February is over, so it is time to report the earnings dynamics. The total earnings were down 9%. Despite only 28 days in February, this is still disappointing outcome. Last year, February rose 9% against January.
Here is how each of the site performed:
Fotolia – growth 3%. Very close to monetary BME, and downloads BME. Fotolia is getting stronger from month to month, is now a clear number 2 for me after Shutterstock.
123rf – growth 12%. Excellent month with BME for both earnings and downloads.
Shutterstock - decline 7%. Downloads actually increased, however, sharp decline in extended sales spoiled the month.
Dreamstime – growth 35%. This high growth is driven by very poor January, however there was a good increase in downloads, but too many subscription downloads don’t contribute much.
Istockphoto – decline 19%. This is extremely disappointing especially after 15% decline in January.
Stockxpert – decline 74%. This microstock is now dead.
Bigstockphoto – decline 15%. 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.
And also a chart with all-time earnings dynamics:
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