 All right, in this video I'm gonna go through my stock photo sales for June. I know this is a little bit late I typically post this a bit early, but I've just been really busy, unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess with the photo loo app And the photo loo website again, we've had a lot of good things happening there But this kept me from creating videos as quickly as I wanted to but in this video I will go through all my sales in June gonna talk about the average sale for the sites in June as well Kind of some more insights into the stock industry also talk about how the changes to the shutter stock earnings Affected my revenue as well. So let's just get into it. All right number one site this month with Alamy with $35 Typically my number one site is a lot higher than $35. So it wasn't a great month Overall for any big sites or big sales Alamy is the type of site that actually most of the time doesn't even make it on my list It's one of those sites where you know, I'll get $135 sale, you know once every six months or even sometimes once a year So glad that it came in this month. It was just basically for one sale of one photo that I have up there Okay, number two on the list was Adobe stock now This is promising because Adobe stock in June I actually made more money than I had in March and April combined So Adobe stock was really slacking like once COVID hit Adobe stock kind of went really downhill for me And what I'm seeing this past month is it starting to rebound? Which is really nice because especially with shutter stock going down I was hoping that Adobe stock would kind of stay higher in the list And it looks like it's headed in that direction again after a couple of really bad months All right next on my list is free pick with like $25 now Although it's number three on my list I'm actually most excited about this site The reason is is that I just learned about this site a couple months ago And I've only got a very small portion of my portfolio up there So there's a lot of sites that we're gonna go down later in the list where I've got like 500 600 photos uploaded there Free pick I've only got a couple hundred and it's number three Okay. Now I again, I just learned about this site I just got signed up and like, you know Approved and everything they did make me jump through some hoops that I hadn't had to jump through before For some of the other stock sites. They asked for this resident certificate I think it's because they're like a European country and I didn't know what that was But their support was actually pretty helpful I reached out to them and I asked like, you know, I'm Canadian. What's a resident certificate? So they sent me some examples and one of the examples that they sent me was just like a Sierra like a Canadian revenue Agency a tax form the first page of the tax form not like, you know Something that the government sends you back something that you fill out to send to the government So all I had to end up doing was I took a tax form from the website entered in my address and phone number I didn't even put my social insurance number on it sent that to them So just a form that I filled out myself and sent to them and they accepted it Which is great because I don't you know, I didn't know how I was gonna get a resident certificate So now I'm approved. I'm approved to get paid. I haven't received the payment yet But I'm pretty confident that I will get paid for the earnings that I'm reporting So my plan over the next month is to get more and more of my photos up on free pick and you know I'm hoping to see better revenue there If you're interested in signing up for free pick, I would recommend it I've got a link down in the description where you can basically go through it I'll take to the contributor page you can sign up as a contributor for free pick and start putting up your photos there We're also because of these good results and some other results I've heard from other people asking for free pick We are now, you know moving free pick up on our list to add it to Fortaleau So in the near future, we're hoping that we'll be able to set up Fortaleau so that you know When you upload your photos to Fortaleau free pick is gonna be the I think it's what 8th stock site that we'll be adding So it'll go to free pick as well. So again really excited about that All right next on the list is 1 2 3 RF again pretty average maybe slightly above average for 1 2 3 RF This past month again, it's nice to see because a lot of the other sites are slumping down because of COVID or other reasons So, you know happy that you know fight 1 2 3 RF, although it's a small number is still pretty consistent All right, next is shutter stock. Oh shutter stock You know my shutter stock earnings taking a look at this We're the lowest I've seen in many many years for the month, right and you know if you watch in this channel or even following the stock industry in general You know that there's a big change in shutter stock where they change the way the contributor earnings We're going to be happening and there's a lot of uproar around that because the minimum for a subscription purchase went from like 30 cents down to 10 cents, right? So I did see a fairly significant drop in my shutter stock sales over June However, I can't really say right now whether that was a hundred percent related to the way that shutter stock to the subscriptions because I was seeing Month over month drops pretty much since COVID started when COVID started, you know, a lot of my photos are Travel photos or landscape photos that are typically used by the travel industry So when COVID hit the travel industry went down and my sales went down that was expected So it's difficult to see how much of this drop in revenue is Related to the change in the way the payment structure is and how much is COVID related You know one of the things I did look at was what was my average sale? Okay, because the way the