Adobe sales continue to grow - more than 100 sales so far this year with ~700 assets (and a large percentage of those assets are illustrations I've done for holidays, with duplicate pngs - most of my best sellers are my photographs - and I've got around 400 of them).

Haven't uploaded that much recently either, maybe a handful of images, but most of the new are selling - best was uploaded late January - it's had 20+ sales already (not up to Jo Anne's stats, but good nonetheless, I think). Others have multiple sales too. The fact that new images are getting multiple sales speaks volumes IMHO.

Jo Anne, how do you figure out custom vs subscription sales? When I look at a week of sales, I see total earnings, but not downloads. I can only see total downloads in my full portfolio (but not total earnings unless I download every single year individually). Is there a breakdown somewhere like DT has? Doubtful - you seem to imply it's tricky to find the info - any tricks you can share would be much appreciated. Are you assuming that fees above 99 cents are custom and extrapolating from there? Do you have to break down stats daily to figure this out?

Jo Anne, I share your concern about return per download. Mine is 78 cents per download this year; in 2022 it was 94 cents. OTOH, I've earned 101% more for the the period 1/1/23-3/18/23 than for the same period in 2022. So, if Return per download goes down but sales more than double, I'm still ahead. Still, I'm worried about sustainability. It's better in the long term if earning per download is up, since the number of potential clients is more finite. (SS has shown that even if you corner the market, at some point growth slows down or stops). Better to charge 99 cents per download than 78. (Still sure beats 10 cents - SS isn't even worth mentioning.)

A bit quieter for me last week. No idea why. Sales were chugging along very nicely 

Quote from: wordplanet on March 18, 2023, 20:41

...Jo Anne, how do you figure out custom vs subscription sales? When I look at a week of sales, I see total earnings, but not downloads....

From this link (which is the one I bookmark when I want to go and see what has sold lately)

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/sales-earnings

To make things manageable...

Does that help?

Yes - very helpful! Thanks! I hadn't thought to use the Activity tab instead of Statistics.

I'm heading towards new BME.

I have 1560 files online, this year 876dls, earnings �648.
SS this year: 340dls, $92, SS became such a joke

EDIT: Go Adobe!

Second EDIT: I don't upload much anymore, added some PNG files, that I had for Canva, had some good success with some of those files, one of them sold 170 times to date, uploaded on 5th of November.

Quote from: stoker2014 on March 16, 2023, 06:27

There are sales, I think it's because I put my video in a free library. Advertising works.

I really don't understand how advertising in stock photography should have any effect.
 
Customers don't look for artists and then wildly buy useless images just because the portfolio looks so nice.
The customers are looking for specific themes or images for a specific purpose or project and you can assume that the artist behind the buyers absolutely no matter.
Or where do I have there my thinking error?

Under each "Free Asset", customers see the "paid assets" from the similar series.

This article may help explain why the number of "custom" versus "subscription" royalties has been growing so fast in the last couple of months:

https://petapixel.com/2023/03/21/adobe-fights-off-canva-by-making-its-alternative-impossible-to-ignore/

I hope they don't next follow with the all you can eat but pay < a cent per use model

No sales in 2 weeks. 470 images.

these days, that's a small portfolio, but w/o seeing it there's little to comment on

The first time I'm getting more money from Adobe than SS. +24% this month so far.

For me it's  +56% on Adobe this month.
SS fails to bring in many sales higher than $0.10 these days. Wasn't always like this for me since the change in royalty payments, but more balanced, but the balance between 0.10 sales and bigger sales  is constantly shifting more and more towards the first. 
At this rate, if AI doesn't  render the whole microstock bussiness unnecessary by then, SS will be one of the minor players like Bigstock or Depositphotos for me in 1 or 2 years.

Quote from: Her Ugliness on March 25, 2023, 02:18

Quote from: Unamas on March 24, 2023, 15:29

The first time I'm getting more money from Adobe than SS. +24% this month so far.

For me it's  +56% on Adobe this month.
SS fails to bring in many sales higher than $0.10 these days. ...

if that were true your RPD would be around .1 to .2 - what is yours? (and why no link to your portfolio  do you even have one?)

for many of us that isn't the case (i haven't seen anyone reporting an RPD of less than .2)  my SZS RPD  runs from .6 to 1.0, same as it was before the decrease.  AS RPD is slightly lower.  but SS income has been steady at 2-3  times AS income.  canva brings in more than AS

the AS payment for their free section does bring in a dramatic jump once a year

I know different strokes. But to answer from someone who doesn't do as well as you do and has different kinds of material, and Canva rejected my application many years ago?

2023 SS RPD = .54 for someone with pretty average assets. AS RPD = .80 Earnings. Downloads SS is 54% of AS and AS income is slightly under double that for SS. For me, AS is more money, more DLs with under 1,000 assets vs over 5,000 on SS.

And remember that cascoly has said his SS portfolio is twice the size of his AS portfolio, so this isn't an apples:apples comparison

Just for the details, and yes you're correct. I'm working on it?  Slowly...
Adobe = 976
SSTK = 5,351
And I have to admit that what sells on AS isn't the same as what gets downloaded on SS, for mine. So even if I am only myself, there are different images involved because AS takes things SS doesn't and visa versa.

Just paid for another year of FAA, not bragging, just treading water. $36.34 for the year. Nice to see that now and then, someone needs something that I shot.

AND here i was responding to a (quite common ) msg implying RPD for S was $.10

Her Ugliness wrote -"SS fails to bring in many sales higher than $0.10 these days."
Nothing about RPD.

Quote from: Her Ugliness on March 25, 2023, 02:18

Quote from: Unamas on March 24, 2023, 15:29

The first time I'm getting more money from Adobe than SS. +24% this month so far.

For me it's  +56% on Adobe this month.
SS fails to bring in many sales higher than $0.10 these days. ...

if that were true your RPD would be around .1 to .2 - what is yours? (and why no link to your portfolio  do you even have one?)...

I don�t think your maths checks out?

For example if they have 10 sales, 9 for 10c and one for $3 their RPD would be  39c yet they would be correct that SS fails to bring in many sales higher than 10c (i.e. 1 in 10)

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