Steven Tritton Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hiya fellow contributors I hope everyone is doing well and celebrating the windfalls from your micro-stock sales and the personal wealth and prosperity it brings you. For my year-to-date sales, what I have done is utilize a powerful arithmetic calculation machine to perform high volume calculations on the sales from each of my stock portfolios. From here, I amalgamated the results of these calculations and performed further mathematical operations to determine the sum total of all sales across my portfolios. The final result of these complex calculation processes are as follows: $0.00 Now before anyone gets too excited, in particular new and novice contributors who may see rivers of pristine gold flowing from the micro-stock industry, I must warn you that this kind of serious income does not come without a commitment to persistent hard work, diligence and dedication coupled with high-level creative expertise and technical skill to produce superior quality digital content. Please feel free to share your results for the month of January as we all look forward to a prosperous year in micro-stock. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I looked it up, Steven. The 1st of January of a year has varied for me from one to 11 downloads since 2011. I have only had one download twice. In 2017 I got $0.38. Let's see what happens this year. So far it looks like the screenshot. However, the first of January is no indication of the impact of the new revenue structure. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Sheila Fitzgerald Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I guess I hit it big then. Still pathetic, but it is a holiday. Link to post Share on other sites
Elliott Cowand Jr Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 One sale .44 cents. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Sari ONeal Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Quote $0.54 Year to date earnings 2 Downloads 98 DLs till next level....... oooooooooooooo Link to post Share on other sites
chyworks Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1st day on 2021 1st day on 2020 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Monika Boncuk Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 No sale, nothing....😂 Link to post Share on other sites
Adam Gladstone Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 For me, it’s been zero downloads so far. But then again my port is on the small side, and I do need to get some shots of the of the Boston area (even if it’s “just for editorial” - they sell too y’know. I know, maybe not as much as commercial, but....) that are under represented on Shutterstock. Plus the usual “getting unique stuff (not just specific to Boston/New England) up that are good commercial photos" Link to post Share on other sites
stevemart Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Seriously distressing! Since June I've had a SOD for $0.60 on this BP meter shot that is 'placeless' but appears near NYC on my map. On one day, I had 25X $0.60 and still get regular $0.60 dls. Today....download from approximately the same spot (unidentified but looks like NYC again) but now I get $0.30. Thinking of deleting it just to p*ss someone off! Will first wait to see whether those $0.60 SODs really have become $0.30 SODs! Client pays the same but I now get 1/6th. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Jan 01, 2021: 0.00 🙁 Jan 02, 2021: $2.76 at AS Jan 03, 2021: 0.00 so far Link to post Share on other sites
Studio 2 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 15 hours ago, stevemart said: Seriously distressing! Since June I've had a SOD for $0.60 on this BP meter shot that is 'placeless' but appears near NYC on my map. On one day, I had 25X $0.60 and still get regular $0.60 dls. Today....download from approximately the same spot (unidentified but looks like NYC again) but now I get $0.30. Thinking of deleting it just to p*ss someone off! Will first wait to see whether those $0.60 SODs really have become $0.30 SODs! Client pays the same but I now get 1/6th. Is that because of your percentage going back down to 15% with the reversion to Level 1? Link to post Share on other sites
Milo J Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 17 hours ago, stevemart said: Seriously distressing! Since June I've had a SOD for $0.60 on this BP meter shot that is 'placeless' but appears near NYC on my map. On one day, I had 25X $0.60 and still get regular $0.60 dls. Today....download from approximately the same spot (unidentified but looks like NYC again) but now I get $0.30. Thinking of deleting it just to p*ss someone off! Will first wait to see whether those $0.60 SODs really have become $0.30 SODs! Client pays the same but I now get 1/6th. No big mystery there, unfortunately. Level 1 pays 15%, which is half of what level 4 pays (I think you were level 4?). So yes, those SOD's will be at $0.30 until you get to the next level. Deleting a well-selling pic won't help you get there, although I totally agree that it is infuriating to see. But we all knew this day was coming. 😞 2 Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 1/1/2021 at 10:50 PM, Sari ONeal said: 98 DLs till next level....... oooooooooooooo Well I feel good, I'm way ahead, only 97 left for me. 😉 Lets see Friday was New Years Day, Saturday is what it is and now it's Sunday. Weekend, holiday and people are all despondent and making up, level 1 rumors, after 2 days? (not you, just overall) Three day vacation on a weekend. Link to post Share on other sites
SL-Photography Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 By the end of sunday, 80 sales more to reach level 2... Definitely more $0,10 than in 2020... Link to post Share on other sites
Sari ONeal Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 4 hours ago, HodagMedia said: Well I feel good, I'm way ahead, only 97 left for me. 😉 Lets see Friday was New Years Day, Saturday is what it is and now it's Sunday. Weekend, holiday and people are all despondent and making up, level 1 rumors, after 2 days? (not you, just overall) Three day vacation on a weekend. Whoah Pete, my post was on FRIDAY....LOL I've knocked some off since Link to post Share on other sites
Dinesh Hukmani Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 6 downloads, all pics for $ 0.88. The new decade starts. Link to post Share on other sites
Droidworker Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 22 sales for 3,28 $ . Such a beautiful new year gift. Link to post Share on other sites
Primus1 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 First download in 2021. Clip. Subs program. $0.50. Previous were from $0.84 to $0.96, subs program. My hope ... as many as possible of subs download and as fast as possible! That's all. Best of luck! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Tritton Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 Had one $0.10 sub overnight and one $10.19 video sale today. Link to post Share on other sites
Primus1 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 6 minutes ago, Steven Tritton said: Had one $0.10 sub overnight and one $10.19 video sale today. Not bad! Clip sale ... 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Wilm Ihlenfeld Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 This is the look of bitter truth. Link to post Share on other sites
HodagMedia Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 9 hours ago, Sari ONeal said: Whoah Pete, my post was on FRIDAY....LOL I've knocked some off since Me too, Monday is a new day. So I'll guess you are ahead of me in our little race to the top. (Unlike the agency side, race to the bottom?) 😁 My comment was in general, some people are all down in the dumps because they didn't have their stock horse take off out of the gate, running, when it's a holiday and a weekend. Like the how's your month so far threads that start on the 7th? I'm happy to wait until the 30th and then start crying and moaning about how terrible things are. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Roman Tiraspolsky Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Six downloads for sixty one cents total. I think I'm close to killing it in 2021. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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