I would like to see them get rid of Fotolia, hopefully also getting rid of whatever they did to almost completely kill my sales years ago.
Ive been lagging behind. Never even visited the Adobe contributor portal. Guess I'd better sign up. Will my Fotolia login infi get me on the site or do I have to sign up new and somehow link the accounts?
Ive been lagging behind. Never even visited the Adobe contributor portal. Guess I'd better sign up. Will my Fotolia login infi get me on the site or do I have to sign up new and somehow link the accounts?
[url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-portal-updates/msg486861/#msg486861[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-contributor-portal-updates/msg486861/#msg486861[/url])
Anyway, for the reasons mentioned above, I will be very happy to see a complete migration of all FT customers to the new Adobe portal, followed by shutting down the FT portal, as soon as possible.
I hope just the opposite. I wish Adobe with keep Fotolia up and running. I am a Saphire contributor and getting much higher royalty than on Adobe where the royalty is flat for everyone. I am also getting regular high credit sales on Fotolia, whereas on Adobe Stock the prices are much lower.
SO, ADOBE, PLEASE KEEP FOTOLIA ALIVE!
Even if this is old news, the fact is that Fotolia's business model relies a lot on a stronger euro.
While the majority of FT portal sales are made in euro, they underpay the majority of their contributors, by artificially declaring 1US$ = 1 Euro.Fotolia is a currency manipulator.
In order to grow their microstock business, Adobe has the ambition to expand aggressively on the US market. This is why the FT credit based business is not suiting them anymore. If the majority of Adobe sales are coming from US, it doesn't make sense to overpay, in euros, European contributors.
Something had to be done!
And this is why they decided to create the new Adobe portal. This is why the new portal is not using the credit system anymore.
Think about it: why re-inventing the wheel and spending money, time and efforts on a new portal, when they have a nicely working system, which, probably, could have been easily be re-branded and enhanced with few additional Adobe portal features (e.g. editing keywords after acceptance)
Anyway, for the reasons mentioned above, I will be very happy to see a complete migration of all FT customers to the new Adobe portal, followed by shutting down the FT portal, as soon as possible.
Dont know if you know? but a lot of high ranked contributors quit Fotolia with their dollar sales thing and according to their own forum things are not all that rosy. Many Emeralds complaining actually.
Even if this is old news, the fact is that Fotolia's business model relies a lot on a stronger euro.
While the majority of FT portal sales are made in euro, they underpay the majority of their contributors, by artificially declaring 1US$ = 1 Euro.Fotolia is a currency manipulator.
In order to grow their microstock business, Adobe has the ambition to expand aggressively on the US market. This is why the FT credit based business is not suiting them anymore. If the majority of Adobe sales are coming from US, it doesn't make sense to overpay, in euros, European contributors.
Something had to be done!
And this is why they decided to create the new Adobe portal. This is why the new portal is not using the credit system anymore.
Think about it: why re-inventing the wheel and spending money, time and efforts on a new portal, when they have a nicely working system, which, probably, could have been easily be re-branded and enhanced with few additional Adobe portal features (e.g. editing keywords after acceptance)
Anyway, for the reasons mentioned above, I will be very happy to see a complete migration of all FT customers to the new Adobe portal, followed by shutting down the FT portal, as soon as possible.
Most of my sales come from Asia and Europe.
And from my point of view it doesn't make sense to underpay, in dollars, European contributors
:D
Even if this is old news, the fact is that Fotolia's business model relies a lot on a stronger euro.
While the majority of FT portal sales are made in euro, they underpay the majority of their contributors, by artificially declaring 1US$ = 1 Euro.Fotolia is a currency manipulator.
In order to grow their microstock business, Adobe has the ambition to expand aggressively on the US market. This is why the FT credit based business is not suiting them anymore. If the majority of Adobe sales are coming from US, it doesn't make sense to overpay, in euros, European contributors.
Something had to be done!
And this is why they decided to create the new Adobe portal. This is why the new portal is not using the credit system anymore.
Think about it: why re-inventing the wheel and spending money, time and efforts on a new portal, when they have a nicely working system, which, probably, could have been easily be re-branded and enhanced with few additional Adobe portal features (e.g. editing keywords after acceptance)
Anyway, for the reasons mentioned above, I will be very happy to see a complete migration of all FT customers to the new Adobe portal, followed by shutting down the FT portal, as soon as possible.
Most of my sales come from Asia and Europe.
And from my point of view it doesn't make sense to underpay, in dollars, European contributors
:D
Exactly! You are confirming my statements. You are one of those enjoying being paid hundreds of dollars more, annually, than an equivalent dollar based contributor.
Why would you want what is fair, when you are part of the privileged few? :o