Tue - July 1, 2008

Microstock Photography Earnings Report for June 2008



June was a quite busy month for me with a lot of new pictures added to all microstock portfolios.

iStock and Shutterstock earnings showed some growth providing 73% of the total income. However, the return-per-image is still declining: 0.33, 0.29, 0.26 from IS in April, May, June, and 0.28, 0.21, 0.20 from SS, correspondingly.

There were some movements in my low earners with Dreamstime and Big Stock Photo earnings showing visible increase. No extended licenses last month.

A few milestones was reached in June:

I added actual payments from microstock agencies to the plot of total earnings above. It looks like $100/month business, but I expect payments from IS and SS in July.

agency portfolio size downloads (EL) earnings return per image sell-through rate

iStock

248 75 $66.64 0.26 31.1%

Shutterstock

 276 216 $54.25 0.20 76.1%

DreamsTime

 237 23 $17.00 0.07 13.5%

Big Stock Photo

 266 10 $13.00 0.05 -

Fotolia

 229 14 $8.34 0.04 20.0%

123rf

 294 5 $3.53 0.01 -

StockXpert

 257 5 2.10 0.01 -

FeaturePics

 175 0 0.00 0.00 -

total

 318 $164.86

Some other bloggers are reporting monthly earnings from microstock:

Anybody else?

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