just to let you know I have created this and also to other agencies, once I am seeing if it is worth getting a new camera with more megapixels

haven�t decided yet because just IS and FT would make a difference! IS 20%, FT 15%..

I find it very interesting! Do you have an easy way to compile those stats or just counting them yourself?

Also, what period is covered?

It was quite fast because I have all my sales on a excel spreadsheet, the period is since the start at IS

I did not finish updating my spreadsheet, but June was slightly better than May. FT as best earner, followed by DT and IS.  A bit far away comes BigStock in 4th place, but in fact Zazzle produced better earnings than BigStock.

Although May was better in DT than June, I have seen some nice credit sales lately. If I could only get rid of subs...

I would change them to regular

again a BME, I can say that only IS under perform, I guess for my usual earnings..

Quote from: WarrenPrice on June 30, 2010, 16:32

And, I too am glad that Shutterstock/Corbis did not follow the Getty example by closing down the BS site or blindly continue that unsuccessful attempt at transferring OD sales to Big Stock. 

Eh... Corbis have nothing to do with either Shutterstock or Bigstock

SS and Corbis

If you want to attack it like a business then forget about what your monthly sales are and look at your monthly, 1/4, year profits. $3500 a month might sound impressive to some people but what goes in your pocket? A person could make a million dollars but if they're operating on a 20% profit then they are actually failing horribly. How much money you bring in doesn't mean anything  ... it's how much you keep.

of course.. again talking about Yuri? lol

Forget about me, specifically.   The question boils down to this:  increasingly it seems that all the sales at SS are 25 cent subs; ODs are fading away.    Aren't we hurting ourselves by offering the same photos for 25 cents one place, versus higher prices elsewhere? 

I get you but I guess SS brings quite a few bucks so we need to keep up, then I guess we would go to another place

I don't think anyone got my point.  I make sales at SS just like the others, and I'm satisfied with the number of sales I'm getting.  But at SS a sale nets me only 25 cents, and the number of sales isn't large enough to compensate.  So it seems I'm basically offering the photos for 25 cents at SS and at considerably higher (though varying ) prices elsewhere.   Why compete with myself like this?

why dont you upload more and break the 500$ and then the others.. patience and work!

Quote from: rene on June 29, 2010, 19:13

Yuri has uploaded 3 images this month. The war is over?

Were they similar?   

ahahah

i got the cutest reject from Bigstock the other day:

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Reason: Potential copyright / trademark / privacy issue with photo (could be: copyrighted art, visible logo, license plate number, etc) sorry...
Please remove logo on hat... very adorable child!

That little bit of politeness really made my day.

The issue is the tiny teddy bear thingy on this cap (as you can see, DT didn't object):
http://www.dreamstime.com/little-child-playing-in-the-snow-thumb12463105.jpg

nice

@Luis Santos,
good luck today Luis
It's not going to be easy, you're meeting your big neighbour and they're very good.
Do your best Portugal, you're the underdogs

Underdogs?? come on!! 3rd place on ranks.. not that underdogs..

thanks!

You make me feeling afraid buddy......

what do the others think about this?

you have plain tops/shirts in H&M I don't shoot many people but got already a few rejected because of trademark!

No I don't, but 123RF have reviewed my other batches so I guess I'll keep up