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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: zebra007 on June 01, 2017, 02:49
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:'( How about you guys?
I have 250k images
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We are noticing drop of income too. First few months were average, now we are way under last year May.
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Actually turned out to be solid if unspectacular. The only really notable thing was a collapse in RF123 sales. No end of the world here.
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May was BME for me by a very good margin
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Good on Shutterstock
Good on Adobe/Fotolia
Disastrous everywhere else
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Fourth best month out of the last 12 on SS and within spitting distance of a couple of months that beat it, so not bad. However, a handful of $20+ sales were needed to keep it on track, without those it would have been weak.
Other sites, not so good.
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Adobe BME
Alamy very good
Others average
Shutterstock? Where do I start? Just a continuing decline; the earnings chart looks like a ski slope even though I added new images
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Way down. Most sites slightly down, others average but collapse at SS.
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Somehow managed to become my BME on SS (2 years submitting) - I was lucky to get several big sales there (the biggest was 80$) which makes a difference as I have a small port.
FT was good
10$ on BS which was good for BS ;)
DT - I didn't have a single sale for 2 months, wrote to the support just out of curiosity, they said I should've uploaded more, but then the sales came back ;D
123 was the worst performer of my agencies
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Somehow managed to become my BME on SS (2 years submitting) - I was lucky to get several big sales there (the biggest was 80$) which makes a difference as I have a small port.
FT was good
10$ on BS which was good for BS ;)
DT - I didn't have a single sale for 2 months, wrote to the support just out of curiosity, they said I should've uploaded more, but then the sales came back ;D
123 was the worst performer of my agencies
I believe I should write an email to DT every day then :-)
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Very strong, due to more clip sales than usual. Recent uploads (past 6 months) kept volume highest in the past 1.5 years.
FT was a BME for volume, Canva holding steady and some clip sales on pond5 made it a very good month overall. Most other sites way down and below their usual monthly averages.
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For me May was average. Not good and not bad.
I expected more as I uploaded many new images :D
Hmmm, i also do not understand why my shutterstock portfolio link below does not work... can anyone help?
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BME.
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My May at SS was BME, FT avg, 123rf way down, Alamy 0 sale
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BME here
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:'( How about you guys?
I have 250k images
250k images on SS? Geez.
Between the worst and the best for May for SS.
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For me May was average. Not good and not bad.
I expected more as I uploaded many new images :D
Hmmm, i also do not understand why my shutterstock portfolio link below does not work... can anyone help?
All links don't work, it's not only yours.
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Above average overall, but rather poor performance for SS. Very good for FT, IS, P5 and 123, instead.
Maybe customers are churning away from SS, towards its competitors.
If 123 was ~1/10 of SS, about one year ago, now it is ~1/4. Interesting shift!
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SS - A nice recovery from April. Great month overall.
FT/Adobe - BME
123RF - BME. Ever since the new year, earnings has increased steadily.
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Overall back to the pretty poor level things have been at for the last year or so minus the last 3 months (mostly due to good or great Alamy sales).
SS continues to be about 50% of where they were. I haven't had a sale over 2.85 in ages (one video last July and some 4.35s last June). It used to be glaringly obvious what days were weekends looking at the monthly earnings report - now not so much and it isn't because the weekend sales are up.
Also a number of the lower sellers were 0 sales last month - FP, SF, GL.
Of course I have no idea about IS, but a few .01 sales won't make much difference.
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My number of sales was down a bit, but it was my BME because I got a few unusually high dollar (for me) sales.
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May started out absolutely fantastic and then declined just as fast.
Sadly, others were even worse.
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:'( How about you guys?
I have 250k images
I am experiencing about 30% drop in sales with all the agencies. Maybe the wind is changing.
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Good month, 2nd BME
thanks Shutterstock! :)
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BME in downloads, 2nd BME in earnings. ;D
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250K images?!?!? That's 30K$ a month? Agreed?
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250K images?!?!? That's 30K$ a month? Agreed?
How you guys calculate this ?
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250K images?!?!? That's 30K$ a month? Agreed?
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I would hope it's a lot more than that...
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Pretty good. :) About 8,500 videos.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/280996/stock-income_may16-may17.JPG)
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I'm guessing this isn't a UK general election question.
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:'( How about you guys?
I have 250k images
250.000 images? If you want to increase the sales, increase the quality not the number of files.
It is a favor for you and for others ;)
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250K images?!?!? That's 30K$ a month? Agreed?
How you guys calculate this ?
the sales is guy is about 600-650$. The first line is for 250$, second 500$ and third 750$
I do not know the portfolio of this guy, but I can imagine: 1 icon 1 file
A flood of trash that does not help anyone
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Almost BME
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Extremely good from the macro agencies close to a five figure amount. Micro stock was Ok with DT really shooting upwards with Adobe so and so but as I am an oldie with SS it turned out pretty poor!
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Glad to hear you are doing well on Macro agencies derek! Congrats to all making BME too!
I'm still down 30-35% but accommodating my life for this. The anger is wearing off...
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250K images?!?!? That's 30K$ a month? Agreed?
How you guys calculate this ?
the sales is guy is about 600-650$. The first line is for 250$, second 500$ and third 750$
I do not know the portfolio of this guy, but I can imagine: 1 icon 1 file
A flood of trash that does not help anyone
How do you know that?
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It is not topic but ... my Unpaid Earnings on SS Dashboard still show May Earnings ...
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Same here... normally calculated and adjusted by now. Ah well, as long as they still pay me before the 15th then I'm not too concerned.
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Thank you for replay, agree with you :) ... well, I am not alone.
Best!
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Up 8% from April and down 8% from last May. I may finally be hitting the long tail of the bell curve. For a couple of years I was down 20% year on year, but this year each month is only down a small % from last year.
Don't get me wrong, I still wish earnings were going up, but losing 8% annually beats he11 out of losing 20%.
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Not very good...
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Glad to hear you are doing well on Macro agencies derek! Congrats to all making BME too!
I'm still down 30-35% but accommodating my life for this. The anger is wearing off...
but you were supposed to join a macro agency if I remember. Have you done that yet? I think that in a year or two they will be the ones that prevail. They still go for quality and not just quantity and that might be the reason for the surge in sales. :)
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May slightly down on last year. I used to think I was hot sh*t back in 2011 when I saw huge gains on SS. Since I put together that chart of SS collection growth vs payout growth I can see SS's policies and how well they decide to treat their contributors determines how much I can earn with them way more than any effort on my part.
In 2011 their collection size "only" increased 26% while payouts increased 45%.
In 2016 the collection grew 75% and payouts 16%!
Of course my portfolio is also much bigger now so there's no way I can keep up with the growth of the collection. When I had 1000 images growing by 75% in a year was difficult but doable, when you have 10000 forget about it (unless you want to add trash)
I would be happy if they could just keep payout increase in line with collection size increase. By my estimations that was what it like sometime around 2012-2013.
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Did pretty good in video on SS, best month yet by an extra $87