Nobody here is going to be able to answer that for you.
Ask Mat.

How do they consistently come up with these lame attempts at showing us what we sell?

Clicking on plus signs for each item to see how many times it sold by the different entities� really.
Too frustrating and time consuming to be of any value. They could have easily put that useless info into columns.

And put in the Dollar Amounts - Contrary to what they think, that�s what matters.

And from a user standpoint having to click 'load more' is one of the worst ideas web developers have ever come up with.
Just load the info into a single page and be done with it.

Ss immediately airbrushes the remaining three images and offers them on Offset for $500 a pop. You get nothing. A year later image B's licensing terms are over, so they airbrush that and put it on the main SS site, in direct competiton with your own port. You get nothing, and you're not named on SS or Offset as the photographer. You're also not allowed to tell people that SS image is yours.

Eventually, if this effort is successful, SS has built up a huge portfolio of images they own...

I've been wondering for a while if SS doesn't already have some wholly owned content on the site. Getty has content they own, not to far-fetched to think SS may be behind some of the large portfolios that we see.

I just wrote a blog post about SS Custom:

http://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2017/09/23/review-introducing-shutterstock-custom/

It appears that they've accepted me

Did you get accepted or just the second email to complete the application?

Read this discussion

http://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/made-over-25-000-videos-only-by-slide-photos/msg443352/#msg443352

"Something something imaginary money blah something social" is what I got.

Couldn't have summarized it better if I tried.

Yesterday From Support:

"At the moment, we are testing the Photo Marketplace before we launch in September, so it is only available to select test groups. All content will be live on the site when we launch. We appreciate your patience as we optimize the Photo Marketplace."

I've been stuck on the same sum since 9 this morning and I thought Oh boy this is the new SS all over not surprised!  then comes Alamy from nowhere with a $ 294 sale saving the day!  pugh!!

I spoke to an x-employee of SS late last night I've known him long before SS came on the scene used to work in the old film-agencies and he did not give a pretty picture and I'm actually surprised we are earning any money at all.

Care to elaborate?

Quote from: lunfengzhe on August 06, 2017, 20:41

Guys i just wonder a question, if there is some words exist in my photo's title but somehow it was not included in the keywords area, is that possible for buyer to find the photo through this word?

If it works anything like google the title should matter significantly more than the keywords. Shutterstock even removes the keywords if the word is in the title to prevent redundant information.

No they don't.

Sales stop updating for me since January 1st 

So which is it?

This is my 7th July (Started the business in March 2011) and turn out to be my best July....

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 12, 2017, 14:36

Quote from: pkphotos on June 12, 2017, 14:20

I made a typo, I meant 35000 +/- 34800

People are too obsessed with figures on this forum. Any shrewd contributor having good success would keep that info to themselves and talk about everything apart from finances.

But you've made the most explicit posts about your income in the past as evidenced by the quote catching you out in your lie. Far more precise than the approximate numbers everyone else has given.

I was just having a laugh with overly earnest contributors who are infatuated with finances. You shoot yourself in the foot if you share all of your info.

Your actions have just devalued all of your posts - past, present and future.  It hurts this forum when people can't be trusted. Rather than posting mis-information you should have either stayed out or posted 'none of your business'.

I signed up so I could look at the real numbers - that was 6 hours ago and still haven't gotten the verification email to log-in.
my bad i made and error in the online form