Damien Richard at Brighthub Feed The Beast “…many of their contributors have proven that money can be made, lots of money.” Additionally, their online forum is well-regarded. Many photographers consider Shutterstock to be the easiest company to work with, as images can be uploaded in bulk via FTP. Laryn Kragt Bakker has earned $16,229 on microstock sites as of 8/26/10, mainly on Shutterstock.$10.53 average per year Paulus Rusyanto at DPhotoJournal (July 2010).$14 average per year Royce Bair at The Stock Solution.With this combination of quantity and the occassional enhanced license, Shutterstock provides most photographers with the highest RPI (Return Per Image):
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Shutterstock License Comparison Highest RPI With the occasional enhanced license, your return-per-image is quite high. For that, a commercial “ Enhanced” license is required, which pays the photographer a lot more - $28. The standard license does not permit usage in quantities higher than 250,000 for display in public areas or on resale, print-on-demand products. From “Microstock Survey 2009” compiled by Tyler Olson at MicrostockGroup Enhanced Licenses “On which site did you generate the most income last year? Shutterstock.”
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The revenue per download (“RPD”) that Shutterstock provides is small (at around $0.25–$0.33 $28 max), but that is more than made up for by the high quantity of downloads. This emphasis on quantity means that Shutterstock licenses far more downloads than other microstock agencies, and pays you - the contributing photographer - higher earnings. And those customers tend to license many photos when only one is needed, as there’s no additional cost for quantity - they can try out different layouts and show a client a choice of images for approval. They certainly have the highest number of sales for the majority of microstockers.”ĭue to this “all-you-can-eat” approach, Shutterstock’s customers tend to be high-volume and frequent users, such as graphic designers that are in regular need of pictures. “Shutterstock are arguably the highest performing microstock agency. Customers can’t license individual images instead they buy an amount of time in which to download an almost unlimited number of images. Shutterstock is unique in that it offers downloads only via subscriptions. By 2010, over 13 million images were available, more than any other microstock agency. Started in 2003 as a personal stock site by photographer Jon Oringer, the site began taking off in 2005, when the work of other photographers was added and Adam Riggs joined as president. Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world.
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