012, 15:11
It looks as if I will be 20% down on the last two months. Perhaps the conscripted images are starting to make a difference to sales.

Bound to happen. My PP sales are likely to exceed my earnings at BigStock for April and I've still only got 1/3 of my port moved over. Must admit I've been surprised how good sales are there. I just wish it was more transparent and timely in the reporting.

I'm not sure it'll benefit us in the long run, if almost all the buyers will get subs. I mean of course the bottom line matters, I don't care about the RPD, but they're really getting spoiled a bit too much. I know SS is proving something different, not only rising prices, but also the percentage of OD sales rising, but still. Just look at how bad of an effect subs have had for our earnings at FT and DT (well not mine, since I've started in 2010, but for all of you that started in 05/06)

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #9 on:** May 13, 2012, 16:05 »

Quote from: wut on May 13, 2012, 16:01

Quote from: gostwyck on May 13, 2012, 15:29
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 13, 2012, 15:11
It looks as if I will be 20% down on the last two months. Perhaps the conscripted images are starting to make a difference to sales.

Bound to happen. My PP sales are likely to exceed my earnings at BigStock for April and I've still only got 1/3 of my port moved over. Must admit I've been surprised how good sales are there. I just wish it was more transparent and timely in the reporting.

I'm not sure it'll benefit us in the long run, if almost all the buyers will get subs. I mean of course the bottom line matters, I don't care about the RPD, but they're really getting spoiled a bit too much. I know SS is proving something different, not only rising prices, but also the percentage of OD sales rising, but still. Just look at how bad of an effect subs have had for our earnings at FT and DT (well not mine, since I've started in 2010, but for all of you that started in 05/06)

That's an interesting point - when I look back at 2005/6 I see I was getting about 70c per dl at DT; now, as a result of their bizarre pricing mechanism, I am getting twice that regardless of the subscriptions pulling down the average.

wut · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2012, 16:13 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 13, 2012, 16:05

Quote from: wut on May 13, 2012, 16:01
Quote from: gostwyck on May 13, 2012, 15:29
Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 13, 2012, 15:11
It looks as if I will be 20% down on the last two months. Perhaps the conscripted images are starting to make a difference to sales.

Bound to happen. My PP sales are likely to exceed my earnings at BigStock for April and I've still only got 1/3 of my port moved over. Must admit I've been surprised how good sales are there. I just wish it was more transparent and timely in the reporting.

I'm not sure it'll benefit us in the long run, if almost all the buyers will get subs. I mean of course the bottom line matters, I don't care about the RPD, but they're really getting spoiled a bit too much. I know SS is proving something different, not only rising prices, but also the percentage of OD sales rising, but still. Just look at how bad of an effect subs have had for our earnings at FT and DT (well not mine, since I've started in 2010, but for all of you that started in 05/06)

That's an interesting point - when I look back at 2005/6 I see I was getting about 70c per dl at DT; now, as a result of their bizarre pricing mechanism, I am getting twice that regardless of the subscriptions pulling down the average.

As I said, I can't say since I wasn't around, but many big timers are complaining that they're getting mostly subs, like 8/10, which is driving their RPD down, looking like they sell a lot and they do, but the end result is still poor (in their opinion). There are hundreds of posts like that, I'm sure you came across some of them. For me, DT is performing really bad, after their price rise/commission cut. It looks like I'm not going to earn even half of what I used to. To get back on topic, PP is on track for a 2nd BME. Not bad, since none of my files haven't been moved for over 2 months and even before that I've had only about 2/3 of my port moved there.

Mantis · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2012, 16:22 »

Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 12, 2012, 21:21

Quote from: Mantis on May 12, 2012, 17:45
Quote from: WarrenPrice on May 12, 2012, 14:02
28 cents here 28 cents there ... it soon adds up to 56 cents.

.28 is sheit, but I do manage to pull in $175 to $250 a month, so my sales add up more than your 56 cents.

They're pouring in now, Mantis ... here, there, over yonder... Not gonna reach your lofty figures but might make it to triple digits ... separated by a period.

Maybe I spoke too soon. Rolling in very slowly this month.... $:-\$

Danybot · « **Reply #12 on:** May 13, 2012, 16:33 »

The pennies do add up. My partner program sales in April were equivalent to 34% of my regular revenues, which means that in terms of total downloads they outnumbered the regular sales. Unfortunately, my total revenue is only about half of what it was a few years ago. Istock is competing with itself, and the low priced sales are contributing to the cannibalization of regular iStock earnings.

heywoody · « **Reply #13 on:** May 13, 2012, 17:28 »

Quote from: Danybot on May 13, 2012, 16:33

The pennies do add up. My partner program sales in April were equivalent to 34% of my regular revenues, which means that in terms of total downloads they outnumbered the regular sales. Unfortunately, my total revenue is only about half of what it was a few years ago. Istock is competing with itself, and the low priced sales are contributing to the cannibalization of regular iStock earnings.

I just regard them the same as sub sales on other sites but with the occasional nice surprise

gemmy12 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2012, 01:58 »

pp earnings is much more than earning from istock itself. Lol dont know if its good or bad.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2012, 07:12 »

my regular IS earnings are usually 2x the PP

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2012, 19:47 »

Are April results still pending?
Mine seemed to stop at 19th.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2012, 19:52 »

I have sales recorded for the 1st through the 20th.

cmannphoto · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2012, 20:34 »

I too am up to the 20th.

Didn't they stop and start it last month, so it ran over the weekend only?

Elenathewise · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2012, 22:30 »

Umm... I too see that my Istock total jumped up a few days ago - is there a place to see the Partner Program total for the month? When I go to PP link on my Istock account it just shows me my files with total downloads (both PP and Istock).

traveler1116 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2012, 22:38 »

In the daily and monthly graph you can see it, it's in green. There is also a Greasemonkey script that helps some.

Karimala · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2012, 22:58 »

Quote from: Elenathewise on May 15, 2012, 22:30

Umm... I too see that my Istock total jumped up a few days ago - is there a place to see the Partner Program total for the month? When I go to PP link on my Istock account it just shows me my files with total downloads (both PP and Istock).

Unfortunately IS doesn't provide a place where the numbers are broken down. I have an extra column in my earnings spreadsheet that calculates the difference.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2012, 23:07 »

Quote from: Elenathewise on May 15, 2012, 22:30

Umm... I too see that my Istock total jumped up a few days ago - is there a place to see the Partner Program total for the month? When I go to PP link on my Istock account it just shows me my files with total downloads (both PP and Istock).

If you download the CSV file for the month you'll get a total for the PP downloads by day and for the month.

Elenathewise · « **Reply #23 on:** May 16, 2012, 14:39 »

Ah - thank you guys. That works.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #24 on:** May 16, 2012, 15:00 »

Quote from: cmannphoto on May 15, 2012, 20:34

I too am up to the 20th.

Didn't they stop and start it last month, so it ran over the weekend only?

Yeah, sometimes it stutters on past the weekend for a bit. However, it is absolutely normal for them to switch it off about halfway through and then restart it the following weekend.

MicrostockGroup Sponsors

Author Topic: WOW, April PP rolling in already (Read 13796 times)

Mantis

wut

WarrenPrice

Mantis

WarrenPrice

heywoody

BaldricksTrousers

gostwyck

wut

BaldricksTrousers

wut

Mantis

Danybot

heywoody

gemmy12

luissantos84

WarrenPrice

Jo Ann Snover

cmannphoto

Elenathewise

traveler1116

Karimala

Jo Ann Snover

Elenathewise

BaldricksTrousers

Related Topics

Sponsors

Microstock Poll Results

Sponsors