Through a six-year agreement, Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE:SSTK) strengthened its partnership with OpenAI. As of July 2023, the company became the major provider of high-quality training data for OpenAI�s models, demonstrating its commitment to leveraging AI technologies in developing its platform. Aiming at sustainability, the company has announced a merger with Getty Images in January 2025. It claims that the resulting expansion in the stock photo libraries will provide better competition against AI-driven image creation tools.

SS is a major provider of training data to the main competitor for microstock, while merging with Getty to better defend against the loss of business to AI. SS is paying a dividend of .33 March 6th. Watch the price on March 7th.

speaking of ai, i haven't had a "contributor fund" payment in ages.  have others been getting anything?  ss has been terrible for me for 3 months now.

Didn't they offer the exciting news of only paying 15% for AI data training? Maybe 0% is even more exciting.

In the last few days a lot of sales on SS, but almost all in the range of $0.10-$0.15 (level 5).

In the last 3 days SS sales are 3 times those of Adobe for me.

In this moment Adobe can't grow anymore, SS sells a lot but the RPD is low, high priced sales have disappeared. Not a good situation.

I was hoping that SS would lose market share to Adobe (which has the highest RPD), but it's not happening as I expected.

Very true but yesterday was a good day for me at least on SS, I had so many of these days last year, lets hope they are coming back this year.

In the last few days a lot of sales on SS, but almost all in the range of $0.10-$0.15 (level 5).

In the last 3 days SS sales are 3 times those of Adobe for me.

In this moment Adobe can't grow anymore, SS sells a lot but the RPD is low, high priced sales have disappeared. Not a good situation.

I was hoping that SS would lose market share to Adobe (which has the highest RPD), but it's not happening as I expected.

for me, too, SS sales are 2-3x AS. but 3 days isn't enough to draw any conclusions as the market is random - however, my SS RPD has been around .7 over them last year, while SS is around .45 (showing high priced sales still happen every month)

I create graphic videos...2-4 years back when I searched "Green Screen", I have seen 10-15 videos in first 3 pages of "Popular" section. Because they sold well... My top video sold for 450 times in 4 years, and few more sold more than 200 times, and many videos sold for 100+ times...

And everytime Shutterstock comes with worst changes... They changed algorithm, and I am not seeing my videos anywhere in first 10-15 pages of popular section...Then there is no surprise that my sales and earnings reduced by 60-75% in last 1-2 years...

And the worst thing is that, I am seeing the videos of newbies in popular section, whose portfolios don't even have 100-200 videos...And seeing many thieves videos in popular section who stole effects from apps and softwares...

From $900-$1100 a month, shutterstock decreased to $200-$300...
on the other hand from $150-$200 a month, adobe stock increased to $500-$600 a month, in last 2-3 years.