New earnings structure for Contributors

[Centrill Media]

I believe I would get on the phone and call them.

Best number I could find to reach them: 

+1 866-663-3954

 

[Banana Productions]

1 hour ago, Mirko Rosenau said:

Man Im starting to regret shutterstock, The guys at dreamstime are also bad, they once put my images in a "free download spin off site of they´res." These sites are full of lies and deceit. Dreamstime wont let you delete your port all at once.

 

 

My images still for sale after account was deleted! 

So i finally had my account deleted today. My login is gone, with no access to my contributor page. Everything should be good now, but then I noticed that my images are still on Shutterstock. OK, I have seen this before, but nobody could download the images when trying to purchase them. This time is different. People are able to purchase my images and I do not even have any access anymore?

That is criminal! Any thoughts?

 

 

 

[Fierman Much]

at first i really hate this, because now i only got 0.17 from subscriber download. but i don't know why, in the last two month i got bigger earning than usual, especially last month. i got the highest earning in all times. does it mean i got lower earning from subsriber download, but bigger earning in regular download?

[Wilm Ihlenfeld]

9 hours ago, Mirko Rosenau said:

My images still for sale after account was deleted! 

So i finally had my account deleted today. My login is gone, with no access to my contributor page. Everything should be good now, but then I noticed that my images are still on Shutterstock. OK, I have seen this before, but nobody could download the images when trying to purchase them. This time is different. People are able to purchase my images and I do not even have any access anymore?

That is criminal! Any thoughts?

Hello, Mirko,

i just tried this and can't find your image - screenshot attached.

[Wilm Ihlenfeld]

Yesterday I had my personal negative record. 50% of the downloads were those for $0.10 - despite level 5.

[Christina Hemsley]

1 hour ago, Wilm Ihlenfeld said:

Yesterday I had my personal negative record. 50% of the downloads were those for $0.10 - despite level 5.

Yes, unfortunately that’s as to be expected since more and more customers will buy those tempting, priced-to-sell subscription plans instead. 

This tips the income split even further in Shutterstock’s favor as they get to keep 100% of income from unused downloads in these plans. 

Cheeky f..ers 

 

[Mirko Rosenau]

5 hours ago, Wilm Ihlenfeld said:

Hello, Mirko,

i just tried this and can't find your image - screenshot attached.

Morning Wilm,

I hope you are well! I just checked and all images are gone now. Still, this is not a good feeling. They where clearly for sale. Shutterstock was very clear to me that when I delete my account there will be no payout to me if I haven't reached the  $35 yet. That means aby of my images that was sole yesterday Shutterstock keeps 100% of the money. That is steeling! Yesterday I sent them an email asking about what is going on. No response, but at least my images are gone now. 

[Tony ALS]

On 8/13/2020 at 10:48 AM, Yuriy Chertok said:

If anyone is thinking sanely, there are two simple steps: stop uploading new content and regularly remove images and videos from your portfolio.

Stopped uploading last month and I'm deleting from my portfolio slowly! All exclusive on Alamy for new content now.

👎 to Shutterstock. 

[Tony ALS]

1 minute ago, Tony ALS said:

Stopped uploading last month and I'm deleting from my portfolio slowly! All exclusive on Alamy for new content now.

👎 to Shutterstock. 

Just replied to a post from Yuriy Chertok and the post and several others disappeared. this is clearly being monitored and periodically cleared out of information like the protest webpage link that was here just now!

[Neo Geometric]

All the same, the admins are silent ... Beautiful design and terrible events.

[Mirko Rosenau]

2 hours ago, Tony ALS said:

Just replied to a post from Yuriy Chertok and the post and several others disappeared. this is clearly being monitored and periodically cleared out of information like the protest webpage link that was here just now!

On Shutterstock's Facebook many contributors started commenting on new posts saying "Pay your contributors fairly!" Shutterstock removed all those comments as well. Plus, I cannot comment the at all anymore. lol

[Steve Boice]

Deactivated my video portfolio a few weeks ago.  It isn't worth my time with these rates.  I don't even know how anyone who works with models could begin to pay for production costs at this point.

[Steve Boice]

3 hours ago, Tony ALS said:

Stopped uploading last month and I'm deleting from my portfolio slowly! All exclusive on Alamy for new content now.

👎 to Shutterstock. 

Same here.

 

[RoJo Images]

8 hours ago, Tony ALS said:

Just replied to a post from Yuriy Chertok and the post and several others disappeared. this is clearly being monitored and periodically cleared out of information like the protest webpage link that was here just now!

They can't take the time to answer any questions but they have time to scan the forums and remove what they don't like.  

 

[Joe Herlong]

I not planning on uploading anything here anymore.  Why should we give them our best images for basically free?  They are getting rich on our backs, but they are biting the hand that feeds them.  I'm averaging a little over $2.00 per sale on Adobe.  I would have to sell 20 to 1 to make the same money here.  Several other sites pay 50% from the start and I will be looking to expand where I post.

[txking]

So why are you taking more money from us when the service goes down?
 

I'm still waiting 4 months for an answer to a question where support said they had to send it back to review.

