Quote from: Jaggy on December 20, 2021, 14:37

I don't get fixated on the 10 cents for an image thing. What matters to me is the average RPD over the year.

Unfortunately, this year (2021) I'm looking at a 33% drop in RPD compared to 2020. That is largely due to two factors. The first is that the first four months of the year were terrible for revenue as I fought my way through the levels. The second is the absence of any ELs (2020 I had two) and fewer SODs.

When I look at RPD for May through December, it's at the same level as 2020 and better than 2019.

So, while I have made marginally more revenue this year (+2%) it has taken 52% more downloads to get there.

So my prediction of May 2020 has come true. More downloads to stand still.

You must be still getting a lot of 10 cent sales to even make it worth it to upload, you really need volume now it seems.

Here's a brief history of SS royalties.  (early years originally compiled by Photobomb)

2005 Sub’s .20

2006 Subs .20
         OD’s introduced $3.99
          EL’s introduced $20
          March 30th Sub’s increased to .25

2007 Subs .25
         April 30 Sub’s increased to .30

2008 Subs .30   
         May 14th Levels introduced
         Sub levels  .25 - .33 - .36 - .38
         OD’s increased to current tier level
         El’s increased to $28

2011  SOD’s introduced

2013  Facebook .38 SOD’s introduced

2014 Larger SOD’s
         
2016 EL's change, level pricing,  amounts vary, most under $28.00

2020 new commissions, June 2020 based on downloads current year.
0-100 = 15%, to 250 = 20%, to 500 = 25%, to 2,500 30%, to 25,000 35%, over 25,000 40%
Minimum 10 cents

2021 January You have been reset to level 1

Here's a brief history of SS royalties.  (early years originally compiled by Photobomb)

2005 Sub’s .20

2006 Subs .20
         OD’s introduced $3.99
          EL’s introduced $20
          March 30th Sub’s increased to .25

2007 Subs .25
         April 30 Sub’s increased to .30

2008 Subs .30   
         May 14th Levels introduced
         Sub levels  .25 - .33 - .36 - .38
         OD’s increased to current tier level
         El’s increased to $28

2011  SOD’s introduced

2013  Facebook .38 SOD’s introduced

2014 Larger SOD’s
         
2016 EL's change, level pricing,  amounts vary, most under $28.00

2020 new commissions, June 2020 based on downloads current year.
0-100 = 15%, to 250 = 20%, to 500 = 25%, to 2,500 30%, to 25,000 35%, over 25,000 40%
Minimum 10 cents

2021 January You have been reset to level 1

Quote from: Uncle Pete on December 21, 2021, 09:52

...The idea is a rough attempt to estimate the date a photo was accepted, by ID number.

I can add a couple of additional data points.

18829 uploaded Oct 29 2004
71306 uploaded Dec 21 2004
152974 uploaded Feb 15 2005
248541 uploaded Mar 30 2005
537086 uploaded Sep 06 2005
693135 uploaded Nov 05 2005
888312 uploaded Jan 15 2006
1240080 uploaded Apr 24 2006
2128452 uploaded Nov 7 2006
2900019 uploaded Mar 18 2007
5432761 uploaded Sep 18 2007
6157531 uploaded Oct 16 2007
7146277 uploaded Nov 20 2007


I had saved a page showing the Top 50 images that week on November 8, 2005 and at the bottom it said there were:
"420,035 photos available for download  ·  12,259 new photos added in the past week"

May 2 2006 top 50 images:
"727,930 photos available for download  ·  6,839 new photos added in the past week"

Nov 15 2006 top 50 images:
"1,219,859 photos available for download  ·  15,397 new photos added in the past week"

Country Search as of December 2018 - data is no longer available. There's no certainty that this is really the country because it's user supplied. Not all accounts had a country.

