Scott, that makes a lot of sense and it's great that you do such deals and we can benefit from that. But as others have said, those sales are very few compared to regular subs (I yet have to see one of those big SODs).
As a motivation to create and upload niche content or to spend a lot of time and money to research, set up, shoot and keyword with the needed accuracy, those sales do not really work.
Because those niche shots or expensively created shots may end up being downloaded a handful of times (because they're niche content there is no high volume demand) for subs royalties.

But if there were an option to make such content available only to those higher paying buyers... (or to all buyers for a respective add-on price), that would be a lot more motivating...

+1, Nicely put.

So, is there something concretely here?
Is there someone in this post who earns $ 10,000 a month? Or $5000 and home many images he/she has online?

Lets roll this post.... 

Its a stupid question because the amount you make each month is more to do with how commercial your images are than the number you produce.

I assumed that we were answering based on our own portfolios.

Quote from: sharpshot on July 14, 2015, 17:36

Its a stupid question because the amount you make each month is more to do with how commercial your images are than the number you produce.

Not to mention that a port which might have earned 10k/month 2 or 3 years ago (ahem) might not be earning anywhere near that now thanks to the countless reasons always being discussed here.

That's true. My answer would have been 7500 a few years back and it is now 30000.

It is a flawed poll. Realistically, very few of the 40,000 images portfolios would achieve the $10,000 income. Of course, there are exceptions, and then there is the hard reality.
 
Another thing is that even if you make $1,000 with x images presently in your portfolio, you can't increase the income linearly with a tenfold increase of the portfolio. If you have currently a profitable niche with 100 pictures, by increasing it tenfold, you'll be diluting the profitability of the old and new images in this niche, and consequently any increase in total income would be marginal. So the answer would seem to be to to come up with new undiscovered niches, which is much easier said than done.
   

agree +100 Les
i look back at my past 5 years and with the increase of portfolio of almost 50 % from the first 5 years, my income is still the same monthly from the older images that are regularly downloaded.
the new images from year 3,4 and 5 earned almost pennies.
not sure if this is due to the change in search . but if so, why are the oldest images still the regular sellers?

the biggest problem nowadays is that uploading new content bring marginal improvement to the pot...had i uploaded the file that i uploaded in the last two years in 2010 i would have made much more than what i'm doing in the last year....in 2017 i uploaded 1500 travel fav food and lifestyle images and they are giving me 120 dollar each month seems january....the bulk of my sales is still those file that are in first page in search...mostly stuff i uploaded years ago...many buyer simply don't wanna bother with searching new files they go direct to popular or relevant...new isa  mess with all those b..it uploaded this days.
so if you earn for example 1000 dollar with 3000 or 5000 file you cannot do a direct relation....but at least for every 1000 more you need double number..so for gain another 1000 you need 7500 or more images. is more exponential growth than linear...

sure you can nail even one single niche file who make you 1000 in a year, but this is very rare todays.
that guys who not upload 6 years in a row and still earn 1000 dollar is the proof of this, had he uploaded those files in 2017 iu doubt he would have earned 1000 dollar from 3200 files of normal lifestyle.
sometimes i hope the agency abolish popular and most downloaded search option. this would be another story for many.

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Quote from: Spinfield on June 28, 2017, 17:48

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 28, 2017, 14:17

Old thread alert.

Very cute... You got 3 "+" from your fans.

Now it's four.

Now it's fourteen

Quote from: Spinfield on June 28, 2017, 17:48

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 28, 2017, 14:17

Old thread alert.

Very cute... You got 3 "+" from your fans.

Your first ever post was to call someone a "mother f**ker" and a "dumbass", your fourth to revive a 3 year old thread and your sixth to patronise/ insult one of the main contributors to the forum.

We could be in line for the greatest first ten forum posts ever! Can't wait to see what numbers 7-10 bring!!

HAHAHA..excellent post

Hey, this turned out to be a pretty funny thread. Lol.

yes, old thread, perharps. but i think i like to see if those ppl who said 40,000 way back still think 40,000 in today's sh*tterstock environment they would make 10,000 / month. that is, if they are all still without sh*tterstock

Shelma, are you Michele Paccione?

Yes.  But, if Selma is NOT Michele, there is a problem.