Not sure this protest is working...SS Wall Street Stock is up 11% for the month of July....That is the money SS is really concerned about...

Hello,

The idea will be to raise funds to start a new agency where every one have 1 vote. The total cost will be:

- 1 dedicated server = 600�/year with 8TB disk.
- License for control panel = 180�/year.
- License for Sell Media plugin = 150�/year.
- Website creation = Free (I will do it).
- 10h design/programming tasks = 3.600�/year.
- Marketing fund to start = 3.000�/year.

Total = 7.530�

My portfolio is about 4.000 photos, 50GB of disk, so with about 7.500GB it could be 150 portfolios as mine, 600.000 photos in total.

- 50% commission for the photographer.
- and the remaining 50% would be for the agency: 30% for marketing and 20% to future growth.

Isn't perfect. But it can be done.

What do you think?


I would think you would need about 20,000E a year for legal fees and maybe 10,000E for liability insurance.

But what if they went back to the old pay system. Would you take SS Wall Street stock as payment ?

I can shoot 30 heads in two hours on a blue background. That is 150 an hour....That is less than a plumber make but more than most photoogs make.

Sion, you may already do this but is so easy to make some fast money. Everyone needs a good social media head shot. Go to your local office building and setup sessions for 10 bucks a head with 10 heads minium. You can shot these so fast and 10 people will turn into 20-30 people. Just like shooting ducks in a barrel. All of a sudden you have made 300 bucks in two hours and this may turn into other photo work the offices need.

Astrantia,  no one wants to hear this also but it is true. My wife before she retired was a large buyer of images for a large corporation. She had accounts with Istock and SS. Her only goal was to find images that were correct for her assignment ASAP. She did not care what the price was as she has accounts already setup. All she wanted were images or illustrations that would work. We all think our images are special and they are to us. To my wife the buyer of images it was just a job finding images and she wanted to finnish her job so she could go home that day without working overtime that night.

SSTK....That is the Stock Symbol for SS. What I am going to say no one is going to like but this is one way to make some of your money back from SS. I really can't figure out how much money I am going to lose from my photos at SS but it is quite significant. My 38 cents sells are now 10-17 cents each. My 2.85 sells are now 87 cents. So it looks like I will lose somewhere in 60-75 % of my sells /dollars from last year. If my math is even close to correct SS (SSTK) Wall Street stock will have a huge increase in profits(60-75%) . Which means their Wall Street stock will go up , a lot. Buy their stock SSTK now and sell it when it goes up. It will go up most likely. No this is not what anyone here on microstock group wants to hear but this is one way of getting some of your losses back. I really see no other way. If you stay on SS with your photos you will lose money, if you close your account you will lose money. Yes this is a creepy/sorry way to get your money back but I see no other way if you want your money back. Money is not everthing and yes I know dignity is important but neather of these items buys you food or photo equipment. i am guessing this post will get some haters.

I may have this incorrect. Correct me if so. Wasn't IStock at on time owned by Bill Gates and he sold it to Getty ?? Maybe Amazon or Apple want to buy SS. They both have lots of cash on hand and SS would fit in their portfolo. Both are in the Movie industry and a Stock company makes sense..

As of this week for the first time in 15 years my Adobe account is the highest paying of all the sites this week for me. I am guessing that will be the trend from now on. I have not canceled my SS account but will stop uploading new images.  At 10 cents a sell it just is not worth it to upload new images. I am at level 4 and I am now getting 10-14 cents an image. SS is truly dead....

I just got my first 10 cent sale from SS on this photo. The good news, this has been a good seller and I have made a couple of thousand dollars of the lifetime of image. The next couple of thousand at 10 cents will take a long time.

I don't know them but Crestock still owes me money from many years back. Crestock was such a waste of time...Will SS be the next Crestock ?

In 2019 Shutterstock celebrated a payout milestone. June 1st 2020,  they plan to slash royalties for all contributors. More profits for SS, much less for SS contributors. Please rethink this bad PR decision SS. "We the Contributors" can work as a team with SS. It is not too late and make everyone happy with more revenues for all..