 So a couple of days ago, I posted a video about my thoughts about the shutter stock changes to the way that they're going to pay contributors. And there was, let's just say, a very lively discussion in the comments sense section. Some of it positive, most of it more negative. But there's a couple of things that I took out of those comments. One of the things was a lot of things focusing on greed and the money. But another thing that I took out of it was a lot of people were really focusing on the 10 cents a download. My images are worth more than 10 cents a download. I can't, you know, I'm not going to upload here because of 10 cents a download. I also have people saying things like I'm going to lose 60% or 65%. And I've got thousands of images up there and I can't afford to lose that 60% drop in revenue. But when I thought about it, like, you know, looking at the new revenue powers, I don't think people who are making, who are selling thousands of images are going to have a 60% drop. So I thought it would be interesting to go in and take a look at my 2019 earnings and figure out that if I made the exact same image sales in 2020 under this new plan, how much money would I lose or gain? And I was really surprised actually when I calculated it out and it got the result. But first, let me just talk a bit about, you know, the changes, like, and talk through the calculations. I did have to make some assumptions along the way, just because, you know, there's not enough stats to calculate it exactly. Okay. So if you look at the way things were sold before, I was tier level three. I've sold like $9,000, I think on Church Talk or 8,500, something like that. So I was in this year. So I was getting 36 cents for an image, 117 for a small image, and then 270 for larger images, custom images. I don't get a lot of those anymore. So I didn't really do that in the calculation. I didn't have any footage sales last year, so I didn't use that. So I'm really focusing on these, on photo sales. And I made like 750 sales last year. Okay. So that's, I know how much I made for each of these. I can figure this out because Church Talk told me, right, in my earnings report. Now, with the new system, the way that it works is, do you know what I mean? Like you start at level one and then you move up. So I would have ended the year at level four at 30%. But only the last 250 images would have been at that level. You know, the earlier images would have been at early ones, right? Like where I am right now, this year, I actually started in June at level three, right? So, you know, but I'll probably go, probably, you know, hit four, maybe in September or something like that. So let's go over and take a look at the calculator. Now, first I just want to walk through, like, and just show you that, you know, obviously, maybe not obviously, 10 cents an image isn't the average image price, okay? It's the low, it's the minimum image price. So I want to walk through and talk to that because it just seemed like people were thinking that, you know what I mean, like everything was going to be 10 cents, but that's not really the case, right? The only 10 cent images are for the larger packages. So if somebody purchased $750 a month, right? And at the start of the year in January, everybody's only going to get 10 cents. Now that is a huge drop, right? Because I was at level three before and I was getting 36 cents, right? So, obviously, there's no way for us to know right now, we will know eventually once we see the stats. We don't know right now what percentage of the sales were $750, verse 350, verse 50, okay? So that's an assumption that I had to make. When I go into my calculations, I'll tell you how I assume that, but pretty much I just assumed that, you know what I mean, there are probably more people downloading, you know what I mean, with the 750 images and less with the 10 a month images, okay? Now, we also have small images and large images. And again, these were priced very differently before. So you can kind of take a look here, these are what the prices were. But for the most part, with these ones, with the percentage, because these are the sales that they're getting right now, right? And what they're being sold for right now. So you buy two large images, it's 1450. So before, I was getting 270 at level three, right? So the first image is in level one, I'll be making less. But once I get to level two under the new system, I'll actually be making more, right? So it actually doesn't take long to get up to the number two. And then like by the end, you're making actually significantly more, almost double, right? So when you look at the on-demand images, which for me is, you know, almost half the revenue. You know, there's obviously a lot more downloads than those, but half the revenue comes from these. If you look at the largest tier, right? Again, I'm assuming I'm understanding these calculations correctly, that 50, that 40% is going to be a lot more than I was getting before. Okay, so there's areas of this that you're gonna be making more money and then areas you're gonna be making less, right? Even on subscription sales, I actually got one of these today, one of these, where was it? Like actually 63 cents today, right? So I'm in level three right now. Today I got paid 63% for a subscription, right? Whereas before, I only would have got 36 cents. So even on the subscriptions, if there's smaller monthly plans, you could get paid more. And I did get paid more today actually, so I made more on a subscription sale today than I would have under the old system in May, right? So just wanna understand that obviously there's a lot of numbers here. They made it quite complicated, difficult, but I needed to calculate this out so that I could go ahead and calculate my revenue, okay? So let me explain how I did this, okay? So I needed to make some assumptions, right? Like on how, what percentage of my downloads my subscription downloads were for each of these, right? So I'm assuming that 30% of my subscription downloads are coming from the cheapest package, 20%, 10 and 10. There's no way for me to know right now whether this is correct, but I'm just doing that. And then here I just assumed five across the board, okay? 750 images, in 2019 I had like 741 images sold, so this was an easy way to round it out, okay? And when I did, so when I calculated it out, this is about how much I made, it wasn't exact, but those percentages worked out to my previous earnings which was like 624, I think it was $50 off that or something, but it worked out very close to that, okay? So that's what I made last year. Now, taking these percentages is a bit of a calculation because you look at this, like the first 10 photos, I also had to assume that they're gonna be evenly distributed, okay? So if I go through here, you know, of the 75 photos that I sell at the 10 a month subscription, 10 would come in at the 15%, 15 would come in at the 20, 25 at the 25, and then 25 at the 30, right? So it did evenly. And then I can make, let me go with the sales, okay? Again with these, right? So 225 of those are gonna be the lowest level. So these ones are not great, right? 30, I'm only getting 30 cents here, right, I'm only getting 450 here. So it's significantly lower than what I was. But what I'm seeing here is that for the stock photos, and especially in this last month, I'm making more on every one of these. And if these calculations are correct, then I would actually make more money, right? It's really surprised me, I actually just assumed I was gonna be making less, and I may still make less. These assumptions on percentages may be wrong. But looking here, if these percentages are right, I'll make $150 more. Now again, that's if I have the same sales in 2020 as I had in 2019, that's probably unlikely because of COVID, right? So you're gonna see a lot of people saying online, all my sales are going down. Well, you know what I mean? You need to go back and calculate what they would have been before. So the reason I'm just going through this video is, there's a lot of emotion around this, obviously more emotion that I've ever seen in the comments of any of my YouTube videos. And I don't always agree with it, but I understand it. But I also wanna make sure that on this channel, the purpose of this channel is to help photographers and provide tools for photographers. And so if people are misunderstanding what they think their sales are gonna be, and that's causing them undue stress, I don't wanna see that. And I think that is happening to some of the people that are looking at these videos and making comments on these videos. So I thought it made sense for me just to do a quick video on this and even set up the camera, just doing the screencast. I typically don't do this. I typically try to make a bit better ones, but I wanted to get something out there sooner than later. And just take a look at this. So you can go through and think about this, look at how your sales go, but you may find that you're gonna make more. And again, I'm a pretty small contributor. For those contributors that are making $500 or $1,000 a month, they're gonna move up in the ranks quite quickly. And I think those contributors are gonna be making more out of this because when you get to level three, level three again, there's some that are lower, right? But for these on-demand sales, which again, there is a fair number of these, it is significantly higher. And I think it's actually gonna offset the decrease in the sales and you're getting the 13% from the $750 a month subscriptions. Anyways, let me know what you think in the comments. If I made any mistakes in the calculations, let me know as well too. Did this pretty quickly, but based on my understanding, what I have here is correct. So maybe think about this, go through it for yourself and realize that there is the potential that under this new rule, you may be making more money from as a shutter stop contributor, rather than less especially if you're gonna be in the 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 photo downloads every year. Anyways, hope this helps and best of luck selling your photos online.