while waiting for payment we received this;
"We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with Skrill, one of our third-party payment providers. As a result, February 15 payouts will be delayed for all artists using Skrill as their payment option."

And in dashboard $22 is already taken away for Skrill fee...  Skrill is going to Fee everything.  Why don't they fee every login to their page too. Assholes.

our revenue on Fotolia are 10 times lower than on Shutterstock. We hardly sell anything in the past half year. Only good months were just after first big batch of files were uploaded and imported. Now even if we upload on regular basis, sales are low.

We foreseen this years ago... but today it is getting funny how shittystock is collapsing.

If you have good port, you'll do well on SS and probably on Pond5 too. We personaly don't like Videoblocks, because (again our prediction) they are dumping industry standard prices.

Skrill IS nothing but thieves.... conversion rate from USD to EUR has been 1:0,94 for a month now, but Skrill even lowered the conversion to grab more money from transactions. Nothing but thieves.

Our analysis show that only Shutterstock, Pond5, Dissolve and Fotolia are worth the time per earnings. While we avoid dumping practices of other agencies for our long term income. We are even slowly dumping istockphoto for their worse contributor share.

When someone goes big and starts manipulating whole market with new prices, you'll understand how disturbing is any new price dropping and cutting comisions of contributors.

We've been there long enough that we don't upload there anymore; http://video-stock.org/contributors-leaving-istockphoto-getty-images-is-for-the-best-of-whole-stock-industry/

long story short; their attitude, extremely low contributor share and naive rejections are main reasons why we stopped uploading. We do get just above $100 income every month from what we uploaded, but it's not even close to be worth dealing with them. When these sales dry up, we will close account.

Unless they fix the prices of 4K (we didn't upload 4K, but downscalled HD) and contributors share. Then we might overlook their attitude.

loosing many hundred euros per month because of their receiving fees, unfair currency and high withdrawal fees is simply criminal act.

This limitations are doubled edged. If you are new artist, it could slow down your possible income, while if you already have a big port on their site, the files MIGHT get reviewed faster. If you have big port to upload, it's better to contact directly and send whole initial batch. We are slowly uploading new files on Dissolve, because they were always slow on reviewing side. There are now about 3k of files to get them online... even with 250 per month it will take forever (because we make 250 new files every month).

Never had burn out syndrom. We are shooting stock video full time. Me and my girlfriend are doing it on daily basis and live just fine from it. It was easier to buy better equipment when we had full-time jobs and doing stocks part-time, but you forgot about relationship. So we dropped jobs and doing stock full-time. We enjoy it, because we work whenever we si it fit. When we have an idea to shoot, we shoot. We have a lot of stuff still waiting to be edited, and even much more to be tagged (still tagging some last year stuff). We perfected the flow of work, it's just the matter of what you feel to work each day. Our part-time work is finding some new niches to grow some new funds.

Can you withdraw from Paypal outside US?

Same experience here... many shots we wouldn't upload any more sell better than many others where we invest many time and knowledge.