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2011 MicroStock Performance So Far

Dave Navarro — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:16:30 +0000

Sales this year so far have been interesting. Overall, they are above my 2010 sales at this time, but growth is slow. I think that’s mostly due to the fact that I haven’t been vigilant about adding new content to my portfolios.

Sales are up considerably on ClipCanvas which seems to be a very [...]

October 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:43:09 +0000

October was a very welcome month with mostly higher sales across the board. Pond5 led with a new “Best Month Ever” in both number of clips sold and sales dollars. The only real bummer was the whole iSyndica thing… especially when it came time to gather the data for this months report. Ugh!

October [...]

June 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:12:51 +0000

I HATE THE SUMMER SLUMP! My clip sales are way down overall, even on Pond5, and my revenue per clip is also down. RevoStock is actually up a little bit. I didn’t submit nearly as many clips in June as I should have, but I did manage to produce a lot more. It’s just [...]

Mid June Update

Dave Navarro — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:53 +0000

Well, a little after mid-June, but better late than never…

The “summer slump” has officially arrived and sales are down all over the place. I’ve had zero sales at ClipCanvas and MediaStock this month. ShutterStock sales are down 80% from last month. And Pond5 sales are down nearly 30% from last month. The only [...]

May 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:12:28 +0000

May was a surprising month with sales doing very well for the first 10 or 12 days, then slowing down considerably and finally making a steady charge the last week for an overall up month. I didn’t get as much uploaded as I would have liked, but I finally did break the 1000 clips [...]

Mid May Update

Dave Navarro — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:28:47 +0000

Middle of May already… this month is flying by fast. And so far things are mixed. ShutterStock sales are down, A LOT. RevoStock is normal with only 2 sales, which is still dismal. No more sales at MediaStock, things seem to have slowed down there. But Pond5 is off on another run towards Best [...]

RevoStock making a run for the title

Dave Navarro — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:04:07 +0000

It looks like RevoStock really wants to sell more footage, which is great news!

Within a few days of Pond5 adding support for embedded meta-data, RevoStock also added support. Both sites were working on it at the same time, Pond5 just beat them to the punch… But it was far from a knock out [...]

April 2010 MicroStock News

Dave Navarro — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:14:33 +0000

April was a big month in MicroStock with lots going on at many sites… plus the NAB convention in Las Vegas. Lots of web site updates and a number of problems as well.

Pond5 gave away $25,000 in April… although not to one person, and not in cash. They gave away $500 a day [...]

February 2010 Sales Stats and News

Dave Navarro — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:08:39 +0000

February was a busy month for me on the home front and I missed a couple of goals, but overall I think things were better. I increased my portfolio on all sites and my sales were a little up. MotionDrops put itself up for sale, so I’m dropping them until that plays out. And [...]

January 2010 Sales Stats and News

Dave Navarro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:12:48 +0000

January was kind of a mixed bag for me… Most of the sites were way down in sales, while Pond5 was just a little above my 2009 average. The biggest thing for me is that I doubled my clips on RevoStock and nearly doubled my clips on ShutterStock. I also added ClipCanvas and iStock [...]