Earnings from selling photos in August 2012

This is a very late post, and I can understand if you think I was trying to hide bad news – but no, I had a death in the family and so my attention was elsewhere. However, earnings in August were not good! After a series of great months, with earnings reaching $1761 in June, I fell back to only $1415 in August. Several reasons seem to be behind this – one might be the holidays when buyers are at the beach rather than at their desks, but the main reason is that some of the sites that have big one-off sales just failed to deliver in August. Pond5 had no video sales, Alamy went from $248 in June down to $2.85 in August and Veer dropped down to $15.65 rather than the $80 to $100 sales I have been getting. On the positive side, Shutterstock was almost a best month ever at $617, iStock was fine at $268 and 123RF achieved its own record at $120. So, not all bad news, but a bit of a disappointment! Annual earnings for 2012 are now $11,500 which makes my target of $18000 a bit of a stretch. Looking back though, I earned $4887 in 2010, $10602 in 2011 and already I am over that total, so things are not looking too bad. Lets hope September pulls back from this low point!
The graphs:

Earnings Growth

Earnings per site in August 2012

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