So Open AI (Dalle2) is now charging approx .13 cents per query (4 images)... say SS is negotiated 50% of that fee from OpenAi (maybe free in exchange for contributor content data), what are the realistic commission paid to contributors? ...fraction of a cent??

Its a joke, everyone should opt out unless you want to wake up with sub dollar monthly sales in your account!

That's some "exciting" news from the industry 🤦‍♂️
Wonder how this will effect p5/Adobe partnership?

I'm currently averaging higher pay per download on images than video at Adobe. Doesn't make sense to keep/upload video content. A disable option would be great. I see pond is the only viable agency to upload vids to. Sad day.

Banned 🙋‍♂️. No reason given, violation of TOS but that can be anything. Cancel Culture at its best, they probably didn't like my public dissatisfaction and posts about their thievery so I got the boot 🥾 #shutterstockcontributor #shutterstockboycott #sstk #shutterstock #boycottshutterstock shutterstocknow

For some reason my Shutterstock account was disabled at end of January. I contacted contributor relations (only e-mail option) asking for the reason(s). I gotten only a response that i've Violated their TOS (terms of service) ... I responded several times over the past few weeks asking for details of said violation as well as status of my January payment (few hundred dollars), as well as Tax documents (Jan 31 is the deadline for providing these). Still to this day not one solid answer.

Few days ago I came across my video asset, still for sale at Shutterstock, despite my ban... they just removed my Contributor Information!!! (See pic)

The only recent action I can think of leading up to my ban was my response to their generic "we haven't seen new content in a while" email... to which I honestly replied that at .10 cent royalties I was not so motivated to submit fresh content 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Seriously I don't care about their platform since the royalty re-structure, however as a "professional" corporation they should be forward with describing violation occurrence, settling payments and providing tax docs.

If anyone has any suggestions how I can reach someone internally to get to the bottom of this, I'd appreciate it!

And for old times sake: #shutterstockboycott, #sstk, #boycottshutterstock, #nolongeratshutterstock

By increased sales, you mean quantity or royalties earned?

Quote from: PixelsAway on September 17, 2020, 03:39
Last few months in my case:
increased video sales in SS, very poor sales on P5, no sales on AS,
but I don't have too many clips, 700+ .

Since this #boycottshutterstock i've Stopped uploading fresh content, had few sub dollar video sales (and deleted those clips immediately from their collection), past few weeks only a few clip sales at SS and a big increase in clip sales at AS! Had 2 sales over $60 ea past 2 days at Adobe! Hope this trend continues!

Anyone else seeing similar trend?

#boycottshutterstock #sstk #shutterstockvideo

This has been my argument for a while now. While the popular #BoycottShutterstock hashtag is quite dominant among the contributors, the alternative #ShutterstockBoycott is much less used, but we should change that because it will Auto-Suggest search results to buyers, contributors and investors that are not aware of the boycott. This is a screen grab from Instagram, we can clearly see the suggested hashtag that can be easily accessed by anyone whom types in "Shutterstock"... let's keep up with the boycott and spread the word across all social media!

Just got notification of 2 images sales at #Shutterstock (#sstk) nearly a month after I disabled all my images!?!? Am I missing something or anything goes at SS??

Send them an e-mail questioning this action.

"Please note that I'm seeing unauthorized image sales today. I chose to stop ALL of my images sales and disabled my image portfolio at Shutterstock on June, 7."

Anyone else have this happen, anyone ever audit their disabled images (have another person in different region/country contact and request a disabled image)?? If they are neglecting our wishes and selling images we disabled then I smell a class Action 🤷🏼‍♂️

#boycottshutterstock #shutterstockbuycott

Today, I had 7 video sales at .84 cents each!! Pulled my 5k images few weeks ago, I think video boycott is next.  NO way .84 cents per clip is sustainable for any contributor!! #boycottshutterstock #shutterstockboycott

Just disabled around 5k images... too many .10 cent sales!! #boycottshutterstock #shutterstockboycott #saynotoShutterstock

Message from a Creative Manager at a national brand... (see attachment) 

I used both in my post. I believe that starting hashtag with #shutterstock... the auto complete will bring awareness to people who don't know about the boycott.

Quote from: Clair Voyant on June 02, 2020, 03:58
Bart...

Why not use the already trending #boycottshutterstock ? If you want momentum you should stick with momentum.

As a Content Creator and Ad Agency content buyer....
This is what I will be sharing with my followers on FB, IG, TWITTER and LinkedIn ... feel free to do the same!


______


Hello Friends, clients and followers!

As many of you know, I've been a photographer for most of my adult life. I had the pleasure of sharing many of my images (and videos) with you. Quite a few times, I had a chance to work with you on #Photography, #GraphicDesign, and other #CreativeProjects.

Over the years, to subsidize my income, I've been working with various #StockPhoto agencies selling my work.

