 August was my worst month for stock photo sales in years and in this video I'm going to talk about what happened. Now the only good thing that happened with stock photo sales last month was Adobe stock. Adobe stock was my number one site last month and that's the first time that has ever happened. It's the second time that Adobe stock has been higher than shutter stock on my sales so as my shutter stock has been going down Adobe stock continues to rise and so I'm pretty happy about that but that's the only good thing that happened this path months in my stock photo sales. Alright now if you've seen any of my past earnings reports one of the things you'll know is that typically in Vano Elements is my number one site each month and is number one by a good margin typically I make more than 250 dollars on Vano Elements each month and I have been for a couple years now but this month it dropped down to 10 dollars so that's a big cut going from like 250 dollars to 10 dollars. Now the reason this is is that most of my earnings from Avento came from the contributor bonus and what the contributor bonus is is what Avento does if someone doesn't download any photos for the month one of their subscribers they take that and put it into a pool and what they were doing is they would basically take that pool of money and they would distribute it evenly amongst all the contributors to the platform. Now they made a big change in how they calculate that last month where now they distribute it portionally based on the number of sales you get so because I don't have that many photos up there I actually don't get that many sales I've only got about 15 photos my portion of the contributor bonus went from 250 dollars to 3 dollars okay so this is going to be a big cut and they're going to be doing this going forward so I don't expect Avento elements to ever get up to 250 dollars again. Now to be honest the way that they're doing it now is probably more fair well not probably it is more fair than the way it was before because you have someone like me who just uploads a couple of photos and was getting like 250 dollars a month even though my sales of those photos was maybe only like five dollars whereas on Avento it's not just photos they have lots of other things like design templates you know videos website templates and things that take a lot more work to put together a lot more time to put together than a photo does so the way that it works is those ones sell at a higher price so if someone was let's say get a hundred sales on a design template as opposed to a hundred stock photo sales they're going to get a larger portion of it plus if there was a photographer on there that had thousands of photos they're obviously going to get more sales and a larger cut of the contributor bonus so it is more fail but it's a bit disappointing for me because obviously it was nice having that 250 dollars coming in every month now overall the rest of the sites were pretty much average or a bit lower than average there was really no standout sites last month I didn't make any big sales on 500 px or find out at america you look at big stock photo last month I made like 27 dollars this month it goes down to like a dollar so just overall not great sales on the rest of the sites and so that ended me up with 150 dollars in sales on uh in august now that may not seem that bad but in july as comparison I made 500 dollars so you can go and take a look at that video but it's a pretty big drop and normally I'm averaging like 300 to 600 dollars a month so going from that range down to 150 dollars is a pretty big drop and unfortunately because a lot of the drop is because of the elements and because I don't expect it to pick back up again I think I'm going to start seeing you know monthly sales in the range of 150 to maybe 400 dollars going forward so one of the things I do need to do is I really haven't had as much time to upload my photos but I have been taking a lot of photos I just haven't been processing them and uploading to the stock sites so one of the things I'm going to do over the next month is start processing and uploading more photos all these photos I've taken over the summer get those on the stock sites and that should push the number up a little bit another thing that might help my sales in the coming months is that a couple months ago I submitted some photos I had on view bug to their creative marketplace and they finally got accepted at least some of them have got accepted so if there are people going and buying stock photos on view bug at least now I've got some photos up there and I may start making some revenue from that site and that's it that's all I really have to report this month no there's not a lot to talk about when I don't make many sales but this is kind of nature of the industry right like last month I made 500 dollars this month 150 it really does go up and down my month and since I've been doing stock photography it's always been this way you have some good months and you have some bad months and what you really need to look at is kind of what you average out for the year or sometimes what you average out for the quarter if you look at your sales over a three month period it'll be more linear but when you look at it month to month it can be really be up and down like what I'm seeing these days anyways this is your first time at the channel I suggest that you go through and subscribe I do videos like this where I do my stock earnings reports but I also create videos about how to make money selling your photos online I've got a playlist up here that you I'll link to that has all of my other stock earnings reports and best of luck selling your photos online