Here's a link to my detailed earnings/news report for Sept 2023:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/09/30/september-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Good month overall, with BME for AS, even after excluding the unwanted AI payments.
Abysmal for SS.

September 2023 for me was the month in which I earned the most since 2018,since I started in microstock,and this was possible thanks to Adobe Stock.

keep it up Adobe,keep it up!

for aug my #1 was istock but just a few percent ahead of adobe.  ss was a distant 3rd, earning less than half the other 2 agencies.  the download count is always higher on SS but its mostly dimes so it doesn't add up to half the other two (istock has a few tiny sales too but the avg is much higher than ss).  still haven't sold a single video, dunno what you folks are doing (my portfolio is quite small but growing). (edit: i said sept but istock numbers are not up yet, updated to say aug)

For September 23 I will reach around 450 dollars with 2800 files on adobe and around 1500 videos in different places.

My Eyeemport  is currently dead due to bankrupcy and my 4400 files on istock are still not "activated" because I didn't upload anything in September and very little this year.

Just Adobe was 347 dollars including the ai bonus. September 22 it was 23 dollars with 1300 files and after not uploading for nearly a decade.

The ai files are beginning to pick up as well, they were moving very slowly before.

Last week I had 75 downloads on Adobe and made it to a weekly rank of around 5900.

For 2800 files that is ok.

eta


this is the trend for my ai files. Picking up sales slowly.

still not using midjourney. looking forward to dall e 3 and hoping firefly improves

Day 4 of October and already on SS I'm at ¼ of my total September sales.  Hopefully that's an indication that things are picking up.  Maybe because the writer's strike is over?

Quote from: J_Stock on October 05, 2023, 02:28
Day 4 of October and already on SS I'm at ¼ of my total September sales.  Hopefully that's an indication that things are picking up.  Maybe because the writer's strike is over?

Day 5 of October and I'm on 3% of total September sales . Things are random...

Quote from: J_Stock on October 05, 2023, 02:28
Day 4 of October and already on SS I'm at ¼ of my total September sales.  Hopefully that's an indication that things are picking up.  Maybe because the writer's strike is over?

Day 5 of October and I'm on 7% of total September sales.

And yesterday was my first working day in 12 years where I didn't hit $10 ... 50 sales for $8 ... With 5,000 files, I was used to make $40-50 a day before 2020 and $25-30 a day this year.

SS is in a nosedive.

day 5 and not only is AS 10x the $ of SS (with half as many files) but also has more total downloads

Quote from: Bauman on October 05, 2023, 11:33

Quote from: J_Stock on October 05, 2023, 02:28
Day 4 of October and already on SS I'm at ¼ of my total September sales.  Hopefully that's an indication that things are picking up.  Maybe because the writer's strike is over?

Day 5 of October and I'm on 7% of total September sales.

And yesterday was my first working day in 12 years where I didn't hit $10 ... 50 sales for $8 ... With 5,000 files, I was used to make $40-50 a day before 2020 and $25-30 a day this year.

SS is in a nosedive.

The problem is: This story will continue. Feeding the beast day by day seems to become even more neccessary.

Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

Quote from: Mantis on October 06, 2023, 13:50
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month

Mayday,mayday,mayday!All the agencies are in free fall!

Shutterstock is dead for photos and vectors too,perhaps the only thing that can be uploaded to SS are videos.

In the first 10 days of October 2018,when I only had around 300 photos I earned more than these first 10 days of October 2023,although now I have several thousand contents more.I have already abandoned uploading photos and vectors to SS,and I'm sorry because it was a really good agency,the only thing I didn't like was the change in the royalty structure.

Luckily there is Adobe Stock,the only one that continues to get better and better!

Quote from: thirdbornentertainment on October 10, 2023, 22:41

Quote from: Mantis on October 06, 2023, 13:50
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month

Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far.  I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.

So far this month, Shutterstock sales are very slow. I'm at about 50% of the volume I would normally expect.

Adobe sales are normal.

Quote from: Mantis on October 16, 2023, 13:31

Quote from: thirdbornentertainment on October 10, 2023, 22:41

Quote from: Mantis on October 06, 2023, 13:50
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month

Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far.  I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.

Any idea as to why? These guys have been my top earner since I started 8 years ago.

Quote from: Jaggy on October 16, 2023, 14:18
So far this month, Shutterstock sales are very slow. I'm at about 50% of the volume I would normally expect.

1.2 stars

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com

Quote from: Mantis on October 16, 2023, 13:31

Quote from: thirdbornentertainment on October 10, 2023, 22:41

Quote from: Mantis on October 06, 2023, 13:50
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month

Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far.  I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.

Good month here: 5 sales so far: 199,56$.

Quote from: alijaber on October 16, 2023, 21:41

Quote from: Mantis on October 16, 2023, 13:31

Quote from: thirdbornentertainment on October 10, 2023, 22:41

Quote from: Mantis on October 06, 2023, 13:50
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual.  DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20.  SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125.  IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.

My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month

Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far.  I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.

Good month here: 5 sales so far: 199,56$.

Awesome.  Glad someone is doing good.

Excellent

September 23 was around 390 dollars, the majority from Adobe.

September 22 Adobe was 23 dollars with around 1300 files. Sept 23 it was 243 dollars with around 2800 files. For October Adobe is already 219 dollars. Christmastime.

Otherwise video is still my best earner. 

Need to upload much, much more.

My income in 2023 compared to 2022 :

Adobe Stock : + 43%
Shutterstock : + 16%
Pond5 (1) Exclusiv : - 56%
Pond5 (2) Non-Exclusiv : - 59%

December 2023 was my best December ever, and 2023 was a good year, overall: only 2.7% worse than 2022, which is above my expectations.

Happy New Year, everybody!

I/S Great
A/S OK
S/S Terrible.
I've been with Shutterstock over 15 years. They were great but slowly felt like I was getting screwed over. Now...hmmm, pondering if there is any future with them.

For 2023 .....

SS - Downloads +7.53%, Revenue +55.85%

AS - Downloads +29.17%, Revenue +52.36%

But ......

On SS, I increased the size of my portfolio by 32.18%. It feels like I'm uploading a lot of content for relatively little increase in downloads.

On AS, I increased the size of my portfolio by 26.71% so increase in downloads roughly matches increase in portfolio.

Nevertheless, increase in revenue on both SS and AS is very welcome and largely down to some pretty big sales during the year.

My expectation for 2024 is that AS revenue will continue to improve while SS revenue will probably stagnate or go down a bit.