The earnings poll on the right has been updated.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pollsvote/

When you go to vote now, you will be instructed to vote based on how much you earned last month.  This should give us more concrete values to compare the site with.

Thanks to everyone for you input in the past about the polls.  It is appreciated.

Also, I reset the votes for everyone this month so if you voted already, you will be able to vote again under the new system.

I voted under the new system but I'm not sure about the results it's associated with my answers, for instance I earned ten times as much on iS as DT yet it's rated iS as a 10 and DT as a 7, I earned twice as much on FT as DT yet they've both been rated a 7.

Plus if I'm going to be real picky they're isn't enough range in the higher values and too much in the lower values  

thanks for the input.  Yeah - you may be right that we need more variation in the values.  I figured most of the votes would be < $100 so I put most of the variation there.  The low votes have the same problem though.  If you earn $21 on one site and $45 on another you will give them the same rating.  The variation will come from lots of people voting.  Also, if you are earning 2x more on Fotolia than on Dreamstime there is a good change lots of people have Fotolia ranked at 8 while dreamstime is still at 7 (which is the case for me), which when averaged out will give Fotolia a higher ranking - even though you have them ranked the same.

I guess we can see how it works out.  

Nice update.

Thanks, looks good.
How do the current numbers correlate with past months? Weeks?  Are the updates ongoing or as of the first of each month?
Sorry, Just completed the poll and got curious.   

Things are both ongoing and at the end of each month.  The value is a rank of the previous three months and when a new month starts a whole old month is dropped.  So when march 1 came around then all the November numbers are dropped.  The new results bounce around a little while people put in their votes for last month (February).  People can only vote once/month though... so at the end of the month things are pretty set until a new month starts.

Suggestion: ratings now have a price tag. It would be nice if we can see this tag (average earnings) on the results (may be a little tricky to calculate, but possible)

Yeah I agree I should put something in the results giving an idea what the numbers mean - or replacing them entirely.  I will do that in the future once we get some votes.

 I'm sorry that I have to say ...

This new way of statistics  in poll does not mean much ...

Portfolios of different sizes indicate different earnings, meaning this would be usable if we all had the same size of the portfolio ...

If Yuri has a $ 900 earnings last month on the IS, it is catastrophic for him ,but$ 900 for me is a more than excellent...

Because of that, We need a relative (percentage) way of calculating this statistics ,not absolute..

The solution is to follow the changes in percentage compared to the previous month...

Example:
0-10% of change is 1 , 10-20%(2), 20-30%(3)  etc...

At first I was on the same page with borg, but changed my mind. This poll makes real practical sense - it shows average income for particular stock.

BTW, results show what we discussed several times - there is no big 6 (or big 4), there are 2 + 2 + 5 + 3 + N (or, more realistically, 2 (>5) + 2(> 4) + N)

I think this new system is much better. If nothing else it will result in everyone reporting consistently based on concrete numbers rather than opinion/perception.

Great change. Still it does not show that for most of people top 4 is 10x more than next tier. It seems like earnings from SS are just 3x better than PantherMedia :-) Maybe you need more points at the bottom of scale which automatically would give higher weight to higher parts.

I disagree about the relevance of RPI.  I purposely shoot and submit a lot of images from the same session.  My goal is to increase the revenue for the shoot vs. its cost, even as the revenue per image decreases considerably.  Revenue per agency matters to me, whether in absolute dollars or as a relative percentage (if there was a way to tease out exclusives).  RPI doesn't match the way I shoot, and likely doesn't match others as well, even if they don't know it yet.

ie.  SS is at $400 avg. or whatever it is and 123RF is at $20

That makes sense to me.

I also think it's a big improvement but it could use finer ratings. But for a general idea it's good. However, people shouldn't put the $$ earned from uploads on DepositPhotos as monthly income, it's just a bonus. I doubt DepositPhotos earns more than 123RF and BigStock like it is now shown on the results.

I also think it's a big improvement but it could use finer ratings. But for a general idea it's good. However, people shouldn't put the $$ earned from uploads on DepositPhotos as monthly income, it's just a bonus. I doubt DepositPhotos earns more than 123RF and BigStock like it is now shown on the results.

DP is high because a lot of people for some reason include non-sale income in votes. Do not worry, it will sink drastically next month