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Shutterstock Milestones
Uncle Pete:
Instead of a number, I'm starting over with just the general subject.
Shutterstock Milestones:
September 21, 2006 - Shutterstock surpasses one million stock photos
February 20, 2009 -Shutterstock reaches 6 million photos, (5 million 2.5 years)
February 14, 2010 - Shutterstock reaches 10 million Photos (4 million 12 months)
June 19, 2012 - Shutterstock reaches 20 million stock Images (10 Million 28 months)
October 30, 2013 - Shutterstock reaches 30 million images (10 million 15 months)
August 4, 2014 - Shutterstock celebrates 40 million images in it's collection. (10 million 10 months)
December 31, 2014 - 46.8 million images in the collection. (1 million new files per month)
March 3, 2015 - 50 Million Image mark is reached (10 million in 7 months for those watching)
August 12, 2015 - 60 Million Images (10 million in 160 days. 62,500 new files a day)
December 15, 2015 - 70 Million Images (four months)
March 26, 2016 - 80 Million
June 16, 2016 - 90 Million (10 million under three months)
Sept 8, 2016 - 100 Million
February 2017 - 110 Million
October 28, 2017 – 160 Million
December 29, 2017 - 170 Million (10 million new two months)
April 16, 2018 - 190 Million (20 million new in 3.5 months)
June 10, 2018 - 200 Million (10 million new in 55 days)
No longer tracking the following.
SS Members by registration year rounded
2004 - 2000
2005 - 4300
2006 - 3900 = 9000
2007 - 3800 = 13,000
2008 - 5500 = 19,000
2009 - 7200 = 27,000
2010 - 6000 = 33,000
2011 - 6000 = 39,000
2012 - 10000 = 49,000
2013 - 11000 = 60,000
2014 - 14000 = 74,000
2015 - 26000 = 100,000
2016 - 64000 = 165,000
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Year Cont YR < 0 Img Cont % < 0 Cont T < 0 Cont % < 0
2004 1,950 1,030 52.82% 1,950 1,030 52.82%
2005 15,426 4,725 30.63% 17,376 5,755 33.12%
2006 26,349 3,676 13.95% 43,725 9,431 21.57%
2007 36,631 3,939 10.75% 80,356 13,370 16.64%
2008 48,267 5,767 11.95% 128,623 19,137 14.88%
2009 70,125 7,866 11.22% 198,748 27,003 13.59%
2010 58,454 6,324 10.82% 257,202 33,327 12.96%
2011 66,479 6,026 9.06% 323,681 39,353 12.16%
2012 154,082 9,661 6.27% 477,763 49,014 10.26%
2013 205,951 10,990 5.34% 683,714 60,004 8.78%
2014 228,906 14,050 6.14% 912,620 74,053 8.11%
2015 343,461 26,455 7.7% 1,256,081 100,508 8.00%
2016 422,950 64,440 15.24% 1,679,031 164,949 9.82%
I'm not sure the number of contributors makes a difference any longer. The number is so large, people come and go. I'll try to stick with images from now on.
Uncle Pete:
It took SS about six years to have the first ten million uploaded files. That was about 2006 to 2012, right about the same date that some people noticed sales and income dropping.
Now that same number of new images takes 55 days. Ten Million new competing images every two months. And some wonder why sales and earnings are down. ???
qunamax:
What about the demand? "News" websites have gone up a lot in recent years and article lifetime has gone down a lot. For instance.
derek:
Jeez!!! unbelievable and some people wonder why sales are down. No wonder! you can sit there and upload buckets and buckets of files without even an 0.38 sale!!..just one big slope to nothing.
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: qunamax on June 15, 2018, 12:32 ---What about the demand? "News" websites have gone up a lot in recent years and article lifetime has gone down a lot. For instance.
--- End quote ---
Partly true but you only need to look at SS's published figures to see overall supply has increased vastly more than supply.
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