May 2008 Microstock Earnings

Published by mattantonino on June 01, 2008 at 12:36 AM in 123RF, Bigstockphoto, Dreamstime, FeaturePics, FotoMind, Fotolia, Goals, IstockPhoto, Results, Shutterstock, StockXpert

Well, the overall did not increase as much as I would have liked, mainly in part to having an amazing Shutterstock last month with one video sale AND one EL in the same month.  That was an extra $26 to catch up just to make the same money with the same DLs.  Best Month Ever on 7 of the 9 (Istock & Dreamstime with no BME but both up from last month.)

Overall feeling this month was fantastic on the slower sites but the words of the day are “wasted opportunity.”  We had a chance to make a REAL push in May and didn’t push up to $500.  We now need to clear $600 next month to be even remotely on track.  That is going to be difficult, but I have hope!  We are crossing the 1k image mark at a few sites - and June should be our biggest portfolio increase EVER.

Best Month Ever - Shutterstock, Fotolia, Bigstockphoto, 123RF, StockXpert, FotoMind, FeaturePics.

Agency Portfolio Earnings
Shutterstock 898 $309.69
IstockPhoto 89 $9.59
Dreamstime 642  $35.32
Fotolia 547 $41.33
Bigstockphoto 700  $21.00
123RF 737 $18.29
StockXpert 404  $7.50
FotoMind 1021  $4.73
FeaturePics 739 $1.40

Month Total - $448.85

Gross Nil to Mil total - $3715.47

(gain - $98.28, 28%)

March’s portfolio size - 1559
April’s portfolio size - 3839
May’s portfolio size - 5777

May 2008 Earnings
April 2008 Earnings
March 2008 Earnings

3 Comments »

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    Pingback by Microstock May 2008 Update | Driftless Ramblings — June 1, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

  2. Not too bad overall. I see that you only had 1 image approved at IS this month. Sometimes they are like that :( Keep trying there, they have always been my best earner! Here are my earnings this month: http://jrtb.com/blog/?p=298

    Comment by James — June 2, 2008 @ 1:13 pm

  3. Hi James,

    I submitted 20, had 1 accepted - I really need to do something about IStock. Not sure what though…. Ideally I’d have 1000 up there, be making $300+ a month - I’d be happy! But with them taking so few of my images, it’s not even worth the time to submit. I submitted 20, spent say 15 mins on that, and made what, $1 extra? Even at $12 a year, that’s like $40 per hour of work. Stock is never worth it like that. Not when SS makes so much more.

    Comment by mattantonino — June 2, 2008 @ 1:14 pm

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