Had a sale netting 12.5 Euros in 2010 back in February. Portfolio now up to 1659 images. Easy upload. Large commissions are nice when they do come. No harm for me to stay there since I plan to remain independent for quite some time. I am now on 17 sites and would rank MP in the top 7 or 8 performers for myself ...

For more details you can check-out my blog:http://markwpayne.wordpress.com] [url]http://markwpayne.wordpress.com[/url]

-Mark

Three months there now with several sales but no large fotosearch sales 
I now have over 700+ images online there ...

-Mark

Dead-in-the-water at BigStock for me in April ... still hopeful

-Mark

I've had more than usual OD sales this and last month at SS. I also had a BME at Bigstock last month ...

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

I am starting to test some exclusive images at Fotolia ...

-Mark

Quote from: RT on April 01, 2010, 21:25
This post might just be an insight into the future!

My speculation is that it will be Shutterstock who ultimately takes over 123rf. They did after all update 123rf and the BigStock interfaces on the same day ... "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

Quote from: louoates on March 03, 2010, 19:55
I can't tell where if anywhere my StockXpert customers went.

I had several BMEs in March from sites with between 250-1500 images on them. I had over 500 images on StockXpert before it shut down ...

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

It will be curious to see if there ends up being any "group 2" or "group 3" transfer activity to ThinkStock here in April as promised ...

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

Quote from: cthoman on April 04, 2010, 19:43
Yeah, I'd assume people don't use all their possible downloads. Regardless, they probably still save money with the subs.

This is the very reason that I believe that the subscription model still exists in its present state. Its Win-Win for the buyers and the agency ...

-Mark

All,

I would find it most interesting data, for those that don't mind sharing, to find out what the highest number of downloads everyone has had in a single day on Shutterstock and whether or not this particular day happened to be their Best Day Ever(BDE). Let's exclude everyone's first two months on SS ...

Here was mine:

19 Total Downloads including 1 on Demand. No ELs. Not a BDE - 900 images March 2010


-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

The majority of my sales are still from outside of the U.S. on Shutterstock. Recent payouts in the last year were as high as 75% outside of the United States although my most recent payout was around 54% outside of the US. This was on a portfolio of just over 900 images.

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

I think SS business model can be compared to the concept of an "all you can eat buffet" concept with a few exceptions. With the buffet concept the most money is made on all of the people that pay the fee and DO NOT go back for a second trip to fill their plates ...

However ... if one day that were to change due to a football or other sports team practice center opened next door and all of the football players came every day to fill their plates multiple times each day in mass numbers ... the business would likely have to rethink their strategy due to the change in their business landscape.

If SS had all of its subscription users "fill their plates" everyday the model would not likely be profitable if this were the case over a significant amount of time.



-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

A BME for me overall 

#1 SS      - BME         911 images                                                             
#2 123RF - BME       1377 images 
#3 IS                          45 images       Just missed BME
#4 DT      - BME        247  images 
#5 BigStock                     669  images       Just missed BME
#6 DP*                     277  images
#7 GL                       500  images       My Sales + Referral Sales
#8 CanStockPhoto                     649  images     
#9 FT                       249  images

*DP provided additional revenue from upload and referral upload bonuses however there haven't been any sales or referral sales yet ...

No significant contribution this month:
StockXpert, MP, Yay, CC, FP, CS

More details will be posted on my timeline:

http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

-Mark

Quote from: FD-amateur on March 31, 2010, 14:41

Quote from: sjlocke on March 31, 2010, 14:09Those who can't do, "teach" (or blog).

Hey! You stole my line! 

Those who "can't teach. teach Gym" - Jack Black in School of Rock 

Quote from: pancaketom on March 29, 2010, 23:24
Sad to see that the old old statistics page is now gone. How are we supposed to figure out what sold when for how much? Please return the old page or put in something new that supplies that information.

I have had some FTP problems since the change, but the last few batches seem to have worked ok, so hopefully that is fixed.

--=Tom

I think I know the page your looking for is ... Under "Download" ... where I wasn't looking before as I was thinking that was for things that I downloaded ...
Once there you select your month in the pulldown menu. It took me forever to find it as I wanted to know what individual image sold.

I hope this helps.

-Mark

Today my 900th SS image was approved. It took a little over 6 weeks to reach my next step of 100 more images approved at SS. This was a little slower than my prior 100 approvals.

Things are kicking for me at SS this month despite a bit of a slower upload pace.

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

BigStock is losing out in sales to 123rf post redesign ...

-Mark

I'm having a BME in sales in addition to having a nice EL since the site redesign.

-Mark

Quote from: danoph on March 22, 2010, 21:22


We are still staying niche focused and do not accept photos requiring a model release since there aren't any other sites that focus on non-people related photography. We think that separates us a little bit from the other guys.

While I do have model released photos ... I think you have found an excellent niche and way to distinguish your site from the others out there. My wife and I are both new members and are very happy with both the site itself, your business model (higher commissions) and the sales activity that we've both experienced and witnessed so far. Please please keep up the good work.

-Mark

Steady sales but no bump since SS acquisition or since site redesign on a portfolio of 636 images. However, I am having a BME at 123rf since its site redsign ...

-Mark

Quote from: UncleGene on March 19, 2010, 02:26

Quote from: mwp1969 on March 19, 2010, 01:28
My image is the Seattle Skyline with Mt. Rainier and the Space Needle. I do realize this is a popular vantage point but the image is definitely mine as the haze and slivers of buildings match up precisely ...

I am positive it is yours (here is unobstructed view of their picture https://a248.e.akamai.net/si.lscdn.net/system/uploads/7afd0ce8-acfa-e650-824f-7b5e0e92be55/autoscale-original.jpg), but not sure which copy (it seems you have 2 of them on at least one big site)

Thanks for the confirmation UncleGene ! This was such a blind luck random find 

-Mark

I had my first sale at DP. A sub one (.30) ...


-Mark

I just had my 2nd sale at GL. I have also had several referral sales which were priced as the default of $5.00 producing .25 each

For those that are interested in the data, my images were priced at $5.00 and the commissions were $2.60 each. My portfolio has 545 images.


It is an excellent portal for illustrations both Raster and Vector. Here is my referral link:  http://graphicleftovers.com/ref=mwp1969/


-Mark

Today I found my very first tear sheet  !

I randomly clicked on an advertisement for "Seattle 1-Day coupons" for a link on Facebook which I thought would be a cool link to ad to a Facebook group that I had recently formed. The link later asked me to click on a city. I then clicked on Seattle. I was brought to the following page.

https://livingsocial.com/deals/people/2114568/invites/new?skippable=true

My image is the Seattle Skyline with Mt. Rainier and the Space Needle. I do realize this is a popular vantage point but the image is definitely mine as the haze and slivers of buildings match up precisely ...



-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

Still average sales for me on portfolio on 595 images with moderate uploading ...


-Mark