I made $190 last month on shutterstock and  My income has not reset to zero yet. anyone having this issue ?

Yes, my earnings also haven't reset.
Usually I would not worry about it, because sometimes it can take a bit longer, because I had to update my tax form and wasn't sure the update had gone through (as I kept getting notifications that it needed to be updated, even though I already had) so I was not sure I would get my payment this month and  contacted support and was told that there was nothing to worry about, the payment process was delayed because of the holiday weekend. Since this was not an answer from real support, but just an "expert contributor", I don't know how much validity it has.

My portfolio is approx 75% travel and wildlife

So is mine, as you can see if you click my link below. Except mine includes what I call "Avian Impressions," some of my own digital bird photos that I've creatively manipulated to produce unique decorative images.

I would love to see your portfolio, not to copy or steal anything but just to admire and appreciate. However, I also respect your desire to remain private.

To each her own, I suppose.

Good luck in 2022!

Quote from: KuriousKat on January 04, 2022, 05:36

My portfolio is approx 75% travel and wildlife

So is mine, as you can see if you click my link below. Except mine includes what I call "Avian Impressions," some of my own digital bird photos that I've creatively manipulated to produce unique decorative images.

I would love to see your portfolio, not to copy or steal anything but just to admire and appreciate. However, I also respect your desire to remain private.

To each her own, I suppose.

Good luck in 2022!

Thank you, Martha - and best of luck to you too!

I do have valid personal reasons for remaining anonymous, (other than having some content closely copied in the past), but if those ever reason change, I will identify myself

I made $190 last month on shutterstock and  My income has not reset to zero yet. anyone having this issue ?

It will, just a little slower these days just like the payout was later last month, maybe a different trusted 3rd party they're using to process payments, mine hasn't reset yet either, probably will reset any day now and then payout will be on or just after the 15th like last time.

I'm not worried, $35.75

Agencies and Designers are not going to be buying from a company that shafts their contributors.

Well the last full year of revenue before they were shafting us... was $623m. And the first full year of revenue after they started shafting us was $666m. Not to mention the totals for 2021 are looking to be even higher. So did these agencies and designers not get the memo, or are they just still willingly buying from a company that shafts their contributors?

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Quote from: H2O on January 03, 2022, 12:58

Agencies and Designers are not going to be buying from a company that shafts their contributors.

Well the last full year of revenue before they were shafting us... was $623m. And the first full year of revenue after they started shafting us was $666m. Not to mention the totals for 2021 are looking to be even higher. So did these agencies and designers not get the memo, or are they just still willingly buying from a company that shafts their contributors?

I don't think most customers care or even care to look.  A few ethical customers might but the masses don't unfortunately, same in the physical world, lost cause sadly.

The few customers I've spoken to often don't know. But to be honest, I also don't know if all my clothes are made under good conditions for a good wage, or if all the wood I use is responsibly harvested.
The customers I know are people who don't buy for themselves, but for a company they work for.

Quote from: Level6 on January 04, 2022, 14:01

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on January 04, 2022, 13:17

Quote from: H2O on January 03, 2022, 12:58

Agencies and Designers are not going to be buying from a company that shafts their contributors.

Well the last full year of revenue before they were shafting us... was $623m. And the first full year of revenue after they started shafting us was $666m. Not to mention the totals for 2021 are looking to be even higher. So did these agencies and designers not get the memo, or are they just still willingly buying from a company that shafts their contributors?

I don't think most customers care or even care to look.  A few ethical customers might but the masses don't unfortunately, same in the physical world, lost cause sadly.

The few customers I've spoken to often don't know. But to be honest, I also don't know if all my clothes are made under good conditions for a good wage, or if all the wood I use is responsibly harvested.
The customers I know are people who don't buy for themselves, but for a company they work for.

I honestly didn't know either when shopping at Walmart until the factory collapse and factory fire that killed well over 1000 people hit the mainstream media here in Canada, that's when I started to check the labels and look more closely but until that happened I simply didn't know, I just bought what i needed and what looked good at a good price.

I think same with stock or any other gig economy service, free or nearly free labour, no one looks and no one cares,

I made $190 last month on shutterstock and  My income has not reset to zero yet. anyone having this issue ?

it happens first few days each month (it updated this morning) but you can always get accurate numbers by month by using the earnings tab

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on January 04, 2022, 16:39

There are worse things in the world than an underpaid stock photographer. Also, look at yourself if things in your life aren't going the way you want them to.

Yes, there are worse things - colored tattoos.
I am so happy that the EU is now completely and finaly eradicating cancer by taking tattoo artists europe-wide off the scene into bankruptcy.
Next, we should turn off the harmful sun 

Thought you were joking but it's true https://www.politico.eu/article/tattoo-parlors-brace-new-eu-ink-bans/  This might be a good editorial stock video and photo idea, shots of the bottles of coloured ink that are now banned and if any model has a coloured tattoo even better.

I'm just waiting for our Ontario Canada politicians to ban toilet paper as there are no doubt some cancer causing chemicals in the manufacturing process of the paper.

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Quote from: thijsdegraaf on January 04, 2022, 16:39

There are worse things in the world than an underpaid stock photographer. Also, look at yourself if things in your life aren't going the way you want them to.

Yes, there are worse things - colored tattoos.
I am so happy that the EU is now completely and finaly eradicating cancer by taking tattoo artists europe-wide off the scene into bankruptcy.
Next, we should turn off the harmful sun 

Thought you were joking but it's true https://www.politico.eu/article/tattoo-parlors-brace-new-eu-ink-bans/  This might be a good editorial stock video and photo idea, shots of the bottles of coloured ink that are now banned and if any model has a coloured tattoo even better.

