With 11335 Photos - 31,91 $ in November.
Meanwhile the others: https://www.anadolustok.com/konu-kas%C4%B1m-2022-sat%C4%B1%C5%9Flar%C4%B1

Hello friends.

I stopped uploading images for 2 years because I protested Shutterstock, but I still had a monthly income of over $50. Since I stopped uploading photos and winter came, my sales also dropped.
In general, sales decrease in winter.

I've earned a little, but I'll still share it to give friends an idea.

My November 2022 sales:

Adobe Stock = 7071 photos = $33.16
Shutterstock = 11335 photos = $31.91
Istock / Getty = 3305 photos = $12.44 (October sales actually)
Depositphotos = 12873 photos = $3.69
Dreamstime = 12873 = $1.05

I'll start uploading photos again. Will sales increase?
What is the situation with you?

Helpful English Translation.

The only thing that uploading more photos helps is, new photo and the new photo boost, and maybe (a distant maybe?) if someone looks at your portfolio because of the new photo, they might see an old photo.

You might consider the complaints that old photos sell better than new? And there have been people who left, much like you, and came back to find they are still selling images, like they did twp years ago. There are also people who keep uploading new and work, and their sales are dropping.

Uploading or not, seems to have the same effect as posting messages on this forum. What I mean is, neither one is connected to more or less sales. I don't think there are any tricks that will make a difference.

My situation? I think I make better images now and upload at a steady pace and I make less now than in 2012. But one thing is for sure, those are my images and yours are yours, so what happens to mine is only relevant to mine.

Shutterstock = 11335 photos = $31.91 Your RPI = .28 cents While mine for 5282 images is 1 cent, $53.56 in Nov, which is not that great. I don't mean this to be snooty or mean, but maybe you should try to create more images that sell instead of just, more images? Too many of mine are just filler or, I made it, so I'll upload it, and they will never get a download in their lifetime. (math corrected = thanks)

Only 1400 of my images have ever made a sale. Just over 25%. You can look at  https://submit.shutterstock.com/earnings/top-performers?page=1&date_range=0&sort_direction=desc&per_page=100 that's 100 per page, and just count the pages times 100. That's your sold images.

What's your percentage? That will tell you if the problem isn't how many images, but what are they?

Good Luck finding what you are looking for and Happy Sales

What Pete said - except fix the math. More like .28 cents and 1 cent per image.

If it was linear (and it isn't) that means if you can get 3 more images accepted you will make less than one more cent in a month.

yet another example of why RPI is of little use - RPI may be small, but RPD ignores the size of the portfolio and shows actual income. my RPI for SS is tiny, but RPD has been between .4 & .7 over last year, with average of .5   


however, RPD can also be deceiving - my RPD for AS averages .7 but is steaduly only 50% of SS actual income

$0.07 for a Contributor fund. Great!

Which image and metadata were used is of course not shown.

I suppose it's good news if I don't see any payments on the contributor's fund.
No AI competition for my images?

And at the same time should I be worried about the fact that my 0,42 cents seems to be one of the higher amount registered by forum users? 

Shutterstock needs to improve in accepting photos

Look at this
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/oki+septiani

The first two actually have downloads?  I guess they are soft focus backgrounds. "blurred background" But I agree, they are terrible. Here's someone with four images, and they should be able to cash out in 2034?

Quote from: Zero Talent on December 16, 2022, 11:13

I suppose it's good news if I don't see any payments on the contributor's fund.
No AI competition for my images?

And at the same time should I be worried about the fact that my 0,42 cents seems to be one of the higher amount registered by forum users? 

I promise, I'm not that good and here are my payouts. All higher than 42 cents. 

$37.50, .53 and .73.

I suspect these are make up credits for past use. The email said every six months?

I can pretty much gaurantee that January will probably be one of the best months, if not the best month, in almost a year*.

I was referring to Shutterstock having the best month in January, without specifically stating so, in an effort to demonstrate to Stroker that it's important to make it clear who exactly is having their 'best month'. If you say you are having your best month, that's fine... if you just say it's the best month in general, that implies you have some kind of behind the scenes knowledge that's not available to the rest of us.

Not finished shoving all the details into my spreadsheets yet but for me on SS, 2022 was 10% fewer total downloads and roughly 30% less income than 2021.

The hit is entirely due to the low commissions being paid (and for the first few months, levels).  Similar amounts of stuff is being sold but for a much cheaper price.

Meanwhile on the crash down from level 5 to 1 combined with holidays im on a massive $26 this month instead of $150+.

2022 became the year AS reliably out performed SS and won comfortably by year end.

Not finished shoving all the details into my spreadsheets yet but for me on SS, 2022 was 10% fewer total downloads and roughly 30% less income than 2021.

The hit is entirely due to the low commissions being paid (and for the first few months, levels).  Similar amounts of stuff is being sold but for a much cheaper price.

Meanwhile on the crash down from level 5 to 1 combined with holidays im on a massive $26 this month instead of $150+.

2022 became the year AS reliably out performed SS and won comfortably by year end.

That is sad indeed. But we can join hands. For me it is exactly $25.90.

Very poor performance. I am at 1/5 of my earning. Those greedy people have filled their pockets and my one of best performing website lost.

So far, this January is tracking at almost the same level as January 2021 in terms of downloads, RPD and revenue. It's pretty terrible but just have to fight through the levels as fast as possible to get to a decent return.

Strange (though it was only 10 cents so no big deal by any means) but one of my 10-cent sales just disappeared along with the sales count dropping by one. Anyone have this happen?

Check your adjustment tabs in your earning summary, the sale might have been refunded. Shutterstock is by now the agency with the most refunds per month for me.