Introducing Shutterstock’s New Catalog Manager

Sort. Share. Promote.

We’re happy to introduce a new tool for Shutterstock contributors that includes some of your most-requested features. It’s called the Catalog Manager, and it makes it easier to organize, track, and share your Shutterstock portfolio. It’s easy:

  • Sort your images into sets.
  • Share sets with anyone—and earn referral fees from new customers.
  • Track your statistics from each of your sets.

When you publish a set of images within the Shutterstock Catalog Manager, you’ll get a unique URL you can use to share the set with anybody. It’s a great way to promote your work and potentially boost your sales. All public set links include your referral code, so if you bring a new customer to Shutterstock, you’ll get paid for the download PLUS 20% of that customer’s first purchase, up to $200!

Once you’ve created sets, you can also keep track of your sales by set and see which types of images are most popular with customers.

You might create sets by subject, or group images together featuring the same model or from the same shoot.

The new Catalog Manager tool is available right now, and we’ll improve upon it based on your feedback. Log in to submit.shutterstock.com and you’ll see the new set tracking tool on the homepage. It’s easy, it’s useful, and you won’t find it on any other stock image site.

Watch the video tour below, give the tool a try, and please tell us what you think!

Catalog Manager from Shutterstock Contributors on Vimeo.

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31 Responses

  • ali /
  • October 6, 2011 at 4:28 pm

hi

  • Pavel /
  • October 6, 2011 at 5:24 pm

A very useful feature.
Convenient and easy to use.
Thank you for further developments.

  • neirfy /
  • October 8, 2011 at 4:56 am

just awesome feacher!

  • Lev Olkha /
  • October 8, 2011 at 11:21 pm

It may be good feature to be able to make sets public for all customers, adding list of sets picture belongs to, to each picture page. So when customer considering buying a picture, she is able to see the whole set

  • Prem /
  • October 10, 2011 at 3:01 am

I like this feature. However if it has no limitation of set for tracking and and able to sort(Max to min or min to max) in each column. It’ll be better.

  • Lamarinx /
  • October 12, 2011 at 8:26 am

Very nice feature. Would be even better if:

- make the track sets list a bit longer and add an auto sort per downloads/income
- in the search results, where are the “add to lightbox” and “similar images” buttons, add a third one “View entire set”. Same button should be at the page of the specific image too.
- Would be nice if “add to set” is available on upload. Thus when the accepted photos will go automatically in the desired set.

and a question rather than idea: is it normal to not see new photos in the catalog manager, which are already in the gallery and search results from one day ago? How much longer does it take to see photos in the catalog manager compared to the gallery?

  • annalovisa /
  • October 13, 2011 at 11:17 am

Like it very much!

I agree with “Lamarinx” – that it should be a third button “View entire set” beside “add to lightbox” and “similar images” buttons.

It’s nice to create a lot of sets, just for myself, to see which types of images are popular.

  • fotosenmeer /
  • October 14, 2011 at 2:47 am

Great concept and works for me,

though I’m having difficulties to add new images to the catalog/sets because they don’t show up in the screen. Not even after a few days of waiting (they already are present in the gallery). Am I missing something? or even doing something wrong?

  • DJP3tros /
  • October 14, 2011 at 5:24 am

Why don’t I see my images in the catalog manager? How am I supposed to work with this if the images are not there???

  • pablo /
  • October 20, 2011 at 10:46 am

Would be even better if the images were actually showing as they keep disapearing from my portfolio….

  • R. Kneschke /
  • October 21, 2011 at 3:42 pm

This is a great feature I seriously have been waiting for since I started at Shutterstock! It was impossible to track earnings of image sets by yourself.

But: Please make the sets work for video as well!

And I’d like to add new images as well, new images are not shown yet in the Catalog manager.

Best regards,
Robert

  • John K /
  • October 25, 2011 at 10:12 am

I wish there was a way to request a catalog refresh.

  • juls /
  • October 26, 2011 at 2:57 pm

I have tried submitting my images and am having trouble understanding the process? What am I missing? I am a member of other art websites and they are very user friendly…..help?

  • jmci /
  • October 27, 2011 at 4:51 am

A very useful feature from a contributor’s point of view – would love to see the sets made visible to buyers as well.

  • Basheera /
  • October 31, 2011 at 12:24 pm

This is a very good feature! Much more organized. I agree with a few others on here: Maybe allowing us to add more than 5 to track sales of sets, allowing customers to see our sets and creating a formula where certain keywords will automatically be added to a particular set.

  • Boguc /
  • November 2, 2011 at 6:56 am

Catalog Manager doesn’t work with video clips. Why??????

  • anna /
  • November 2, 2011 at 3:52 pm

I agree with suggestions in the comments above, it’s a good feature, but my biggest question now being: why can’t I see newly uploaded files in Catalog Manager? I see I’m not the first asking this and I don’t see an answer here…

  • anna /
  • November 8, 2011 at 8:34 am

all new files added to CM, didn’t have to do anything :) Thank you, I hope this problem doesn’t come up next time I upload new files :)

  • Sjo /
  • November 9, 2011 at 6:23 am

Would be nice to make this also available for footage.

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