Yeah, but when did agencies ever think about us?
Still, there could be an argument that something is better than nothing.

I don't see how reducing prices on something that's already * cheap can help the situation.

It's desperation.
The clothing companies I've bought from before are constantly bombarding me with heavily-reduced offers, but what on earth do I need new clothes for, at any price? (I don't have to do working video conferences, meetings etc.)

How are your earnings during epidemic? Comparable to last year?

Still a few days to go until the end of the month but down some 40% overall.

iStock for March came in quite good but April should collapse.

How are your earnings during epidemic? Comparable to last year?

Yes, on average better than April 2019 with a few days to spare. March was quite good. Some sites a little bit down, others up to 40% up. The strong dollar helps.

I haven't seen a significant slowdown in any of the months of 2020 (yet). The biggest change has been that items that could be related to the current situation have been selling like crazy. I don't have a lot of those items, however, so they only bring up the average a little bit.

I don't think most people are just sitting on a chair staring into an empty wall after all. People need to be creative, make stuff, work, and those who can do that from home might just buy our stock assets more than ever to compensate for slower buying behavior elsewhere.

Anyway, that is my experience across a wide range of different types of stock assets. As always, diversification is very important. When the pretty travel footage stops selling, the ugly disaster footage takes over.

I think that those of us who have built a steady online income over the years are the lucky ones, and quite honestly, the situation this year meant very little change on my life before that. The worst part was the stock market, but that is recovering well it seems.

I know many are not as lucky, losing their jobs and only income, and I feel for them. Maybe that will happen to us one day too, but I haven't experienced it yet. Always make sure you have several streams of income if you can, and a reasonable financial buffer for a rainy day.

I have always thought that if the sites want to lower prices to be kind or to steal market share or as a jubilee bonus or because it is their birthday or any other reason that is fine, but they need to still pay us our full normal sale amount. Of course they don't seem to see things that way. I guess it is "nice" that if Getty sells at 10$ instead of 100$ I only lose $13.50 and they lose $76.50.

Don't even get me started on the "our customers have been asking for more free images" or all of the premium content to be in the all you can eat super discount section or whatever. I wonder if they raise prices they tell the buyers "our producers have been clamoring for higher payment".

I have had more SOD sales at SS - most are still below $1 or at least below the normal OD amount, but I did get my first one over $10 in I think over a year this month. Sadly now that makes a difference in the monthly total. Without those SOD sales this would be a truly horrible month - like I made more with double digit # of images. The total number of sales is very low.

I run an Astrology channel on Youtube. April month views are higher than any previous months, but the total money earned is lesser. Now, there are lesser number of advertisers than the past on these platforms where the produced content is consumed.

I can't believe you didn't see this coming.