Probably Due To Network Congestion

Time for a brief stock update…

I’ve been reading up on exclusive images at Fotolia and Dreamstime lately and decided that I’m going to start submitting exclusive images to DT & FT…
I’m going to try filter off a few from each batch of stock images to be exclusive at DT and FT and have another bunch of files that will just be uploaded everywhere as they usually would be.
FT especially it looks a good deal and with the ‘exclusive to fotolia’ box ticked you get to increase the base selling price from 1 to 2 which should double the earnings on an accepted and selling image *fingers crossed eh!*
So as long as some images that I submit get through the inspection process it should be much better than going exclusive-only to just one stock site and limiting distribution of my images at differing price points and credit structures.

The Exclusive info on FT says the following: (I’m currently at Bronze level) (there is a bit of the following tables cropped off in the page, sorry about that, but the main info is still there).

Number of Files Downloaded	Symbol	Level
Less than 100		White
Between 100 and 1000		Bronze
Between 1000 and 5000		Silver
Between 5000 and 10000		Gold
Between 10000 and 50000		Emerald
Between 50000 and 100000		Sapphire
Between 100000 and 500000		Rubis
Above 500000		Diamond

Exclusive

			Maximum Sales Price
Contributor Ranking[ ? ]		Contributor Commission %	XS Standard	S Standard	M Standard	L Standard	XL Standard	XXL Standard	XXXL Standard	Vectors	Extended
White		50	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	20
Bronze		52	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	14	50
Silver		54	3	6	9	12	15	18	21	21	100
Gold		56	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	28	150
Emerald		58	5	10	15	20	25	30	35	35	200
Sapphire		60	6	12	18	24	30	36	42	42	200
Rubis		62	7	14	21	28	35	42	49	49	200
Diamond		64	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	70	200

Non exclusive

			Maximum Sales Price
Contributor Ranking[ ? ]		Contributor Commission %	XS Standard	S Standard	M Standard	L Standard	XL Standard	XXL Standard	XXXL Standard	Vector	Extended
White		33	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	20
Bronze		35	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	50
Silver		37	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	100
Gold		39	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	7	150
Emerald		41	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	14	200
Sapphire		43	3	6	9	12	15	18	21	21	200
Rubis		45	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	28	200
Diamond		47	5	10	15	20	25	30	35	35	200

Dreamstime says the following, which in my opinion is a little harder to follow:

Royalties rely more on the actual image sales and the level of a particular image, so this doesn’t sound as good an option as FT… An interesting experiment all the same.
Fotolia is always going to be my best referral site with its earnings equal to that of my image sales. Dreamstime is a slow burner with referrals but can come up trumps now and again when a referral buys a credits package.

On another note, I’m pretty much decided that I will no longer upload new images to BSP or CSP as their earnings are tiny and payouts infrequent, I’ll leave my images online all the same. No point wasting the time it takes to upload and categorise my images.