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salifoto
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January 9, 2022
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Dropping Out of Shutterstock

Can anyone share their experience of pulling their portfolio from Shutterstock. What was the impact on sales  with Adobe and other agencies?

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mccjeff
Participating Frequently
January 11, 2022

Whether or not you have content on Shutterstock or not won't affect sales on Adobe Stock.

However if you have very unique content and there are customers that go out of their way to search out where they can purchase your content then maybe you will notice a light impact with regards to sales.

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mccjeff
Participating Frequently
January 11, 2022

*slight

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Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2022

What you sell on Shutterstock, you won't sell on Adobe stock, and vice versa. I think customers are looking for different things, my bestseller here is a middle seller there. But my general earnings with Adobe stock are higher, so why should I bother too much to put my images on a different platform?

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
mccjeff
Participating Frequently
January 11, 2022

"why should I bother too much to put my images on a different platform?"

Generally if you are contributing stock content as a job and not a hobby you will be submitting to multiple platforms.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 11, 2022
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Generally if you are contributing stock content as a job and not a hobby you will be submitting to multiple platforms.

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Perhaps.  But submitting identical assets to multiple stock sites tends to dilute the asset's earning potential especially if customers can get the same asset elsewhere for less money (credits).

 

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2022

Did you submit the same assets to BOTH agencies?

 

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
reedesign1912
Inspiring
January 10, 2022

Are you asking if you take your content off Shutterstock, will your content perform better on Adobe?

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Rob R, Photographer
RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2022

Why should that have any effect on other agencies?

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