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Catastrophic for me too, if nothing happens in the next week I'll be down 50% from May.
Best month ever for me. They must have been playing with the search engine.
Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on June 24, 2019, 00:17Best month ever for me. They must have been playing with the search engine.I believe they are, I am seeing a very bad month here.Congrats to you.
It looks like june is going to be my worst month on shutterstock and i cant understand why?Anyone else?
Quote from: Artist on June 25, 2019, 05:53Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on June 24, 2019, 00:17Best month ever for me. They must have been playing with the search engine.I believe they are, I am seeing a very bad month here.Congrats to you.Really seems like it, today it seems back to normal again (my best sellers selling), while during the poor period of the month I was getting some sales of images that mostly never sold, like someone was digging them up from their pit.
microstock in my opinion apart some rare cases of factory or people who live in third world country or very poor country compared to western hemisphere, is unfortunately not more a job to earn a living. this is the sad truth. when you have to compete with people who live in kiev or belagreade, where a shooting cost a bunch dollar and the living cost are one tenth is not possible to compete. it's like the factory who close the door in western country when china become the production at a level of cost a fraction of theirs. simply not possible to survive now and even less in 2 3 years, time to move to another occupation.
Quote from: jonbull on June 26, 2019, 08:15microstock in my opinion apart some rare cases of factory or people who live in third world country or very poor country compared to western hemisphere, is unfortunately not more a job to earn a living. this is the sad truth. when you have to compete with people who live in kiev or belagreade, where a shooting cost a bunch dollar and the living cost are one tenth is not possible to compete. it's like the factory who close the door in western country when china become the production at a level of cost a fraction of theirs. simply not possible to survive now and even less in 2 3 years, time to move to another occupation.You make excellent points. There are still US based contributors who make a good living at it. They are exceptional in terms of the quality and quantity of output. However, I do wonder if even some of them wouldn't agree with you if they had to start from scratch in today's environment. One of the toughest things about it is the trend line. It is hard to be enthusiastic with a continuing downward trend.