Marketplace Author Statistics

I was curious on a couple of numbers – so I looked through the publicly available top author list across all marketplaces ( link ) and here are some rough stats for those others who may be interested:

1. United States: 1075
2. Europe: 534
3. United Kingdom: 498
4. Russian Federation: 247
5. Canada: 208
6. Germany: 189
7. Netherlands: 167
8. Romania: 161
9. Australia: 148
10. 107 Other Countries: ~3,227

1. Honduras (4 authors) (1st by more than double)
2. Austria (22 authors)
3. Vanuatu (1 author)
4. Thailand (19 authors)
5. South Africa (35 authors)
6. Peru (7 authors)
7. China (16 authors)
8. Jamaica (3 authors)
9. Finland (15 authors)
10. ... 107 more

US, Europe, UK, Canada, Italy take the cake when it comes to highest country count in each of the earning badge segments (also have the most authors – so that makes sense).

• $50k-$100k sales 105 people, 4060 avg sale
• $100k-$250k sales 54 people, 6896 avg sale
• $250k-1m sales 21 people, 14800 avg sale
• Elite author: 112 people, 7880 avg sale, $226000 avg earn
• Referred 50-100 Buyers: 152 people, 2170 avg sale, $44000 avg earn
• Referred 100-200 Buyers: 91 people, 2650 avg sale, $46000 avg earn
• Referred 200-500 Buyers: 57 people, 3900 avg sale, $99200 avg earn
• Referred 500-1000 Buyers: 13 people, 6600 avg sale, $98700 avg earn
• Bundled File: 179 people, 3630 avg sale, $73700 avg earn
• Free file of the month: 173 people, 2880 avg sale, $51000 avg earn
• Featured authors: 834 people, 2130 avg sale, $42400 avg earn

• Jan 2010: 258
• Feb 2010: 215
• Mar 2010: 192
• Apr 2010: 214
• May 2010: 162
• Jun 2010: 162
• Jul 2010: 215
• Aug 2010: 245
• Sep 2010: 212
• Oct 2010: 207
• Nov 2010: 219
• Dec 2010: 178
• Jan 2011: 206
• Feb 2011: 183
• Mar 2011: 238
• Apr 2011: 199
• May 2011: 223
• Jun 2011: 177
• Jul 2011: 144
• Aug 2011: 196
• Sep 2011: 5 (so far)

– as of about 9pm 13th Sep 2011 – 100 lines of php curl, xml and loops (only hit top author list once – cached and processed in files locally).
– Not all authors list their country – so these numbers are not 100% correct
– avg earn $ amount is very very very rough! – it’s the average of the mid points of each authors earning badge. haha!
– I could work out the standard deviation on those averages but meh it’s bed time here.

What marketplace stats are you interested in?

hey, that’s dtbaker! nice new avatar!

Interesting stats for sure. Maybe one of the graphic gurus can make one of these awesome info graphics out of it

Interesting facts

May we take a look to graphicriver stats please ?

wow!!

great stuff man!

Interesting …
in fact I’d like to have a close look on CodeCanyon’s stats

What about Greece? 15?

Interesting facts.

Heh, Dominican Republic: 1

butlerm said
great stuff man!

I like the M on your avatar, really cool