Next youtube channel, or topic: How much youtube ad revenue you're making? Some of us consider making a channel for photography as well!

haha Collect, and start selling those bones and animal teeth online! Someone will want them! Maybe polish one up, drill a hole in it, and call it a pen holder! :D

Hey Andrew, I'll share my May earnings with you! AdobeS - $18,77, 29 downloads, 70% ai images, 2 graphics. Some random photo sales: a photo of a concrete bridge, a photo of a Dutch road work sign and a drone photo of a neighborhood. ShutterS - $10,98, 35 image downloads, no videos. Some highlights: I sold an image of a recreational lake twice, within a week of uploading it. I randomly sold a photo that I often sell for 0,10, for 2,91. I also sold a drone photo I once took during a misty sunrise for 0,44. Other than that, I got a lot of 0,10 sales on SS. So in total I earned about $30 which is an okay month for me. I've been uploading quite consistently the past few weeks and finally surpassed 1000 images on both AS and SS. Making progress! While writing this I also just got a video sale on Adobe Stock which is exciting! Hope June treats you well and the weather clears up a bit!

Hi Andrew, my earnings from stock photography are improving as my collection is growing bigger, albeit slowly. My portfolio is very varied and during the winter months, I set up a still life studio in my office and did a fair bit of food photography. I've noticed that AI is not very good at generating authentic food images, which gives me hope. AS for me has been doing much better than SS, though a lot of my editorial photos get rejected as they don't meet their criteria. It seems to be a hit and miss I find. I will soon be reaching level 3 at SS but it doesn't seem to make any difference to their RPD. I do find that stock photography quite time consuming and with you in full-time work it must be much harder to put in all the work that it needs. Still, if I take it as a hobby that pays then it makes it worth it. Enjoyed your video as always.

Hi Andrew! Amazing what you can find washed away at the beach... one time it is a fossil, another time a northern gannet :) Shame on Alamy. I should reach 300 dollars for May (if istock delivers at least a half decent month). I also have 2 early sales from the VW show, but sadly only for cents. Last weekend I explored Schiphol Panorama Terrace in hope for some new stock content, but it turned into a big fail because of sensor dust visible in the videos, and the heat from the airplanes made many photos looking blurry. At least I have learned something for the next time.

Hi Andrew, nice video, as always! Congrats on the very nice video sale :) Question - how to you identify all these fossils you find on the beach? I probably wouldn't even spot them ;)

Made a whopping 10 cents on an image of a person walking in the rain on SS. Not bad considering I have less than 50 images uploaded over there. :^)

Amazing, Can I post ancient temples, monesty, hotels and old sculptures pictures on stock without property released form ??

Hey Andrew, Have you considered going exclusive with one of the agencies mate? Im exclusive and can generally clear 900-1000us without much effort. I reckon you could be making heaps more with less effort ey.

Andrew, great to see improvements this month. I got to say, from someone with a larger port on Shutterstock (eg: over 2500 videos) sales on the agency have literally collapsed. It's not even a shadow of what it used to be just a couple of years ago.

you're doing better than me. I had one good sale, a panoramic photo on canvas at an art website for 40 dollars. A total of 72 sales for 62.50 in May. I have uploaded 6 photos from the Aircooled show and have already sold 2.

SS also surprised me with a video sale of just over $100 and a $40 video from Pond 5. Other than that picture sales have been very slow here.

Thanks Andrew, always great to hear about your latest sales. I just made a $100 sale today on Alamy (Red Lobster building) and a $40 sale there a week or two ago (another restaurant). I seem to be making around 2 sales a month on Alamy. SS surprised me with over $100 for May with a few good sales, Adobe is now consistently paying out $100+ per month now, mostly macro and editorial images. For some reason my Adobe acceptance rate skyrocketed to around 95% now, no particular reason why. So far this month I've earned about $7 on SS with 40-something downloads and $53 from Adobe. I follow Microstock Life channel here and have picked up useful tips on keywording and in particular, writing brief but concise descriptions, especially for Adobe. Perhaps it has helped? I've been redoing many of my Adobe image descriptions for maximum exposure. Anyway, cheers from Houston Texas!

Hi Andrew.. I am trying to understand stock photography. What do you mean when you say editorial photos?

It appears that to make money in this work, it takes a few thousand pictures in an account to get any money out of this. At what volume of pictures did you start getting payments that made it worthwhile?

I must say Alamy is the worst for me. Been on there for almost 3 years and over 700 photos and only sold 4 Photos in all that time. Suggestion.... Please make a video about your journey with Adobe Editorial photos. I get a lot of rejections due to photos being "newsworthy" and then its just stand editorial content, like a road sign. One road sign gets accepted but the other not and its exactly the same sign just from different angles.