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Adobe Stock Contributor Bonus 2025
Raul.Ceron:
Hi Contributors!
The 2025 bonus program for Adobe Stock contributors has been released today!
You can review the details on our Royalty Details page: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html
The criteria to qualify has been updated this year:
* If you had between 350 and 6,999 downloads during the 2024 calendar year, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects.
* If you had 7,000 or more downloads in 2024, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps.
* Only Contributors active in 2024 are eligible for the opportunity. To be considered active, you must have uploaded and had approved a minimum of 150 new assets.
Please note that video downloads are equal to 3 downloads in consideration of the qualification.
If you are eligible for the bonus opportunity you can expect to see the blue banner in the Contributor Portal with your redemption code.
Thank you so much for being a valued contributor to Adobe Stock. Looking forward to seeing your new content in 2025!
JustAnImage:
Hello Raul,
Thank you for the information about the 2025 bonus program - it's great that it's taking place again!
In my case it was close this year with 7,175 countable downloads (6,497 images / 226 videos*3) - lucky me :)
Thanks, Michael
Jo Ann Snover:
I'm really disappointed - I no longer qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock.
I had fewer downloads in 2024 than 2023, so I was aware I'd probably slip back to the single app plan, which wasn't a big deal.
However, I never imagined there'd be such a big leap in the number of approved assets required to qualify - the last two years 20+ was enough to qualify as an active contributor.
I've never been a high volume contributor but only had 117 approved assets in 2024 which isn't enough.
I had 5739 downloads - that's where Adobe Stock makes 70% of what they llicense my content for, but that doesn't count for anything?
Right now I'm angry and thinking of closing my account, but I'll go away and try and calm down to think about what's in my best interests.
The flood of new content Adobe Stock has been accepting suggests they aren't short of new material. But some newbie who had 350 downloads the whole year gets the free software and I don't? And when you announce the program after the year is over, there's no chance to do anything to add some uploads?
It's just utterly disrespectful of contributors who make sales, IMO.
mike123:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 15, 2025, 12:02 ---I'm really disappointed - I no longer qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock.
--- End quote ---
Same here, with over 6000 downloads and around 30 added files in 2024 I don't qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock. I only upload stuff that I think will sell - thus I never upload a lot of content and I think with a portfolio of < 1k assets and > 6k downloads I wasn't that wrong in the past.
The new bonus rules really prefer AI spammers. So this year I might simply upload a ton of ugly LCV cr*p from my phone, just to qualify for the 2026 bonus - if this is what Adobe wants us to do. :-\
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: mike123 on January 15, 2025, 12:37 ---
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 15, 2025, 12:02 ---I'm really disappointed - I no longer qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock.
--- End quote ---
Same here, with over 6000 downloads and around 30 added files in 2024 I don't qualify for anything free from Adobe Stock. I only upload stuff that I think will sell - thus I never upload a lot of content and I think with a portfolio of < 1k assets and > 6k downloads I wasn't that wrong in the past.
The new bonus rules really prefer AI spammers. So for this year I might simply upload a ton of ugly LCV cr*p from my phone, just to qualify for the 2026 bonus - if this is what Adobe wants us to do. :-\
--- End quote ---
Oh nice how they make these up, without notice and drop the gift on us. It would have been nice to know the targets in advance.
Here are the details:
If you had between 350 and 6,999 downloads during the 2024 calendar year, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects.
If you had 7,000 or more downloads in 2024, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps.
Only Contributors active in 2024 are eligible for the opportunity. To be considered active, you must have uploaded and had approved a minimum of 150 new assets.
Please note that video downloads are equal to 3 downloads in consideration of the qualification.
If you are eligible for the bonus opportunity you can expect to see the blue banner in the Contributor Portal with your redemption code on January 14, 2025.
Heck, I didn't keep count or try to make a quota. I can understand 350 DLs and being "active", but they changed the rules, without notice. Also they made it harder to get anything approved with the slow reviews and vague rejections for Quality Standards.
Downloads aren't a problem, but changing the new files requirement, blind is kind of a slap in the face.
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