Earnings from stock in August 2011
The August results are now complete, and this has been a pretty reasonable month. August is never a great month because of vacations in many parts of the world, but this has been a month marked by steady progress on most of the sites. There were no one-off specials like the rights sale for $100 on Dreamstime and the $120 Alamy sale last month, but overall each agency played its part in getting to a total of $892. Shutterstock broke the $300 point again, with just one enhanced download, iStock really came through with the Photo+ program that puts selected images higher in the search results and earns more from each download. I think about 80% of my sales were of Photo+ images in August to end up with $175. Finally, Canstock easily beat its trend with $69.73 of sales from their distribution partners mainly. Finally, as I reported earlier, Zoonar broke its many month run of zero earnings to sell two images for a total of $68. Here are the graphs, with a new one this month on the growth of files on line this year. I took three examples – Canstock which generally accepts about 90% of my files, Shutterstock as the main earner, and iStock with its restrictions on the number of images you can upload each month.
Growth in Earnings
Earnings in August 2011
Files per site
Growth in online files
