723,027 new images added this week!

[PixelBytes]

Thanks for compiling those numbers.  Explains what has happened to my sales, and also suggests the answer to what was gonna happen when the entry standard drops.  The ones that posted it was short term boost to impress shareholders seems to have nailed it.

[Artist]

Great stats,
This number will grow even more in near future.

[BelieveInStock]

Scary.... 

[60D]

Do you have any stats showing number of sales SS make in a week?

[Justanotherphotographer]

There is something very odd about the number of portfolios with thousands of similars being added at the moment, especially vector icons. I wonder if there are some sort of deals going on with some factories? Could be SS has cut some sort of volume deals with these production houses to boost numbers? I don't know but I feel like my images are still reviewed and I would never get away with uploading that kind of stuff.

[LesPalenik]

134,000 weed images and over 1 million tomatoes as of today

[Benozaur]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can. Seems to work.

[kmlPhoto]

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can. Seems to work.

Smart - That's the only lever we have to pull.

[Karen]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can.

This guy is working hard, adding fresh stuff every single day 

[Artist]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can.

This guy is working hard, adding fresh stuff every single day 

The real hard worker, I have seen in lifetime.. Now I expect number to grow from 700k to 1.4M per week.

[ShadySue]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can.

This guy is working hard, adding fresh stuff every single day 

The real hard worker, I have seen in lifetime.. Now I expect number to grow from 700k to 1.4M per week.

I wish I knew how much he's making.
I'd need to be stuffed full of the weed to keep motivated for what I assume are modest returns. BWDIK? Maybe that's what I should have been doing all along. 

[Nikovsk]

It's spiraling out of control, new images don't get any traction.

[Mantis]

Using Shutterstock's numbers in their IPO if only 60% of images are accepted that means they've reviewed 1.2 million images for that one week in December (723K accepted). That's 62.4 million submitted images per year if I use the 723k number. WOW WOW WOW -

[PeterChigmaroff]

Using Shutterstock's numbers in their IPO if only 60% of images are accepted that means they've reviewed 1.2 million images for that one week in December (723K accepted). That's 62.4 million submitted images per year if I use the 723k number. WOW WOW WOW -

If someone spent 5 seconds on a review that would be 41 man days of review time to throughput that many images.

[aetb]

I can upload 5... 6 images with the same concept, then change it a bit and finally have a collection of about 25 images of a shoot, but none of them have the same title/description or keywords. I can do the same thing with a different model and get 50 photos accepted but what . is that !!!
Who upload 250 images of the same thing isolated on white background !!!!!
who accept it !??!?!?

What I don't understand is that, since many images with same keywords are not good for "google search" and also shutterstock search, well... why is this stupidity is accepted ? If you upload 10000 times the same images with same data, it get lee visibility than 4 or 5 images with similar keywords, but not the same... and description is important too in this case !

They can accept 10 millions images per day, that is still useless.

[stockastic]

I've posted this before, so I'm repeating myself:  these are just meaningless numbers to impress investors. 

They probably think their search code is so sophisticated that buyers will still be able to find what they want no matter how much repetitious junk is in the database.  And remember, these tens of thousands of indistinguishable icons and pot photos aren't coming in through the normal inspection process (that would be impossible), so they might be 'tagged' and indexed in some specical way to keep them out of the usual search results, but still contribute to the total number of images they can claim to have.   
 

[trek]

I think they want to be the first agency with 1 billion images.  That future could arrive sooner than later. 

[Jo Ann Snover]

Do you have any stats showing number of sales SS make in a week?

If you look at their Third Quarter investor presentation, they say they had 38.1 million paid downloads. If you assume that's over 13 weeks, that gives you 2,930,769 downloads a week (average; obviously given weeks can vary a lot from that).

The same presentation says their revenue per download is $2.76 which would mean $8.28m per week for those paid downloads.

[Copidosoma]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can.

This guy is working hard, adding fresh stuff every single day 

The real hard worker, I have seen in lifetime.. Now I expect number to grow from 700k to 1.4M per week.

I wish I knew how much he's making.
I'd need to be stuffed full of the weed to keep motivated for what I assume are modest returns. BWDIK? Maybe that's what I should have been doing all along. 

I'm seriously starting to wonder this too.

[Microstockphoto]

their net margin is 7%, which is far too low, 25% is considered favorable, and their profit has been going down in 2015 compared to 2014, they need to increase their profits so brace yourselves

[Karen]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, remember our friend here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=1256674&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

I try to keep my portfolio fresh and diversify as much as I can.

This guy is working hard, adding fresh stuff every single day 

The real hard worker, I have seen in lifetime.. Now I expect number to grow from 700k to 1.4M per week.

I wish I knew how much he's making.
I'd need to be stuffed full of the weed to keep motivated for what I assume are modest returns. BWDIK? Maybe that's what I should have been doing all along. 

I'm seriously starting to wonder this too.

As of today this hard worker uploaded 39282 images   

[Tror]

I can just say that for me it is still very profitable. Right research, bigger productions,...and the return is there! Don`t know how long it will be stable though....you never know :-)