Quote from: Uncle Pete on July 05, 2018, 11:13

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Quote from: rinderart on July 04, 2018, 16:25

I just Like to see the work. call me crazy. people can write till there blue. oh, on a good Note and Bad note June was my Best month On SS in 27 Months. good but sad.Vast majority was 6/7 year old stuff.

Pretty much the same for me: June was my best month on SS in 20 months, except that my new stuff has a decent selling rate.

And no, you are definitely not crazy. I also "like to see the work".
What I don't like is to share mine. 

There's another place I can agree. I sure enjoy that most popular on SS is totally absurd and wrong. At least someone can't go look at my best sellers and start making copies or better versions. That's why I don't post my latest great seller or best earning shots. I'm not inviting 100 thousand people, scuffling for quarters, to come copy my ideas. 

New images will struggle up hill against the flood of new images coming down. I've pointed this out before but for some reason people don't see the serious effects.

2010 10 million images, sales were still reasonably good.

2012 (when the big earnings drop started) 20 million images

Now 200 million images and 1 million or more, new a week. How many buyers are there, what's the demand or need? That would have also needed to grow 100 times and even then, ratios don't explain that the market is just not big enough to sell like it did, with less competition. I'd have to upload 100 times my total, every year, just to keep up. Or we'd need 100 times more buyers every year?

Slice of the pie is going to be smaller. No way around that. The growth of earnings in Microstock has stagnated, for many regressed.

Every other "general" agency is the same or worse. Maybe, a select few agencies are still growing because they are selective, concentrate on video, or have a specific market.

this is a finished business for contributor. still there is some spare mont to be done, but how many contributor earns to make a real living n a modern country? micro can be a good side line earning. primary income is and will be soon impossible. 1millon  images added per week, and it' only the beginning. we soon see 2 3 4 5 10 million per week. there are thousand of potential contributor living in poor country where e en 50 dollar can make a difference at month. personally i'm earning more this year but the work put to earn a 5 % more is abysmal, and not rewarding. i still have a long backlog to upload but i am more interested in rm and small boutique agency.

Quote from: Herg on July 03, 2018, 02:53

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I hear you bro

Monthly sales at DT for the last year, see the pattern?
17   17   15   20   21   10   28   11   17   12   11   14

One of the reasons why I never shoot anything that breathes or talks.
Way too risky, not worth at all in my opinion, especially where I live.
Even if I never ever shoot people, I almost got arrested for pedophilia once when doing a timelapse of a merry go around on a beach.
Lesson learned, I don't even shoot animals now. You never know...
And remember, Testino, Weber and Richardson all got in trouble

Quote from: GraniteCove on February 01, 2018, 08:51

I just mean anyone who does not need the income from micro to survive.

Yes, that.  For survival, I hear that McDonalds is still hiring ...

Considering this isn't the most commercially appealing and versatile of shots, perhaps he should be happy to earn 25 cents.

Depends where you live and how many files you have. I would say about 10,000 good quality and variety photos would yield some decent income to live in a developing country.

Quote from: alexandersr on April 22, 2017, 10:13

hi, i'm upset, Istock don't let me upload more files, this is the message appear.
 "Error: 'submission_batch' maximum number of contributions reached"
I have only 73 files on Istock.

Are you uploading through ESP? There you can have multiple 'submissions' each containing multiple videos or images. Maybe the maximum is 73, and you need to create a new 'submission' so you can add a new bunch of up to 73?

Probably wrong, but just thinking of potential reasons... as I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people who have more than 73 items in their portfolio!

So I started this business in October... I'm up to a portfolio of 750 on Shutterstock, and similar at other sites. I really have only been uploading regularly to Shutterstock, Adobe and iStock... some Dreamstime and Bigstock. Everywhere else seems a waste of time. Anyway, today I sold an extended license for the first time. Woot! And a few days ago I discovered my image in Forbes. Very excited. Seems like business is getting a bit better with each hundred photos. I also started a YouTube channel which adds some more fun to the whole thing! Just wanted to share!