Selling-Stock is conducting a worldwide, blind
Stock Photo Revenue Trends survey and is asking all photographers who earn money through licensing rights to some of their images to respond. Individuals can respond to the short, 8 question survey by going to this
link. A full report of the results will be available to each respondent.
With this survey I’m trying to determine how individual stock photographers and videographers have been doing over the last 6 years from an income growth perspective.
If you are a stock agent, or a service provider, but do not directly produce images or video yourself, please do not respond to this survey.
If you are a production company and license the work of multiple staff employees, please do not respond to this survey. (Given present market conditions, this survey is designed to learn what individuals can earn through producing images themselves.)
If all your work is graphic design or illustration and you do not produce any photographs, please do not respond to this survey. If you produce some photographs, and can separate that portion of your income from your total stock income, then please supply answers that relate to the photography part of your income.
Click here to begin the survey
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3006211/Stock-Photo-Revenue-Trends
For easy reference, the following is a list of all the questions on the survey. However, in order to respond to the survey you must go to the survey
link.
1 – Compare your gross 2010 revenue from the licensing of stock images or video with 2015 revenue. What was the percentage of revenue growth or decline in 2015? (Please only include revenue from stock photo or stock video licensing. Do not include other revenue.)?
Percent Decrease
0% to 5%
5% to 10%
10% to 15%
15% to 20%
20% to 30%
30% to 40%
40% to 50%
>50%
Percent Growth
0% to 5%
5% to 10%
10% to 15%
15% to 20%
20% to 30%
30% to 40%
40% to 50%
>50%
2 – Compare your gross 2013 revenue from the licensing of stock images or video with 2015 revenue. What was the percentage of revenue growth or decline in 2015? (Please only include revenue from stock photo or stock video licensing. Do not include other revenue.)?
Percent Decrease
0% to 5%
5% to 10%
10% to 15%
15% to 20%
20% to 30%
30% to 40%
40% to 50%
>50%
Percent Growth
0% to 5%
5% to 10%
10% to 15%
15% to 20%
20% to 30%
30% to 40%
40% to 50%
>50%
3 – Please check the box below that indicates the range in which your 2015 stock photo revenue fell. (The figure should be in U.S. dollars.)
< $3,000
$3,001 to $10,000
$10,001 to $20,000
$20,001 to $40,000
$40,001 to $80,000
>$80,000
4 – Approximate number of your unique images being represented by all distributors at the end of 2015. (If the same image is represented by multiple distributors please count only once.)
< 500
501 to 1000
1001 to 3000
3001 to 10,000
> 10,000
Sell direct, don’t use agents or distributors
5 – Are portions of your work licensed through:
Microstock distributors
Macrostock distributors
Both
Neither
6 – Do you license your work as:
Rights Managed
Royalty Free
Both
7 – How long have you been producing and licensing stock images?
< 2 year
2 to 6 years
7 to 10 year
11 to 20 years
21 to 30 year
>30 years
8 – Are you still producing new work?
At a future date, I may want to ask the same people who respond to this survey additional questions. In order to determine who has responded without being able to correlate your name with specific answers I would ask that you send an email to
wvz@fryyvat-fgbpx.pbz. If you are a subscriber to
www.selling-stock.com please include the message “I responded.” If you are not a subscribers, but would like to receive a free copy of the full survey results, please include the message “I responded – Send survey results.”
Thank you.