From pixels to pennies

a catchy slogan for any new agency nowadays.

LOL!

Quote from: George_ on October 29, 2019, 03:45

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From pixels to pennies

a catchy slogan for any new agency nowadays.

LOL!

Ah, again pennies. Where disappeared the dollars? lol

Over time, of course, those pennies should add up to dollars. At least there still are sales.

I think Adobe Stock is showing great promise, in all the negatives we experiencing in the stock world the agency seems like the bright spark. Contributors are essentially left out, as agencies drive to sign up more clients with cuts being felt by contributors. The biggest winners are agencies and clients with the drive for unlimited subscriptions.

Adobe Stock is crashing and burning.

I've been doing this for years.  I'm in their top 100 contributors.  And my earnings are down around 60-70% from LAST YEAR.  Note that my position in the top 100 is virtually unchanged from the past year, meaning that most other top contributors there must be experiencing the same.

On the other hand, at Shutterstock, my earnings are roughly the same from last year.

Adobe Stock is crashing and burning.

I've been doing this for years.  I'm in their top 100 contributors.  And my earnings are down around 60-70% from LAST YEAR.  Note that my position in the top 100 is virtually unchanged from the past year, meaning that most other top contributors there must be experiencing the same.

On the other hand, at Shutterstock, my earnings are roughly the same from last year.

Rank varies from 190 to 800 depending on the time of year (not really changed much, down a little probably), earnings for 2018 up on 2017 and 2019 is a fair bit better than both. Had a best day, week & month ever in the last month or two as well. Happy with the progress AS has made on the whole this year.

If it hadn't been for quiet Jul/Aug it would have been an excellent year but, I'll settle for a very good one. Hopefully this progress will continue into the new year.

The closure of Fotolia has impacted a lot of us.

It's obvious that some FT buyers did not transition over to Adobe Stock and our earnings are lower as a result.

I also notice some slight algorithm changes on changes on Adobe Stock and some of my bestsellers have dropped in the rankings.

It's not a dramatic change, but a 20% drop is still pretty noticeable from my peak. Adobe Stock used to outperform Shutterstock fairly easily. Now, they're comparable.

that's quite good..adobe stock not favors old timers and contributors who have lot of file high on ranking due to the fact that they uploaded before than others....they open real competition and new files sells,especially good one....not like ss where everything is already decided...earnong are aa straight line since three years no mater what you upload cause new files don't sell. i wish they change like adobe has done and give all the file a chance to be sold....once ss was ten times fotolia for me now in less than three months adobe has doubled each month and is not half only ss , today adobe has sold 5 times the file and more than 7 times the dollar.
ss search engine is totally biased towards old file and contributors who have a lot of file high on ranking, even if the not upload a lot or work hard. but i'm sure the new quarter will see changes even in ss cause it's clear they are losing market share  quarter after quarter.

Quote from: stockmarketer on November 15, 2019, 06:57

Adobe Stock is crashing and burning.

I've been doing this for years.  I'm in their top 100 contributors.  And my earnings are down around 60-70% from LAST YEAR.  Note that my position in the top 100 is virtually unchanged from the past year, meaning that most other top contributors there must be experiencing the same.

On the other hand, at Shutterstock, my earnings are roughly the same from last year.

same here, top50 2015-2019 and still on the same position but the earning are down between 60-70% from last year and from week to week a little bit more down :/

No! Adobe Stock is NOT crashing and burning. I guess you mean your top position in "Lifetime", but your weekly position is dropping. Is that right? This mean just that there are others who sells better this days. If your weekly positions was unchanged and your income decreases this could mean Adobe is "crashing and burning", but I think this is not the case.

Quote from: milo22 on November 16, 2019, 03:57

Quote from: stockmarketer on November 15, 2019, 06:57

Adobe Stock is crashing and burning.

I've been doing this for years.  I'm in their top 100 contributors.  And my earnings are down around 60-70% from LAST YEAR.  Note that my position in the top 100 is virtually unchanged from the past year, meaning that most other top contributors there must be experiencing the same.

On the other hand, at Shutterstock, my earnings are roughly the same from last year.

same here, top50 2015-2019 and still on the same position but the earning are down between 60-70% from last year and from week to week a little bit more down :/

No! Adobe Stock is NOT crashing and burning. I guess you mean your top position in "Lifetime", but your weekly position is dropping. Is that right? This mean just that there are others who sells better this days. If your weekly positions was unchanged and your income decreases this could mean Adobe is "crashing and burning", but I think this is not the case.

I think you're right.

My weekly varies from 197 - 800 depending on the time of year. My Lifetime rank moves a lot less but is improving. My earnings vary depending on changes to weekly rank.  Income can vary a lot with little to no change to lifetime rank.

I assumed lifetime looks at how much the contributor has made since being with them so you would stay at position 50 until the person at 51 earns more than you. If the ones above you stop submitting or earning as much, you might have to wait until Someone that is earning more catches up. They maybe at position 100 so takes longer for any change in lifetime Rank to occur.
 
Edit- You can see a drop in income with a small change to weekly rank & that is when everyone is subject to the same thing. Seasonal slowdowns are an example. You could see a drop in earnings after Christmas but weekly rank doesn't change much because everyone is experiencing the same thing.

It was better when they show us the Lifetime and Weekly positions on the same page.

Yes, that's a simple thing, also to me there are some other things that could be improved for us.

A $72 custom sale dropped in yesterday which is a first for me. Since I'm completely fed up with SS I've only been uploading to AS lately so I guess that's my bonus

Keep it up AS!

yes is growing very fast, this month ahead ss once ss was like 6 times fotolia....sunday had a consecutive 83 download of my food photos in less than a 30 minutes, all 0,36....or some relatives bought them as christmas gift:9, or somebody bought them...maybe some thief who will resell them? anyway. this month the growth is strong...still not selling lot of christmas images , i expected more christmas images selling this winter.