Monthly Sales Report for May 2013
General overview for the month It has been more than four months now since I started selling my images across agencies. All in all, May has been a huge disappointment in sales for me – usually May has...
View ArticleIn depth view on the first six months of 2013
Half of 2013 has passed. I think this is a good time to look back at some more aspects of my independence and experiences. There is a handful of topics I will discuss, nothing scientific nor a big...
View ArticleStock Photography October Sales Report
Overall summary for October 2013 October was a brilliant month for me in sales overall. As can be easily seen from the graph above, the royalties earned were far higher than in the months before,...
View ArticleOctober Sales, Royalties, Downloads
The partner program numbers from iStockphoto were added early in the month, so I have now a complete overview of my monthly returns. As I had already reported in my preliminary report for October, the...
View ArticleShutterstock adds “Undiscovered” search option
Shutterstock apparently just launched a new search option calles “Undiscovered” in their images searches. As it appears, the search results are only showing images with 0 downloads, be them newer or...
View ArticleThe evil plans of agencies
Oh, how often do we hear those stories: “My agency has changed their search, so they show images of contributors they have to pay less.” The most re-incarnation made me laugh: “Shutterstock is...
View Article24 days of Christmas – day 6, advent calendar of free downloads
Today is day #6 of my “24 days of Christmas”, and it’s also Saint Nicholas’ day. Somehow a bishop from the 3rd century has turned into the old guy bringing presents on Christmas Eve in today’s world....
View Article24 days of Christmas – day 8, advent calendar of free downloads
Another day closer to Christmas. For today’s part of my “24 days of Christmas” I only have one image to download. But that is mainly because it would have been inefficient to make you download 25...
View Article24 days of Christmas – day 9, advent calendar of free downloads
Who wouldn’t want some grass for free? Well, it’s Christmas time, and this is my 9th giveaway within my “24 hours of Christmas” today: To download the images, just right-click and save them – or click...
View Article24 days of Christmas – day 13, advent calendar of free downloads
I am catching up with the days of free giveaways as I am recovering from a cold my son had first and then gave it to me. For day 13, I have a set of water surface textures that might work … Continue...
View ArticleShutterstock Best Selling Images
These are currently the best selling images at Shutterstock Continue reading →
View ArticleHow successful are you in the stock business?
Microstock analytics tool StockPerformer(*) has started a new tool: Rankings! As they explain in their blog post on this new feature, users can now see live and in real time how their portfolios...
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