changes work you got paid more for on-demand but less for subscription So I've actually got them written down here in 2019 The average sale on shutter stock for me was 80 cents. All right now or sorry 2019 It was 80 cents and this past month it was 30 cents So again pretty significant drop not as low as 10 cents is what everybody's probably talking or raging about You know, the average would be 10 cents. Well, it's not it's 30 cents, but it is lower now that being said if I again If I look at my 2019 37% of my revenue in 2019 came from subscription sales Okay, so it was about a third now If you look at last month looking at it 52% came from subscription sales So I was getting a lot more subscription sales, which again come into the lower rate In June than I typically do or typically was averaging last year typically I get a bit more through on-demand So it'll be interesting to see how things play out I do know because it's actually mid-July when I'm recording this I've already made more at mid-July point On shutter stocks than I did all of June. Okay, so, you know, I can almost say that it's not going to stay that low But that being said, you know, a lot of my photos are from Canada and British Columbia And you know where I live right now in Canada, British Columbia The tourism industry is starting to open up for local travel and companies are starting to advertise again so, you know again that increase in July could be because of you know The COVID going some of the restrictions going away and you know me getting more sales because of that So I'll keep reporting on this month over month. Overall shutter stock to be honest I don't expect it to be number one or two anytime soon, right? Again, it's been going down for years, you know, a couple years ago. It was always number one or two But, you know, it's being replaced by other sites, right? Adobe stock I'm really hoping that that stays, you know, one or two pixels has been doing really well for me this month Not so much, but you know, this year it's been doing very well And again, free pick is one that I'm looking at as well too So although shutter stock is going down, I'm seeing other sites going up or adding other sites that are giving me more revenue Which should hopefully balance things out All right, so pexels is next on the list. It did okay in June considering that all donation sites But again, it wasn't a top site like it has been some of the other months this year So again a bit lower for pexels, but still not bad Now when I put the three dollars plus in there for the average sale, that's the average donation Okay, so on average the donation was three plus dollars, but that's not the average per download I actually was able to track the downloads on pexels last month and I had over a hundred thousand downloads So, you know, the reason I'm telling you this is I get people in the comments They'll say oh, you know, I uploaded a photo to pexels and you know You got a couple hundred downloads and not a single donation. So I removed them Well, this kind of hopefully will give you an idea about the kind of scale you need to get to before you start making consistent donations You know, if you look at it, you know for every one dollar in donations in june, I had 6,500 downloads from pexels So pexels does take a bit of work to get you know to that point of getting that number of downloads a month Once you get there you can start making some consistent donations If you look at it, I think I'm like 84th in the all-time download list on pexels You know what I mean? So that's why I get so many downloads. I'm in a bunch of lists And I'm you know high in the search results for search and search terms obviously so I get more downloads But that being said there's 83 people that get a lot more downloads than me on the website So there, you know, I would expect that they're getting a lot more donations that I do right And if there's anything like google right like if your number 11 on google search result You know, your numbers are pretty low but moving up in the top 10 once you get up to one It's a massive increase So I could expect that the people in the top 10, you know, are making significantly more off their pexels donations And I was actually looking at the list the other day and I know, you know, one of the people in the top 10 Looks at these videos sometime. Um, so scott if you're watching this and you want to put a comment down below You know what you see but what your ratio is of downloads to Donations, you know, I'd love to hear and I'll go ahead and pin that to the top of the list so that everybody can see it All right going down the list for the rest of these sites again pretty poor performance But these are never my top sites and they just had a bad month and again, they go up and down Which leaves me with a total revenue of $165 Again, not a great month, but not totally horrible considering COVID so, you know, I'll take it now if you're wondering how I find the time to upload my photos to all these different sites Um, you know, photo lu is the channel name But photo lu is also an app that we have for your there's a website and there's a mobile phone version And what allows you to do is you upload your photo to the website or the app on your phone And then the photo app will distribute it to all these different stock sites So when I upload, you know a photo, I don't go and upload it individually to each one of these sites I uploaded to photo lu and then photo lu distributed to all the sites So if that interests you, you know, go and take a look at photo lu There's a free version of the app that you can use and upload five photos a week And there's also paid photos if you want to upload more If this is your first time on the channel, make sure you go and subscribe, you know Everything on here is about making money with your photography So if you found this useful, give it a thumbs up and best of luck selling your photos online