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« on: August 01, 2009, 02:45 »
Ok these are my dollar earnings for July 2009
SS 37.9%
DT 17.7%
FT 16.5%
BS 7.5%
IS 7.5%
123 5.8%
StockXpert 3.8% *
FP 1.9%
CanStockPhoto 1.4%
Actually for my pound earnings FT should be #2 as a FT credit is worth 75p and a DT credit is worth about 60p. DT have been in a downward trend since April.
* worst month here in the last 18 months I had opted out of sub sales nearly a year ago so the Jupiter unlimited photo.com switch to iStock shouldn't have made a difference.
Sales at FP were dead until yesterday I noticed our cut is now 50%
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« on: July 01, 2009, 02:26 »
This used to be favourite time of the month counting up all those $, now its quite depressing.
SS 36.7%
DT 19.9%
FT 14.3% WM-08
IS 8.1% WM-08
123 5.8% WM-07/08
BS 5.2% WM-07/08
StockXpert 5.1%
CanStockPhoto 2.7%
FP 2.2%
I only have 18 months of stats to look at but overall it was the worst month in the last 18 months with the exception of December'08.
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« on: May 01, 2009, 02:59 »
Mine has risen to 19.8% and sub sales are decreasing every month.
I presume the rest of you are seeing a similar trend?
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« on: May 01, 2009, 02:56 »
Supposedly they have 8,230 movie clips. I thought they would have waited until they had a few more.
I also thought they would be more PAL friendly with their strong user base in Europe but HD 1080 clips are only available in a downsized NTSC version.
If anyone works out how to browse within a footage portfolio let me know I want to check what they actually accepted of mine.
If anyone has a sale speak up!
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« on: April 01, 2009, 12:18 »
I think I may have been reading too many reports on the credit crunch if I am referring to Jan-March as the 1Q (1st quarter) anyways
Mar Feb Jan
Sub 74.6% 68.1% 72.8%
OD 18.3% 14.8% 15.3%
EL 3.2% 9.8% 3.3%
REF 1.0% 1.1% 1.1%
CD 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
VID 2.6% 6.2% 7.3%
So March wasn't a great month for footage but those on-demand sales are getting impt
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« on: April 01, 2009, 05:11 »
SS 38.1%
DT 18.5% 2BME
FT 16.1% BME
BS 7.5%
IS 7.1%
123 5.7%
StockXpert 4.2%
CanStockPhoto 1.9%
Not bad overall disappointed with StockXpert
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« on: March 28, 2009, 04:19 »
I had my first acceptance e-mail on Friday 27th March for a clip which was submitted on 30th of January.
It seems they intend to sell both Pal and NTSC versions I submitted a PAL version. Does any other site do this?
The big question when will the videos go on sale???
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« on: February 28, 2009, 17:26 »
SS 40.0% DT 18.1% FT 12.6% StockXpert 7.8% IS 7.1% BS 5.5% 123 5.2% FP 2.4% CanStockPhoto 1.3% Actually the total was just 5 dollars less than Feb 2008 plateau Started uploading vids to Pond5 so hopefully they will appear in the list in March. Updated my Microstock footage guide and my Microstock photo guide
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« on: February 22, 2009, 04:50 »
Unfortunately I think only UK residents will be able to view it. Quite interesting big bucks + high stress
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« on: January 30, 2009, 10:44 »
Updated Sunday morning another depressing month at the big sites  , overall total lowest monthly dollar income since Feb 2008 (excluding December 2008) at least it was higher than Jan 2008  SS 43.1% DT 15.8% FT 13.4% IS 7.9% * 123 6.1% StockXpert 6.0% BS 5.8% CanStockPhoto 1.2% # FP 0.6% * a pleasant surprize actually selling here again they were #7 in December 2008 # mainly affilated sales Well at least the US$ = almost 70p (UK) instead of 50p 6 months ago Well the 31st turned out to be quite a busy Saturday except at IS
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« on: January 18, 2009, 15:49 »
For all you stats junkies Now on your uploads and earnings page at Dreamstime you can download an zipped excel file (which will also open with "open office calc") There are multiple sheets listing your files in chronological order only with DLs, views and total earnings. The first sheet lists all your accepted files then subsequent sheets list all the files accepted in a particular month of December 2008, November 2008 etc with DLs, views and total earnings up to 31/12/2008. If you scroll down to the bottom of that sheet you can see how many files you uploaded that month and how much they have earnt until 31/12/2008. Also if you know the month of a particular shoot you can quickly check to see what files were the earners. There are no thumbnails just the image ID and the title but with the former you can see the image in question.
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« on: December 31, 2008, 13:36 »
Now updated Looking forward to some proper download numbers in 2009 SS 43.9% WM08# DT 19.1% 2WM08 FT 12.0% WM08 123 7.4% * BS 6.1% StockXpert 5.3% IS 4.0% @ CanStockPhoto 1.2% FP 0.9% # actually more earnings than Dec 2007 despite having only 75% of the DLs of Dec 2007 * better than November @ the downward spiral continues overall worst month of 2008 final breakdown for the year 2008 same order at the top though the middle section is shuffled. Curious to see will IS bounce back next year SS 44.7% DT 16.9% FT 11.1% StockXpert 6.6% IS 6.5% BS 6.3% 123 5.9% FP 1.6% CanStockPhoto 0.2%
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« on: December 26, 2008, 18:41 »
Just wondering did anyone have any?
