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their money pool (a mysterious amount based on something - trust us)
We trust them, since they are such a good people... They as a company are growing and their earnings are increasing together with our applies and exports, while our effective earnings are dropping, there is nothing suspicious about that.

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Canva / Re: Canva July sales are in, and it's not good
« on: September 16, 2023, 02:16 »
Basically, essentially, Canva can do whatever they want now, and we can kiss their a**. And they do exactly that, because they can and they don't know any better.

I saw in a video or two how they say that at Canva they value human values very much, and in order to work for them you not only have to be a good worker but also a good human.

Is this what Canva is doing to it's contributors last year and a half something what would a good, or at least a fair human do?

I guess we can congratulate Canva for ruining good source of income for many people and ruining their own image and reputation as well.

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Canva / Re: Canva July sales are in, and it's not good
« on: August 12, 2023, 12:58 »
It was very nice while good earnings lasted. Now they are killing us. I think I'll definitely stop uploading there. Seems like only Adobe Stock has left as a decent site, for now.

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Can this industry remain to be a sustainable source of income for us in the following decades? And what are the alternatives if not?


I guess the key questions regarding this subject are:

1. How good will AI image and video generators become over time - will the people rather browse and buy finished content done by "professionals" or they will just type the sentence or keywords and click "generate"?

2. How much the genuine human content will be in demand?

3. Will the race to the bottom ever end, or everything will sooner or later become free? (which would probably mean "game over" for the most of us)

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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock is an embarassment
« on: June 23, 2023, 16:26 »
My SS earnings used to be 15x higher than now, and they just keep nosediving from month to month. Once a good earner, now abomination. Seems like it will join mid-tier agencies soon. Inexcusable.

During this same time, my Adobe Stock earnings has been growing, and Istock has been consistent.

I'm considering to start treating SS like the other mid-tier agencies and completely stop uploading there.

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Are there any alternatives to microstock? I mean on alternatives which don't require marketing skills and budget, so alternatives which are better than POD.

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It can be said that earnings on Adobe Stock are maybe increasing. But the other stock sites in general, especially Shutterstock, are declining for a while now. So the total contributor earnings are pretty much going down.

Can this negative trend for a contributor be changed anytime soon? Are there any optimists?

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Canva / Canva earnings are continuing to go down
« on: October 13, 2022, 05:09 »
I thought Canva is a growing agency and earnings will only continue to go up. But instead of that, this whole year earnings are only continuing to go down. Every month there is less and less, and this is a serious problem. I already saw on this forum that this is happening with some other contributors as well, so I'm not the only one.

Does anybody have a clue why is this happening?

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Looks normal now, but still the lowest income since the last year's spring for me. I hope this is still an error.

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Me and few other forum members also reported the same. That should be a mistake / error on Canva's end.

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Canva / Re: Canva acceptances, rejections etc
« on: September 13, 2022, 02:15 »
Mine is also way too low, just a few $.

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"Laughing in the purple rain" is in the same league as "Money won't make you happy".

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Drop in sales - is it only me?...
« on: January 24, 2022, 15:07 »
Worst month in last several years for me, and one of my worst Januaries ever, 10% from my best January and rivaled with only 1st few years when I barely had any work uploaded. With occasional oscillations SS is on a steady decline for me, I'm wondering should I stop uploading there.

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Alamy.com / Re: Commission lowered to 20%
« on: May 26, 2021, 14:50 »
And I was thinking about starting to upload to them again. I guess they helped me to decide.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: recommended video sites?
« on: May 23, 2021, 03:15 »
I don't earn much from videos, but here is what I would recommend:

Motion Array - if you are OK to sell high quality work in subscription program for cents. But even with not much videos there, they are my #1 earner when it comes to videos only.

MotionElements - gets me occasionally a small payout.

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123RF / Re: 123RF: Images not reviewd for over a month
« on: May 23, 2021, 03:00 »
It's easy to upload to 123rf, but I stopped uploading there a couple of years ago because my sales became almost non-existent.

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More and more sites are implementing new subscription systems, especially Envato, Canva, Istock/Getty, in which RPD goes down drastically and sales volume goes up. Can we call this "nanostock"? And what do you think the future of nanostock or however-you-call-it is - is it necessarily bad or it can successfully replace microstock similarly like microstock replaced macrostock with lesser RPD but higher and steady earnings for most, despite some people being strongly against it when it was arriving?

I think it's not about RPD being as high as possible, I think it's about total earnings being as high as possible, and to achieve that we need optimal model and optimal prices. The question is where are that optimal prices and with what model? Is this new "nanostock" trend closer to optimal, or is it bellow optimal?

I'm not talking here about percentages which stock agencies get, that's the other subject. I'm talking purely about the trend of lower RPD and higher sales volume.

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Canva / Re: Canva announcement
« on: May 18, 2020, 06:08 »
No explanation why they need more and more time, no respect for their own deadline. I guess they will start to pay us as IS / Getty, if not latter.

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1. for me and for a lot of people sales are going more and more down. Used to be so alive and undisputed #1, but not even close anymore

2. reviewing is the absolute disaster

3. submitting vectors is a joke


Will SS continue this path and eventually become dead / dying agency, or will they change their current ways and become the #1 earner again?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: May sales drop dramatically?
« on: May 11, 2020, 03:09 »
May almost dead for me. And the whole this year so far SS is worse for me than the previous 2 years.

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Canva / Re: Canva announcement
« on: May 11, 2020, 03:01 »
Why do they need so much time lately to calculate and pay our earnings?

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Shutterstock.com / Anyone still submit vectors to SS?
« on: April 24, 2020, 15:35 »
What is your eps file size (do you reduce it and how)?

How do you submit artboards (saving with the "use artboards" option checked is forbidden now)?

Is SS worth all this hassle when it comes to vectors?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Is this January especially low for you?
« on: January 21, 2020, 08:41 »
Terrible month on SS for me, almost all sales are subs, no SODs, no video downloads, what the * is going on?

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