I know I'm making myself unpopular here, but I am getting a little bored with these 10 cent discussions.

Nobody wants to get only cents for their images, that's why I left for example iStock. It just didn't fit, but I'm not making a big deal out of it.

If I had only 10 cent sales at Shutter, I would say goodbye and that's it.

But there are still some who earn good money with Shutter. I myself see sales in the double digits every day, which compensate for these stupid cent sales.
Except for Alamy, I don't have those sales anywhere, not even Adobe. That still makes Shutter my best agency.

The annoying review is another story.

And as Thijs rightly says, what are the alternatives? Exclusively 25 cent sales at Deposit?

So now you can jump all over me 

Same with the 25 cent discussions for video. Those that have left seem to be under the impression that that's all you ever get now, 25 cents and no higher! Sure, I get a few at that price, but my RPD average for November is $32, so it's not all doom and gloom.

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on October 31, 2021, 20:31

About a 45% drop from 2019 to 2020 and about a 20% increase from 2020 to 2021.

That's nice.  Have you added many clips this year?

Some, but not a massive amount. Less than a 20% increase in portfolio size anyway.

The way the email explains it says that my items will be transferred from Videohive to Elements. You suggest that I can continue selling my items on both. Do they let me sell the same item on both platforms?

Yeah, they've not worded it very well... it's more of a copy and paste than a cut and paste. And to Mimi... while selling on Envato Elements might undervalue you work with regards to RPD, he'll make more money selling on Elements and VideoHive combined... so while I kind of see your point to an extent... it's slightly paradoxical that undervaluing your work, in this instance, results in your content having more value from a financial point of view.

Yes, Envato owns both. The offer is for 90 days after upload, per clip, but runs until the 3rd of May, so anything uploaded on the 3rd of February or before will get the full 90 day bonus. I'd ignore the estimates they've come up with as I've no idea how they figured those out. Some people earn less than what they do on VideoHive and some people earn more (some considerably more), so it's impossible to give a prediction. However, I've never heard of anybody earning less on Elements and the marketplace combined, than they do just being on the marketplace... so, if you're already on VideoHive, and you're happy to carry on selling there, then it makes sense to join Elements.

Interesting. For video, my custom sales are usually priced at less than the regular ones. Not always, but more often than not.

In video you rarely reach over 50 sales for video files so at those low numbers start crunching because maybe you are operating at al loss. Yes i get that those of you that do renders use your time and from time to time change computers ...the rest we do the same, pay props, models , travel expenses etc. So for a few dollars video I would say it is a big waste of time.

I have dozens of clips with more than 50 sales (with my top sellers having over ten times that), my best selling clip has made over $10K, I make almost $5 per clip per month, and I work an average of two days a week. So, while it may be a big waste of time for you... it works for me.

Here we go again

Oh and just a side note....

$30 = $30

$30 + $0.25 = $30.25

The final number at the bottom (the one on the far right with the 2 and the 5 after the little dot thing) is a bigger number. I know that's hard to get your head around, but it is pretty straightforward!

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I thought people were deleting accounts rather than creating new ones. 

Exactly. And lots of threads here about SS. Guess everybody reactivated their accounts. 

Or never deleted our account because we make money from SS.

So, you can buy a cheese burger every month? Nice, just keep going. And praise ShitterStock. 

No... it means he can buy one more cheeseburger than you can every month!

I assumed everyone had got invited. Can't be on performance... I got invited with my one sale in the last five years or so! Have you checked your spam folder?

I wonder how hard it would be to make a virus that downloaded stuff from SS on these unlimited plans.

It's not an unlimited plan, it's just another subscription plan... you still have a set number of credits to use each month.

I think somebody has a slightly unhealthy level of anger in regards to these rule changes. While I can understand why somebody might be opposed to these changes, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding why somebody would have quite that amount of opposition to these changes! Chill out, it's not the end of the world.