On the Fotolia side it is also worth noting that they've climbed probably by 9 points since the beginning of the year - which is quite a bit, I think.

Quote from: Mellimage on February 01, 2015, 11:40

Mine goes to Fotolia - worst month ever, made less than 10USD on a 900+ port. Lowest RPD due to my sales being mainly subs. My Jan RPD was also 20 cents below my average RPD at SS - the main subscription side to date. If the RPD at FT is a foreboding of the things to come there...

How are you doing at Stocksy Melanie? Now that seems like a nice place to be at. Looks like one of the very few agencies out there that still gives a rats about their suppliers!

I am doing fine at Stocksy - it's been my best earner from the very early days of joining. Of course, I also experience up and downs over there (the last two months have been below average there) - but it still remained my best earner, beating all my micros that have bigger ports. Which also means that in shooting first and foremost I care about my stocksy port and then about the rest.

I am so glad to hear it Melanie, I love your work, and yes it looks like your style is very good fit for Stocksy. Wish you even more success this year!

Thank you Elena! That is very sweet!

BTW - who signed her model release as a witness?

Had my Best Year Ever. Started in stock photography in 2007, but in the last years I had seen my income decline. In 2013 I joined Stocksy and it made all the difference. In 2014 I doubled my 2013 income with Stocksy bringing in 69% of my income. Sure, I am a small contributor, but I find it stunning that even though my port on Stocksy is the smallest compared to all other agencies, it brings in the biggest return. Guess where I'll be focusing my efforts in 2015?

No, they aren't worth uploading - at least in my book.

They were consistently the agency with the lowest RPI and lowest RPD, have an intransparent credit system - where credit values in Dollars can be very low - I received an Extended license sale where the license must have been sold for 27USD - I received about 9. When I deleted a file I found the file still in the system a year later - even though it was gone from my portfolio (and I had alerted them to the problem and asked them to remove the file earlier as well).  This eroded my trust in the agency, I left.

Quote from: Mellimage on October 08, 2014, 08:23

I personally find this thread very interesting. For me it helps me understand where I stand with my type of portfolio and upload patterns......

how does  the poll help you when type of portfolio and upload patterns are PRECISELY the information missing in the poll?

I am not talking about the poll alone, I talk about this thread in general. From the poll I see the spread of RPIs - that is helpful already - is RPI spread from 0.00 to 1.00USD, or to 3-4 $ USD, or to 10 USD. Also, being in the business for some time it helps me guestimate which ports perform better and which don't (for some contributors I can just look it up based on the info they posted in this thread). I know this information is not statistically accurate - but my information is now better than it was before the thread was opened - hence, helpful thread.

But again, a 12month average RPI would be even more helpful.

Compared to August, which was BME I am down by 37%, compared to last September I am up 56%

Stocksy - 68% (-51% from August, +245% from Sep 2013)
SS - 15% (+76% from August (which was really slow), -6% from Sep 2013)
DT - 10% (+114% from August, +78% from Sep 2013) - DT is really picking up for me this year
FT - 7% (+6% from August, -51% from Sep 2013)

overall - and thanks to Stocksy - my Stockyear is going rather well. Revenue up by 127% - I am going to have a BYE - but given that I am generally speaking a low earner this is probably not saying much. 

I thought my cut of 9$ something for an EL (another type, though) was low. It was the final straw though - closed my account.

Thank you for this feature, really nice and helpful (though I do not like all the results it shows, but that isn't your fault).
*thumbs up!*

Quote from: heywoody on July 07, 2014, 16:44

Is stocksy a great agency?  Take away the elitist element, is it making more for contributors than those agencies that the rest of the great unwashed contribute to? (no sarcasm here, genuine question)


I see no evidence that the OP is not concerned with a USP - quite reasonable that this might take a bit of thought but a different USP is not the same as no USP.

No, stocksy is a very poor seller - and not just "personally for me". They posted numbers on site -of course labeling them great-and-whatever (kickass?)- trusting their audience not to bother or be able to do even a back-of-the-envelope calculation. I can and did. The numbers are poor, and of course confidential to stocksy members. I think stocksy is loaded with enthusiastic talented amateurs who are still in a hooray mode and just flattered by someone actually paying for their shot.

All this doesn't apply to you if are magically exempt from their hipster curation, able to upload usual stock images that are proven to be of the selling type

Well that is your experience, mine is different. Stocksy is a good earner for me and there are a lot of features beyond income I love about stocksy (contributor treatment, contributor community). But I guess for you I'd probably be just one of the "in-hooray-mode" amateurs.

That must be one awesome photographer...