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yaromir


Joined: 11 May 2006
Posts: 1116
Location: Chicago

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:56 pm     Reply with quote

200 more images and $150 less than in April...

What about you guys, let's see the whole picture.
mikeledray


Joined: 14 Nov 2004
Posts: 9217
Location: Southern California

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:58 pm     Reply with quote

yaromir wrote:
200 more images and $150 less than in April...

What about you guys, let's see the whole picture.


My BEST MONTH EVER in 4+ years!

YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAaa
jmpaget


Joined: 05 Sep 2007
Posts: 955
Location: UK

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:08 pm     Reply with quote

About 5% off my BME of last month. More ODs, same ELs, but less 25s.

So all in all a good month. 2nd best earnings month of SS.

And BME if adding all sites together.
mandy


Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Posts: 1649

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:12 pm     Reply with quote

Not very good, not a single EL when I have had up to 12 in a month. New images don't seem to have taken off this month. SS has gone from 1st to 4th place in my earnings chart in just 2 months. Luckily another site has doubled in earnings in the last couple of months and more than made up for the loss.
jmpaget


Joined: 05 Sep 2007
Posts: 955
Location: UK

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:14 pm     Reply with quote

mandy wrote:
Not very good, not a single EL when I have had up to 12 in a month. New images don't seem to have taken off this month. SS has gone from 1st to 4th place in my earnings chart in just 2 months. Luckily another site has doubled in earnings in the last couple of months and more than made up for the loss.


I too have noticed a 'doubling' in another site, which 'is' all good.

And agree on the new images. Seems alot of older images purchased this month.
nstanev


Joined: 10 Dec 2008
Posts: 363
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:16 pm     Reply with quote

May is my best month so far, both in earnings and downloads. BUT, it edged March and April only by about 10-15 DL's. And I've been adding 50-100 images every month. So, I'm happy with the BME, but I don't like the lack of significant boost from the new uploads.

In terms of pointless statistics, this is my first month with no 0 DL days! February, March, and April each had 1 or 2 "empty" Saturdays. Hopefully May sets the beginning of a trend. :)
nder


Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Posts: 431
Location: www.3dstocktalk.org

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:26 pm     Reply with quote

about the same as April and March despite a featured image and some ELs :)
evaners


Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 2320
Location: New Hampshire

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:48 pm     Reply with quote

jmpaget wrote:
mandy wrote:
Not very good, not a single EL when I have had up to 12 in a month. New images don't seem to have taken off this month. SS has gone from 1st to 4th place in my earnings chart in just 2 months. Luckily another site has doubled in earnings in the last couple of months and more than made up for the loss.


I too have noticed a 'doubling' in another site, which 'is' all good.

And agree on the new images. Seems alot of older images purchased this month.


Pretty average month here, down some from April. But as others have mentioned, there IS a site where I just had my 5th BME in a row.
kaycee


Joined: 14 Feb 2008
Posts: 2844
Location: Limburg The Netherlands or at www.kaycee.nl

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:00 pm     Reply with quote

My worst ever....sofar... BOE BOE

But on the other hand I learned a lot about illustrations...
Got over 500 images/vectors in my port.
My knee is almost better and gonna start with some treatment very soon.
Learned a lot in school about indesign and now illustrator...
Meet some great people here on the forums.
Finished my website...
So this month very productive only the DL are down the rest is going up...
mandy


Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Posts: 1649

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:06 pm     Reply with quote

No it 'ISn't' that site for me although that place also is improving but I 'Do noT' want to name the other site ;)
.
jmpaget wrote:


I too have noticed a 'doubling' in another site, which 'is' all good.

kenk


Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 1590

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:35 pm     Reply with quote

Higher than average, since last year.

Best May,ever.

OD's helped, like last month.

Most of the downloads have been old files, but some of the newer files have had downloads.
jmpaget


Joined: 05 Sep 2007
Posts: 955
Location: UK

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:18 pm     Reply with quote

mandy wrote:
No it 'ISn't' that site for me although that place also is improving but I 'Do noT' want to name the other site ;)
.
jmpaget wrote:


I too have noticed a 'doubling' in another site, which 'is' all good.



Made me chuckle! :-)
flashon


Joined: 08 Jan 2007
Posts: 653
Location: www.flashonstudio.com

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:05 pm     Reply with quote

yaromir wrote:
200 more images and $150 less than in April...

What about you guys, let's see the whole picture.


Similar pattern. Worst month of this year. Must have something to do with the new search algorithm.
bichon


Joined: 19 Aug 2005
Posts: 7358
Location: montreal

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:24 pm     Reply with quote

first half sucked
second half very good
so in all .. about average (although an EL helped bring this month up to an almost bme).
and yes, older images selling .. some VERY old !
newer ones not...
so i figure.. if i want to upload an image. i'm going to wait a year until i actually upload it.
then it will sell.
gualberto


Joined: 30 Mar 2006
Posts: 2706
Location: Panama, Central America

Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 7:22 pm     Reply with quote

0 new images, got tired of uploading here, I am building ports elsewhwere.
$3 more than April, but about 25% less than my average earnings. That's about it.
 
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