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Missed minimum payout for the first time in 8 years
everest:
In my case I endured the pain already. Dropped them as soon as they announced their new rules. At this point I am growing at a steady pace with my other agencies even with this pandemic situation. At one point or another people that take this career seriously will have to make the jump if they want to keep growing. Buyers are not that stupid that agencies are making us believe, they do look elsewhere and with your content on Shutterstock you will surely never really take off in the ones that pay you better royalties. Yes, buyers are price conscious but at this already rock bottom prices they follow where the content is. Many great contributors are abandoning Shutter and placing their content elsewhere, this are the ones you should be watching closely. Shutter raised because they understood this and now they will fall because of the greed of their management that wants to quickly sell their stock and invest somewhere else........
--- Quote from: Rage on November 22, 2020, 05:06 ---It will take time though, for now SS continues to be in the top 3 per month with pond5 and Adobe contributing more to monthly income and SS dropping fast.
The scary part will be the coming few months where monthly income will go down
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Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Rage on November 22, 2020, 05:06 ---It will take time though, for now SS continues to be in the top 3 per month with pond5 and Adobe contributing more to monthly income and SS dropping fast.
The scary part will be the coming few months where monthly income will go down
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Remember when iStock was everyone's favorite and the darling of Microstock? Look at them now. Adobe is the future for most of us. Well managed, fairest pay, good buyer base and the free annual software deal is a fairly nice fringe benefit.
SS isn't dropping fast for me, but we all have different images and directions. Please don't remind me of this post in January when SS will obviously be dropping fast for me too. :(
Rage:
Have stopped uploading to SS, but its not evident that Pond5 or Arobe have been doing really well with this new stuff content that only gone to them
But it's definitely a relief to not have videos selling at under a dollar at shutterstock. The one two sales at Adobe make it well worth losing 20-30 vid sales at SS
cascoly:
--- Quote from: Rage on November 24, 2020, 03:10 ---Have stopped uploading to SS, but its not evident that Pond5 or Arobe have been doing really well with this new stuff content that only gone to them...
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there's not much change because the 'new stuff' is just a tiny portion of their normal intake
Uncle Pete:
Only four more days before New Year reset event.
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