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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: MatHayward on October 20, 2016, 07:48
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Hi all,
I wanted to let you know about a couple of updates that have been done to the Adobe Stock Contributor portal.
The price for Extended licenses will now be automatically set to the maximum available based on your Fotolia rank. This impacts silver rank and above as your prices will be set at 100 credits for Fotolia sales when you upload through the portal.
Another nice change...you will find thumbnails showing your images in the sold files tab now.
Thanks so much for all of the feedback you have shared with us so far. Please keep it coming as we have a strong team working to make the contributor experience even better!
-Mat Hayward
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Having constant revenue growth with Fotolia so far. Thank you!
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Thank's Mat!
I like very much the "new FT & Adobe" :)
Yesterday I had an EL sale :D
What about the mail notifications problem ? It will be solved ?
Thank's again!
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Just excellent news!
Thank you Mat ;)
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Thanks mat. Things are going from strength to strength. Keep up the good work!
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Excellent, thanks Matt.
Can the same change be made at Fotolia, automatically setting the EL's to maximum instead of minimum?
Also, any chance of getting the ability to sort within your own portfolio, and then edit the file from search as I mentioned a few times in the other thread?
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Thanks Matt,
I have been very impressed with Adobe and their help in getting my video online there! Love the site and treatment of the artist!
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Make the thumbs on the sales page clickable to the actual video, or at least, make them have hover previews.
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Hi Matt! i have photos in infinite by two agencies. When we can apply and upload directly?
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I would be very glad if the default setting in My Statistics is "How many credits have I earned?" instead of "How many of my files have been viewed?"!
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Speaking of thumbnails, is there any way to change the thumbnail for a videoclip?
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Really like the Adobe site layout and I like that you can see the number of views and sales on each photo, but it would be great to see how much you've actually earned on each photo too, since earnings per sale is variable. Like many here, I like to track shoots and figure out what is working so I can adjust my uploads accordingly. The addition of that most useful of statistics, right on the photographer facing portfolio page would be great.
+1 Fairplay's suggestion that default setting in My Statistics is "How many credits have I earned?" instead of "How many of my files have been viewed?"
Like that ELs are automatically set to the maximum amount.
Again, fun to meet you in person at PhotoPlusExpo. Really appreciate your efforts to keep us informed here. With iStock's latest move, it's nice to feel one of the big guys is listening to their contributors.
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Really like the Adobe site layout and I like that you can see the number of views and sales on each photo, but it would be great to see how much you've actually earned on each photo too, since earnings per sale is variable. Like many here, I like to track shoots and figure out what is working so I can adjust my uploads accordingly. The addition of that most useful of statistics, right on the photographer facing portfolio page would be great.
+1 Fairplay's suggestion that default setting in My Statistics is "How many credits have I earned?" instead of "How many of my files have been viewed?"
Like that ELs are automatically set to the maximum amount.
Again, fun to meet you in person at PhotoPlusExpo. Really appreciate your efforts to keep us informed here. With iStock's latest move, it's nice to feel one of the big guys is listening to their contributors.
+1
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Thank Matt, have good days
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I think I asked this already recently, does anybody observe a bug whereby when you select several images which have identical metadata (keywords, titles, etc.), you cannot prioritize (drag) keywords anymore, i.e. no keywords for batch-selected images appear in the new submission tool? I'm pretty sure this was possible shortly after the launch of the new tools, but not anymore. It's very annoying as I have to do it the old way, one by one, which is really a waste of time. Is it only my issue (tried in various browsers) or anybody else can confirm this?
Thanks for checking this out!
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good news but still no email notifications, fix this please
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good news but still no email notifications, fix this please
I resolved this by changing my email address from yahoo to gmail. It's seems that it's work for now...
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good news but still no email notifications, fix this please
I resolved this by changing my email address from yahoo to gmail. It's seems that it's work for now...
I might try that. I have been having a really difficult time with my yahoo email (I have had that email address for YEARS now) ever since they were hacked a couple of months ago.
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Dear Mat Hayward,
(This is a copy of my message from "Adobe Stock Contributor Site now live!", because that thread was closed, but no answer received.)
