Saying Shutterstock "isn't dead to me" doesn't mean anything for other people, we have to talk numbers, clearly.

May 2025 until 6th - 367 downloads, 225.60 USD
May 2026 until 6th - 205 downloads, 132.23 USD

Quote from: Bauman on May 06, 2026, 13:18In April, I had more downloads on Shutterstock than on Adobe.

This doesn't say anything as well, on AS I had 1.7$ RPD while on SS was 0.5$ RPD for April. Even tho I had 40% less downloads on AS last month I earned more than SS.

March 2026: 1,814 downloads — $1,698 (330$ was from unlimited)
April 2026: 1,013 downloads — $507 (until today 21st of April)

And Adobe Stock is performing very well this month—within just two weeks, I've already matched what I earned during the entire month of March. It almost feels like customers are shifting from one platform to another.

Quote from: FHphotography on April 21, 2026, 08:10
It's a disaster. And to add salt to wounds, few of my bigger sales just disapeared overnight...

That's the issue for me as well. The number of downloads hasn't dropped significantly—it's still within the normal range—but higher-value sales have completely disappeared. As a result, my income for April is currently about three times lower than in March and roughly 40% lower than in April 2025.

They in!

I'll never understand why, with a portfolio of 20,000 assets, you'd choose to sell your work through another company that takes an additional cut of your earnings. You could likely earn 5–10 times more by working directly with each agency yourself.

Incredible slow half a month on SS compared with March, 50% less earnings compared with March until 15th. On the other side Adobe is doing very well, almost like they flipped sides, for me SS always performed double than AS.

Quote from: Pacesetter on April 09, 2026, 17:32
Earnings are way down on Adobe these past three weeks. Anyone else seeing this?  If not then it's just my port slowdown for the time being.

My sales are way higher than normal for the last 2 weeks on Adobe but also SS is slowing down in April even tho March was a really good month on SS.

How ironic, expiring exactly the same date when they will send a new key, I'll take it.

Adobe normal, SS is picking up with good sales, almost made until today what I made whole month of February without the unlimited bonus.

How can you see how much you uploaded in 2025 at Adobe, is there any way?

350$ from unlimited this month, every month is higher and higher.

They do not necessarily need to close all of these sites. Each site may have its own client base, and not all clients would automatically migrate to a main platform if those sites were shut down. Many could choose alternative providers instead.

For this reason, I believe it would be risky for Getty to close all platforms and consolidate everything under a single site.

Can't complain, by far the best January on Istock.

There is no option to request payment on 123rf, it's automated.

I think they don't send the payments anymore, can anybody confirm if they receive it lately, I passed the earning requirments and they don't send the money.

All the big sales are gone from SS. I don't see anything higher than $3 anymore, which is crazy for Shutterstock. I'm Level 5 for images, and I used to have sales like that on a daily basis. Not anymore this year, they clearly changed something.

It looks like the larger image sales have almost completely disappeared on SS. I used to regularly get sales ranging from $10 up to $100, but since January 1 I've had only one for $70 and a few around $10. It's nothing compared to last year. It almost feels as if a switch was flipped on January 1 and those higher-value sales simply vanished.

I'm currently Level 4 for images and will probably reach Level 5 by the end of this week. The download volume is a bit lower, but not nearly as dramatic as the drop in larger sales.

Quote from: yuriy on January 26, 2026, 18:12
i have made more $ today on AS than the entire month at SS.  it took 2 more days to get to level 2 than last year and i have 1000s more assets now.  currently for jan AS is 23.15x what SS is.  not sure how much more abuse i can take.

Just to confirm what you're saying: over 10 years in microstock, AS has never outperformed SS in any month until now. Historically, SS usually delivered about double the performance of AS. This month is the first time AS is performing roughly 20% better than SS. SS is clearly dropping fast even tho I'm halfway to level 5 for pictures, and it's quite strange to see such a sharp decline from one month to the next.

Down 15% compared with December 2024 and up 2% compared with December 2023.

Quote from: Wilm on January 19, 2026, 21:43

Quote from: DaLiu on January 16, 2026, 12:21
First time ever when at this time at the month even tho I am level 4 on SS after 1st week, AS is passing SS on income overall with 3 times less sales.

On January 6, you posted that you had a total of 171 downloads on Shutterstock in January up to that point. Did you get 330 downloads on the rest of January 6 and January 7? That's impressive.

Sorry, I meant 2nd week.

Quote from: jovannig on January 16, 2026, 15:22
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.

We would expect the numbers to go down as well if people are leaving but thats not the case, I see some decrease in number of sales but that is influenced as well by the unlimited plan.

First time ever when at this time at the month even tho I am level 4 on SS after 1st week, AS is passing SS on income overall with 3 times less sales.

Quote from: Bauman on January 15, 2026, 14:11
Shutterstock's January start was horrible for me. 

Not so much for the number of photos sold, but for the particularly low RPD.

I'm at level 3 and about to reach level 4, just one day late. But the problem is that I have a RPD of $0.33, compared to $0.68 in January 2025.

Are you also experiencing a shortage of licenses >$10?

I'm already level 4 and I can confirm, the rpd is very low, similar to yours and compared with the last 6 years for me.

I uploaded 180 camera pictures, only 1 got rejected due to the intelectual issues.

Quite bad for me as well, slowest start from the last 6 years.