Quote from: danielvisuals on May 30, 2025, 21:36

This situation affects all contributors because Shutterstock now prioritizes content available through its Unlimited Download plan. This means that if a contributor isn't part of the plan, their content becomes much less discoverable, even to regular customers. Many occasional buyers may not realize that the default filter now shows only �unlimited videos/images,� so they might never see the work of contributors who are not participating.

I've tried several times to replicate this in a customer-side search but it doesn't occur in my region.

Same here. I just did a search and I don't see the filter. I do, however, see my own work and I'm not part of this 'plan'.

My own thoughts on this. First, AS only take a small percentage of the nominated photos so we're generally talking about a very small percentage of my portfolio. Second, most of my photos don't make $4 in a year and, with the way stock is going, are unlikely to make $10 in their lifetime. Third, the nominated photos are not ones which sell a lot anyway. So I'll take what money I can get from them now.

I've been to Granada twice (my son spent a year at Uni there). Anyway, my $0.10 worth.

The Alhambra has been photographed to death; when I type "granada alhambra" into Shutterstock, I get 45,163 stock photos. But there is much more to Granada than the Alhambra. There are great squares in the old part of town. There are interesting shops, streets, bars and restaurants. And there is a part of Granada where people live in caves.

You have a few of those shots so those, plus the city panoramas, are what I would be focused on.

Then again, you could just upload all of them because you never know when one might sell.

Better sales numbers but much poorer rpd made this Feb almost 20% worse for $$ than last Feb.

Same here. Missing the higher value sales I was getting last year.

I played with the new system today. It felt a bit clunky but that's probably because I'm not used to it. I did an upload and was able access the legacy keyword tool so that was good. Don't really understand the need for change but I guess the IT department has to be seen to be doing something.

For me, volume on Shutterstock is pretty good and well ahead of this point in 2024. RPD, however, is poor so far and well behind 2024. So plenty of low value sales and I need a few higher value ones to pull the RPD up. But early days still.

Nope, worked absolutely fine for me.

How many stopped uploading to Adobe because of ridiculously long waiting times for moderation and large numbers of seemingly random rejections?

Quite a few of us are seeing old, previously accepted assets appear in the rejected queue as "file processing error" with new ID numbers.

Others are seeing their profile size shrink or not display correct.

Anyone else got odd items in their recently reviewed queue?

I got 8 of them. Probably a computer bug which will get fixed sooner or later.

I think SS changed the search algorithm for pictures/videos again from 1st of November, I was checking a lot in the last months where my files where located in the pages and for the last 3-4 months they prioritize the new files which jumped my sales a lot, over 100 assets on daily basis, now I see they went back to the most downloaded assets back on the front pages, I already see an impact, curios if anybody else saw any impact in volume of sales for the 1st of November compared with the last months.

I probably don't have your volume of sales but, from what I can see, November sales, so far, are the usual mix of old and new material. Overall, I've increased my portfolio by 21% this year (32% last year) and sales are on track to be up around 25%-30% for 2024. Revenue is already up 33% over 2023.

I don't bother submitting to Adobe any more. The review process takes far too long and the rejections for "quality issues" are a joke. I've better things to do with my time than waste it on a lengthy and inconsistent process.

Quote from: Camillo on August 20, 2024, 18:02

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I stopped uploading to shutterstock in 2020. Was all in but 10 cents is not worth the trouble. Im not very succesful at all in these stock companies but adobe stock is doing better for me than shutter ever did. Shutter was great with video sales.

your choice, but the 10c cheapest sale isn't a true measure - i can't remember anyone here reporting their RPD was < $.20 /image --  mine varies from$.50-.75 /image - only slightly less than AS but with higher actual income/mo (which is what really matters)

My average RPD since I started with SS in 2018 is $0.57. My average RPD for this year is $0.91 (helped by a $261 sale a couple of days ago  )