Thailand      2567
Russian Federation   2122
Ukraine      1857
United States      818
Italy         367
Belarus         346
United Kingdom   344
Spain         301
Czech Republic      258
Serbia         227
Romania      205
Japan         202
Canada         197
Indonesia      168
Andorra      168
Malaysia      156
China         134
Turkey         132
Netherlands      128
Australia      117
Latvia         115
India         107
Hungary      90
Bulgaria      84
Moldova      76
Azerbaijan      75
Kazakhstan      71
Estonia         67
Slovakia      67
Lithuania      65
Luxembourg      65
Lithuania      65
Sweden      59
Brazil         57
Portugal      57
Israel         55
South Africa      50
Switzerland      50
Austria         49
Taiwan         48
Greece         45
Korea         44
Croatia         42
Belgium      36
Finland         35
Vietnam      34
New Zealand      33
Hong Kong      31
Denmark      29
Bosnia and      28
Norway      24
Pakistan      23
Philippines      22
Singapore      20
Ireland         20
Mexico         19
Colombia      18
Macedonia      17
Armenia      15
Georgia      14
Cyprus         11
Iceland         6
Uruguay      6
Antarctica      5
Cuba         3
Tunisia         3
Cocos Isl.      2
France         2
Tajikistan      2
Niue         1
Solomon Islands   1

France is fourth from the bottom, but I don’t see Germany either.

I wonder how has the 10 cent commissions changed contributions.  I was shooting youth sports which sucked me dry so I more or less stopped uploading regularly before the price change, but I wonder how anyone can do this full time any more?     Who is uploading photos?  And how can anyone "invest" in a quality photo shoot?  For example, If I rent a hockey rink for 1 hour for $250, pay the kids $25 per hour, yikes - that is a hella lot of 10 cent photos just to recoop.  Not to mention, hockey is plastered with logos.  All over every piece of equipment and the arena which means hours in post!  There isn't a lot of incentive to shoot anything for stock.  Taking the card out of my camera and adding to lightroom is more effort that it's worth!

Quote from: Wilm on December 22, 2021, 11:44

I am very sure that this list is not true, Pete.
Where is Germany? Where is France? Andorra - 168 - with its 77,000 inhabitants compared to Indonesia - also 168 - with its 274,000,000 inhabitants? Hmmm...

Taken directly from the SS artists information, not made up.  I did say, that countries were a choice of the artist and that some have no data. I should have included, this is artists with 1000 or more images on that date, which was 17872

Germany was my error - omission 559
France the same - 137

If I had something that counted words in a document instead of doing it myself, with a search, "find" one by one, I'm sure the results would be better. But I'd still need to remember to search for Germany, before I could count that. My mistakes.

Andorra has always stood out as an oddity. Maybe people used it for fake accounts or some substitute for a real location. I have no answer for the illogical number.

For today, on April 29, 2017, 100 contributors had 100,000 or more images in their collections. Top 11 because they were over 300,000 at the time

#   Author   Type   Portfolio   Added per week   Country   Member since
1   Africa Studio   Photographer   1067700   4700      2007
2   Rawpixel.com   Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist   859700   14400      2014
3   Aha-Soft   Illustrator / Vector Artist   689600   300   Russian Federation   2010
4   Toluk      564100   17000      2011
5   lineartestpilot   Illustrator / Vector Artist   505900   0   United Kingdom   2009
6   wavebreakmedia   Photographer / Videographer   473400   0   Ireland   2006
7   Ionut Catalin Parvu   Illustrator / Vector Artist   431900   0   Romania   2016
8   ImageCatalog      401900   1100      2016
9   Sergey Nivens   Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist   338900   1000   Australia   2009
10   Kathy Hutchins   Photographer   326200   1200   United States   2010
11   iDesign   Illustrator / Vector Artist   308800   0      2011


Anyway, I selected artists with 1,000 images as a cut off for what some would call serious. Even that is flawed, because someone with 600 stunning, well produced images, could have a serious account and make some good "serious" money. It's just an arbitrary number, because I had to find something that was representative. I picked 1,000