It is possible that many customers are flowing from SS to AS, and with the end of the year many of them closed their subscription in favor of AS.

I'm a long-time contributor with over 10,000 videos across major microstock platforms (Shutterstock, Pond5, Adobe, etc.), and like many of you, I've seen a steady decline in earnings — especially after recent changes at Shutterstock and the Pond5 acquisition.

I'm seriously considering launching my own Shopify-based site to sell directly to customers, with full control over pricing, licensing, and product presentation. I already have all my content fully keyworded and described from years in the industry, so I'd like to reuse that data to speed up the process.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has:
Set up a Shopify store for stock footage
Used tools like SkyPilot or SendOwl for digital delivery
Had success (or failure!) building direct sales

Advice on licensing models, pricing, or driving traffic
Do you think it's worth the effort? Or is it just another rabbit hole with little return?

What happened to Pond5?
Since Pond5 was acquired by Shutterstock, my sales have been steadily declining—until they virtually stopped. I used to make 2 or 3 video sales per day, and now it's been over 17 days without a single sale.
Has anyone else experienced a dramatic drop in sales lately?

I think it should be great!

The problem is it's not completely clear and I don't want to my adobe account. Are content generated from Dall-E and Midjourney ok for commercial use and to upload to adobe stock?

I just received another email from them. after telling them I have not the possibility of crediting them:

In this case, feel free to sell your creations without crediting us!

Is this answer sufficient? Can I start uploading the generated files?

I asked to WOMBO and this is their answer:

Hi Giovanni - Creators have full freedom over their artwork and are free to distribute or share them for personal, entertainment or educational reasons.

For commercial use, please credit WOMBO Dream for the generation in some form. We recommend using the trading card output if possible, but a mention in the credits is also fine!

So I haven't solved my problem.
Anyway, what companies allow you to use their AI generated images?

I have generated a few files with WOMBO Dream AI Art Tool app on the iphone.
It's not clear if I can submit these images to adobe stock.
Can you please tell me if I can.
I don't want to infringe any copyright and I want to be sure.
This is what I found about copyright policy on the site of the software I would like to use:

Creators have full freedom over their artwork and are free to distribute or share them for personal, entertainment or educational reasons. For commercial use, please credit or provide attribution to WOMBO for the generation in some way. We recommend using the trading card output if possible, but a mention in a credits page is fine too.

So I can use the generated files for commercial purpose but still I have to provide attribution. But in this case I don't know how to provide attribution to them and so I don't know if I can go on and submit those files to you.
Can you please help me?

Thanks Mat.
I went to my profile settings and changed the option.
However I did not receive any email from you regarding the nomination, neither now nor in June for photo nomination.
I usually receive an email per day from Adobe, regarding the daily earnings. I also checked in the spam folder but I don't have any email from you.
It's a shame because I definitely would have joined the proposal.

I have thousands of video files on adobe stock but I haven't received any email and I saw just moments ago that nominations are over.
I received the nomination for the free photo collection in the last two years and I don't know if I have received any nomination for the free video collection.
Even for the photo collection I did not receive any email, and I just happened to see on my dashboard that I had been nominated. I never go to the dashboard and I always have the daily earnings page open. I would like to know if I have been nominated for video collection and especially in the future would it be better to receive emails for these communications. Otherwise, as in this case, you run the risk of missing an opportunity.
Please, Mat Hayward, how can I check this? Thanks

I have about 1K clips on clipcanvas and I never sold one!
I was trying to upload something more (I stopped submitting to them some time ago) but I experience a lot of speed issues, even on the site. And ftp issues using stocksubmitter.
Anyone has experience about clipcanvas?
Any advice?

Thanks

Hi to all of you.
I'm in the same situation as wollwerth, I'm in the microstock market since 2009 and I decided last month to create a youtube channel just to see if it could improve my earnings by promoting my work.
Here is my channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8A6Xz1YrjUrNQJPrr8C0pA

After some weeks I still see just a small number of visitors and just 5 subscribers.
I think I'm doing something wrong, or simply my work has no interest for the people on YT.
I'm doing it because I wanted to try, but of course I hope to have some kind of improvement about my sales (YT and microstock).
I would appreciate very much any advice from you!

Great tool!
I will try to use it instead of the SS one.
I think the first keywords should be the purple ones, then the blue ones, regardless of the number of appearances.Thanks and I hope you'll further develop this tool!

I hope I can make it.
I'd prefer to shoot on Monday, for work issues...
I can't stay so many days!

Ciao Giovanni

I'm using Final Cut Pro and its wonderful smoothcam stabilization video filter.
But I need some advice from you.
After I stabilize my clip I don't know what it the right way to export it in order to sell on microstock.
I tried to export with cmd-E but the exported videos are much worse that they were on the timeline and when I have a pan the situation is even worse.

I hope someone can help me!

Giovanni

Hi.
I have over 1200 images on yaymicro since september and I'm still waiting for my first sale!
What a waste of time!

Giovanni