 All right, in this video, I'm gonna be going through my stock photography sales online for August. I'll walk through each of the individual sites as well as talking about anything special that happened with my August sales. But before I get into that, I do wanna apologize. Typically, I like to do this revenue report earlier in the month. I know this is coming out much later in September than I would typically like, but I do have a good excuse. I was actually out doing photography. So I decided to take some time off with the family. We went out, traveled around a bit closer to home than we normally would have went for a summer vacation, but we still had a great time and I got a bunch of great photos that I can upload to stock, like some of these ones here that I'll show you. So that's my excuse for being late, but now let's get into the actual sales that I got in August. All right, my number one site in August, again, was Pexels. Now, if you're not familiar with Pexels, it's not a microstock site. It's a site where you upload your photos and anybody can download them for free. So I had about 100,000 people download my photos for free on Pexels. But when they download the photos for free, people are encouraged to give you a donation and then 12 people gave me a donation August. On the average donation after the PayPal fee was $2.80. And so that was just over $30 in revenue from Pexels. Now that is on the lower side of like having the highest site. So that's not great, the $30 with my highest site in August, but I did see over this past month a continued trend that I've seen since the start of COVID where the paid microstock sites seem to be getting slightly lower and lower every year. And it seems like Pexels has been at the top of the list more than any other site so far this year. And with only three months left in the year, there's a very good chance that I'll actually make more money from donations on Pexels this year than I will on any of the other microstock sites where I have all my photos. And that's a bit crazy because I've got way more of my photos up on the microstock sites than I do on Pexels. I've only got a small portion of my portfolio up there, but that small portion is able to generate more revenue. Number of reasons for this and the number one is COVID but also a lot of changes in the stock industry. All right, next on my list was my own website on Smugmug. So I've got a domain souvenirpixels.com and I've got that hosted on Smugmug and I sell my photos through there. Now, three people came along, found my website and downloaded photos directly from my website and that was my second highest revenue site for the month. One of the things you'll notice is that the revenue per download is much higher on Smugmug than it is on any other sites. And the reason for that is that Smugmug takes a very, very small cut of the sale, just more of a processing fee. So I actually get the majority of the revenue. So $8.40 comes to me and I think I sell those photos, they were a downloader for about $10 each. So I ended up being my second highest site. Again, this isn't always my second highest site. Those sales on my own website seem to be fewer and fewer and farther between as the stock industry has matured. Compared to like five years ago, I used to get a lot more sales on my own website, but it's great to see that they come in and end up being my second highest revenue source for the month of August. Now, my number three site was Fine Art America. I made one sale from a print on Fine Art America and I made $20 on it. So that was good enough to be the third highest site. Interesting thing to note here is that the top three revenue sites on my list this month, none of them were microstock sites. And that is very rare. Typically, historically, microstock sites have always been my top earners. If you look back, five years even much before I was doing these revenue reports, I was making the majority of my money from microstock sites. And since COVID, that's really changed and it's gone down and down. And I'm just getting more of these, you know, traditional sites, ones like my own website where I make a higher revenue from. So it'll be interesting to see what happens after COVID passes if the microstock sites go back up. But this is the first time in a very, very long time that I haven't had any of my microstock sites in the top three. And it's not that my other sites are doing well. It's more that the microstock sites just seem to be doing really poorly for me recently. That being said, the next six sites are all microstock sites. Now, nothing really special with the microstock sites. Shutterstock was particularly low for Shutterstock. And again, that's partially related to COVID, probably partially related to some of the changes they made to the yearning payout. But the only thing that's really special here is how low they are. So going down the list, you know, deposit photos was the highest microstock site. That actually is pretty rare. On deposit photos, typically isn't my highest site. It's either Adobe or Shutterstock. But Adobe came in next. FreePick was next. Again, not bad considering I don't have a lot of photos on FreePick, but it wasn't as high as some of the other months when I first uploaded my photos there. And then going down to Shutterstock and Canstock photo. Canstock photo actually is typically like around $2 or $3, so that one was good. Shutterstock, very low at $15. You know, this time last year I was making $50 plus on it. So that has really gone down. It was going down because of COVID and went down further because they changed the way that they pay out earnings. So that's how my microstock sites did over the past month, not great. And there's the rest of the sites. Again, a number of other sites made a couple of dollars on each site and ended up being the total for the month at $188. So that was one of my lowest months this year. $20 lower than last month. So not a great month for my stock sales, but it's, you know, kind of becoming the average since COVID and since I've been seeing a decline. One of the things to note here is I've just shown you all the sites that I made revenue on. I didn't show you the sites that I didn't. So I'm actually gonna put up a list here of all the other sites where I do have some photos on them and made a zero dollars. So one of the reasons that I made this channel was it can take a lot of time to upload your photos to all the different sites. And you know, I've spent that time to go through there and a lot of them don't work out. You know, you upload to these sites you can end up getting, you know, maybe a dollar sales over a year. It's not worth the hours that it can take. So just to show you those, I have tried these other sites and I didn't make any revenue off them. Now, if you found this useful at all, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. I go through this and do it every single month where I talk through my stock photography sales. A lot of other months there's more interesting things that have happened. I got a big sale here, a big sale there or something has changed. This month was a bit flat, but hopefully as Christmas comes and we go into the holiday season with, you know, hopefully spending increasing a bit more as the restrictions lighten up for COVID that we'll see some more sales, more exciting things happening with the photo sales. Best of luck selling your photos online.