Shutterstock are now more hated than iStock it seems, but the difference between iStock and Shutterstock is that while contributors were furious with iStock for the Google Drive deal, many contributors were…
Shutterstock has announced a massive restructuring of contributors royalties just 6 days before its implementation. I guess they figured there would be a lot of disgruntled contributors so better to hit them hard and fast..
Google has urged a US federal court to throw out the remaining claims filed by Dreamstime, in a lawsuit accusing Google of suppressing Dreamstime in search results.
These statistics could be a good indication that many established contributors are slowing down their microstock production..