Microstock May 2008 Update
I haven’t really done a lot in getting my numbers of pictures increased this month. My big news this month is that I finally got accepted on ShutterStock and StockXpert. ShutterStock has been doing very well for me as you’ll see in the table below, I’ll take ShutterStock over Lucky Oliver any day. I’ve been accepted on StockXpert but haven’t gotten any pictures in my portfolio yet, not sure if I didn’t submit them correctly or if they just are really slow at getting them reviewed. Would have been nice if the initial five I submitted for approval would have gone right to portfolio, but that doesn’t appear to be the way that site works.
In the last couple days I did finally get some more shots together that I will upload, just need to do the post processing and keywording.
I should point out that these numbers are my career TOTALS not just the totals for May. When I get some more consistent downloads and earnings I’ll switch to monthly numbers.
| Sites | Portfolio Size | Downloads | Balance | Comments |
| Fotolia | 112 | 14 | $8.25 | |
| Lucky Oliver | —- | — | — | No longer up and running |
| IStockPhoto | 39 | 5 | $4.56 | |
| Crestock | 9 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ShutterStock | 27 | 36 | $9.00 | Finally got accepted! |
| StockXpert | 0 | 0 | $0.00 | Did get accepted, just haven’t gotten any photos in portfolio yet |
| Dreamstime | 8 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| 123RF | 72 | 1 | $0.36 | |
| Totals | Avg.39 | 55 | $22.17 | Nice increase this month even with loss of LO |
Here’s a couple other blogs I follow, hopefully someday my earnings will rival some of theirs:
Microstock Diaries: Microstock Results for May 2008
Nil to Mil: May 2008 Microstock Earnings
Pixels Away: Microstock Photography Earnings Report for May 2008
Allen