FT 27%
SS 23%
IS 13%
DT 12%
StockXpert 11%
BigStock 6%
123rf 4%
Other sites less than 2% each with crestock and canstock being the only ones with less than 1%

Leaf, when I Got to emmerald I set my whole portfolio at 2 credits and my sales went up about 60-70% in terms of cash, number of sales decrease a little but at the end it is worth it. I have exclusive images with fotolia set at 5 credits and they seem to sell almsot as much as when I had them set at 2. Can't wait to get to saphire and put my credits up again!

Quote from: thesentinel on February 11, 2008, 22:24
Just did that Business Seminar search, Yuri 8 Lise 4.

I get Yuri 6 and lise 2.
I buy photos at istock and I normally see more of Yuri's pics better placed in searches compared to lise's. If you think about it, exclusives are good for the agency in general but if istock were to promote one non exclusive member it would be Yuri, as they get 20% more money from his sales and he sells a few thousand more photos than Lise every month.

hehe Miz, it is a good tutorial for beginners and intermediate users but if you haven't read or seen that technique in the past 10 years you have been reading the wrong books 

Hey now that is quite interesting indeed I am not very far from Yuri on those stats which is always good 

Quote from: leaf on February 08, 2008, 14:43

Quote from: andresr on February 08, 2008, 14:28
I think it shouldn't be the big 6 but the "big 7". Bigstock and 123rf have similar sales although bigstock for me is ahead. However the gap between them and Crestock is HUGE!

crestock was only a few $$ short of matching 123RF for me last month, so I don't think they are THAT far behind.

Wow really? hehe I never thought they could be so close, my earnings at 123rf are 5.5x the ones at crestock and at bigstock they are 8x.

That's why I thought they would belong in the luckyoliver, scanstock and others category (in fact I get more at scanstock than crestock).

I think it shouldn't be the big 6 but the "big 7". Bigstock and 123rf have similar sales although bigstock for me is ahead. However the gap between them and Crestock is HUGE!

Good Tutorial Miz, I am sure lots of people will find it useful

FT 27% (unbelievable BME)
SS 20% (Up)
IS 15% (Up)
DT 12% (Up)
StockXpert 11% (Down, almost half what I got in november)
BigStock 6% (BME)
123rf 4% (Up)
Scanstock 1% (up)
Crestock 1% (down)
LuckOliver 0% (down)

Quote from: hatman12 on January 31, 2008, 19:47
Mine have also recovered apart from StockXpert which for some reason is languishing nearly 50% down from October/November levels.

Same here

About Fotolia sales .........  I haven't really noticed any changed from yesterday. From other site's experience introducing the XS size you see a 30% increase in sales.

I was working out some numbers today between the agencies who have introduced subscriptions and the ones who hasn't.

A while ago Fotolia, Dreamstime and Stockxpert where pretty much head to head for me, bigstock was behind and istock was in between, none of them had subscription sales available on their sites:
FT 16%, IS 15%, StockXpert 14% DT 13%, and BigStock 4% right?


Then DT decided to introduce subscriptions, sales didn't fall much because they increased prices at the same time but the growth rate almost stopped. I upload about 500 good quality images a month so my growth is quite high overall.
3 Months after DT started subscriptions the numbers looked like this:
FT 20%, IS 16% StockXpert 17%,  DT 11% and BigStock 5%
as you can see DT fell well behind in the race against the immediate competitors, istock remained the same (with the photos I can upload there the growth is not as noticeable) and bistock went up a little bit.

Then StockXpert decided to introduce subscriptions a couple of months ago and the numbers look like this in january:
FT 26%, IS 16%, DT 13% , StockXpert 12% , BigStock 8%

As you can see after several months all the sites who have introduced subscriptions have gone down.


I hope that no other per sale agency introduces subscriptions.

If those numbers carry on like that in the next few months I will consider quitting subscription sites in the future.
The whole microstock market is moving towards midstock prices little by little; I believe it is successfully doing so but at subscription sites I can't see that happening at the same pace.

Fotolia has been the most stable and probably best site for me in the past few months.
Overall Rank: 2
7 days rank : 2

As others said, $30,000 is not that much. Taking his total sales is probably the wrong approach since in micro the growth when you upload a lot of images is amazing. I think what he is doing is take the sales from his last month and multiply them by 12.

Interesting, you just got one more referred member. Thank you for the information.

$1 per photo PER MONTH is the AVERAGE income in microstock when you submit to the big 7 and you have a portfolio of more than 200 photos.

Top earners earn between $3-6 dollars per photo per month.

It's a fact, I am not making the numbers up.

With a couple of exceptions is that the list on what to do or what NOT to do?

I was so happy with that price increase, it is a shame never mind ......

Quote from: Yuri_Arcurs on January 13, 2008, 23:30
I will be opting out and in over the next few days to see if there is a difference in income. So fare none. Andreas will be doing this too

indeed ..... I want to work out what's the best option financially speaking. I guess it will take time to have accurate results.

Stockxpert without a doubt ........ is my 3rd earner after Fotolia and Shutterstock.

Fotolia 23%
Shutterstock 22%
Stockxpert 16%
Istock 13%
Dreamstime 12%
bigstockphoto 8%
123RF 4%
Scanstock 1%
Crestock 1%
Luckyoliver 1%

Shutterstock has so far increased their photographers comissions every april. From 0.20 to 0.23 in April 2005, then to 0.25 in April 2006, then to 0.30 in April 2007 and I am pretty sure will see an increase this april to 0.35

Quite an interesting read in general. Here are some comments of points made previously in the thread:

1- I am out on subscriptions at StockXpert, I analized the data and I believe I have also lost money because of that and if I am wrong I am risking a little only since I only make like $5 a day with subs at StockXpert.

2- Crestock being the only one in green ..... I like crestock and their prices, but I think they should include an XS size for designer comps at $1 which is what IStock has done ... buyers don't actually use the images at that size, they download them for layouts to later decide which images work better with their designs. I think this is something that CS has been missing.

3- My earnings in december also went down 20% but from August to November I saw a 60% increase having uploaded 3000-3500 images which cost me $1500 in total.
Another matter about december is that I didnt upload since 28th November as I was 3 weeks in Colombia and then 2 weeks in Egypt and I think subscription sites went down because of that.

4- Downsizing to SS, is extra work, I have the 5D so fiile sizes are not huge and buyers can download lower res images anyway so I won't be doing that. When I get the 1ds MK III I will do but not for now.

5- Macrostock, in 2008 I've made a deal with a company who are going to submit my images to several macro agencies including getty, alamy, comstock etc .... I am submitting my first 300 (exclusive to them) soon and I am hoping to be the beginning of a big career in macro as well.

Fotolia 
I like Shutterstock but as someone already mentioned, it is not a good investment for the future, you need to keep uploading if you dont want your sales to drop and that is not good.

Well you can export the 3D animation as any format you want, .avi or .mov for example being the 2 most popular. After rendering the animation as .mov at the right size and compression you display it on the browser by using the embed tag OR you can import it to flash and have it as a flash movie which is good because you can customize the look easier

If you have any more questions fire away

This is great to read, well done to StockXpert and to the person who had the image on the site
Hope there are many many more sales like this one, and I agree with the poster who mentioned that StockXpert should include this kind of License on the site.