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Title: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Artist on January 06, 2016, 08:10
If I earn $1000 then how much will these microstock agencies make profit?

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Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on January 06, 2016, 08:11
There's no way to know.  Too many variables.  Except Pond5 - they'd get $1000.
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on January 06, 2016, 10:28
You can see the gross agency cut just by looking at the royalties they pay us, but profit (meaning what they earn after their costs are deducted) is something you can only see for a public company - Shutterstock is the only one right now. They have links to their financial filings on their investor pages

http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-irhome (http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-irhome)
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Artist on January 06, 2016, 11:03
Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 06, 2016, 10:28
You can see the gross agency cut just by looking at the royalties they pay us, but profit (meaning what they earn after their costs are deducted) is something you can only see for a public company - Shutterstock is the only one right now. They have links to their financial filings on their investor pages

[url]http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-irhome[/url] ([url]http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-irhome[/url])

ok, its earn not profit.. my mistake.
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on January 06, 2016, 11:41
It's still a complicated question - distribution deals often mean there are multiple parties involved, each taking a cut. At Alamy, you get 50% of a sale Alamy makes but if it's a distribution sale , you get 30% (the distributor gets 40%, Alamy get's 30% and you get 30%).

With Shutterstock, the answer is different for subscription sales from OD, SOD and ELs, and for several categories there are different buyer price levels even though the payouts to the contributor don't vary (ELs as one example)

Why do you want to know this? If the details matter, it's really complicated. If they don't, what's the point?
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: Pauws99 on January 06, 2016, 15:31
Why do you care?
Why do you think anyone would bother to work it out for you?
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: PixelBytes on January 06, 2016, 16:01
If you really want to know, pull out your calculator and figure it out using your last 1k.  Too much trouble?  Yeah, for me too.
Title: Re: If I earn $1000, how much will agencies earn?
Post by: MxR on January 07, 2016, 03:26
Imposible calculate without concrete numbersin subs sites