Andreas Prott Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Daniel Wiedemann said: How come I received $0.34 and $1.65 for a video sale? How is that ANYWHERE NEAR 25% (I believe I'm level 3)? Well video contribs got screwed twice. First they introduced a new cheap sub plan for videos then they changed the payout from 30% to "from 15%". 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Oleg Kovtun Hydrobio Posted June 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2020 On June 25th I already disabled the entire portfolio with 2,500 photos, but I have a main portfolio of 17,500 videos, which brings the main income. After selling videos for 6.52, I will turn off my video portfolio. Shutterstock died, not one self-respecting video operator will not sell his work so cheaply. I do underwater video, the cost of such a video is very large. I will not sell at Shattestock, let this business die from its greed and stupidity. At the end of the month, I will turn off my video portfolio on Shutterstock. Viva stupidity and stupidity of its leaders, they dug up their grave. 32 Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 5 hours ago, GregDPhotos said: I'm not sure what to say... Based on publicly available information, there are only 9 unique royalty amounts for subs at 30% (.1, .12, .14, .17, .49, .59, .75, .87, 1.47) and 3 for ODs (2.75, 2.94, 4.35). I don't see where the OD payments came from - the lowest payout you get should be $2.75! Help, @Kate Shutterstock ? Of course, video payouts are totally different... The conclusion that all SS contributors should be drawing now is: SHUTTERSTOCK smells putrid. The listed pricing in the official SS website is one, what SS pay the contributors (meaning creators, artists, workers) is a very different matter. SS dictate levels, percentages and dates (starting on January 1 of each year) that contributors are obliged to follow but, every day SS pay whatever they want without any criteria and scrutiny. @Kate Shutterstock Please come clean. Show us a precise and concise table of SS official pricing and official pay outs to contributors, with all levels and percentages stated. Otherwise, 20+ different pays for subs look bad and smell a rat. 8 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post AKaiser Posted June 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2020 They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is ... just ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* 27 Link to post Share on other sites
AKaiser Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 This is disgusting. As simple as that. 24 Link to post Share on other sites
Mirko Rosenau Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 17 minutes ago, AKaiser said: They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is plainly ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* This is unbelievable. Wilm always stays professionalwith no bad language. He provided precise example with documentation. Also, Wil was asking questions about the new price model, that the info Shutterstock provided, and what is aid out can not be matched. Now it loos like Shutterstock may do fraud and they don't want somebody who is asking the right questions! Shutterstock. Please explain! 15 Link to post Share on other sites
AKaiser Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 21 minutes ago, Studio 2 said: So very sorry to hear that. I always read Wilm's posts. Logical and very clear thinking. Always helpful and polite. Please thank him and wish him the best. I'll do for sure. He's a friend of mine. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Orca Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I have been with Shutterstock 10+ years. 10 years ago, Shutterstock needed us..., now I can see how Shutterstock is rewarding our work... I will delate my account! THANK YOU shutterstock! 17 Link to post Share on other sites
TheGlowingCarrot Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 22 hours ago, sima said: Yesterday I also had 3 footage sales for 0.34 ....... And I deactivated my footage portfolio. You didn't. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
GregDPhotos Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, AKaiser said: They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is ... just ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* Perhaps we should all say our farewells, in case we aren't given the opportunity later. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
igor.kramar.shots Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, AKaiser said: They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is ... just ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* Hi Anja, it's sad and pathetic. Tell Wilhelm to create a new account and not be silenced here. Sincerely. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Thijs de Graaf Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, AKaiser said: They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is ... just ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* How is it possible!! It is getting sadder. This means that you can express your anger on the forum, but you cannot explain clearly where the problems lie with Shutterstock. They still don't explain anything themselves. Apparently they keep an eye on the forum anyway.@Kate Shutterstock can you or the other admins change this? Oherwise the admins lose their last bit of respect (which used to be). Hope to see you again on the forum @Wilm Ihlenfeld. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
jjmillan Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 ¿ Cuantos de los colaboradores que se han ido regresaran a 0,10 ? Link to post Share on other sites
Whiteaster Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 6 hours ago, AKaiser said: They just banned @Wilm Ihlenfeld from posting to the forums for "hijacking other peoples' threads to share his negative views about Shutterstock". This is ... just ridiculous. I don't know *any* person in this world being more factual and objective than Wilm. Censorship at its best. *yikes* Before someone comes up with some other explanation, I think I can clarify what could happen but before I do that I must say that I have the highest respect for Wilhelm and appreciate (almost) all his opinions and contribution to the forum, as well as his work. Here it goes: I was answering to a newbie's request for help with a rejection. My answer was clear, at the topic but Geogif had to downvote it, just as he downvoted Milleflore Images before, for the pure pleasure of contradicting. I don't care about the downvote but I took the time to provide explanations and links for the OP who now didn't know what to think about the contradicting opinions. The problem was that Geogif's comment was tied to Wilm's comment, so both comments were removed and apparently Wilm banned which is regrettable. In case this was the reason of Wilm being banned, I am sorry for that but he has to thank to his friend. I think it is time to put an end to bullying people for no good reason. Link to post Share on other sites
