April 2011 earnings

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Highlights

April photo sales were 25% down from last March  which follows the trend observed also last year. Audio and video had  another BME, both combined taking 30% of  total earnings.

• Photo

Shutterstock finished number one, very far from its BME, followed by Fotolia and Dreamstime. One good surprise came from Mosphotos with a BME finishing number 6 amongst all agencies.Istock still gloom and doom, 40% down  from April 2010.Overall, photo sales are 18% up compare to April 2010.

• Video

Another BME with 3 clips sold at Pond5, 2 at Clipcanvas and one (also the first) at CSP.

• Audio

Best month ever with Pond5 taking  most of the earnings.



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April 2010 earnings

Highlights

As you might have noticed, I changed the format of my earnings this month  giving up  tables  for charts. Overall, earnings this month did not increase as they did last year between March and April. It was a slow month with sale commissions 35% down compared to last month and only 1% up compared to April 2009. Royalty percentages for each media are reported below with photo  and audio taking 92% and 3% of the total earnings, respectively.

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You can access 2009-2010 monthly earnings from Microstock Charts here.

• Photo

No BME to report this month.  Shutterstock led  the pack,  Istock earnings dropped 43% compared to last month lagging behind FT. Among  the low earners agencies, it is 123RF who performed the best.

• Video

It was a slow month for footage with only one sale at Pond5 despite the addition of new clips.

• Audio

Surprisingly, audio did not finish far behind video and even had a best month ever.

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April 2009 earnings

Highlights

This month sets a new high for my microstock earnings just above the $ 400 mark (previous was in May 2008). Several sales contributed to that: 3 extended sales at SS,FT and DT (my first one), a first fotosearch credit sale at CSP. All this translated to 3 best months ever at DT,SXP and CSP and a new record of $ 0.76/dl in average. If 2009 follows the trend of last year sales, I expect May 2009 to be as good or better but we shall see...

Microstock agency ranking by $

• Shutterstock: 1 EL and 4 OD's sales this month, 1 zero sale day. It looks very difficult to increase earnings at SS despite a rather large number of new pictures added this month.
• Istock: Very similar to last month, but it always slow to growth my portfolio: upload limit combined with slow review and high rejection rate. Should take over SS one of this day if I manage to get more best sellers (my best seller made alone exactly $ 214.97 in one year with 164 dls).
• Stockxpert: For the first time in a while, credits sales were largely superior to subscription sales and a single image leads to a BME due to a favorable ranking in the search engine towards the middle of the month. It will interesting to follow up on this one !
• Dreamstime: My first EL there and quite a lot of regular downloads made a BME. Working towards a 1000+ pictures portfolio there.
• Fotolia: Despite constant uploading my earnings in FT did not really change in over a year: low search engine ranking ??? If it was not for a EL, FT would have been at the bottom...
  
• Canstockphoto: A nice fotosearch sale the last day of the month :) Hope to have 1000 + pictures on line soon.
• 123rf: An average month at 123rf, it is the first agency where I have 1000+ pictures on line.

Low earners this month with 1% or less of total sales are BSP, SCP and CT (I am 50 cents shy from my first payout there....). No sales to report at YAY and Cutcaster.

Earnings table (figures in US dollars)

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