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This is an astonishingly high number. I remember being with fairly good agents that had collections of less than 100,000 images. And here we are seeing that many added in a week.

Glad I could help, 7 are mine. 

And 11 are mine. Yikes! I didn't realize that I was contributing to the downfall of an industry.   

110 here .. I'm sorry gang I just couldn't say no. If it makes anyone feel any better I got slapped on the hand for attaching the wrong model release to 39 of them.   

-280 ...I goes exclusive with IS. Oh well, who cares 

I think the marketing hook is what it's all about, both in total size of library and new images per week  __ otherwise why go to the considerable expense of reviewing, bandwidth and storage? I guess Jon is just letting it run unrestricted and seeing what happens.

If an image is unpopular it quickly disappears into the depths where it will only ever be seen again if it occupies a niche so I don't see 'too many images' actually becoming a problem. Everything about SS is so simple and uncluttered and yet it works so well for both buyers and contributors. If you're a designer it must be an incredible resource to have access to for such a small amount of money.

Anybody else finding it a real struggle for their new images to get noticed though? I've uploaded about 80 so far this month, with several that I had high hopes for, but it seems like they're all just disappearing into the ether! I get the impression that there may not be as many long-term subscribers nowadays (who I assume would have trawled for the new images) but mainly short-term subscribers who just hoover up the popular stuff that already been sorted for them.

Unsustainable business practices

This might explain why my sales the last week have been absolutely dismal there.  Seems like all of us that are uploading moderate amounts are just having our images swept away in the flood of others.

This reduced sales volume coupled with apparently the second year in a row without a raise is doing nothing to keep me interested in continuing to submit there. 

I think Ichiro is right.  This is unsustainable in the long term. 

Poor people think their going to become millionaires over night then when nothing happens there pictures just sit there gathering lots of dust with no sales.

To be honest it's not all that different to Istock's weekly image intake, especially considering that SS is a high volume, low cost business model. There are currently 66K new images sitting in Istock's in-tray, most of which will be inspected within the week, and exclusive images much faster. IS must be adding new content at something like 50k per week.

I'm glad people still find my images although I didn't upload in a while.

I didn't mean to say this was an issue limited to SS...