Author Topic: Shutterstock Performance May 2014 - Good, Bad or Indifferent? (Read 16213 times)

ethan · « **on:** June 01, 2014, 03:37 »

Disappointing for me following a record month in April across all areas. Record D/L For the Month, Record Revenue for the Month, BDE in D/L and BDE in Revenue.

May was down 15% in downloads and even worse, 26% down in Revenue terms so therefore my performance was BAD

Ariene · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2014, 03:50 »

Admit, May was bad, there was no nice surprice.

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2014, 04:00 »

A little down, but not so much.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2014, 04:23 »

A weak month, but not disastrous - around the bottom end of expectations.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2014, 04:59 »

Pretty good for me but I'm an overall poor performer by SS standards

Shelma1 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 01, 2014, 05:01 »

Down almost 25% since March.

heywoody · « **Reply #6 on:** June 01, 2014, 05:11 »

About 70% of April but see the same across all the sites

luissantos84 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2014, 05:41 »

+20% comparing to May 2013

Noedelhap · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2014, 05:47 »

+ 27% compared to May 2013

For me, March and April were exceptionally strong months due to some Single Downloads, May only had regular downloads and some On Demands, so the numbers are pretty skewed.

dbvirago · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2014, 05:55 »

Decent month despite no ELs

Desintegrator · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2014, 06:04 »

Mine started terribly but turned out pretty good at the end

cathyslife · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2014, 06:05 »

I got the short end of the stick on their last shuffle. No ELs either.

spike · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:02 »

-3% compared to April 2014
+430% compared to May 2013

Ron · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:11 »

+63% compared to May 13
-25% compared to April 14 (also BME)

No ELs, no footage, no large SOD, massive lack of ODDs. Lowest RPD since July 13

Crap month, but if I remove ELs and LSODs from the other months, its exactly the same amount, every month. Which is no good, I added 700+ images.

ethan · « **Reply #14 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:17 »

Quote from: Ron on June 01, 2014, 07:11

+63% compared to May 13
-25% compared to April 14 (also BME)

No ELs, no footage, no large SOD, massive lack of ODDs. Lowest RPD since July 13

Crap month, but if I remove ELs and LSODs from the other months, its exactly the same amount, every month. Which is no good, I added 700+ images.

SNAP

Apart from adding new images. I'm boycotting SS on all new images until they sort out their new image review software

cobalt · « **Reply #15 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:22 »

Shutterstock is up 30% over April, but lower than March. Decent mix of photo, video,odd sales.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #16 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:40 »

Out of my 5 months so far, 2nd best, but surprised it was more than $100 below April, with all the uploads I put in.

grsphoto · « **Reply #17 on:** June 01, 2014, 07:45 »

I had a great month for my meagre and underperforming portfolio...BME...On Demand, and Single downloads pushed it higher. Now I need to work on actually creating some content that sells consistently.

JPSDK · « **Reply #18 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:10 »

1/3 below March and April.

disorderly · « **Reply #19 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:12 »

Bad but not awfully so. Slow start, got good in the middle of the month and then kind of stalled at the end. Down 11% from April, which is in line with my average April -> May decline over the past 8 years across all agencies.

Maximilian · « **Reply #20 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:15 »

30% decrease. same money as istock now.

Mantis · « **Reply #21 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:22 »

Pretty regular until the last few days where I had some big downloads. Those pushed me to a BME by maybe $100.

ShadySue · « **Reply #22 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:36 »

Quote from: Mantis on June 01, 2014, 08:22

Pretty regular until the last few days where I had some big downloads. Those pushed me to a BME by maybe $100.

Thank goodness.
I was beginning to think the sky was really falling.

asmai · « **Reply #23 on:** June 01, 2014, 08:42 »

Unusually terrible month, and only at SS. 20% down from April, 15% down from last May. The last week of May was the same as the week of last Christmas, which is the worst of the whole year. Very unusual for me as they are pretty consistent until now.

gbalex · « **Reply #24 on:** June 01, 2014, 09:45 »

Down 30% on last year

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Author Topic: Shutterstock Performance May 2014 - Good, Bad or Indifferent? (Read 16213 times)

ethan

Ariene

Beppe Grillo

BaldricksTrousers

Pauws99

Shelma1

heywoody

luissantos84

Noedelhap

dbvirago

Desintegrator

cathyslife

spike

Ron

ethan

cobalt

Sean Locke Photography

grsphoto

JPSDK

disorderly

Maximilian

Mantis

ShadySue

asmai

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