 All right, in this video, I'm gonna walk through my stock photography sales on all the sites that I have my photos up for July Now July was a bit better month for me than June, which was a bit better month than May So we are starting to see things pick up a little bit, which is kind of nice to see So let's just get into it and take a look at the revenue from each site So my number one site for revenue in July was Pexels I received nine donations in Pexels and it equated out to about $60 Which was more than any of the other stock sites now if you look at the stats over here I'm gonna use a different abbreviation here RPD and what that stands for is revenue per donation or revenue per download So for Pexels and Pixabay, that's revenue per donation and for all the other stock sites It'll be revenue per download. All right, so to give you an idea You know what it takes make $60 on Pexels is that there was I had over like a hundred thousand downloads in July And those hundred thousand downloads got me nine donations and those don't nine donations equated to just over $60 Which was better than the stock sites. So still not bad Now next on the list is Shutterstock. So all the photos that I have on Pexels I also have on Shutterstock But I actually have a lot more photos on Shutterstock than I have on Pexels But I still actually make less money on Shutterstock and the other stock sites I'm about to go into then I did on Pexels last month Now the one good thing about Shutterstock is it did go back up to $37 so it was $36 And that's kind of closer to the pre-covid numbers that I was seeing Also, that's closer to the numbers that I was seeing before they made the revenue change So if you're not familiar with this a couple months ago Shutterstock changed the way that they calculated revenues and a lot of photographers were up in arms saying that you know I mean it wasn't going to be fair But what I saw last month was $36 and if I look back when I get the right numbers here like in January I made $37 on Shutterstock February 39 and March 37 So even with the change in revenue I was still making about the same amount of money on Shutterstock last month Then I was earlier in the year before COVID and before the revenue change All right, nothing to note is that my revenue for download was 57 cents So if you've been following along about the changes to Shutterstock a lot of people are up in arms Oh, it's 10 cents a download 10 cents a download now I showed a couple of videos back or video a month and a half ago Okay, remember exactly when that that actually wasn't the case because what they did was the downloads, you know The on-demand downloads they raised the selling price and then the subscription downloads They lowered the selling price. So yes, I do make 10 cents on a lot of the subscription downloads But I make more than that on the on-demand downloads. So in general having my photos on Shutterstock I'm averaging on between the two about 57 cents per download Which isn't bad for a microstock site is very similar to what I was making before they you know Changed the way that they calculated the revenue Next is Adobe stock now Adobe stock did a little bit better last month But it's still not doing as well as it did pre COVID Again higher revenue per download over a dollar per download, but less downloads actually overall I made less on Adobe stock I did on Shutterstock and I've got very similar photos on Adobe stock and Shutterstock the only difference in numbers It's just because Adobe stock actually rejected more than Shutterstock did but I've actually you know tried to upload them the same So those portfolios are pretty similar All right now next on the list is free pick now free pick is actually the site that I'm most excited about right now The reason is is that I've only got 128 photos up there, and they're the same photos I have up on pixels so if you didn't see the previous video someone contacted me for free pick and said you know Can I upload your pixels photos for free pick and I said you know fine and Then I started making revenue on it since that I've uploaded like 10 other photos To the site and it's already you know in the top 10 of my list right and it's kind of fairly well up there So the thinking is is that you know once I get more of my photos up there it could actually really move up and The good news is is that I do plan to get more photos up there because we just released Uploading photos to free pick from photo loo. So if you're not familiar with photo loo Basically, it's the tool that we have that uploads your photos to all these stock sites So you don't have to go through the trouble of doing it all manually And we added free pick as one of those sites and what this is gonna do is you know I have all my photos in Photo loo, so now I'm just gonna be able to go and take all those key worded and descriptive photos and just upload them all to free Pick so I'll be able to increase my portfolio there very quickly very easily with the photo loo app And I'm really hoping that's gonna you know increase my sales and hopefully get it up into the top three in the very near future Now one of the things to take a look at here is it's got a very low revenue per download now The reason that that is is that when my photos were uploaded from pexels to Free pick they got put in like the free section of the website now the free section somehow still makes me money I don't completely understand how that's calculated, but you know, I'll take it However, when I upload my photos with photo loo to free pack I'm not gonna be putting them in the free section I'm gonna be putting them in the paid section and the paid section gives me eight cents a download Okay, so again a bit lower