Quote from: douglas on June 12, 2020, 19:45

Quote from: cascoly on June 12, 2020, 18:56

but what shows is the futility of any boycott -- even removing 2 million images would only reduce the total by 1%.  no one will notice.  delete 20 million and SS will replace them quickly (and no portfolio consists of all best sellers - likely 20% of a portfolio produces 80% of income)

delete your images for other reasons, but don't imagine it will affect SS at all.

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I was encouraged to see the figure for uploaded images per week fall from 1.6M on 1 June to below 1M today, probably more important than the total number in the collection as much content ages quickly.

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So a boycott is not going to make a difference to searches for �happy smiley people doing happy smiley things� or �isolated tomato�. It will be the specific images missing from SS, because it covered almost everything and everywhere, and these will not be instantly replaced by image factories, rather than the generic which will be their undoing as the result of frustration on the part of buyers.

what does a drop in images uploaded have to do with images DELETED? - w worldwide lockdowns (esp asia & russia), it's not unexpected to see fewer images being produced
 

Quote from: FastRacer on June 13, 2020, 14:03

Removing 2 million QUALITY images will leave massive holes in the collection, ...

how do you know 2 million QUALITY images have been deleted? (or importantly, quality images that are actually  SELLING?)   

 

Quote from: FastRacer on June 13, 2020, 14:03

...And the images that are disappearing are being replaced with mostly similars garbage.  ...

and you know this HOW?  how many images leaving are those that weren't selling (or even [shocking!], 'similars garbage')

Seriously? Even if fewer images are being produced, the numbers would still be going up, not down. I would venture to guess that with lockdown vector artists, for example, would have more free time to sit in their PJs drawing stuff. That might be why, even though many vector artists have turned off their ports, vector numbers have remained steady.

I think it's possible to make more rather than less revenue from the new Shutterstock earnings structure.

It depends on the quantity of your image sales and what the portion is between subscription and on-demand/single & other.

James Wheeler posted a video about his calculations based on the new earnings structure https://youtu.be/UJT1RqMGHkY

Any more videos you�d like to share? It�s almost as if you came fully armed to this thread.

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 13, 2020, 12:00

Quote from: pgkfleming on June 13, 2020, 11:56

I've no intension of boycotting Shutterstock by suspending or deleting my portfolio. For one thing, I'm at a higher RPD in June 2020 than in June 2019 or June 2018.

I think there has been a fixation on $0.10 downloads. So far this month I've received an average of $0.44 per sale.

I upload to seven agencies and agree with the view expressed in this video https://youtu.be/XWlNVgC7xuE about exclusive accounts and diversity.

Another anonymous person with a miraculous RPD...quelle surprise.

Well, the author of this video has to sell her courses.

I see Macrovector is still there...they were/are #1.

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 13, 2020, 10:06

Quote from: cobalt on June 13, 2020, 09:16

Quote from: Brasilnut on June 13, 2020, 07:21

Some new ideas I've been brainstorming and happy to share.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2020/06/13/shutterstock-earnings-cut-hitting-them-where-it-hurts/

I like it, but could you please add a section about the most powerful weapon: stop uploading.

This is the easiest thing to do, even for those who really need the money right now. Instead, everyone can upload and focus and share links to the agencies that support us.

The upload volume has dropped to below one million, let us see what SS does when that number goes down to 500 000 or less...

It is also the thing many artists can keep up for a few weeks.

It is amazing they still totally refuse to talk to contributors, but withholding content is IMO the strongest to demonstrate to all agencies who controls the content.

Not only has he not disabled his port (and his blog post says he doesn�t plan to, not even on June 15), he�s actively uploading new images. His port has an editorial shot dated June 6, 2020.

Yes, I'm guilty of uploading 5 (five) editorials in June. Please give me a lenient sentence! I've stopped uploading btw...

For the record, nobody knows yet how bad the drop in earnings will be...what if it's just 5%-10%? That's why we need to share as much earnings income as possible using big data to make informed decisions. As mentioned on my blog post (please don't be angry anti-SS mob), my ODDs are coming in at higher than pre-June, although more data is needed. In a few months we'll have a great idea of just how far we've lost out.

