Almost doubled compare to previous 12 months average.  However, Shutterstock sales dropped yoy.  At this pace, Fotolia/AdobeStock will surpass Shutterstock sales in a year or two.  Is this the new trend?  Finally Adobe figured out how to sell stock videos/photos?  Adobe is supposed to have a huge advantage because all the creators who buy use Adobe softwares too.

SS and Pond went down this month, but AS up. So, in the end, it is the same crap income. In other words, buyers are buying stuff elsewhere. At least thank god it is not SB.

OK, I think I can say that Fotolia/AdobeStock is gaining while Shutterstock is losing customers.  Probably Adobe convinced some big production companies/TV stations to buy from them instead of Shutterstock.

Pond5 and SS at 12month high. Adobe 50% more than August, in term of $ Adobe not even half of what I get from Pond5/SS.

I don't know why, but my sales stopped on Ft/As and my FT rank has dropped drastically to 22.300  Not even one video sale...
This has never happened to me..
On SS - BME....

I never sold well on Fotolia at all. As if they had forgotten to put my images on their website. Suddenly, in September, my images started selling. However, very, very big drop of sales on SS.

Pond5 and SS at 12month high. Adobe 50% more than August, in term of $ Adobe not even half of what I get from Pond5/SS.

That is almost impossible at this side, SS is in free falling...

I don't know why, but my sales stopped on Ft/As and my FT rank has dropped drastically to 22.300

Same, Adobe/Fotolia used to be good, but suddenly stopped selling like normal.. Shutterstock on the other hand doubled sales x 3 the last months. Strange.

SS and Pond5 BME, Adobe and Storyblocks normal.
Just Storyblocks had half of the normal revenue...

OK, everybody has a different story it seems.

Exactly so its not wise to draw sweeping conclusions from one person's/months performance though the site would be less fun if people didn't.

My Adobe sales have been going up, SS going down down down down.  Unfortunately Adobe hasn't completely made up for lost sales at SS, but I do want to see them take the lead.  Most of my sales at Adobe bring in 99 cents instead of the .38 at SS.  My video sales are never less than $28 at Adobe and I've seen much higher. 

I have spoken with people at Adobe and they are actually trying to bring the amount we earn back up to a viable range and they seem to have at least SOME understanding of what it takes to produce good images and the photo industry.  They should, they make software for photographers.   Shutterstock has had no clue since day one.  Everything SS implemented when they opened and since then has been extremely  destructive to the industry as a whole.

So I'm rooting for Adobe to take over the show and leave SS a distant memory.  Then perhaps we can start bringing the industry back to some semblance of what it was before IS (when Livingstone started it at the same time SS opened) and SS pulled the rug out from under it.

I do believe SS priced images at what the founder believed images were worth.  And if you look at Jon Oringer's portfolio https://www.shutterstock.com/g/shutterstock?search_source=base_gallery&language=en&page=1&sort=popular&measurement=px&safe=true  you will see what I'm talking about (brace yourself, it's gonna hurt to look at these photos!).  Of course buyers were thrilled to be getting photos for pennies instead of hundreds of dollars and some good photographers got rich in volume sales in the early days, but it wasn't sustainable.