Where can I find the contributor fund?
I had about $33 in extra income yesterday which I could not address.

On the earnings summary page. You have to use the slider at the bottom to get to the Contributor Fund column which is the last on the right.

I've got the email
but dont see anything on alamy site or their forum
will wait

Alamy confirmed on the forum that this is genuine several days ago. Pretty sure I didn't have to give my DOB when I signed up so they don't have that information already ( how this helps collection agencies track uses I have no idea). Completed and submitted!

Going into the second week now and I'm puzzled why they haven't made a general update about this. They have three accounts on Twitter (X), a Facebook page, their own site (with blog), and could send out an email (I have had two emails since the forum went down - one detailing the July POTM challenge and one about latest buyer trends). Last but not least they could post here on MSG - they have participated here many times (though less so recently). Just a simple reassurance that they are not closing the forum and that there is a technical problem that they are working to resolve would suffice.

Jacob. Slightly better known by his middle name - Yuri 

That's the new Silver level which started this July. Contract changes in June 2021 said you needed to gross $250 between July 2021 and June 2022 to remain on the Gold (40%) level. To be quite clear that is $250 total license value (not your earnings). Though people will only drop in July each year, you will go back up to 40% at any time if you hit the $250. You can double check your commission level from your Contributor Dashboard. Click the Account Settings tab at the top left of the page and it will tell you what level you are currently on.

Thank you for letting us know. The response I got from BS in May was that their technical team were working to resolve it (though I imagine that is just a cut and paste response to any fault being reported). Going forward, the low number of sales I get at BS wouldn't currently warrant the effort of uploading directly to them. That said, I did look at the upload page (just to remind myself what it looked like after 11 years!) and there is still a message saying my account is linked to Shutterstock and not to upload the same images to avoid duplicates. They're maybe too busy with their new acquisitions to get round to removing it. 

Hi Leaf could you remove GL from the Microstock Poll Results

Some people seem to be submitting sales revenues which is clearly impossible seeing as they closed down.

Likewise both Cutcaster and Stockfresh are both gone but can still be voted for in the monthly poll.

Russian microstock community reports:  250000 portfolio by Paul Smith just disabled.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2613...34285/?fref=nf

Quarter of a million celebrity images gone in one click. Way to go Paul

How about a Twitter campaign where everyone posts photos, videos and illustrations that are #NoLongerOnShutterstock ? You could include a link to where the work is still available.

This would allow many more people to get involved, because you don’t have to close your account or turn your port off, just delete one item. Imagine if thousands of people did this all on the same day.

A variation on your idea Michele - I thought I'd start a nice little Show and Tell thread on the Shutterstock forums. Twitter to follow. All my 2610 images opted out this morning.
https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/100375-soon-to-be-deactivated-images/

Quote from: Desintegrator on May 27, 2020, 07:49

Seems like we can't trust Shutterstock anymore..
Adobe still has fair commissions

Agreed here. Also, not just illustrative editorial but open up to editorial with people for both stills and video.

With you on this for stills. I'm always surprised that they leave so much money on the table by not taking regular editorial images. It would be a great time for them to launch this given there are so many contributors currently feeling #shaftedbyshutterstock. It wouldn't even take much beyond three simple steps:

I) Add an Editorial Use tickbox on the submission page

2) Add Editorial Use only wording on the buyers page

3) Tell their reviewers that editorial images do not require model/property releases

See, I just launched it for them. We just need them to action it now.....

Good idea Pete - just done it. They still get votes on the earnings poll because if you ever uploaded images there (and didn't realise they are gone) you would put them down as zero earnings when filling in the poll each month. Kind regards, David.

As part of their recent site revamp they removed the views count citing it was a drain on server resources. Here's a thread on the DT forum about it: https://www.dreamstime.com/thread_50968

Very few sites have a views count anyway - it's the sales that matter

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on September 05, 2019, 18:52

Thanks for the update Mat. I have a few editorial images with street scenes or beaches where there are people in the background. This is an example:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/merida-mexico-december-26-2007-meridas-191207564

It's not focusing on a person, but there are unreleased people. Is this allowed or not? I did read the information page, but the one disallowed example just showed one highly visible (though out of focus) person, so I wasn't sure.

No, unfortunately we wouldn't be able to accept that shot because of the recognizable people. The disallowed example was a shot I took of my Daughter to illustrate that even though she is out of focus she would still be considered recognizable and the image can't be approved at Adobe Stock.

-Mat

Mat - nobody seems to be asking the obvious question, so I will. Is Illustrative Editorial (with no recognisable people) the full extent to which Adobe is going to allow editorial images? Many of us were hoping for editorial on Fotolia/Adobe for a long time but were thinking of parades/street scenes/music festivals etc (all with plenty of unreleased people in them) which many other agencies accept. Is this something we can expect in the future? Kind regards, David.