Earnings from stock photography January 2012

A new year starts in a pretty reasonable fashion with total earnings of around $1150. It isn’t just good enough to keep me on track for my 2012 target of $18000, but there are still plenty of months and plenty of images to upload between now and the end of the year! I added around 100 images this month to most of the stock agencies, although I am still going through the hundreds of photos taken on my recent trip to Kauai. The best agencies this month were Shutterstock (although not as good as recent months), with iStock giving a strong performance to come in with at least $260 (the real number won’t be known until mid February as the partner sites report earnings. December’s partners earnings were much better than normal, with over $75 in earnings from that source. Alamy had a couple of sales, which is always good to see, and also Zoonar came back with a couple of images that gave me $31. Otherwise, it was pretty much business as usual. One site that really dropped this month was CanStock – I hope this is not a sign of continuing issues there. Here are the normal graphs:

Earnings per site Jan 2012

Earnings Growth

Files online January 2012