down 80% compared to last march...all around agency sales....don't know if it's coronavirus or my portfolio have been switched completely off...in adobe i have similar position as always but down 90% compared to february first 10 days....

canta is giving away all istok collection for 11,95 dollar month.....i always said and believe firmly that getty is number one enemy for micro, and the one who killed the market, they simply are trying to dumping all market, selling for peanuts photos just to kill as and shutter stock...so for those penney you are receiving each month you are killing your business. think again next time you decide to upload items for getty.
they are killing your library earning.

we have reached this level of poor image quality in ss?
why?
how?

can somebody explain?
https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/97747-my-quest-for-10000-images-before-the-end-of-2019/

first this puppet who believe to be a master of photography while he doesn't have a clue what is talking abut...7000 of snapshots repetition technically applying images...asomebody who earn probably 20 dollar month and claim to be a super expert...

then i read this indian miracle

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/97689-are-people-really-earning-from-the-shutter-stock/

one dollar and he cannot believe why only one dollar?

can somebody explain why ss is accepting this stufff if not they want only sell images paying 0,25 cent instead 0,38?
personally i m getting ashamed to collaborate to a company who accept this stuff.

despite a grow in therms of earning compared to 2017, near 15% each month what i see is that

2017-   rpi one dollar...so every photo uploaded in 2017 gave me a dollar end of year


2018-  rpi projection is 0,2 dollar per image.


practically everything uploaded in 2018 is down on the garbage pool.

compared to istock it's completely different. my most sold images of 2018 so far are from 2018 and 2017, only 10% older than 2017 sold. i really demand if it's worth to upload anything new in ss.

appalling start of month. only istock show sign of improvement. ss is falling literally down, just a little 2,85 in 5 days. the rest a bunch of sod. completely dead. i see there are glitches uploading, but it seems the site is full of glitches:)
don't know what to think.
sold only file with 5 at beginning, mostly from 3 4 years ago, nothing uploaded in the last two years sold.
i have some images for carnival who are in first page , 4 images , and 2 page, 2 images, for the therm search " food ,carnival"....i think a good search for the period. no sales of these images.
they had a good change till 17 january then mess again and nosediving.

i read an article at dpreview
about unsplash.com site.
in practice free foto at max resolution.
i watched the quality and seems a lot like stocksy but free...i think in most cases better quality than micro. for free.
already 1200000 download.
that's scaring.

I was a contributor to Demotix since the firs days....thankst to 3 big photos i earned more there than with all my micro stock in 9 years...i mean x0000 dollar.....
today went to the website, and they redirected me to corbis.
Demotix had a distribution deal with corbis, some images were picked up by corbis staff and sold through corbis.
then corbis acquired demotix. then
those chinese, with million zillion of dollar , who pay 100 dollar month to workers, don't respect nothing, no law , anything....bought corbis, probably in a secret deal with getty and NOW, voila, demotion disappeared,our account disappeared, our photos disappeared but are in corbis most of them, they can sell and we don't know nothing, no mail from demotix or corbis, anybody to contact to know what is the future.
I saw a slow in sales there, probably they not even accounted most of sales in the last year, 20 dollar in 12 months....ok i stopped uploading contents more than a year ago.
Luckily i had only 15 pound to be received.

But this story tells a lot of the situation of micro macro news photography.
Luckily in some years will be back to normal and past situation, many amateur who earn nothing will stop dreaming of living with micro stock, many micro and macro will fail, and sane and good competition will arise to serious professionall, who live with photography,.
so far we can't blame anybody, we created this accepting micro stock. But the Demotix story is f...ing amazing especially the fact that a freedom photojournalistic agency made by normal people is now controlled by communist state called CHINA