Baldas1950 Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 5 hours ago, Giambattista Lazazzera said: From June 1st to today I have exceeded 100 downloads. I should now be at level 2. Why are my photos still getting paid 10 cents? I had a look at your beautiful portfolio. And i have realized with regret that you are selling Italy for only 10c.! 5 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Looks to me like friend's sub account has used 27 downloads of 750 possible in one day.....month end is 27th August not July. Maybe they use around 600 of the 750/month which is still a good deal for SS as SS only has to pay out $60 to contributors. In the old system it might have had to pay out 600 X $0.38 = $228.00 which is more than that subscription deal cost even with 150 dls left unused. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Giambattista Lazazzera Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 5 ore fa, Baldas1950 ha detto: Ho dato un'occhiata al tuo bellissimo portfolio. E ho realizzato con rammarico che stai vendendo l'Italia per soli 10c.! Thanks so much. You're very kind 1 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 All that matters to the Deity. Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Corner Studio Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Investors are crazy. I am certain that many will choke on this sudden 17.6% bump a bit later. Wait for next quarter. When the real effect of many contributors closing their account will really be felt. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
GillianVann Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 13 hours ago, Giambattista Lazazzera said: From June 1st to today I have exceeded 100 downloads. I should now be at level 2. Why are my photos still getting paid 10 cents? there are over 200 pages of people explaining that no matter what your level, the 10c sales will dominate. Did you think it wouldn't apply to you too? 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Cappelletti_pictures Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 4 hours ago, Studio 2 said: http://content.shutterstock.com/investor-report/index.html The videos are worth watching especially 'Expanding Total Addressable Market'. I don´t know how much any of that is true, they look desperate, somethings up. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Stefan Mokrzecki Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 This is from the ShutterStock Inc (SSTK) Q2 2020 Earnings Call Transcript: The report suggests that SS did better than was forecast with a higher revenue per download, That comes in part by turning to AI for ingesting the material supplied by contributors and also the huge reduction in what SS is now paying contributors. I do not see any reference in the report that SS is now paying contributors significantly less than what was paid out previously and that makes for a very distorted bottom line. That bottom line is not sustainable when a business shows no consideration for the suppliers of the material upon which the business was built. I have to wonder just how many contributors will be happy continuing to supply new material and have it return the minimum of just 10 cents. This is a temporary reprieve for SS and it seems to me that many shareholders would be well advised to take their money and run as the share price is not sustainable going forward. The Q3 Earnings Call will tell the true story. 7 Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 I can only imagine that such a huge increase in subscribers is due to including all those free 'ten-image packages'. Even when the subscription is cancelled whilst 'free', it still counts as a new subscriber even though they spent nothing and all it cost SS is 10X $0.10 = $1.00max/trial. Very cheap trial too for SS.....imagine if all the free images had to be paid out at $0.38. 8 Link to post Share on other sites
Guillermo Barda Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 -Shutterstock top management: We have 340 Million images, we can make a good money giving them almost for free in partnership with other companies, as long as we don't pay the creators but peanuts. -Shutterstock shareholders: Yeeees! Show me the money! But there's something wrong in this reasoning: Shutterstock doesn't have any images, but the contributors are the owners. Real owners of the work: What will you do? Make this company rich in change of nothing? Accept "whatever" is given to you? I'd better keep my pictures and show to my friends as an amateur. If I were a pro, I'd do something else with my pictures. Another topic is the reviews of pictures in 2-3 minutes from submitting. Did shutterstock fire many reviewers and replaced by AI? Does shutterstock receive so few images that the reviewers are wating for them to get some comission? I already said it, but shutterstock is destroying it's own busines. 