The number of downloads has S-L-O-W-L-Y gone back up but the Single & Other and On Demand have been very sluggish.

Nope. Still down 300 a month from a few months ago against my 800 a month average. 

Shutter will never be normal again...

SS was zero for two days for me, which is quite unusual.  However, I then had double the normal daily sales for the next couple days.  Looked to me like there was just a glitch in reporting to us, but once the glitch was resolved, the backlog of sales all got reported at once.

It was just a short and small glitch.  Nothing to get concerned over.  At the end of the month, let alone end of year, I won't even remember a couple days of puzzling silence.

It's been an absolute disaster for me this month, down more than 50% on any month in the last few years (and down something like 95% on my best-ever months.)

This month is performing badly. 

I was on the road to having a good month, but from this week sales have fallen from the cliff. Looks like it will be below average.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on August 24, 2018, 10:27
It's been an absolute disaster for me this month, down more than 50% on any month in the last few years (and down something like 95% on my best-ever months.)

Just about sums up my month too. Terrible month on SS so far.

About 30% less than usual... Very strange....

Edit: 70% .......

With SS it's hard to tell what normal is anymore.

Same. Around 40% drop from the usual. August has been the worst month in the last 4 years. If many are experiencing this, then who's to blame?

Quote from: travelstock on August 24, 2018, 11:18

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on August 24, 2018, 10:27
It's been an absolute disaster for me this month, down more than 50% on any month in the last few years (and down something like 95% on my best-ever months.)

Just about sums up my month too. Terrible month on SS so far.

Same here.

It seems to have stabilized at this low turnover. A new Search Algorithm that really sucks.

Quote from: nobody on August 24, 2018, 00:13
Shutter will never be normal again...

Can't help but agree.


One good thing . . . The few that sell are there to remind me what I was shooting 12 years ago!

I will finish this month at the level I was at in 2011 - down over $1000 a month on the heady days of 2013-16.

I guess the last seven years of hard work and uploading has been a total waste where Shutterstock is concerned.

The new stable "normal" is roughly what i earned in 2014 with a portfolio 15% of the size.

As others have said, the map is like a nostalgia trip - reminding me of images i took years ago and forgot existed.
I had 2 from my application 10 images sell this week that had never sold before!

Very slow. 

About 60% off what it used to be a couple years ago

Quote from: JetCityImage on August 23, 2018, 23:13
The number of downloads has S-L-O-W-L-Y gone back up but the Single & Other and On Demand have been very sluggish.

number of download increase but total earning is little down compared to last year. the big problem is not the download, i'm 30% up compared to last year, the problem i the 0 enhanced, the small sod and on demand compared to last year. sub were always 40% of the total now account for 70%.

Pretty much identical trend here.
My download numbers are steadily and increasing slowly.  But the RPD is dropping because more and more of them are going to subs and lower prices images.
Looking at my graphs my royalty per dowload has dropped over 50% in the last 2.5 years.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on August 24, 2018, 10:27
It's been an absolute disaster for me this month, down more than 50% on any month in the last few years (and down something like 95% on my best-ever months.)

Identical.The fat Lady is singing for the vast majority.

Quote from: rinderart on August 26, 2018, 16:33

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on August 24, 2018, 10:27
It's been an absolute disaster for me this month, down more than 50% on any month in the last few years (and down something like 95% on my best-ever months.)

Identical.The fat Lady is singing for the vast majority.

I am currently 50% down ($400 less than normal for scale) and I had my first zero download day (on a Saturday) in 10 + years. This drop is significant and it is month #4 I've been in this range.  Four months ago I dropped from $800 a month to $600 a month. June/July I went from $600 to $500 and this month (August) I will be at $400 unless I get some really big, juicy sales this coming week.  But I have accepted that the industry for many is on life support.  Beer money now and maybe an occasional lens or strobe after a few months of saving.

So, have the buyers migrated to Adobe or is it 'just' supply outstripping demand, or ... ?

Adobe is growing for me month on month but is still only about 50% SS income.

That said its been a steady rising trend for a while so is catching up as SS levels off.

Quote from: ShadySue on August 26, 2018, 16:50
So, have the buyers migrated to Adobe or is it 'just' supply outstripping demand, or ... ?

Looking at the stats that are audited and published there is no evidence I can see that sales overall at SS are falling. So they may be distributed amongst contributors differently. Whether this is "fair" or due to some kind of deliberate tactic will of course be debated continuously.

AS overtook SS a few months ago and the gap is getting larger every month. SS is dead for me and hardly worth uploading anymore. Sad.