Hi Everyone,

If you have submitted video content to Adobe Stock, you will be receiving an email today announcing that HD video clips will be available to license as part of Adobe Stock subscriptions.

I wanted you to hear it from me first here. On a rolling basis, starting today, HD video clips will be available to license through Adobe Stock subscriptions (25 credits per month or larger). The royalty rate will remain at 35% of the price paid per download. 4K clips will be included in the subscriptions (25 credits per month or larger) at a 20% discount, which is equivalent to our credit pack discount.

You can see detailed information on potential royalties here: https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/royalties

Let me know if you have any questions, I will be around all day though please know that I'm traveling tomorrow (Thursday) through Monday so my response time during this date range will almost definitely be delayed. Thanks in advance for your patience.

All the best,

Mat Hayward

Hi Everyone,

I would like to invite you to join me today for a livestream session that should prove to be informative for contributors. At 12pm PT on Behance live I'll be joined by Adobe Stock Head of Content Sarah Casillas where she will look back on Adobe Stock contributor accomplishments in 2021 and give a sneak peak into what you can all expect from us in 2022.

After Sarah's presentation I'll be joined by Shea Molloy who is the Content Development Lead at Adobe Stock for Vectors and Illustrations where she will be discussing ways to scale production of those asset types to maximize potential and grow your portfolio in a meaningful way.

I'll then take over and discuss ways to do the same with photos and videos.

It's a jam packed agenda and I hope you can tune in!

Here is a link to the Adobe Stock page at Behance Live, refresh the page at 5 minutes before noon PT and you'll be in the right place.

https://www.behance.net/adobestock/livestreams

Thank you!

Mat Hayward

Hi Everyone,

Today, Adobe launched Creative Cloud Express, a quick and easy web and mobile app to allow anyone to create stunning content in minutes.

It incorporates Adobe Stock�s Free collection and paid members of Creative Cloud Express also have access to the photos from Adobe Stock�s standard collection. You can read more about Adobe�s announcement here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/12/13/introducing-creative-cloud-express#gs.jab1j8

We have put together an FAQ page for Adobe Stock contributors to help answer any questions you may have: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/adobe-creative-cloud-express-faq-for-adobe-stock-contributors.html

Let me know if you have any questions not covered in the FAQ.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

Hi everyone,

Contributors submitting a high volume of content have requested the option to upload more than one release at a time at Adobe Stock. I'm pleased to inform you that this is now possible. You can upload up to 100 releases at a time directly into the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal.

To do so, navigate to the Releases section found in the Uploaded Files page. From there, click the Create a Release button in the upper right corner and finally, click Bulk Upload Scanned Releases. You can then navigate to your JPG release files and upload them. The release will be named as the file name and cannot be customized in the portal so keep that in mind if you are using CSV files for your metadata.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward 

Hi Everyone,

At this moment, we are making upfront payments for the 3rd wave of selections for the Free collection from the images you had previously nominated. If any of your images are selected for this wave, you will see your balance go up automatically within the next couple of hours. We will be sending you an email in the next day or so with the number of files approved and the amount of credits added to your account balance. 

We are handling this 3rd wave differently than the previous 2. The selected files will remain in your paid portfolio for a short period of time yet to be determined. We are paying for the use in advance to simplify the process on our end when transferring images into the free collection. As always, we are closely watching the collection to determine what, if any impact there may be on the paid collection. By paying in advance, we can move the images at the appropriate time in a more seamless manner.
 
It is worth noting that the 12 month period in which your nominated assets are available for the Free collection begins the moment the payment is added to your account.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

As many of you know, last year Adobe Stock launched a free collection to drive traffic to the marketplace. The initial collection was limited to participation from a very small number of Adobe Stock Contributors. We were pleased with the results: traffic did increase and many visitors who initially came for free content converted to paying customers, resulting in added revenue for the larger Contributor community.   

It�s now time to refresh and expand the program. For a limited time starting on June 7, many of you will see a banner in the dashboard section of the Adobe Stock Contributor portal. The banner gives you the opportunity to nominate qualified photos from your portfolio. You can nominate all eligible files (photos only at this time), or you can go through the Dashboard and nominate individual files. Please note that your best-selling images are exempt from this program. We will not be accepting any images that received more than 4 downloads in the past 12 months.   

