Gladly! Please link me to some and I'll expose them

There are plenty of books and e-books on this topic on Amazon, too.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stock+footage&i=stripbooks&crid=MMKXGTCF0W92&sprefix=stock+footage%2Cstripbooks%2C90&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Today I saw that the income for April has decreased significantly. Although yesterday it would have been twice as much. Check your statistics.

Same.  But I've also had months where my payment was higher than what was reported, so maybe this will work itself out by payday, or maybe they caught their mistake and are taking it out of this month.

They did say last year that they're re-working their commission structure and that it would take a few months to shake out, so things still might be in flux. 

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.  That's been my philosophy in this business as of late.

As I understand, with this unlimited plan, the customer can use the downloaded files only once, after having previously registered such use, and within the time of their subscription.

This would only benefit the contributor if the subsequent downloads of the same element by the same buyer counts toward the contributor's monthly bottom line, or if only the FIRST download counts, and any "re-downloads" by the same buyer is simply provided as a convenience perk.

I wonder how this works on Storyblocks or any other "unlimited" subscription program.

Everyone here is complaining about the low sales, and I'm in the same boat.  My sales are dismal so far this year when compared to previous years.  In fact, so far this month, I only have three sales on Pond5.

It's easy to put the blame on the agencies, but is that really the case?  If Pond5 or Shutterstock dropped the ball and lost customers, where did the buyers go?  If that were the case, other agencies would have picked up the slack.  But looking at my stats, I don't think that's the case.

While my Adobe seems to be going strong, it's improved performance doesn't make up the loss from other agencies.  And I don't see a dramatic trend upward at other agencies where I post clips.

Could it just be that overall, customer habits have changed?   Are they buying less, or just buying from somewhere where I'm not represented?

BlackBox is arguably the largest contributor at many mainstream agencies.  I'd like to know what their trend is.  That might put things in a better perspective.

My video trend has had some ups and downs, but have been steadily heading down on Shutterstock for the past year.  Especially the past three months.

My PDF statements and the amounts on my insight dashboard aren't matching up this year.  Seems like they're fiddling with stuff, but didn't they say it would take a few months to work out the new system?

You can't get pee out of a pool, and you can't get AI out of everyone's workflow.  Agencies will need to figure out a way to embrace AI at some level eventually.

While I understand their issue with submitting 100% AI images or videos, I think you should be able to use AI as a tool to enhance camera-generated imagery.

As more mainstream productions are permitting AI content in projects, stock will need to adjust accordingly -- with appropriate labels so buyers can opt-out of browsing content that may have been "touched" by AI.

Nope, worked absolutely fine for me.

What is supposed to happen when you hit VERIFY in the password field?  I click it an nothing changes.

I'm new to using DeepMeta for iStock/Getty.  What are "connect" downloads, and why does iStock seperate them in the TXT reports?

Well, it can�t get worse.  So far $6 this month on SS while Adobe is already at $80.

Yes, same here.  My ShutterStock is earning about $3-$5/day so far this month.  Really bad.

Amazed how things can drop off a cliff so quickly.  Where did the customers go?  I guess Adobe.  Because it sure ain't Pond5.

Bonus 2023 + Bonus 2024 = Payouts
Number of images / payouts = 0.029 USD
= All images used for training AI for 0.029 USD each.
What is not correct with that?

Think, if we calculate that the images are used not only today, but also in the next 10 years AND unlimited times, then yes, 0.0000001 USD could be correct. 

I got over $5K with about 8K videos.  How was my "bonus" calculated?

Probably a very limited use or one-time streaming license.  I had 4 of those yesterday, but not worried.  Many sales above $149/HD for custom or premium license.  They aren't that stupid to give out the same license for $5.

Then they need to be more transparent as to what these licenses cover in our sales reports. "Enterprise license" means nothing to us.