Worst month since 2008. 25% down from September, which already sucked. Half of March earnings, which were the highest this year

Still haven't go the payment and wrote to support. Here's their answer:

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I would suggest contacting Payoneer directly and making sure that the account is active, verified, and ready to receive payments. Please share their response with us so we can further assist you.
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Shutterstock is such a * show

That was definitely something - especially with the little thing's eyes bulging out near the end.  Made me laugh.  Definitely made their point that the new iPad is very thin but not sure why anybody would want to buy one.

Well, I�m reading this on an iPad Pro.
 

I'm surprised they still exist, I worked with them in the late 1990s, when I was on the buyer side and there was real money to be made (for photogs and agencies).

Got paid on 9th

You are getting a bit to emotional here and political as well. Totally unnecessary. The only point I'm making here is that if anyone with such a great audience place your art work it's worth thousands of dollars of promotion. Sure he doesn't pay for using your art but lot's of people will because he promoted your work and you will get a lot of attention of paying customers. And yes you can nag about things not being right but I personally would welcome something like this. And I will bet the artist in question will not be so unhappy as well. Even though she complains about not getting paid by Musk himself or being credited. C'mon think twice
But then still you can have another opinion. It's a free world still where we live, isn't it?

Can you tell me how in the world a microstock artist profits, when their work is stolen and published without mentioning the artist and linking to  their portfolio?

If I understand it correctly, we can decide on 28 February that we want to continue to be paid in euros. This way we at least have the opportunity to save another 3% paypal exchange fee.

You wish. You can be paid FOR THE LAST TIME in Euros, if your payout request is made til Feb 28.

You must be kidding

Thanks to the incompetent idiots in charge, we're on our way to a recession.

I anticipate that many companies with either start downgrading or cancelling their microstock accounts from sites like SS and AS.

My SS sales has dipped in the last few weeks. Less big sales and less daily downloads.

Just brace yourselves for what's to come and stop supporting people who are economically illiterate.

It's funny how conservatives worldwide always claim recession and inflation are the fault of the current government and never based on the mistakes of the former one.

none below 0.35

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on January 18, 2022, 18:25

Looks like I might make less than I did my first month Jan 2014.  That�s ten times less than my monthly peak.

I had to go back to 2011 to find similar earnings compared to the first half of January 2022.
 
Comparing my numbers after the levels change from the first part of Jan 2021 to 2022, my DL's are 22% less and my $$ are 28% less.

If the trend holds, I even have to go back to January 2010 to find similarly low earnings. My alltime best month was 9 times as high. Level 4 already.

$72 at SS   215 dl
� 110 at Adobe 155 dl
$ 22 at Alamy 6 dl

No payment here. They've been earlier the last couple of months buy several months earlier this year it was the 16th for me, so I wouldn't worry just yet.

This.