Past 2 weeks weren't good.  August is usually slow.  So, I hope it'll get better in September.

No problems with me. There has been a noticeable increase in sales over the last few weeks/months.

It was slow last week, and slow the beginning of this week. Then yesterday early afternoon it picked up and even had a $28 video sale which was good to see, haven't had one at that price in a while. 

And just like that, I am already into my BME on Adobe Start. Adobe Start, because it's starting to kick some butt this month.   

I'am not uploading anymore, but a BME for me on AS

The average revenues at AS are also on the way down for me.
I have less and less individual sales with 3.30 and subscription/custom sales now seems completely arbitrary to me.

actual # of high sales is stochastic, ie, cant be reliably predicted

my RPD is .5 to .6 for SS rather than .1 - .2 if all sales were subs

AS has .6 - .8, again higher than a purely sub basis

and these numbers have been steady over the last few years

also a month w lower $ custom sales can be the equivalent of one with just 1 high priced sale.  when the price of custom sales can vary from $2 to $100+ it's hard to see any pattern

I am very sure that AS changed the algorithm on August 1. Since that day my downloads have decreased abruptly. So much so that it has become the worst month at AS since December 2010. In August I had well over 100 downloads less than the average of January to July.

Quote from: Wilm on September 01, 2022, 02:40

I am very sure that AS changed the algorithm on August 1.

If they did that, then it was (finally!) in my favor. My download numbers have increased. I had more than double as many sales in August 22 than in August 21. Maybe I will finally get to see the glourious Adobe takeover compared to Shutterstock that everyone keeps talking about.

The same thing happens to me !

Not sure that you can draw many conclusions from my experience - small portfolio (2,251 right now), no video, but year to date Adobe Stock is up almost 12% over 2021 (in revenue) and 2021 was up 20% over 2020.

There's some possibility that no longer being at Shutterstock (after June 2020) caused some increase (it certainly wasn't heading for Dreamstime!).

August was up 10.5% over August 2021 (at Adobe Stock)

Compared to mine your portfolio isn�t small, Jo Ann. Thank you for your insights anyways!

I've had the best month ever on AS.  Despite having a very small portfolio (around 300 images/clips), I managed to sell around $150 in this week alone, so I'm a happy bunny.

Wow wish I knew what I was doing wrong, Inhave 1300 images and only make payout every other month. But at least Inget that so Im not a looser haha Ill gladly take any advice!

Quote from: Contemporary Dave on August 27, 2022, 06:18

I've had the best month ever on AS.  Despite having a very small portfolio (around 300 images/clips), I managed to sell around $150 in this week alone, so I'm a happy bunny.

Wow wish I knew what I was doing wrong, Inhave 1300 images and only make payout every other month. But at least Inget that so Im not a looser haha Ill gladly take any advice!

Images vs video.

I just realised I passed the 100k DL marker this month and $100k last month... Really should pay more attention

As always... thanks Adobe for making it possible!

For me, this is the time of year that the volume really starts to increase until December... then 3-4 weeks of being a little quieter before it all licks off again.