Hi Everyone,

As I promised yesterday in the other thread, the nomination process for photos to be considered for the Free collection is now up and running. Photos that are approved after the nomination window closes on June 22 will generate a $5 payment for each, for a non-exclusive, one-year commitment. Sign into the contributor portal now to nominate your eligible photos.

You can view the Free Collection FAQ and 2022 addendum for additional information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/free-collection-contributor-information.html

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

How do I make it so that the ones that were free last year are not renewed? I do not want to add anything to free and I do not want the old photos that I put free a year ago to be free another year

Oh boy... it can bring me 245 euros if I nominate them all, and if they all get chosen. Tempting, but I am definitely not gonna give away my best sellers.
I am pretty sure some of the photos nominated wouldnt make 5 euros across all agencies in one year, maybe even in few years, but one probably needs to think about
it in such a way, that the photos involved are pretty much finished when it comes to sales after the free collection period expires, and that will probably apply also to sales on other agencies. If I can ask you people, how were your photos from free collection doing on other agencies?
I only had a handful last year because my port was (and kind of still is) small, so I dont have any relevant data.

The Photos which were for free in 2022 and Adobe wants to keep them for free in 2023: Do contributors get another time 5 USD per image?
Credit = USD?

In the 'fine print'...

Adobe will have the right to keep your content in the free collection for additional 12-month periods, subject to (1) giving you notice and an opportunity to opt out and (2) paying you an upfront payment for each additional 12-month period that your content stays in the free collection.

Quote from: kall3bu on June 07, 2022, 11:52

The Photos which were for free in 2022 and Adobe wants to keep them for free in 2023: Do contributors get another time 5 USD per image?
Credit = USD?

In the 'fine print'...

Adobe will have the right to keep your content in the free collection for additional 12-month periods, subject to (1) giving you notice and an opportunity to opt out and (2) paying you an upfront payment for each additional 12-month period that your content stays in the free collection.

Yes, I've called this out specifically in most, if not all of my announcement posts. The updated addendum will allow for content in the Free collection at this time next year to be automatically nominated for the Free collection again. You will have the opportunity to opt out if you so choose. If the files are approved again for the Free collection, you would receive an additional payment.

Please be sure to let me know if you have any additional questions about this.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

Oh boy... it can bring me 245 euros if I nominate them all, and if they all get chosen. Tempting, but I am definitely not gonna give away my best sellers.
I am pretty sure some of the photos nominated wouldnt make 5 euros across all agencies in one year, maybe even in few years, but one probably needs to think about
it in such a way, that the photos involved are pretty much finished when it comes to sales after the free collection period expires, and that will probably apply also to sales on other agencies. If I can ask you people, how were your photos from free collection doing on other agencies?
I only had a handful last year because my port was (and kind of still is) small, so I dont have any relevant data.

I think you are right. If the photo doesn't sell anywhere else as well then it might be an interesting offer. If it sells good on other agencies it can become risky to let clients get it for free at Adobe.
So that's how I see it and act on it.

I did a quick check on what was eligible for nomination in my portfolio and I don't understand why items that have been downloaded within the last month and have lots of downloads are eligible.

Last time around, I thought it was only things that hadn't been downloaded in a certain amount of time that were eligible.

I'm not assuming; I checked several against my recent downloads list (by hand I would add; there are no ways to see downloads by date for a given image).

Have the rules for what assets can be included changed this time?

Hello, can you tell me if there's a way to select the images we'd like to nominate versus nominating all eligible assets? It says we can adjust individual files until the 23rd and I just wanted to make sure before I click on it that there's a way to deselect some images. Thanks so much.

I did a quick check on what was eligible for nomination in my portfolio and I don't understand why items that have been downloaded within the last month and have lots of downloads are eligible.

Last time around, I thought it was only things that hadn't been downloaded in a certain amount of time that were eligible.

I'm not assuming; I checked several against my recent downloads list (by hand I would add; there are no ways to see downloads by date for a given image).

Have the rules for what assets can be included changed this time?

Yes, seems strange. Some pretty good sellers are eligible.

Quote from: MxR on June 07, 2022, 11:28

How do I make it so that the ones that were free last year are not renewed? I do not want to add anything to free and I do not want the old photos that I put free a year ago to be free another year

If you do not want to participate again @MxR then no action is required on your part. You must opt-in to nominate your eligible photos. That includes anything that is currently available in the Free collection. Please note that next year (2023) this will be different.

-Mat Hayward

Thanks Matt, when I first saw the photos that were already free from the previous year I didn't see the select free tab

This may have been asked already, but do the download numbers in the assets that have been free for the last year reflect all downloads or only payed downloads?

I did a quick check on what was eligible for nomination in my portfolio and I don't understand why items that have been downloaded within the last month and have lots of downloads are eligible.

Last time around, I thought it was only things that hadn't been downloaded in a certain amount of time that were eligible.

I'm not assuming; I checked several against my recent downloads list (by hand I would add; there are no ways to see downloads by date for a given image).

Have the rules for what assets can be included changed this time?

This is still the same Jo Ann. If a file was a top seller in the past 12 months it would not be eligible for nomination. In my account, I have some files eligible with hundreds of downloads in the lifetime of the image, but only a couple in the past year. The files that are eligible for nomination were determined last week, so it's likely there will be a few odd exceptions in which an image went on a download spree the past week and is still available for nomination. Please know that in those rare cases, when the nomination process is complete and the final selections are being made, those images will not be accepted. It's not in any of our best interest to pull content from the paid collection if it is trending towards consistent sales.

If you have a file or files, Jo Ann that seem to not align with what I just wrote, please send me an email with the specific file numbers and I'll look up their sales history to check them out.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

This may have been asked already, but do the download numbers in the assets that have been free for the last year reflect all downloads or only payed downloads?

Only paid downloads are reflected in your portal statistics @wds. Downloads from the Free collection are not counted in the portal.

Thanks for the question,

Mat Hayward