NiltoMil News,The Microstock World         Comments Off

Very cool – I am one of the Featured Photographers of the week at BigStockPhoto.com
Click here to view the image or go to their site to see it live. (link no longer works – it’s a weekly feature)
I just passed 1000 images accepted there and this is fantastic for us – we?re very excited to have a feature. This is our very first time we?ve been featured by one of the microstock agencies.

 Monthly Results         2 comments

Well, the overall did not increase as much as I would have liked, mainly in part to having an amazing Shutterstock last month with one video sale AND one EL in the same month.? That was an extra $26 to catch up just to make the same money with the same DLs.? Best Month Ever on 7 of the 9 (Istock & Dreamstime with no BME but both up from last month.)
Overall feeling this month was fantastic on the slower sites but the words of the day are ?wasted opportunity.?? …

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Ok, I?m making a few changes this month – I?m dropping my non-earners including Lucky Oliver (RIP), Canstock, Crestock and – likely next month – FeaturePics.
In their place, I have begun uploading to MostPhotos, Zymmetrical, and YayMicro.? Because I do not have enough data, I have left those 3 off this chart for now although it should be said that MostPhotos is very easy to upload to and I have over 500 images there already.
April was an absolutely fun month!? Increasing my income $160 in one month was thrilling especially …

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April is so far all about the pending images.
123RF – 39 pending
Bigstock – 42 pending
Canstock – 99 pending
Crestock – 65 pending
Dreamstime – 65 pending
FeaturePics – 65 pending
Fotolia – 32 pending
FotoMind – 11 pending
IStock – 20 pending
LuckyOliver – 65 pending
Shutterstock – 48 pending
StockXpert – 109 pending

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March was an all around Best Month EVER. Shutterstock was BME and double last month?s sales on 94 new images. Dreamstime was almost 4x my BME. The new sites got into the act late in the month – Crestock, SXP, LO and FotoMind all pulled their first sales. Slightly down month on Bigstock and 123RF.

Agency
Portfolio
Earnings

Shutterstock
255
$125.23

IstockPhoto
68
$9.46

Dreamstime
200
$44.16

Fotolia
228
$5.93

Crestock
49
$1

Bigstockphoto
160
$1

CanstockPhoto
163
0

123RF
232
$1.16

StockXpert
25
$1.2

Lucky Oliver
163
$1

FotoMind
221
$1.5

FeaturePics
170
0

Month total – $191.64
Last month?s total portfolio – 657. This …

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In the beginning, there was nil.
Ok, that?s not exactly true.? My microstock journey began in 2004 – in fact April of 2004 if you ask IstockPhoto.? IStock was the first agency I signed up with following recommendations on a website I frequented at the time.
So where is Nil?? That?s where we need to get to.? Where are we now and where are we headed?
Now – I have 68 files and 1073 downloads on Istock and I?m signed up with another 9 agencies.? I have 2 applications pending as well (Lucky …