Author Topic: HOW WAS JUNE? (Read 20358 times)

zebra007 · « **on:** July 01, 2017, 03:13 »

Down again for me.25k images

sarah2 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2017, 03:28 »

Mediocre.
Close to new normal in the end, rescued by an SOD. About 25% down on June 2016.

Steveball · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2017, 03:52 »

Worst month in 7 years, all subs apart from 3 ODs and $26 total for the month!! (1745 images). 80% down on average, don't think I'll be bothering much longer.

Brasilnut · « **Reply #3 on:** July 01, 2017, 03:57 »

Best month ever on SS with 6 single sales $14+, 2 of which were $84 and $94 respectively.

Alamy is dead to me as well as other Midstock agencies...

Brightontl · « **Reply #4 on:** July 01, 2017, 04:27 »

BME for me with a decent margin.
SS was absolutely on fire for the first 3 weeks, then, as I expected, they turned the tap off in the last ten days. But that is normal, after 3 excellent weeks you get punished.
P5 decent, FT below par.
All the other are dead men walking

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2017, 05:15 »

About the same as last year's June. Passed a personal milestone as far as earnings though so happy about that.

OM · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2017, 05:23 »

Seriously poor. $$$ back to levels of 2013 when I had only been at SS 12 months and had 20% of the images I have now. Downloads 40% down on 2013 levels. Complete disaster averted by one medium large SOD mid-month.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #7 on:** July 01, 2017, 05:31 »

I have to go back to May 2014 for a worse month. And June was about 50% from my peak months, which were pretty consistent for a while.

increasingdifficulty · « **Reply #8 on:** July 01, 2017, 05:49 »

June was OK, not great. 40% of March, double April, same as May.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 01, 2017, 06:10 »

Turned out a typical slow summer month for me after a scarily slow couple of weeks. Get the feeling theres a lot of tinkering with the search engine....I suppose the summer is a good time to test things

akaza · « **Reply #10 on:** July 01, 2017, 06:59 »

BEST MONTH EVER

StockStudio · « **Reply #11 on:** July 01, 2017, 08:07 »

Started very good, Shutterstock was crazy (finished BME there) - the rest - so so.
then slowed down for the second half

A single day with $300 sales in fotolia made it reach my average+.

Guess the slow summer is here. Time to shoot stuff!!

Dumc · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2017, 08:18 »

SS was decent, Fotolia pure disaster, worst month since december '14 (I started with FT in april 14'), barely reached payout. Good month on alamy though, 5 sales netting me 125$.

AnS · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2017, 08:31 »

SS was average, but down compared to last month.

Mantis · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2017, 08:38 »

SS down 50% over last month....$1200 down to $600. Very low with whatever change they made in the search. Everywhere else was average, nothing spectacular to report on except the huge drop at Shutterstock.

Artist · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2017, 09:05 »

$50 USD down compared to previous month, but I will still count as a best month.

sharpshot · « **Reply #16 on:** July 01, 2017, 09:41 »

SS was well down on June 2016, mostly due to a lack of big SOD sales. I will try and upload more but it's hard to get motivated. Selling prints is looking like a better option.

niktol · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2017, 09:51 »

as expected

Minsc · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2017, 13:40 »

Not bad, but not great. 10% drop from May on SS. FT remained the same. A fairly sizeable drop on 123RF.

Overall a decent month. I don't think July will be any better now that we're entering the vacation season.

Bad Company · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2017, 16:25 »

I often find when someone post a question: How was your month you will get these replies and usually in this order-

1. Worse month ever
2. Best month ever
3. About the same or OK

In the end nothing really is answered- just the nature of the beast... $:-\$

Brasilnut · « **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2017, 16:45 »

Quote

1. Worse month ever
2. Best month ever
3. About the same or OK

4. Started great but ended badly / started badly but ended great

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #21 on:** July 01, 2017, 17:05 »

In like a lion, out like a lamb. Hopefully the slump towards the end is not a sign of things to come.

Zero Talent · « **Reply #22 on:** July 01, 2017, 18:07 »

Average results on SS, FT and DT.
Good month on P5, IS, Alamy, 123RF and DP (with 4 surprising payments request).
Poor month on 500px and FAA.

Pleased with my total June revenue (well inside 4 digits zone)

Edit: I forgot a nice check from an independent gallery

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2017, 01:25 »

20% of what I made in May, but about 50% of what I normally make as May was a bit of a spike.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2017, 01:27 »

Quote from: Bad Company on July 01, 2017, 16:25

I often find when someone post a question: How was your month you will get these replies and usually in this order-

1. Worse month ever
2. Best month ever
3. About the same or OK

In the end nothing really is answered- just the nature of the beast... $:-\$

Yes which is why I like SSs own quarterly report AFAIK the only truly objective statistic about stats anywhere. This really only tells us that on average RPI is going down.

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Author Topic: HOW WAS JUNE? (Read 20358 times)

zebra007

sarah2

Steveball

Brasilnut

Brightontl

Justanotherphotographer

OM

Sean Locke Photography

increasingdifficulty

Pauws99

akaza

StockStudio

Dumc

AnS

Mantis

Artist

sharpshot

niktol

Minsc

Bad Company

Brasilnut

BaldricksTrousers

Zero Talent

SpaceStockFootage

Pauws99

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