Top Shutterstock Contributors

Posted on 11/20/2013 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

Below is a list of the 99 contributors with the largest portfolios on Shutterstock. All have more than 17,000 images on Shutterstock and the leading contributor, Africa Studio, has 346,683. There is a hot link to each contributor’s collection.

Currently, Shutterstock has 31,153,075 images on its site. Combined, these 99 contributors have 4,433,257 or almost 14% of all the images on Shutterstock.

I am indebted to www.microstocktime.ru/tools/. They published the original list of 100 contributors. Yuri Arcurs was number 12 with 63,837 images on the original list, but in June 2013 he decided to go exclusive with iStock and withdrew all his images from Shutterstock, leaving only 99 top contributors that I can identify. I have updated all the numbers from the original list as of November 20, 2013.



Author
Images
Country
Year Joined
1 Africa Studio 346,683 --- 2007
2 s_bukley 291,884 --- 2011
3 lineartestpilot 197,045 United Kingdom 2009
4 Featureflash 189,474 --- 2011
5 Helga Esteb 153,961 United States 2010
6 wavebreakmedia 117,909 --- 2006
7 Elnur 96,140 Azerbaijan 2006
8 Gregory Gerber 76,088 --- 2007
9 Sergey Nivens 75,654 Russian Federation 2009
10 auremar 71,867 --- 2008
11 Netfalls - Remy Musser 71,769 Greece 2005
12 John T Takai 69,346 United States 2009
13 Shebeko 67,170 Belarus 2007
14 Matthew Cole 63,804 Australia 2005
15 lev dolgachov 62,067 Estonia 2006
16 Aletia 59,077 --- 2010
17 Anton Oparin 60,550 United States 2005
18 alexwhite 58,579 --- 2009
19 ilolab 53,523 --- 2006
20 Joe Seer 49,088 United States 2011
21 P.Uzunova 47,333 --- 2005
22 dotshock 45,944 Bosnia and Herz. 2005
23 lev radin 44,248 United States 2006
24 Vibrant Image Studio 46,850 Cocos (Keeling) Isl. 2007
25 bikeriderlondon 42,414 --- 2009
26 Allies Interactive 41,522 India 2008
27 Andresr 41,116 United Kingdom 2004
28 Pressmaster 41,144 Russian Federation 2007
29 Piotr Marcinski 41,394 Poland 2005
30 Jaguar PS 37,993 United States 2012
31 Kheng Guan Toh 37,313 --- 2005
32 Mircea BEZERGHEANU 36,602 Romania 2006
33 Kiselev Andrey Valerevich 37,377 Russian Federation 2006
34 Vit Smolek 35,684 --- 2007
35 Scott Maxwell / LuMaxArt 35,116 --- 2005
36 Elena Itsenko 35,151 --- 2007
37 Gayvoronskaya_Yana 35,101 Ukraine 2010
38 Andrey Starostin 34,964 Russian Federation 2005
39 Aaron Amat 33,916 Spain 2008
40 Yellowj 33,954 --- 2007
41 Sebastian Duda 33,880 Poland 2007
42 kurhan 33,323 --- 2005
43 rook76 32,277 --- 2007
44 rimmer 31,885 --- 2007
45 Monkey Business Images 31,725 --- 2008
46 Pavel L Photo and Video 31,587 Russian Federation 2005
47 Denis Vrublevski 30,846 --- 2006
48 argus 29,541 --- 2007
49 Tomas Smolek 29,129 --- 2007
50 Iakov Filimonov 29,324 Russian Federation 2007
51 Fernando Cortes 28,222 Spain 2009
52 Nattika 28,316 Latvia 2007
53 Eric Isselee 27,991 Belgium 2007
54 Goodluz 27,693 --- 2010
55 Creations 27,504 --- 2008
56 rui vale sousa 26,424 Portugal 2004
57 Zoom Team 26,452 Poland 2006
58 Monana 26,236 --- 2007
59 Pakhnyushcha 25,926 --- 2007
60 lenetstan 25,727 --- 2009
61 freelanceartist 25,267 --- 2006
62 JIANG HONGYAN 24,518 China 2010
63 KathyGold 24,325 --- 2009
64 Sergey Kamshylin 23,941 Ukraine 2007
65 Ysbrand Cosijn 23,916 Netherlands 2009
66 Zorik Galstyan 23,805 --- 2008
67 PHB.cz (Richard Semik) 23,806 --- 2009
68 nagib 23,559 United Kingdom 2006
69 Yeko Photo Studio 23,595 Latvia 2006
70 matka_Wariatka 23,465 Poland 2005
71 Galyna Andrushko 23,446 --- 2006
72 ingret 32,010 --- 2005
73 Nata-Lia 22,495 --- 2009
74 handy 22,106 --- 2005
75 Hasloo Group Production Studio 22,233 Russian Federation 2008
76 Raisa Kanareva 21,941 Russian Federation 2006
77 STILLFX 20,933 New Zealand 2007
78 StockLite 20,756 --- 2006
79 Claudio Divizia 20,430 --- 2007
80 Hank Shiffman 24,928 United States 2005
81 Ivonne Wierink 20,122 Netherlands 2007
82 Nejron Photo 20,287 Latvia 2006
83 Geanina Bechea 19,888 Romania 2007
84 photofriday 19,775 Thailand 2010
85 Vilnis Lauzums 19,555 --- 2007
86 Poznyakov 19,423 --- 2008
87 mashe 19,329 --- 2006
88 IgorGolovniov 19,405 Ukraine 2008
89 Andriy Zholudyev 19,309 --- 2007
90 Adriano Castelli 18,967 Italy 2009
91 Stephen Finn 18,810 United Kingdom 2006
92 doodle 18,726 --- 2009
93 zeber 18,837 Poland 2007
94 Julien Tromeur 18,643 --- 2006
95 Austra 18,577 --- 2007
96 Dan Kosmayer 18,085 --- 2010
97 Andrei Marincas 17,923 Romania 2007
98 MaxFX 17,840 United States 2006
99 newyear 17,459 --- 2007
4,433,257


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Comments

  • John Lund Posted Nov 20, 2013
    Jim,

    346,000 images...who or what is Studio Africa?

    John Lund

  • Ellen McKnight Posted Mar 31, 2014


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