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Less reliance on one single agency is always a good thing. I'd rather have other agencies doing well too. Now they represent about 30-40% of my monthly income. At one time, they made about 60-70% of my stock income. Shutterstock's slice of the pie has shrunk for me in recent years. After all, that is why we are in this business, to make some money from what we love creating. Let's be honest – any Shutterstock contributor review worth its salt needs to get talking about earnings. You can check your sales, as well as get notifications of image reviews and more. Shutterstock Contributor is the mobile app for contributors who want to upload images on the road.

Gimmicky (but kind of mesmerising) world sales map, that tells you where your latest image purchases have come from.

Real-time (or close to it) sales reporting.

You can't deny that the website has everything a contributor needs, and 99% of the time it works well. A welcome addition was the long-requested ability to group videos into sets as well. This is where you can show off your logo, bio, website link and sets of images. This also included an updated world map with an easier way of seeing where your images were licensed.įinally, Shutterstock refreshed the customer facing portfolio pages for contributors. It included automatic keyword suggestions and the need to only upload an EPS file for vectors (instead of EPS + JPG).Īt the end of 2019 they released a refreshed contributor dashboard that works on multiple devices (responsive, in other words). First was the upgraded image upload and editing pages, making image submissions generally easier. Not an easy task.Ģ019 was a busy year for contributor related site upgrades.

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But overall, it seems they are making an effort to overhaul what is an old code base dealing with hundreds of millions of images. In the last few years site upgrades have brought some negative comments from contributors. Especially when you are very familiar with the old ones. Not everyone likes upgrades to existing tools. As you can imagine, this has huge potential for a whole lot of sales.

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They struck a deal with Facebook, meaning that every time someone uses an image that Facebook makes available in its advertising system from Shutterstock, the contributor gets paid a subscription-rate download royalty. This is helping push up the return per image (or RPI) of most contributors at Shutterstock. The even better news is that these ‘single image on demand’ sales, (or SOD) are increasing in frequency.

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Yet again Shutterstock seems to know how to win both buyers and contributors alike. This is very welcome news, especially when some other sites seem to be dropping prices or commissions.

Some individual sales are netting people anywhere from $16 to $120 per image. Suffice to say though, these new licenses are earning contributors a lot of extra income. Mostly (they tell us) they target high-volume corporate clients. Over the last few years Shutterstock have added many new image licenses that they aren’t giving too much information about. Thus, they get our highest rating of any agency! All these positives leads to a very positive Shutterstock contributor review. Both the buyer facing and contributor facing websites work well and are regularly updated. They are the industry leader in many ways. Shutterstock is a well established stock agency.