Thats more then any agency out there. I dont have to worry about it anymore though.

Looks like they are compensating the drop in sales with a massive influx of content. I think its masking the problem. Its like a dying star which bloats first just before it dies.

I meant they are adding more per week then any agency.

Hmm, maybe not, alamy is adding 450k images per week. Look where it got them. They sell something like 0.87% of the library per year, or last year. Shutterstock sells 300% of their library this year.

I've called IS some nasty names recently and I will do again, but aside from an understandable blip in December 2013 my main collection sales are just about back to 2012 levels and growing month on month. Sorry about that.

Besides, I don't know how anyone can speculate on big numbers and how they might affect them personally since they don't mean anything without knowing the detail behind them. For all anyone knows they could have dumped in 150,000 images of poodles.

Delete your portfolios!!!!

Let's show them how we can be cruel!

Destroy their offer for 0.00000001%!


 

Ok, so we know it is not the editorials that are oversupplied Thanks for the info.

The high volume overall does surprise me. If I look around me most images I recognize come from stock factories or artists I know. But I guess there must be many more smaller teams that shoot high volume or real amateurs that keep uploading everything they shoot.

So these are images we don't really see in the market.

At the microstockgroup the number of people registered is quite steady.

It is only the price Sue. i am sure many customers look at the cheap stuff first.

Illustration is now accepting 999images per 24hrs. Used to be 999/168hrs. I'm not sure when this change happened but it can only be a mistake or to benefit some large clipart factory to push through their crapola in a timely manner.

Now that is what I call crowdsourcing!!  I had no idea since I pretty much stopped uploading this past year and have not followed it at all.  No wonder my more recent uploads were getting very, very few views, potential sales not worth the time it took. Supply and demand at work.  Even at low reimbursement, they (all sites) are being overrun with contributors.  When I browse the collection, I in fact do not see a drop off in quality as much as I would expect, especially when compared to some of out "quality" stuff from 2006 and before that sold like crazy because it was all that was available. 
If I ran the store, I would aim for 100s of millions of files available and make sure I had a great search engine for buyers.  Supply grossly outpaces demand if these numbers are correct, and all contributors piece of the pie gets smaller every minute.