11 Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Corner Studio Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 2 hours ago, Guillermo Barda said: Another topic is the reviews of pictures in 2-3 minutes from submitting. Did shutterstock fire many reviewers and replaced by AI? Does shutterstock receive so few images that the reviewers are wating for them to get some comission? I already said it, but shutterstock is destroying it's own busines. the ceo (intentionally lower case!) came clean on that, admitting that reviews are done by AI. there is a thread started today on that in the forum. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Benthemouse Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Last 10 downloads 10c and one 14c (all from old stock as I stopped uploading any new content when the new,without warning, structure was implimented). Takes 20 minutes to PS an airframe shot if it is good enough, for 10c I just can't be arsed! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
paula french Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 On 7/13/2020 at 1:27 PM, 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. That was very misleading on DT - I sold more than normal in June - and DID NOT receive 10% extra - I emailed and basically was told I wasn't eligible for some reason - i don't why why!! I told them that it was misleading contributors but they didn't really reply to that! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
lonndubh Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 20 hours ago, Yana Lesnik said: Have a look on this report) SS pocket should be really really heavy now 🤑 🙂 The interesting statistic is really the 6% decline in paid downloads. I see more and more Unsplash photos around and believe this will get worse so that eventually contributors will receive less and less as microstock struggles to cope with the glut. Link to post Share on other sites
Graffitimi Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 11 minutes ago, paula french said: Nagyon félrevezető volt a DT vonatkozásában - júniusban a szokásosnál többet adtam el, és NEM NEM kaptam 10% -ot külön - e-mailt küldtem, és alapvetően azt mondták, hogy valamilyen okból nem vagyok jogosult - nem tudom, miért !! Mondtam nekik, hogy félrevezető közreműködők, de erre nem válaszoltak igazán! Did you fill out a tax form? If I remember correctly, if it is missing then there may be discrepancies. Link to post Share on other sites
Sarah2 Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 30 minutes ago, paula french said: That was very misleading on DT - I sold more than normal in June - and DID NOT receive 10% extra - I emailed and basically was told I wasn't eligible for some reason - i don't why why!! I told them that it was misleading contributors but they didn't really reply to that! Hmmm...odd.....nothing to do with quantity sold. All my downloads automatically got paid extra - $2 sales stopped, and $2.20 sales appeared. Would be interested in their response.... Link to post Share on other sites
Pixeljoy Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 33 minutes ago, paula french said: That was very misleading on DT - I sold more than normal in June - and DID NOT receive 10% extra - I emailed and basically was told I wasn't eligible for some reason - i don't why why!! I told them that it was misleading contributors but they didn't really reply to that! the 10% extra only for new customer subscription plan. Therefore you will get some with 10%, some without 10% extra - I had the same question and got such reply. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Luigi Bertello Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 I am a contributor from Italy, I have always privileged to upload my photos first on SS than on other online archives, both in terms of sales and revenues. After this ingenious thought, my earnings have decreased by three times ... I do not cancel my existing portfolio, it would be wasted further time, but I do not intend to upload new (and good) contents. I will load them on those of the competitors, which seems to me already more fierce....(and cheered by the suicide of SS) I believe that SS will lose many pro-contributors and a market segment, in exchange for some gains at the beginning. Garbage royalties means garbage content. I refuse to put quality content on here at these rates. Good competition to GI without us... Apri in Google Traduttore Feedback Risultato web con link ai siti Google Traduttore translate.google.it › ... Il servizio gratuito di Google traduce all'istante parole, frasi e pagine web tra l'italiano e più di 100 altre lingue. Google Translate Il servizio gratuito di Google traduce all'istante parole, frasi e ... Altri risultati in google.it » Risultati web traduttore, traduzione inglese, significato, dizionario - Reverso www.reverso.net › text_translation Reverso.net: Traduzione online in inglese, francese, spagnolo, tedesco, portoghese, russo. DeepL Traduttore - DeepL Translate www.deepl.com › translator (Italiano, Inglese, Francese, Tedesco, Spagnolo, Portoghese, Olandese, Polacco, Russo, Giapponese, Cinese) Combinazioni