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Let’s talk about RevoStock

Dave Navarro — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:20:36 +0000

Back in mid November I was sent an email from the owner of another microstock related web site. In this email was the results of a survey taken from 44 RevoStock producers with 1000 stock footage clips or more in their portfolios. I knew from my own experience that RevoStock sales were WAY down, [...]

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 [...]

February News

Dave Navarro — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, without iSyndica around to give me reports, having to gather up all of the data myself from all the sites is a major pain-in-the-ass. But I’m working on it and will catch up with everything over the coming week.

Here in Kansas it’s been a long [...]

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 [...]

RevoStock — Stock Footage, Audio, A.E. Projects and F.C. Projects

Dave Navarro — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:28:07 +0000

I’m reading through old posts today and it occurs to me that I’ve been pretty hard on RevoStock and it might seem like I don’t like them or recommend them… which couldn’t be farther from the truth. So, I’ll take some time to review RevoStock, both the good and the bad.

RevoStock sells Stock [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

April 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:11:20 +0000

(WordPress is having issues with the post title, not sure why… but this is the April 2010 report, not March.)

April is a mixed month with overall sales down about 9%, but a new Best Month Ever (BME) at both Pond5 and ShutterStock. ShutterStock was the surprise for me with 7 sales (8 actually, [...]

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 [...]