Posts Tagged ‘images’
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
After records in October I was expecting worse result next month. It was not that bad overall. Actually it was 6th best month this year and second in this half of the year. Previous month was very bad for FT and it looks like they recovered in November. Everybody in top 5 made around their average so SS have only 56% of total earning. SXP keeps getting less than it was before but Veer returns are now almost at the same level so I hope it will replace it in future.
Microstock November 2010
Portfolio size increased mostly on Veer, SS and FT. DT keeps rejecting most of my submitted images. RPD went down almost on every single site except IS but I have not got Thinkstock results yet. After adding plenty of subs from there IS RPD would drop dramatically. Also I have had a single extended license anywhere.
2010 Microstock Trend
Nov Nov/Oct RPD
SS 56.14% 56.31% 0.52
DT 9.68% 90.82% 0.74
123RF 9.07% 50.28% 0.48
IS 8.75% 105.40% 1.42
FT 7.37% 208.97% 0.58
SXP 3.91% 111.76% 0.25
Veer 3.31% 115.00% 2.01
BS 1.44% 140.00% 0.88
CS 0.21% 100.00% 0.25
CSP 0.12% 7.89% 0.30
Total 66.74%
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Couple days ago I got site mail on Flickr informing me that Getty Images picked one of my photos. It was a photo from our vacations in Poland. I guess I will have to keep posting and see what happens.
Mother and daughter walking with a stroller
Tags: agency, contribute, Flickr, getty, images, partnership, photography, royalty-free, Stock
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
It was best month ever since I started my adventure with microstock 2.5 years ago. It was BME for SS and totally but mostly because my best earning agency scored 67% of royalties. I am also happy with results form 123RF and DT, both earning more than average. For others I do not have anything positive to report. FT clearly got worst results this year while SXP never recovered to previous levels after acquisition. Thanks to their poor performance they both were passed by IS.
Oct Oct/Sep RPD
SS 67.37% 206.15% 0.80
123RF 12.19% 203.86% 0.54
DT 7.20% 102.82% 0.81
IS 4.36% 86.77% 0.98
FT 2.38% 42.35% 0.61
SXP 2.36% 100.00% 0.25
Veer 1.94% 20.00% 3.50
CSP 1.06% 100.00% 1.27
BS 0.69% 166.67% 0.83
CUT 0.29% #DIV/0! 1.06
CS 0.14% 14.29% 0.25
Total 133.02%
Portfolio size increase is much slower now. Most of the sites reject much more images recently but still it is less than at the peak which was this summer. Surprisingly Veer accepted largest number of images this month so maybe I can see some sales there. At the moment I see most growth on 123RF and FT. Number of downloads has grown on many sites but still I got 5 times more from SS than any other site. I am also obesrving increase of numbers from SXP and IS but this means mostly 25 cents subs from ThinkStock. Return per Download (RPD) usually is better on the sites which are low earners for me. In other words I sell mostly subs. Extended licenses are extremely rare and so far I got them only on SS, CSP and 123RF.
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Overall it was third best month this year. I do not know if it is possible to beat results from the beginning of the year during last quarter. SS result are almost identical for last 3 months, far from April’s best performance. 123RF revenue keeps declining for 4th month. DT has 2nd best result and 4th month of slow increase. FT was able to rebound strongly after August disaster. IS without ThinkStock results is on the same levels as before. SXP growing slowly for last 4 months since they started posting results again. Veer posted earnings from Dash For Cash program which were good enough to give them second place this month. YM posted some earning too, maybe they will do better during holiday season. All others are not worth mentioning.
SEP 2010 Microstock
Sep Sep/Aug
SS 44.41% 100.96%
Veer 13.22% 384.62%
DT 9.52% 119.75%
123RF 8.13% 78.52%
FT 7.65% 245.28%
YM 5.89% 1559.00%
IS 4.65% 55.15%
SXP 3.21% 113.33%
CSP 1.43% 253.33%
BS 0.57% 75.00%
CS 1.32% 1400.00%
121.52%
It looks like I hit a bottom in June. For last 3 months earnings has been growing slowly. Hopefully last quarter will be at least as good as first one.
SEP 2010 Microstock Trend
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
Posted in 123RF, Dreamstime, Fotolia, iStockphoto, Photo, Shutterstock, Stock | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 17th, 2010
It looks like one of my images from Fotolia was used on French job board ad for kindergarten teacher 
That’s what I can guess from Google Translation of this page.