 

Where is this extra money that I'm paying shutterstock going? It's not going to support, it's not going to improve sales, it's not going any place that seems to be assisting me. why do I need to pay more for getting less?

again 4 months without any response from support regarding issues with images. And sadly this is not the first time either.

[David Bostock]

For months I have had my Image and Footage sales set to the No option in Licensing Options on my account.

However for some reason a few days ago they sold 2 of my videos for 58c each! how does that happen when I have No selected for both options in Licensing for Footage? 58c is a rip off!

[Wilm Ihlenfeld]

4 hours ago, txking said:

I'm still waiting 4 months for an answer to a question where support said they had to send it back to review.

I am still waiting for the announced answer from support on how exactly the downloads of our files for the Microsoft-Ads deal will be compensated. And my feeling tells me that I will never get an answer to that.

[Roman Malanchuk]

Just some thoughts and calculations.

I'm not pretend to be correct on 100% and I understand that there are unique images and there are a lot of images which can be replaced and purchased from portfolios which weren't disabled.

On summer 2019 I earned for about $300 each month on shutterstock, this spring this numbers decreased to $100 - $200.

My portfolio is disabled so I lost during this summer for about $100 - $300 each month.

It means Shutterstok lost for about $250 - $750 from my port only (7500+ images). I use previous payment system for calculations (0.38c)

There were 326M images on June 1 and there are 330M images on SS now.

As it passed 11 weeks since June 1 there should be for about 337M (326M + 1M per week).

For about 7M images were disabled during summer (it is 1000 such portfolios as mine). I read somewhere about 10M.

So SS could lost from $250 000 to $750 000 each month due to disabled portfolios. Again it could be true only if 7M disabled images are unique.

Has CEO of SS calculated their lost caused by new payment system?

[Nick Doronin]

I'm just waiting to get minimum, required for payout, to say goodby Shutterstock, There are others who will pay me more.

[Ian Tragen]

 😄 

I'd like to share some positive news to lighten up this sad thread. Since I removed my porfolios from SS, my sales are UP on almost every other channel. Unless this is pure coincidence it proves that:

1. savvy buyers will look further afield to find the images they want; and
2. my work isn't worth less than it used to be.

🙃

[Nelstill]

This is an abusive mode to pay contributors. It is not correct. In the last few months, I received a $ 0.33 cents on a 4K video. Which seems like an abusive way to use our work, and get paid the way they want us to. I WANT TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT FROM SHUTTERSTOCK!!!

See the payment from the screen capture!

HOW CAN I DELETE MY ACCOUNT?

[Elaine Davis]

Not worth it anymore.  10 cents a picture

[jjmillan]

On 16/8/2020 at 11:40, Roman Malanchuk said:

Solo algunos pensamientos y cálculos.

No pretendo estar en lo cierto al 100% y entiendo que hay imágenes únicas y hay muchas imágenes que se pueden reemplazar y comprar en portafolios que no estaban deshabilitados.

En el verano de 2019 gané alrededor de $ 300 cada mes en Shutterstock, esta primavera este número disminuyó a $ 100 - $ 200.

Mi cartera está inhabilitada, así que perdí durante este verano entre $ 100 y $ 300 cada mes.

Significa que Shutterstok perdió por alrededor de $ 250 - $ 750 solo desde mi puerto (más de 7500 imágenes). Utilizo el sistema de pago anterior para los cálculos (0.38c)

Había 326 millones de imágenes el 1 de junio y ahora hay 330 millones en SS.

Como pasaron 11 semanas desde el 1 de junio, debería haber alrededor de 337M (326M + 1M por semana).

Aproximadamente 7 millones de imágenes se desactivaron durante el verano (son 1000 carteras como la mía). Leí en algún lugar sobre 10M.

Entonces, SS podría perder de $ 250 000 a $ 750 000 cada mes debido a carteras discapacitadas. Nuevamente, podría ser cierto solo si las imágenes deshabilitadas de 7M son únicas.

¿El CEO de SS ha calculado sus pérdidas causadas por el nuevo sistema de pago?

El dinero que pierden con nuestras fotos retiradas lo recuperan con el pago de 0,10$ 

[Tony Dunn]

4 minutes ago, jjmillan said:

El dinero que pierden con nuestras fotos retiradas lo recuperan con el pago de 0,10$ 

via google translate

Just some thoughts and calculations.

I don't pretend to be 100% correct and I understand that there are unique images and there are many images that can be replaced and purchased in portfolios that were not disabled.

In the summer of 2019 I made around $ 300 every month on Shutterstock, this spring this number dropped to $ 100 - $ 200.

My wallet is disabled, so I lost between $ 100 and $ 300 each month this summer.

It means that Shutterstok lost by around $ 250- $ 750 from my port alone (over 7500 images). I use the previous payment system for the calculations (0.38c)

There were 326 million images on June 1 and now there are 330 million in SS.

As 11 weeks have passed since June 1, there should be around 337M (326M + 1M per week).

Approximately 7 million images were deactivated during the summer (that's 1000 wallets like mine). I read somewhere about 10M.

So, SS could lose $ 250,000 to $ 750,000 each month due to disabled wallets. Again, it could be true only if the 7M disabled images are unique.

Has the CEO of SS calculated his losses caused by the new payment system?