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This is news to me, its the first sale I’ve had marked like this “Credit for Photo Sale by reseller”…
Could this be how the Fotolia Free API works??
The Pics below:
http://futureworks.co.kr a Fotolia Reseller in Korea, is a Flash website, but I couldn’t spot how to purchase images.
The recent Fotolia new letter:
“COMING SOON: FOTOLIA’S FREE CONTENT API
The first website based on the Fotolia’s free content API will soon be released! The site will drive traffic to Fotolia and is a fantastic opportunity for Fotolia’s contributors to get additional visibility amongst stock photography buyers.
Fotolia’s extensive API infrastructure (partner, Business, Developer and Reseller) has already shown their capacities in driving qualified traffic on the Fotolia website. We’re confident that this new API will do the same.
As a backgrounder, Fotolia’s free content API is based on free contents and unsold files. This API will be used by Fotolia to attract more stock imagery users and to invite them to buy additional imagery on Fotolia. That means: more traffic, more buyers and more sales. As you already know, you can add your unsold files to this program and get a half credit for each file added. Your file will be still offered on Fotolia.com at the standard price, while at the same time, being offered for free through the API.”
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 Fotosearch… looking more promising that CSP has for ages! (ever before!)
I’ve actually managed some uploading, and I’m still at it, I’m going to have to do some overnight (un-metered) uploading or I’m going to bust out of my ISP’s 15Gig/month limit an I’ll start getting charged more (£1/Gigabyte).
Considering that I’ve got myself a new project, of Beer brewing, I’ve done quite well with the keywording and editing this month, I have a batch of 103 waiting to go up to a couple more of the sites and lots of already approved images at Stockxpert though iStock have rejected quite a few of the first 20. Also I have another batch of 28 which is edited, keyworded and ready to go, iStock is going to take a while at 20/week in the queue and I notice that Dreamstime has set a 25/day limit on adding to the inspection queue too.
I’ve stopped uploading to Mostphotos and YaY Micro for the moment as its going to be counter-productive if nothing actually sells there!
Here’s the Lookstat graph:
Lookstat’s new feature is pretty cool, its an image specific stats function that lets you drill down through an individual file and check out its sales over time. Obviously this is only across iStock, Shutterstock and Dreamstime at the moment but from what I read over at their blog we’ll soon have Fotolia too… Quite an exciting prospect being able to cross-reference the sales of a particular file on all these sites and see their true full earnings, fingers crossed for Stockxpert next 😉
All-time earnings averages pie chart:
The Leader board looks like this:
Dreamstime just edging ahead of Fotolia, which is probably due to good referrals and an Extended License sale at Dreamstime and the exact opposite at Fotolia.
All in all I have cashed-out $483.30 in January, which is above my current average of $401.65, not a bad first month to say we are in this (bogus) Recession!
We would be creeping out of recession if people would just start to spend again, so come on folks go buy the thing you were thinking of buying but just holding off to wait and see what the financial climate does. Spend wisely and save, but remember to spend, pay off those debts too!
Though I do like the USD-GPB exchange rate at present, watching the exchange rates can net you a few extra monetary units in PayPal with a bit of balance swapping or cashing out 😉
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 | |
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| 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
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| Contributor Ranking[ ? ] | Contributor Commission % | XS Standard | S Standard | M Standard | L Standard | XL Standard | XXL Standard | XXXL Standard | Vector | Extended | |
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| 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:
| Level | Version | Earnings from Registered Users Downloads | ||
| Non-Exclusive | Exclusive | |||
| Level 1 | Small size | $0.50 per image | $0.60 per image | |
| Medium size | $1.00 per image | $1.20 per image | ||
| Large size | $1.50 per image | $1.80 per image | ||
| Maximum size | $2.00 per image | $2.40 per image | ||
| Level 2 | Small size | $1.00 per image | $1.20 per image | |
| Medium size | $1.50 per image | $1.80 per image | ||
| Large size | $2.00 per image | $2.40 per image | ||
| Maximum size | $2.50 per image | $3.00 per image | ||
| Level 3 | Small size | $1.50 per image | $1.80 per image | |
| Medium size | $2.00 per image | $2.40 per image | ||
| Large size | $2.50 per image | $3.00 per image | ||
| Maximum size | $3.00 per image | $3.60 per image | ||
| Level 4 | Small size | $2.00 per image | $2.40 per image | |
| Medium size | $2.50 per image | $3.00 per image | ||
| Large size | $3.00 per image | $3.60 per image | ||
| Maximum size | $3.50 per image | $4.20 per image | ||
| Level 5 | Small size | $2.50 per image | $3.00 per image | |
| Medium size | $3.00 per image | $3.60 per image | ||
| Large size | $3.50 per image | $4.20 per image | ||
| Maximum size | $4.00 per image | $4.80 per image | ||
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.
