Fri - October 31, 2008

Microstock Photography Earnings Report for October 2008



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:

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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