Richard Whitcombe, a Welsh underwater photographer, celebrated his 10th anniversary with Shutterstock last month but he’s becoming estranged from the platform. All contributors will shift back to Level 1 on January 1.
The new system took effect on June 1, 2020. More expensive plans buy a greater number of image licenses at a lower cost. Shutterstock licenses are primarily purchased through subscription plans, where a customer pays a monthly fee for bulk access to images. All contributors bizarrely start back at level one each year, resulting in a sudden annual pay cut for most sellers. It’s now determined by how many images are licensed each year. The old system paid photographers based on their lifetime earnings. The pay cut was implemented via an overhaul of the Shutterstock Earnings Breakdown structure. Given the market has changed significantly since Shutterstock was founded in 2003, we have made changes to better reflect the current market.’ Shutterstock aims to fairly compensate our contributors for the time and talent invested in the production of their work. The decision to make these changes was not made lightly and was done with much consideration for all of our contributors. We hear your concern with the new earnings structure changes. I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to you. He sent Shutterstock the campaign and received this response: He told Inside Imaging it’s no surprise how many contributors signed the petition, as ‘no one would be happy with the new system’. A screenshot of the typical discourse happening on the Shutterstock Facebook page.Ībdullah Korkmaz is calling for Shutterstock to revert back to the old system through a petition, which has garnered almost 8000 signatures.
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Likewise the Shutterstock forums and Professional Microstock Forum is packed with contributors attempting to make sense of things. The Shutterstock Facebook page is awash with protests against the pay cut, with moderators deleting critical comments – ostensibly to create a ‘safe space’. Since the pay cut came into effect on June 1, 2020, numerous contributing photographers report single payments of US$0.10 per subscription download, a significant drop from the usual US$0.25 – 0.38 fee. Shutterstock is standing strong in its decision to cut costs by reducing payments to its contributing photographers, despite a tidal wave of recrimination that continues to wash over the microstock agency.
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