Author Topic: Shutterstock is an embarassment (Read 91209 times)

yuriy · « **Reply #450 on:** March 02, 2025, 17:27 »

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.

pancaketom · « **Reply #451 on:** March 02, 2025, 17:43 »

Quote from: yuriy on March 02, 2025, 17:27

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.

Bauman · « **Reply #452 on:** March 26, 2025, 05:03 »

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.

DaLiu · « **Reply #453 on:** March 26, 2025, 05:18 »

Quote from: Bauman on March 26, 2025, 05:03

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.

Bauman · « **Reply #454 on:** March 26, 2025, 05:26 »

Quote from: DaLiu on March 26, 2025, 05:18

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.

I'm happy for you!

I had it last week one day with earnings > $100... but that was pretty much the only one this month. I was used to having at least one every week.

cascoly · « **Reply #455 on:** March 26, 2025, 14:18 »

Quote from: Bauman on March 26, 2025, 05:03

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)

xbrchx · « **Reply #456 on:** March 26, 2025, 14:28 »

Few weeks ago I got hit by my best selling single image download ever (15 years on SS).
Number was so high it knocked me out of my shoes

Not sure am I allowed to disclose amount here, but it was 25x higher than my previous best selling photo on SS (which was decade ago).
And what was really odd to me it was an editorial image sale.

I did some research of new product line, and find out this new product - selling editorial as commercial license with Asset Assurance, which offer the legal coverage for commercial use of editorial photos if I got it right. I guess my sale was one of this, and it is really expensive to license photo with this license. I have only few editorials in my portfolio, but will probably upload more after this.

Anyone had similar experience with high revenue editorials?

Graphic_Designer · « **Reply #457 on:** April 20, 2025, 12:11 »

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.

Dickens · « **Reply #458 on:** May 07, 2025, 09:27 »

Hello, I am so pleased to hear of others success on SS, but here I am wondering if it is all worth the effort.
This year for me, I have sold a mixture of over 80 videos and photos, including a red-hot topic in the UK, 'The Reform Party' photos
and yet have only earned $36.52

The wages here are disgusting.

My portfolio, contains320 images and 177 videos.

stoker2014 · « **Reply #459 on:** **Today** at 03:58 »

Over the past few months, I have observed a very long video review process on Shutterstock. Moreover, videos are not reviewed in order of upload date, but selectively.

yuriy · « **Reply #460 on:** **Today** at 09:34 »

Quote from: Dickens on May 07, 2025, 09:27

Hello, I am so pleased to hear of others success on SS, but here I am wondering if it is all worth the effort.
This year for me, I have sold a mixture of over 80 videos and photos, including a red-hot topic in the UK, 'The Reform Party' photos
and yet have only earned $36.52

The wages here are disgusting.

My portfolio, contains320 images and 177 videos.

are you seeing much better earnings elsewhere? honestly with a portfolio as small as yours those returns are pretty good... by today's standards. most people who see decent returns have 1000s of assets though i know of a few who do well with less because they have super rare/niche assets. hard to say if it's worth it for you specifically but i'd work on producing a much bigger portfolio and see.

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