Quote from: Shelma1 on June 17, 2014, 17:35
Slooooow summer.

Same here, on both SS and DT.

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 17, 2014, 17:35
I guess sales must really be down across the site...I just got an email offering 25% off.

Slooooow summer.

Shutterstock is horribly down for me in June. Almost as if I was on the losing end of a best match test. Way more down than summer slump. Record month last month, may be the lowest month in the last 2 years at this rate.

Actually I'm having very good June so far, even if there are a few weekdays with frighteningly low number of downloads.

On track for BME if things hold out. Sales are hopping this week so far.

June is very good, it looks like it will BME.  i did not expect so high volume sales.
Problem is, 99% of sales is last 12 mounth of work, will see if september will be also good.

My sales are dir also - on all sites but especially SS.

Two comments:
yesterday I was on a different computer and searching for cat photo download the first bunch were colourbox!
today it's that wretched D*C that's in the lead....

June looks to be down roughly 60% on the year average to date.  The slide that started quite literally overnight about 5 weeks ago is continuing.

June is better than May, trying to experiment "not to add new photos"

Terrible at the moment. It seems to get worse the more files I get in my portfolio.

Well June is a bust on SS.  Multiple weekdays without a single OD. Today is another one of those days.  I will be hundreds off from last month. I do not attribute that heavy of a loss to summer slump, I attribute it to a best match change. As Scott B has stated many times when they are "experimenting" with an algorithm change it usually only affects a subset of contributors. Something has to be going on where I am part of the quick sand clan.

It's still dire money wise relative to normal but as people have noticed above the main difference im seeing is the reduction in EL, high value SOD and ODDs.

Nearly all my stuff is subscription and the few SODs i do have are small value (lots of *0.36 and $13 being the max).  Not a single EL this month.

Numbers wise it doesn't look too bad but the lack of anything above subscription is making it an absolutely horrendous month for earnings.

   For me it will be third month in a row with decreasing sales. No ELs, small SODs and few ODs. The decreasing curve begun when I reached 0.36 level. I submitted more images like usually in this months, but everithing is going down. Weird and depresing. My numbers are down on all aspects: dlds number, money/month and the weird one, as I passed another level, return/dld. I want to see the contributors that are selling more if it is a shift in search, as here everybody is complaining.

For me sales on almost every site have taken a drop pretty much like what happened last June. What makes it worse is SS coming down hard on submissions. I got one measly sale of .33 cents yesterday. It could be down to Google again.

My sales are bringing me the best month ever, shutterstock getting much better than may but still 25% down from march and april


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4 EL this month and i guess it will be the best month for me from 2010 to the present.

What is an EL ? 

Enhanced License

With a $100 SOD, this month has already become my BME in terms of income. It will also become BME in terms of downloads by the end of the month. 

On the way to become BME, but not by a large margin. So, the summer slowdown hasn't started for me yet.

But I don't have high hopes for July or August.

My last BME at Shutterstock was in March.

On the way to a BME. My las BME on SS was May of 2008

Decent number of sales but crappy RPD... very very few on demand.

Worst june since 2006. I think it would help to include how long you have been active on SS when you post Pls, Also port size.

been with ss since mid 2011 have 2,200 images and up by 50% compared to last year's June...

Quote from: Goofy on June 25, 2014, 19:23
been with ss since mid 2011 have 2,200 images and up by 50% compared to last year's June...

I'm with Shutterstock since 2007...I have started from hobby, in fact more than half of my port is not very professional....old images....I'm actually cleaning my port, deleting and substitute a lot of images but I'm doing it in small steps....I'm working for stocks full time more serious since about one year. Actually I have 1993 images and videos and my sales increased a lot. But I'm not a Pro Seller. I had long periods when I didn't upload nothing.  Now I'm trying to upload at least 50 each week. Almost all I upload is accepted lastly, I have only the last batches of editorial refused in 70% but after I opened a ticket and asked re-examination and the images were approved. My last BME was March 2014. April almost the same like March, it wasn't BME for a very small difference. In May and June the sales decreased a bit, not very much, but I have noticed a decrease. Anyway I strongly believe that, if someone uploads constantly and good stuff, the sales are coming. The June decrease is also because of DPC I think and also the summer.
I read somewhere in the posts about Shutterstock something about a software of rationing sales at Shutterstock. I don't remember who mentioned it. I personally don't believe that such software exists is against the interests of the company. I like Shutterstock and never had issues with them, they are very nice and available always and they helped me each time I needed help for things I didn't understand well.