Quote from: obj owl on May 29, 2020, 12:40

Quote from: Lizard on May 29, 2020, 12:34

So now Im getting this on forum.

Your account has been suspended and you therefore do not have permission to access this site.
Your suspension will be lifted on June 30, 2020.

Does this stand for forum only or the site and forum are connected ?

Give us your username and password and I will check it out for you.

Sorry, Im not getting this. Where would you check ?

Another brilliant move from our beloved Company:

They purchased www.boycottshutterstock.com and redirected it to their main website.

Apparently they are screwing with us big time

You must have some great items. I have not got the 90-250 dollar sell  from SS in maybe five years. I get maybe one 28.00 sale  ever three or four months. The 28 buck sell I guess will go to 4.80

Here is a way to beat SS. Unfortunately I have not the intellect to design this . As a group setup a new site, with free images. Yes free images, might as well be free if SS and the other sites go with this new model. Hard to beat free. Not even the evil SS can beat free. You have a site that is just like every other site with the difference all images/videos are free. To get a free image you have to listen to a 30-60 second add . Just like the adds on youtube. The difference you can't rush are turn off the add. At the end of the advertisement you get a unique number/code for one free picture or video that day. You can get as many pictures per day as you listen to different adds and get different codes.The codes are only good per image per 24 hours. The the payout which I guess is small , you get an advertising fee for showing the add. No this most likely won't get you more money than the slims at SS but free is hard to beat. No sure what those  adds pay but I am guessing 20 to 40 cents each. You could also charge a yearly fee like Costco dose, maybe 29 bucks a year to make a little more revenue.

The only thing that SS will cares about is their Wall Street Stock price. I urge everyone to send stores/reports to ever business news outlet. Such as CNN,CNBC,Investors Daily,Fox Business,Wall Street Report and the other 1000 business reports. Just send links of these Microstockgroup post. No business wants to see their name in a negative way in any business report. Post stories/post on Linkedin. If SS dose this and I only have to assume they will do it. All the other stock sites will follow and reduce their rates to contributors. The other stock sites have nothing to lose but gain more of your revenue.     

Quote from: cobalt on May 28, 2020, 03:13

I will not disable anything.

I will wait to see the actual sales results in June and July and also to see if Shutterstock comes to their senses and adjusts their new royalty plan, especially, if they cancel the yearly reset to zero.

Once I have all that information I will adjust new uploads accordingly.

Especially with video I might favor other places.

And if the results from photo sales falls, I will upload new content elsewhere first and SS will become an agency for older content.

But if the money is more or less the same, I will change nothing.

Thanks for standing up for a little bit of reason instead of hasty angry reactions.

I will wait and see, before I determine that everything is terrible and that SS has become the evil force in the Universe of Microstock.

I don't understand why people are turning off, closing, shutting down, when they have no information or data, on how this actually affects us? If nothing else, I'm at a good level and will be going up another soon, and I can make money until January 1st, and then decide.

No I will not disable my portfolio June 1st, it's too soon to see how this will affect anything or how it will change my earnings.

I'm not sure. Adobe has a pricing structure similar to "old shutterstock" and they had no problems paying out 33c per image to contributors. https://stock.adobe.com/plans

Some complex math would be needed to see what the minimum "should" be, and it's further complicated by the fact that we have no idea how many of the buyers have those 350/750 images plans. Someone said it's a large majority of sub sales. If so - then I wouldn't go below 33c.

If they operate at a loss (which I doubt), then increase the prices for customers. Or maybe decrease your operating costs, spend less on that fancy Empire State Building office...

To be honest video only makes up a relatively small percentage of my portfolio so I wont be continuing to upload any after the changes in any case (even if they change levels, do rolling etc. I would still be in too low a tier for my liking).

My knowledge for that is therefore limited. If they do levels on rolling 12 months is 251+ sales in a calendar year a lot for a mainly-video full time contributor (I genuinely don't know). This would put you on 30%.

1. Percentages have to mean actual percentages based on downloads utilised by buyers. They are now meaningless. Ongoing reporting can be achieved by reporting and paying the minimum possible payout each month (if buyer uses all dls) and the remainder paid the following month when SS knows how many dls the buyer actually used.

2. Totals absolutely must be based on a rolling 12 month basis, the January reset is bizarre and indefensible. Rolling basis would have all the claimed benefits of rewarding contributors, while we still get to eat and pay rent in the first few months of the year.

We aren't going to get them to abandon the new structure entirely. We need to pressure them to make it a win win rather than simply punishing us to line their own pockets.