Earnings from Photography in March 2023
How much can you really earn from your photography by selling it online. This active photographer spills the beans on the reality in 2023!
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Quarterly earnings report on stock photography
Each quarter I do a deeper dive into the earnings to be made from stock photography and here is Q3 of 2022. Some intriguing results – are we through the worst of the decline in earnings? Time will tell!
Earnings from Photography in September 2022
September turned out to be a big improvement over the previous months. Is this the start of a winter peak – we will have to wait and see!
Annual Review of Stock Photography 2020
Time to look back at a very unusual year and not just in Stock Photography! It is fascinating to think about all the changes that we have lived through in just one year with some pretty major changes impacting us all in our profession (or hobby) of trying to make money from our photography. Of course the biggest change that impacted newer and smaller contributors significantly was the decision by Shutterstock, with little notice, to completely rework their contributor payout...
Black Friday Sales
I get a lot of emails about various discounts at this time of year, and so if you are in the running for one of the products that I use, here are the various sales I have seen: StockSubmitter – up to 80% off subscription sales between 27 November and 12 December. I use this program all the time and I will certainly be topping up my subscription amount. Remember that what you are buying is really a credit and...
Quarterly review of stock photo earnings
Each quarter I do a slightly deeper analysis of my earnings from selling stock photos and videos online and so the quarter 2 results are in. Overall, the quarter from March to June 2020 was not too bad – ending with $8966 of which $755 came from video sales. Q1 of 2020 was slightly lower at $8458. The historical picture is here: What is interesting about this graph is how the last 3 years have been “reasonably” stable. The end...
How to maximize your earnings?
This is the follow up article to the one I published earlier this week about the value we put on our art“. Although I talk a lot about “images”, I’m using that as a bit of a shorthand to include videos as well. The key message that I ended with in that article was the following: Your aim should be to maximize the earnings of your portfolio with the minimum effort needed to achieve those earnings Exclusivity – a club...
Dreamstime – doing the right thing!
At a time when we seem to be being driven into the ground by Shutterstock and Getty/iStock are hitting us with 1c downloads of images, we should look towards agencies that are doing this right. I just looked back at my April results for iStock and while the month was good at $460 or so, I had 106 downloads that paid less than 10c. All the way down to one at $0.01. And I had three $0.03 videos! In contrast...
Yay Images – update
I mentioned that I had been submitting more of my images to Yay Images since they seem to be revitalizing themselves under a new leadership. I had seen some $0.05 sales in my account, which seemed to be very different to what they were promising and so I asked their Director of Marketing why that would be. Here is his full response: We have a variety of sales models, as we have recently refreshed the website we have also refreshed...
Yay Images – trying a new site out for size
We’ve seen all the issues with Shutterstock over the past day or so, and many people are looking for alternatives. Interestingly, I’ve been with Yay Images (was Yay Micro in the past) for many years and over the years I have actually earned $352 with them. It appears that they are under new ownership and I’ve been noticing a lot of improvements as they moved from the old Yay Micro site to the new Yay Images one. My portfolio had...