Currently 1 EUR = 0.9 GBP. But when I convert my credits at Fotolia (Adobe Stock) the rate is 0.75. It means: I earn 100 credits = 100 EUR and should get 90 GBP via Paypal, but Fotolia (Adobe Stock) sends me 75 GBP only.
This way all the UK contributors lose 15 GBP from every 100 credits (90 GBP) earned. It is a hidden 17% fee.
Why so? When are you going to fix the rate? Will you update it weekly to reflect the actual rate?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
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How about just starting a new thread for this issue? It is a major concern. Though I think the best solution is for all payments to be in dollars and let your bank or payment provider do the calculations, I think it makes sense to discuss it in its own thread.
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Justanotherphotographer, I can create a new thread. Or the moderator can do that and move the text to that thread. (The text is here now, because I am sure Mat Hayward reads this thread, but I am not sure he reads all other threads.)
And yes, I'd prefer my bank or Paypal to do the calculations.
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At Adobe Stock and Fotolia we are selling content from contributors around the world to a global community of buyers. The royalties earned are based on the purchase price of an image in the local currency. We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. At this time we don’t have plans to adjust the GBP conversion.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
Dear Mat Hayward,
(This is a copy of my message from "Adobe Stock Contributor Site now live!", because that thread was closed, but no answer received.)
Currently 1 EUR = 0.9 GBP. But when I convert my credits at Fotolia (Adobe Stock) the rate is 0.75. It means: I earn 100 credits = 100 EUR and should get 90 GBP via Paypal, but Fotolia (Adobe Stock) sends me 75 GBP only.
This way all the UK contributors lose 15 GBP from every 100 credits (90 GBP) earned. It is a hidden 17% fee.
Why so? When are you going to fix the rate? Will you update it weekly to reflect the actual rate?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
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How about just starting a new thread for this issue? It is a major concern. Though I think the best solution is for all payments to be in dollars and let your bank or payment provider do the calculations, I think it makes sense to discuss it in its own thread.
I disagree, I think the best solution would be for all payments in Euros....after all, Fotolia is European agency.
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... We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. ...
Thank you for your answer. Please clarify what does "major and sustained" mean with some specific figures. (Both the words "major" and "sustained" are countable and become useless without digits.)
Is "major" equal to 20%? Or maybe 25%? Is "sustained" equal to 3 months? Or maybe 6 months?
Based on those figures we can make decisions like: "Convert credits and withdraw now.", "Do not convert for 3 months till Adobe fixes the exchange rate" etc.
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good news but still no email notifications, fix this please
I resolved this by changing my email address from yahoo to gmail. It's seems that it's work for now...
I might try that. I have been having a really difficult time with my yahoo email (I have had that email address for YEARS now) ever since they were hacked a couple of months ago.
Changing from my yahoo email to my gmail worked...getting notifications again. I dont know what yahoo did, but they have messed up. I will likely start phasing that email account out. I have already changed my paypal account, dont want to have issues getting my payments. One might not have anything to do with the other, but i am not taking any chances.
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I don't think anyone is forecasting a change in the UK exchange rate anytime soon so it looks pretty major and sustained from where I sit
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Hi Mat,
will there be a way to apply to Fotolia Infinite?
Or to suggest exclusive images upon upload for macro inspection?
You could also give us a quota. 5 files a month, 10 files a month, that we can suggest for the editors, depending on rank.
You have artists from all over the world, if you give them a clear guidance or monthly missions or themes, you will be able to choose from a lot of interesting stuff.
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Infinite or not its not going to make the slightest difference if its subjected to the same algorithm as A/FT is it.
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At Adobe Stock and Fotolia we are selling content from contributors around the world to a global community of buyers. The royalties earned are based on the purchase price of an image in the local currency. We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. At this time we don’t have plans to adjust the GBP conversion.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
Is there anyway to get paid in US dollars rather than your home currency?
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You get paid in $ on every other agency. At least at Fotolia I'm not loosing money when converting $ into €....
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At Adobe Stock and Fotolia we are selling content from contributors around the world to a global community of buyers. The royalties earned are based on the purchase price of an image in the local currency. We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. At this time we don’t have plans to adjust the GBP conversion.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
Is there anyway to get paid in US dollars rather than your home currency?
