I just had one for 33 cents.

Probably a special deal.

I hope it is not a new licensing plan with much lower royalties.

Did you have some f�r $1,47 today?

The last time I got them for $1.47 was on January 19.
On January 20 it was $1.48, then 1.44 and 1.43, then 1.30, then 1.25 and yesterday and today they are all for $1.13.

I don't know where those amounts come from, it's not a single amount that is changing, I did get a $1.47 few days ago, and I see $1.13, $1.02, $1.19 etc.. all the time, different variations for custom license, maybe it's country specific price or something else,
I'm sure adobe made changes and still haven't updated the contributors (like with firefly bonus)

but never seen going as low as $0.30

The fluctuation in custom license was visible also last months of 2023
It seems that in december it was down to 0,96, 0,95...
And at the beginning of 2024 there was somthing like a "reset", custom licenses started from 1,47 than the price went quickly down, now is 1,13.
I thougth that it was linked to eur/us$ change, but it's not

Hi @BPawesome, would you please send me the file number so I can look into this.

Same for you @Trek. Please send me a file number.

Either send to me via PM here or email [email protected]

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

Same here, no longer get anything more than $1.01 My last $1.42 was on 1/14/2024
Now overwhelming majority are 0.32 cents. My downloads are growing, but % of $ that I get are getting lower and lower.

Plus my bestseller sales disappeared in January.

Mat, I will sent you email with my files as well. Thank you in advance for your time.

Nothing appears out of the ordinary there @Mifornia. No need to send me an email. The royalty rate remains at 33% of the price paid by the customer. The rate paid by the customer varies based on the plan. The Pro plans have rates that fluctuate daily based on the usage of all subscribers.

Thanks,

Mat

Hi Matt -

Would you please discuss perhaps some kind of contributor pool for the new '4k subscriptions', to balance payouts? Basically - now contributors (estimated) get on average get about 1/5th to 1/10th of the sale - since the 'purchase' now becomes a 'subscription' purchase.

Basically - splitting any unused 'subscriptions' between contributors & adobe @ the 67/33% split?

So if a customer (using this #'s for simplicity) gets a $100 subscription that say had 10 credits, and only uses 1 credit - and say had 9 unused credits - of which the contributor would get $3 (and adobe $6.7 + the remaining $90 balance for a total of $97) - could you please discuss instead sharing unused credits from subscriptions with contributors at the same 33%-67% split? (So instead of $3/$97 = 3% to contributor + 97% to adobe, it would be 33% to contributor + 67% to adobe)?

Thanks!

That�s crazy� I only contribute to Adobe. Why do people bother contributing to other stock agencies if they pay so little? Is it a habit?

You really should look in to it more, you won't get Adobe earnings on others, but you will earn more on 10 stock sites than on 1 (at least x3 times total), and you already have the images...

Quote from: Mifornia on February 13, 2024, 18:34

That�s crazy� I only contribute to Adobe. Why do people bother contributing to other stock agencies if they pay so little? Is it a habit?

You really should look in to it more, you won't get Adobe earnings on others, but you will earn more on 10 stock sites than on 1 (at least x3 times total), and you already have the images...

Thank you, I will 😀 it�s interesting that only 1-2 images from series are selling usually, so I definitely can upload non selling images ( that are very similar to selling ones ) to other sites.

Quote from: Mifornia on February 22, 2024, 09:43

Thank you, I will 😀 it�s interesting that only 1-2 images from series are selling usually, so I definitely can upload non selling images ( that are very similar to selling ones ) to other sites.

You don't have exclusivity with Adobe, why won't you want to sell your bestselling content on others sites?

Think that you produce a product, and you only sell it in 1 city,  that doesn't mean that potential buyers will go to another city to buy it...
All stock sites have subscribed members that buy only form that site (usually), sell your best images on all sites to earn as much as possible..

Won�t that dilute my sales of my bestsellers?

(And what other agencies do you recommend?)

I'm bringing this up again, because I still don't understand what these custom commissions are based on, like, *at all*.

Here's what I see and my peers in our German forums report as well:

- There are several tiers of custom sales - certainly different products on the buyers' side - and all sales within the same group/product come in for the same amount. So, the commissions can't be based on whatever currency the respective buyer pays in, but on US prices in US dollars.

- Those commissions either decline or increase over long periods of time (weeks and even months) and they do so solely in one direction - there aren't any ups and downs - cent by cent and day by day.

First, I thought this was due to exchange rate differences between Euros and Dollars, but the difference is *way* to high for that. E.g. the group at the highest commission rate paid $1,46 in January, then started gradually declining to $1,00 in mid February and then to $0,96 right now. (Again: ALL in the same group did so.) The dollar to Euro exchange rate never differed by roughly one third. (Also, as Europeans we already have to take the exchange rate risk, because we get paid in US dollars now, we shouldn't have to take it *twice* after all, should we?)

If this relates to differences in the buyers' behavior instead (= using up more or less of their potential downloads), why does this happen that gradually and solely in one direction? Shouldn't there be any ups and downs over several weeks or even months in this case?
And, given this type of "fluctuation" is calculated over longer periods than, say, days or weeks, why would the amounts change cent by cent *each day* then?

If you even disregard this: How does such a split work at all? A buyer pays a certain amount of dollars for a certain pack of assets (resp. credits while the credits to be invested on a certain asset are fixed). They then use x of them and don't use y. From what I understand, from the amount for "unused" assets y nearly 100% go directly to Adobe - so far, so good for them. But what about the "rest" of actually downloaded assets? The total amount x stays the same. Our percentage stays the same, too. If each artist gets their part, because a buyer had actually licensed one of their assets, why would the commission change then, anyway?

Maybe it's just me not quite getting it (I'm admittedly not good at figures.), but perhaps you could shed some more light on this matter, @MatHayward ? It would be much appreciated for sure!