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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: rteuman on March 09, 2019, 09:15

Title: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: rteuman on March 09, 2019, 09:15
Hello,

Does anyone know which countries have the most amount of purchases or customers, or any way to acquire that information?


Thank you so much,
Ron
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: increasingdifficulty on March 09, 2019, 09:38
In general, based on data from other sites:

1. USA. Always. This will be true for almost anything.
2-10. UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Italy, Spain, France, Holland.

Of course, if you have a portfolio only from a certain country, you might get most of your customers from there, but in general, spending is done in the countries I mentioned.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: dpimborough on March 09, 2019, 11:31
Hello,

Does anyone know which countries have the most amount of purchases or customers, or any way to acquire that information?


Thank you so much,
Ron

There's no way to acquire that information except keep a record of your own sales as they appear on the contributor dashboard
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: obj owl on March 09, 2019, 11:51
This may help you or it may not.  https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/Shutterstock
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on March 09, 2019, 13:51
There's an overview in the Q4 earnings call transcript. 66% of total revenue is from outside the US and about half of the non-US revenue is Europe.

https://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/q4-2018-earnings-call-transcript/ (https://www.microstockgroup.com/shutterstock-com/q4-2018-earnings-call-transcript/)

Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: Asthebelltolls on March 09, 2019, 14:08
I'm still waiting for Iceland to make a purchase. I may have to add a few more snowbanks and snowshoe track shots maybe.  ;)

I'm thinking my portfolio is a fifty-fifty split between the US and the rest of the world. I live in Canada but very close to the US border so my portfolio (about 20,000 shots in and among 5 agencies) has a fair amount of US content.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: Video-StockOrg on March 10, 2019, 07:27
Only 1/4 of sales are from USA.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: increasingdifficulty on March 10, 2019, 08:17
Only 1/4 of sales are from USA.

"Only". :)

That's quite an enormous part.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: Uncle Pete on March 11, 2019, 09:29
Hello,

Does anyone know which countries have the most amount of purchases or customers, or any way to acquire that information?


Thank you so much,
Ron

Didn't some of the agencies used to report US sales and Other Sales? I don't remember, but I'd guess, unless you are looking at a German agency or someplace that's featuring their countries world, any of the big three should be about the same for US vs Other.

This may help you or it may not.  https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/Shutterstock

Very nice! It would seem that the data could relate to downloads as well.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: pancaketom on March 11, 2019, 12:11
You can see US sales vs other sales on SS by going to the payment history page :

https://submit.shutterstock.com/payments?language=en

Last month about 55% non US for me (I'm US based and have mostly US content)

the month before about 47% non US.

Just eyeballing down the list I'd say it usually runs from about 55-70% non US for me.
Title: Re: Which Countries Are Using Shutterstock The Most
Post by: Uncle Pete on March 14, 2019, 08:01
You can see US sales vs other sales on SS by going to the payment history page :

https://submit.shutterstock.com/payments?language=en

Last month about 55% non US for me (I'm US based and have mostly US content)

the month before about 47% non US.

Just eyeballing down the list I'd say it usually runs from about 55-70% non US for me.

Oh yeah, that, and now that I look, it varies from month to month as much as 3x Non-US one month, 50-50 the next and 4x more US than Non-US. I can't really see any trend worth mentioning. I thought I might.