The real damage will likely come in January though when everybody is back at Level I and that's when, if it's not too late and the stats show that the drop is substantial (20%+ on average), we should all work together to deactivate then so it shows a huge huge drop on the first of the month. The goal is 10 million images deactivated...we can even have a hashtag #SS10million or something like that.

In your blog post you say you�re not willing to shut off your port even for a week because you don�t want to lose $100 after all your hard work. And there�s an entire thread here of people reporting their huge drop in earnings. We don�t need your six months of stats to see what�s happening. Very few people are willing to lose tons of money over the next six months to take action in 2021. I�m sure there�ll be a second wave of outrage then, but things are snowballing now and now�s the time to strike, not in January when SS has had six months to pump up their library to twice the size with a huge flood of similars.

Gosh..."Josephine" is back to troll? No kidding. 

The best frame I think is that SS has taken the opportunity to cut their artists payments by a huge percentage in the middle of a pandemic while they have massive cash reserves and profits. Which is after all the truth and the simplest message for outsiders. IMHO opinion there is no better message than that of the single mother posted in another thread. If we replied to every SS twitter or facebook post with:

"I'm a single mother. I lost 2/3 of my income. My son and I will literally have nothing to eat." quote from Shutterstock artist after they cut their income in the middle of the pandemic
When they post images celebrating mothers, post:
"What about all the single mothers who can't support their families thanks to your pay cut for your artists?"

This.

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 11, 2020, 12:06

Quote from: microvideo on June 11, 2020, 11:51

I thought you were creating a new stock site. Why don't you do that instead?

Why don�t you?

It's not something I can do on my own. If you are already organized you could do it as a group. A site made by contributors could be the solution to stop stock sites from reducing comissions.

Do a search for symbiostock here.

"Lightroom gives three colour-mode options for exporting the finished result - and the one he picked is the one that seems to confuse some Android handsets."

"There are different ways of defining the colour space. Some spaces have specialist uses in graphic design, so sometimes you'll see images that aren't in the usual 'Standard RGB' format. It's also possible to deliberately create images that have more colour information than some devices can handle.
"What's happened here is that the way some phones deal with these cases has gone wrong.
"The phone crashes because it doesn't know how to deal with it correctly, and the software developers probably hadn't considered this might happen."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978884?at_custom3=BBC+News&at_custom4=1F8EE06C-AAF0-11EA-9DE0-2CB896E8478F&at_campaign=64&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_medium=custom7&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&fbclid=IwAR29oGf2tzTxq93qgxO13Jwa1enGl-pHctzdtVujWH-pCZ8j81APvClEeg8

Shutterstock shenanigans: This morning I found an incorrectly spelled vector in the middle of page 1 in the most relevant search. I posted it to the coalition group. A half hour later I checked again and the image had been replaced with the word spelled correctly, and had shot up to the #2 spot in most relevant.

There�s now a new post in the coalition group about someone leaving SS for Freepik. It�s obvious the site is infiltrating and even managed to get one of their people as admin for a bit.

Yep. The group is going nowhere. I disabled my port.

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In your letter you promised that this new system was a + for level 5 or level 6 and that it would keep level 4 the same. Why are these point zeros so low? Why is the rpd of everyone declining? And why should we accept a double down on January?

Where in the email did it promise that it was �a + for level 5 or level 6 and that it would keep level 4 the same?� I saw no such promise.

For years I�ve helped fight royalty cuts, written petitions, deleted thousands of images on multiple sites in protest, gotten on the phone with VPs from Shutterstock to insist they stop allowing keyword spamming, reached out to dozens of buyers to encourage them to license our work from agencies that give us better royalties, etc. I stopped uploading to Shutterstock more than a year ago over their skewed algorithms and have deleted thousands of vectors from my portfolio, and was planning to shut it off June 15 because I feel doing an action together in one day has more impact. When Jake asked for volunteers to help in the Facebook group I was the only one who responded.

My thanks for this is to have people here call me a hypocrite and repeatedly try to join the coalition on Facebook just to ask me why I haven�t shut down my port rather than doing something constructive.

But I�m done now. Jake�s on his own with 2,500 people who complain endlessly and attack other people but won�t lend him a hand. Go scratch.