Here's a little update on my microstock earnings:

Overall January was surprisingly good across the board.

Here's a breakdown of my microstock total earnings for January with Shutterstock still giving me more than 50% of my total earnings:


Shutterstock
Footage sales are going up, 2D renderings - pretty average month, but I uploaded only a handful of images lately and the Shutterstock beast needs to be fed regularly.

Fotolia
Best month ever. Big surprise taking into account it's January. Unfortunately Fotolia reduced their rates once again and despite making it to 'Silver' I am getting 31% Fortunately prices were also adjusted.
here's a comparison


Dreamstime
The only site that underperformed in January. Also a record 5 days without sales. Hope it will pick up soon

StockXpert
Basically the site is slowly going down and I doubt I will be getting the kind of earnings I used to get a year ago. Still January was my best month since September '09. What's even a bigger surprise that I never ceased to receive downloads from Jupiterimages and they are about 50% of my Stock Xpert earnings.

IStockphoto
Best month ever, almost doubled my previous BME! Not sure what changed, but keep it up iStock

Footage
Pond5- slow month. 60% of my 6-month average.
Shutterstock - very good month for footage, my BME.
Few sales also on Revostock, Fotolia and iStockphoto.

One day after I wrote this it was announced that StockXpert will be shut down. Thanks a lot Getty!

our portfolio should be transfered to thinkstock, but what about credits? we will see them on the stocxpert account or what?

Pity they are going to be closed. I started uploading my images there just recently and sales started to look promising. – Comparable to Dreamstime, or Fotolia.
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I think that you should ask your credits (that you earned as seller) to be transferred to you by contacting support at StockXpert. I did it this way, but unfortunately haven’t received answer yet. But I remain optimistic.
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There are a couple of threads on their forum about getting the last final payment and as far as I remember you should send an e-mail to support.

For some reason I keep getting sales on SXP.

sxp is going to work till the 11th
i don't want a final payout, i want to keep earning through thinkstock
isn't that what is going to happen? my port is there anyway, although not 200 images i uploaded recently

Finally I received answer from SX saying that requesting final payment will also mean deletion of my account. They also told me that if I will keep my account my images can be transferred (in few weeks) to ThinkStock and I can earn money thorough ThinkStock. So I changed my mind and decided to keep my SX account.
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that's the case as far as I was able to tell.
Unfortunately my images still weren't transfered. I hope that this new Thinkstock will be doing better than Veer.

I don't really understand why did they kill a site that was bringing them a nice profit and want to start something new.