Posted by: pdtnc on: May 9, 2009
As always, its really nice to find your work in print, but this find has put together a couple of my favourite hobbies.
I’m not actually a CAMRA member but I am a Real Ale drinker and Home Brewer, couple this with my interests in photography and design. The CAMRA ‘Beer’ magazine was passed onto me [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: April 1, 2009
March was different, I made my average cashout level but just missed out by a day or so on cashouts from iStock and Dreamstime, for the first time in a while SXP did not reach the minimum payout figure.
Here’s the Lookstat graph for March:
Next up here’s my monthly cashouts graph over time, after reading things [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: February 1, 2009
January’s been pretty good, a couple of nice surprises in the form of a $100 referral and $25 Extended license at Dreamstime, and January as a whole feels to have been a busy sales month.
CanStockPhoto has had some Fotosearch sales, one nice ‘Fotosearch regular sale’ brought in $19.80 and a trickle of subs sales from [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: January 17, 2009
I had quite a nice surprise yesterday as my Dreamstime balance jumped up a full $100, after checking I found that it was a referral purchase, meaning that I got paid out 10% of the credit package bought Pretty darn Good
Its always impressive the amount of referred members on DT and the [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: January 1, 2009
December ‘08 Microstock Stock Stats, this time using Lookstat.com
Current supported sites are iStockphoto, Dreamstime & Shutterstock, with Fotolia, 123rf & Stockxpert to follow.
December has been a slow month for sales with the only real event being an Extended license sale at Dreamstime, iStock worked hardest and Shutterstock sold most but made less money! I’ve been [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: August 13, 2008
My first ‘On Demand’ sale at shutterstock looks promising at $2.48 for 1 sale, much better than the original subscription payout level I’m on of $0.33 per sale Lets hope for more of these
Shutterstock could claw back some potential buyers that might have been defecting to istockphoto with this, and its going [...]
Posted by: pdtnc on: June 26, 2008
Weird that I should get my first ever subscription sales at iStockphoto and Fotolia on the same day.
At iStock I sold this:
“Wednesday June 25, 2008, 02:24 PM – Large @ $1.90″
At Fotolia I sold this:
“Wednesday 2008-06-26 03:45 pm – Large @ $0.31″
Hmmm, there is a bit of payout difference there!