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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Sadstock on April 09, 2013, 14:39
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-contributor-payouts-surpass-150-170000568.html (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-contributor-payouts-surpass-150-170000568.html)
This does not seem like all that much in 10 years. I recall at one point Istock claimed it was paying $1.7 million a week (though I’m sure those days are long gone).
Also apparently Turkey is the hot new market
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/shutterstock-fills-companies-visual-needs-oringer-CppxVYZNQKqH~b~6KOQy0g.html?cmpid=yhoo (http://www.bloomberg.com/video/shutterstock-fills-companies-visual-needs-oringer-CppxVYZNQKqH~b~6KOQy0g.html?cmpid=yhoo)
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SS didn't open up to outside photographers until Nov 2004 so it is really only 8.5 years. Almost half of the total was probably paid out since 2011. From the financial data they've published I think that they are currently paying out about $3M per month.
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Good for them.....However, a number like that does make it painfully clear that I'm at the "peanuts" end of the earnings scale.
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Thats awesome! How many contributors does it have?
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Thats awesome! How many contributors does it have?
Somewhere over 35K?
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In video he says over 40k
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[url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-contributor-payouts-surpass-150-170000568.html[/url] ([url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-contributor-payouts-surpass-150-170000568.html[/url])
This does not seem like all that much in 10 years. I recall at one point Istock claimed it was paying $1.7 million a week (though I’m sure those days are long gone).
Also apparently Turkey is the hot new market
[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/video/shutterstock-fills-companies-visual-needs-oringer-CppxVYZNQKqH~b~6KOQy0g.html?cmpid=yhoo[/url] ([url]http://www.bloomberg.com/video/shutterstock-fills-companies-visual-needs-oringer-CppxVYZNQKqH~b~6KOQy0g.html?cmpid=yhoo[/url])
Yesterdays news.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129686 (http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129686)
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In video he says over 40k
I think that they are currently paying out about $3M per month.
So average payout is less that 75$ a month.
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The World loves Winners! ;) ;)
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The new investors are probably reading about this milestone and thinking "this has to stop. We need to start diverting some of this money from photographers' pockets to MY pockets.".
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If they do, we take our business elsewhere...never underestimate the power of online communities...much better to keep a good balance that allows everyone to win...
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Good! I am Turkish and living in Istanbul. Hope I can do something good for Shutterstock and also for me.
Because I really love this company... I can sell sooo many images here... My personal thought: SS is the best of all...
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-celebrates-25-million-images-171600234.html (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shutterstock-celebrates-25-million-images-171600234.html)
SS has passed 25 million images and 300 million downloads.