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Quote from: Perry on May 27, 2020, 12:35

Quote from: monti on May 27, 2020, 11:45
Before you blow up the whole shutterstock, please consider that they have changed the whole pricing structures for customers, so now you can not say anything about how your income will look like after the changes they want to introduce.
Subscription plan is divided now into 4 new categories, and nobody of us knows a crap how those categories work.
And the same with 'on demand' section. Not mention other.
Check this out:

https://www.shutterstock.com/pricing


One thing is for sure: contributors with little portfolios of hundreds of pictures who have been earning just a little will be getting still less because of the new system.

It's not that hard. The largest one (750 images per month) is 0,21€ per image, everyone is going to earn $0,10 per download. If someone downloads only 200 images a certain month, they will pay photographers $20 and put $130+ in their own pocket.

Ok. But you will get more money from some subscribers and more money from enhanced licences (even 33, 37 and 40 EU per download) and also more money from 'on demand'  (3,6 EU per download).  the result is not easy to predict because lots of customers will changed their old plans for new ones. and you dont know what the result will be. Thats what I mean.  I suspect that they want to get rid off the people who flooded the stock with pictures of little commercial value (like 'girlfriends portraits in a park and pictures of dogs on holiday)  and those images will get lower income now, in cotrast to images sold in high volume by more engaged photographers.  How about this?   

Before you blow up the whole shutterstock, please consider that they have changed the whole pricing structures for customers, so now you can not say anything about how your income will look like after the changes they want to introduce.
Subscription plan is divided now into 4 new categories, and nobody of us knows a crap how those categories work.
And the same with 'on demand' section. Not mention other.
Check this out:

https://www.shutterstock.com/pricing


One thing is for sure: contributors with little portfolios of hundreds of pictures who have been earning just a little will be getting still less because of the new system.

Before you blow up the whole shutterstock, please consider that they have changed the whole pricing structures for customers, so now you can not say anything about how your income will look like after the changes they want to introduce.
Subscription plan is divided now into 4 new categories, and nobody of us knows a crap how those categories work.
And the same with 'on demand' section. Not mention other.
Check this out:

https://www.shutterstock.com/pricing


One thing is for sure: contributors with little portfolios of hundreds of pictures who have been earning just a little will be getting still less because of the new system.

Shortly what they do is persuading customers to change the way of purchesing images from credit system (expensive) into 'standard license' system (cheap) and that means for us less high credits and more $0.25 - $0.40 pennies transactions. The process that has been going for some time... and there was a time when there where 50%/50% split between subscribtion and credits sales on fotolia... Well I see no reason to clap your hands... its just the news that says: 'be prepare for much lower incomes very soon' ...   

Fotolia is my second most favorite stock. And I loved their system of credit purchase, unfortunatelly its future (credits future) does not look good, at least from what I see.

Lets face it: subscription system is a crap ... because selling the image to a multi billion dollar corporation for misearable 30 cents is simply a joke.

It is true! For me Fotolia lost some 25-30% sales... but weekly ranking did not drop... so I assume they have sudden sale drop for the whole photo library

I have been stocking for over 6 years and got over 8000 images portfolio. And these are the the percentage of shares for some of my stocks: Shutter: 42%, Fotolia 34%, 123RF 6%, IStock 7%, and so on... and ALAMY: 0.5% ... so it looks very strange to me what the poll shows

For me the message is clear and obvious. They pull more clients from using credit system (that is giving us circa 1.5 dollar per download in case of essencials) to some 'NEW subscription model' that will give us just 1 dollar per download. It means that we are loosing some 30% income from this operation. They smartly introduced it as subscription model, but in fact it is conversion of credits into subscription and we are getting less royalties. How else could it be? They are not philantropists and they are far from the stupid idea of increasing royalties for contributors. Contributors are just tiny little people who can easily be robbed blind.
Check this out!

it looks like they shut down the stock and run with the money... all unpaid revenues... lots of lots of unpaid revenues

it happened to me recently as well: the whole batch (of about 15 images) rejected but with different reasons... I believe there are different guys there who have different approaches to the problem of quality... in fact this is the human eye that accepts our files, not a machine... and it simply shows how subjective the issue is...
how about submitting the batch again in couple of weeks?

I am looking for a new, easy, nice and FREE software for editing IPTC info in JPG images. Can anyone recommend something? The most important: it has to work with batches.
Thank you in advance!

I can not grasp what is the new poll actually supposed to show us? The old one was not perfect but at least it gave as a little picture of how we individually as microstock contributors perform in comparison to others. In other words I could imagine: 'my income for example on fotolia was in the range of 3 and statistical fotolia contributor got lets say 4'. Now the idea is gone. Now we simply know nothing - at least I know nothing. Because what I see is some strange lines that compare rather how stocks are performing in relation to each other but in fact I don't even know what the numbers are about and where are they from. On the right side of the home page we see Shutterstock perform 94,2 but the number on the respective blue line on the graph shows us 71,7 (for August 2012). Why?
The same is with all other agencies... I am quite disappointed with this new invention. But maybe its still not ready and soon its going to display some statistics that are more informative.

The question is of course what we all would like to see or what kind of statistic is useful for each of us.
I definitely would like to see the numbers showing in dollars the statistical performance of others so I can clearly see what kind of contributor I am

So when the new version of promised poll is going to be displayed? ... I wonder
Would love to see the statistics...

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yes, it happened to me as well... 130 dollars just dissapeared