Category: Earnings

Update: It appears that all may not have been as big an issue as I initially understood and may have just been with one contributor. However, I’ll be careful with my posts going forward, but perhaps not the issue I at first thought. I saw some posts recently that Shutterstock was issuing warnings to contributors who share their earnings, royalty amounts or other “confidential” information. This is forbidden in the terms and conditions we signed: By submitting any Content to...

What a business this is. Last month I had a record for earnings, this month I am over $1000 down from that total. Such is the stock photography business in 2020. The month started reasonably well with some biggish sales, but seemed to drop off a cliff after that first week. As a result, my earnings for the month turned out to be $2785. Of course, I know that is still a very solid month compared to earlier ones in...

A good month or what? I’ll answer that question right away – a great month. If the stars have ever aligned over my portfolio, it was this month as multiple things seem to have gone well, and I ended the month with a career best of $3813! As you can see, well above anything else this year and certainly a big step change over the same month in previous years. So what went well? Right from the beginning of the...

There is something very satisfying about selling a photo as a large art print and I have had some great high priced sales on Fine Art America in the past. My latest one, of course, netting $287. But I was looking at similar images of this same place on FAA, and noticed that other artists were reporting more sales than I was seeing (you can tell by looking at the comments as you almost always get a comment when you...

A slow month all round – slow in earnings, and definitely very slow in terms of the effort I put into stock this month! I did have a side line in photographing images for a friend of mine who sells LED lightbulbs on Amazon and he wanted to improve his store – so we did a deal where I would create new images for his store and upload them. If you are in the UK and need an LED lightbulb,...

It is always interesting to see how my earnings compare month by month and also with the same month in the previous years and this month was no exception. I didn’t expect to get anything like the June results, because I had some great one-off events that month that I didn’t expect to be repeated, but even so, July came in pretty solidly with $2895. That compares with the $3245 in June and $2950 in July 2019, pre-Covid! As I...

A great month for me, thanks to a number of factors that all came together in this one month. Of course, the issues with Shutterstock clouded the month and it would have been even better if I hadn’t suspended my account, but the final earnings count of $3235 exceeded all my expectations. Here is my normal graph: As you can see, June 2020 is towering over the previous earnings for that month in earlier years, although I would be foolish...