In my case I have participated in few missions, fair money, all accepted. After that the gave me much more missions to do, but at at lower prices. I have stopped uploading.

It was editorial image sale

Few weeks ago I got hit by my best selling single image download ever (15 years on SS).
Number was so high it knocked me out of my shoes
Not sure am I allowed to disclose amount here, but it was 25x higher than my previous best selling photo on SS (which was decade ago).
And what was really odd to me it was an editorial image sale.

I did some research of new product line, and find out this new product - selling editorial as commercial license with Asset Assurance, which offer the legal coverage for commercial use of editorial photos if I got it right. I guess my sale was one of this, and it is really expensive to license photo with this license. I have only few editorials in my portfolio, but will probably upload more after this.

Anyone had similar experience with high revenue editorials?

Another one gone
It was not my best earner, but it has solid sales every month, some 50-100 EUR per month.
YAY on the other hand is extremely low earner for me, and I bet it will stay like that after this transfer.

I have some 10k files there which earns about 500-1k a year.
But their upload system is pain in the ass, really slow (one by one photo) and always something crushing.

Their reviewing process for selling photos is massacre, I got 5% acceptance rate now, vs 98% on major agencies.
Plus you have to pay yearly fee so they can make money from your content, pure joke.
And here are some earnings 2015 vs 2021

2015 earnings on 500px

Dec 31, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $24.50   
Dec 31, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $24.50   
Dec 31, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $24.50   
Nov 10, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $50.00   
Nov 10, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $50.00   
Oct 6, 2015   Other      Non-exclusive - 30%   $175.00

and 2021 earnings
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05   
Apr 14, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.05
Mar 29, 2021      Non-exclusive - 30%   $0.02   
Mar 29, 2021      Exclusive - 60%   $0.04

  WOW. Woke up and notice my 3 average months earnings from Adobe in this wave. Very good day. Thank you Adobe.

I'm so mad right now that I have to publish my little 500px timeline, I will not comment it, make your own conclusions!
And of course, there is yearly subscription fee for this!

Those were the days (2015):
"Great news on your recent sale on ImageBrief. IMG-052959-236458 - You will be paid USD $700.00."
This agency is shut down meanwhile.

$0.01 is my lowest (Istock).

Alamy, depositphotos and canstockphoto are not best sellers, but I have regular sales there with 6000 photos portfolio. Sales will come probably with time and portfolio growth, but don't expect to much. It's your choice to quit or to wait. I like to try different agencies so I find out that some low earners makes regular sales for me (ingram images - 140 GBP BME, zoonar - 150 EUR BME etc.). On Depositphoto and Canstock my best months ever are 40 USD.

Same here.
Another fake hope  as it seems.

Chech sales dates, I got also dozen sales in two days, and on sale page dates are december 2016, march 2017 and so on.
It seems like they are processing license sales for whole year

As expected:

"Statements delayed
Dear contributor, We'd like to inform you about a technical system issue that will affect the timeline of the January 2017 royalty statements. Royalty statements will be delayed by a day or two due to a temporary technical problem. We are working to address this technical issue as quickly as possible. We will update this message once all statements are available and we apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue. Please note: This issue impacts the January 2017 royalty statements only. Payments are not impacted and will arrive according to our normal schedule. Thank you, Getty Images Contributor Services"

Big rise for me this month. First half of January was bad, but then it starts to grow and it didn't stop yet fortunately.

Quote from: ingwio on December 15, 2015, 20:26
About two or three hours ago I saw that one of my images at DT was downloaded (W-EL, maximum, 50 credits, image earning: 12.48 $ for me). Nice to see (because of Christmas  ).

But now the image earning has changed to only 6.00 $ for me. Not nice to see  .

Is that because the program looks up again later whether it could cut a little (because of Christmas  )?

Has anyone else had this problem too?

Same situation with me: 50 credits, 10.5 usd, and few hours later 6 usd.
Not cool at all!

Quote from: helloitsme on October 03, 2015, 05:13

Quote from: xbrchx on October 03, 2015, 04:48
2220

300 was my record

That's a wide spread!  My best was in 700s or so.

Yes, it was one time only week of amazing sales.
I hope more will come in the future.

Portfolio size about 1600

2220

300 was my record

Rejection rate of 95% on photodune (in last few months) is insulting for me as photographer. On all other agencies my acceptance rate is 95%, and so it was on photodune until few months ago, until they get worse. And some of the rejected photos are highly sellable on other agencies. I tried to upload and hope this madness will stop, but it continued, so I just stop uploading there. And I suspect I'm not the only one.