For me they are bad since the beginning of the year� really bad

Big rise for me this month. First half of January was bad, but then it starts to grow and it didn't stop yet fortunately.

Sudden decrease by about 30%-40% since December. Shutterstock has obviously changed something. In my opinion it's the 'same artist' display. Used to be that a customer was able to view similar images by the same artist, now only your most popular images get displayed, often irrelevant to the customer search.
I'm in the USA and I find after 4:00 (16:00) sales practically stop for the rest of the day. Awful.

Sudden decrease by about 30%-40% since December. Shutterstock has obviously changed something. In my opinion it's the 'same artist' display. Used to be that a customer was able to view similar images by the same artist, now only your most popular images get displayed, often irrelevant to the customer search.
I'm in the USA and I find after 4:00 (16:00) sales practically stop for the rest of the day. Awful.

wrong post.

Spot on! in Europe its the reverse. Could also be losing droves of buyers. Seriously though with 120 million files who wants to sit there looking for a picture.

Uploading new files is also a complete waste. Uploaded 20 studio concepts involving people and everything they were all accepted within hours but they are nowhere to be seen just gone. That was a week back.
Until they have completely changed that was my last upload. No more.

Sadly with their silly search experiments they've managed to  annihilate Bigstock as well.

Constant decrease from October 2016 to Mid-february.
This week, downloads and revenues are back.
🤞

Yep my decrease was from december, this week is back to normal.

same money each month from two years now...vs a lot of uploads = not so good

Quote from: derek on February 15, 2017, 03:13

Spot on! in Europe its the reverse. Could also be losing droves of buyers. Seriously though with 120 million files who wants to sit there looking for a picture.

Uploading new files is also a complete waste. Uploaded 20 studio concepts involving people and everything they were all accepted within hours but they are nowhere to be seen just gone. That was a week back.
Until they have completely changed that was my last upload. No more.

Sadly with their silly search experiments they've managed to  annihilate Bigstock as well.

Why don't you quit, if the situation looks too bad to you?
1 less competitor.

Hasn't he/she said they have? But then again I've heard this line for 6 years and people still seem to be hanging round.

Quote from: Artist on February 16, 2017, 06:55

Quote from: derek on February 15, 2017, 03:13

Spot on! in Europe its the reverse. Could also be losing droves of buyers. Seriously though with 120 million files who wants to sit there looking for a picture.

Uploading new files is also a complete waste. Uploaded 20 studio concepts involving people and everything they were all accepted within hours but they are nowhere to be seen just gone. That was a week back.
Until they have completely changed that was my last upload. No more.

Sadly with their silly search experiments they've managed to  annihilate Bigstock as well.

Why don't you quit, if the situation looks too bad to you?
1 less competitor.

Hasn't he/she said they have? But then again I've heard this line for 6 years and people still seem to be hanging round.

haha! youre right actually! but sometimes a bit of moaning will help. ita as if the Gods listen sending some fat juicy sales.

I was selling some photos in January when I started, now I earn around 100% less in February. Almost no downloads and only the new pics get sold...
I quit uploading new pics, there is no point to continue.

Maybe 5 weeks experience is a little premature 

- SS I passed January already - which wasn't fab yet wasn't terrible
- FT - WTH is going on?  My daily ranking has slid by about 7000 so it is presumably just me.
- The surprise showing this year is DT.  Not back to the good old days, but Jan was as good as best month last year, and Feb has just passed Jan.

When microstock companies make changes either to search functions or to the Dashboard, you have to figure it is to help the customer and not the contributors. Whose complaints carry more weight - those who make you money or those who cost you money?