I'm just waiting for our Ontario Canada politicians to ban toilet paper as there are no doubt some cancer causing chemicals in the manufacturing process of the paper.

Unfortunately, many of the eu parliament's decisions really do seem like a joke and are not comprehensible with clear common sense. For the banned tattoo inks it is not even proven that they are carcinogenic and this assumption probably applies to almost all substances - so your comparison with toilet paper is not so far-fetched.

Quote from: Level6 on January 04, 2022, 19:13

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on January 04, 2022, 16:54

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on January 04, 2022, 16:39

There are worse things in the world than an underpaid stock photographer. Also, look at yourself if things in your life aren't going the way you want them to.

Yes, there are worse things - colored tattoos.
I am so happy that the EU is now completely and finaly eradicating cancer by taking tattoo artists europe-wide off the scene into bankruptcy.
Next, we should turn off the harmful sun 

Thought you were joking but it's true https://www.politico.eu/article/tattoo-parlors-brace-new-eu-ink-bans/  This might be a good editorial stock video and photo idea, shots of the bottles of coloured ink that are now banned and if any model has a coloured tattoo even better.

I'm just waiting for our Ontario Canada politicians to ban toilet paper as there are no doubt some cancer causing chemicals in the manufacturing process of the paper.

Unfortunately, many of the eu parliament's decisions really do seem like a joke and are not comprehensible with clear common sense. For the banned tattoo inks it is not even proven that they are carcinogenic and this assumption probably applies to almost all substances - so your comparison with toilet paper is not so far-fetched.

I find that difficult.
I used to cut asbestos sheets for behind my stove. I sometimes find the security measures a bit exaggerated, but it is now clear that it is harmful.
In my youth it was said, the harmfulness of smoking has yet to be proven.
The hole in the ozone layer turned out to be our own cause and the ban on the use of some substances has helped.
In the Netherlands there are processes because people have become seriously ill from spraying paint with Hexavalent chromium (chromium(VI), Cr(VI), chromium 6). It was much too late to intervene with regard to the inadequate safety regulations.
I think taking the tattoo inks off the market before new ones are also overkill. Although I would never want to have a tattoo. 
I just wonder what happens if (now that it is known that there are harmful substances in it) someone gets cancer maybe as a result. Then someone can sue the tattoo artists or the ink makers. Or the European legislators, because they did nothing about it.
Think of Philips' breathing devices  (breathing machines with harmful foam) . They have already set aside millions for possible lawsuits. While you also hear the harmful effect is actually not that bad.
We live in a strange world in that regard.

But we are straying from the topic.

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on January 05, 2022, 02:05

Quote from: Level6 on January 04, 2022, 19:13

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on January 04, 2022, 16:54

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on January 04, 2022, 16:39

There are worse things in the world than an underpaid stock photographer. Also, look at yourself if things in your life aren't going the way you want them to.

Yes, there are worse things - colored tattoos.
I am so happy that the EU is now completely and finaly eradicating cancer by taking tattoo artists europe-wide off the scene into bankruptcy.
Next, we should turn off the harmful sun 

Thought you were joking but it's true https://www.politico.eu/article/tattoo-parlors-brace-new-eu-ink-bans/  This might be a good editorial stock video and photo idea, shots of the bottles of coloured ink that are now banned and if any model has a coloured tattoo even better.

I'm just waiting for our Ontario Canada politicians to ban toilet paper as there are no doubt some cancer causing chemicals in the manufacturing process of the paper.

Unfortunately, many of the eu parliament's decisions really do seem like a joke and are not comprehensible with clear common sense. For the banned tattoo inks it is not even proven that they are carcinogenic and this assumption probably applies to almost all substances - so your comparison with toilet paper is not so far-fetched.

Here's one more from the news:  The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to cut the heads off mannequins, insisting figures representing the human form violate Islamic law.

Extremist Politics and Extremist Religions some of the worst offenders of common sense. And then there are places that love to ban and regulate things. The EU is becoming one but California is the biggest bunch of proposition regulation weenies in the world. They are now suing the power companies for Acts of God, like when a tree in a storm, falls on a power line and it starts a fire.

California Prop 12: The "Bacon" Law

The contentious law over farm animals -- specifically bringing bacon and pork products into the conversation -- was passed in 2018. The first deadline passed Jan. 2020, and required that egg-laying hens have adequate space. The hens have to be housed with a minimum of 144 square inches per hen. Calves intended to be sold as veal must be housed with a minimum of 43 square feet per calf.

The second part of the law is what goes into effect in January 2022. Egg-laying hens must be cage-free, and breeding pigs must be allotted 24 square feet per pig.

Anyone with any math sense can see that 144 square inches is a square foot. That seems pretty small, and I wonder how they could pack them any closer than that in the first place, terrible conditions, that should be banned, but... just wait until 2022, oh that's now? Hey anyone who lives in CA, watch your bacon prices go through the sky, bigger than Bitcoin, because the laws forbid importing of bacon that doesn't meet the CA standards. 

Black market Tats are in the forecast for the EU.

Just like black market haircuts became a think in Ontario Canada during the lockdown, self-haircuts with clippers or on friends and family and then laid off stylists who are mostly and technically self employed as they rent the chair basically in these salons started risking massive fines and doing black market haircuts in their homes for customers they know and trust.

Same will happen with the tattoos, the artists will find a way to get the coloured ink and they will find a way to serve regular customers.

All the rules, regulations and laws, surveillance and tracking in the EU, California and Ontario Canada, it's just hard to accept for those of use who remember what it used to be like, I think we are going to become like communist China but taking a different route to get there. Will it eventually lead to civil war in some places?, maybe, can't rule anything out. There's only so much people cant take, being screwed at every turn by businesses, employers and now the governments and omicron isn't helping.