 All right in this video. I'm gonna talk about my stock photography sales in August now. I'll start out by apologizing I'm recording this super late. It's already the end of September and I'm finally getting around to talking about my August sales I do apologize for that But I took some time off at the end of August through the start of September to do some traveling with the family as well as Taking a lot of photos. So, you know when I got back from that I had a lot of things to catch up with for work and I really just haven't gotten around to taking a video So yeah, I apologize for that, but you know better late than nether and I will not make it a habit I'll probably record my September revenue report in just like a week or two once all the numbers get in All right, so look it into it. We'll take a look at how my photos sold in August So my number one site in August was adobe stock was $68 now One of the things to note about that is $50 of that was from free photos or putting my photos in the free site So if you watch this channel regularly, you'll know that a while back Adobe stock opened up a free section of their website and what they did is they went to Photographers and said, you know, if you allow us to put one of your photos in the free section for one year You got $5 and they nominated a number of my photos that hadn't really had many sales at all on Adobe and so the ones that hadn't had many sales. I thought that $5 was a good price I agreed to put them in there and five or ten of those got chosen in August Which I equated to $50. So it's kind of crazy that I've got a couple hundred photos for sale on adobe stock And those gave me $18 However for ten photos that I gave away for free or put in the free section for one year It gave me $50 and that was made at the highest site for the month Now the next site on the list is another site where I give my photos away for free pexels Pexels works a little bit differently in that you upload your photos there Anybody can download them for free, but when they download them They got popped up with a little donate button and you know eight people click that donate button and equated to $33 in August so it's kind of interesting that you look at the top two sites And this has really been a trend for a while now is that especially for the type of photography that I do It's like travel landscape photography. I tend to get as much or more Money on the sites that give my photos away for free as I do sign them a stock I do have all these up on the stock sites. I have social I have my own website, but it just seems like for my photography It's actually better these days to give them away for free and that is probably because you know the type of photography I do a lot of other people do it. There's just a lot of Competition right on the stock sites everybody's putting out there There's less competition on these free sites by less people agreed to put their their photos on the adobe stock Less people are putting them on pexels, so it allows me to make more and you know more revenue from them So it's kind of interesting not great on one hand on the other hand I'm glad they do exist because otherwise I wouldn't get that revenue at all Now if I go here next on the list is smoke mark. That's my own website where I got one sale equated to $25 Deposit photos was about average about the same as last month and this is a bit of surprise shutter stock So shutter stock was number five That's pretty low for shutter stock being 12 $12 and being in the fifth spot It really wasn't a great month for shutter stock Let me give you an idea shutter stock is my highest revenue site for the year right now And it still is my highest revenue site for the year despite having a really bad month But it's kind of strange to see it so low on the on the list However, just didn't have a great month over there one two three half was about average dreams time then big stock photo and The total ended up being about a hundred and eighty dollars Which again is about average for what I've been making with my photos this year So not bad for August and you know I'm happy for that because I did manage to make some revenue And it's great that that adobe stock free section is up because I would have made significantly less If I didn't have those photos there So anyways, I'm gonna keep it quick for this month again apologize for being late I will do another one of these videos in a couple weeks We'll go over my September sales and I'll talk a bit more about the NFT project that I'm working on Which is one of the reasons I've been so busy, but it's gonna be great really working hard to you know Figure out some really good ways to help photographers make money with NFTs So they can also make more income off that and I'm really hoping that you know Maybe you know, hopefully we're gonna get that done later this year and that in 2022 Do you mean I'll have another section of this list where I can talk about how much money I'm making from my photos as NFTs anyways, if any of that interest to you make sure you subscribe if you like this Give it a like and best of luck selling your photos online