My sales have gone down past 2 months . I feel like some of my port is like shut off. Maybe because of the buyout, they have shot off the selected pictures? I don`t know. And I keep uploading and uploading. Will see if this will change after the buyout. But truly sad, Adobe has done so well and have grown and now the drop.

...and they have for some reason left 0.01 cent in there 🤔 wierd. ....

Quote from: Pacesetter on May 26, 2023, 17:09

Seems as if Adobe Stock is successfully gaining customers from other agencies. I cannot believe how dead Shutterstock went this past week (and Pond5 no better) and struggling for most of this month and yet Adobe Stock has been powering on. The attached from 26 May 2023 shows what you can earn in one day with a couple of decent video sales. I've also been reporting Adobe Stock was at the bottom of the four main agencies I contribute to for YTD earnings. Adobe has now passed ahead of Pond5 (YTD) and tracking to pass iStock - less iStock picks up.

What I always questioned was the SS earnings and stock reports to investors and the general consensus for the stock image market, how endless it was and how much potential for more customers and more earnings.

Yet as you suspect and I do as well, what we see is more of a shifting of the same buyers, from agency to agency. When IS was the top, there were all kinds of others, trying to gain their higher market share. SS started to get more buyers by offering different programs and ways to buy. IS dropped, SS went up. Now Adobe is growing and more interesting for people who use images and going up for us, while SS is going down.

I don't see the market as huge and open for growth as the people promoting Stock Image Sales want to have us believe. I'm not saying it's dead, but the overall growth has slowed. Now we're seeing buyers who are shopping for more than the best price and are looking for the best images and videos, for their needs.

Quote from: Injustice for all on June 01, 2023, 19:43

I would like to know something more about DT and DP,do I need to recover an old thread?I didn't find detailed threads about how it's going for you there,because I have thousands of contents to upload on DT for example and I don't know if I should waste time�.is it a waste of time?

I think it depends very much on your port. Both of them obviously aren't strong earners, you can tell that probably from the monthly poll.

For me Dreamstime has been performing pretty much without change since I started submitting there. I don't earn much there, but enough to add to a couple hundret $ a year and when you have embedded keywords into your files it's a nice (very) small extra money each year for pretty much no extra work.

Depositphotos on the other hand is surprising me lately. It started very slow, but now I have many sales each day (unfortunately all 0.27-0.37$). Still isn't much compared to the big agencies, but more than with DT and considering they have the easiest upload process of all agencies since they don't even have categories, so all you do is upload and hit submit, that's well worth it for me.

Of all the agencies I submit to Bigstock is really the only one that brings in so little revenue that it might not even be worth the little work it takes to submit photos there. I feel like this agency is pretty much dead. But the poll says it's doing better for most than for example DT and DP, which I find baffling, because I only make a tiny fraction of what I make in DT and DP on Bigstock.