Author Topic: Travel Editorial on Shutterstock ? (Read 5750 times)

Old Hippy · « **on:** May 27, 2009, 06:06 »

I'm taking a look at the editorial section in SS.

For travel stuff looks OK.

But.. it's not clear to me how much are they gonna pay me
for XL images (let's say around 5000x4000px) ?

And most important, do they pay in time ?
Is editorial selling well on SS or it's only good for micros ?

travelstock · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2009, 10:16 »

Quote from: Old Hippy on May 27, 2009, 06:06

I'm taking a look at the editorial section in SS.

For travel stuff looks OK.

But.. it's not clear to me how much are they gonna pay me
for XL images (let's say around 5000x4000px) ?

And most important, do they pay in time ?
Is editorial selling well on SS or it's only good for micros ?

I have editorial stuff on SS, but to be honest except for images that I really think will sell in volume, I'm going to stick to using Alamy in future.

Mormegil · « **Reply #2 on:** June 05, 2009, 15:19 »

Editorial sells on SS like anything else, same price, same commission. I find my travel editorials sell well. Yesterday 8 of 20 were editorial (half travel), today only 2 of 14.

Something SS has that's nice for editorial is the Red Carpet program, where they help you get press credentials for events.

Shutterstock pays usually within 10 days of the first of the month if you're over the minimum payout you set (the lowest is $75, but you set it higher if you want).

As I like to travel, a lot of my SS port is editorial / travel editorial (probably just over half). I'd say just under half is editorial sales.

Funny Old Hippy, I thought you hated microstock.

qwerty · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2009, 05:33 »

Quote from: Old Hippy on May 27, 2009, 06:06

I'm taking a look at the editorial section in SS.

For travel stuff looks OK.

But.. it's not clear to me how much are they gonna pay me
for XL images (let's say around 5000x4000px) ?

And most important, do they pay in time ?
Is editorial selling well on SS or it's only good for micros ?

For new contributors 25 cents no matter what size
You'd be better of flipping burgers I've been told

Who was that again I can't remember ?

Mormegil · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2009, 17:34 »

Flipping burgers? Sure, full time flipping burgers will make you more money compared to my couple hours a week of photography. You can say the same thing for all microstock photography.

I've got about 1,500 editorial images on SS out of a total of

46 editorial sales at $0.38 = $17.48 so far this month (8 days).

Extrapolating that's $797.53 per year in editorial sales, divide by 1,500 = $0.53 per image per year.

Non editorial images have been 72 sales so far -> $27.36

Extrapolate to $1248.30 per year, divide by 2609 (non editorial images), gets me $0.49 per image per year.

So it looks like I'm making about as much money per image on my editorial and my non-editorial. 50 cents per image per year, from one site.

These same editorial images are also going on DreamsTime and BigStockPhoto.

Note: my numbers may be off, as I'm basing it completely on only these first 8 days (calculating $171 / month). I typically make between $200 and $250 per month on royalties at SS (and another $250 in referrals).

travelstock · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2009, 20:16 »

Quote from: Mormegil on June 08, 2009, 17:34

Flipping burgers? Sure, full time flipping burgers will make you more money compared to my couple hours a week of photography. You can say the same thing for all microstock photography.

I've got about 1,500 editorial images on SS out of a total of

46 editorial sales at $0.38 = $17.48 so far this month (8 days).

Extrapolating that's $797.53 per year in editorial sales, divide by 1,500 = $0.53 per image per year.

Non editorial images have been 72 sales so far -> $27.36

Extrapolate to $1248.30 per year, divide by 2609 (non editorial images), gets me $0.49 per image per year.

So it looks like I'm making about as much money per image on my editorial and my non-editorial. 50 cents per image per year, from one site.

These same editorial images are also going on DreamsTime and BigStockPhoto.

Note: my numbers may be off, as I'm basing it completely on only these first 8 days (calculating $171 / month). I typically make between $200 and $250 per month on royalties at SS (and another $250 in referrals).

I guess my point was that I'm aiming for more than 50c per image per year. While that's probably about what you'd expect from editorial travel images on MS, based on my Alamy figures so far I'm aiming for about 5 times that income per year for editorial images - still not brilliant but at least theres the potential for some really worthwhile sales. While there are other MS sites you can now upload travel editorials on, in practice they don't really seem to understand travel editorial stock and the rejections are much higher.

Mormegil · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2009, 20:35 »

Well, you're doing much better than I on Alamy then.

I've only got a little over 200 images on Alamy, but aren't making anywhere near $0.50 per image per year. I'm doing a little over half that. I suppose I need to work on what to upload there.

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