Financial Results

High-Level Thoughts On Stock Industry

By Jim Pickerell | 1831 Words | Posted 12/2/2016 | Comments
An investment portfolio manager recently asked me to spend five minutes giving my “high-level thoughts on the (stock photo) industry outlook, competitive dynamics and emerging trends.” I couldn’t do it in anywhere near five minutes. Here are my high-level thoughts.

Shutterstock Q3 2016 Financial Results

By Jim Pickerell | 1711 Words | Posted 11/4/2016 | Comments
Shutterstock has reported Q3 2016 revenue of $123.1 million up 15% from $107.3 million compared to Q3 2015. The growth is due mainly to new customers and increased activity by enterprise clients. The average price per download during the quarter was $2.91, up from $2.76 in Q3 2015 and from $2.81 in Q2 2016. There were 41.2 million paid downloads in the quarter and 102.7 million still images and illustrations in the collection at the end of the quarter up 61% from 63.7 million a year ago.

Stocksy: Highly Curated Content vs. UGC

By Jim Pickerell | 1138 Words | Posted 11/2/2016 | Comments
Will crowd-sourcing images (UGC) or highly curated collections from professional creators be the future of stock photography? All the major suppliers of stock imagery are focused on acquiring more User Generated Content, but long range will that be the best way to grow revenue or create the most usable collections for image consumers? At the recent DMLA 2016 Conference Brianna Wettlaufer, CEO of Stocky United, talked about an alternative to UGC and how to run a viable, sustainable and profitable photographer’s co-op.

Volume And Search Return Are Killing Sales

By Jim Pickerell | 1185 Words | Posted 10/14/2016 | Comments
In the “Goodbye Shutterstock” thread on MicrostockGroup marthamarks said, “My older images still sell on Shutterstock, but newer ones die there.” Why would that be? One would expect newer images to sell better, particularly when agencies continue to ask for more and more images. This does not seem to be insolated complaint, but one common to many long time Shutterstock contributors.

Shutterstock: Opportunity For Investors?

By Jim Pickerell | 1159 Words | Posted 8/11/2016 | Comments
If you’re curious as to why Shutterstock’s stock price keeps rising while from the perspective of many in in our industry Shutterstock’s long term growth prospects don’t appear to be that favorable, David Trainer offers some interesting insights. See here. Trainer is CEO of New Constructs (www.newconstructs.com), an independent research firm that leverages proprietary technology to find key insights from the Financial Footnotes of 10Ks and 10Qs. After studying his analysis here are a few of my thoughts.

Shutterstock Q2 2016 Financial Results

By Jim Pickerell | 1913 Words | Posted 8/4/2016 | Comments
Shutterstock has reported Q2 2016 revenue of $124.4 million up from $104.4 million compared to Q2 2015. The growth is due mainly to new customers and increased activity by enterprise clients.

Stocksy: Impressive Growth

By Jim Pickerell | 724 Words | Posted 5/31/2016 | Comments
Stocksy has reported another year of impressive growth with gross sales of $7,928,745 million in 2015. That is up 126% from $3.5 million in 2014. The great news for image creators is that Stocksy paid out $4,323,735 in royalties. That’s 55% of gross revenue collected. In addition, because the company is a Co-Op, they were able to pay out an additional $200,000 in dividends to members who sold images during the year.

Shutterstock Q1 2016 Financial Results

By Jim Pickerell | 1536 Words | Posted 5/4/2016 | Comments
Shutterstock has reported Q1 2016 revenue of $116.7 million up $19.1 million compared to Q1 2015. The growth is due mainly to new customers and increased activity by enterprise clients. Royalties paid to contributors during the quarter were about 29% of total revenue, or approximately $33.8 million. Currently, there are over 100,000 contributors meaning that the average contributor earned $338 during the quarter.

Panoramastock Goes Public In China

By Jim Pickerell | 96 Words | Posted 12/24/2015 | Comments
Panoramastock has recently been listed on a small cap tech stock exchange called the NEEQ (National Equities Exchange and Quotations). The exchange is also called the New Third Board Stock. The company’s stock code is 834877.

Getty Getting $90 Million From Bond Investors

By Jim Pickerell | 526 Words | Posted 11/13/2015 | Comments
According to Bloomberg, Getty Images has found a way to raise a net $90 Million in an effort to revive its “Midstock” business.

Shutterstock Reports Q3 Results

By Jim Pickerell | 1327 Words | Posted 11/5/2015 | Comments
Today, Shutterstock reported $107.3 million in revenue for Q3 2015, a 28% increase over Q3 2014 and up nearly $3 million from the previous quarter. The increase was primarily due to a 22% increase in the number of paid downloads compared to a year earlier.