Perfect way here, always finding something wrong. Used to be for years how people paid in pounds made more and US contributors wanted to be paid in pounds.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live (http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live)!/msg468017/#msg468017
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You get paid in $ on every other agency. At least at Fotolia I'm not loosing money when converting $ into €....
Paypal takes around 4% for the currency conversion. Banks take 1% to 3% usually. Do you prefer to pay 17% (now and possibly more when GBP goes lower) at Fotolia for it?
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At Adobe Stock and Fotolia we are selling content from contributors around the world to a global community of buyers. The royalties earned are based on the purchase price of an image in the local currency. We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust. At this time we don’t have plans to adjust the GBP conversion.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
Why don't you allow us to choose currency for each payment?
Since there is not a "major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates" I am sure it will cost you nothing ;)
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I've gone through the login process twice. After I login with my Adobe ID, it asks me if I'm have a Fotolia account. I say yes and enter that ID and password - it's not an email address. It then asks me to upload images as if I have none. If I log out and start over, I get the same thing.
Edit: After the 3rd time logging out and back in, my images appeared. I'm still not sure of the advantage of learning a new interface, but I'll check it out
First thing I notice is there isn't much information. Stats page is pretty bare bones. I'll probably keep using Fotolia until things get fleshed out
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attn Mat Hayward:
Mat, does Adobe Stock use the same search engine as Fotolia? Or you created the new one?
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attn Mat Hayward:
Mat, does Adobe Stock use the same search engine as Fotolia? Or you created the new one?
@Pureart, the Adobe Stock search engine is different from Fotolia. We are continuously fine tuning our efforts to return highly applicable results.
-Mat
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Mat,
thank you so much for being here, I really appreciate it.
Adobe can really help bring some balance to the industry. i also hope you guys will do well with macrostock.
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attn Mat Hayward:
Mat, does Adobe Stock use the same search engine as Fotolia? Or you created the new one?
@Pureart, the Adobe Stock search engine is different from Fotolia. We are continuously fine tuning our efforts to return highly applicable results.
-Mat
It's the most irritating search engine ever.
If you search for unusual items the site substitutes what it thinks you should be looking for and defaults to video only searches.
When you select "ALL" it just takes you back to a blank search screen.
C'mon it's been like this for weeks can't you get them to fix it? ???
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@Pureart, the Adobe Stock search engine is different from Fotolia.
Thanks. Should we still move the most important keywords to the beginning of the list?
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@Pureart, the Adobe Stock search engine is different from Fotolia.
Thanks. Should we still move the most important keywords to the beginning of the list?
Yes, that is still the same. The most relevant keywords must be listed in the first 7.
-Mat
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Mat
Are you sure that the first seven are key to search success? I have quite a lot of files where I forgot to re-sort (as you know Lightroom exports keywords alphabetically) and if I search for "lincoln memorial dawn", one of my images pops up in second position. The three keywords are well down the list. I can change "dawn" to "sunrise" - even further down the list, and I still appear in 4th position. I was thinking of going through my files one by one on the site and re-organizing the keywords, but it does look, from this experiment, that the results may not be dramatic.
Steve
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Are you sure that the first seven are key to search success?
Yes, for sure. Everyone I have talked to that has anything to do with the search tools has affirmed to me there is a distinct priority placed on the first 7 in the results.
-Mat
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Hi Mat,
Will we be able to edit our keywords and titles at all? I have a lot of files uploaded when I started earlier this year and my keywording was a mess. I haven't spammed but my keywords could be much better and more relevant. I imagine a lot of people are in the same situation.
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You are already able to re-edit kewywords. From adobe stock, not fotolia.
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You are already able to re-edit kewywords. From adobe stock, not fotolia.
Thanks for that Dumc. I have logged into Adobe Stock but preferred the Fotolia site. I will get cracking on those keywords :)
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:)
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Mat
I tried to prepare some video for submission in the Adobe site - I couldn't see any way of simply copying all my keywords into the form. When I tried to do that into one of the keyword boxes, they all stayed in that one box (they were separated by semi-colons). In the Fotolia indexing page, I can just copy my keywords in and they are all recognized as separate keywords.
Steve
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I really wish there was other ways then just this ftp to upload footage. Myslf and some others here just have constant hickups with ftp!