più richieste su DeepL Traduttore ... Le persone hanno chiesto anche Come si dice in inglese villa? Come si dice in inglese Panorama? Come tradurre app in italiano? Come tradurre un messaggio vocale in inglese? Feedback Risultati web Traduttore.it: Traduttore - Traduzioni Online traduttore.it Non sei soddisfatto di Google Traduttore? Prova il servizio gratuito di Traduttore.it: puoi tradurre in tempo reale qualunque parola o testo straniero in italiano e ... Google Traduttore - App su Google Play play.google.com › store › apps › details Traduzione del testo: traduci tra 103 lingue digitando • Tocca per tradurre: copia il testo desiderato in qualsiasi app e tocca l'icona di Google Traduttore per ... Valutazione: 4,5 - 7.248.921 voti - Gratis - Android - Utility/Strumenti Google Traduttore - Google Translate translate.google.com › intl › about DISPOSITIVI MOBILI; OFFLINE; COMPUTER DESKTOP. Il tuo traduttore personale. L'app Traduttore è come un interprete personale sempre a portata di mano. Traduzione online gratuita | Lexicool www.lexicool.com › translate ... di questo tipo permette di capire un testo in lingua straniera, ma è raramente accurata ed affidabile e in nessun caso può sostituire il lavoro di un traduttore. TRADUTTORE di Cambridge | inglese italiano dictionary.cambridge.org › translate Traduttore online gratuito che supporta le 19 lingue più diffuse su internet, arricchito da definizoni di dizionario, pronuncia, sinonimi ed esempi. traduttore - Dizionario italiano-inglese WordReference www.wordreference.com › iten › traduttore traduttore - Traduzione del vocabolo e dei suoi composti, e discussioni del forum. Ricerche correlate a traduttore traduttore spagnolo traduttore reverso traduttore latino traduttore inglese traduttore francese traduttore italiano francese traduttore italiano spagnolo traduttore inglese italiano0 Navigazione nelle pagine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Avanti Link piè di pagina Italia Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Provincia di Asti - In base alla tua attività passata - Utiliz 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Luigi Bertello Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 On 7/28/2020 at 12:44 PM, Giambattista Lazazzera said: From June 1st to today I have exceeded 100 downloads. I should now be at level 2. Why are my photos still getting paid 10 cents? Don't worry...Me at level 3 gain 10 cent, after 500 dl and now at level 4, gain 11-12 cent. Che figata!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
SciPhi.tv Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 On 7/28/2020 at 11:44 AM, Giambattista Lazazzera said: From June 1st to today I have exceeded 100 downloads. I should now be at level 2. Why are my photos still getting paid 10 cents? I had this same issue. The move to the next level is based on the number of sales you make this calendar year. So although I had a total of 250 lifetime sales by June 2020 (joined July 2019), I only had 160 sales in 2020. If I go over 250 sales before December this year, then I will move to level 3... and then reset to level 1 Jan 1 2021. Link to post Share on other sites
stockername Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Hey guys! I'm level 6 And most of the sales are $0.10 So the level system is a fake from Shutterstock Drop 40% with the same sales 12 Link to post Share on other sites
Andreas Prott Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 7 hours ago, paula french said: That was very misleading on DT - I sold more than normal in June - and DID NOT receive 10% extra - I emailed and basically was told I wasn't eligible for some reason - i don't why why!! I told them that it was misleading contributors but they didn't really reply to that! It only applies to newly sold sub plans from June 1. If a buyer downloads an image with an old plan you only get the old 0.35$. That was indeed communicated in a misleading way. Link to post Share on other sites
luca pbl Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 21 hours ago, paula french said: That was very misleading on DT - I sold more than normal in June - and DID NOT receive 10% extra - I emailed and basically was told I wasn't eligible for some reason - i don't why why!! I told them that it was misleading contributors but they didn't really reply to that! As far as I understand, they pay 0.38 for subs subscribed after June 1st, for the previous 0.35. In fact, I have mixed sales, some 0.38 others 0.35 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Coincidence? Sales have dried up since I started deleting images which have sold. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Michael W.Ishak Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Just started an account with SS few days ago and had my 1st sakes today.. can’t figure out why I have only 9 dollars out of 79 until I saw the table minutes ago.. what a joke! 🤮 Link to post Share on other sites
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