YourShot's Daily Dozen's for 2012: Top-3 Contributors

Continuation of previous posts (YourShot's Daily Dozen's for 2014: Top-5 Contributors, YourShot's Daily Dozen's for 2013: Top-5 Contributors).

Decided to switch to just Top-3 for 2012 year to minimize the listing: there are 16 authors on 4th place (4 publications) and 33 authors on 5th place (3 publications).

1. The 1st place is divided between two photographers with 8 publications:
• Veronika K Ko  
• Robin Loznak
2. In 2012, the threshold for the 2nd place is 6 publications. Two photographers were able to reach it:
• nirvair singh
• Md Khalid Rayhan Shawon
3. Graham McGeorge got the 3rd place with 5 publications.

Graham McGeorge is the only person from the list who will appear in 2013 Top-5 on the 4th place with 9 publications. 

YourShot's Daily Dozen's for 2014: Top-5 Contributors

Continuation of my first post about top contributors to National Geographic's YourShot daily dozen.
Now, it is time to share listing for 2014 (names are shown in the same way as in public profile of corresponding users).

1. The 1st place is now occupied by one person with 14 publications in 2014: Raffaele Montepaone.
2. The 2nd place goes to  cletus nelson nwadike. His photos was selected to Daily Dozen 12 times during 2014.
3. The 3rd place is divided between three photographers who got 7 photos published:
• Bogdan Comanescu
• Rita Thompson 
• Jassen T.
4. The 4th place is divided between nine photographers. Each of them has 6 photos published in 2014:
• Marc MOL 
• Ian Taylor
• Brett L. Erickson
• Chris Schmid
• Margherita Vitagliano
• Monika Strzelecka
• Ali Hamed Haghdoust (3↘4)
• Mariya Petrova - Existencia
• Joshua Bergeron
5. Eighteen (!!!) photographers reached the 5th place with 5 publications in 2014 year.
• john spies
• Mike Melnotte (5↔5)
• Donato DiCamillo 
• Todd Klassy 
• candy kempsey 
• Beatrice Schuler 
• Sven Zacek 
• Ly Hoang Long 
• Tytia Habing 
• Justin Anantawan 
• cedric delves 
• P. Warner 
• Christopher B. 
• Tatsuo Suzuki 
• VINEET VOHRA 
• Serge Bouvet 
• Terra Fondriest 
• Theodore Mattas

About 3000 photographs were selected and published during 2014 year in YourShot Daily Dozen from about 2400 users and majority (~90%) of authors were selected once or twice.

Mike Melnotte and Ali Hamed Haghdoust are the only ones who moved from 2013 to 2014 year's list of YourShot's Daily Dozen's Top-5 contributors and it is amazing!

YourShot's Daily Dozen's for 2013: Top-5 Contributors

Hey there,

There is "Daily Dozen" section in Your Shot National Geographic site. This section is updated daily with "Our favorite photos, chosen by National Geographic editors." My curiosity asked me yet another question: are there any photographers who got published there more than once?

I decided to start with year 2013 and after careful calculations, I have compiled yet another listing (names are shown in the same way as in public profile of corresponding users).
Please, welcome.

YourShot's Daily Dozen 2013's Top-5 contributors

1. The 1st place with 13 publications in YourShot's Daily Dozen 2013 is divided between two photographers:
• Ivan Lesica
• Wesley Thomas Wong 
2. The 2nd place with 11 publications is also divided between two photographers:
• steven chou
• Danilo Dungo
3. The 3rd with 10 publications goes to Ali Hamed Haghdoust
4. Four people got 9 publications and won the 4th place:
• Pradeep Chitta
• William Mok
• B. Yen
• Graham McGeorge(3↘4)
5. Mike Melnotte with 8 publication in YourShot Daily Dozen 2013 is on 5th place.

About 3000 photographs were selected and published during 2013 year in YourShot Daily Dozen from about 2500 users and majority (~95%) of authors were selected once or twice.

Recent sales update and top performers for the last week

I have collected data for a week 20-27 Sep. Unfortunately, data was lost for the first 12 hours of 22-Sep-15 (GMT+3). Analyzed time frame (approximately):

• Start: 20-Sep-15 00:00:00 (GMT+3)
• Finish: 27-Sep-15 11:00:00 (GMT+3)

Data is analyzed in the following ways: same charts as before were created for all sales for analyzed time frame, top-10 performers were selected and announced and charts were created just for sales of those top-10 performers. 

"Art by type" for the past week is showing similar distribution to previous result: photo is on the first place, painting - second, digital art - third. 

Price range is almost the same: $20-$29 is most popular price for small sized print.

 Distribution by year is similar again: most of the sold artwork is created during the last four years.

Table below are for those who interested in how much you can sell on FineArtAmerica.com.

Top performer for the last week is Michael Tompsett: 38 artworks was bought by buyers mostly from United States, few from United Kingdom and Netherlands. I have started discussion on FineArtAmerica to get feedback on stats accuracy.

Place	Author	Total amount of sales for analyzed time frame	Total amount of uploaded images	Total amount of followers on FAA	Total amount of views of all uploaded images	Joined FAA
1	Michael Tompsett	38	1920	876	1857551	2010
2	Rebecca Jenkins	21	206	86	80926	2012
3	Sharon Cummings	19	1217	1426	2086170	2010
4	Aged Pixel	13	10393	172	578377	2014
5	Design Turnpike	13	1547	130	475888	2012
6	Jon Holiday	12	207	251	369884	2011
7	Guido Borelli	12	537	1080	1545170	2007
8	Linda Woods	12	1258	538	682820	2011
9	Cooper Ross	11	699	30	50321	2013
10	Chungkong Art	11	864	235	799661	2012

Price for a small sized print is less than $26 for 94% of sold artworks. I plan to analyze prices for all available sizes later. Stay tuned ;-)

"Art-by-type" distribution for top-10 sellers is changed: digital art - the first, painting - the second, mixed media - the third (thanks to top-3 sellers). 

Most of the art that was sold by top-10 sellers was created during the last 3 years.

Important notes:

• Data from the following time frame was not included: 22-Sep-15 00:00 -- 22-Sep-15 12:00 (GMT+3)
• Authors may buy their own work from FineArtAmerica. It is not clear to me if FineArtAmerica includes such sales on recent sales page. 
• Data is collected from recent sales pages from FineArtAmerica.com site, all values shall be treated as approximated.

Analysis of recent fine art sales at FineArtAmerica.com

I have created four charts that shows data analysis of 12 hours period of fine art sales (approximated) at FineArtAmerica.com using open source of information.

Charts can help answer on questions like "what kind of art sells best on fineartamerica?", "what are the prices of best selling art?", "what is the age of best selling fine art?", etc.

Gathered data allows to say where are most buyers are located, that shall help to establish proper geo-targeting for your ads.

These charts are the first step in turning "recent sales" page into really useful fine art marketing tool. I am gathering data continuously to increase time range and amount of data for more precise values. If you are interested in getting access to this information, please let me know.

Distribution of FineArtAmerica.com's art galleries by countries

Analyzed data from FineArtAmerica.com and came up with this chart. Enjoy!

1. United States (60%)
2. Other countries (15%)
3. India (7%)
4. Canada (5%)
5. United Kingdom (2%)
6. China, Australia, Indonesia, France, Pakistan, Italy, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Germany (1%)

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