New earnings structure for Contributors

[crbellette]

Just disabled image sales. Probably won't make a difference to SS policy. I think they will only listen to a shareholder or buyer protest.

[Mila Djinn]

Only 10 cents prices i see in my earnings...yeah thats a great opportunity to stay homeless, hungry and absolutely naked!!! RIP shutterstock. As for me im at level 4 now but it doesn't matter. You want prosperity by cutting earnings of people which are made your business. I'm totally disappointed. Shame on you.

[Puffin's Pictures]

7 hours ago, TBT Honest said:

@Puffin's Pictures

True hero, I feel bad for your romantic view of photography combined with the stock industry, I don’t see any of that trouble you go through or say you go through in your portfolio. No romance in stock photography, even amazing sunsets or crazy protests lose all romance when you shoot stock.

 

And by the way, stay safe, my best selling clip on SS with over 1000 downloads and 30K$ Was shot 5 minutes from my home while wearing flip flops and I live in the most boring place known to mankind. Stay safe, adjust your romantic concept for photography and integrate a business approach to it.

 

 

 

Appearances can be deceiving--if you feel it's a quality issue, the determination of hard work cannot always be so easily judged. I freelance for a newspaper as a photojournalist, doing what I love, and have been in tense situations that can't be seen on here because I wasn't the story. But a few idiots won't scare me. As a colleague said that night, "attack one of us and you attack us all." Likewise knowing I and many others here are worth more than 10¢ or 15% IS business. For Shutterstock, it's greed.

[Working Title Productions]

Shitterstock Class of 2020.  Here's the smug group who had a part in siphoning 85% of your earnings every year.  Only Chief Revenue Officer, Jamie, looks a little concerned. 

[Marcelo Trad]

I just have to say in my very first post...how unfair and dishonest the new payment structure is. This is a punch in the stomach of every content creator. After this infamous act you shall not call us "contributors" anymore...call us creative slaves! 
 

[oleskalashnik]

I see several sales on the new system. 0.11 and 0.14. They are placed in the singles column. At the same time, I have level 5.
If now this is a new reality, my income will fall by 2-3 times.

This is exactly what you wanted, Shutterstock? All these years I have preferred you. But now I have a feeling that you have betrayed us all.

[gallofilm]

I think one nthing that really went missing here is communication on the part of SS.  Nothing at all after their first and only statement.  That's crazy.

[Pavel Shlykov]

Stocker answered Him: John! with you I am ready to go to jail and death. But the Great John Oringer said: I tell you, Stoker, the cock will not sing today, as you deny three times that you do not know Me. And you will exchange me for eleven cents of demons and you will throw me all evil spirits ...

26.34
 

And the Stocker promised by John punishment did not pass Stocker, and a widespread change of tariffs followed at noon. On the first noon of summer, Stan Pavlovsky struck everyone with a fire sword, sent a great pestilence on them, turned the models into toads, painted bank accounts red and the stockers combed his hair and ran bitten dogs, the pestilence began among keywordists and retouchers, and there was a great darkness in small studios, and stockers covered with ulcers and abscesses combing themselves different places, in thoughts of the future, thunder and lightning woke up on the heads of the infotsigan, who took 300 American silver coins yesterday for a story about paradise life on the drains ....

 10 executions of the Egyptian
 

And all the stockers who were around them run at their cry, so that they would speak, and the earth would not swallow us. And they ran through the brainchild of Adob and Dmitry Sergeyev, right up to the forgotten ovule and the lazy Russian primate from the Loriev family

 

[SL-Photography]

1 hour ago, WhiteBarbie said:

This is crazy. How can I do 25000 per year? Why the jump from lvl 5 to 6 is sooooo big. Is it even legal? 25000 images? And I should get them in a first 1-2 month to get my lvl that I've been working for 6 years... Indian shitterstock simillars will flood the market as they do for last 2 years. Well done. 

Do adobe stock has exclusive programme?

The base of our income, i think, comes from the subs... And these levels don't have (much) influence on this... Only on the expensive sales. So, in the end, these levels are good for the show.

[J. Marijs]

Well, I just will stop submitting images. Isn't worth the trouble anymore. Thx for the extra time for my other websites.

[SkyImages]

SHUTTERSTOCK WHY? IT REALLY HURTS!😭

[Brunassaraiva]

Hi people! 
Im so sad and angry with the shutterstock... 
can anyone tell me if there was a position on our comments?

[Harismoyo]

The new rules are not fair. It's time to focus on other companies.

[Aaron of L.A. Photography]

I don't know what my earnings are from since they are all Single and other. But I have 6 2.45 and 5 .75 so far. All from protest photos. Just to thought to let everyone know.

[oleskalashnik]

In general, ALL THIS looks like a trying to save the company from bankruptcy. Shutterstock is concerned only about financial performance and relations with shareholders. Not contributors. Yes, you get a tactical victory, but strategically you shoot yourself in both legs. Congratulations.

I will wait 1 month and compare the size of the new income with last year’s, June income. After that I will make the final decision.

[Steven Tritton]

1 hour ago, Sergey Zapotylok said:

What a miracle! Some posts mystically dissapears! Just like our income! )))

LMAO that's the first time I smiled today, my face almost cracked.  

[Leslie Wells]

Goodbye SS!!

I have worked too hard the last few years to sell and make it up to the next tier level to have my income halved by this new payout schedule! Not worth my time to upload. I hope everyone stops loading content and removes their account, maybe you will be fair. Our equipment, expenses and time should not be paid mere pennies so that you can reap all the profit!!

[Wan Fahmy Redzuan]

Single & other.... $0.10, first time ever

[Harismoyo]

SS death knell....

[Karin Hildebrand Lau]

15 years of loyalty & this is what I & so many others get. Wow, Shutterstock. What happened to you? Oh, that's right. You became a publicly traded company & put shareholders above contributors. Hasn't been the same since y'all sold out to Wall Street. 

[AHMAD FAIZAL YAHYA]

this so disgusting and sickening. not sure how long i can sustain in submitting to SS. been a SS submitter since Nov 2004.

now is the time to focus my submission to other agencies. SS will be my last priority. 

felt so really discouraging  and demotivating.  

[Milosz Aniol]

I'm at level 3, according to the new policies. But I'm get something like this now. This is the end of SS.... This is sad.

 

[Dollatum Hanrud]

In conclusion, I was reduced to a salary of more than 50%. No😭 ,Please review with this announcement.😱

[Sherry Yates Young]

Well, I waited until today to see what June 1st would bring and I was shocked, to say the least.  If "Level 5" is this bad I can't imagine what January 1, 2021 would look like.  Apparently, I would owe THEM money for selling my hard work.  So after 14 years, it's time to say "Goodbye, SS".  You can sell somebody else's photos for 14 cents, but not mine.  I'll disable my portfolio of about 2000 medical photos for now, but if nothing changes, my account will be gone on Jan 1.  

[Krzysztof Bargiel]

My portfolio is already disabled all videos gone. No thanks SS keep your 0.10$