Three Months of iStock Sales: Has Microstock Reached Plateau?

Posted on 6/3/2009 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Leaving out iStock shooters that prefer to remain anonymous, 124 of the 150 top iStock contributors licensed 431,708 combined gross units in March. This number dropped to 380,934 in April and went slightly up to 387,500 in May. These totals suggest that iStock sales may have reached a plateau, but several more months of data is needed to help determine the level and why.

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Jonathan Ross Posted Jun 3, 2009
Those 26 could really skew the numbers because the top 20 make such a large portion of the sales and revenue for that company. I will say that my Istock sales have done nothing but go up. I have not added a new image to Istock in 6 months and my sales are at there highest. Still not competing with my Macro sales but the sales are definitely up for me every month at Istock. Business has gotten in the way or we would have been uploading more over the past six months. We are just about to start re-uploading. We turned the back end over to a distributor to handle the uploading. My RPI at Istock is double that of any other Micro site if not triple in most cases. If they would just let us upload more work per week we would be very happy.

Best,
Jonathan

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