I had 2 large sales on the 6th - I thought they were suspicious so I saved the two emails. But they took $9.14 more than the total of those 2 sales.

We need a true accounting of this fiasco and more transparency as to the cause.

Anybody get an email from Adobe RE: a survey about Adobe Stock and the Contributor platform?
I'm about to take it and probably not be complimentary.

The thing i want to see when i click on a site is my current months earnings - that's what i track. Not the last week or 10 days or last 30 days. I don't need my all time earnings- i know that. Then i want an easy way to see todays sales followed by an easy link to my image all time stats. I don't want to have have to select random date ranges and frankly I don't care about charts and graphs.
What part of keeing it simple and sensible is so hard for sites to understand.

Quote from: stockman11 on January 18, 2019, 15:32

For the 1st time on this site I see that my earnings declined - they are gradually going down during the last few months. And January doesn't looking great so far either. Hopefully it's just temporary.

Bad. Reviewing very very slow.

The sent this out on Dec 16th regarding reviewing:

Dear contributors,

Based on the recent survey feedback so many of you kindly provided, we�ll be making a few changes and focusing our attention on a rebuild of our underlying systems. Once it�s all done you�ll have a much more attractive and usable interface in Canva.

As we need to redirect our reviewing team to some of the new products we�re building, we�ll be putting a hold on reviewing new image submissions for the next month or so.

You�re welcome to continue uploading while reviewing is on hold if that�s what suits your workflow. All images will be stored and added into the system afterwards. If you prefer to stop uploading while you wait for us, that�s fine too.

Let me know if you have any questions.

No- but my last sale was for .90 my share still .35

You can and edit the files after they have been accepted at Adobe Stock.
From your dashboard click on the file - then click on the field your want to change then click the edit icon.

But to solve your problem - First upload to a site that has a spell checker, when you see a problem go back and fix it before you upload anywhere else.

I wish there was a way to see how many views a photo has had.  Of course downloads is important, but there is good information to be had knowing how many views a given photo has.

About all 'views' tell you is how many people didn't buy your image. That's more depressing than informative.

I'd say, to be safe, start over with a new approved release and make sure it's legible.

I'm not trying to paint them in any particular light...I'm sure they're well-meaning. I found that "real" support answered my questions pretty quickly, as frustrating as I may have found a few of their answers.

I won't be writing to support any more because now it's fruitless...the fellow contributor I'm writing to knows no more than I do and has no access to the files I'm asking about.

This is just an attempt by Shutterstock to save money by doing away with most contributor support and replacing it with contributors who are willing to make, from your telling, literally 5 to 10 cents an hour. I find it sad. It's sad for the support staff who might have been making a living wage, and it's sad for contributors who are willing to work for 5� an hour.

I feel exactly the same way having had the same exact experience as you.
And as everyone stops sending support requests because of the poor responses they will need fewer and fewer people to respond - they win  - and with fewer support requests they can boast how well the system works because they get so few complaints -- they win.

works fine here

One's numbers will also be affected by when they started and how much they sold early on when subs were .20, and OD's and SOD's and EL's hadn't been invented yet.

Minus Video Stats (I have no reference for that).
Here's a brief history of SS royalties.
*disclaimer just a quick look back at my history - not anything official*
2005 Sub�s .20

2006 Subs .20 
         OD�s introduced (3.99)
          EL�s introduced $20
          March 30th Sub�s increased to .25 

2007 Subs .25 
         April 30 Sub�s increased to .30

2008 Subs .30   
         May 14th Levels introduced
         Sub�s increased to .25 - .33 - .36 - .38
         OD�s increased to current tier level
         El�s increased to $28


2009  Subs & OD's - No Change

2010  Subs & OD's - No Change

2011 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD�s introduced ($2.94; $5.70 & $18.00)

2012 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD's (Sept got first larger $90 DL)

2013 Subs & OD's - No Change
         Facebook .38 SOD�s introduced (late January)

2014 Subs & OD's- No Change
          Larger SOd�s
          June SOD�s for 125.61; 73.81; 120.00


2015 Subs & OD's - No Change

2016 Subs & OD's - No Change
         EL's change to your level pricing and amounts vary, but most under $28.00

2017 No Change

2018 No Change

** Edit - .71 for me all time

Quote from: PhotoBomb on September 29, 2018, 08:54

Quote from: Noedelhap on September 29, 2018, 08:28

Shutterstock's goal is to increase downloads and thus profits, and to stimulate you to upload more work; they don't care how many downloads you personally get. Whether it's 50% of the downloads for contributor A and 50% for contributor B, or 100% for A and 0% for B, the bottom line is all that counts.
That means the search algorithm is not designed to work against any specific contributor, it simply doesn't care as long as the bottom line is looking good.
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In a suscription based model increasing downloads does not increase their profits.

Increasing downloads, or subscribers*

Increasing downloads is not the goal - increasing subscribers is where the money is.
And in theory increasing subscribers should mean more downloads.