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Mat
I tried to prepare some video for submission in the Adobe site - I couldn't see any way of simply copying all my keywords into the form. When I tried to do that into one of the keyword boxes, they all stayed in that one box (they were separated by semi-colons). In the Fotolia indexing page, I can just copy my keywords in and they are all recognized as separate keywords.
Steve
Hi Steve,
After you copy your keywords into the top box you need to hit the 'tab' key to distribute them to their own individual boxes.
-Mat
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Thanks Mat
This didn't work for me - first, there aren't enough characters in the keyword box and so it truncates the list of keywords, and then pressing Tab only moved the cursor to the next keyword box. It didn't distribute them.
Steve
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Thanks Mat
This didn't work for me - first, there aren't enough characters in the keyword box and so it truncates the list of keywords, and then pressing Tab only moved the cursor to the next keyword box. It didn't distribute them.
Steve
Hi Steve,
Are you separating the keywords with a comma? I'm looking into the character quantity issue you mentioned.
-Mat
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Hi Mat
It was a semi colon because the system I used to sort the keywords stored them like that. As you know, I can't do that in Lightroom. The semi colon works in the Fotolia contributor page so I've done it that way.
Steve
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Hi Mat
It was a semi colon because the system I used to sort the keywords stored them like that. As you know, I can't do that in Lightroom. The semi colon works in the Fotolia contributor page so I've done it that way.
Steve
I didn't realize the semi-colon doesn't work in the contributor portal. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I have reported this and I expect it will be addressed by the engineers within the next few weeks.
I will get back to you soon regarding the character limit in the keyword box. Thanks for the helpful feedback.
-Mat
-Mat
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It's nice to see an agency looking for ways to find win-win solutions in the market place. I will have to build up my portfolio on FT!
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Thanks Mat
This didn't work for me - first, there aren't enough characters in the keyword box and so it truncates the list of keywords, and then pressing Tab only moved the cursor to the next keyword box. It didn't distribute them.
Steve
This has been fixed Steve. You can now enter all fifty keywords into the top box (separated by commas not semi-colons) and hit tab to distribute them all. I just tested it and it worked well. Let me know if you have any issues.
-Mat
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@MatHayward:
Mat,
2 months ago (on October 28th) you said:
We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust.
The GBP/USD rate dropped down 6 months ago (on June 26th, the proof: http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBPUSD=X?p=GBPUSD=X (http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBPUSD=X?p=GBPUSD=X) ). It is obvious that GBP/USD and EUR/GBP rate is not going to return back to its "before Brexit" state. This trend is definitely sustained.
Please tell us when is Adobe going to fix the rate on Fotolia? It is still "1 credit = £0.75" now and must be corrected.
Thanks.
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@MatHayward:
Mat,
2 months ago (on October 28th) you said:
We are keeping an eye on currency fluctuations, and if there is a major and sustained trend in currency conversion rates we take action to adjust.
The GBP/USD rate dropped down 6 months ago (on June 26th, the proof: [url]http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBPUSD=X?p=GBPUSD=X[/url] ([url]http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBPUSD=X?p=GBPUSD=X[/url]) ). It is obvious that GBP/USD and EUR/GBP rate is not going to return back to its "before Brexit" state. This trend is definitely sustained.
Please tell us when is Adobe going to fix the rate on Fotolia? It is still "1 credit = £0.75" now and must be corrected.
Thanks.
They have not fixed it when euro/dollar was 1.35 - 1.4.
FT didn't care the majority of contributors was underpaid by 35%-40%, because they liked to pocket that difference. They are still pocketing, today, 4-5% taken out of US contributors' FT paycheck.
Do you think they will care about a minority of UK contributors and make the adjustment against their own interest?
The good news is that AS plan to be more aggressive on the US market, forced them to migrate to $ based prices AND royalties, in order to avoid overpaying EU contributors for their growing US sales.
I guess US and UK contributors can only wish for the on-going FT to AS transition to accelerate, to get something closer to fair pay.
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Any change to your metadata ingesting system? Your manual cut and paste interface in Fotolia cuts deep into our profits, please change to be more like VB or P5.
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Ok. I'm confused.
