I don't think it's a good idea. Shutterstock is moving along fine. This would be too much of a drastic change and could destroy something that works really well for a lot of people. It would put too much favoritism on some contributors over others.

I like the new licenses, but you can still get ANY photo at the base price, depending on your usage. It's easier for the buyers and it's easier for the contributors. Keep keeping it simple.

Besides, if you're a contributor and this is what you want, you have choices already. You can work with iStock or go with the RM agencies. Let's not make all the sites the same. That would mean fewer choices in the end.

Over the past two payments:
U.S. Source, 42 percent
Non U.S. Source, 58 percent

I'm in the U.S.

Picked up a bit this week. Two today for five this month. SODs are coming, too. Slow start this month, but things are looking better.

My number of downloads a month is generally equal to the number of images in my port. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but usually very close. It's been that way since I started on Shutterstock and continues even this month, which is slower than last month. For example, this month I've had 904 sales so far with a port of 1,121 images in my port. So, I'm pretty close to on track, and I will probably pass 1,100 sales by the end of the month.

Five last month, one this month, but at least I got a $49 and $16.80 SOD to balance a little.

In the past, my Fotolia payouts come within a day (sometimes same day) of making the request. Now it's been two weeks since I made my last payout request and still no deposit. Has anyone else noticed a change in how long it takes to get a payout after requesting it?

Not sure why it would matter. If your images are good and performing well, low performing images that don't sell well don't really compete with you because they're buried further back in the search.

I think the thing missing here is that it's not hard to get 100 photos in a batch at Shutterstock that aren't similar because of the way the site does the review. While it might not be the case this time, if you just keep adding to your submission queue during the week, all the images get grouped together for review. So you can do 10 on Monday, 30 on Tuesday, 20 on Wednesday, etc., and build up 100 very different images into what actually ends up being one batch. It wasn't an issue when the reviews happened overnight, but now that they're taking anywhere from four to seven days. I've hit around the 100 marks plenty of times in recent months.

Even with the possibility of having a whole batch rejected, I still prefer they all get grouped together because at least some images get a quick review time. I basically always queue up an image after review to start up the next week's batch.

Just photos. I got 5 ELs this past month, which is more than the usual 2-3. But total downloads overall was still up so I'm happy with the sales growth matching my efforts to get more uploaded. The quality of my images has also mostly improved.

I don't have a tax deduction because I'm set up as an LLC.

Edit:
I do have three video clips there that I just started doing, but they're horrible and have had no sales.