Sales at SS

morch · #1 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 11:59 AM

just had a record month at SS. Considering i haven't uploaded any new images for ages I am pretty pleased!

Fotolia is also doign pretty well lately.

Maybe this isn't such a bad game after all!

louoates · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 03:47 PM

SS continues to be building for me too. It often is beating iStock even tho I've been uploading just a dozen or so images per month. Quick reviews too!
The only thing I don't like about SS is the primitive stats available. It's virtually impossible to see how various subjects of photographs are doing. SS should have a better reporting system to allow us to focus on winning subjects.

thesupe87 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 04:01 AM

SS is really strict lately, it seems. Sometimes I'll submit a batch of 10 and all are approved, other times you get a Nazi reviewer that kicks either all or 90% of them. I'm not talking "crap" batches, I'm talking about batches that were at least 75% approved on other sites like Stockxpert or Dreamstime.

If you're new in this micro game, you'd better bring your "A-game" if you want to get in with iStock and Shutterstock. They have definitely increased their standards. I have two friends that are full time pros, and yet they can't get their initial batches approved. I'm glad I got in back when I did, a few years ago. Who knows if I'd make it if I were just signing up right now. It did take me about 4 attempts before iStock took me in, but Shutterstock was just a one shot deal for me.

jwbjerk · #4 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by thesupe87

SS is really strict lately, it seems.

I just joined ShutterStock a few days ago. I don't have a large portfolio, mostly high res textures i've captured with a scanner. They accepted 30 and rejected 2— one on the basis of "we don't need this" and another on a bogus noise complaint. But their decision came fast... usually less than 24 hrs.

My sample is small, but several of these are things that iStock and Dreamstime and StockXpert rejected. So far SS seems the easiest to me.