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I think they don't care, but customers most definitely will. The market constantly calls for new fresh images. Especially on the illustration side of things. Stuff gets dated soooo quickly and trends change up fast.
Completely agree with Fern... buyers will probably not even notice the drop in files, and even if they do, give it two or three weeks and they'll have more content than before any of this was all announced. I think it's probably a little bit naive to assume that the 0.3% of content that's gone was amazing, and current, and of an exceptional quality... and the remaining 99.7% is outdated, low quality and taken on a smartphone. If that was the case, buyers would have left a long time ago. SS knew exactly what they were doing, they ran the numbers, analysed the potential risks and they'll be just fine... but with a much higher profit margin.
True, but but this thread is about Shutterstock being stubborn, dumb and making a mistake. If this does result in SS having a much larger market share then is that a lose/lose for them?
I've said it before - I don't think Shutterstock cares about people leaving. They have a database with 325.718.566 (!!!) images, more than anyone could possibly ever need. Their database has shrunk by around one million images since the announcement of the new payment structure. One million might sound a lot at first, but really is just 0.3% of their database, so nothing at all to them. The number of images added weekly stays constant.
Just one remark - why you all expect that SS cannot manipulate the database numbers? As this is one of few numbers which can show the impact of any contributors action, it would be clever from them to manipulate this numbers like - "Yes, some small number of old images dissapeared, but the flow of the new content is unchanged - so your actions are worthless".Some contributors act emocionally - "I will not sell my ART for $0,10." But others (the bigger ones and fulltimers) do it as business "Price is not so important, overall income is what matters." also "If microstock is dead anyway, in the remaining time I will take all the money I can (even $0.10) and move to do another business.".So if the impact of contributors actions seems to be too small (like database numbers don't change enough), business contributors do maybe overall nothing.