January and the "lost season" of Christmas and New Year is over, so it's time for a small summery. For the last three months I worked only for micro stock sites with still renders and animations, so I didn't upload even a single 3D model. It took quite a lot of hard work and long rendering hours (most still renders I do are about 20-25Mpx and all animations are full HD clips). I managed to complete about 150 still renders and 12 new animations.
As I mentioned sales were pretty OK on all sites, except iStockphoto (I will explain why later). Here is the percentage share for individual sites in January (only still images included):
As you can see Shutterstock is by far the leader with all other sites far behind. As for portfolio size I have about 30% less images on other sites compared with Shutterstock, mainly because Shutterstock's uploading is pretty fast and so are the reviewers. That's also the reason why I have only about 10% of my portfolio uploaded to iStockphoto - the upload process is very slow (no ftp option) and the review process is incredibly slow (more or less a week for every picture). So theoretically it could be my second best selling site, but I'm not sure if a simple multiplication of the download ratio is any good.
I'm also pretty glad that Fotolia is moving to video and that will be a new opportunity fand new profit) for people selling footage. For now their video site is still in the beta stage and opened only for contributors, but hopefully they will start selling as well. I whish they will be as good as the two sites I 'm currently using: Pond5 and Shutterstock.
As I mentioned sales were pretty OK on all sites, except iStockphoto (I will explain why later). Here is the percentage share for individual sites in January (only still images included):
As you can see Shutterstock is by far the leader with all other sites far behind. As for portfolio size I have about 30% less images on other sites compared with Shutterstock, mainly because Shutterstock's uploading is pretty fast and so are the reviewers. That's also the reason why I have only about 10% of my portfolio uploaded to iStockphoto - the upload process is very slow (no ftp option) and the review process is incredibly slow (more or less a week for every picture). So theoretically it could be my second best selling site, but I'm not sure if a simple multiplication of the download ratio is any good. I'm also pretty glad that Fotolia is moving to video and that will be a new opportunity fand new profit) for people selling footage. For now their video site is still in the beta stage and opened only for contributors, but hopefully they will start selling as well. I whish they will be as good as the two sites I 'm currently using: Pond5 and Shutterstock.
