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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...
Another month goes by in our new world without travel! It seems so strange not to be packing a suitcase for another stock driven adventure and now six inches of snow have shown me that it really is winter now and time to settle down! As I noted in my normal review of earnings, I have been a bit sluggish at uploading new images with about 40 added during the month. One positive thing about the various sorts of lockdown...
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...
I get a lot of emails about various discounts at this time of year, and so if you are in the running for one of the products that I use, here are the various sales I have seen: StockSubmitter – up to 80% off subscription sales between 27 November and 12 December. I use this program all the time and I will certainly be topping up my subscription amount. Remember that what you are buying is really a credit and...
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...
If you are a follower of Alex Rotenberg’s great blog, you will probably have seen his interview a few weeks back with Aaron Amat, the CEO of Kraken Images. As you all know (and I’m painfully aware), I’m not at all good at people images, and don’t feel I really understand the market as well as I do for my conceptual and topical shots, so after reading Alex’s questions, I had some more in my mind. I put a couple...
Apart from hide your head under the bed covers as the US election comes to its logical conclusion, that is… So here is my usual summary of themes I have been working on and what I think might be interesting topics for the upcoming weeks and months. It is definitely getting late to upload election related themes, but possibly there might be opportunities for the chaos that will follow election day as the results are counted, different totals are reached,...
It has been a quiet month (when is it any different these days) and a few things were on my mind, and so this post is just a collection of things that you might be interested in! First up – I saw a post on the Microstock Group this morning about a search on Adobe which brings up images and videos that have never sold. Thanks to Jo Ann Snover for discovering this. The core of her post was this...
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...
Another month and time for some more ideas on what concepts might drive stock photo sales in the coming months. Of course the US election is showing no signs of calming down and we are headed for a tumultuous November. I don’t think I have done anything like enough to get some images online to illustrate the confusion and perhaps violence that will pervade that period – and I think there is still time to get those sort of images...
