Microstock Photography Earnings – February 2009
Great month in microstock! First time I made more than $500 in earnings. 46% increase in comparison to January. BME in Shutterstock, iStockphoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia and StockXpert.
I managed to increase my average microstock portfolio from 698 to 776: 94 new pictures in SS, 77 in DT, and 46 in IS. So, my submissions were a little bit lower than in January.
Microstock earnings and payments from February 2008 to Febraury 2009
The most notable feature of February was a revival of my iStock earnings. Even without that one EL the growth would be impressing. I wonder if iStock earnings will stay in that level.
123RF was the only agency with decreased earnings in February. Also, no sales in Featurepics.
In December I made an experiment and was submitting my pictures to Crestock. 10% acceptance rate! I managed to get accepted 22 pictures before I gave up. I had one sale in February: $0.25.
February was my 15th month in microstock with $3012 of total earnings.
| agency | portfolio size | downloads (EL) | earnings | % earnings |
Shutterstock |
909 | 689 | $260.49 | 47.8% |
iStock |
580 | 92 (1) | $131.92 | 24.2% |
DreamsTime |
749 | 61 | $56.70 | 10.1% |
Fotolia |
599 | 43 | $33.20 | 6.1% |
StockXpert |
887 | 82 | $30.30 | 5.6% |
Big Stock Photo |
837 | 26 | $23.00 | 4.2% |
123rf |
872 | 15 | $9.30 | 3.1% |
Featurepics |
892 | 0 | $0 | 0.0% |
|
776 average |
1008 total |
$544.91 total |
Some other bloggers are reporting monthly earnings from microstock:
Microstock Diaries … Microstock Experiment … NiltoMil … jrtb … Driftless Ramblings … bankizdjec.pl … MeLastMohican’s Blog … Probably Due To Network Congestion
| My latest stock photos on Dreamstime |  |
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My microstock referral links for photographers:
Dreamstime, ShutterStock, BigStockPhoto, 123RF, FeaturePics.
FANTASTIC chart! And you’ve consistently been at my levels or higher recently – that’s awesome! Shutterstock is a momentum stock so it will stay in that range or higher as long as you upload consistently. Stop and you’ll lose 1/3 of it in 3 months. Stop longer and you also lose your traction/momentum and it drops severely and becomes difficult to regain. Can you tell I wish I hadn’t stopped uploading last year???
So you beat me this month! Let’s see how it goes next month. Good work!
Congratulations on a great month and thanks for sharing. “Up and to the right” – always great to see on an earnings graph!
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