The tables below shows current earnings on a per-site basis giving accurate daily and monthly averages, images sold, online totals and length of time being a member.
| Stock | Average / Day | Average/ Month |
| Istockphoto | 1.69 USD | 51.31 USD |
| CanStockPhoto | 0.11 USD | 3.48 USD |
| BigStockPhoto | 0.23 USD | 6.92 USD |
| Fotolia | 1.07 USD | 32.71 USD |
| Dreamstime | 1.48 USD | 45.11 USD |
| Shutterstock | 2.36 USD | 71.97 USD |
| StockXpert | 0.83 USD | 25.28 USD |
| 123RF | 0.21 USD | 6.38 USD |
Current Royalty Free stock earnings for each site.
| Stock | Earnings Totals |
| Istockphoto | 1,013.12 USD |
| CanStockPhoto | 53.95 USD |
| BigStockPhoto | 107.38 USD |
| Fotolia | 503.96 USD |
| Dreamstime | 699.57 USD |
| Shutterstock | 884.36 USD |
| StockXpert | 378.80 USD |
| 123RF | 74.78 USD |
Sales and Images online totals.
| Stock | Sales | Images Online |
| Istockphoto | 1558 | 573 |
| CanStockPhoto | 87 | 717 |
| BigStockPhoto | 156 | 592 |
| Fotolia | 441 | 632 |
| Dreamstime | 822 | 614 |
| Shutterstock | 2983 | 580 |
| StockXpert | 335 | 671 |
| 123RF | 140 | 686 |
The total length of time in days that I have been submitting images to the sites.
| Earning Days | Stock |
| 601 | Istockphoto |
| 472 | CanStockPhoto |
| 472 | BigStockPhoto |
| 469 | Fotolia |
| 472 | Dreamstime |
| 374 | Shutterstock |
| 456 | StockXpert |
| 357 | 123RF |
My current league table is as follows:
- Shutterstock – for sheer volume of sales
- iStockphoto – my current favourite, though longest running, earner
- Dreamstime – surely this place is going to be nipping at the heals of istock soon
- Fotolia – is getting better and more reliable earner, quite possibly the best for referral earnings too
- StockXpert – steady earner, great upload features
- BigStockPhoto – Slow trickle
- 123RF – an equally slow trickle but showing more promise due to the length of time I’ve been submitting
- CanStockPhoto – drip…….. drip……………… drip………………. Obviously not a place where my images sell! Nice place, shame about the lack of sales
🙂
Four new stock sites….
Posted on: May 31, 2007
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Its been a while since i posted anything to do with stock images, and I’m in a major need to update my online stock image report from my spreadsheet. This I shall get around to soon-ish, erm honest! 😉
For now though I am going to dip my stock toe in the water of 4 other Royalty Free sites and see if the water is Hot, Warm, Cold, or bloody freezing!
For this experiment I shall be using the following to sell my imagery wares to the design community:
Kinda cool quirky site… ever-so polite approval system.
Fairly easy submission process, lets see how it goes.
Lacks a referral scheme but its a pretty usable site.
Lacks a sensible (so far as i’ve read) referral scheme, they don’t want to accept my images yet as its not to their ‘style’, quite possibly the ‘Bakers Dozen’… Number 13 bread roll I dropped on the floor and the dog licked it.
These 4 sites are obviously going to take a back seat to my others so don’t expect any instant results! 🙂
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© Photographer: Pdtnc | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Pdtnc | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Pdtnc | Agency: Dreamstime.com
© Photographer: Pdtnc | Agency: Dreamstime.com
🙂 Its been a while since i posted something, so here’s some random stuff from my Dreamstime stock.
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Its time for another royalty free stock image update covering iStockphoto (iStock), CanStockPhoto (CSP), BigStockPhoto (BSP), Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, StockXpert (SXP), and 123RF.
I’ve been working out some very accurate averages for selling my Royalty Free Stock on the various sites, its all to do with this and this 1 year = 365.242199 days which is a pretty accurate length of a year. The amount of time I’ve spent playing with a spread sheet and figuring out how to do what i wanted to do! 😀 Its passed the time.
As you can Clearly see Shutterstock is in the lead by a long way giving almost half of my stock earnings followed by iStock and Dreamstime. I must say Dreamstime is becoming more and more consistant lately and will be giving iStock a run for its money!
| Join Date | Earning Days | Stock | Ave Earnings / Day | / Month | |
| 31 Oct 05 | 348 | Istockphoto | 1.78 USD | 54.17 USD | |
| 9 Mar 06 | 219 | CanStockPhoto | 0.14 USD | 4.16 USD | |
| 9 Mar 06 | 219 | BigStockPhoto | 0.17 USD | 5.14 USD | |
| 12 Mar 06 | 216 | Fotolia | 0.42 USD | 12.88 USD | |
| 9 Mar 06 | 219 | Dreamstime | 1.24 USD | 37.87 USD | |
| 15 Jun 06 | 121 | Shutterstock | 3.40 USD | 103.58 USD | |
| 25 Mar 06 | 203 | StockXpert | 0.57 USD | 17.44 USD | |
| 2 Jul 06 | 104 | 123RF | 0.16 USD | 4.99 USD | |
| Total Days | 1649 | Total USD | 7.89 USD | 240.23 USD |
🙂
Here’s some more information for the Photographer wanting to get into Royalty Free Stock market selling, i’ve been doing a little more playing with my spreadsheet and have worked out some averages for each of the listed sites below, check the Pie Chart to see which RF Stock seller makes the most:
Its quite a shift in Pie since my last little chart which only showed my total earnings sliced up across the 8 different sites.
I wish I had listened and started up at Shutterstock to begin with, for the simple speed of sales and amounts which far out-weigh any of the other sites. Here’s the actual numbers too: (see Key below for more info) *You may have to open the image in another window or save it to your computer as this blog chops some of it off*
Key:
Numbers = total images sold per site
$ / Image = Average earnings per image sold
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