I never thought I would ever say this but I have more dl-s on DT than on SS this week.
I know it is summer but almost no downloads in the middle of the week is very strange.

Yesterday, I had over $20 worth of Downloads on Canstock and less than $10 on Shutter. Never thought that would happen in a million years. I fear this is going to be the norm...

SS is down to my third agency. Somehow, somewhere I recon they must have screwed up something chronic! maybe they are in a take-over bid corporate pirates?  well who knows?

I haven't heard about any take-overs. Ever since they went public - they have squeeze the artists for every red penny- has caused them to collapse.  This ship is taking in water and will not stay afloat much longer 

Shutterstock is a company with absolutely enormous running costs. Not all are, so they don't need to sell that much to stay afloat.

Quote from: Bad Company on August 23, 2017, 13:11

Quote from: derek on August 23, 2017, 12:42

SS is down to my third agency. Somehow, somewhere I recon they must have screwed up something chronic! maybe they are in a take-over bid corporate pirates?  well who knows?

I haven't heard about any take-overs. Ever since they went public - they have squeeze the artists for every red penny- has caused them to collapse.  This ship is taking in water and will not stay afloat much longer 

I think we've heard the same about, IS, 123RF, DP, DT and BS. How do those places stay in business? I mean SS is making a profit, growing, expanding and improving, but the ship is taking on water? What about the ones that have gaping holes in their hulls.

Or maybe we're talking about from our side, these places are becoming less interesting from an income standpoint? Why would someone want to take over a losing business? 

Youre right about enormous turn-over and this is the funny part of it. So where is the money going???  dont think for one minute that the so called " factories" are getting it all. I know of two factories and both with over 100K files and right now they are starving alive.
It could be the distributors aggregators!  I am doing handsomely well with one of them.

I reckon I've been reading about the imminent doom of SS for the last 5 or six years. Seems to me they are currently having some difficulty maintaining their wildly over optimistic growth projections and controlling costs and are overvalued. But not about to go over any cliffs. The success or otherwise of any individual's portfolio is not really an indication of how SS is doing any more than Farmer Brown not being able to sell his milk at Walmart indicates Walmart is on the verge of bankruptcy.

I agree with Bad Company.

Quote from: Bad Company on August 25, 2017, 15:41

Quote from: Pauws99 on August 24, 2017, 07:21

I reckon I've been reading about the imminent doom of SS for the last 5 or six years. Seems to me they are currently having some difficulty maintaining their wildly over optimistic growth projections and controlling costs and are overvalued. But not about to go over any cliffs. The success or otherwise of any individual's portfolio is not really an indication of how SS is doing any more than Farmer Brown not being able to sell his milk at Walmart indicates Walmart is on the verge of bankruptcy.

agree on most parts but there are a lot more (some very high end artists) artists than just Farmer Brown stating that their sales are down big time. The SS Ship is big but even the Titanic went down which many felt was unsinkable during her day...

Its a possibility I just don't think we are there yet another bad 6 months and the iceberg might be close.

When SS used to tank, it would usually rebound in two weeks or thereabouts.  For me currently, I am on my fourth month of �40-50% less revenue.  The spikes I do get to maintain my current revenue are video sales. Otherwise video seems to have dried up too.  I find it odd that my video AND stills have dried up. Because of that it makes me believe that the drop in sales is indeed based on linking the search to elements of individual contributor's (rank, tenure, revenue, etc.) and not so much more competition.  So for example, I must fit a specific profile that the search adjustment targets. It's the only logic I can muster with literally an overnight drop from my $1200 April to my $526 May and beyond.  August is trending to hit $500, maybe a few bucks more.  I believe what is happening is, for the most part, controlled and not so much organic.

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Quote from: Pauws99 on August 26, 2017, 01:02

Quote from: Bad Company on August 25, 2017, 15:41

Quote from: Pauws99 on August 24, 2017, 07:21

I reckon I've been reading about the imminent doom of SS for the last 5 or six years. Seems to me they are currently having some difficulty maintaining their wildly over optimistic growth projections and controlling costs and are overvalued. But not about to go over any cliffs. The success or otherwise of any individual's portfolio is not really an indication of how SS is doing any more than Farmer Brown not being able to sell his milk at Walmart indicates Walmart is on the verge of bankruptcy.

agree on most parts but there are a lot more (some very high end artists) artists than just Farmer Brown stating that their sales are down big time. The SS Ship is big but even the Titanic went down which many felt was unsinkable during her day...

Its a possibility I just don't think we are there yet another bad 6 months and the iceberg might be close.

When SS used to tank, it would usually rebound in two weeks or thereabouts.  For me currently, I am on my fourth month of �40-50% less revenue.  The spikes I do get to maintain my current revenue are video sales. Otherwise video seems to have dried up too.  I find it odd that my video AND stills have dried up. Because of that it makes me believe that the drop in sales is indeed based on linking the search to elements of individual contributor's (rank, tenure, revenue, etc.) and not so much more competition.  So for example, I must fit a specific profile that the search adjustment targets. It's the only logic I can muster with literally an overnight drop from my $1200 April to my $526 May and beyond.  August is trending to hit $500, maybe a few bucks more.  I believe what is happening is, for the most part, controlled and not so much organic.

I would plan on only making $500 a month on SS. The days of making over a grand a month are gone I fear...

Agree. Glad I have a day job.

August is a pretty bad month if nothing changes in few more days. We are currently only at $847, while we had $1088 last year.

I make over a grand a month on SS but in video 

My Shutterstock sales took a nosedive ... comparing to June 2017 the sales are down 45% in July, 55% in August and almost 60% in September. 

Absolutelly horible September in Ss for me... total disaster, don`t know what happened but it`s not good