Feel free to share your earnings per download. It's one of the Shutterstock stats I track. I'm interested. Divide your lifetime earnings by lifetime downloads. Mine is USD $0.662.

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Mine is very similar about $0.67 for photos. If anything trending up which seems contrary to what many are reporting.

Mine is 0.79, although I don't know what it tells us?  BTW - very nice travel shots, Anna. You have been around the world I see!

Steve

Like about 95% of the stats you can get about microstock from the sites I don't think it tells you anything that you could actually do anything with!

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Mine is 0.79, although I don't know what it tells us?  BTW - very nice travel shots, Anna. You have been around the world I see!

Steve
Like about 95% of the stats you can get about microstock from the sites I don't think it tells you anything that you could actually do anything with!

Yes, but it keeps us amused...

It certainly amuses me what conclusions people draw from such limited stats ;-).  I would really like to know which images were viewed using which keywords so I could see demand and which of my ideas/pictures  could actually be improved to increase the chances of a sale.....too much to ask I guess

One's numbers will also be affected by when they started and how much they sold early on when subs were .20, and OD's and SOD's and EL's hadn't been invented yet.

Minus Video Stats (I have no reference for that).
Here's a brief history of SS royalties.
*disclaimer just a quick look back at my history - not anything official*
2005 Sub�s .20

2006 Subs .20 
         OD�s introduced (3.99)
          EL�s introduced $20
          March 30th Sub�s increased to .25 

2007 Subs .25 
         April 30 Sub�s increased to .30

2008 Subs .30   
         May 14th Levels introduced
         Sub�s increased to .25 - .33 - .36 - .38
         OD�s increased to current tier level
         El�s increased to $28


2009  Subs & OD's - No Change

2010  Subs & OD's - No Change

2011 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD�s introduced ($2.94; $5.70 & $18.00)

2012 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD's (Sept got first larger $90 DL)

2013 Subs & OD's - No Change
         Facebook .38 SOD�s introduced (late January)

2014 Subs & OD's- No Change
          Larger SOd�s
          June SOD�s for 125.61; 73.81; 120.00


2015 Subs & OD's - No Change

2016 Subs & OD's - No Change
         EL's change to your level pricing and amounts vary, but most under $28.00

2017 No Change

2018 No Change

** Edit - .71 for me all time

$.79 RPD  based on 47,374 downloads

For all time:

   RPI - $2.99
   RPD - 0.71

2018:

    RPI - $1.71
    RPD - 0.70

Oct 2018:

    RPI - 0.51
    RPD - 0.46

all time : 0.69

all time : 0.69

Up top!

rpd $ 0.71
rpi $ 6.27

$0.000000000001

why are you still submitting with such low performance compared to 99% of others that make a lot more?

Have you thought about training or purchasing one of the microstock books to get better?

Also you might consider taking a free art course at a local high school? Most likely you have never taken any art courses in your life thus don't understand composition or contrast like alone 2D or 3D dimensions. 

.....
 It certainly amuses me what conclusions people draw from such limited stats ;-).  I would really like to know which images were viewed using which keywords so I could see demand and which of my ideas/pictures  could actually be improved to increase the chances of a sale.....too much to ask I guess

I started some keyword analytics when we had the symbiostock community available and could get the needed data on keywords, uses, views, etc

http://cascoly.com/symbio/symbiostock-keywords.asp

but didnt keep up to date as the sites went quiet

One's numbers will also be affected by when they started and how much they sold early on when subs were .20, and OD's and SOD's and EL's hadn't been invented yet.

Minus Video Stats (I have no reference for that).
Here's a brief history of SS royalties.
*disclaimer just a quick look back at my history - not anything official*
2005 Sub�s .20

2006 Subs .20 
         OD�s introduced (3.99)
          EL�s introduced $20
          March 30th Sub�s increased to .25 

2007 Subs .25 
         April 30 Sub�s increased to .30

2008 Subs .30   
         May 14th Levels introduced
         Sub�s increased to .25 - .33 - .36 - .38
         OD�s increased to current tier level
         El�s increased to $28


2009  Subs & OD's - No Change

2010  Subs & OD's - No Change

2011 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD�s introduced ($2.94; $5.70 & $18.00)

2012 Subs & OD's - No Change
         SOD's (Sept got first larger $90 DL)

2013 Subs & OD's - No Change
         Facebook .38 SOD�s introduced (late January)

2014 Subs & OD's- No Change
          Larger SOd�s
          June SOD�s for 125.61; 73.81; 120.00


2015 Subs & OD's - No Change

2016 Subs & OD's - No Change
         EL's change to your level pricing and amounts vary, but most under $28.00

2017 No Change

2018 No Change

** Edit - .71 for me all time

That was interesting. I never collected all the changes, but I knew there have been some.

As a hobby Micro shooter, unlike the "professional" which some here actually are... 

.697720475 or .70 RPD

I started in 2007 but honest uploads 2008 (total crapstock!), had files in the hundreds (amazing lack of effort) until 2012 when I added a couple thousand and 2015 a couple thousand more. I'm at 4482 now and upload when I get an idea or the urge. I will say that better images, make more and the junk or filler is still a waste of time.

How's that? Oldest 100, which is pretty much first 100 = .48 lifetime RPD average, Newest 160 2018 .82 but wait a year. What I'm hoping is that I'm smarter and make images that sell better, than the first year when I shot everything I saw.

A particular event, setting, action kind of shot, that I shoot additional a few times a year, $1.52

My Illustrations, my blurred backgrounds, other ideas that I did test sets of say 50-70 works = .50 average (my illustrations are terrible rasters, don't waste time looking) there are others that I just skip now.

Just pointing out that when I find something that earns more, I upload more of that. And when I find some idea that doesn't work, like flowers, my nasty illustrations, insects, isolated food on white, or whatever else, I stop spending time on those. I can say, almost no duck shots.  My stunning, inspired, and brilliant triple cheeseburger concept, 3 sub DLs