 All right, in this video, I'm going to walk through my photo sales online for the month of October. Now October wasn't a great month for me. I'll kind of walk through, talk a little bit about why, and then also talk about what I'm going to do about it, if anything. Okay, now my number one site in October was Deposit Photos. Deposit photos, you know, this time last year was typically in middle of the road site, but I am seeing it much higher recently, which is nice. Now one of the reasons that is is that $30 would not have been the top site a year ago. So $30 was kind of more middle of the road, but because of COVID and some other reasons I've seen kind of my photo sales go down, and especially last month in October, not a great month for me. So $30 was enough to be the top spot. Now, second on the list is Shutter Stock with $28. So if you take a look at it, you know, the revenue per download was about the same as Deposit Photos. Deposit Photos was a bit higher, just looking here at 56 cents, as opposed to 50 cents, but I got more downloads on Deposit Photos. Next on the list is Adobe Stock. Again, Adobe Stock around $21. Again, a higher revenue per download, but less downloads. So it puts it down to number three on the list. Next on the list was Pexels. Now Pexels, I didn't have a great month, but again, because those are donations, they really go up and down. I got seven donations. The average donation was about $1.90. And just to give you an idea, I always like to say this, I get a lot of questions in the comments. I get about 100,000 downloads on Pexels every month, right? And that ends up equating to seven donations. So you really, if you do want to make even a bit of money on Pexels, you really need to get a lot of downloads for very few donations, but they do add up, you know, it's coming to the end of the year. And I'm pretty sure that when I do my year end tally, Pexels is going to be in the top three of the revenue for the year, because although it hasn't been high, it has had some high months, but it's been pretty consistent throughout the year. So it's going to be interesting when I do that at the end of the year to see how much I made from each site in 2020. Next on the list is 123RF. Again, it kind of is middle of the road for there. And then there's FreePick. Now FreePick has become a bit of a disappointment for me. I got invited to FreePick by someone who contacted me through seeing my photos on Pexels in the summer and they uploaded my free photos. And the first couple of months, FreePick did really well. And I was pretty impressed because I didn't have a lot of photos up there. I just had like a couple hundred free photos and I was getting, you know, between $20 and $40 revenue a month. And so I was really excited about it. I decided I was going to upload more photos to FreePick. I talked about it on this channel. And since then, it has been a disappointment. You know, I've been had a really hard time trying to get my photos up there. You know, the upload wizard is not intuitive. It's very hard for me to figure out what to do and even get the photos posted. Once you do upload your photos, it takes weeks or sometimes even over a month for them to get approved. So you can upload your photos. You end up waiting a really long time. You know, compared to other stock sites, you know, a really slow stock site typically would be a week. Right? So when you're looking at FreePick, sometimes making you wait a month, that's a bit ridiculous. And, you know, to top things off, I just got an email actually today from FreePick seeing that they have rejected my resident certificate, the one that they accepted back in June. So back in June, they asked me for a resident certificate for tax reasons. Now I've got my photos on many different stock sites and no one has ever asked for a resident certificate. Okay. So I didn't know what this was. I reached out to FreePick support. I said, you know, what is this thing? They sent me some examples for what they were looking for from Canada. And one of them was like a tax form. So I had that form and I sent it to them and they approved it and everything was fine. And now four months later, when I'm actually about to reach the point where I can get a payout, they send me an email and say, no, we've now decided to reject your tax form and we need to send you a new one. Right? And now I got it and obviously no examples, no explanation. I got to go back to them and say, okay, what do you want me to send them? I think what they want me to do is go to the Canadian government and get them to send me a document that says that they have a tax treaty with Spain. And, you know, looking at it, $5 in revenue a month, like is it really worth all this trouble to go through and do that? So again, not happy with FreePick right now about the middle of the road, you know, I'm kind of getting a bit fed up. If it doesn't go up, I'm just probably going to abandon it and not upload the rest of my photos because it's so difficult, take so long to review again, bit of disappointment. But I guess that's the thing with stock sites, right? Like, you know, I have this list here, I've had, I've uploaded my photos to double the number of sites that I'm going to show you on today's list and most of them don't work out. But the only way to figure out the good ones in my experience is to go through, upload your photos, see what happens, and that's how you learn. And that's one of the reasons why I started this channel is because I have to go through a lot of effort to try to figure out which of these sites are good. So I wanted to share that with you so people, you know, getting it started in this won't get frustrating to start with the best sites because it does keep changing all the time. All right, next on the list are, you know, pretty standard can stock photo, Pixabay, Dreamstime, and going down the list, the total for the month was just over $100. Now, that's pretty low. If you've watched any of my other videos, I've been averaging about $200 a month for the past number of months. So having $100 is a very low month. I think it's one of the lowest months of the year. Now, there's a couple of reasons this happened. You know, one of the reasons is a lot of what I do with my photos that I upload are photos that I take on vacation. And I'm in Canada, so a lot of my vacations happen in the summer. So typically the photos that I have are often being used by travel companies, and there are a lot of summer shots. So people are going to be more likely to, you know, download my photos in the summer. That being said, I do enjoy snowshoeing. So I do have some snowshoeing shots, which should sell well this time of year. I've got one shot of pumpkins that typically does well in October. But, you know, again, it's not a great month for me. So typically I see October a bit lower. The other thing to note, though, is that I didn't get any big sales in October. The thing with my stock photography that what I typically see is that you have the microstock sites and the microstock sites, you'll get a large number of downloads for a low amount of money. So you get 50 cents to a dollar, but they can be pretty consistent. Every month you're going to let make a little bit of money from the stock sites. But then there's other sites or other types of sales even from the stock sites that will make you more money. So if you if I get like a fine art, you know, print download, that can be like $50 for one download. So oftentimes I get one of those a month and that will kind of bump me up, right? And it's always a different site each time, but I get one of those. I didn't get any of those different, those types of downloads in October, which is one of the reasons why it's lower. And the other thing is just selling your photos online. This is what it's like, right? This is one of the reasons that I did this channel is because it does go up and down. And it's really, you know, I don't get upset when I have one month or I don't get disheartened when I have one bad month, because I know the next month can be a good one. And because I'm recording this super late, it's already the end of November, I know that November is actually going to be a really big month. Like there is one site that's not even on my list, didn't make a single sale in October. And in November, I made more money from that one site than I did from all my other sites in October. And that's the way it goes, you know, you make more money some months in other words. So I know that November is going to be a good month and it all averages out over the year. So anyways, hopefully you found this useful. I had to do this one pretty quick today. So I did it all in one take. Hopefully you don't mind some of the flubs. But that's my October sales. And I will try to do this earlier in the month of December. So I actually had a really good November. And there's actually a lot more interesting things to talk about in my November sales report. So I'll be doing that in a couple of weeks time near the start of November or December. So you can take a look at that. Anyways, best of luck selling your photos online.