I'm sorry to see them go. Not many sales but they paid more for sales than the others I'm on

Where does it say they are shutting down? Or are they just being 'sold off'?

They sent an email to contributors saying that the are shutting down on Oct 1. The market has changed such that they can no longer stay afloat.

Can Stock Photo to Cease Operations

Unfortunately, due to a changing business landscape, Can Stock Photo will cease operations on October 1, 2023.

After nearly 20 years in business we have been forced to make this very difficult decision and would like to thank our many thousands of talented contributors and customers for making it possible. The industry has changed significantly over this time, with CanStock launched in 2004 during the early mass adoption of digital cameras, and before �social media� was even a phrase. Today of course everyone has a capable digital camera in their pocket, and the advent of AI means amazing images can be created for free from programs with just a few keywords. Decreased business and increasing costs has made it no longer possible to keep operating, to our great disappointment.

Accordingly, notice is given that all membership agreements are terminated on October 1, 2023. Downloads and new orders will be disabled on October 1st. Active customer accounts may use their remaining credits and subscriptions up until then.

Credits in accounts that have not been active for one year prior to this notice are cancelled in accordance with the membership agreement, without refund or reimbursement.

Customers with unused credits or unfinished subscriptions purchased by credit card in the last 180 days or by check/wire, can request a prorated refund of $5 USD or more by logging into the site and filing a request here. The deadline to request a refund is on or before September 30, 2023. Please allow up to three weeks for refunds to be issued.

For contributors, to request a final payment, contributors must log on to their �Convert Earnings� page and enter their payment information. Payments of $5 USD or more will be processed for account balances as of October 1st, for eligible accounts, who have submitted a request. Payments may take several months, but we anticipate they will be sent by December 31, 2023. The deadline to submit your payment request is September 30th.

Thank you for everything,

The Can Stock Photo Team
www.canstockphoto.com

Sad to see them go. Just requested payout.

Thank you for the sales.

Wishing them all the best for their next projects.

BTW I guess some customers might be going to spend remaining money by buying images, so we may see an increase in sales

That is an interesting thought. Let�s see what happens. CS was a low earner for me but the RPD was the highest of my 7 agencies.

BTW I guess some customers might be going to spend remaining money by buying images, so we may see an increase in sales

Yes, I hope it'll add some more dolars to my balance before I request payment.

Many more agencies will disappear during the next years, AI will eventually kill them all.

Many more agencies will disappear during the next years, AI will eventually kill them all.

I wonder too many people on here said " AI would be nice and it will help them with our stock business, it just another tool".

Too bad they shut down. Sad to see them go. They were the first agency I joined many years ago and we got along well. Steady sales until last March.
Does anyone know what happens to our portfolio?

here's the screen shot of the pay out page

Today is the last day for withdrawing money from Canstock. Don't forget to do this.

Strangely enough, I got one last video sale today Sept 30th, and managed to cash out 7 whole dollars. 

Bye canstock.