As it happens at every month end, it is time to sum up the January. Overall, I felt that January was too slow to recover from holidays, and only picked up the pace in late January.
The total result was 1% up versus January, and around 12% lower than Oct-Nov BME’s. Here is how each of the site performed:
Fotolia – growth 10%. Downloads decreased, but higher prices helped push up the sales in dollars.
123rf – growth 26%. Growth is driven by more extended licences rather than organic growth, but still steady performance.
Shutterstock – growth 8%. Downloads were the same, but increase in extended licence sales helped.
Dreamstime – decline 43%. This is the biggest decline among the peers. Hopefully, it is just me being unlucky.
Istockphoto – decline 12%. This is not the biggest decline, but the biggest disappointment of January. Istock keeps tweaking Best Match, and latest changes seem to favour exclusives more.
Stockxpert – growth 12%. In what appears to be its last full month, stockxpert didn’t disappoint – growth is always welcome.
Bigstockphoto – growth 33%. But it is peanuts, as usual.
Late in 2009, I started contributing to a few more microstocks but the sales there are too small to deserve a mention in the report.
I have also prepared a chart showing the earnings growth from Aug 2006.
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