A few days ago, one of these #StockPhotography agencies pulled the rug from under me and over a million #creative fellows such as myself. 
On May 26th, #Shutterstock Inc (NYSE: SSTK) notified its contributors of drastic changes to the payout structure, which took effect today (June 1st).
With this new structure #Shutterstock has cut prices and lowered the #royalties it pays to the people who drive their business.
They believe it's ok to keep up to 85% of the revenue for our work, our many hours of planning, creating, key-wording and uploading artwork, while continually investing in new gear.

If you agree that pay rates as low as 10¢ for an image, that we sometimes spend hours creating, are not fair...
I respectfully ask you to follow the thousands of creatives and stock content buyers in showing support for  #ShutterstockBoycott.

••• Please refrain purchasing from #Shutterstock Inc.
••• Please share this letter with anyone that is a #Photographer, #Videographer, #GraphicDesigner and/or works in #Advertising or #Marketing industries.

There are many great #StockAgencies out there that offer their content creators a fair and sustainable royalty structure!

You can support me (and many other creatives) by purchasing from Pond5.com and Adobe:
https://www.pond5.com
https://stock.adobe.com

Thank you kindly,

Bart

Shutterstockboycott is in a way better, it starts with "shutterstock" which will assist in auto suggest for anyone searching "shutterstock". Now would be good to do some basic website for that domain and have backlinks to it from a lot of external sites (extra google points for .edu .gov backlinks). I suggest pushing #shutterstockboycott as hashtag since it would build on auto suggest searches  and can lead into shutterstockboycott.com versus leading back to boycottshutterstock.com ( which is their platform).

Quote from: mj007 on May 29, 2020, 20:14
Question , I think I know the answer. Is any SS contributor/s on the board of Directors of SS. I assume not... If so why . not . Without Contributors you have no SS. Most Corporations have 6-15 board members. SS needs Photographer Contributors on their board. I do assure you this bad revenue decision was voted yes by the SS board of Directors..

How about the upper management at #shutterstock lead be example... each Jan 1st their pay goes to minimum wage.. if they reach their quota their pay increases ...then the following year goes back to min wage 🤷🏼‍♂️

Clients/investors looking into a company's dealings don't start search with #boycott... they start search with #shutterstock...

More effective to start with most obvious search word.

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on May 27, 2020, 01:46

Quote from: Bart on May 27, 2020, 01:44
Let's get a hashtag started on social media, has to start with shutterstock so it auto suggests the rest... maybe #shutterstockboycott ?

Lots of existing tweets with #boycottShutterstock, so that's what I'm going with

Let's get a hashtag started on social media, has to start with shutterstock so it auto suggests the rest... maybe #shutterstockboycott ?

Let's get a hashtag started on social media, has to start with shutterstock so it auto suggests the rest... maybe #shutterstockboycott ?

Quote from: mj007 on May 27, 2020, 00:52
Tweeter is a good way to get out message...A lot of post already  on that you can retweet.. Search  " shutterstock contributors"  you will find the many post....Please retweet and post you own SS sweet tweets...

Please take time to share ur thoughts on social media tagging and using their hashtags for non contributors to see. We need to stand up and not let SS insult our hard work and time it takes to create content!

Agree!! Bad PR is the only tool we have to fight back!! Please post to Twitter and IG with #shitterstock tags!!

Quote from: mj007 on May 27, 2020, 00:51
Tweet is a good way to get out message...A lot of post already  on that you can retweet.. Search  " shutterstock contributors"  you will find the many post....Please retweet and post you own SS sweet tweets...

Looking for some of my flies and how they turn up on P5, I just noticed that they have implemented a default "Price Range" from $0-$80... I agree that the price range tool is great for fine tuning searches, but here it is turned to $80 max as default. I don't have insight into how clients search on pond5, but as an educated guess I would argue that 80%-90% of customers will NOT expand search preferences and adjust the slider to over $80/per clip ... thus if you want to be visible in search results to 100% of buyers, you have to price your HD and 4K clips under $80 or loose out on huge chunk of search returns!!

ps. tried on 3 web browsers. first load results show full range, second visit show $0-$80 results

Thanks Mat, Send u a DM

Quote from: MatHayward on May 15, 2019, 03:04
Hi Bart,

What is the clip number? I'll be happy to look into it for you.

thanks,

Mat Hayward

So I saw today a video clip sale at Adobe for 1.56. I know SS has a deal which pays contributor $1.50 (which caused me to remove some clips there), but I didn't expect Adobe to join in on the rape.

I pulled the plug on Getty while back for dollar vid sales, just limited And removed video clips at SS, stopped working with VB, so Adobe is next to get my left overs?

Anyone else seeing $1.xx sales at Adobe?

——-update——
Mat was kind enough to look it up and, this is my error, I did upload a still 4K frame as jpg and did not change the title.

Put down the pitch forks, Adobe is quick to look into problems on here. Thanks!!

Done uploading since March, no more! will wait another month or two (to see if sales return), otherwise time to pull the plug.