MicrostockGroup

I received that email as well, and was pretty pi$$ed off to see that they plan to give "higher positions in search results" to large contributors! Anyone else?

Don't forget preferential review time, as well. VIP status gets you faster image inspections.

Pretty ballsy for a new company to be trying to push down people they see as part-timers or hobbyists. Especially when there are so many great pros in this business with what DP would probably consider small portfolios.

I think that it is more about quality than size.

They're a shady company. Been so since the beginning. It's no surprise that they would be making promises they can't keep, or perhaps never had any intention of keeping.

"...All photographers with large and high-quality portfolios automatically get VIP author status at Depositphotos, including top priority with image inspectors and higher positions in the site search results. .."

That's a pretty bad PR move - it looks more like an all-in bluff than else . I'll refrain from further uploading for now

0.25 cents per subscription download. -which is rubbish.

This month-to-date I have 24 subscription downloads ($6.56) this includes x1 one on-demand download at the slightly higher rate of $0.81.

Last month 37 downloads for a total $9.25. Wow I can just about buy a couple of beers!

Just joined them!  Istock-Diamond- status, Getty-RM contributor and big! portfolio, whatever this is worth?  I certainly havent received any prefferential treatment. So if they are trying to recruit ?  theyre going the wrong way about it.

Anyhow, like their site, nothing wrong.

Shutterstock Payment Tables
Here it shows the full description and breakdown of payments for all types of image purchases.

Still hard to fathom that even with an excess of $10,000 lifetime earnings that on a 25-a day subscription you would still only earn $0.38 cents per download - only $0.13 cents more than someone with less that $500 lifetime earnings.

Here's the link:

http://submit.shutterstock.com/earnings_schedule.mhtml

I have a total of 319 images on Shutterstock. I haven't uploaded to them but maybe a few in over a year. I make pay out every two sometimes three months with my port just sitting there. I average about $30.00 a month, sometimes more. That's more than I make at any of the other stock sites. There are some on here that make payout on a monthly basis and many make more on there than they do on iStock with the large portfolio's.

My attention has since turned to more marketable avenues where I make a lot more money. Microstock doesn't really interest me any more and I'll just let my ports sit there and earn what they will. I'll probably upload some every now and then but they are no longer my top priority.

No, No,  the big boys arent getting anything. I can assure you

That's the nature of Shutterstock's subscription plans.  Small revenue for each sale, but a lot of sales.  And buyers on subscription download a lot more than individual image buyers.  I've seen a lot of downloads of related images, which either means the buyer figured he or she would decide which one to use later, or they just liked something about the series and used their unused download quota to get them.  Either way I win.  And between subscription downloads and individual sales, I make a lot more on Shutterstock than on any other agency.

Well, disregard the above....it appears they must be reading here because they changed the rejection to approved...had to be an error on the reviewers side....anyway, thanks DP....jp