My earnings have halved over recent months, it seems that all $3.50 sales have disappeared - since their deal with iStock/Getty started. Number of sales have remained fairly static, but value dropped

Since cutting rates to 50% they have seen revenue growth, therefore cut rates again and see further revenue growth. Shame they are a private company, it would be good to see their profits and projections during these time periods.

Looking at current revenue, this will generate them approximately �3m pa pre-tax. No mention of marketing spend increasing, so how are they going to increase revenue? Cross their fingers? Hope that revenue magically increases because they have cut commission rates? Profits will - if they don't spend any of the additional �3m, but contributors profits won't!

They place themselves in their own designated Tier 2, well below Tier 1 agencies, this move will not put them any closer to the Tier 1 they have specified themselves, it is purely a money grab. The big difference, as we all know, is that the Tier 1 agencies provide the volume, Alamy do not, and an additional �3m on their bottom line will not provide the necessary volume either. Another agency which says they are confident this will result in an increase in sales for contributors, whilst asking those same contributors to bend over and take it with a smile on their faces, and bear with them through this hard and trying time - of four consecutive years of growth?

Alamy, for me, is at best a low earner - circa $1000 this year, now if sales levels remain static, that will be circa $800 whilst I continue to upload and increase the size of my library with them? Whilst their library gets bigger overall, giving me a smaller slice of the pie I helped to make?

Thanks Alamy.

From a ten year contributor. Nice to know you have my back.

It took me years to reach payout, after requesting $57 (I think it was) it then took them 5 months to pay me - after I eventually threatened legal action! Immediately closed my account after payout.

Is a plane design treated any differently to a car? Even if you take the logo off a car image it will still be rejected, will the same not apply to a plane, boat, motorbike?

A question for Mat or anyone that knows...

I received the code, thanks.

But I am still using LR 5.7.1 and PS Elements 12, because I don't like subscriptions and the cloud...
I like to buy a perpetual licence and use it as long as possible.

Should I decide to try it just because it's free, can I install it alongside the current perpetual versions? (in Windows 7 Pro 64 bit)

Absolutely, yes you can. I have PS CC installed and used daily and I also have PS CS6 installed in background, same OS as you

IIRC, in the past contributors have still been paid for these free promotional download offers

Why not offer them the image it perpetuity? Copyright and everything? $10,000

Received this email also, not clear on few points though so if Mat Heyward could provide some answers it would be good - sorry to hijack thread;

What happens if you already have a PS CC sub plan in place?
Will the redeemable code allow us to cancel our current paid for annual sub without the penalty of 50% of the outstanding time on the plan?
If you upload images to Fotolia to be mirrored in AS, not through Adobe Stock, does that still qualify?

Received mine on 9th

For completeness' sake, here's a link to the earning's call transcript:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4150291-shutterstocks-sstk-ceo-jonathan-oringer-q4-2017-results-earnings-call-transcript

Regarding Webdam, Jon effectively says that they thought it would help them get the enterprise customer, but it turned out it was a separate business, so they sold it. They disclosed that they paid $14.4m for Webdam in 2014

Enterprise (as a portion of total SS business) grew 26% over 2016 and now represents 34% of SS's total business. Ecommerce revenue (the subs and web-site-available packages part of the business) grew 10% - i.e. less quickly than the Enterprise business.

But the ecommerce part of the business accounts for much larger than enterprise so any % increases, whilst smaller, will account for a much larger $ figure

They will make an announcement ONCE all the changes have been introduced - so they will tell us after we have already found out, good of them. I was regularly earning $200-$300 a month with them until about 18 months ago, now lucky to hit $75, and now they have cut levels again. Gone from level 5 at 50% to probably level 2 now on what, 30%?

Got to be mistake hasn't it? I got several too, well into the 000's. Just adding the ones on here together, without the ones for people who don't post on here, it isi tens of 000's.

Can't be right.

I have portfolio of over 12k images there and regularly received over $400 per month until a year or so ago, now lucky to get $50 - $75. Got an EL a week ago and no sales since - and I do mean NO sales since.