Earnings from Microstock in October 2011

Another great month! I have now easily beaten the $1200 barrier and ended the month with sales of $1262.67, beating last months record by a cool $200. Most of the sites did well, with Shutterstock setting its own record with $451 and iStock maintaining a steady performance of over $200 in the past 3 months. Back in May, I was averaging $100 on that site, which shows what the Photo+ program has done (coupled with steady uploading each month.) I got three enhanced downloads on Shutterstock – the rest of the earnings were the normal subscription sales plus a good number of on-demand earnings. Alamy then did pretty well with earnings of $85.10 – I am getting a lot of “Zooms” on Alamy, but very few of those seem to be turning into sales. I have always had a fear that people find a good image on Alamy from me and then buy it from one of the cheaper sites, but, of course, I have no idea if that is true!

The great site this month turned out to be Veer with earnings of $135 from two separate “unlimited reproduction” licenses for a Cherry Blossom scene in Washington and a Smoky Mountains panorama. Veer can be a bit up and down, but months like this make it a very promising site.

123RF has kept to its new higher level since I “faved” my images that I thought would sell well – earning $54.30 this month after two months at $55. This was a $23 site a few months back. Also, iSignstock, which I mentioned a few weeks back as a great site to add to your list of stock sites, has maintained its growth with sales of $65 this month.

A disappointment this month with Zoonar. After two good months, I only sold one image for $3.50. I’m hoping this gets some momentum again shortly.

Here are the usual graphs. I’ve added a new one this month – total earnings per site in 2011 which evens out the months a little to give more of an overview of the opportunities on each of the main sites.

Earnings per month through 2011

Files per sites in October 2011

Earnings per site in October 2011

Earnings per site through 2011