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Useful Stock Photos Statistics

To give you a good perspective of what to expect when you join Micro Stock Photography, I have done up this page. It gives you some statistics that I have personally achieve since I joined. Numbers and Statistics would allow you to realistically conceptualise what you can expect when you take the plunge. I am just the average regular guy so you can imagine what the big boys are earning from this. I am still waiting to get a regular monthly payout from all the sites, which I hope to achieve by the first quarter of 2007.

Date of 100th Download From Stock Sites

I submit the same photos to all the sites. So from the approved photos, you can get a sense of what the approval percentage is like.

Site	First Upload	No. of photos @ 18 Nov 06	Approval Percentage Estimat	No. of Downloads @ 18 Nov 06	Date of 100^th download
Bigstock	23 June 06	303	80%	35	7 Apr 07 (9.5 months)
Fotolia	24 June 06	206	50%	31	29 Mar 07 (9 months)
istock	3 July 06	92	30%	99	17 Nov 06 (4.5 months)
Dreamstime	9 Aug 06	69	25%	13	28 Jun 07 (11 months)
Lucky Oliver	22 Sept 06	119	70%	5
Featurepics	28 Sept 06	171	100%	2
Shutterstock	3 Nov 06	76	50%	67	28 Nov 06 (1 month)
123RF	10 Jan 07	0	80%	0

Date of 1st Payout From Stock Sites

To give you a sense of how long it may take to reach your first payout, I have done this statistics for you to do your own numbers crunching.

Site	First Upload	Min for payout	No. of photos sold to reach payout	Date of 1^st Payout	No of months it took for 1^st payout
Bigstock	23 June 06	US$30	44	7 Dec 2006	6 months
Fotolia	24 June 06	US$50	88	13 Mar 2007	8.5 months
istock	3 July 06	US$100	213	5 Jan 2007	6 months
Dreamstime	9 Aug 06	US$100	89	5 Jun 2007	10 months
Lucky Oliver	22 Sept 06	US$100
Featurepics	28 Sept 06	US$50	23	23 May 2007	8 months
Shutterstock	3 Nov 06	US$75	297	8 Jan 2007	2.5 months