Quote from: 60D on December 09, 2015, 05:11

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.

Thanks for replying. Those are some really big numbers. Unbelievable!

My income per download is ~$0.55. That's why I stay poor and SS keeps getting rich.

Everybody now started making new pictures, and vectors in christmas theme, before the holyday.

I think he is just being smart making the most of his photos...

Making the most of his photos, absolutely. Being smart, no.

It's like rice, it's good if you are hungry and want 2000 of something.

Quote from: marthamarks on December 09, 2015, 17:40

Quote from: Striving on December 09, 2015, 17:37

His portfolio size is getting HIGHER and HIGHER 

LOL!!! Good one.

This guy must be a dealer !!

funny, i was just thinking the same thing. or more like, hey maybe it's ss new way of advertisement.
you become a contributor with no reviewer couration, and you put the stuff you're dealing.
this way, everyone knows who to contact when they need stuff!!!

 
Let's buy some coke, mess and crack and make it a company expense too !!!

already done - it's called wall street!  and it's crowdfunded

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

1 million 700 tomatoes Now. Thats just Plain STUPID merchandising.Is that supposed to Impress stock Holders.

I like to draw - which is why I finally started to contribute as an illustrator. Somewhat puzzled though at the number of illustrators who produce icons and nothing but icons, for page after page, with very little in the way of originality or style.

I have no idea how buyers manage to wade through all that digital slurry.

Quote from: LesPalenik on December 09, 2015, 06:41

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

1 million 700 tomatoes Now. Thats just Plain STUPID merchandising.Is that supposed to Impress stock Holders.

yes, if their accountant told them at shutterstock there is an stock inventory of
1 mil 700 tomatoes and a lot of marijuana.  that is an impressive amount of inventory

I hadn't looked in a while, but was on the buyer side of the site today and noticed that SS now has 73,202,710 images. Clearly they're not slowing down in accepting new work, although you probably have an edge if you mass produce near identical icons or marijuana overlaid with text photos

I then thought I'd see what the one year growth was, 20 Jan 2015 to 2016 and it was 25,462,924! That's more than the total collection was on 20 Jan 2013 (23,584,487)

Intrigued, I looked at how many images were uploaded in the last month (20 Dec 2015 to 20 Jan 2016) - 2,637,712

Same month last year (20 Dec 2014 to 20 Jan 2015) - 1,321,682

That is an increase of 99% - just about double in other words

Compare the prior year's collection growth (20 Jan 2014 to 2015) and it was 14,949,278, meaning 2015 uploads increased 70% over 2014 uploads

Go back one more year and the numbers are 9,206,021 and 62%

Who knows if the monthly growth Dec to Jan will play out for the whole of 2016, but if it did, the collection on 20 Jan 2017 would be 145,673,393

Given the size of these numbers, it just about has to be factory output in large volume with some odds and ends of more individual stuff tucked away in the nooks and crannies. Possibly a great search will save the buyers from seeing the dreck, but then what really is the point of these numbers?

It has to be to some finance person who knows nothing about buyers or sellers of stock images/illustrations/video/audio...

Just spotted this too...they are taking "work from home reviewers" in dozens...
http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs/listings

Despite Jo Anne's figures above, they are also currently looking for a 'highly engaged image acquisition manager'  "who loves to build partnerships with photographers and/or illustrators and agencies to include their work in our marketplace."
So they still don't think they have enough.

Wont people get bored of uploading if they don't make much money?  I would of thought that would of happened already.

YES. And I'd add UNMOTIVATED, make minimal investment [time-equipment] etc.

Quote from: Karen on December 09, 2015, 07:49

Quote from: Benozaur on December 09, 2015, 06:59

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 

His portfolio size is getting HIGHER and HIGHER 

now just that...
look at the roll of cash he uses...
obviously the portfolio in ss is also his free way of advertising his product on the street 

won't be long you will find others catching on this free web advertisement format