Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on April 02, 2023, 16:34

Wow.  March was the worst month on Shutterstock since the very first month I started, Jan 2014.

So I don�t have to feel bad they kicked me out�

They are dropping for many people. Perhaps keeping a forum, positively interacting with producers and sensible royalties would have been better for their business.

Which producer is going to recommend clients to them?

But I am sure somebody brilliant will have the perfect solution�cut the royalties even more. 5 cents instead of 10 cents. Or 1 cent??

I suspect the next exciting news will be some sort of less than transparent revenue share scheme where SS gets more and we get less.

Was a dismal April across the sites, except I/S.

April 2023 was actually not so bad at Adobe (I don't use Shutterstock anymore) on numbers alone, but due to the 10% royalty cut (Euro -> Dollar) only rather weak.

Good month for me.
Second best May behind May 22 and the best month of this year.
Adobe was #1, slightly better than SS.

Quote from: Zero Talent on June 01, 2023, 08:58

Good month for me.
Second best May behind May 22 and the best month of this year.
Adobe was #1, slightly better than SS.

Look like Your DT+DP=P5

I don't make videos,I have a few including some animations,but I stopped in this branch because in my opinion it takes too much time to create videos that sell,and given the royalties that go around today for videos,I think still content works best for me.

However I don't know how to create more than 10 contents a day for years,I will never be able to do such a thing,if anyone knows this secret please tell me!

interesting thanks.

I create much less than this. I can only work 1 or 2 days on the weekends. An item requires 30 minutes (or more) of post-processing minutes for me.
In 2022, I barely uploaded the minimum Adobe required for the free all-apps subscription.
This year, I somehow managed to upload about 100 assets (video+photos)
My total port is under 2k assets (photos + videos).

SS revenues are slowly declining.
AS revenues are slowly increasing.
June AS payout will be almost the same as SS payout. This is unprecedented so far.
There used to be months when SS had ten times the revenue of AS, most of the time SS revenue was three times that of AS.

Pond5 gave me a nice surprise in April. My Exclusive account received extra payments :
Partner Earnings and Dataset Earnings.
Strangely, my non-exclusive account did not receive such payments.

Look like yours April 2023 was better than October,July and August 2022,this last month not really good maybe,but you had a very good December and January.

For me December and January are often slow months.
This year on SS so far every month has been better than 2022

I actually had my best June to date as shown in the attached monthly comparison chart. Included in the earnings is the Adobe Free Collection but represents less than 4% of the overall earnings for the month.

June was my best month of 2023 to date and best month since November 2022. The better overall earnings is due to all four main agencies (iStock / Shutterstock / Pond5 / Adobe Stock) performing well and significant growth of the video ports especially since relocating back to Sydney in November 2021 where I have access to much more places to capture content.   

^^ excellent month, Steve!

Here's my monthly report, a decent month for me with among other sales, a book cover.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/06/30/june-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report-a-strong-overall-month-finally/

So July 2023 was my second-best performing month of the year and second month where I feel I achieved a satisfactory monthly earnings result.
 
Only thing is, unlike June where all agencies performed strong, July it was Shutterstock the only agency that did well while the other three (Pond5, iStock, Adobe Stock) didn't. It's not good because if the only one performing agency has a poor month then it impacts the overall result significantly.

Shutterstock accounted for 60% of the overall earnings in July 2023. This was due to video sales performing strong while other agencies cannot seem to deliver on video as well as Shutterstock does. Still images is another story altogether where Adobe Stock typically performs best.       

an average month on SS,an excellent month on AS thanks to the best sale of this year for images,and a splendid video sale,BME on Depositphotos that this month has surpassed my remote imagination.

a powerful month,keep it up!

Here's a link to my monthly report. Alamy were super impressive this month...ever since I called them a microstock agency a few months ago they have been doing well for me lol

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/08/31/august-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

For me it was better than July.

Adobe Stock continues to show really strong growth in monthly $$ - up 22% on August 2022 which was itself up 10% over 2021. For a summer month, it's really good (better than any of the months in 2022 except Nov & Dec). I have zero AI content.

If you look at download growth August 23 it's up 40% over 2022 and that was up 23% over 2021. In other words higher volume growth than income growth. I continue to track subscription versus custom downloads as well as the occasional sub-38� download (just one at 33� in August) so the good news is that the RPD is largely stable over the last couple of months (although down from earlier years).

I stopped uploading to Adobe Stock in June because inspections had become so unpredictable I didn't want to deal with the frustrations.

iStock did reasonably well in July (I'll know August next month) - I decided in June and early July to upload a big chunk of my portfolio there (I had removed all but 100 images I can't license anywhere else in 2013 over the Getty-Google deal). I have just shy of 1800 images there. Sales volume is a small fraction of that at Adobe Stock, but in spite of a few of the sub-10� royalties the overall RPD was 63�. The highest royalty (my share) was $21.60 and the lowest 2�

Dreamstime continues to bump along with a very slim volume of sales - mostly 35� subscriptions, but one $7.90 credit sale. They don't do anything anti-contributor, so for now they can stay.

Pond5 photo sales are sad - nothing at all in August.