Has anyone else here dealing with video noticed a sudden and large crash in RPD for video sales on SS?

January was fine (by SS standards, the normal $8 or so average rpd) but suddenly Feb and March all video sales seem to be for $1 or under, most $0.25.  And this is level 3.

RPD has gone down to $0.8 as a result so a drop of 10x relative to previous.  It did it throughout Feb and March looks the same.

Its almost as if all videos now are low price subscription and absolutely nothing else.  I havent had a single "normal" sale this month or last.

This year has been awful on Shutterstock generally.

At this time of year earnings for 2025 are down at just 44% of earnings in 2023 and 53% of earnings in 2024 (photos and video). Vast majority of these income falls are video.

RPD for video this year so far is $6.79 and for March is $5.67. But again much of the overall fall in earnings is not just RPD but falling sales volumes.   

Me: Surely it can't get any worse
SS: Hold my beer

Yes, it was bad on the video side this year.

You may not care because I only do photography - level 5 on SS - (no video), but that is going down too. I'm only down 10% in downloads, but RPD is plummeting:

March 2024 $0.75
March 2025 $0.48

February was $0.42

To make $1000 a month now, you need more than 2000 images sold. 

Not on video, no. Slightly up if anything. The same can't be said with Pond5. Since going exclusive with them in August, sales have crashed through the floor, whilst video sales have improved on SS.

Overall, Jan and Feb were poor, but during this month, sales have increased.

Sales in January dropped by 70% compared to 2024 and 2023, February was normal, and March is looking to beat January's record  , terrible

YES!!!
P5 is completely DEAD too

Yes, last 2 months are really bad at SS, for the first time ever my video sales at SS are 1/3 of those at AS this month.
0 sales so far at Pond5 this month, which is rare.

There's no real point in producing stock videos anymore. Videos were expected to be the next big thing in stock photography, but that hasn't happened. Images are selling much faster and at better prices than videos these days. I do a lot of drone photography and videography, but given the current trend, I don't see the value in continuing to invest in video production.

My video sales have dropped from $500 a month on Shutterstock to under $100, even though the sales volume has remained the same. The pricing for stock videos has become ridiculously low.

My RPD for SS videos remains unchanged at $6.30 for 2025.

Last 12 months videos vs images trend on SS:

My video trend has had some ups and downs, but have been steadily heading down on Shutterstock for the past year.  Especially the past three months.

Quote from: Stockhome Syndrome on March 25, 2025, 11:57
My video trend has had some ups and downs, but have been steadily heading down on Shutterstock for the past year.  Especially the past three months.

How big is your video portfolio, are you doing also images?

Crazy this month. $0.25 seems to be the average.
Those $1+ sales are for multiple videos on that day.

Average RPD in the $1.50 region.

Sadly I seemed to had joined shitterstock (around 2019 or 2020 I think) when they started screwing over people with Jon Oringer during convid... Stopped uploading quite some time ago, as "$0.25" seemed to be the "norm". Every now and then (i.e., every 1-2 months) I might get a "larger" video sale, but not worth the time to upload there any more.

Not to mention their interface was extremely annoying, random "ai" rejections, and difficult to use...