Then they can concentrate on producing more of the kind of subjects that are in demand and not bother producing more what no one seems to want to buy.Ī few with large collections may not be doing as well as the number of images might indicate. Given their volume they are able to get a better understanding of what specific subjects, and treatments of those subjects, tend to sell and which ones don’t. Given the sizes of their collections these contributors have a significant advantage over those with smaller collections. In all likelihood much more than 42% of Shutterstock’s gross revenue is generated by these less than 1% of contributors.
The total images of these 5,112 contributors was 71,647,381 or 42% of the collection. The breakdown of these top contributors is as follows:Ībout 2% of total contributors each had more than 10,000 images in their collections. It is also worth noting that while the number of contributors and images are growing dramatically, the number of downloads has grown a little less than 2% in 2017 compared to 2016. The percent of contributors with more than 999 images remains about the same. The number of contributors is up 23% and the number of images is up 33% since last February. That is now about 71% of the total image in the collection. Now, there are 17,739 contributors and these contributors have a total of 122,143,734. At the time Shutterstock had 119,000,000 images in its collection so 77% of total images were supplied by about 7.5% of Shutterstock’s total contributors.Īt the beginning of 2018 I took another look. At the end of February there were 14,373 and the combined total images of these contributors was 91,700,000.
Presumably the number was even higher at the end of the year.Įarly in 2017 I discovered Microstock.top that tracks Shutterstock leading contributors with more than 999 images in the collection. By May 2017 that number was up to 225,000 and in September when they launched Shutterstock Custom Content they said they had 250,000 contributors. At the end of 2016 Shutterstock had 190,000 contributors.
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