Author Topic: Adobe - What are you doing? (Read 1401 times)

Artist · « **on:** June 20, 2025, 03:29 »

My earnings are going down by every month. I am not sure what changes have they made but downloads are decreasing consistantly.
Adobe has been on my top list and seeing them going down hurts.

Shuttershock · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2025, 04:17 »

Mine have remained constant, images only, 25 uploads a week, 2 hrs work a week all in. Circa $300 a month

Pacesetter · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2025, 04:53 »

Adobe Stock has lost its shine. It was going well there for a time, probably gaining some customers from Shutterstock, but it's recent clumsy and chaotic curation of AI content has seen it decline.

DaLiu · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2025, 05:23 »

I love how people blame Adobe for everything, like Adobe can control the market and customers, it's a slow period overall.

Artist · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2025, 05:54 »

Quote from: DaLiu on June 20, 2025, 05:23

I love how people blame Adobe for everything, like Adobe can control the market and customers, it's a slow period overall.

Maybe you are slightly lost here.

Sometimes the market does feel slow, but a big part of what’s happening is that companies like Adobe are constantly tweaking their search and indexing algorithms. Sometimes those changes help visibility, other times they really hurt. It’s all part of their ongoing experiments.

That said, the demand isn’t actually gone. Adobe just shows a max of 100 pages in search results and they are still doing pretty well.

Also, don’t forget companies like Adobe take a decent chunk in commission. That’s part of what funds all these experiments and keeps the platform running.

To be fair though, Adobe has generally treated contributors pretty well, which is why they’re still leading the microstock space. It’s just that in the last few months, things seem to have dipped which is definitely a bit concerning.

tätarätä · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2025, 07:27 »

Quote from: Artist on June 20, 2025, 05:54

Quote from: DaLiu on June 20, 2025, 05:23
I love how people blame Adobe for everything, like Adobe can control the market and customers, it's a slow period overall.

Maybe you are slightly lost here.

Sometimes the market does feel slow, but a big part of what’s happening is that companies like Adobe are constantly tweaking their search and indexing algorithms. Sometimes those changes help visibility, other times they really hurt. It’s all part of their ongoing experiments.

That said, the demand isn’t actually gone. Adobe just shows a max of 100 pages in search results and they are still doing pretty well.

Also, don’t forget companies like Adobe take a decent chunk in commission. That’s part of what funds all these experiments and keeps the platform running.

To be fair though, Adobe has generally treated contributors pretty well, which is why they’re still leading the microstock space. It’s just that in the last few months, things seem to have dipped which is definitely a bit concerning.

The market is not slow. There are more contributors because of AI.

alexandersr · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2025, 10:45 »

Quote from: Artist on June 20, 2025, 03:29

My earnings are going down by every month. I am not sure what changes have they made but downloads are decreasing consistantly.
Adobe has been on my top list and seeing them going down hurts.

If you can, you should find another way to get incomes,because probably microstock is near to colapse in the future no so far! Too much people in this business doing AI content (i don't have Ai content). I always have had this clear, microstock is only one income for severals i should have, nowadays very few earning to me. Maybe i have not the better content for the costumers!

angelacat · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2025, 08:12 »

Same Alexandersr

I don't have any AI in my port, I don't use AI, I don't see it as a creative art form and I don't like the plagiarism that some of these models use.

I do hear that contributors who do have AI in their portfolio make most sales from real content, only anecdotal so can't say this is a fact.

Strange times, my sales are terrible, photo and video.

Cat

davedigitalfx · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2025, 12:12 »

i sell only videos on adobe ... 3000 files made by me not AI ... personally i dont see any decrease in sales ... i sold more files than last year .. so in my case is going "normal" as always ... clearly it depends by the niches you are in ... also pond5 and shutterstock after the horrible initial months of the years ... they are going well not like the golden age of shutterstock but it's good ...

danielvisuals · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2025, 17:02 »

Quote from: davedigitalfx on June 25, 2025, 12:12

... they are going well not like the golden age of shutterstock but it's good ...

Are you participating in the unlimited download plan on SS?

davedigitalfx · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2025, 17:29 »

no i dont participate .... the difference between the first months of the year is that since april/may im selling many videos with good prices ... for example this month: 3 for $36.93 - 2 for $31.19 - 2 for $34.76 - 2 for $38.90 - 4 downloads for $53.12 .... and so on ...

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2025, 19:22 »

Quote from: davedigitalfx on June 25, 2025, 17:29

no i dont participate .... the difference between the first months of the year is that since april/may im selling many videos with good prices ... for example this month: 3 for $36.93 - 2 for $31.19 - 2 for $34.76 - 2 for $38.90 - 4 downloads for $53.12 .... and so on ...

Where does one make sure they are "not" signed up for that? I haven't really had any significant video sales on shutterstock in a long time, although I do have a good portfolio. They seem to only pay $0.25 per video...

davedigitalfx · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2025, 19:52 »

personally this month i have only 2 sales for .25 each ... that is very weird because in the past i had lot and i mean a lot of .25 sales ... this month i have 50% of sales with an average selling price of 10/12 dollars ... few for 2$ and 3$ .... so sincerely i dont know what changed in the practice .... but im noticing that im selling more recent videos than the older one from my portfolio ... at the beginning of the year i was selling for most part only old stuff ... maybe they have changed something in the algoritm?

Big Money · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2025, 22:35 »

One thing is for sure the business is losing it's ability to make a living out of it. Sure there are some doing well but most of us, myself included, are seeing loses with each passing year. I no longer depend on my income and will not purchase another professional camera just continue to use my iphone for pics-vids. I've accepted that the end is near and just ride it to the sunset...

Pacesetter · « **Reply #14 on:** **Yesterday** at 22:02 »

Quote from: Big Money on June 25, 2025, 22:35

One thing is for sure the business is losing it's ability to make a living out of it. Sure there are some doing well but most of us, myself included, are seeing loses with each passing year. I no longer depend on my income and will not purchase another professional camera just continue to use my iphone for pics-vids. I've accepted that the end is near and just ride it to the sunset...

Are you dong anything else in photography to support your income or something else entirely?

mike123 · « **Reply #15 on:** **Today** at 08:57 »

My amount of downloads remains more or less constant, but RPD is getting lower and lower (currently also "thanks" to the weaker US dollar). This month I sold 2 licenses directly to clients, which made me as much as multiple hundreds of microstock downloads. So yeah, microstock is slowly dying, but that doesn't mean licensing is dying as well.

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