I thought Adobe stock was Fotolia - just rebranded.
Is it?
Do you need to 'join' Adobe Stock? Or does FT stuff go to AS?
Sorry if this is a really gormless question.
I seem to have been living in a parallel universe for the last few months.....or something.....
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I would like to know approx how many buyers Adobe-stock had BEFORE joining up with FT? many high ranked members of FT had a huge increase of sales immediately after the merger and then complained sales just completely flatlined and for no apparent reason at all.
Of course the Adobe brand name is a very solid ground but selling stock-pictures is really a totally different thing/business. At the moment I feel its all a bit shakey as if not knowing which way to go? the old Oleg/FT road with lots of "hokus-pokus" or the new Adobe road.
Just curious really since I do have many thousands of files invested with Adobe/FT.
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Ok. I'm confused.
I thought Adobe stock was Fotolia - just rebranded.
Is it?
Do you need to 'join' Adobe Stock? Or does FT stuff go to AS?
Sorry if this is a really gormless question.
I seem to have been living in a parallel universe for the last few months.....or something.....
Read this one Sarah2 http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live (http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live)!/ it's locked by the first post by Mat explains things pretty well.
Good luck, you are on both already, it's just a matter of syncing your accounts so you can edit and work the new system at AS.
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Good luck, you are on both already, it's just a matter of syncing your accounts so you can edit and work the new system at AS.
So what is the metadata ingestion tool like at AS? As FT is manual and adds unnecessary labor costs to the marketplace that technology could easily fix. On AS can you mass submit like on p5 or VB?
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Good luck, you are on both already, it's just a matter of syncing your accounts so you can edit and work the new system at AS.
So what is the metadata ingestion tool like at AS? As FT is manual and adds unnecessary labor costs to the marketplace that technology could easily fix. On AS can you mass submit like on p5 or VB?
I don't work for them and don't understand your complaint, twice now. I submit with words in the photos IPTC and the system reads them just fine. No cut and paste. Same images go to many sites, all read. I use commas or spaces to divide.
FT isn't manual, neither is AS. I don't understand your cut and paste question? Maybe somebody else knows what you are asking.
Only boxes I need to click for upload on AS system is one catagory and recognizable people, yes or no. I do pick the best top seven keywords and put them on top, using an up arrow. That's all. No cut and paste, reads everything right from the files.
Very fast and easy. Easiest of all sites I upload to.
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hmm, yes a disconnect indeed. Are you talking stills? I only do video and the interface on fotolia is a manual cut and paste into html forms...there isn't even an 'import csv' to mass import data...is there something I'm missing?
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hmm, yes a disconnect indeed. Are you talking stills? I only do video and the interface on fotolia is a manual cut and paste into html forms...there isn't even an 'import csv' to mass import data...is there something I'm missing?
There's the answer. Yes I do stills, no video. Got it now. :)
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Thanks YadaYadaYada but the link doesn't seem to go anywhere...
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Try this one Sarah:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live (http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-site-now-live)!/
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Thanks YadaYadaYada but the link doesn't seem to go anywhere...
Sorry about that seems both of us linked to the same locked thread and the forum just goes to the main page. Follow the link and look down the list for "Adobe Stock Contributor Site now live!" locked thread in blue. Read the first post from Mat that explains much of the details for us.
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/topics.html
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Wow, this looks cool. So do I need to keep uploading the same images to both Fotolia and Adobe Stock ? or is uploading to only one of them enough ?
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It seems that one is enough. I found my Fotolia portfolio on Adobestock.
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It seems that one is enough. I found my Fotolia portfolio on Adobestock.
Cool, so uploading to fotolia as always. And the sales will be paid as per the payment schedules of both
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Not sure if this has been reported, but on the Alamy side, if I click on any link on the Sales page, it returns Not Found
i.e. https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/sale/58903769
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Not sure if this has been reported, but on the Alamy side, if I click on any link on the Sales page, it returns Not Found
i.e. https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/sale/58903769
Try that again. Allamy, Adobe? :o
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One of those A places. Yes, I meant Adobe.
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One of those A places. Yes, I meant Adobe.
I know you did. :D Try this https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/sales
If this is yours 58903769 seems to not exist?