Microstock Photography Earnings: October 2008
I was really busy with shooting and contributing to microstock portfolio in October. My average portfolio grew up from 392 pictures in September to 466 (18.8% increase): 62 new pictures in iStock, 98 in Shutterstock, 70 in Dreamstime. However, my total earnings with 503 downloaded pictures ($0.54 per picture) went up only 12.5% in comparison to September. No ELs in October.
I reached several milestones in October:
- $500 total earnings from Shutterstock in less than 8 months. It gave me the 33% raise for new downloads. SS took the lead last month.
- $50 first payout from 123RF in 11 months. 123RF was not doing so great in October
- $50 first payout from StockXpert in 6 months. The same performance as in September.
iStock performance was fantastic in October, but … only for the first 3 weeks. The last week went almost without sales. Overall earnings were slightly higher than in the previous month, but I am concerned about the future of my IS portfolio.
I got a very nice growth of earnings from Dreamstime which clearly took the #3 position. SS, IS, and DT provided 79% of my microstock earnings.
It was not so bad month for Fotolia despite the fact that I managed to add there just half of my pictures accepted by SS.
There were no more sales in Featurepics despite my efforts to promote that portfolio across my blogs, e.g, Old Wooden Scoop … or Bent Shaft Paddle and Outrigger Canoe.
| agency | portfolio size | downloads (EL) | earnings | % earnings |
Shutterstock |
549 | 336 | $94.48 | 37.4% |
iStock |
414 | 73 | $73.88 | 29.3% |
DreamsTime |
429 | 28 | $31.02 | 12.3% |
Fotolia |
359 | 22 | $18.63 |
7.4% |
StockXpert |
522 | 21 | 15.20 | 6.0% |
123rf |
508 | 11 | $10.33 | 4.1% |
Big Stock Photo |
479 | 12 | $9.00 | 3.6% |
Featurepics |
507 | 0 | $0.00 | |
|
466 average |
503 total |
$252.54 total |
I am getting close to one year in microstock phtoography. I will be posting more analysis of my portfolio and efforts trying to figure out: Can I make any real money from microstock?
Some other bloggers are reporting monthly earnings from microstock:
Microstock Diaries … Microstock Experiment … NiltoMil … jrtb … Driftless Ramblings … bankizdjec.pl …
Anybody else?
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Related posts:
- Growth of My Microstock Portfolio in 7 Agencies: IS, SS, FT, DT, BSP, 123RF, SXP
- Microstock Photography Earnings in 2008:
November | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January - What Sells in Microstock? My List of Picture Bestsellers
- How to Get Accepted by ShutterStock? Don’t Give Up!
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My microstock referral links for photographers:
Dreamstime, ShutterStock, BigStockPhoto, 123RF, FeaturePics.
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