In one word - prostitution!
First 6 months of 2022
I sold 662 image - for 354 US Dollars!
How did they go so down! Why do we still contribute???

Averaging $420 per month in 2022 (Jan to June)


2021 $367 per month
2020 $361 per month
2019 $670 per month
2018 $624 per month

The cuts in rates from shitterstock and alamy really wrecked things 

In one word - prostitution!
First 6 months of 2022
I sold 662 image - for 354 US Dollars!
How did they go so down! Why do we still contribute???

Beats me

In one word - constipation!

Downloads are constipated.
Dollars are constipated.
Reviews are constipated.
Everything is constipated.

Quote from: ronyzmbow on August 07, 2022, 22:44

In one word - prostitution!
First 6 months of 2022
I sold 662 image - for 354 US Dollars!
How did they go so down! Why do we still contribute???

Beats me

So you are a Masochist? Then you would like the SS pay as they take the money and give us some spare pocket change in return.

I really could make more dumpster diving or going for recycling cash. As it is, I make more on some very random and occasional eBay sales of vintage items from auctions. The old "buy and sell" business with a big win now and then. Many times I end up with unsold paper items, that I might try again in the Winter.

Real simple, if I can't make $5 profit, after cost, listing and shipping, I throw it away, or store or give it to someone else.

$5 is at worst 50 downloads on SS. Why not just work for myself in antiques and collectibles?

The one way Microstock is a winner is residual sales, over the years, for some images. Buy and Sell, once it's gone, it's gone. One time deal.

In one word - prostitution!
First 6 months of 2022
I sold 662 image - for 354 US Dollars!
How did they go so down! Why do we still contribute???

I wonder how low can it go (below 10 cents) until everybody understands they pay too little.

So folks, tell me your number. What's too little? 9 cents? 8 cents? 7 cents? 6 cents? Not too low yet? 5 cents? 4 cents? 3 cents? 2 cents? 1 cent???

I also have noticed that new images don't sell like old ones. I have almost no sales for images I uploaded after March 31, 2021. Most of my sales are images uploaded prior to that date.

Yes, but someone might have an opinion that the reason is competition, as in millions of new images also new at the same time, vs less competition for images before your example date March 2021? The competition is growing exponentially, making it more difficult to look at sales for the number of our own images.

I upload 100, they upload 100,000. Years ago, I uploaded 100, they uploaded 10,000. As an example.

I know that in 2010 it was much easier to upload a new image and have it get some sales. The same images, for many of mine, now get no sales. So yes they sold better and faster before, but are dead now.

Your really nice successful numbers also show that images that sold better before, assuming you are adding new images, are not selling like they did before? And new images aren't selling like new images did before.