Well I can assure you they don't make me as much money as IS. Where do you get 16 cents from ? I cant see any single photo sale for my work that is that low. For instance, 3 extra small regular sales show 66,78,76 cents. Not sure why the prices differ for the same file size though but non as low as 33 cents.

its depends on the buyer plan/discount/etc, anyway luck is on your side, I have a Large for 64 cents (Feb 28th)

Well I can assure you they don't make me as much money as IS. Where do you get 16 cents from ? I cant see any single photo sale for my work that is that low. For instance, 3 extra small regular sales show 66,78,76 cents. Not sure why the prices differ for the same file size though but non as low as 33 cents.

iStock have all sorts of discounts and special deals. The lowest I've received for a 1 credit sale was 8c, that was a while back and you'll find a thread from someone who got 7c for a sale in the archive here (several others chimed in with similar experiences).

I'm not sure how an independent could be getting 70c for an extra-small regular sale. That would mean iStock charging something like $4.60 PER CREDIT, and I'm pretty sure there is no credit package selling at that price. I just checked one of my best-sellers and the normal (now discontinued) XS sale for one credit brought in about 25c on average. My "Small" 2 credit income is showing up at 50c or thereabouts.

There are only two ways I can think of you getting paid as you describe, one is that you are an exclusive who is sneakily selling on SS as well, in which case iSTock would beat SS; the other is that your sales are so low that you are quoting sales prices from nine months ago, before iStock awarded us all a severe pay cut to try to boost its sales.

If someone knows another way to get 75c per credit from a sale there, I would love to know what it is.

(March isn't setting me any records, not good ones, anyway, 60D)

I am certainly not exclusive and would never do something so dishonest. Why would I  come on here and mention it if I did ? As soon as I got on SS in Dec 2011 I requested to become unexclusive. Looking at my profile I can see the option with both my sounds and image contributions to become exclusive.

Looking at my last regular large sale I get $1.16. The same regular large file in 2013 earned me just 40 cents. Having said all that I got a great sale day at SS yesterday so that's a positive step. More of that and it will certainly beat IS 

Well, you've got me completely confused. $1.13 for a L (four credit) sale is normal. If you got 40c for the same sale last year then at that particular moment you ran into some 10c credits, which happens.

But how on earth did you get a string of approximately 75c sales on 1 credit XS downloads? It just doesn't seem possible. Or have you misidentified M sales as XS?

By the way, if you look at the poll results on the right, you will see that you are unusual in doing better on iS than SS, on average Shutterstock generates three times the cash for indes that iStock does.

I'm hours away from the 38c threshold and quite frankly not looking forward to it - if the result is my port being "switched off" in favor of "newer" or "cheaper" contributors.

In fact SS, would you mind keeping me at my present level and continue the growth please. On the other hand, if my port is not switched off and my earnings continue apace, forget I said anything and have a nice day.

Let us know how it goes.

I'm around 7 days from crossing it and am feeling happy and axious at the same time.

Howdy,

 My March is bouncing back after a bad Feb. I am about 5% behind my average.

J

I am newbie at micro. I have 120 images at Shutterstock. Three month ago I added 100 images and now my income is about 30.- USD per month for 120 images.
Of course these first 20 images I added several years ago are "dead images" already. Nobody can see them today. I am on lowest royalty level, it is 25 cents. I see some 1,88 USD sales per image too.
Sales are same for three month. Pretty stable.

The whole 0.38c portfolios are being punished is a misconception from several comments from Shutterstock, and a few contributors that spoke to Shutterstock. It has been mentioned that new ports or files are being favored to give them traction. But it has never been said that older ports or 0.38c ports are being switched off. Its a rumour that got to live its own life. A few people now spread this as truth and the word gets spread by others, who take it for fact. At some point it became a 'false truth'.

Read this book, Foucault's Pendulum, its the same effect as what is happening here.

http://www.easons.com/p-2883-foucaults-pendulum.aspx#sthash.aq0UxD0F.hZRnRVj0.dpbs

After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game "The Plan". The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.

At some point the people who made up 'The Plan' start to believe its actually true.

I am not naming names, and its certainly not Lisa. You can read into it whatever you want. Your intentions are clear to me. Try someone else.

Whatever, it can be anybody, but not Lisa.

Well, January and February were absolutely great for me, consecutive BME. First week of March it continued, and as of last weekend, after the maintenance, my sales are very slow. Only 27 sales per day and less ODDs, when I was touching 40-45 in previous months with lots of ODDs. I am on the 36c level.

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I have to agree with Ron here. He made a good point. Dont want to offent but to me it also does not sound logical and not proven facts. But thats just my opinion. I am doing very well in stock and am not a newbe anymore and make a full income from stock. I don't see any of this.

I am newbie at micro. I have 120 images at Shutterstock. Three month ago I added 100 images and now my income is about 30.- USD per month for 120 images.
Of course these first 20 images I added several years ago are "dead images" already. Nobody can see them today. I am on lowest royalty level, it is 25 cents. I see some 1,88 USD sales per image too.
Sales are same for three month. Pretty stable.

Generally 100 images should produce $20 per month thus you are doing well...