Mine is down about 80% on 2017, same on RPD so its not just a case of uploading more and more.

The various cuts of going from minimum $0.38 for photos down to effectively $0.10 etc.

Video used to pay well and ive got about 1400 videos.  But you used to get $40 per clip, thats now down to $1 to $8.

The level system then further trashed earnings as you get paid a LOT less earlier in the year and even when you've levelled up you're miles off what you used to have.

Moving to a percentage based earning as well means whenever SS sell things more cheaply (always....) you now get a percentage of that new low figure so make even less from the sale.

It all adds up.

SS now pretty much sells ALL of its products massively cheaper than before *and* gives contributors a far lower percentage of that cheaper deal price.

Without going into earnings and incurring the wrath of SS, im significantly north of $1000 per month in reduced earnings since 2018 although the amount of downloads has actually increased.

AS is slowly, steadily improving.  Its got fewer images and videos (no editorial) and as of last year overtook SS in average income and continues to pull away.

Your experience with SS is identical to mine.

I wonder if their annual revenue is suffering in the same way as ours.

I take it back, I wont be submitting there anymore. Did a quick search and the overall quality of videos is pretty low and the search isn't that accurate either, but what did it for me was that they are selling both HD and 4K at the same measly price of 30 credits (1$ = 1 credit), I swiftly deleted all of my 4K videos.

Just chiming in here guys to let you know that after 3 attempts of trying to contact 123RF including not being able to join their discord server support group. I finally got a response from [email protected] saying that they were looking into why my videos were pending for months. And after around a week my videos finally got accepted.

I miss the good old days where I would receive an email from P5 saying I had made a sale, and I didn't even need to look at it because I automatically knew the commission would be 50% of the price of the video.

Yesterday I received a commission of $2.80 

I remember Mr. Hayward promising this years ago, now he's gone silent.

How about an update on this feature, adobe can't be struggling for money and it's long overdue.

I've got an extra $3.53.

Hopefully it doesn't disappear as quickly as it arrived.

Will you be buying the drinks for us tonight?

I'll have a tap water please.

I recently uploaded a video to istock that was not accepted, but instead it was requested to be 'revised' by the inspector.

However, I don't agree with the reasoning for the request to revise the video. And the instructions were to revise it and resubmit it as a new file.

But within ESP, If you select the video it allows you to resubmit it again for some reason, so I resubmitted it and also wrote a note to the inspector (not sure if they read it) explaining exactly why the video is correct and why it doesn't need to be revised. However, once again it got requested to be revised for exactly the same reason.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, should I resubmit the same file as a 'NEW' file and write the same note to the inspector? Or is there a way to open a support ticket in order to help me resolve this?

Thank you.

In the microstock poll results, why does istock no longer appear in the top 3 even though its rating is higher than DT?

Zero sales so far this year.  I dont think I've ever gone 3 months with no sales on Pond5

Anyone else?  Anything I should do?

So Far 2023 is shaping up to be an awful year for me at P5

Congrats to you and to SS who probably earned around $2000 from that sale.

I just trying to think at what point does it no longer become financially feasible to keep creating and uploading new content, although I know for many this has already become a reality with the 'race to the bottom'.

Obviously stock agencies know this and they need new content to train the AI for current trends.

So until when do stock agencies keep pushing down the threshold with how little they can payout to contributors, or do they already know what that threshold is?

We should all put our money together and buy a stripper.