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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

July and August 2014 Stock Photography

Well July continued the upward trend, however in August while Shutterstock continued the upward trend unfortunately Istockphoto did not. Incurred a big dip in download numbers which obviously results in a dip in actual dollars earned.

I know from all the research I've done ups and downs are normal so I'm not concerned about it at this stage. Just keep plugging away.

Here's the graph


Also you should notice that unfortunately the graph shows that download numbers are increasing at a faster rate than the dollars earned. this is a worrying trend and quite clearly the result of the majority of stock photo sites pushing the price to the end user down.

Total downloads and earnings took a small dive for the month of August. I could spend hours trying to analyse why but will never really know the answer. I would assume though that it does appear that if you are not uploading regularly it effects your portfolios performance. The sites that I had previously mentioned I had stopped uploading to have all nosedived in August.

Would be nice to see at least one more zero before the decimal point but it appears that will take some time and perseverance.