Author Topic: What is your highest earnings? (Read 930 times)

sinandogan · « **on:** December 13, 2024, 02:34 »

Hello everyone. There's a statistic I'm curious about. What's the most you've earned from selling a single photo or video on Shutterstock?

I've been uploading for two years. The most I've made on a single sale is $60 for photos. $18 for videos.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1 on:** December 13, 2024, 03:09 »

Video sale on 27 September 2023....

alijaber · « **Reply #2 on:** December 13, 2024, 04:18 »

A video sale in June 2023: 942$

stoker2014 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 13, 2024, 08:13 »

Quote from: alijaber on December 13, 2024, 04:18

A video sale in June 2023: 942$

gnirtS · « **Reply #4 on:** December 13, 2024, 16:53 »

Quote from: sinandogan on December 13, 2024, 02:34

Hello everyone. There's a statistic I'm curious about. What's the most you've earned from selling a single photo or video on Shutterstock?

I've been uploading for two years. The most I've made on a single sale is $60 for photos. $18 for videos.

Now or previously?

Had a few $930 video sales last year, have had some $500 images in the past (normal sales not direct negotiation) but they're very very rare.

PeteStock · « **Reply #5 on:** December 14, 2024, 03:21 »

Had a $300 video last month, my highest so far.

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2024, 07:56 »

While for the most part the 'sales' are ridiculously low and not worth it (i.e., $0.25 for video) - so I don't bother uploading there any more, from time to time I will get a $200-$300 sale. ('rare', maybe like 1x/year).

sinandogan · « **Reply #7 on:** December 15, 2024, 03:32 »

A sale of around $900 is an incredible figure. It's astonishing. Are these videos Editorial or Commercial?

gnirtS · « **Reply #8 on:** December 15, 2024, 06:34 »

Both mine were commercial.

Photobomb · « **Reply #9 on:** December 15, 2024, 09:37 »

In Sept of this year I had an editorial photo sale of $847, so did a friend of mine, and from what I have heard so did several other photographers. Previous to that (a few years ago) I had in one month, 6 photo sales at $230 each.

alijaber · « **Reply #10 on:** December 15, 2024, 11:24 »

Quote from: sinandogan on December 15, 2024, 03:32

A sale of around $900 is an incredible figure. It's astonishing. Are these videos Editorial or Commercial?

Mine was editorial...
Also, I had 2 editorial video sales of 117$ each this month (the highest sales for me this year)

Contemporary Dave · « **Reply #11 on:** December 15, 2024, 13:46 »

Somebody once bought 5 images in a single sale. Each sold for about $160 each. I also had a sale for around $650 on a photograph of a Covid leaflet. All were editorial.