Michael Warwick Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I saw an ad on MSNBC the other day for SS. I guess with all the new earnings or reduced expenses, SS can now advertise on TV. And they were offering 10 free images with a new subscription. SS...the new March of Dimes. Maybe we can deduct our 10 cent earnings as charitable donation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jjmillan Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Se encuentran disponibles 296.880.140 fotos Los fines de semana baja el numero de fotos Link to post Share on other sites
Neo Geometric Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 https://creativemarket.com/ PRODUCTS SOLD 13 Balance$153.60 17 set https://www.shutterstock.com/ PRODUCTS SOLD 750 Balance$263.29 623 images ☝️☝️☝️ And in January 2021 there will be even bigger losses on shatterstock🤷♂️ 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Neo Geometric said: And in January 2021 there will be even bigger losses on shatterstock🤷♂️ Nearly there😝 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I don't need a first of January. Level 5 hardly brings in anything even now. ☹️ 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ints Vikmanis Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 54 minutes ago, Wilm Ihlenfeld said: I don't need a first of January. Level 5 hardly brings in anything even now. ☹️ I don't see any reasons to sell here. Here are my latest sales at Adobe. I some time ago turned sales back at SS. But it was so depressing that I quickly turned them off. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 35 minutes ago, Ints Vikmanis said: I don't see any reasons to sell here. Here are my latest sales at Adobe. I some time ago turned sales back at SS. But it was so depressing that I quickly turned them off. December is always bad for me anyway. That applies to all agencies. Also for AS. But there I've taken in more than twice as much in December so far. And that's despite the fact that I haven't sold any special licences worth mentioning there. Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 The 1st of January is tomorrow! Can't wait!!!!!!😅 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 50 minutes ago, ribeiroantonio said: The 1st of January is tomorrow! Can't wait!!!!!!😅 Not where I am 🤪 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tony ALS Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 13 hours ago, Tony ALS said: Not where I am 🤪 11 hours to go where I am from now🙄 1 Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Tony ALS said: 11 hours to go where I am from now🙄 I predict they will "flip the switch" and when the ball drops in Times Square, so will our commission. 11 hours 3 Link to post Share on other sites
SaliVit Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Happy New Year! From January 1! With 1 level! 5 Link to post Share on other sites
alexeyart1 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I congratulate you on the upcoming New Year 2021. I wish you all the best, happiness, good health, creative will to create, inspiration, all the best and brightest! Peace be with you! Merry Christmas ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Rudy Matchinga Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Not my image, but I think this contributor, Ron and Joe, is brilliant. "Low Man on the Totem Pole" sums up January 1st. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
crbellette Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 i feel that the SS to contributor relationship is now one of exploitation and no longer collaboration 11 Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome to the day where we all are equal and a ZERO. Good luck. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
rukawajung Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Our level convert to staff Bonus. Happy new year for you only. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Philip Armitage Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 shame on shutterstock, hope you feel great about it for a short time. Lets hope Karma doesn't bite you too hard 7 Link to post Share on other sites
crbellette Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 SS have become the 21st century robber barons 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Matvii Mosiahin Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 😅 $0,26 for the footage sale, LEVEL 1, yahoooooo 🤣 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I just received my first sale of the year. It was one for 10 cents. And I can't distinguish these level 1 - 10 cents from the level 5 - 10 cents. They look identical. In the last weeks I had masses of 10 Cents subs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 For @Reimar and anyone else who doesn't want to search through 262 pages. This is estimated based on what the advertised prices are for buyers. As an example, I got my last DL of 2020 and it was 67¢ there is nothing like that on the calculations. Someone might have purchased a discounted pack. But I got 30% of whatever that was, and the number is = 67¢ Pretty simple? The other part is, the minimum is 10¢ because 30% of what someone pays for a 750 image pack, would be less than that. I still don't know how people can't understand a minimum, which is over our actual earned percentage. The 2-10 and 50 packs we get the percentage for our level. Pretty simple? EL and Singles are not included, because there's no way to know the base prices someone might pay. All I know is, I get a percentage of that number, based on my level. Link to post Share on other sites
Reimar Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Thanks Pete. Helpful to have it here. Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 1 hour ago, Reimar said: Thanks Pete. Helpful to have it here. For entertainment purposes only, not official. 😉 Oh about the colors. I did that to show where I would get 10c the pink/salmon, and yellow is lower than what anyone at minimum, 25c, received before the change. People should be able to see what the buyers are paying for each image, which is why the new commission structure was probably created. The reset? That could have been on a annual basis, or every 6 months and still rewarded people who add new and better selling images. This whole, everyone starts on the bottom, every year, is a bit drastic. But here we are and off we go into the New Year. Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Andreas Prott Posted January 1 Popular Post Share Posted January 1 An open letter: Dear Shutterstock, years ago you implemented large volume subscription plans for low per image costs. I assume that you thought at that time that it makes sense since not all slots will be used anyways. It seems that you now know that this was a complete fail. You had killed the microstock market and needed to make the contributors pay for your failure by paying them only a fraction on sub sales. So on May 25th you announced a one-sided change of our royalties which was packaged as a motivation to earn more by submitting more images. In fact the opposite happened. I immediately stopped uploading images because of the pay cut which hasn't any added benefit for the contributors - you just grab more of the contributors money. Up to today I didn't deactivate my images and videos but did some statistics for a well informed decision. Here is the truth about seven months under the new payment scheme: I was on level 4 as a photographer and on level 1 as a videographer on June 1st - so I should have been well off since I was coming from old level 2 because I started late at shutter and didn't earn high lifetime earnings until May 2020. Nevertheless my earnings new scheme vs old scheme dropped by 9.9% in total since then (comparison of real world downloads under both payment schemes - so not comparing different years with different numbers of DLs or RPD). On January 1st you reset my level to 1 again. So I will temporarily earn even less. My projection based on the statistics gathered is an overall loss over the whole year 2021 of 18.1%. Microstock might be a pure numbers game for you - for us it is not, our day has only 24 hours. Did you ever think about whether the companies with the large volume subscription plans would be able to pay at least 1$ per image or more? The buyers total cost of searching and processing the images is much higher than the image license itself. So your large volume low price subscription plans are hurting your suppliers and don't really provide relevant additional value for your customers. If the customer doesn't use all the image slots you even cash in the difference - so it is even better for you if customers choose a larger plan because the number of unused slots which earn you 100% is higher. I have decided to not support your greedy new earnings scheme and will continue not to provide you with new fresh content. In the long run you will be getting what you pay for. I don't think you will reverse your decision but ask you to think about how your suppliers can make a living of their work. How about scrapping the large volume subscription plans or charge at least 1$ per image? How about giving an opt out option for subscription sales (or large volume sub plans which pay less than 0,33$ to the supplier)? My new content submitted to other agencies since May 25th is performing so well, that in the meantime my earnings on Shutterstock are only a fraction of the others. That is money you could also have made if you wouldn't have put off your supplier - 65% or 70% of something is much better than 85% of nothing. You might argue that buyers will buy other images on your site instead but in the long run the drain of fresh content will backfire. You not only have shareholders but also stakeholders like your suppliers - think about it! Best regards, Andreas PS: BTW you even make us pay for customers paying beforehands or with monthly billing. They pay less - you work with the money upfront - we get less peanuts without any added value for us! 26 Link to post Share on other sites
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