You have until June 23 to nominate any or all your eligible files. After that, the banner will go away, and our moderation team will quickly review the submissions.   

A big difference between the Adobe Stock free collection and other sites offering content for free is that we are paying Contributors up front for participation. For every file approved for the free collection, we are paying a one-time rate of $5 (If paid in USD currently. Otherwise, 5 credits in your currency) . This payment is for 12 months of non-exclusive use in the free collection. After the 12 months are up, the files will automatically be returned into your paid collection. 
Please see the FAQ for more details, and let me know if you have any additional questions not covered there.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/free-collection-contributor-information.html

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

Today Adobe Stock announced Pro Edition, a new plan for Creative Cloud for Teams and Enterprises, which supplies unlimited downloads from our Standard collection of photos, illustrations, and vectors. Contributors receive 33% of Adobe revenue from stock. Payouts will be distributed among Contributors proportional to their downloads.   

Adobe created Pro Edition for medium to large businesses and enterprises, aiming to equip all users in an organization with access to stock content alongside their CC apps. This empowers many more users to create, as opposed to only select users as has been the case in the past. Pro Edition is only available to qualifying businesses, to maximize service value to customers and overall payouts to Contributors.   

For more info about the Pro Edition, please see the Contributor FAQ here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/contributor-faq-for-cct-cce-pro-edition-.html

Let us know if you have any questions,

Mat Hayward

Hi Everyone,

I'm kicking off a monthly Adobe Stock 101 session followed by an extensive live Q&A on Tuesday, February 9 at 9am. The presentation is geared towards new contributors primarily but there may be some useful information as a refresher for you veteran stock contributors. After I run through the presentation, I'll stick around to answer as many questions as I can. I hope to see some of you there!

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/adobestock101

-Mat Hayward

Hi All,

A quick note informing you we have recently changed the requirements for Illustrative Editorial submissions to include contributors ranked bronze and above. To reach Bronze you must have at least 100 downloads in your account.

If you have not yet reached the rank of Bronze but you have an extensive Illustrative Editorial portfolio, you may submit a link for approval consideration through the contact us link found at the bottom of the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal.

Additional information can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html

Let me know if you have any questions,

Mat Hayward

Hi Everyone,

Moments ago we launched a free collection on Adobe Stock. We'll be sending an email to contributors later today with this announcement but I wanted to give you a heads up in advance.

I expect you will have some (many?) questions and I'm happy to answer any that I can. We have put together a Learn & Support page with details and an anticipated list of FAQ for you here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/free-collection-contributor-information.html

You can view the collection here: https://stock.adobe.com/free

Let me know your questions, I'll be around all day.

Kind regards,

Mat Hayward

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to give you a heads up that after tomorrow (Friday, July 24) I will be on a one month sabbatical and will be offline most, if not all of that time. Instead, I'll be soaking up some sun and shooting lots of stock! I'll be back the end of August and will check in here then.

Should anything come up that you need assistance with, please write to us via the contact us link found at the bottom of the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal or via email to [email protected]. Someone will get back to you asap.

Stay safe and be well!

Mat Hayward 

Hi Everyone,

I am very pleased to announce that a very useful upgrade to the release UI has been added to the Adobe Stock Contributor portal today. You can now hide inactive releases so they do not show up when you are indexing new content. This has been a top feature request for me and I hope it makes your lives a bit easier when submitting. If you are like me you have many, many releases that will never need to be used again. This can be a nuisance when trying to find the right release. Now you can navigate to the release section under the Uploaded Files tab and deactivate releases you'll no longer use. Those deactivated releases will still remain attached to the files you have online and they can be reactivated at any time.

For me, I plan to only keep releases active that I'm currently using on a shoot. This way I can open the dropdown menu and select all relevant releases in one fell swoop. It should be a big time saver for contributors submitting a significant volume of content. We are working on more upgrades and I'll be sure to share them here in MSG as they are released.

-Mat Hayward