For myself
SS 14 subs (3 referred) *
DT 1 small (7 referred)
FT one sub one XS (5 referred)
123 1 sub
StockXpert 0
BS 0
* actually more DLs than two Saturday's this month (December really does suck)
Not sure what is more sad downloading on major holiday or checking to see.
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« on: December 12, 2008, 13:59 »
same feature that FT have had for a while
Now at SS once selected, when your cursor passes over an image thumbnail in the search results a large watermarked thumbnail appears.
It may increase sales when the thumbnails doesn't do their images justice.
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« on: November 28, 2008, 05:44 »
Now is the winter of my discontent. Usually I experience a summer slump and December sucks but otherwise a gradual increase throughout the year however I seemed to have peaked in September 2008 and the a downward spiral starts again. Updated figures SS 44.3% 3WM08* DT 17.5% 3WM08 FT 14.3% 2BM08 StockXpert 6.8% BS 5.5% 2WM08 123 5.4% WM08 IS 4.8% WM08 no surprise FP 1.4% 3WM08 3rd worst month 2008 2MB08 2nd Best Month 2008 * actual number of 25/day DLs at SS lowest since February 2007 Only bright spots the exhange rate from $/ is still good for microstock earnings in dollars and VAT (UK sales tax) was reduced today (1st December) to 15% (from 17.5%) so my dollar earnings will go further I expect December will suck as usual so fingers crossed for 2009
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« on: November 02, 2008, 08:49 »
If you want to comment on whether the percentage/total increased/decreased from last month which seemed to a better month for some people, feel free below.
For me
August 3% of SS earnings from OD sales
September 9.1% of SS earnings from OD sales
October 9.3% of SS earnings from OD sales but less $$
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« on: November 02, 2008, 08:33 »
I am referring to the poll that was sent by e-mail from SS with the chance to win a graphics tablet. I saw from another thread quite a few contributors wanted a crack down on contributors spamdexing their images. I suggested more comprehensive stats well at least being able to click on an image and find out how many DLs and DL/month. What other things did you suggest/moan about? I see they were floating the idea of a keywording service like DT have.
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« on: October 28, 2008, 08:21 »
I know I am very early but I like to start this thread. Updated Saturday morning SS 45.5% DT 17% FT 11.5% IS 7.6% 123 6.0% BigStock 5.3% StockXpert 5.2% FP 1.8% Well I suspected it was not a best month at any site and overall a rather disappointing month, I think I overachieved in September. I usually see a steady increase after the summer slump until Christmas. The only bright note is that the exchange rate for US dollars to pounds has changed in my favour, hopefully the dollar can remain strong until the agencies send me my money.
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« on: October 04, 2008, 06:26 »
Any suggestions which sites to check?
ebay for CDs for sale
other stock sites especially if you don't contribute.
Any other suggestions??
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« on: August 31, 2008, 02:20 »
Well hopefully its the end of the Summer slump slightly down on July overall. I don't expect many sales on a Sunday on the labour day weekend so here goes. SS 44.7% DT 17.6% BME FT 8.6% StockXpert 8.1% BME # IS 7.6% BME * BS 6.7% 123 4.6% FP 1.7% CanStockPhoto 0.3% # disabled subscriptions * a few video sales helped
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« on: July 31, 2008, 02:41 »
OK July is over so I post my final figures SS 46.3% BME DT 16.0% BME* FT 11.5% BM2008 StockXpert 6.8% BM2008 IS 6.4% 123 5.8% BS 4.6% WM2008 FP 2.8% BME CanStockPhoto 0.1% overall BME for microstock * Highest number of DLs at DT ever but lots of subscriptions. BME best month ever BM2008 best month 2008 WM2008 worst month of 2008 Strange how differently the sites performed on the last day of the month some sites virtually no sales but the busiest day of the month at others
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« on: June 30, 2008, 14:47 »
Figures have been updated as June is over The summer slump seems to have begun at some sites but not others so a fairly average month overall. SS 47.2% DT 17.7% * FT 8.4% # StockXpert 7.2% 123 6.5% IS 6.2% BS 5.9% # FP 0.6% # * BME at DT by 22c # worst month of 2008 For any of you with a video camera I have recently made a webpage comparing the three principle sites selling footage Micro Stock Footage guide
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« on: May 31, 2008, 14:03 »
SS 44.8% BME
DT 16.4% BME
FT 11.1%
BS 7.1%
StockXpert 7.0%
IS 6.5%
123 4.7%
FP 2.1% BME
SPM 0.2%
CanStockPhoto 0.1%
Actually less downloads at Shutterstock than usual but the earnings/DL increased plus extended licences and a run on footage clip downloads brought up the total.
The subscriptions at StockXpert seems to be cutting into my earnings
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« on: March 31, 2008, 07:31 »
A bit early but I won't be able to start this thread at the appropriate time
SS 42.7%
DT 16.2%
FT 13.0%
StockXpert 7.7%
iS 7.2%
BS 5.8%
123 5.8%
FP 1.5%
Not a bad month but less than February, I am sure Easter is partly to blame
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« on: February 29, 2008, 15:03 »
Sorry I couldn't wait to add up my numbers, now updated SS 46.2% BME DT 16.5% BME FT 9.5% StockXpert 7.0% 123 7.0% IS 6.3% BME BS 6.0% FP 1.2% CanStockPhoto 0.3% Overall BME.
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