Shutterstock was vastly superior a few years ago (months on the x axis), then Fotolia/Adobe caught up and on some months even surpassed SS. Then they traded blows, but SS stayed on top. As for this February, SS earned 20% more, but that means little because shutterstock calculates the withholding tax when payout is due (and it's 30% for my dumb country without a treaty) and fotolia calculates the deduction immediately. So they might have earned the same so far.

I don't care either way because I added around 20k files just to keep my earnings at roughly the same level (with a downward trend) as a few years back

For me it's better SS because I sell mostly editorial I wish AS allow that

Quote from: davidbautista on February 08, 2019, 23:05

For me it's better SS because I sell mostly editorial I wish AS allow that

Agreed, hopefully they will soon!

I know they are going to allow newsworthy pictures soon(?) but I'm talking more about pictures without releases or with visible trademarks brands and that... (not necessarily newsworthy or photojournalism)

I agree!

AdobeStock has improved a lot, indeed! Their raise to $0.38/sub was an important factor, but not the only one.
The only thing I regret is that the raise made my promotion to emerald obsolete, lol! But who cares!

For me too, they are surprisingly ahead of SS this month (even by some margin)

I often find adobe starts the month better but Shutterstock have always overtaken them by the month end its happening this month so far. Its been close but not yet beaten SS the gap is narrowing though.