Hey guys,
How's going?

I was looking for some discussions about this topic but haven't found any. So, let me try to start one.

I was browsing through my statistics and all that microstcok/bundle sites and thinking how our field has changed during last years. As a mostly shutterstock & creativemarket person I have to say that competition is getting more and more huge. We got unlimited subscription sites, vast graphic resource bundles and else. I mean, how many "doodle packages" customer needs before he stops buying? Especially when he can get thousands of them in a sale for 30bucks or so.  As a result, every upcomming creation gets harder and harder to sell. For example, my new products on CM sold only 4 or 5 times during last months. (2 years ago you'd get houndereds). Similar to the SH, new uploads performing really bad.

So, after all - based on my stats. In 2017 I made only 1k or 2k from all of my new illustrations, products, fonts... What made my salary was my old stock content - all of these images which build stong positions during years of succes. I mean, everything new I create won't do any good for me.

By math, I need around 400 new shutterstock illustrations each month to made my income. That's more than I'm able to make in 2years time.

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Are you experiencing same? Do you have any solution how to keep up in 2018 and future years? What causes this trend?

Good luck,
Vitek