still, the whole problem with Midjourney AI is using other people's photos. when it comes to legal action, both Midjourney and AS wash their hands. I don't understand AS will accept these pictures when they don't even accept editorials.

The bigget problem with services like WS is if they close down the business. Not that I think they will do - but what are the consequences? Will you still get royalties?

Have others experienced that sales on Shutterstock have almost stalled?

Depositphotos and Dreamstime are very, very low and slow earners. The good thing about Deposit is that the submission process is very smooth and quick. On the contrary Dreamstime is a drag - very complicated if you want to use all three catagories.

Is Getty - as the only agency - not accepting Shutterstock model releases?

Totally crazy to make more than one release for peanuts ..! The Shutterstock release is even more extensive that that from Getty ....

Every other site I can upload the metadata from the JPG for Eyeem I have to enter each word individually. I can't even copy and paste a block of text. Or have I missed something?


Yes - it's a bit of a drag to fill in the keywords one by one. And they also have AS and Alamy as partners. And AS don't accept duplicates so it's difficult. Do the parteners notice you if they have your images on their sites ..?

I can't understand the system at EyeEm. My images are released for sale - but not at EyeEm ..? Maybe at EyeEm 'partners' ... What's going on? I have tried to communicate with EyeEm but I don't understand  their answers. Can somebody enlighten me?

at Shutterstock everything is drowning in millions of crappy smartphone images from contributors in India. 😡

Bye bye SS sales. Thanks for trashing my income by letting in all the junk from people who can just about operate a shutter, let alone compose an image. Thanks for making a mockery of all the people who have worked hard at composing, editing and earning the right to be accepted for years into the catalogue. Thank you for making an utter pig's ear of the whole site, your poor security allowing easy theft of images.

Thank you so much for nothing.

Absolutely. It�s redicolous. And  they can�t even operate a shutter - they only just about know how to push the right button on a smartphone! There is tons and tons of that shi* coming in like a tide wave at Shutterstock with awkward underexposed images.

I'm not sure how much the QC rank counts for anything, but maybe someone knows better.
A lot of things on Alamy don't actually count for anything, e.g. 'discoverability' (causes more harm than good).

What do you mean by that ..?