sima Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 hours ago, TheGlowingCarrot said: You didn't. Try to look little bit better. Link to post Share on other sites
Foodio Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 16 minutes ago, Studio 2 said: I suspect @geogif is banned too. If so all the best to him. Stay safe. I will miss your sense of humour 🙁 What did I miss this time? Geogif and Wilm? Ruh roh. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Frank Rohde Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Actually, I have been here now for 10 years…and weeks ago I wouldn’t have thought about the alterations which have taken place within a few days only. I have always been a loyal partner and until now I have carried everything together with you, however, now the time has come to leave for good. First of all, I am no longer prepared to put my stuff at your disposal for just a few cents…to delete my complete account still feels a bit tough to me as I have spent 10 years of my life here. If nothing will change here in regard to the structure I will certainly take this step, too… There has been a time for me before Shutterstock and there will also be a time after Shutterstock. Life is a constant change and sometimes we are deeply dissappointed by a partnership in our lives; sometimes we can foresee it. However, being dissappointed by someone we have not thought of is much more painful. Within the last years I have seen a few agency where I uploaded things come and go… and you can still find me working for some other agencies! But with which kind of self-confidence everything has been completely turned upside-down within one day has astonished me and is still very amazing to me. To make such a financial cut for people who carry your website and give you the opportunity to just exist within times of the most biggest global crisis of the New Age makes me speechless. Because, you just provide the platform…you do not produce anything on your own…and people will leave, you will painfully miss…you have affronted. You should value people…this I do not see here anymore. However, I will not be in the position to change anything, it is your way… not mine! Cancel just the selling my illustrations...the animations are still online (first). I am not the victim, however, people who still possess a clear mind.. All the best, Frank 17 Link to post Share on other sites
Pixellicious Photos Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 On 6/22/2020 at 9:48 AM, whitejellybeans said: II am a contributor and a buyer. Our business signed up for the monthly plan over eight months ago as we were setting up a couple of websites. Most months go by now where we are lucky to purchase one or two images a month but are still paying $49 per month for the subscription as it was an annual commitment. The months that our business does not purchase any images means that SS does not need to pay any of their contributors a cent. I suspect that the overheads for storing images are huge, but I would have thought good business sense would be to offload images that have not sold for say three years or so and allow contributors to resubmit. It is appalling what SS has done to their contributors who are the backbone of their company. It is also a lazy business to take the easiest option out by cutting the bonus to their contributors rather than looking at other ways to cut a profit. For our business, once the subscription runs out, our company will never buy images off Shutterstock again. As a contributor, my portfolio is small and was just a side income. I am in the process of deleting all my decent images and leaving all my crapy ones on SS that I submitted when I first started out. This is even better. Liked what you mentioned in the last line about leaving crappy images out there... 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Foodio Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 6 minutes ago, Studio 2 said: There is a post above by Whiteaster that may explain it. With regard to @geogif it's an assumption. Time will tell. Thanks Debbie, I read that but I was hoping someone could clarify where the new goal posts are if you know what I mean. Must be very close now if Wilm is banned. Link to post Share on other sites
alexeyart1 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Someone can help me in this matter, what needs to be done so that this inscription disappears, and already wrote to the support service! Link to post Share on other sites
Thyrymn2 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 My 12 year old is doing great here with his cell phone butterflies, bugs, etc... Me? I sold 1 print and made more than all of June. I'm not uploading anymore; just going to let my stuff sit and focus on other stuff. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Sadik Yalcin Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 There must be an option like "I do not want my contents under subscription sales" 8 Link to post Share on other sites
B.E. Lewis Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 On 6/26/2020 at 12:00 PM, Andreas Prott said: Well video contribs got screwed twice. First they introduced a new cheap sub plan for videos then they changed the payout from 30% to "from 15%". Wow that's surreal.. a $66 USD video file and the creator of it gets $0.34. That's really just a token crumb tossed out to pretend like it's not free. I'm wondering why that's even legal under international law. 20 Link to post Share on other sites
Bruno Rodrigues B Silva Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 On 6/24/2020 at 2:36 AM, Davaiphotography said: Ditto Is he for real ? lmao shutterstock just pulled the ole' seppuku. 14 Link to post Share on other sites
GregDPhotos Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Sadik Yalcin said: There must be an option like "I do not want my contents under subscription sales" There is: disable your entire still image and/or video portfolios. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
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