April 2010 earnings breakdown

Overall better than month ago but far from BME. Good news is that SS made new record and dominated results this month. Second time this year I got BME form SS which is really good start. Let's look at other top 5 guys. 123RF came second. Great result in comparison to last year but after BME in January it cannot repeat its success and it is going slightly down every month. Still much better than others. Fotolia grows, slowly but steadily. It is enough be be third. Surprising result form CSP due to one Fotosearch Medium Regular sales. It happened after a month of no activity. DT is really down. Something is going on there, I got unusually high rejection rates and almost no growth in sales. IS on the other hand seems to grow. It is still 1/15th of what SS does but it is way better that last year. I wish ThinkStock result were posted faster cause it is now almost half of normal IS sales.


Apr Apr/mar
SS 63.91% 135.89%
123RF 10.12% 76.13%
FT 8.71% 159.99%
CSP 5.10% 4700.00%
DT 5.09% 50.32%
IS 5.08% 84.18%
BS 1.45% 80.00%
CS 0.54% 120.00%
108.13%


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Let's look at 2010 trends:
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It looks like somebody figured out that all this recent email responses from Steve Jobs are generated by a bot :-)

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Three extended licenses sold in one day

Never happened to me before. It looks like somebody needed photos of California missions :-)


[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Mission San Luis Rey de Francia"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Mission San Luis Rey de Francia"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Mission San Francisco de Asis"][/caption]

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Katyn - Polish Pearl Harbor

This post not going to be about tragic plane crash of Polish President's Tu-154. Media all over the world already covered it better than I could. I am going to write exactly about media coverage and exposure it brought to Katyn Massacre. I find it very ironic that President Lech Kaczynski tried to hard to make world aware of this tragic historic event which took place 70 years ago. I would not say that his efforts were very successful until he died in the same place in another tragic event. Now whole world knows that he was flying there to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. I guess not many people outside of Eastern Europe knew about mass murder of 20,000 people done by Soviets who invaded Poland in 1939 together win Germans. Some people in Poland start saying Katyn is cursed place for Poles but it's no longer hidden. It's just sad that only another tragedy could bring it to world's attention.


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Google changes name to Topeka

Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google.
The unusual move is a response to Google's new "Fiber for Communities" program. Google is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second. Mayor hoped the proclamation would catch Google's attention. Guess what, today Google officially changed it's name to Topeka to honor this gesture. No info on which municipalities are chosen to participate in our experimental ultra-high-speed broadband project.

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March 2010 earnings breakdown

Overall it was 14% less than previous month in which I got two BMEs established. First think you may noticed is no data from StockXpert. They are gone. Images are left in void. No time-line is given on when images are going to be transferred to Getty's new site ThinkStock. We got new top 5 now. IS takes missing spot which means that 10% of my income has gone and is going to be replaced by site that generates 3%. On a bright side, 123RF and DT seem to be growing slowly so maybe over time they would compensate for a loss of SXP. FT is dormant and IS is low as usual. Surprise on this month chart was created by YAY. They accumulated all third-party sales from last year and put it as one big sale on a random picture. Very bad, no information which images were sold or how many times. All others are dead or barely alive.


Mar Mar/Feb
SS 52.24% 79.69%
123RF 14.77% 93.05%
DT 11.22% 206.50%
YM 8.96%
FT 6.05% 132.54%
IS 3.99% 66.89%
BS 2.01% 111.11%[ad#adsense-1]
CS 0.50%
Veer 0.14%
CSP 0.12% 10.71%
Total 96.67%


[caption id="attachment_584" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Microstock 2010-03"][/caption]

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