January on shutterstock, for my small portfolio is the best month ever

When a close friend of mine has sold a world exclusive through hisownagency/SIPA/Rex/Getty, publishing eight picture and the cover of Rolling Stones, his roialties were 23 (twentythree) US Dollars, at the end of the chain. I'm not sure that the distribution of news photographs - that have a very short life - by SS could be economically convenient for photographers. When I shot for news in my town (I mean without trip expenses and without time expenditure to organize) I need to earn not less of 200$/day +taxes. May SS give me this sum?

That's unusual for me. The review waiting time is between 24 and 72 hrs with batch of 40

Istock October -100%
Istock November idem

SS November -50%

Others: -75%

My job as photographer excluding micro mid and macro stock: November: +250% on october

This post is for roman people:

 Mercoled� 3 dicembre alle ore 21, al Teatro Palladium-Roma Tre (Piazza Bartolomeo Romano 8, Metro Garbatella), si proietter�  "Alla ricerca di Vivian Maier", di John Maloof e Charlie Siskel (2013, 83')

Wow, I haven't seen sales Like this in I don't know how long. At least 16/18 Months. I hope others also. Sure feels good, Been Uploading Like a madman.

Wow, I haven't seen sales Like this in I don't know how long, maybe only in my first month!

Good luck rinderart. It's a wave.

smart people don't pay taxes at all.

Do you feel smart crafty thieves and scammers? Who don't pay taxes stole to the whole community.

Don't loose yourvtime asking the rule of rejection: I found that are absolutely random in every stock company.
Last batch of 95 submitted to Pond5 where I had a 99.99% rate of acceptance, were rejected in one single review, but approved in every other site at 95%.
My absolute best seller (that come from a print publication of very high quality, in a double page A3 size) was rejected five time by shutterstock and sold hundreds of time by IS, FT, DT....
My best seller in SS was rejected by DT and IS, and a snap from the car was sold many many times in CC. And to conclude: a photograph of two pidgeons on a wire with sky only background, was rejected because the lack of release by Istock! It's part of the game, try again and again and....

Digital is bread and butter for me too, but to increase business you have to live together with the stolen pictures, like musicians and movie producer. Copyright is an old concept and we have to found another way.
Please apologize my OT

@Red On: Partner distribution is one thing, as good or as bad as it gets.

But doing "partner" distribution within the same company and deducting royalties all along the way, is an entirely different thing and I hope it is quite new...

Yes Rob,
I'm saying almost the same of you, but I would like to add that partners of the same shareholders selling same pictures, cutting royalties, means fraud.

I want to re-vitalize this thred because I read a lot of posts claiming that the quality of Shutterstock is, sometime, better or equal to the Offset one. I read many answers of Scott that patiently explain what Offset was conceived for. I don�t know if Offset is going well, if the amount of pictures sold are enough to sustain the structure and to draw a smile on photographers� face. But I think to understand what they want to add to their archive.
According my interpretation of the posts, here, and without know yours ports, I have understood that there are many good professionals that have, unfortunately, a limited vision of the market. Nobody is guilty for that, is matter of chance in the life, of specialization, of personal interest.
I�m a bad microstock photographer, for instance, because I spent my life in reportage and for seven years I was hired by University to teach reportage - written, filmed and photographed - and �Grammar of a photographic narration�. Thanks to my specialty I (maybe) understand what Offset want and the differences - sometime subtle - between stock and narration.
In written language microstock photos are �subjects�, also when are describing an action (verb); An Offset single picture should be a complete narration with more elements (subject, verb, adjective, complement ecc�) and when it�s not possible to have it needs to be part of a complete narration. This means uniformity of style and language among pictures that will contribute to depict a story. Microstock is also a big mass of picture different in all of this, and are perfect for a certain kind of users. I don�t think that a good microstocker could earn less than an Offset contributor, is just matter of different approach.
To produce some of mine reportage I spent thousands of Euro, to produce my microstock I spend few bucks. Never I will mix this two kind of photographs (also because I� m a bad microstocker)

I did not applied Offset yet, and I will do when I will understand how to do it, but for sure I will not do like Red Dove, that write: �I'll get off my arse and  invest time/money into meeting their criteria�, because to have a sustainable criteria you have to work with the covered expenses, with assignment of somebody else and use Offset as �extra revenue�. This is the best way

with my test keywords (laser green research) I found the same pictures of Inmagine