Yes you heard that correct, here we are working day and night for years to produce stock photos and shutterstock security is so week that you can download the image on this website by giving original image URL: shutterdowner dot kom

Is there any way to stop this nonsense?

Same here, the balance was $82 but now showing only $8, IS is very mysterious these days

Hi All,
Shutterstock have the new option for buyers to select 2 images pack for $29. Can you estimate how much a contributor will get in that case? http://www.shutterstock.com/subscribe?clicksrc=full_thumb

We are normally getting $1.88 if buyer sign up for 5 images pack but this is new case.

Thank you all in advance

After all those 3 great days, it now looks same old wine again, only 4 sales day

Search changes algorithms should be made mostly to promote new material saving buyers to see the same old pictures over and over again. To give files exposure and a chance of selling which should be a positive thing
Changes in micro-stock and especially by agencies like SS and even Adobe are made purely for one reason in the hope of increasing profits and in the case of SS trying to satisfy shareholders.
Thats a vast difference from a sort order change trying to benefit both agency and contributors.

Seems to be that the longer it goes the more SS is falling into the trap of the Getty way to never give their contributors an even and fair break.

This is excellent analysis since it is festival season so SS is offering all new wave of images to buyers but strangely all sales are .25 cents

To Update you all, I've made my first sale on Alamy and I earned $20 for that

This is very serious concern for all contributors working day and night to provide professional contents to these big enterprises. As what I see in your profile, it looks like you were working in vector and something got hanged due to copyright issues, just assumption not blaming anything on you at all.

Hi All,
I had $104 on 25 of last month but they are still there in my account. Can you confirm the date on which they will process to money to my payoneer?

Thanks!

Could be anything: Alamy's customers don't always buy the sorts of images you can get cheaper on the micros, they are slow sellers (I had over 800 before I got my first sale) or it could be your keywords, or any number of other reasons; but where's your port so we can check?

You can check the images on my SS portfolio link below.

Yes, I also got my pictures accepted in less than 1 minute time after uploading and only 9 rejections out of 99 photos. I resubmitted them and they were also accepted. Looks like someone in shutterstock is helping FT to become number 1 in poll results... 

All of sudden today, when I try to access my port it is giving me this strange message: This contributor has no active images in their portfolio.

SS is actually going to ruin their brand t give fotolia more changes to become number 1.. Anyone else having the same issue?

Just for thoughts. Everyone seems mad about  Istock changing rules of the future images sales, not making enough money on images, sells slowing down, the man ( stock sites getting to much money and so on.. You are all right, but here is a way I thought about the business this morning. I have been doing stock for about eight years. I have generated about $70,000 dollars in this time. OK this is not a living but the ROI is really not that bad if you look at it this way. I averaged about 2000 images over those years. Clearly at first less images and now much larger than 2000 images. If you do the  math I have made about  about 35.00 dollars per image over this eight years time. I would say that I get at least three images per photo session. Each photo session  with uploading averages about one hour of time. So making about 105.00 dollars per hour is really not bad as a part time gig. I should get more ROI as the years go on.. Yes my sells have slowed downed also over the last year  even as I increase my portfolio size. So I say to you  close down your Istock accounts . You all  seem to know only  how to complain about this business.    Please close down your accounts as I will continue to make about 105 buck an hour.

You have made 105 bucks an hour because your port is very nice and above average. I helps newbies to get motivated more..

For me, I earned more on SS than FT only the first two months, when I started with this. After that, FT was my #1 earner, even with less sales.  Although, June and July are very poor for me on FT...

Fotolia is doing better in terms of price most of the time. I get $1 on average for each sale while on SS I hardly get $1.8 or $0.88 sale. Most of the time they are $25 on ss.

Finally, fotolia crossed IS and will bash Alamy too in few weeks...