In 2019 Shutterstock celebrated a payout milestone. June 1st 2020,  they plan to slash royalties for all contributors. More profits for SS, much less for SS contributors. Please rethink this bad PR decision SS. "We the Contributors" can work as a team with SS. It is not too late and make everyone happy with more revenues for all..

SS I hope you are reading this post. Here is a way for you to save face on this bad PR move you have created. SS send out an e-mail and say after reconsidering our move to lower contributor rates we are putting this on hold for now. We will get a group our top SS contributors and work as a team to see how we can cut cost and make more revenue for SS corporation and the contributors. As you know SS is hurting for revenue during this Pandemic and we know as a team we can work through this...No this is just a thought I had (W.Scott McGill) but something like this would save face for SS and "We the Contributors".   

The original owner took his billion dollar stock option and left SS. Here is the fact..SS is the biggest and largest seller of stock photos. Most likely that is not going to change until some new technology comes along. They can and will set the new standard of stock prices. Yes we are getting screwed. Just wait until all the other sites start paying 10 cents per sell. You can quit stock and a lot of folks will. You can get 10-20 cents per sale in the near future. Learn to play the guitar. ...Buy SS wall street stock and short it....

Getting 10 cents an image from SS seems unprofessional to me...

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.

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.       

So at what point does Microstock collapse...when will income become so low that anyone generating quality saleable imagery cannot justify the costs to produce such imagery anymore and serious newcomers will be few and farther between?...existing libraries will age out?....maybe it will coincide with computer generated imagery becoming so good that there will be less of a need for stock photography? And what of the "Premium" collections...how will they be impacted?

  WDS respectively I disagree with some of you items. While we have been held down by this Communist Chinese Virus my sells are actually up with the exception of Istock. What have people been doing during this Pandemic...They have been on their computer. Thus the need for good images by advertisers,teacher,blogs, ect. It still takes a person with computer skills to create a computer generated image. No this is not about an industry slowing down but a greedy *insult removed* named SS. Their SS Corp headquarters is in the most expensive city in America and also one of the dirtiest cities in America. This is pure greed. Maybe if they are going to drop our rates so drastic gives us some of their worthless SS Wall Street Stock. That way we all we be getting Fuck together.

I wonder if SS paid for the images on their wall or stole them....

Someone on Twitter posted this..Not me...It is very creative..

Dear Hackers,
we, Shutterstock contributors, are forced to fight against corporate greed. Our lifelong work is going to be reduced to 10 cents. We have creativity, you have IT knowledge. Please help us to Shut down Shutterstock!

Tweeter is a good way to get out message...A lot of post already  on that you can retweet.. Search  " shutterstock contributors"  you will find the many post....Please retweet and post you own SS sweet tweets...

Tweet is a good way to get out message...A lot of post already  on that you can retweet.. Search  " shutterstock contributors"  you will find the post....Please retweet and post you own SS sweet tweets...

For me Bigstock is just no Big...If I make 250 bucks a year from them that is a good year...That is with 5000 images.