 Alright in this video I'm going to be sharing how much money I made from the different stock sites in November. Now something really crazy in November happened in that I made more money off of the free photo sites than I did selling my photos on the stock sites. Let me explain. So when I say free stock photo sites I mean sites like Pexels, Pixabay, and Unsplash where I've uploaded a small number of my photos and I'm giving them away for free so anybody can use those photos commercially for anything. Now one of the things these sites do is when somebody downloads the photo they encourage them to make a donation to the photographer and in November somebody donated $50 when they downloaded the photo. Now PayPal does take a small cut of that so I don't quite get $50 but as it turns out I didn't make $50 on any of the other micro stock sites that I have my photos uploaded to in November. So the most profitable site for me in November to make money from my photos was the site Pexels where I've already agreed to give them away for free. Now that's pretty crazy. That has never happened for me before. Typically I maybe make like $5 I think one month I made $10 off of donations. Never $50. So I don't expect this to continue but it is a nice little surprise a little Christmas present as it were because it's really nice to you know get those donations even though it's from a very small percentage of people that download the photos on those sites. Now the second highest revenue site in November was Shutterstock and that's not a huge surprise. It pretty much has been bouncing between Adobe stock or Shutterstock each month. But one of the things to note is if you take a look this time I'm actually putting the number of photos that I've accepted on the site over on the side here because there's a bunch of comments from the last video that people want to see that. If you take a look at it I have a lot more sites that have been accepted on Shutterstock than I do on Pexels. So even though I've only uploaded this very small subset of my photos to Pexels I still made more on that site than I did on Shutterstock where I've tried to upload all my photos but some of them have been rejected. Now the next site on the list revenue is Adobe stock and you know if it's not second it's typically third so that's not much of a surprise. And if you go on the list the rest of the sites are pretty typical and no really any other outstanding sales or any news on the other site. It's just a pretty regular month in November. Now one of the things you're going to notice is and I'm going to start doing this every month is I've now put up the number of photos that I have. So you know I've got the site the number of photos and how much I made that month. A lot of people were asking about that just kind of get to get an understanding of how many photos they kind of need to upload to make you know $50 or $100 or however I'm much I'm making that month so I put that in there. But I thought maybe in this video I'd actually explain kind of how I approach stock sites and microstock sites and I'm uploading my photos. So right now I've got you know give or take let's say around 600 photos that I could upload to any of the stock sites and sites like Shutterstock and Adobe stock I've actually uploaded all those photos but a number of them have been rejected and as you can kind of see by the numbers over here you know Adobe stock is a bit stricter than Shutterstock so more have been rejected than have been on Shutterstock. But for those you know sites that I you know make a fair amount of revenue on I have tried to upload all 600 photos. Now for some of the other sites what I'll typically do is when I want to try a new site if it takes a long time to upload the photos like if you think about it I've got 600 photos. So if a new stock site comes out and you know I'm considering uploading my photos and it takes let's say one minute to upload each of them right. If I need to go in and a lot of times need to add some categories or change the description around a little bit. So if I need to go through and do that and do 600 photos that's like 10 hours worth of work. And to be honest a lot of the new sites that come out if I uploaded 600 photos I might make a dollar over the next year. So I you know typically don't spend a lot of time uploading my photos to every new site that comes out. But what I do want to be able to see is if those sites become popular whether it's worthwhile for me to go and try to upload all 600 photos. So typically what I'll do is I'll go in and I'll start off with like 100 photos and I'll go and upload those 100 photos to one of the sites and then see if I get any sales. If I do get sales then I'll start uploading more photos there and if I don't then I'll just stop and leave it as is. Now if I start seeing consistent sales like I do with Shutterstock and Adobe stock then as I create new photos I'll consistently upload them to those sites. So right now the only sites that I'm consistently uploading to are Adobe stock, Shutterstock, Bigstock photo and Alamy. And Alamy I don't make many sales on there because the only reason that I continue to upload there is that Alamy it reads all the metadata from the photos and just automatically posts it. So it's really easy to put photos in Alamy. That's the only reason I put them there. If it even took me a minute of photo I probably wouldn't bother doing it because I don't make a lot of sales. But their upload is a much simpler process so I put them up there to see if if I'll get any sales. So if you look at a site like Pexels I've got 130 photos up there. So around November last year actually I decided that I was going to try to upload some of my photos. Now one thing to note is all the photos that I've uploaded on Pexels are available on Adobe stock and they're also available on Shutterstock. And you know people will say well you know you shouldn't be selling your photos and giving them away for free. You know your sales will go down in those other sites. Well when I uploaded them to Pexels, Pexels I didn't see that. The photos that I have on Pexels still constantly get purchased on Shutterstock and Adobe stock. So you know you may think that oh yeah people will shop around and if you have a photo on Shutterstock every time they'll go and they'll check Pexels and if they see it there they'll download it. That just in reality doesn't happen. The people that that use Shutterstock in my experience and for what I've seen you know that a lot of them have subscriptions. A lot of my stuff gets downloaded from subscriptions right. And you know they want to know that everything has a release which they know when they do from Shutterstock. Another thing to note is when they buy from Shutterstock there's a certain amount of insurance that we have the proper releases and they can use it commercially. They don't get those types of insurances from when they download a photo from Pexels right. So you know people will still go and pay a couple dollars to download photos from the stock sites even though those same photos are available on Pexels. But the thing is there are some people that don't have these Shutterstock or Adobe stock subscriptions and they use Pexels and they decide to give back by donating a bit of money when they use a photo. So you know I do think that I will be planning into the next year to start uploading more photos to Pexels. I haven't really seen a huge decrease in my Shutterstock sales because of the photos being uploaded there. Not that I've seen or that they're directly related. So I do plan on uploading more there in the future. So this time next year you might see 200 or 300 photos up on Pexels. I'd probably just dump them all up there but one of the things with Pexels is that it doesn't read the photo metadata and what that is is all my photos I've got keywords and descriptions in them from the stock sites. So if I could just upload 100 photos and you know you know leave my computer let them all upload and post I'd probably just go ahead and do that because I think it'd be worthwhile but because I have to go through everyone copy and paste the description copy and paste the keywords it's a bit of work I just don't think it's not worth the effort to sit down for like eight hours one day and go and do that. Now in January what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through and do more of a year in review. So what I'll do is I'll go through and I'll show you all my stock sales from all the different sites over all of 2019. So I've been doing these stock photo reports every month but I didn't start them till midway through the year. So what this is going to let you see is you know in 2019 how much money did I make from my portfolio across all the different sites and what I'm also going to do in that one is I'll talk about where I think the growth is going to be in 2020. So make sure you subscribe to the channel so that you can see that video I think it's going to be a really good video and very useful for a lot of people to kind of see what the trend is over the year. As always if you wonder how I have find the time to upload my photos to all these different sites I do it with a tool we created called Photolue and I'll put a link up here where you can go and sign up for a free account if you're interested there and best of luck selling your photos online.