AmbientShade posted at 9:20AM Wed, 15 February 2017 - #4297490

Shutterstock is the largest broker of photos, fine art and illustrations on the internet, with over 6 million visitors a month.

So if I ever have any hope of being a successful artist then my only real option is to sell my work through shutterstock, because no one ever looks for art anywhere else so any kind of self promotion I try would be a complete waste of time and energy. And if they don't accept my work because it doesn't meet their standards, or it isn't the type of work they carry, or if it gets buried under all the boob shots, then I guess I'm just screwed, unless I want to start taking boob shots. Besides, that other guy is a top seller and has 50 pages of boob shots! And he doesn't even have a facebook page.

I give up.

I think I'll go talk to this wall over here.

So your recommedation for your unboob friendly photographer would be to not use shutterstock at all but build his own stock photo empire from the ground up primarily marketed through grass roots social media efforts...

Okay lets try it differently, you're endorsing methods different than used by the current top sellers in this market place. Maybe if you could name some successful content creators that have used your method to become a top seller in this market through its use t would help to validate it.

What you also can't seem to see is that the two vendors of the year are using the technique that i have described. Focus on producing good quality content in volume and use social media only as a very small part of your efforts. No one said you have to create the same types of things they do. That is the slant that you took.