Posted July 13 7 hours ago, John S. Reid said: Murasaki, You need to have the minimum payout available before closing out your account. you can change it to the lowest of $35. I had over the minimum and closed out my portfolio and got my payment the next pay cycle. Actually a little bit of research shows that this is not actually the official policy. According to the following, they will pay out any earnings above $1 if requested, and then disable the account. If I read it correctly it even sounds you can actually reactive at some point in the future, if Shutterstock should come back to their senses. Have a look at the second option in this article: https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/en_US/kbat02/How-do-I-deactivatedelete-my-contributor-account That's from the official support docs. Whether or not it will actually happen is a different question. I have just requested it though, so I guess I'll find out. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 On 7/10/2020 at 1:21 PM, baypinar said: As an amateur who has portfolios in 7 other agencies, I apply the following actions : Everytime an image is sold for 0.10 cents in Shutterstock, I delete it from Shutterstock. Ha! I'm doing the same thing))) 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 On 5/29/2020 at 9:54 PM, Kiev.Victor said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 59 minutes ago, Tony Dunn said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. I have been with them since 2008. I have 3000 there... compared to 5700+ here. Sales have only been 20% of SS on average... but some months are good, some months have almost no sales. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 I'm not sure I get that whole gay theory above this post .... Anyway, I disabled my image sales as soon as I had my payout after this was all announced. Couple of days ago I got a "subscription" sale for $43? What the hell is that about? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 7 hours ago, paula french said: No you're right - but it was good to see a decent sale for a change Yeah, I understand and would be excited too. Right now I'm waiting for Shutterstock to confirm my deactivation. No word yet. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 3 hours ago, Tony Dunn said: I wish more buyers would go there after realising what SS are doing cos I've uploaded 139 images to DT but no sales. I was in DT for > 6 months, >2000 images and sold 0! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 14 hours ago, John S. Reid said: You need to have the minimum payout available before closing out your account. you can change it to the lowest of $35. I had over the minimum and closed out my portfolio and got my payment the next pay cycle. No, I have to get more than $1 and contact them at privacy@shutterstock.com. That's what is said in the help article: https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/en_US/kbat02/How-do-I-deactivatedelete-my-contributor-account. All I could get from them is vague answers from SS helpers about SS staff being busy with the pandemic and new earning structure situation. Unfortunately, I have not reached the minimum payout, so I can not get it in usual way, as I removed my portfolio from sales in the early june. It's not a big money really, I just want to get what is mine and set off, it's a matter of principle. 🤠 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 (edited) On 6/11/2020 at 6:34 PM, ribeiroantonio said: mestock - what is? Can't find any reference. me = i There is definitely an uptick in sales at AS for me, hope the buyer migration trend continues. Edited July 13 by Birdiegal more info 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 its SO SAD seeing so many contributors complaining about the new earning structure and they still have their images online!What are they waiting for ? that SS will feel sorry about it? 16 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 I don't have a big portfolio but seeing my recent sales go for 10 cents is just a joke. Previously they went fro 25 cents...that's a 60% drop. I'm not sure if it's worth the time to even upload and keyword them anymore. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13 This has been in place, and now I find that I mostly am paid $.10, even for my best selling image. Why should I feel good about this change? Seems like and I have more than 6,000 approved images? I am not a beginner. SS, I think this decision should be revisited - the contributor fee schedule!!! 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 3 hours ago, Thomas Barrat said: This has been in place, and now I find that I mostly am paid $.10, even for my best selling image. Why should I feel good about this change? Seems like and I have more than 6,000 approved images? I am not a beginner. SS, I think this decision should be revisited - the contributor fee schedule!!! I just looked at your portfolio and you have many beautiful photos of so many amazing places. Selling them on SS for .10 is a total crime. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 Now the hashtag #boycottshutterstock has stopped appearing in autosuggest on Twitter. You need to fully type it. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 I've send 6 emails (privacy@shutterstock.com) to Shutterstock to stop my account and pay out the outstanding amount but they do NOT answer or take action. What the Fuck do I have to do to stop and remove my account? Getting payed $0.10 for a work of art is Theft!!! 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 Well I am out. Not that I was making much money out of this before, but for every 10c picture that I sold now, means that somebody's picture for sale for a little higher price elsewhere wouldn't get bought. I guess you can call it solidarity. 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 I think I get why that subscription sale for $43 appeared. It was just below my payout amount - so the only way I could get a payout for it, would be too re-enable my images. Or simply lower my payout amount - which is what I did. Did anybody else get this kind of high value sale? Am I just creating conspiracies in my head? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 18 hours ago, Paul Shark said: its SO SAD seeing so many contributors complaining about the new earning structure and they still have their images online!What are they waiting for ? that SS will feel sorry about it? Not everyone is in the lucky position to delete their portfolio just like that. Let everyone cope with this problem in the time frame that suits them best. I have to think of a way to generate more income besides this, which isn't easy considering my age. 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 7 hours ago, Gert Hilbink said: Я отправил 6 электронных писем (privacy@shutterstock.com) в Shutterstock, чтобы остановить мою учетную запись и выплатить оставшуюся сумму, но они НЕ отвечают и не предпринимают никаких действий. Какого черта я должен сделать, чтобы остановить и удалить мою учетную запись? Получение $ 0,10 за произведение искусства - это кража !!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 7 hours ago, Gert Hilbink said: I've send 6 emails (privacy@shutterstock.com) to Shutterstock to stop my account and pay out the outstanding amount but they do NOT answer or take action. What the Fuck do I have to do to stop and remove my account? Getting payed $0.10 for a work of art is Theft!!! You can go in and disable your sales by yourself until SS gets around to closing your account...see post above this one to see how to. You can also delete your files manually one by one if you wish. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 So far I deleted 10 distinct images because they were sold at 0.10 cents at shutterstock. Let's see if they will be sold elsewhere. Half of them are editorial images. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 2 hours ago, Anita Ponne said: Not everyone is in the lucky position to delete their portfolio just like that. Let everyone cope with this problem in the time frame that suits them best. I have to think of a way to generate more income besides this, which isn't easy considering my age. From the time that someone accept's SS new earning structure (And continuous selling content) why complaining? Not easy for no one take actions like these and disable his gallery. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 So today I received an email from Shutterstock, who have noticed that I’ve stopped uploading content to their platform. They say they’d like to see my newest content. I’d like them to stop pretending that it’s great for us contributors if they get to keep up to 85% of royalties from every sale & 100% of income from unused downloads on their massive new plans. So they have time to send out emails asking for new content, but don’t have the time to update the FAQs in their most read forum thread ever? Updates promised frequently, but none made since it was posted at the end of May? Way to go in showing respect for all contributors... 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 47 minutes ago, Christina Hemsley said: So today I received an email from Shutterstock, who have noticed that I’ve stopped uploading content to their platform. They say they’d like to see my newest content. I’d like them to stop pretending that it’s great for us contributors if they get to keep up to 85% of royalties from every sale & 100% of income from unused downloads on their massive new plans. So they have time to send out emails asking for new content, but don’t have the time to update the FAQs in their most read forum thread ever? Updates promised frequently, but none made since it was posted at the end of May? Way to go in showing respect for all contributors... You could always send Shutterstock the link where to see you latest work. 15 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 14 28 minutes ago, AleksandrMorrisovich said: It's already 4 days and the accepted pictures are not displayed in the profile. Sounds that inspectors is on strike too 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
