As of January 1st, they changed the way they calculated royalties, so there will be less money now.
 

"While this will mean higher earnings for some, it might also mean less for others." That is a big comic punchline !
"Please note that following this update, it may take 2 to 3 months for the earnings estimates on your dashboard to reflect accurate data again."

These guys are funny

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 01, 2025, 04:48

As of January 1st, they changed the way they calculated royalties, so there will be less money now.
 

"While this will mean higher earnings for some, it will might also mean less for everyone others." That is a big comic punchline !
"Please note that following this update, it may take 2 to 3 months for the earnings estimates on your dashboard to reflect accurate data again."

These guys are funny

What they REALLY mean to say (see above)

Quote from: Faustvasea on January 01, 2025, 07:54

Yeah, received that as well. Better they could say that everyone will earn less money. No need to lie to people.

I think not everyone only creators, company will probobly make more long time my favorite company now I must change something with my strategies.
Many ,,great sneaky news,, in January.

I guess, will be better to sell stock on own website

The owners of motionarray (an isralie company) seem to be about lying, and thieving. They "demanded" people agree to a new contract, "promising" more sales (but in essence were licensing content cheap, selling "ai" data), now they talk about stealing more money from people...

Den of thieves.

So just like the majority of every other stock site who's done exactly the same? Apart from the promising more sales part... pretty sure none of them have ever done that.   

As I understand it, they made it more difficult to move up to the next royalty level. Now you need to have more downloads.
And before there was only one level with a normal royalty percentage.

According to my calculations, my income will now be 40% less.

Submit a new product does not work. There is no option to select a category.

Thanks. They just buried this info at the very bottom of a quite long email, so I didn't get to it.
Happy new year!

It's beautiful.
I had around $80 earnings last night.
I was $75 this morning, and now it shows $63.
They will make negative revenues soon, it's coming, these guys are genius !

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Does anyone sell photos on this site? How is the income?

They sent to the contributors a Happy New Year cut on 01.01.2025. Its the second cut in 3 years. The first one was when the new owners took over. We had a zoom call with the new owners then and they assured us that everything will be as before......well not really. After they took over they started calculating the earnings differently so it resulted in 30-50% down. Now on February 15 we will see what is the damage this time. In fact there is a nice discussion on reddit and linkedin that can shed light to your question. You can see part of that zoom call and what they say . 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/s/dhZz4Zr0kD


Check the comments too.

Yes, bought out I believe it was by an Israeli company, and they keep seeing how they can nickle & dime people.

Right now - they sent out a message saying 'hey guys! for the next couple months are system is going to be screwy, so you won't know HOW much you make until we decide @ the end of the month! have fun!'... so sometimes you think you've made a few extra hundred $$$ - then it drops minus a couple hundred and you are thinking 'what'...?

There are some (usually east indians, but looks actually like some ukranians too) people who literally spam the sh*t out of it too - like 50 different 'yoga pose' angles of the same exact subject, same lighting, you just get a picture from the side of a woman, then underneath the woman, then a birdseye view of the woman, then a 45 degree angle of the woman, etc, etc... It's not even really unique at all - just spamming the "same" stuff - kind of like the east indian a few years ago who had like 40,000 "pictures "of the exact same "chair" on shutterstock (the exact same chair, just rotated 360 degrees by 1 degree increments on the horizontal axis, then tilting up 1 degree (going through 360 on the y axis) and another 360, then rotating the z axis 1 time, then going through the entire crapload again...

So you have some spammers spamming the sh*t out of it with 1000 "video clips" per day, so if you even get a few in, you don't necessarily see any increase in income. Then for the "templates" - again - they spam the sh*t out of those with slight variations - so again, if you do quality work, ur lucky if it does get seen/noticed - and then on top of that - any significant sales.

It "used" to be good for contributors when they did $3 asset/downloads - but then they got cheap and did "unlimited" downloads (in generally I think effectively cutting revenue by about 50% for contributors) - and now the latest games...

I'd say you're a bit late to the game if you want to try and making an income with them.