I am part of the Shutterstock-Bigstock bridge and I would not put it past SS to leverage BigStock photos to sell to customers when they can't find certain content on Shutterstock. For some of us, our content that was on SS is still available on Bigstock.  I just requested my whopping $48 and will be closing my Bigstock account next.  I simply would not put it past SS to pull in images from that collection to supplement the missing content from SS's collection. 

Just a heads up on the potential.

Disable.
Delete.
Spread.
Don't listen to dumb ones.

I'll be there in spirit.  Already disabled 7,000 assets.  Hoping for a flood of good, quality work being killed tomorrow (June 15th).

I am doing illustrations only. I found my nitch with conceptual vector based illustrations with main emphasis on education, medicine, politics, social issues like injustice, poverty and environmental conflicts like global warming, pollution and so on.
When I check the internet, I find that I have a specific group of regular customers.
Shutterstock enables me to live an independent and self-sufficient life. It makes me absolutely happy when I see my images traveling around the globe.

If it makes you that happy have you put your work on freepik? I'm sure you will be very satisfied with their distribution of your work. 

Quote from: Snow on June 09, 2020, 10:38

Quote from: astockphotographer088 on June 09, 2020, 08:24

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 09, 2020, 08:19

People aren't being lazy. Step back and listen to the people better qualified to know what's going on, even if you are the Braveheart of grade school bog roll. Your methods are entirely invalid, providing self selecting data for your spreadsheet only lends legitimacy to a very flawed method and will give a very skewed impression of what is going on.

Especially now that you have annoyed so many people that the only ones that will fill out your form will be ones that agree with you.

When you were showing an average of 20/30% drop for level 5 from subjects you were saying, to paraphrase, "well I have only seen a drop of 5%, that feels more accurate to me". I mean what the heck.

Dude, show your rpd then. You had an equal chance as mine to be included in the spreadsheet. My rpd calculations that accurately reflect the -% in earnings were made public. Yours were not. I'm certainly not the one hiding something here. If you want to make me understand, use the 3rd grade math suggested in that post and go prove your point. Your number of "votes" is determined only by your level. I think this forum needs to serve it's purpose and be trully informational.

I get that you try to be professional about this.
I don't get why you are acting like a crusader though trying to convince people things are not as bad as it seems while we're looking at half our normal income. I don't think that'll work mate.
Nothing against you, do keep at it but I doubt you will change a lot of minds

Take care!

I was trying to convince everyone to measure how much bad it is, never trying to convince anyone whether this is good or bad, because only the January reset alone makes it bad enough. But I received everyone's response by now, I'm done in here. Good luck to everyone with their peeing against the wind tactics.

I don't need you or your wonky stats to tell me how bad my sales are. All I have to do is look at my sales and the 60% plus decline.

Small sample but my RPDL In May was.97 cents and the week in June before I killed my port was .40 cents. That�s a 59% drop. In Jan 2021 with the reset, holy crap. 

Whatever the case, Stan just lost Shutterstock an awful lot of money. I suspect this is going to go down as one of those "Kodak" moments in business courses.

It's going to include commentary about why taking things away from people is always far more painful than receiving anything of the same value. It's going to be about the necessity to create a competitive advantage based on something other than price. But mostly it's going to try and teach the business leaders of tomorrow why buffoons with their spreadsheets and crafty numbers will never hold a candle to real and honest leaders with integrity.

Actually, the whole stock industry with the rise and fall of Getty with iStock and now Shutterstock's skulduggery makes for some excellent business case studies.

We have a chance to make history here. We just CANNOT LET UP in a few weeks after our emotions relax. The messaging to Wall Street, the investor community, buyers, contributors, media, etc must remain strong by all of us not letting up. We fight until it�s over.  I have said this a couple of times but this is a grind, not an instant gratification process. This will likely take us into next year and we need to keep tightening the screws.

I am spending more time than I normally do because of important industry killing decisions. It pays off in terms of information, sharing of ideas and sometimes banding together for good cause. I look through the threads about once a week but multiple times a day with the recent Shutterstock royalty cut.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/261369748434285?view=permalink&id=268154907755769&anchor_composer=false


Badass post if true

Already removed 7,000 images and videos.

Quote from: everest on June 06, 2020, 00:32

Go back to your deep dark Shutter cave troll.

Talking about burguers maybe you ate too many of those and your brain cannon function nor calculate properly. The proof is in the pudding as many contributors that haven't yet disabled their portfolios are now confronting.
Reality is stubborn and no gibberish talk will hide a fact in capital letters. The disgraceful money grab they implemented from one day to the other without even having the face to confront the suppliers that made them rich.

This firm needs to go under so moroons like Oringer, Pavlosvsky, Getty,Klein.......get buried. People like them are a disgrace for the whole society.
 

Quote from: astockphotographer088 on June 06, 2020, 00:19

The amount of criers in here is too high ... so does this single mother calculate the 2/3 by the reduction on the minimum earnings? Or was it another miscalculated mistake?

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 The percentage tier earnings seemed fair all along. I never understood why Shutterstock should be selling .22 and pay .38 to someone. Even paying 0.10 might put them at a loss here.




You people remind me of the American burger market, that consumers thought that 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 ...

So I should disable my port and not pay my rent this month because of your communist nonsense? How about NO? I am not trolling by stating accurate and mathematical truths and facts. You are trolling by bringing in your "emotions" to our serious business. At least for some of us it's serious.

Aren't you being a crier here? I mean, you just bashed the criers.

I never received the email nor have my royalties gone up.

Well, I did it.
I got paid for the month of May.
So I deactivated my portfolios.

I'm curious to know how many have closed their accounts and how many have deactivated their portfolios...

I just deactivated over 5,000 images and videos.

Edit. My apologies it is 7,000 assets I removed.

I�m wondering if there is more to this whole Shutterstock debacle, such as if they might be positioning themselves for better valuation to be sold or merged. I have been involved in two mergers in my career and our main goal was to make the financials look good for a minimum of the past three years and I�d say five years for larger companies. That sets the valuation to maximize selling price.

I only bring this up because I this smells like something much bigger than just instant gratification.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/dking/2016/06/13/preparing-for-the-sale-of-your-company/amp/