Ouest France
Tags: Dreamstime, find, Fotolia, france, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock, spot
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Overall slightly worse than previous month, maybe 5% less. Top 3 are staying on the same positions. SS is first, also slightly worse than in July. 123RF is below this year’s average while DT keeps basically same level for last 3 months. IS after few month of growth starts sliding down. FT got worst month this year. SXP came back from dead, still weak but soon might be better than FT. So far ThinkStock experiment is not very optimistic. SXP produces 1/3 of what it used to do before Getty acquired them. Finally all others combined are less then SXP. On the side note, Veer results are shown but it is effect of using free credits given to me in promotion. I purchased my own photos
AUG 2010 Microstock
Aug Aug/Jul
SS 55.23% 97.24%
123RF 13.00% 73.32%
DT 9.98% 102.78%
IS 7.27% 83.10%
Veer 4.31%
FT 3.92% 56.54%
SXP 3.56% 157.89%
BS 0.95% 200.00%
CSP 0.71% 63.83%
FP 0.47%
YM 0.47%
CS 0.12% 20.00%
95.83%
AUG 2010 Microstock Trend
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Lightroom 3.2 is now available as final releases on Adobe.com.
Adobe Lightroom 3
The version 3.2 update includes these enhancements:
- Direct publishing to Facebook and SmugMug is now available
- Tethered capture now supports the Leica S2
- Fixed authentication issues that could be experienced with the Facebook publish collection
- Adressed performance issues that could occur while reviewing images in Loupe view
- Corrected several Adobe Photoshop Elements upgrade issues
- Corrected a file renaming bug involving date or time fields
- Export with watermark will now function correctly when choosing the Limit File Size option
- Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Panasonic DMC-LX5, Sony NEX-5 and Canon EOS 60D and over 120 new lens profiles
Tags: Adobe, catalog, editing, images, lightroom, photography, photoshop, raw, Software, tool, utility, version, video, workflow
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Overall worst month of the year. SS recovered a little from disaster last month but average performance of others was not good enough to make better numbers. For a second month SXP got results from ThinkStock and it way below it used to be before IStock acquired it. I guess it is a middle of summer slow down.
Jul Jul/Jun
SS 55.31% 138.68%
123RF 17.26% 49.43%
DT 9.46% 104.06%
IS 6.91% 57.76%
FT 6.74% 129.41%
SXP 2.19% 316.67%
CSP 1.08% 391.67%
BS 0.46% 18.18%
CS 0.58% 500.00%
95.52%
JUL 2010 Microstock
JUL 2010 Microstock Trend
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
It was bad month overall. I got almost 30% less than in May which was also worse than previous month. Hopefully it is just summer slowdown, otherwise trend does not look good.
Individually SS made worst result this year and could be worse than 123RF. 123RF on the other hand made the second best result this year. I guess January record will be hard to beat. Others, DT and FT are pretty stagnant. I would call their results average, one month they are slightly above next one a little below their own median. Positive surprise in recent months are results from IS. They actually beat FT and grab 4th place this month. I am talking only about results without third parties which are published later. After adding these results they may be third this month. On positive side we got SXP which finally transferred my images to ThinkStock and started posting earning. I have to wait couple days to see how I am doing there. BS got BME which is so low that it was sufficient for 6th place.
June Jun/May
SS 39.54% 62.34%
123RF 34.62% 248.07%
DT 9.01% 82.56%
IS 8.08% 79.15%
FT 5.17% 98.52%
BS 2.52%
SXP 0.69%
CSP 0.27% 40.00%
CS 0.11% 100.00%
Total 89.04%
Tags: breakdown, Dreamstime, earnings, Fotolia, images, iStockphoto, may, microstock, photography, results, selling, shutterstock
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
If you logged in to your Crestock account today you were presented with new contributor agreement. It would not be anything worth mentioning if I would not notice new copyright statement in a footer of the page: “© 2010 Crestock Corporation. A Masterfile company.” When does it happen, I asked and looked at About page. Voila, it states that it happened today: “Crestock was purchase on July 1, 2010 by Toronto-based Masterfile Corporation, a premium stock photography agency with over 30 years experience in commercial licensing.” There is no official press release on neither of websites but there is an article on Crestock blog. Let’s see what other changes new management would bring.
Crestock acquired by Masterfile
Tags: acquisition, advertising, agency, crestock, designers, editorial, illustrations, images, library, management, masterfile, microstock, money, photography, photos, pictures, publishers, RF, rights managed, RM, royalty-free, search, sell, Stock
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