than shutter stock But because of the volume that I'm seeing is much higher I suspect that it could you know push it up Above shutter stock once I get my hope my whole portfolio up there Okay, so if you're interested in signing out for free pack I'll put a link down in the description of this video Again, it seems to be the biggest growing site for me right now And the way that stock photography normally works is you know, once a good site comes in Some photographers go in and they start getting buyers coming in and you get a lot of sales at the start And everybody realizes that you're getting a lot of sales there And every photographer puts their portfolio on there and then your sales go down So I kind of feel like free pick is the next site that's gonna be like that It'll be good for you know a year maybe and then after that everybody will know about it They'll put their photos up there, but for now it seems like it's gonna be a pretty good site They're getting quite a bit of traffic there and quite a few buyers Next on list is deposit photos deposit photos. That's pretty average for that site After that is smug mug. So I have my own photography website on smug mug So people can go there and download directly from me and two people to go and download photos from my smug mug website Which is souvenir pixels comm In July, which earned me about 16 or $17. So that's you know, when you have your own website You get a much higher revenue per download Because you're not, you know getting a big cut taken by the shutter stock or the stock agencies But the downside of that is you need to market your website yourself, you know Their buyers aren't just gonna come across your photos So it's much more difficult to get a large number of sales on your own website But you know, I do post my photos on social media and people do find me that way or through search engines And every once in a while I get a couple of these sales, which are very welcomed Now next on the list is pick fair pick fair. I've got a number of photos up there Again, it is a site that does pay a higher rate per photo and you can also set the price of your photos Which is kind of nice You'll typically get you know be able to make more money per download on pick fair than other sites But again, they don't have a lot of buyers on there. I'm a three or four foot sales a year Maybe so although it's a high revenue per download again low number of downloads But one of them did come in last month. So that's nice to see All right, these next sites again pretty average for what I see maybe a bit higher a bit lower But these are typically in the lower end of my list One of the new things up here though is I am that is my first sale and I am so I Haven't uploaded a lot of photos. I am at all. I was hoping to I just really haven't gotten around to it I signed up for I am when I was basically reviewing mobile phone apps and it's a primarily a mobile app So I really like the app actually like looking at photos on there But I haven't gotten around to uploading a lot of my photos But I did make my first sale on there again 61 cents not as good as a site like free pick Which again, I probably started around the same time using but it is nice to see a small sale And if I do get around to uploading all my photos there, then you know, I could expect it to kind of move up a little bit I hope 500 px big stock photo again low They seem to be dropping off these were you know some my best sites five years ago But they've really dropped off in recent years. This isn't surprising to see This next last one in the list is Vectizzi This is another new site to my list and this one is very similar to free pick We're basically someone found my photos or well someone at Vectizzi found my photos on Pexels and asked me if they could upload them to their site as well And I just said okay, so I haven't actually uploaded anything to there at all They did it all for me and I made you know, I mean a couple cents in the sale So again, not as good a first month as I saw with free pick when free pick did it But I mean I am making some sales there I probably won't go ahead and upload the rest of my photos there yet But if I do start seeing it, you know move up in the list Then I'll put the effort into uploading my other photos to that site as well But for now, you know, there's other sites like you know free pick that I want to invest more time in Before I look at something like Vectizzi And that's it. That's my sales for the month. What did I hit? Just over $200 So that is you know, $30 or $40 more than I saw last month Which is pretty good I think a part of that is due to the fact that some of the COVID restrictions are starting to open up a little bit for tourism in a lot of the places where I have my photos So people are actually going on and buying a bit more photos for that again Again, not as good as it was last year But as I've said in previous videos a lot of my photos I take on vacation So they are typically, you know travel and landscape photography And they're typically going to be used by travel companies Which aren't doing as much advertising now as they were this time last year because of COVID So COVID has really hurt me just because of the type of pictures I have But I am seeing a bit of a rebound which is nice and even though it is much lower It's all passive income and it's still $200 a month. So I'll take it If this is the first time on your channel, everything I post on this channel is about making money with your photography And I do these revenue reports every month So if that interests you, make sure you go ahead and subscribe If you found this useful at all, make sure you give this video a like And best of luck selling your photos online