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Since the past two weeks, everything seems to be getting rejected.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Late payment
« on: December 07, 2023, 04:59 »
For me, it takes 10 days to get payment.

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Most of these accounts with stolen work are probably operated by SS staff themselves, that's why they don't act on it. SS creates fake contributor accounts with different names and fills them up with stolen material and reaps huge profit from it. Even if 1 account is closed after repeated complaining, 10 more show up in its place,it is a big game.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Out of office (for a month)
« on: August 31, 2020, 22:26 »
Dear Mat, will it be possible for Adobe stock to consider accepting editorial images (with visible people) from contributors ? Around 80% of my port is editorial but I cannot upload anything here. Any updates regarding this issue would be helpful.

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I feel most buyers do not care about contributors in general. Also, other agencies are also keeping a close watch on this, if SS wins they will also follow suit and lower royalties. In worst case scenario the low earning agencies like Dreamstime, Alamy, 123RF  etc will become the next Unsplash or Pixabay.

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I closed my port with them way back in 2017, but many people still contribute to them for 2 cents, yet at the same time they complain about 10 cents from Shutterstock. What a hypocrisy !

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Adobe Stock / Re: Mat Hayward - My new best friend
« on: May 27, 2020, 05:06 »
I wish they would start accepting editorials and go on a global expansion mode to give SS a run for their money.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock very bad results
« on: January 08, 2019, 05:24 »
I believe this is your portfolio https://www.shutterstock.com/g/tomgriger?page=100&measurement=px&sort=popular&safe=true&search_source=base_gallery&language=en. You have way too many similar images. In fact, it should be considered spam, simply mass producing images won't increase sales.

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The way they are accepting spam and crap, I don't think it will return to normal

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Very good design, although a bit slow

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Photo in newspaper never sold
« on: September 21, 2018, 22:56 »
Maybe that's why sales are down, we are simply not getting paid for our sales.

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I was on the road to having a good month, but from this week sales have fallen from the cliff. Looks like it will be below average.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: How can the SS database grow so fast?
« on: June 10, 2018, 00:47 »
I have a theory which says Shutterstock themselves are producing these spam images and populating their search. I don't think any sane person will do these kind of stuff.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: How can the SS database grow so fast?
« on: June 06, 2018, 05:29 »
I feel they are trying to become the next facebook or instagram or whatever I don't know. Its just a matter of time when they will drop the entire review process and reduce royalties like istock.

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Alright, let me explain it for you. I have a portfolio of more than 4000 images, average sales are between 10 - 15 per day. So, whenever I had a large SOD or an EL or a high number of subs in a single day, next day onwards my sales have gone down to 2 or 3 subs per day and it stays like that for few days before coming to normal. This has happened each and every time. So, I don't this can be a coincidence.

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Every time I had bigger sales, next day onwards sales have drastically declined. I believe, they are controlling our revenues.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStocks 2cent Royalties Whats Going On?
« on: April 23, 2018, 03:15 »
I say every contributor should combine and put this agency out of its misery otherwise a day will come when every agency will follow suit and none of us will make anything.

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What I see is best selling and latest uploads in place of popular and new.

Same here I wish SS would quit messing around with the site

I believe they started these experiments around mid January and haven't stopped till now. Since then, my sales have been in the toilet.

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Here it is.

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What I see is best selling and latest uploads in place of popular and new.

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Zero sales today  :(

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Worst month ever.

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This month has been hell. I am 50% down in sales.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: shutterstock january
« on: February 01, 2018, 23:44 »
An average month in terms of sales, but this week has been a disaster.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Is there a problem on Shutterstock today?
« on: January 16, 2018, 09:28 »
Very slow sales this week.

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