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Messages - Mimi the Cat
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« on: February 06, 2025, 11:07 »
Anyone else unable to see the graph (microstock poll results) as of February 2025?
It disappeared even though I cleared cookies cache etc.
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« on: January 17, 2025, 11:42 »
I got the email below from Alamy today. This only seems like a positive, but as a result Im not sure why theyre asking rather than just demanding. Am I missing something?
Would you like to increase your revenue from Collecting Society payments?
Alamy currently works with several Collecting Societies on your behalf to claim royalty payments on secondary uses of your images. We pay you 50% of commission of the funds awarded. You may have already received payments related to the work we do with ASCRL and other Collecting Societies.
We now have the opportunity to apply for a greater share of the royalty payments, which you can benefit from by sharing your date of birth with us. This is a new administrative requirement of some of the funders, including ASCRL, who want this additional information so they can identify copyright owners more easily.
If you can put in the time yourself apply to ASCRL and DACs yourself and keep all the money. Alamy are too cheeky taking 50%
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« on: January 10, 2025, 11:12 »
will istock will desapear ?
Will Bigstock dissappear too 
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« on: January 10, 2025, 11:06 »
More corporate fluff and meh! 
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« on: January 09, 2025, 04:30 »
I'll keep the shutterstock account open until the merger happens then delete everything.
I'm lucky if I make $50 a month now compared to $300 to $400 per month a few years ago.
I'm sick of their squeezing contributors
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« on: January 08, 2025, 11:05 »
forgot to mention---Isn't this EXCITING NEWS
What do you see as EXCITING? 
Because every time these so called stock agencies come up with some crazy assed nonsense they always throw "exciting news" in to the clearly detrimental news
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« on: January 08, 2025, 11:04 »
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« on: November 20, 2024, 11:05 »
It is unclear why the authors' income has decreased. It seems that buyers are leaving Shutterstock, but why.
My subscription sales started disappearing back in July this month next to nothing. Single and others going for 10 to 15 cents. SS are a ghost of what they used to be.
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« on: July 01, 2024, 10:19 »
Second best overall month in stock photography and videography | BME on Adobe Stock | BME on iStock | Reasonably good month on Pond 5 | Mediocre month on Shutterstock
Shutterstock was the lowest of the four agencies for May 2024 though still running in 2nd place YTD earnings.
Three Charts
1) YTD earnings Jan to May - Comparison of each year from 2020 to 2024
2) YTD earnings Jan to May - Comparison by agency for 2024
3) Earnings for the month of May - Comparison of each year from 2020 to 2024
I'm not being picky but without a Y axis the graph is meaningless. As it says $ I presumed you made $6 this year
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« on: May 05, 2024, 06:59 »
"At this point they have no more contributor royalties to loot and had better hope one of these other bets pays off
"
I wouldn't be so sure of that, royalties can always go lower and the minimum payout can go down to 5 cent or even 1 cent.
Or even dare I say $0.00
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« on: March 13, 2024, 12:01 »
Do we still have such a thing as sales on shitter stock?
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« on: February 10, 2024, 07:05 »
So now we need to shoot a lot of editorial.
and get paid ten cents for doing it
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« on: February 01, 2024, 11:53 »
Just scraped over $31 for all of January what a pile of garbage
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« on: January 30, 2024, 05:16 »
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« on: January 26, 2024, 11:21 »
Well for the first time since 2011 looks like I'll not reach the minimum $35 payout for January. Even subscription sales have died to zero for days just the occasional "single and other" sale.
In Jan 2018 I made over $318 and in 2019 $212 this Jan maybe $20. 
Glad I don't rely on them anymore 
That's how it looks for me too. I have my minimum payout at $100, and it's quite possible that I won't reach that.
In January 2015 it was $793, with around 1,000 images. Today it's 1,350.
I reduced my payout to the $25 minimum you'd probably be best to do that too.
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« on: January 21, 2024, 06:16 »
Well for the first time since 2011 looks like I'll not reach the minimum $35 payout for January. Even subscription sales have died to zero for days just the occasional "single and other" sale. In Jan 2018 I made over $318 and in 2019 $212 this Jan maybe $20. Glad I don't rely on them anymore
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« on: December 22, 2023, 09:41 »
Got it on the 21st but had to pay $1.14 Paypal fee
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« on: December 14, 2023, 11:16 »
I signed in to check and I still get the same old dashboard, but there is a banner on top telling me that something new and exciting is on its way. I'm in NY, ss's home base, so surprised it hasn't been rolled out here.
If its new and exciting its actually krap and not at all exciting
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« on: December 05, 2023, 19:27 »
Thanks for letting us know, I was wondering if anyone got their final payment yet. I'm still waiting for mine
Still waiting on Dec 6
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« on: November 19, 2023, 04:55 »
AI generated images are not photographs or photography
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« on: November 01, 2023, 04:25 »
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« on: October 03, 2023, 01:44 »
Thanks for the feeback.
-Mat
I agree also how about just setting up one time details for payout such as US citizen (Yes/No) and the paypal/skrill/payoneer details?
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« on: August 05, 2023, 04:06 »
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« on: July 20, 2023, 14:18 »
$597.61 in 12 years makes them useless as an agency.
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