On June 1st, 2020, Shutterstock pretty much screwed over their contributors. I used to make a minimum of $0.36 a download for any picture. I used to make a minimum of $15-20 for a video download. Now, it's $0.10 for a photo download and $0.34 a video download. So basically getting screwed. Under those new sales figures, I'd cash out maybe once every six months. If I was lucky. I disabled my portfolio immediately on June 1st. Shutterstock basically became iStock which won the race to the bottom. I even made a video which is published on YouTube.
If you are a contributor on Shutterstock, please consider disabling your portfolio until Shutterstock reverts its payment plan to contributors. I had 15,600+ photos and 1,560 video clips. 6 years of hard work shooting, editing and uploading. Shutterstock needs to understand that I do this as a passion. I love photography. I love shooting video. If Shutterstock doesn't change, I hope they go down in flames. In the meantime, if you need photos, you can go to my Adobe stock portfolio. If you need video, you can go to my Pond5 portfolio.
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